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Past Retreats: 2017 Agenda

Monday, May 1, 2017
Smithsonian National Museum of the American Indian
8:30 - 9:00 a.m. Registration & Coffee
9:00 – 9:15 a.m. Welcome (Rasmuson Theater)
Shakib Omari, PhD, Chair, Annual Meeting Steering Committee
Yvette R. Pittman, PhD, Acting Director, Office of Education, NICHD
9:15 – 10:15 a.m. Morning Keynote Address (Rasmuson Theater)
Moderator: Nivedita Sengupta, PhD
Dr. Peter Agre
Johns Hopkins University, Bloomberg Distinguished Professor
2003 Nobel Laureate in Chemistry
“A Life in Science”
10:15 – 11:00 a.m. Fellow Oral Presentations (Rasmuson Theater)
Moderator: Abhi Subedi, PhD
“A BORC-Ragulator Interaction Controls Lysosome Positioning in Response to Amino Acid Signaling”
Jing Pu, PhD
Bonifacino Lab

“The conserved mRNA-granule component Scd6 targets Dhh1 to repress translation initiation and activates Dcp2-mediated mRNA decay in vivo”
Quira Zeidan, PhD
Hinnebusch Lab

“Precise genome-wide mapping of single nucleosomes and linkers in vivo”
Răzvan V. Chereji, PhD
Clark Lab
11:00 – 11:15 a.m. Break
11:15 a.m. – 12:30 p.m. Career Focus: Round Tables (Room 4018/19)
Moderator: Shakib Omari, PhD
11:15 – 11:30 a.m. Introductions & Overview
11:30 a.m. – 12:30 p.m. 4 Rotations, 15 minutes each, from:
  1. Research, Academe
    • Prasanna Satpute-Krishnan, PhD, Uniformed Services University of the Health Sciences (Lippincott-Schwartz Lab)
  2. Research, Academe
    • Stephanie Cologna, PhD, University of Illinois at Chicago (Porter Lab)
  3. Research/Teaching, Academe
    • Sadie Bergeron, PhD, West Virginia University (Burgess Lab)
  4. Clinical, Academe
    • Susmeeta T. Sharma, MD, MedStar Washington Hospital Center (Nieman Lab, NICHD-NIDDK Inter-Institute Endocrine Training Program)
  5. Industry
    • Rebecca Hammond, PhD, Sage Therapeutics (Hoffman Lab)
  6. Science Policy/Education
    • Megan Bohn, PhD, Johns Hopkins University School of Medicine (Pfeifer Lab)
  7. Consulting/Government
    • Anthony Hickey, PhD, NASA Research Education and Support Services (Levin Lab)
  8. Technology Transfer
    • Yolanda Hawkins, PhD, MBA (NIH)
  9. Grants Management
    • John Reich, PhD, Foundation for Food and Agriculture Research (Lilly Lab)
12:30 - 2:00 p.m. Lunch & continued career round-table discussions
2:00 – 2:15 p.m. Three-Minute Talks (TmT) Finalists’ Presentations (Rasmuson Theater)
Moderator: Uma Neelathi, PhD
Afrouz Anderson, PhD
Postdoctoral Fellow, Gandjbakhche Lab

Arup Chakraborty, PhD
Research Fellow, DePamphilis Lab

Hadis Dashtestani, MS
Graduate Student, Gandjbakhche Lab

Jeremy Weaver, PhD
Postdoctoral Fellow, Storz Lab
2:15 – 3:15 p.m. Science and the Arts (Rasmuson Theater)
Moderator: Elisa Arthofer, PhD
Dr. Adam Ruben
Comedian, Storyteller, Writer, and Scientist
“Surviving Your Stupid, Stupid Decision to Go to Grad School”
3:30 – 5:00 p.m. Poster Sessions with Refreshments (Patrons Lounge & Room 4025)
Numbers 1-42: 3:30 – 4:15 p.m.
Numbers 43-84: 4:15 – 5:00 p.m.