2021-2022 ISFS Program

10:00 - 11:00

11:00 - 11:15

11:15 - 12:15








12:15 - 1:00


1:00 - 2:45











2:45 - 3:00

3:00 - 4:45












4:45 - 5:00

5:00 - 6:00


6:00 - 7:00

Fellows & Associates Only Sessions

Break

Panel: Success Stories - Former Fellows Who Are Now Junior Faculty 
Moderators: Dr. Joanna Bandola-Simon (NCI) & Dr. Danielle Tomasello (MIT)
Discussion with:
Dr. Christina Termini (Assistant Professor at the Fred Hutchinson Cancer Research Center, starting Spring of 2022)
Dr. Priyanka Verma (Assistant Professor, Department of Medicine, Washington University in St. Louis)
Dr. Gamze Gursoy (Assistant Professor, Columbia University & New York Genome Center, starting January 2022)
Dr. Michael Wells (Assistant Professor, Human Genetics at the UCLA David Geffen School of Medicine)

Associates Flash Talk Session (Optional Break)
Genetics, Biochemistry, Development Biology, Neuroscience

Session 3 - Fellow Research Talks, Genetics & Genomics
Moderators: Dr. Christina Cho (Yale University) & Dr. Dylan Van Kampen (University of Pennsylvania) 
Dr. Longzhi Tan , Mapping the Dynamics of the Linear and 3D Genome of Single Cells in the Developing Brain (Stanford University)
Dr. Shelbi Russell, Cellular mechanisms underlying bacterial symbiont inheritance (University of California, Santa Cruz)
Dr. Adrianna San Roman, Cell-autonomous effects of sex chromosome constitution on genome-wide expression (Whitehead Institute & MIT)
Dr. Maria Maldonado, Structural insights into plant respiration (University of California, Davis)
Dr. Trevor Sorrells, A persistent behavior state enables sustained predation of humans by mosquitoes  (Rockefeller University )

Break

Session 4 - Fellow Research Talks, Biophysics
Moderators: Dr. Chrystal Starbird (Yale University) & Dr. Nathan Beals (NYU Langone)
Dr. Cristina Rodriguez, Next-generation optical imaging methods for probing the brain and spinal cord (University of California, Berkeley)
Dr. Jasmine Nirody, Robust inter-limb coordination in tardigrades across walking speeds and terrains (Rockefeller University)
Dr. Claudia Vasquez, How do cells build negative space and other 3D tissue structures? (University of California, San Francisco)
Dr. Huong Kratochvil, Formation of Transient Water Wires in Hydrophobic Gaskets Define Proton Selectivity (Stanford University)
Dr. Piere Rodriguez Aliaga, Dissecting the structural basis of Huntingtin pathogenesis: one molecule at the time (Stanford University)

Break

Fellows-only Session
Networking with Faculty

Networking for All Registrants
Networking rooms with different discussion topics: 

• Building inclusive labs 

• Juggling work-life balance in academia 

• Finding mentors and building mentoring relationships