Where

Moody Gardens Resort, One Hope Blvd, Galveston, TX 77554

Contact

• Amy Carter (amy.e.carter@uth.tmc.edu)

Event Description

This year's G&E retreat will be Friday to Saturday, November 4-5, 2022 at the Moody Gardens Hotel. The program includes platform talks, a keynote lectures, flash research talks, breakout sessions, and social exchange.  

All members of G&E Program labs, and first year GSBS students, are invited to register and participate in the retreat. For registration questions, contact Amy at amy.e.carter@uth.tmc.edu. For retreat program questions, contact the retreat co-chairs: Ruoyu Wang (Ruoyu.Wang@uth.tmc.edu) or Vahid Bahrambeigi (Vahid.Bahrambeigi@utht.tmc.edu). 

Friday, November 4, 2022
11:40 am                           Houston Bus leaves from BSRB
12:30 – 2:00 pm                MEETING REGISTRATION [first floor, near hotel front desk]
                                          POSTER SET-UP [Salon D]
                                          Note: Hotel Check-in is at 4:30 pm
2:00 – 4:00 pm                  PLATFORM SESSION 1 [Salons A, B, C]
2:00 – 2:10 pm                  OPENING REMARKS - Dr. Francesca Cole
2:10 – 2:55 pm                  Rhiannon Morrissey
                                          Tolkappiyan Premkumar
                                          Yi-Ting Chen

2:55 – 3:00 pm                  BREAK

3:00 - 4:00 pm                   Anna Miao
                                          Guozhen Gao
                                          Mingjie Zheng
                                          Safia Essien
4:00 – 4:30 pm                 GROUP PHOTO
4:30 – 5:30 pm                 HOTEL CHECK-IN [hotel front desk] & BREAK
5:30 – 6:30 pm                 POSTER SESSION #1 – Odd Numbers [Salon D]
6:30 – 7:30 pm                 DINNER [Moody II]
7:30 – 8:30 pm                 POSTER SESSION #2 – Even Numbers [Salon D]
8:30 – 8:45 pm                 BREAK
8:45 – 9:45 pm                 ENTERTAINMENT PROGRAM [Salons A, B, C]
9:45 – 11:45 pm               LATE EVENING SOCIAL (billiards and games) [Garden Cay]
                                         * See Saturday’s schedule on other side

Saturday, November 5, 2022
7:00 – 9:30 am                 ** BREAKFAST [Café in the Park]
                                         **Check-out of rooms; hotel check-out deadline is 12:00 pm.
9:30 – 10:30 am               KEYNOTE ADDRESS [Salons A, B, C]
                                         Lydia Finley, PhD, Associate Member in the Cell Biology Program at Memorial Sloan Kettering Cancer Center & Associate                                               Professor at Weill Cornell Medical College
                                         “Metabolic regulation of cell fate decisions”
10:30 - 10:45 am              COFFEE BREAK [Moody II]
10:45 – 11:30 am              INSIGHTS & PERSPECTIVES: AN INTERACTIVE PANEL DISCUSSION
                                          **With keynote speaker Dr. Finley [Salons A, B, C]
10:45 – 11:30 am             CCSG MEETING (only select guests will attend) [Ivy 1]
11:30 am -12:00 pm         HOTEL CHECKOUT [hotel front desk]
12:00 – 1:00 pm               LUNCH [Moody II]
1:00 – 2:15 pm                 PLATFORM SESSION 2 [Salons A, B, C]
1:00 – 2:15 pm                 Nick Newkirk
                                         Sseu-Pei Hwang
                                         Dalia Hassan
                                         Nazanin Esmaeili Anvar
                                         Jeison Garcia

2:15 – 2:30 pm                BREAK
2:30 - 3:30 pm                 BREAKOUT SESSIONS
                                        How to Navigate Graduate School [Ivy 1]
                                        Raisa Reyes-Castro, Jovanka Gencel-Augusto & Hanghui Ye

                                        How to Find a Great Mentor and Committee Members [Ivy 2]
                                        Dr. Jichao Chen, Dr. Sharon Dent & Dr. Bill Mattox

                                        How to Stay Motivated in Science & Deal with Failures [Vine 1]
                                        Dr. Traver Hart, Dr. Michelle Hildebrandt & Dr. Wenbo Li

                                        How to Start a Lab [Vine 2]
                                        Dr. Junjie Chen, Dr. Rachel Miller & Dr. Jun Wang

3:30 - 3:45 pm                 BREAK
3:45 – 4:00 pm                AWARDS – Dr. Francesca Cole & Dr. Rachel Miller AND CLOSING REMARKS - Dr. Rachel Miller [Salons A, B, C]
4:25 pm BUS                  DEPARTS [7 Hope Boulevard, near valet]