The 2019 Northeast Regional Institutional Development Award (IDeA) Conference August 14 – 16, 2019 Bretton Woods, NH Conference Agenda
Wednesday, August 14, 2019 Location 2:00 pm – Registration Desk Hours of Operation Webster/Franklin 9:30 pm Foyer PEARL Meeting Washington Program Evaluation and Administration of Research Leaders Board Room By invitation
5:00 pm – Reception The 6:00 pm Conservatory 5:00 pm – Poster Session I Set up Adams & 6:00 pm Madison Rooms 6:00 pm – Welcoming Remarks Dining Room 6:15 pm William Green, Ph.D. Geisel School of Medicine at Dartmouth, PI, NH INBRE Dean Madden, Ph.D. Dartmouth College, Vice Provost for Research
6:15 pm – Buffet Dinner Dining Room 7:30 pm 7:30 pm – Dessert and Poster Session I Adams & 9:00 pm Madison Rooms Student and Core Posters
Thursday, August 15, 2019 Location 7:00 am – Registration Desk Hours of Operation Webster/Franklin 5:30 pm Foyer 7:00 am – One-on-One Mentoring Dining Room 7:30 am Drop-in or Upon Request
7:30 am – Breakfast Topic Tables: Dining Room 8:30 am Possible topics include: Career Choices Undergrad engagement Graduate Schools Medical Schools IDeA Entrepreneurship
8:45 am – Opening Remarks and Introduction: William Green, Ph.D. Grand Ballroom 9:15 am Ming Lei, Ph.D. NIGMS, Director of the Division for Research Capacity Building
9:15 am – Ravi Basavappa, Ph.D. Grand Ballroom 9:40 am Program Leader, Office of Strategic Coordination Common Fund Program
9:40 am – Krishan K. Arora, Ph.D. Grand Ballroom 9:50 am NIGMS, IDeA Program Director
9:50 am – Jake Reder, Ph.D. Grand Ballroom 10:10 am Celdara Medical DRIVEN (DE, RI, VT, ME, NH) Accelerator Hub Accelerating Medical Entrepreneurship in the Northeast
10:10 am – Jane Disney, Ph.D. Grand Ballroom 10:30 am MDI Biological Laboratory SEPA-COBRE/INBRE inter-program collaboration
10:30 am – Doug Wright, Ph.D. Grand Ballroom 10:40 am University of Kansas Medical Center National Association of IDeA Principal Investigators
10:40 am – Break with Refreshments Grand Ballroom 11:00 am 11:00 am – Luis Cubano, Ph.D. Grand Ballroom 11:25 am NIGMS, G-RISE Program Director
11:25 am – Darlene Olsen, Ph.D. Grand Ballroom 11:45 am Norwich University Council on Undergraduate Research
11:45 am – Concurrent Session A 1:00 pm 11:45 am – Entrepreneurial Discussion and Workshop Grand Ballroom 1:00 pm Mercedes Rincon, Ph.D. University of Vermont "Innovative Programs to Enhance Research Training" (IPERT) Fostering Entrepreneurship in Biomedical Research
11:45 am – Core Presentations of resources available to NERIC investigators Adams & 1:00 pm Madison Rooms Ying Wai Lam Ph.D., Vermont Genomics Nework (VGN) Director Proteomics Facility, UVM
Brewster F. Kingham, M.S., Director of DNA Sequencing & Genotyping Center, Delaware Biotechnology Institute, University of Delaware
Andreia Verissimo, Ph.D., Manager BioMT- Institute for Biomolecular Targeting, Geisel School of Medicine at Dartmouth
Dustin Updike Ph.D. Program Coordinator INBRE, Mount Desert Island Biological Laboratory
Brenton DeBoef Ph.D., Training Core Director, University of Rhode Island
1:00 pm – Lunch with Annie Kuster Dining Room 2:30 pm
2:30 pm – Concurrent Scientific Session B 4:30 pm 2:30 pm – Session 1: Bioinformatics Rigor and Reproducibility Adams & 4:30 pm Madison Rooms Chair: Kelley Thomas, Ph.D. University of New Hampshire
Speakers: Cathy Wu, Ph.D., University of Delaware Julie Dragon, Ph.D. University of Vermont Ashok Ragavendran, Ph.D., Brown University Toni Westbrook, University of New Hampshire Ben King, Ph.D., University of Maine Maurice Shen, Ph.D., BenchSci
2:30 pm – Session 2: Cancer Monroe Room 4:30 pm Chairs: Patrycja Dubielecka-Szczerba, Ph.D., Brown University Brock Christensen, Ph.D., Dartmouth College
Speakers: Sonali Barwe, Alfred I. duPont Hospital for Children Brock Christensen, Ph.D., Dartmouth College Patrycja Dubielecka-Szczerba, Ph.D., Brown University Erik Kmiec, Ph.D., University of Delaware Michaela Reagan, Ph.D., Maine Medical Center Research Institute Shuo Wei, Ph.D., University of Delaware
2:30 pm – Session 3: Clinical Translational Research Reagan Room 4:30 pm Chairs: Kathleen Fairfield, MD, MPH, DrPH
Speakers: Ashley Buchanan, DrPH, University of Rhode Island Erin Crowgey, PhD, Nemours Alfred I. duPont Hospital for Children Shira Dunsiger, PhD, Brown University Kathleen Fairfield, MD, MPH, DrPH, Maine Medical Center Dominique Medaglio, PharmD, Christiana Care Health System Paul Palumbo, MD, Dartmouth Hitchcock Medical Center
