Schedule

3:00 pm Check-in to Aloft Providence Downtown Hotel

191 Dorrance St, Providence, RI 02903

Phone: (401) 252-0710

Parking available at hotel

Check-in with your name and/or confirmation number

6:05 pm Meet George Lisi to walk to Will Fairbrother's house (optional)

Meet in lobby of Aloft Providence Hotel at 6:05pm

6:30 - 8:30 pm Dinner Social at Will Fairbrother’s house

23 John Street, Providence, RI

Phone: 617-694-5910

Catered by: Venda Ravioli and PiANTA

8:15 - 9:00 am Walk with current students to BioMed Center

Meet in hotel lobby at 8:15am

9:00 - 10:00 am Breakfast and Welcoming Remarks

BioMed Center, Eddy Auditorium (BIOMED 291)

Mark Johnson, Greg Valdez, Alison DeLong, Anna Sophia Boyd

10:00 - 11:00 am Tour of facilities and Sidney Frank (SFH)

185 Meeting Street, Providence, RI

Group 1 Group 2

10:00 - 10:25 Microscopy Facilities Greenhouse & Johnson Lab

10:25-10:50 Greenhouse & Johnson Lab Microscopy Facilities

11:00 - 11:45 am Faculty Research Talks
BioMedical Center, Eddy Auditorium (BIOMED 291)

11:00 - 11:15 Karthikeyani Chellappa
11:15 - 11:30 Juan Alfonzo
11:30 - 11:45 Michelle Dawson

11:45 - 12:45 pm Lunch with MCBGP students
      BioMedical Center, Eddy Auditorium (BIOMED 291)

Catered by: Kabob and Curry

12:45 - 1:30pm Walk/shuttle from College Hill to Jewelry District 

70 Ship Street, Providence RI

1:30 - 2:30 pm Tour of facilities and 70 Ship Street

Group 1 Group 2

1:30 - 1:50 Genomics Core Facility Transgenic Facility

1:50 - 2:10 Transgenic Facility Genomics Core Facility

2:10-2:30 Structural Biology Facilities Structural Biology Facilities

2:30-3:00 Break/tour of Ship Street with Greg Valdez

3:00 - 4:30 pm Data Club

70 Ship Street

3:00-3:25 Yufei Lin (Kreiling Lab),  "Investigating the Roles of MicroRNAs in Age-associated Neurogenesis Decline in the Subventricular Zone"

3:25-3:50 Emma Suneby (Valdez Lab), "Defining the contributions of synaptic Schwann cells to neuromuscular junction degeneration in ALS"

4:00 - 5:30 pm Social Gathering with light refreshment
225 Dyer Street, 6th floor lounge

6:00-8:00 pm Dinner with current students

Rooftop at the Providence G

100 Dorrance St, Providence, RI 02903

11:00 am Check out of the Aloft Providence Downtown Hotel

10:30 am - 12:00 pm  Brunch with current students

Ellie’s 

225 Weybosset Street

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