NAME POSITION EMAIL ADDRESS Present? Abby Stahl Events Officer & [email protected] Present CMP Rep & Secretary Abhishek Mandal Treasurer [email protected] Present Ademayowa 1st year Rep [email protected] Present Balogun Adetunji Feyomi MGDB Rep [email protected] Present Adolfo Frias Member [email protected] Present Agustin Cruz IMM Rep [email protected] Present Aliyah Weinstein GPSA Rep & [email protected] Present Webmaster Alyce Anderson Member [email protected] Amie Draper Biomed. Inf. Rep [email protected] Avi Bayer MVM Rep [email protected] Carol Williams Grad Office [email protected] Chelsea Merkel Events Officer [email protected] Present Clare Gauss Grad Office [email protected] Lauren is stepping in Courtney Andersen Newsletter [email protected] Greg Buchan 1st Year Rep [email protected] Greg Logan President [email protected] Present

Jennifer Boatz MBSB Rep [email protected] Joyce D’Antonio Grad Office [email protected] Justin Wendzicki MVM Rep [email protected] Excused Lisa Clark Member [email protected] Present Mansi Shah CNUP Rep [email protected] Marta Wells Comp Bio Rep [email protected] Mondraya Howard MVM Rep [email protected] Present Nilesh Amatya Member [email protected] Nyla Naim Pharm Rep [email protected] Present Puja Parekh CNUP Rep [email protected] Present Rachael Gordon WSMA Rep [email protected] Ryan Staudt Member – 1st Year [email protected] Stephanie Ander Member - 1st Year [email protected] Waleed Elsegeiny Publicity Officer [email protected] & Webmaster Yoojin Lee MBSB Rep [email protected] Elizabeth Dalberg – MBSB – second meeting Kristina Buschur – CompBio - first meeting [email protected] Eileen Wong – MVM - first meeting [email protected]

BGSA meeting 09/14/15

1. Call to order, and president’s report (Greg)– 1:31 pm a. Elections We need nominations for the following positions: VP of Programming First year representative (2x) Biomedical Informatics ISB b. Newsletter – Everyone checked over the newsletter for approval

2. WSMA update (Alyce) CTS – The CTS PhD is not listed on the BGSA Symposium submission, as an FYI.

WSMA – • We will be having a coffee hour with Dr. Grace Lim, an OB Anesthesiologist and clinician investigator, on September 30th at 5:00PM, location TBD. 1 If you would like to nominate a speaker or help organize future coffee hours, please contact Nyla or Alyce • Agustin suggested having a similar series with faculty from IBGP to better get to know them and their career paths…WSMA is mostly directed towards clinical doctors so this may be a good idea. BGSA could likely provide cookies and coffee. • How to start your first lab seminar planning is also underway, please watch for advertisements for this seminar. • Lunch with a speaker from SCIENCE 2015 planning is also underway, watch for the invite.

3. Secretary report (Abby) a. Last months minutes approved b. New members added to attendance sheet, graduated members were removed

4. GPSG report (Aliyah) a. Travel Grants a.i. Funding only available if presenting at a conference, no longer for just attending a.ii. New application is after travel – should be a comparable amount of funding ($100-500) a.iii. Email Tim (VP of Finance) for more information a.iv. The Travel Grant link was repaired last Friday and you should now be able to access the application b. Upcoming Events b.i. Pirates Game – new tickets available, Sept 15, $10-15 b.ii. Pints and Pies – Grad Student Resources 4-7pm Hillman Library, Sept 15 b.iii. Fall Formal – November b.iv. Mockingjay part 2 – November b.v. Future Professional Workshops b.v.1. Financial Planning for Grad Students b.v.2. Business Etiquette Dinner c. Bake Sale – Fundraiser c.i. Thursday, 3:30-6:30 Parran Hall, Room 109 to benefit graduate student with ovarian cancer c.ii. BGSA will make a $200 donation c.iii. GPSG could match the donation possibly

5. Treasurers report (Abhishek) a. Expecting more money to be deposited for new school year b. Jennifer Boatz will be stepping up as new VP of Finance (new title for the Treasurer) and Abhishek Mandal will be stepping down effective September 16, 2015

6. Grad office report (Lauren) a. New Student Affairs Specialist a.i. Don't forget you can also apply for IBGP travel awards – 3 months in advance, up to $400 b. Soda in storage room, will move to Lounge, giving away for free because it will expire before the next Orientation Picnic

7. Past events a. Orientation picnic a.i. Aliyah composed a list of food items a.i.1. Much better idea for future planning of the picnic a.ii. Spent $1400 total, for food and venue, about $400-500 under budget a.iii. Future improvements a.iii.1. Needed more ketchup – 2 bottles a.iii.2. Needed to prepare more grilled food in advance

8. Upcoming events a. Symposium a.i. Nomination Forms for awards and oral presentations a.i.1. Award deadline end of next week a.i.2. Oral presentation deadline was last Friday – 30 applications, 6 will be chosen a.ii. Need a Professor to welcome the Keynote Speaker, can be nominated a.iii. Presenting a poster is required if you are not a first year IBGP student! a.iv. Speaker Dinner at the Porch and Lunch will be at the University Club