Schedule

All events will be held in Rackham Amphitheatre (University of Michigan, 915 E Washington St, Ann Arbor, MI 48109) unless otherwise noted. Out-of-town guests arriving after noon Thursday should come directly to Rackham. There will be a place to store your luggage on-site. The Graduate Ann Arbor hotel is a five minute walk from Rackham; check-in begins at 4:00 PM, check-out is by 11:00 AM.

Remember to bring your laptop for hands-on work with modeling.

This schedule may be subject to change. Please check back often.

AGENDA

(all events will be in the Assembly Hall unless otherwise noted)

Thursday, Aug 10, 2017

1:00 pm Registration/Mini posters/Install software (help available)

2:00 pm "Modeling in a Changing World: Fearless Biologists Unite!" (Amphitheatre) Keynote Presentation by Louis Gross (Distinguished Professor of Ecology and Evolutionary Biology and Mathematics, University of Tennessee Knoxville) Public

3:30 pm Break

4:00 pm Idea Smashing (East & West Conference rooms)

4:40 pm Group photo with t-shirts (Amphitheatre)

4:45 pm Profile poster session/Install software (help available)

5:30 pm Check-in at Graduate Ann Arbor hotel for those from out-of-town. (an ITiMS student will guide guests from Rackham to hotel)

6:00 pm Dinner at the Slurping Turtle (an ITiMS student will guide guests from hotel to restaurant at 5:55 pm)

Friday, Aug 11, 2017

8:00 am Breakfast

8:30 am Welcome by Betsy Foxman (co-director ITiMS). Introduction to morning activity by Marisa Eisenberg.

9:15 am Workshop in small groups: (Circulating technical advice available.)

10:30 am Break

10:45 am Workshop continued (Experts available in the East & West Conference rooms.)

11:45 am Debrief by Marisa Eisenberg

12:00 pm Lunch

1:30 pm "Challenges Posed by Antigenically Variable Pathogens" (Amphitheatre)

Keynote Presentation by Sarah Cobey (Ecology & Evolution, University of Chicago) Public

2:30 pm Break

3:00 pm Workshop continued

4:00 pm Break

4:30 pm Idea smashing (East & West Conference rooms)

5:00 pm Prepare for whirly ball (wear casual attire (including meeting t-shirt!) and tennis shoes if available. Fill your water bottle!)

5:35 pm Transport from Graduate Ann Arbor hotel to Whirly Ball of Ann Arbor for dinner and whirly ball.

Saturday, Aug 12, 2017

8:30 am Breakfast

9:00 am Workshop: Modeling in action. (Amphitheatre) Presentations of works in progress/ provocative of models by UM faculty/ post docs/ senior grad students. 20 minutes presentation, 20 minutes discussion per talk. (Denise Kirschner, Jihyoun Jeon, Jim Koopman, Maria Riolo, Andrew Brouwer) Public

11:30 am Closing/feedback (Amphitheatre)

12:30 pm Lunch

2:00 pm Transport to airport (Conlin Travel has arranged transport for out of town guests through Golden Limousine, 734-668-8282)

This meeting is hosted by the Integrated Training in Microbial Systems (ITiMS) program at the University of Michigan and is sponsored by the Burroughs Wellcome Fund.