2:30 pm – Session 4: Cell and Developmental Biology Jefferson Room 4:30 pm Chairs: Aaron Brown, Ph.D., Maine Medical Center Research Institute Jason Pellettieri, Ph.D., Keene State College
Speakers: Sam Beck, Ph.D., MDI Biological Laboratory Aaron Brown, Ph.D., Maine Medical Center Research Institute James Godwin, Ph.D., MDI Biological Laboratory Olin Liang, Ph.D., Brown University Jason Pellettieri, Ph.D., Keene State College Jaron Rollins, Ph.D., MDI Biological Laboratory Jessica Schuster, Ph.D., Brown University Soonmoon Yoo, Ph.D., Alfred I. duPont Hospital for Children
2:30 pm – Session 5: IDeA Administrative Session Lafayette Room 4:30 pm Arina V. Kramer, IDeA Grants Management Specialist Grants Management and Post-Award Management
Laura Bellavia and Kris Monahan (RI-INBRE) Partnering with PUIs: Best practices in communication and network building across partner institutions
Laura Bellavia and Kris Monahan (RI-INBRE) A Tale of Research Administration Transformation
4:30 pm – Break with Refreshments Grand Ballroom 5:00 pm Foyer
4:45 pm – Poster Session II Set up Adams & 5:00 pm Madison Rooms 5:00 pm – Keynote Lecture 1 Grand Ballroom 6:00 pm Mike Hoppa, Ph.D. Dartmouth College Decoding Potassium Channel Function in Nerve Terminals with Light
6:00 pm – Poster Session II Adams & 7:00 pm Madison Rooms Postdoc and Faculty Posters
7:00 pm Dinner on your own See restaurant options and reservation recommendations
Friday, August 16, 2019 Location 7:00 am – One-on-One Mentoring Dining Room 7:30 am Drop-in or Upon Request
7:30 am – Breakfast Topic Tables Dining Room 8:30 am Possible topics include: Career Choices Undergrad engagement Graduate Schools Medical Schools IDeA Entrepreneurship
8:45 am – Keynote Lecture 2 Grand Ballroom 9:45 am Shipra Vaishnava, Ph.D. Brown University In situ analysis of mucus-residing bacterial community reveals an ecological niche key for gut microbiome stability
9:45 am – Break with Refreshments Presidential 10:00 am Foyer
10:00 am – Concurrent Scientific Session C 12:00 pm 10:00 am – Session 1: Bioinformatics Adams & 12:00 pm Madison Rooms Chair: Julie Dragon, Ph.D. University of Vermont
Speakers: Fang Fang Chen, Ph.D., University of Delaware Rob Frost, Ph.D., Dartmouth College Saeed Hassanpour, Ph.D., Dartmouth College Chris Hemme, Ph.D., University of Rhode Island Amanda Jamieson, Ph.D., Brown University Harish Vashisth, Ph.D., University of New Hampshire
10:00 am – Session 2: IDeAs Together: Cross-state evaluation in action Reagan Room 12:00 pm Chair: Sharon O'Connor, MBA, MS, NH and RI INBRE
Speakers: Tabitha Finch, Ph.D., Vermont Genetics Network Lynn Foster-Johnson, Ph.D., Dartmouth College (COBRE) Laura Lessard, Ph.D., Delaware INBRE Sharon O'Connor, MBA, MS, NH and RI INBRE Chris Smith, Maine INBRE Ashlee Warzin, CIBBR University of New Hampshire
10:00 am – Session 3: Microbiology and Immunology Monroe Room 12:00 pm Chairs: Sunil K. Shaw, Ph.D., Brown University Anne Hoen, Ph.D., Dartmouth College
Speakers: Larry Feinstein, Ph.D., University of Maine Lauren Hinkel, University of Vermont Anne Hoen, Ph.D., Dartmouth College Sukanta Jash, Ph.D., Brown University Ron Peck, Ph.D., Colby College Matthew Ramsey, Ph.D., University of Rhode Island Sunil Shaw, Ph.D., Brown University Huy Tu, University of Vermont
10:00 am – Session 4: Neurobiology and Behavior Jefferson Room 12:00 pm Chairs: Jaeda Coutinho-Budd, Ph.D., University of Vermont Sergios Charntikov, Ph.D., University of New Hampshire
Speakers: Matt Butchbach, Ph.D., Alfred I. duPont Hospital for Children Sergios Charntikov, Ph.D., University of New Hampshire Xuanmao Chen, Ph.D., University of New Hampshire Jaeda Coutinho-Budd, Ph.D., University of Vermont Diana J. Goode, Ph.D., University of New England Ben Harrison, Ph.D., University of New England Robert Hill, Ph.D., Dartmouth College Sigrid A. Langhans, Ph.D., University of Delaware
10:00 am – Session 5: Opioids Epidemic Lafayette Room 12:00 pm Chairs: Steven Higgins, Ph.D. Director, Vermont Center for Behavior and Health, University of Vermont Richard A. Rawson, Ph.D. University of Vermont
Speakers: Tara M. Higgins, M.D., Daisy Goodman, CNM, DNP, MPH, Dartmouth Hitchcock Scott Mackey, Ph.D., University of Vermont Charles MacLean, M.D., University of Vermont Kerry Nolte, Ph.D., University of New Hampshire Kelly R. Peck, Ph.D., University of Vermont Richard A. Rawson, Ph.D., University of Vermont Josiah “Jody” Rich, M.D., MPH, Brown University
12:30 pm Conference concludes