Agenda
Monday, May 21
| 3:00 p.m. – 4:30 p.m. | Check-in Nassau Inn |
| 4:30 p.m. – 6:30 p.m. | Reception and Poster Session Nassau Inn, Nassau Room Shrek Chalasani (2012) Non-invasive Control of Neurons in the Rodent Paul Greer (2018) Detecting Interoceptive and Exteroceptive Chemical Signals with MS4A Receptors Emily Hatch (2018) Nuclear Envelope Rupture and Its Consequences Minoree Kohwi (2015) Regulation of Neural Progenitor Competence Through Genome Architecture Reorganization Helen Lai (2018) Understanding the Molecular and Developmental Basis of Painlessness Julie Law (2015) Chromatin Modifications, Genome Stability and DNA Repair Xin Liu (2012) Molecular Basis of Gene Regulation by Polycomb Repressive Complex 2 Luciano Marraffini (2012) Generation of Infection Memory, What You Probably Don’t Know About CRISPR-Cas |
| 6:30 p.m. – 8:30 p.m. | Opening Dinner Nassau Inn, Princeton Room Welcome Elizabeth Christopherson, President and CEO, Rita Allen Foundation Kathleen Foley, Rita Allen Foundation Medical Adviser (1978) Keynote Speaker introduced by Sarah Ross (2012) Ron Vale (1989), Professor of Cellular and Molecular Pharmacology and Investigator, Howard Hughes Medical Institute, University of California, San Francisco Combining Science with Science Communication |
Tuesday, May 22
| 7:00 a.m. – 8:30 a.m. | Breakfast Nassau Inn, Princeton Room |
| 8:30 a.m. – 9:00 a.m. | Transportation to Institute for Advanced Study |
| 9:00 a.m. – 10:00 a.m. | Keynote Speaker introduced by Luciano Marraffini (2012) Institute for Advanced Study, Bloomberg Lecture Hall Simons Center for Systems Biology Leslie Vosshall, Robin Chemers Neustein Professor of Neurogenetics and Behavior and Investigator, Howard Hughes Medical Institute, Rockefeller University Thirsty for Blood: Genetic Approaches to Understanding Mosquito Behavior |
| 10:00 a.m. – 10:30 a.m. | Break |
| 10:30 a.m. – 11:45 a.m. | Scholar Talks introduced by Shrek Chalasani (2012)
Camila dos Santos (2016) |
| 11:45 a.m. – 12:00 p.m. | Break |
| 12:00 p.m. – 12:30 p.m. | Scholar Talks introduced by Xin Liu (2012)
Michael Boyce (2013) |
| 12:30 p.m. – 2:15 p.m. | Lunch Simons Hall, Dilworth Room Keynote Speaker introduced by Michael Jankowski (2012) Arnold Levine, Professor Emeritus, School of Natural Sciences, Institute for Advanced Study Algorithms for Predicting Responses to Cancer Immunotherapy and Long-Term Survival |
| 2:30 p.m. – 3:45 p.m. | Scholar Talks introduced by Xin Liu (2012) Bloomberg Lecture Hall Conor Liston (2017) Prefrontal Circuit Mechanisms for Supporting Working Memory Sarah Ross (2012) The Neural Circuits of Itch and Pain Katharina Schlacher (2016) BRCA DNA Replication Instability and Mitochondria Jeremy Wilusz (2015) Circular RNAs: Unexpected Outputs of Many Protein-coding Genes |
| 3:45 p.m. – 4:15 p.m. | Break |
| 4:15 p.m. – 5:30 p.m. | Scholar Talks introduced by Michael Long (2012)
Richard Daneman (2017) |
| 5:30 p.m. – 5:45 p.m. | Transportation to Nassau Inn |
| 6:30 p.m. – 8:30 p.m. | Scholars Dinner Mediterra, 29 Hulfish Street, Princeton |
Wednesday, May 23
| 7:00 a.m. – 8:30 a.m. | Breakfast and Checkout Nassau Inn, Princeton Room |
| 8:30 a.m. – 9:00 a.m. | Transportation to Institute for Advanced Study |
| 9:00 a.m. – 9:45 a.m. | Scholar Talks introduced by Sarah Ross (2012)
Institute for Advanced Study, Bloomberg Lecture Hall |
| 9:45 a.m. – 10:15 a.m. | Break |
| 10:15 a.m. – 11:15 a.m. | Scholar Talks introduced by Luciano Marraffini (2012)
Steve Davidson (2016) |
| 11:15 a.m. – 11:30 a.m. | Break |
| 11:30 a.m. – 12:30 p.m. | Keynote Speaker introduced by Shrek Chalasani (2012)
Richard Sever, Assistant Director, Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory Press, and Co-Founder, bioRχiv |
| 12:30 p.m. – 1:45 p.m. | Lunch with Dr. Sever Simons Hall, Dilworth Room |
| 1:45 p.m. | Departures |
Schedule subject to change