Past Retreats: 2019 Agenda

Friday, May 31, 2019
William F. Bolger Center
9:00 – 9:30 a.m.	Registration & Coffee
9:30 – 9:45 a.m.	Welcome Anshika Jain, PhD Chair, 2019 Retreat Steering Committee Constantine A. Stratakis, MD, D(med)Sci Scientific Director, NICHD
9:45 – 10:45 a.m.	Keynote Address (Ben Franklin Hall) Moderator: Lindsey Friend, PhD Elaine Ostrander, PhD NIH Distinguished Investigator Cancer Genetics and Comparative Genomics Branch, NHGRI “How to Build a Dog in 2,392,715,236 Easy Steps”
10:45 – 11:30 a.m.	Fellows Oral Presentations 1-3 (Ben Franklin Hall) Moderator: Jillian Belgrad Dvir Gur, PhD, Bonifacino Lab “Structural color change and pattern formation in zebrafish” Anshika Jain, PhD, Rouault Lab “A new mutation that causes Multiple Mitochondrial Dysfunctional Syndrome (MMDS)” Amrita Mandal, PhD, Drerup Lab “Retrograde transport is required for mitochondrial health and neuronal activity”
11:30 a.m. – 12:15 p.m.	Morning Poster Session, Odd Numbers (Ben Franklin Hall)
12:15 – 1:30 p.m.	Lunch
1:30 – 3:00 p.m.	Career Focus: Q&A Breakout Sessions Room #1: Research and Development Moderator: Nicholas Ashton, PhD Allyson Byrd, PhD, Genentech Kely Sheldon, PhD, Caprico Biotechnologies Monica Gupta, PhD, Taconic Biosciences Thomas Miller, PhD, Food and Drug Administration Room #2: Scientific Administration Moderator: Suna Gulay, PhD Rose Freel, PhD, NCI Office of Technology Transfer Amy Kullas, PhD, American Society for Microbiology Linda Huynh, PhD, NICHD Office of Communications Dennis Twombly, PhD, NICHD Office of Extramural Policy Elizabeth Baden, PhD, NICHD Office of the Director Room #3: Academe & Science Education Administration Moderator: Philip Adams, PhD Zelia Worman, PhD, NASA Research and Education Support Services Sydella Blatch, PhD, NIAID Training Office Kate Monzo, PhD, University of Maryland College Park Patricia Silveyra, PhD, University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill
3:00 – 3:45 p.m.	Fellows Oral Presentations 4-6 (Ben Franklin Hall) Moderator: Karen Plevock Haase, PhD Adriano Bellotti, Hoffman Lab “Proposed intermittent ion channel trafficking presents speed-stability tradeoff around transport bottlenecks” Sarah Frail, Rocha Lab “How to Be the Cell Gata6 Wants You to Be: Genetic and Epigenetic Mechanisms Governing Early Mammalian Development” Mona Orr, PhD, Storz Lab “Regulation of the Escherichia coli multidrug efflux pump AcrB by the small protein AcrZ”
3:45 – 4:15 p.m.	Scientific and Mentoring Perspective (Ben Franklin Hall) Moderator: Alejandra Boronat Garcia, PhD Mark Stopfer, PhD Senior Investigator Section on Sensory Coding and Neural Ensembles, NICHD “Pursuing a Taste for Sensory Coding”
4:15 – 5:00 p.m.	Afternoon Poster Session, Even Numbers (Ben Franklin Hall)
5:00 – 6:30 p.m.	Social Hour (Pony Express Bar & Grill)