2021-2022 ISFS Program

10:30 - 12:30


12:30 - 1:30


1:30 - 1:45

1:45 - 2:00

2:00 - 3:45










3:45 - 4:00

4:00 - 5:45










5:45 - 6:00

6:00 - 7:00

Fellows and Associates-Only Training Sessions
Various events

Fellows-only Networking Session
Chairs’, Deans’ and Directors’ Welcome Lunch for Fellows

Break

Welcome Address
Dr. Darin Latimore (Deputy Dean and Chief Diversity Officer and Associate Professor of Internal Medicine (General Medicine); Title IX Deputy Coordinator, Yale School of Medicine, YSM)
Dr. Nancy Brown (Jean and David W. Wallace Dean of YSM and C.N.H. Long Professor of Internal Medicine)

Session 1 - Fellow Research Talks, Neuroscience
Moderators: Dr. Monica Santisteban (Cornell University) & Dr. Baoling Li
Dr. Lillian Brady, Sex-specific cholinergic regulation of dopamine release mechanisms in the nucleus accumbens (Vanderbilt University)
Dr. Diego Fernández, Retina-brain circuits that process daily changes in ambient light to modulate animal behavior (NIH/NIMH)
Dr. Valerie Darcey, Can your diet influence your behavior? (NIH/NIDDK)
Dr. Edward Nieh, Population Neural Dynamics in the Hippocampus and Beyond (Stanford)
Dr. Arnaldo Carreira-Rosado, Structure and function of spontaneous network activity during circuit formation (Stanford)

Break

Session 2 - Fellow Research Talks, Developmental Biology
Moderators: Dr. Anil Kumar Ganga (Yale University) & Dr. Jennifer McKey (Duke University)
Dr. Marina Venero Galanternik, Anatomical and Molecular Characterization of the zebrafish meninges (NICHD)
Dr. Marlies Rossmann, Dissecting metabolic gene regulatory networks in hematopoiesis (Harvard University)
Dr. Laura James-Allan, The role of extracellular vesicles in gestational diabetes mellitus (UCLA)
Dr. Chrystian Junqueira Alves, Investigating the force-mediated mechanosignaling for the differentiation of pluripotent stem cells (Icahn School of Medicine)
Dr. Michael Piacentino, Plasma membrane lipid metabolism controls invasive cellular behavior during development (California Institute of Technology)

Break

Keynote Speaker
Dr. Shirley Malcom (Senior Advisor to the CEO and Director of the SEA Change initiative at AAAS)
Moderators: Rochelle Smith (Yale University), Dr. Sunny Narayanan (Florida State University)