INAUGURAL ISFS PROGRAM

9:30 - 10:00


10:00 - 10:50



10:50 - 10:55

10:55 - 11:50





11:50 - 12:10

12:10 - 1:05













1:05 - 2:40









2:40 - 2:50

2:50 - 3:50









3:50 - 4:05

4:05 - 5:40









5:40 - 6:15

6:15 - 7:15

Fellows-only Training Session
Coffee Chats: Fellows with Faculty from Participating Institutions

Keynote Speaker* (Video)
Dr. Kizzmekia Corbett (Scientific Lead -Coronavirus Vaccines & Immunopathogenesis Team, NIH)
Moderators: Dr. Christina Cho (Yale University), Dr. Yvon Woappi (Harvard Medical School)

Break

Fellows-only Training Session
Workshop - The Stereotype Threat
Moderators: Dr. Aileen Fernandez (Yale University), Dr. Tiki Hayes (Harvard Medical School)
Led by: Dr. Joan Steitz (Sterling Professor of Molecular Biophysics and Biochemistry, Yale University; HHMI investigator)

Break to grab lunch

Fellows-only Training Session
Panel Lunch - Postdoc to Faculty: Navigating the Job Search (Video)
Moderators: Maria Fernanda Forni (Yale University), Beth Evans (University of California, Irvine)
Discussion with:
Dr. Andrea Gomez (Assistant Professor, Department of Molecular and Cell Biology, Helen Wills Neuroscience Institute, University of California, Berkeley)
Dr. Antentor Hinton (Assistant Professor (Fall 2021), Department of Molecular Physiology and Biophysics, Vanderbilt University)
Dr. Martha Muñoz (Assistant Professor, Ecology and Evolutionary Biology, Yale University)
Dr. Quinton Smith (Assistant professor (Spring 2021), Chemical and Biomolecular Engineering, University of California, Irvine)
Dr. Cornelius Taabazuing (Postdoctoral fellow, Chemical Biology Department, Memorial Sloan-Kettering Cancer Center)

Session 4 - Fellow Research Talks, Immunology & Microbiology*
Moderators: Dr. Selam Woldemeskel (MIT), Dr. Naomi Philip (Yale University)
Dr. Daniel Abebayehu, Inflammatory Thy-1 Negative Fibroblasts are Critical for Pulmonary and Biomaterial-Mediated Fibrosis (University of Virginia)
Dr. Madeleine Durkee, Quantifying Fluorescence Microscopy Images of Lupus Nephritis Biopsies Using Computer Vision (University of Chicago)
Dr. Irina Leonardi, Mechanisms of Fungal Recognition in the Intestine (Weill Cornell Medicine)
Dr. Jonathan Lynch, Membrane Remodeling and Viral Defense: Mechanisms for Surviving, Stimulating,
and Protecting a Mutualism (University of California, Los Angeles)

Break

Fellows-only Training Session
Workshop - Acing the Interview: How to Craft an Impactful Chalk/Job Talk and Prepare for Faculty Interviews (Video)
Moderators: Dr. Liz Boydston (Whitehead Institute), Dr. Anupama Hemalatha (Yale University)
Led by:
Dr. Antonio Giraldez (Fergus F. Wallace Professor, Chair, Department of Genetics, Yale School of Medicine)
Dr. Harvey Lodish (Founding Member, Whitehead Institute; Professor of Biology & Biological Engineering, Massachusetts Institute of Technology)
Dr. Viviana Risca (Assistant Professor, Biochemistry, Biophysics, Chemical Biology & Structural Biology, Rockefeller University)

Break

Session 5 - Fellow Research Talks, Genomics, Cell, Developmental & Computational Biology*
Moderators: Dr. Christina Heil (University of Rochester), Dr. Farha Khan (University of California, Los Angeles)
Dr. Blair Benham-Pyle, Identification of Rare Transient Post-Mitotic Cell States Induced by Injury and Required for Whole-body Regeneration (Stowers Institute for Medical Research)
Dr. Gamze Gürsoy, Genome Privacy and Functional Genomics (Yale University)
Dr. Christina Termini, Leveraging Proteoglycans for Hematopoietic Stem Cell Regeneration (University of California, Los Angeles)
Dr. Lyndsay Murrow, Changes in Epithelial Proportions and Transcriptional State Underlie Major Premenopausal Breast Cancer Risks (University of California, San Francisco)

Break

Fellows-only Training Session
Networking with Faculty