Baylor College of Medicine
Cullen Auditorium
November 8, 2025 | 9:00 AM - 2:00 PM
SynthX, the Duncan Cancer Center, and Rice ENRICH are proud organize a faculty retreat to foster collaborations between researchers at Rice University and the Texas Medical Center. The retreat brings together experts in the fields of organic chemistry, chemical biology, and clinical research to find solutions to the limitations faced in the translation of breakthroughs into clinical applications.
During lunch we will host a poster session for students, postdocs, and other reserachers to present.
2025 Schedule
| Start | End | Talk |
|---|---|---|
| 8:30 AM | 9:00 AM | Check-In & Breakfast |
| 9:00 AM | 9:05 AM | Dr. Xiang Zhang (More Info) Director of the Lester & Sue Smith Breast Center at Baylor College of Medicine Opening Remarks |
| 9:05 AM | 9:25 AM | Dr. Charles E. Foulds (More Info) Baylor College of Medicine Fused to Resist: How ESR1 Fusion Proteins Drive Endocrine Therapy Resistance (Abstract) |
| 9:30 AM | 9:50 AM | Dr. Quanbing Mou (More Info) Rice University Modified mRNA Therapeutics in Cancer Immunotherapy (Abstract) |
| 9:55 AM | 10:15 AM | Dr. Qian Zhu (More Info) Baylor College of Medicine A Foundation Model for Cancer Spatial Transcriptomics: Representation and In Silico Gene Perturbation |
| 10:20 AM | 10:40 AM | Dr. Anna-Karin Gustavsson (More Info) Rice University Interrogation of an Epigenetic Eraser KDM4A at the Centrosome (Abstract) |
| 10:45 AM | 11:05 AM | Dr. Na Zhao (More Info) Baylor College of Medicine Reprogramming Translation Regulation to Remodel the Triple-Negative Breast Cancer Ecosystem (Abstract) |
| 11:10 AM | 11:30 AM | Dr. Cameron Glasscock (More Info) Rice University Design of Synthetic Transcription Factor Binding Site Competitors to Reduce T-Cell Exhaustion in Cancer Immunotherapies (Abstract) |
| 11:35 AM | 11:55 AM | Dr. Xin Li (More Info) Baylor College of Medicine Leveraging Molecular Jackhammers for Light-Controlled Eleven-Nineteen Leukemia (ENL) Protein Disruption and Degradation for Precision Cancer Therapy (Abstract) |
| 12:00 PM | 1:00 PM | Lunch & Poster Session |
| 1:05 PM | 1:25 PM | Dr. Chenwei Wang (More Info) Baylor College of Medicine DeepMVP: Deep Learning Models Trained on High-Quality Data Accurately Predict PTM Sites and Variant-Induced Alterations (Abstract) |
| 1:30 PM | 1:50 PM | Dr. Yuan Ma (More Info) Rice University Deciphering the GlycoRNA-Protein Interactome in Tumor (Abstract) |
| 1:55 PM | 2:00 PM | Dr. Han Xiao (More Info) Director of the SynthX Center at Rice University Closing Remarks |
- 2023 Schedule
-
Start End Talk 8:30 AM 9:00 AM Check-In & Breakfast 9:00 AM 9:05 AM Dr. Amy K. Dittmar (More Info)
Howard R. Hughes Provost of Rice University
Opening Remarks9:05 AM 9:15 AM Dr. Pavan Reddy (More Info)
Director of the Duncan Cancer Center
Joint Projects & Release of Seed Fund9:15 AM 9:30 AM Dr. Bing Zhang (More Info)
Baylor College of Medicine
Pan-Cancer Proteogenomics Expands the Landscape of Therapeutic Targets9:30 AM 9:45 AM Dr. James Tour (More Info)
Rice University
Light-Activated Molecular Machines Kill Cancer Cells In Vitro and In Vivo9:45 AM 10:00 AM Dr. Daisuke Nakada (More Info)
Baylor College of Medicine
Targeting Novel Metabolic Vulnerabilities of Leukemia10:00 AM 10:15 AM Dr. Hans Renata (More Info)
Rice University
Combining Synthetic Chemistry and Biology for Streamlining Access to Bioactive Molecules10:15 AM 10:30 AM Dr. Gloria Echeverria (More Info)
Baylor College of Medicine
Mitochondrial Vulnerabilities in Residual TNBCs Refractory to Conventional Chemotherapy10:30 AM 10:45 AM Coffee Break 10:45 AM 11:00 AM Dr. Antonios Mikos (More Info)
Rice University
Tissue-Engineered Bone Tumor Microenvironments11:00 AM 11:15 AM Dr. Fritz Sedlazeck (More Info)
Baylor College of Medicine
Comprehensive Structural Variant Detection: From Mosaic to Population-Level11:15 AM 11:30 AM Dr. Jeff Hartgerink (More Info)
Rice University
Self-Assembling Peptides for Drug Delivery and Cell Targeting11:30 AM 11:45 AM Dr. Lorenzo Deveza (More Info)
Baylor College of Medicine
Orthopaedic Surgical Considerations of Bone Metastases11:45 AM 12:00 PM Dr. Tao Wu (More Info)
Baylor College of Medicine
Quantitative Profiling of DNA N6-methyl-deoxyadenosine at Single-Base Resolution Using NAME-seq12:00 PM 1:00 PM Lunch & Poster Session 1:00 PM 1:15 PM Dr. Anna-Karin Gustavsson (More Info)
Rice University
Mapping Cellular Function Using 3D Single-Molecule Tracking and Super-Resolution Microscopy1:15 PM 1:30 PM Dr. Pabel Ali Miah (More Info)
Baylor College of Medicine
Breast Surgery Using Real-time Visualization and Localizing Techniques1:30 PM 1:45 PM Dr. Lei Li (More Info)
Rice University
Panoramic Photoacoustic Computed Tomography (PACT): From Small-Animal Wholebody Imaging to Human Breast Cancer Diagnosis1:45 PM 2:00 PM Dr. Pavan Reddy (More Info)
Director of the Duncan Cancer Center
Closing Remarks
Poster Award Winners
- 2023 Poster Award Winners
-
Name University Title Md Ashikuzzaman Johns Hopkins University Recurrent Neural Network-Based Ultrasonic Speckle Tracking for Post-Stroke Myofascial Shear Strain Quantification Shudan Yang Rice University Real-Time Visualization of Protein Microenvironment Changes in Live Cells via Site-Specific Incorporation of Rotor-Based Fluorescent Noncanonical Amino Acids Jimin Wu Rice University Head-Mounted Lenseless Microscope for Mesoscopic Calcium and Voltage Imaging in Head-unrestrained Non-Human Primates Haonan Lin Boston University Label-Free Nanoscopy of Cell Metabolism by Ultrasensitive Reweighted Visible Stimulated Raman Scattering Zhaoqiang Wang University of California, Los Angeles 3-D Kilohertz Fluorescence Microscopy with Squeezed LIght Field Microscopy (SLIM) Claire Jones MD Anderson Cancer Center Photoacoustic-Based Assessment of PAtrace Biodistribution, Stability, and Clearance with Cryofluorescence Tomography Validation Chathuranga Rathnamalala NIH National Cancer Institute Cyanine Chromophore Diversification Enables Improved Biomolecule Tracking and Intracellular Imaging Shunyao Zhang Rice University A Fast Fully Automated Dual-SOS Reconstruction Algorithm for Full-ring Array PACT Jingyi Miao Rice University Multiview Linear-Array Photoacoustic Computed Tomography with Improved Resolution in 3D