INAUGURAL ISFS PROGRAM

9:30 - 10:00


10:00 - 10:15




10:15 - 11:50









11:50 - 12:10

12:10 - 1:00


1:00 - 2:35









2:35 - 2:50

2:50 - 3:50









3:50 - 4:00

4:00 - 5:55











5:55 - 6:15

6:15 - 7:05

Fellows-only Training Session
Coffee Chats: Fellows with Faculty Mentors

Welcome Address* (Video)
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, Cell Biology & Biochemistry*
Moderators: Dr. Youjun Wu (Yale University) and Dr. Snigdha Mukerjee (Vanderbilt University)
Dr. Kelsie Eichel, Neuronal Polarity Requires an Endocytic Clearance Mechanism in the Axon Initial Segment (Stanford University)
Dr. Melanie McReynolds, NAD+ Flux is Maintained in Aged Mice, (Princeton University)
Dr. Florentine Rutaganira, Kinase Chemical Genetics in the Closest Living Relatives of Animals (University of California, Berkeley)
Dr. Priyanka Verma, Chromatin Accessibility: A New Vulnerability in BRCA-Mutant Cancers (University of Pennsylvania)

Break to grab lunch

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

Session 2 - Fellow Research Talks, Developmental Biology*
Moderators: Dr. Mancy Tong (Yale University) and Dr. Anil Kumar (Yale University)
Dr. Juan Alvarez, Organoid Maturation by Circadian Entrainment (Harvard University)
Dr. David Castillo-Azofeifa, The Roles of Cell Death and Mechanical Signaling in Regeneration of Epithelial Stem Cells (University of California, San Francisco)
Dr. D'Juan Farmer, Molecular and Cellular Control of Skeletal Progenitors in the Vertebrate Skull (University of Southern California)
Dr. Lauren Goins, Transcriptomics Reveals New Insights into Notch Signaling Control Mechanisms (University of California, Los Angeles)

Break

Workshop - Unlocking the Secrets of NIH Funding: Learning the Ins and Outs* (Video)
Introduced by: Dr. Anup Parchure (Yale University)
Moderator: Dr. Gary Hunnicut (Asst. Director of Research Affairs, Yale Cancer Center)
Panelists from the National Institutes of Health:
Dr. Luis Cubano (Program Director, National Human Genome Research Institute)
Dr. Kenneth Gibbs (Director, Postdoctoral Research Associate Training Program)
Dr. Michelle Jones-London (Chief, Office of Programs to Enhance Neuroscience Workforce Diversity)
Dr. Sailija Koduri (Program Director, Division of Pharmacology, Physiology, and Biological Chemistry)
View slides here.

Break

Session 3 - Fellow Talks, Epigenetics & Functional Genomics*
Moderators: Dr. Valerie Tornini (Yale University) and Dr. Snusha Ravikumar (Yale University)
Dr. Richard Adeyemi, Functional Genetic Characterization of a Novel Complex Necessary for Genome Maintenance (Harvard Medical School/Brigham and Women's Hospital)
Dr. Nicole Martinez, Uncovering New Functions of RNA Modifications in mRNA Processing (Yale University)
Dr. Michael Meers, Transcription Factor-Chromatin Interactions at the Onset of Cell Differentiation (Fred Hutchinson Cancer Research Center)
Dr. Hiruy Meharena, Cell-type Specific Interplay between Genomic Imbalance and 3D-Genome Organization in Down Syndrome (Massachusetts Institute of Technology)
Dr. Yadira Soto-Feliciano, Understanding Mechanisms of Transcriptional Regulation by Chromatin Adaptor/Scaffold Proteins (Rockefeller University)

Break

Keynote Speaker* (Video)
Dr. Kafui Dzirasa (K. Ranga Rama Krishnan Associate Professor, Duke University Medical Center &
2019 AAAS Leshner Fellow)
Moderators: Dr. Aya Osman (Icahn School of Medicine), Dr. Rafael Perez (Yale University)