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All times are listed in Eastern Time.

Monday, August 16, 2021

9:00 a.m. ? 9:30 a.m.
Opening Remarks
Host: Bongsup Cho, PhD, Program Director RI-INBRE
Speakers: Donald DeHayes, PhD, Provost, University of Rhode Island
Honorable Jack Reed, U.S. Senator for Rhode Island
9:30 a.m. ? 10:15 a.m.
Updates from NIGMS
Presentation Slides
Speaker: Jon Lorsch, PhD, National Institute of General Medical Sciences
10:15 a.m. ? 10:25 a.m.
NAIPI Update
Presentation Slides
Speaker: Konstantin Gus Kousoulas, PhD, National Association of IDeA Principal Investigators
10:25 a.m. ? 11:05 a.m.
The NIH Common Fund?s High-Risk, High-Reward Research (HRHR) Program
Presentation Slides
Speaker: Ravi Basavappa, PhD, National Institutes of Health, Office of Director Common Fund
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11:05 a.m. ? 12:00 p.m.
Keynote: Rapid COVID-19 Vaccine Development
Speaker: Barney Graham, MD, PhD, National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases
Introduction: Alan Rothman, MD, University of Rhode Island
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12:00 p.m. ? 12:10 p.m.
Break
 
12:10 p.m. ? 12:50 p.m.
HRHR Breakout Session
Moderator: Brett Pellock, PhD, Program Coordinator RI-INBRE, Providence College
Panel: Giovanni Bosco, PhD, Dartmouth College
April M. Kloxin, PhD, University of Delaware
Carlos E. Vargas-Irwin, PhD, Brown University
John X.J. Zhang, PhD, Dartmouth College
Ravi Basavappa, PhD, National Institutes of Health
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12:50 p.m. ? 1:00 p.m.
Break
 
1:00 p.m. ? 3:30 p.m.
Concurrent Sessions
View Recording From Neurocircuitry to Neuromodulation

1:00 p.m. Introductory Remarks
Co-Chair: Benjamin D. Greenberg, MD, PhD, Brown University

1:10 p.m. Mechanisms of Myelin Plasticity and Repair in the Live Brain
Speaker: Robert Hill, PhD, Dartmouth College

1:40 p.m. Quantifying Behavioral Changes in Adult Drosophila melanogaster in Response to Painful Stimuli to Gain Insight into Underlying Circuits
Speaker: Amanda Crocker, PhD, Middlebury College

2:10 p.m. Navigating Our Uncertain Social Worlds
Speaker: Oriel FeldmanHall, PhD, Brown University

2:40 p.m. The Internal Sunshine of the Neuromodulated Mind: Can Electrical Stimulation Improve the Inhibition of Fear?
Speaker: Mascha van?t Wout Frank, PhD, Brown University

3:10 p.m. Discussion
Co-Chair: Arturo Andrade, PhD, University of New Hampshire

View Recording There is no Box: Equity, Diversity, and Inclusion in Medical Entrepreneurship

1:00 p.m. Introductory Remarks
Co-Chair: Jake Reder, PhD, Celdara Medical, LLC

1:10 p.m. Mirroring the Diversity of the Patients We Serve ? The Ultimate Impact of DE&I in Biotech
Speaker: Michal Preminger, PhD, Johnson & Johnson

1:40 p.m. How Should Entrepreneurs Think about EDI? When They Have a Million Other Priorities
Speaker: Sarah Kalil, CoreMap

2:10 p.m. NIH Efforts to Promote Equity, Diversity, and Inclusion in Biomedical Entrepreneurship
Speaker: Ashim Subedee, PhD, National Institute of General Medical Sciences

2:40 p.m. BIO I-Corps: Real World Training to Support EDI in the Biosciences
Speaker: Marc Sedam, New York University

3:10 p.m. Discussion
Co-Chair: Julius Korley, PhD, University of Delaware

Tuesday, August 17, 2021

9:00 a.m. ? 11:30 a.m.
Concurrent Sessions
View Recording Cancer: Emerging Hallmarks and Enabling Characteristics

9:00 a.m. Introductory Remarks
Co-Chair: Niall Howlett, PhD, University of Rhode Island

9:05 a.m. Resident Memory T Cell Responses to Cancer
Mini-Keynote: Mary Jo Turk, PhD, Dartmouth College

9:30 a.m. Immunotherapy Options for Pediatric Acute Myelogenous Leukemia: From Target Identification to Clinical Trial
Speaker: Sonali Barwe, PhD, Alfred I. duPont Hospital for Children

9:50 a.m. Molecular Predictors of Central Nervous System Recurrence in Aggressive Lymphomas
Speaker: Adam J. Olszewski, MD, Brown University

10:10 a.m. Novel role for GLI2 in Malignant B Cells and the Tumor Microenvironment
Co-Chair: Sherine Elsawa, PhD, University of New Hampshire

10:30 a.m. Development and Implementation of a Pediatric Oncology Genomics Program: a Focus on Leukemias and the Development of Next Generation Sequencing Techniques
Speaker: Erin Crowgey, PhD, Alfred I. duPont Hospital for Children

10:50 a.m. Role of STAT3 in Ovarian Cancer
Speaker: Sarah Walker, PhD, University of New Hampshire

11:10 a.m. PIM1 Kinase: A Novel Target in Renal Cell Carcinoma
Speaker: Sheldon Holder, MD, PhD, Brown University

View Recording Investigations of Microbial Fitness, Virulence, and Drug Resistance

9:00 a.m. Introductory Remarks
Co-Chair: Sally Molloy, PhD, University of Maine

9:05 a.m. Evolution of Antibiotic Responses in Complex Dynamic Settings
Speaker: Daniel Shultz, PhD, Dartmouth College

9:25 a.m. The Role of Prophage in Mycobacterial Intrinsic Drug Resistance
Co-Chair: Sally Molloy, PhD, University of Maine

9:45 a.m. Symbiont Identity Impacts Infection Frequency and Transmission Rate When Naive Dictyostelium discoideum Amoeba Hosts are Infected with Facultative Paraburkholderia Symbionts
Co-Chair: Suegene Noh, PhD, Colby College

10:05 a.m. An Essential Bromodomain Protein That is Involved in Transcriptional Initiation During Intracellular Infection by the Protozoan Parasite Toxoplasma gondii
Speaker: Vicki Jeffers, PhD, University of New Hampshire

10:25 a.m. Ribosomal Proteins and Control of Virulence Genes in the Human Pathogen Francisella tularensis
Speaker: Kathryn Ramsey, PhD, University of Rhode Island

10:45 a.m. Pharmacologically Targeting Neutrophil Surface or Activation-Released Proteins to Improve the Host's Ability to Recognize and Remove Fungal Pathogens
Speaker: Brian LeBlanc, PhD, Brown University

11:05 a.m. Concluding Remarks
Co-Chair: Suegene Noh, PhD, Colby College

 
11:30 a.m. ? 11:35 a.m.
Break
 
11:35 a.m. ? 12:00 p.m.
Piestar & IDeA: Better Together.
Speakers: Ben Claar and Jeff Wright
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