Past Events

2019 - 2020

January1/10: LSI Trainees Winter Welcome Session/Cookie Hour (3:30-4:30PM; LSI Library)
1/14: LSI Trainees Chalk Talk #3 (12-1PM; LSI Library): Sarah Kearns (Cianfrocco Lab)
1/22: LSI Trainees Cookie Meet-Up (3:00-3:30PM; 5th Floor West)
Feburary2/19: LSI Trainees Cookie Meet-Up (3:00-3:30PM; 6th Floor West)
2/21: Grad Chalk Talk #4 (3:30-4:30PM; LSI Library): Maribel Okiye (Sherman Lab)

March3/10: NRSA Workshop (1:00-2:30PM; LSI Library)
3/24: LSI Trainees Happy Hour with Dr. Roger Cone (6:00PM; Zoom Meeting)Discussion topic: When 18 Tigers Were Let Loose in Zanesville, Ohio from Outside Podcast
April4/3: LSI Grads Applying for PostDoc Positions Panel (1:00-2:30PM; Zoom Meeting)Speakers: Dr. Jennifer Landino (Miller Lab), Dr. Arwen Frick-Cheng (Mobley Lab), Dr. Suman Chakrabarty (Narayan Lab), and Dr. Laura Smithson (Collins Lab)
4/8: LSI Trainees Happy Hour with Dr. Anna Mapp (5:30-6:30PM; Zoom Meeting)Discussion topic: The danger of a single story Ted Talk by Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie
4/17: LSI Virtual Trivia Happy Hour (5:30-6:30PM; Zoom Meeting) Register here by 4/14!
4/22: LSI Trainees Hour with Dr. Mike Cianfrocco (4:00PM; Zoom Meeting)Discussion topic: Antidote to toxic principal investigators Nature Medicine piece by Akiko Iwasaki
4/27: How to Start a Lab Panel (3:00-4:00PM; Zoom Meeting)

2018 - 2019

September9/11: Grad Student Fall Welcome Session/Cookie Hour
October10/11: Workshop/Panel #1: Grads/PostDocs Fellowships Panel and PresentationSpeakers: Danielle Smith (LSI Finance); Renee Bouley, Adam Iliff, Henry Kuang (Grads/PDs)
10/31: LSI Building-wide Halloween Party

November11/8: Student Chalk Talk #1 (LSI Library): Matthew Henley (Mapp) & Attabey Rodriguez (Narayan)
11/29: Workshop/Panel #2: Chalk Talk on a Chalk TalkSpeaker: Dr. Wenjing Wang

December12/4: LSI Grads/PostDocs Brunch with New LSI Faculty (Dr. Peng Li and Dr. Wenjing Wang)
12/18: Student Chalk Talk #2 (LSI Library): Rachel Torrez (M. Ohi) & Henry Kuang (Lin)
January1/15: Grads Student Winter Welcome Session/Cookie Hour
1/24: Student Chalk Talk #3 (LSI Library): Hao Liu (Ye) & Sarah Kearns (Cianfrocco/Verhey)
Feburary2/21: Student Chalk Talk #4 (LSI Library): Megan Connolly (Kennedy) and Fatima Javed (Parent)

March3/7: Mentoring Others Results in Excellence (MORE) Panel Discussion
3/14: Pi Day Competition
April4/12: Workshop/Panel #3: LSI Grads/PostDocs Building an Inclusive Climate at the LSI (CRLT) Speakers: Karishma Collette, Nicole Tuttle
4/23: Keynote Speaker: Dr. Greg Gage, CEO and Co-Founder, Backyard Brains, Inc.
4/26: UM Alumni Career Panel co-hosted with the Program in Chemical Biology (PCB) and the Cellular and Molecular Biology Program (CMB) Speakers: James Carolan (consulting), Ningkun Wang (tenure track academia), Marion Emmert (biotech)
May5/17: LSI Science Blitz (LSI Lobby and Library)