2021-2022 ISFS Program

10:00 - 11:00






11:00 - 12:15


12:15 - 1:00


1:00 - 2:45














2:45 - 3:00

3:00 - 4:00










4:00 - 4:15

4:15 - 6:00








6:00 - 6:30

Workshop: Strategies for Obtaining Funding
Moderators: Dr. Sandra Wittleder (NYU Langone) & Dr. Heather Caslin (Vanderbilt)
Discussion with:
Dr. Kenneth Gibbs, Jr. (Chief, Undergraduate and Predoctoral Cross-Disciplinary Training Branch at National Institute of General Medical Sciences)
Dr. Paul Greer (Assistant Professor in Molecular Medicine, University of Massachusetts Medical School)

Fellows and Associates-Only Training Sessions
Various

Associates Flash Talk Session (Optional Break)
Microbiology, Immunobiology, Cancer Biology

Session 5 - Fellow Research Talks, Immunobiology
Moderators: Dr. Preeti Thakur (University of Massachusetts Chan Medical School) & Dr. Christine Daniels (Duke University)
Dr. Victor Cortez, Defining Type 2 Immune Responses within the Gut during Worm Infection (University of California, San Francisco)
Dr. Kiel Telesford, Differential Ethnicity, & Ancestry-associated B cell dynamics in Black/African American and Latino/a Individuals with MS (Weill Cornell Medical School)
Dr. Oscar Aguilar Alfaro, Investigating the role of the CD16 Fc-gamma receptors in Natural Killer cells (University of California, San Francisco)
Dr. Stephania Libreros, Role of Specialized Pro-Resolving Mediators (SPMs) in regulating the resolution phase of inflammation (Harvard Medical School)
Dr. Joel Babdor, High dimensional immune profiling of patients with kidney transplant unravels peripheral immune trajectories and states associated with organ rejection and tolerance (University of California, San Francisco)

Break

Panel: Diverse Voices - Division of Emotional Labor 
Moderators: Dr. Francesco Cambuli (Memorial Sloan Kettering Cancer Center) & Dr. Sohini Banerjee (Baylor College of Medicine)
Discussion with:
Dr. Abha Rajbhandari (Assistant Professor, Icahn School of Medicine at Mount Sinai)
Dr. Antentor O. Hinton (Assistant Professor, Molecular Physiology and Biophysics, Vanderbilt University)
Dr. Johnna Frierson (Assistant Dean of Graduate and Postdoctoral Diversity and Inclusion, Duke University)
Dr. Malu Tansey (Norman and Susan Fixel Professor of Neuroscience and Neurology, Co-Director Center for Translational Research in Neurodegenerative Disease and the Parkinson’s Foundation Research Center, University of Florida)

Break

Session 6 - Fellow Research Talks, Biochemistry & Molecular Biology
Moderators: Dr. Colin Edward Evans (Northwestern) & Dr. Anup Parchure (Yale University)
Dr. Rachel Niederer, Uncovering novel translational control elements within 5′-UTRs (Yale University)
Dr. Jaimie Stewart, Programmable RNA Materials (California Institute of Technology)
Dr. Jeannette Tenthorey, How the host fights back: evolutionary landscapes of host-virus arms races (Fred Hutchinson Cancer Research Center)
Dr. Evan Lien, Low glycemic diets alter lipid metabolism to impact tumor growth (MIT)
Dr. Ranen Aviner, Neurotoxic ribosome collisions: a new etiology for Huntington's Disease (Stanford)

Closing Remarks
Dr. Aileen Fernandez (Postdoctoral Fellow, Yale School of Medicine)
Dr. Larry Gladney (Phyllis A. Wallace Dean of Diversity and Faculty Development; Professor of Physics, Yale Faculty of Arts & Sciences) 
Dr. Giovanna Guerrero-Medina (Executive Director of Ciencia Puerto Rico, Director, Yale Ciencia Initiative, Yale University School of Medicine, Assistant Director of Diversity, Equity and Inclusion, Yale’s Wu Tsai Institute)