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Structure and composition of Lithobates catesbeianus mucus secretions sustains a web of life
Judah Kafui Cofie
PhD Student in the Department of Biochemistry at CUNY Advance Science Research Center
My name is Judah Cofie, I am from Ghana. I studied Biochemistry as an undergrad and molecular biology for my masters. I am a PhD student at CUNY at the biochemistry department. I am a member of the Braunschweig Lab at CUNY Advance Science Research Center and under the mentorship of Prof Adam Braunschweig I study animal mucus specifically looking how their composition and structure informs their functions and properties, offering guidelines for the development of mucus inspired synthetic mimetics.
My talk is about one of nature’s most mysterious and fascinating substances – the mucus of the invasive American Bullfrog. The question that this talk seeks to address is why are most amphibian populations experiencing a dramatic global decline, while the American bullfrog (Lithobates catesbeianus) continues to spread and survive across the globe? We believe at the center of this unique adaptation and ecological resilience is their mucus.
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Mihir Pendse, PhD
Research Associate at FCB Health NY
I did my Ph.D at UT Southwestern Medical Center studying the ways our immune system regulates how we poop.As a postdoctoral researcher at Memorial Sloan Kettering, I studied how that inflammation during certain digestive diseases affects gut health and peristalsis. I now work as a medical strategist for an advertising and marketing firm here in NYC where I help sell drugs.
Our intestine functions primarily as the body's waste disposal/sewage system. Over the last couple of decades, we have developed an understanding that the "waste disposal" capacity of the intestine is tightly regulated by many distinct cues. I will discuss recent insights into how our immune system is at the center of regulating excretion and about how our intestines are a lot smarter than we think!