Event Details
Agenda
Event Details
This meeting is the culminating experience for the undergraduate participants sponsored by the Division of Kidney, Urologic and Hematologic Diseases Summer Research Program. The conference will bring all the students together to share their research accomplishments, network with peers and distinguished faculty, and receive timely career development advice. This added exposure to professional and scientific opportunities in renal, urologic, and hematologic diseases will entice undergraduates to continue their medical or graduate careers in areas within the research mission of the Division.
Agenda
Jul 30, 2015
- 2:00 p.m. – 7:00 p.m.
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Arrival and Dormitory Check-in
- 6:00 p.m
- Group Dinner/Meet and Greet: Wisteria Lanes, Emory Conference Center Hotel, 1615 Clifton Road N.E., Atlanta, GA
Jul 31, 2015
DUC 3rd Floor
- 7:30 a.m. – 8:45 a.m.
- Breakfast
Woodruff Health Science Administrative Building (WHSCAB), Plaza Level
- Poster Setup
DUC Winship Ballroom
- 8:45 a.m. – 9:00 a.m.
- Welcoming Remarks
Dean Lisa Tedesco, Ph.D., Dean and Vice Provost for Academic Affairs; Dean of the James T. Laney School of Graduate Studies; Professor of Behavioral Sciences and Health Education in the Rollins School of Public Health, Emory University
- 9:00 a.m. – 9:20 a.m.
- Welcome Remarks on Behalf of NIDDK
Griffin P. Rodgers, M.D., M.A.C.P., Director of NIDDK
- 9:20 a.m. – 10:00 a.m.
- Opening Plenary
Richard Cummings, Ph.D., William Patterson Timmie Professor and Chair, Department of Biochemistry, Emory University
- 10:00 a.m. – 10:15 a.m.
- Break
- 10:15 a.m. – 12:00 p.m.
- Kidneys Are Cool
Douglas Eaton, Ph.D., Distinguished Professor and Chair, Department of Physiology, Emory University
- Why We Need You for Nephrology Research
Robert Star, M.D., Director, Division of Kidney, Urologic, and Hematologic Diseases, NIDDK
- Pathways to Success in a Research Career
Tracy Rankin, Ph.D., Career Development and Training Program Director, Division of Kidney, Urologic, and Hematologic Diseases, NIDDK
DUC Cafeteria
- 12:00 p.m. – 1:15 p.m.
- Lunch
WHSCAB, Plaza Level
- 1:15 p.m. – 3:15 p.m.
- Moderated Poster Session I (45 posters, 6 groups)
- 3:15 p.m. – 3:30 p.m.
- Regrouping
DUC Winship Ballroom
- 3:30 p.m. – 5:00 p.m.
- Panel Discussion with Near-Peers
- Jill Freret (Ph.D. Fellow, Emory University)
- Natalie Giles (Internal Medicine Resident, Emory University)
- Nate Himmel (Graduate Student, Georgia State University)
- Srijita Mukherjee (Nephrology Chief Fellow, Emory University)
- Trey Rogers (M.D. Student, Morehouse School of Medicine)
- Dona Wu (Nephrology Research Clinical Fellow, Emory University)
WHSCAB, Plaza Level
- 5:30 p.m. – 7:00 p.m.
- Open Poster Session
Even numbers present/odd numbers visit at 5:30 p.m.
Odd numbers present/even numbers visit at 6:15 p.m.
Emory University School of Medicine Lobby
- 7:00 p.m.
- Group Dinner
Aug 1, 2015
DUC 3rd Floor
- 8:00 a.m. – 9:00 a.m.
- Breakfast
WHSCAB, Plaza Level
- Poster Setup
DUC Winship Ballroom
- 9:00 a.m. – 9:45 a.m.
- Culture and Success in Research
Clifton Poodry, Ph.D., Senior Fellow, Howard Hughes Medical Institute
WHSCAB, Plaza Level
- 9:45 a.m. – 11:45 a.m.
- Moderated Poster Session II (45 posters, 6 groups)
DUC Cafeteria
- 11:45 a.m. – 1:00 p.m.
- Lunch
DUC Winship Ballroom
- 1:00 p.m. – 2:30 p.m.
- Panel Discussion: Next Steps in Career
- Ngozi Anachebe, M.D., Pharm.D., F.A.C.O.G., Associate Dean, Undergraduate Medical Education; Associate Dean, Admissions and Student Affairs; Associate Professor, Clinical Obstetrics and Gynecology, Morehouse School of Medicine
- Mary Horton, M.P.H., M.A., Executive Co-Director, M.D./Ph.D. Program, Emory University
- June Eddingfield, Associate Director for Admissions, Emory University School of Medicine
- Keith Wilkinson, Ph.D., Director, Graduate Division of Biological and Biomedical Sciences, Professor, Department of Biochemistry, Emory University
- 2:30 p.m. – 2:45 p.m.
- Concluding Remarks and Adjournment
Emory University School of Medicine Lobby
- 3:30 p.m.
- Board buses in front of Emory University School of Medicine (SOM) Building at 100 Woodruff Circle. (Return trips back to the campus are at: 7:00 p.m., 8:00 p.m. and the last one is at 9:00 p.m.)
