Tuesday, May 25, 2021
Virtual Meeting
| 9:00 a.m. |
Coffee Meet & Greet for Attendees |
| 9:15–9:30 a.m. |
Welcome
Karen Plevock Haase, Ph.D.
Chair, 2021 Retreat Steering Committee
Mary C. Dasso, Ph.D.
Acting Scientific Director, NICHD |
| 9:30–10:30 a.m. |
Keynote Address
John F. Tisdale, M.D.
NIH Senior Investigator
Cellular and Molecular Therapeutics Branch, NHLBI
“The Long and Winding Road Toward Molecular Cures of the First Molecular Disease” |
| 10:45 – 11:30 a.m. |
Fellows Oral Presentations 1-3
- Stephanie Lehman, Ph.D. (Postdoc, Machner Laboratory, DIR)
“A pathogenic bacterium targets the host proto-oncoprotein NRas during infection.”
- Frances Anne Fernando (Postbac, Blithe Laboratory, DIPHR)
“Comparative acceptability of progestogenic androgens: Dimethandrolone undecanoate (DMAU) and 11 beta-methyl-19-nortestosterone dodecylcarbonate”
- Feng Li, Ph.D. (Postdoc, Levin Laboratory, DIR)
“Identification of an integrase-independent pathway of retrotransposition”
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| 11:30 a.m.–12:15 p.m. |
Morning Poster Session |
| 12:15–1:00 p.m. |
Lunch Break |
| 1:00–2:30 p.m. |
Career Focus: Q&A Breakout Sessions
- Colin Echeverría Aitken, Ph.D., Assistant Professor, Vassar College
- Kira Bradford, Ph.D., Technical and Research Scientist, Renaissance Computing Institute
- Stephanie M. Cologna, Ph.D., Assistant Professor, University of Illinois at Chicago
- Patrick McCarter, Ph.D., Data Scientist, Cone Health
- Brian Rafferty, Ph.D., Assistant Professor, CUNY
- Joe Sanchez, Ph.D., Director, Science Engagement & STEM Programs, AstraZeneca
- Ashim Subedee, Ph.D., Academic Innovation Lead, SEED, NIH
- Candace Tingen, Ph.D., Program Official, NICHD Gynecologic Health and Disease Branch
- Jolien Tyler, Ph.D., Advanced Biosystems and Customer Support Service Manager, Nikon
- Jeremy Weaver, Ph.D., R&D Scientist, ThermoFisher
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| 2:30–3:00 p.m. |
Scientific and Mentoring Perspective
Gisela Storz, Ph.D.
Senior Investigator
Section on Environmental Gene Regulation, NICHD
“Battling Insecurity and Inequity” |
| 3:00–3:45 p.m. |
Fellows Oral Presentations 4-6
- Jessica Gleason, PhD (Postdoc, Grantz Laboratory, DIPHR)
“Risk of adverse maternal and neonatal outcome among pregnant women with disabilities in the Consortium on Safe Labor”
- Dongjin Lee, PhD (Postdoc, Petros Laboratory, DIR)
“Spatial heterogeneity of mouse telencephalic progenitors at single-cell resolution”
- Tusharkumar Patel, PhD (Postdoc, Yanovski Laboratory, DIR)
“Immunomodulatory effects of colchicine on PBMC subpopulations in human obesity: data from a randomized controlled trial”
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| 3:45–4:30 p.m. |
Afternoon Poster Session |
