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May 9th, 2025
May 9th, 2025
Room S330/340, Life Sciences Laboratory
240 Thatcher Road
University of Massachusetts Amherst
Please register by April 18th to help us with planning!
Recording of Morning Session (10am-12pm)
MorningSession_Recording.mp4Recording of Afternoon Session (1:30pm-5pm)
AfternoonSession_Recording.mp4
Schedule of events
9am-10am: Breakfast
10am: Welcome - Lila Gierasch - "Celebrating Our Friend and Colleague"
10:15am: Ari Helenius (Video Presentation) - "Memories of Dan"
10:30am: UMass Colleagues - "Celebrating the Forest Through the Trees"
11:05am: Rob Daniels - "Dan - an Unconventional Mentor with a Lifetime of Influentia"
11:30am: Kristina Giorda - "From Strong Foundations to New Frontiers"
12pm-1:30pm: Lunch
1:30pm: Linda Hendershot - "Signatures of Molecular Chaperones and Signatures of Friendship"
2:05pm: Abla Tannous - "A Tribute to Dan: From the ER and Beyond, Shaping Science and Lives"
2:30pm: Brad Pearse & Jim Cormier - "Folding the Sweet Times: Remembering Dan's Mentorship and Friendship"
3:05pm-3:35pm: Coffee Break
3:35pm: Kevin Guay - "Five Incredibly Productive Years in the Hebert Lab"
4:00pm: Nagi Ayad - "Embracing Complexity to Cure Cancer"
4:35pm: Maurizio Molinari (Video Presentation) - "Memories of Dan"
4:45pm-5pm: Open Remembrances & Closing Remarks
We have organized a Scholarship in Dan's name, please share the link broadly:
https://minutefund.uma-foundation.org/project/45273
If you'd like to book a hotel room at the UMass campus hotel, we have a block of rooms for May 8 and May 9 ($199/night). Visit this website to book your room. Rooms need to be booked prior to April 7th.
Memorial piece celebrating Dan's legacy (ASBMB Today)
Feel free to post remembrances using the forum below.
We would love to hear your memories and about the impact that Dan had on your life.
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