2022 G&E Retreat
When & Where
November 4 - November 5
2:00 PM
Contact
- Amy Carter
- 713-745-0659
- amy.e.carter@uth.tmc.edu
Event Description
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]