<p>NIGMS Symposium on Catalyzing the Modernization of Graduate Education 04/11/2016 </p><p>Time Event Presenters</p><p>8:30 AM Opening Remarks Jon Lorsch, Ph.D., Director, NIGMS</p><p>9:00 AM Overview of Landscape: Voices of Students: Kate Stoll, Ph.D., Senior Science Current Challenges and Policy Advisor, MIT Washington Office Opportunities Voices of Institutions: Linda Hyman, Ph.D., Associate Provost for Graduate Medical Sciences, Boston University and Division Director, Molecular and Cellular Biosciences, National Science Foundation Voices of Employers: Allyn Kaufmann, Ph.D., Section Head, Personal Healthcare R&D, The Proctor and Gamble Company, Member, SACNAS Board of Directors Panel discussion and Q&A</p><p>10:15 AM Break </p><p>10:30 AM Implementing and Assessing International Perspectives: Francois Taddei, Ph.D., Change Founder and Director, Center for Research and Interdisciplinarity Assessing Change: Nancy Peleaz, Ph.D., Associate Professor, Department of Biological Sciences, Purdue University </p><p>11:30 AM Lunch (on your own) </p><p>12:00 PM Poster Session Mini-talks from among the abstracts</p><p>1:15 PM Experiments in Educational Integrated Curriculum: Lynne Regan, Ph.D., Professor, Innovation, I Molecular Biophysics & Biochemistry and Professor of Chemistry and Director, Integrated Graduate Program in </p><p>Physical and Engineering Biology, Yale First Year Curricular Reform: Ann Flower, Ph.D., Associate Professor, Microbiology and Graduate Program Director, University of North Dakota School of Medicine and Health Sciences Quantitative, Computational and Data Science: Patricia Kovatch, Associate Dean for Scientific Computing, Associate Professor of Genetics and Genomic Sciences, Structural and Chemical Biology, Icahn School of Medicine at Mount Sinai Rigor and Reproducibility: Joey Barnett, Ph.D., Professor of Pharmacology, Vanderbilt University </p><p>2:45 PM Break 3:00 PM Experiments in Educational Diversity and Inclusion: Sherilynn Black, Ph.D., Innovation, II Assistant Professor of the Practice in Medical Education, and Director, Office of Biomedical Graduate Diversity, Duke University School of Medicine Career and Professional Development: Cynthia Fuhrmann, Ph.D., Assistant Dean of Career & Professional Development, University of Massachusetts Medical School Entrepreneurship & Industry Partnerships: Deepak Vashishth, Ph.D, Professor, Biomedical Engineering, Director, Center for Biotechnology and Interdisciplinary Studies, and Director, Biomolecular Science and Engineering Training Program, Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute Time to Degree: Leemor Joshua-Tor, Ph.D., Professor and HHMI Investigator, Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory</p><p>4:30 PM Reflections, Discussion, and Alison Gammie, Ph.D., Director, Division of Training, Closing Remarks Workforce Development, and Diversity</p>