HITS is a cross-disciplinary community for researchers using or exploring high-throughput approaches, from genome engineering to single-cell imaging and chemical biology. Our open brainstorming sessions bring together experts and beginners to demystify complex tools, lower barriers to entry, and break down silos between labs and domains. These collaborative discussions help surface technical and organizational bottlenecks, guide the expansion of shared resources, and foster a growing knowledge hub of interoperable methods and data. By connecting people around common challenges and complementary capabilities, HITS creates space for new ideas to take shape and gain momentum, ultimately unlocking new collaborative and funding opportunities to accelerate discovery.

| Date | Time | Room | Speaker | Group | Topic |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Thu, Mar 06, 2025 | 2:00-3:30 | 76-559 | Nicole Ostrovsky & Ashley Ruehr | HTS | Welcome to HITS! (HTS Update) |
| Ryan Mansell | Henry | Leveraging ferroptosis as a therapeutic strategy against sarcomas | |||
| Thu, Mar 20, 2025 | 2:00-3:30 | 76-259 | Colin Trepicchio | Boehm | Initiating a uLMS POWER-UP |
| Zeyu Liu | Soto-Feliciano | Biological mechanism and potential cancer therapy development of UTX truncation | |||
| Thu, Apr 03, 2025 | 2:00-3:30 | 76-259 | Jillian Stark | Henry | The role of ferroptosis in MASLD |
| Bocheng Wu | Koehler | Drug discovery of an anti-thrombosis small molecule that blocks vWF-A1:GP1B-alpha interaction | |||
| Thu, Apr 17, 2025 | 2:00-3:30 | 76-259 | Jon Perr | Flynn | Scratching the Surface: Cell Surface RNA-Binding Proteins |
| Aiden Wang | J. Johnson | Covalent conjugation of Cereblon-based PROTACs to enable delivery with Bottlebrush Polymers | |||
| Thu, May 01, 2025 | 2:00-3:30 | 76-259 | Mark Greenwood | Pulin Li | Why do hormones oscillate? |
| Manny Contreras | Hemann | Elucidating genetic determinants of leukemia immune escape | |||
| Thu, May 29, 2025 | 2:00-3:30 | 76-259 | Alex Kruswick | Mike Yaffe | Using multi-color fluorescent reporter systems to investigate DNA damage repair signaling |
| Daron Hakimian | Boehm | Brainstorming Session: Rapid Ex Vivo Biosensor for precise Drug Efficacy Prediction | |||
| Thu, Jun 12, 2025 | 2:00-3:30 | 76-259 | Sam Gruber | Hemann | Exploring Mechanisms of Therapy Resistance in Leukemia using Base Editing |
Contact us if you are interested in being included in upcoming HITS sessions.