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15th Annual NIH Graduate Student Research Symposium - Symposium Agenda

February 21, 2019
Natcher Conference Center, 9:15am - 4:45pm

15th Graduate Student Research Symposium Program

AGENDA TENTATIVE AND SUBJECT TO CHANGE

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Time/LocationEventPresenter(s)
8:30-9:00am Registration  
9:00 - 10:00am
Lower Lobby		 Elevator Pitch Competition
 
  • Elevator Pitch Competition starts at 9:00am
10:00 - 11:45am
Ruth L. Kirchstein Auditorium		 Welcome and Student Presentations

Sharon L. Milgram, Ph.D.
Director, NIH Office of Intramural Training and Education (OITE)

Ashley Pitt, Johns Hopkins University, NIDDK
Structural Investigation of a Novel Tom40 Interaction
Davide Ortolan, University of L’Aquila, NEI
In vitro generation of iPSC-derived macular and peripheral Retinal Pigment Epithelial cells using machine learning based high content screen

 

Alec Nickolls, Brown University, NINDS
Transcriptional Programming of Human Sensory Neurons
 
Carly Starke, Georgetown University, NIAID
Signatures of Protective SIV-Specific CD8+ T-Cells
 
11:45am - 12:00 noon

 Time for Lunch  
12:00 - 1:00pm
Atrium		 Poster Session I Odd Numbered Posters Presenting
1:00 - 2:00pm
Atrium		 Poster Session II Even Numbered Posters Presenting
2:15 - 3:30pm
Ruth L. Kirchstein Auditorium		 Keynote Address
Dr. David Dinges
Professor and Director, Unit for Experimental Psychiatry
University of Pennsylvania 
3:30 - 4:45pm
Ruth L. Kirchstein Auditorium		 Awards Ceremony
  • Graduate Ceremony - Certificates presented by Sharon L. Milgram, Ph.D., Director, NIH Office of Intramural Training and Education
  • Outstanding Mentor Awards
  • NIH Graduate Student Research Awards (NGSRAs)

 

5:00pm

Location: TBA

 Community Networking Event

Graduate Student Council

Details to be announced at the symposium