Schedule

8:15 – 8:45          Registration, breakfast, poster set up

8:45 – 8:50         Opening remarks

8:50 – 8:55 Graduate Gathering & STEM NOW

8:55 – 9:00        UAlbany Postdoc Association

9:00 – 9:45           Keynote 1 (30 min talk + 15 min Q&A)

  Jessica Tollkuhn, PhD

Associate Professor, Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory

“Hormonal control of neural gene expression”

9:45 – 10:45        Coffee and posters

10:45 – 11:30     Selected presentations 1 (4 trainees: 8 min talk + 2 min Q&A for each)

11:30 – 1:00        Lunch and mingling

1:00 – 1:45           Selected presentations 2 (4 trainees: 8 min talk + 2 min Q&A for each)

1:45 – 2:45           Coffee and posters

2:45 – 3:30          Selected presentations 3 (4 trainees: 8 min talk + 2 min Q&A for each)

3:30 - 4:15         Keynote 2 (30 min talk + 15 min Q&A)

 William Shih, PhD

Professor, Harvard Medical School

“Multi-micron crisscross structures grown from DNA-origami slats”

4:15 – 4:30     Closing remarks and awards