MPB Retreat May 24th 2012, Nashville Zoo
Meetings will be held in the Croft Center. The entrance to the center, from the parking lot, is 100 yards to the left. There are two concrete lions at the entrance. Do not go to the main entrance of the zoo. Also, please bring your parking tickets. Lunch and the poster session will be held outside under a tent, so dress appropriately. It’s going to be HOT!
9:00 am Coffee and Opening Remarks Roger Cone
9:10 am New Faculty Talk:
Bingshan Li, Ph.D., Assistant Professor, Molecular Physiology & Biophysics
"Sequencing for genetics and genomics studies"
9:30 am-11:10 Core/resources/technologies presentations
9:30-9:55 Sergey Dikalov, Ph.D. Director of FRIMCORE, Associate Professor, Division of Clinical Pharmacology
“Why should we make friends with the radicals?- How the Free Radicals in Medicine Core can Help”
9:55-10:20 David Wright, Associate Professor of Chemistry
"Nanotechnology tools for biology: Size really does matter."
10:20-10:45 David Weaver Assistant Professor of Pharmacology, Director Vanderbilt High-throughput Screening Facility
10:45-11:10 Tom Yankeelov, Ingram Associate Professor of Cancer Research, Associate Professor Radiology Radiological Sciences, Biomedical Engineering, Physics, and Cancer Biology Director of Cancer Imaging Research Vanderbilt University Institute of Imaging Science Vanderbilt-Ingram Cancer Center
"Some Exciting Developments in Quantitative Cancer Imaging"
11:10am Scavenger Hunt/lunch/set-up posters (tent)
12:30pm Posters Session MP&B Students
1:30pm Keynote Speaker:
Ellen Wright Clayton, MD, JD, Craig-Weaver Professor of Pediatrics and Law
“The ethics of personalized medicine”
2:30pm Break
3:00pm Post-doc grants studio
Sabrina Mitchell, Ph.D. – Crawford and Murdock Labs:
“Determining the role of nuclear-encoded mitochondrial tRNA pseudogenes”
Johanna Gandy, Ph.D. – Colbran Lab:
“Functional relationship of CaM Kinase II with L-type and T-type voltage gated calcium channels in the striatum”
Misty Thompson, Ph.D. – Ellacott Lab:
“Characterization of TSPO as a marker of neuroinflammation in obese mice before and after weight loss”
4:00pm Pictionary / Poster prizes / Gift card drawing
5:00pm Close