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RESEARCH DAY

20TH_ANNUAL_RESEARCH_DAY_BANNER

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Schedule

8:30 am - 9:25 am

Coffee, refreshments, and poster setup
Outside Alumni Assembly Hall & Latham Ballroom A

9:25 am - 9:30 am

Opening Remarks by Bob Cohen
Alumni Assembly Hall

9:30 am - 10:30 am

Keynote Presentation by Josh Nicholson
Alumni Assembly Hall

10:30 am - 10:45 am

Break (coffee, etc.)
Outside Alumni Assembly Hall

10:45 am - 12:05 pm

Invited Student Oral Presentations
Alumni Assembly Hall

  • Korin Jones: "Priority effects in a tadpole microbiome"
  • Tiffany Roach: "Maintaining commitment to cargo trafficking in the face of bacterial infection"
  • Ben Unruh: "Making and breaking RNA circadian rhythms"
  • Whitney Woelmer: "Improving near-term forecasts of water quality through uncertainty quantification and communication"

 

12:05 pm - 1:05 pm

Lunch / Break
Latham Ballroom C-D-E-F

1:05 pm - 2:10 pm

Breakout Oral Presentations: Session 1
Alumni Assembly Hall and Latham Ballroom B

2:10 pm - 2:25 pm

Break (coffee, etc.)

2:25 pm - 3:30 pm

Breakout Oral Presentations: Session 2
Alumni Assembly Hall and Latham Ballroom B

3:30 pm - 5:45 pm

Poster Session (& Happy Hour, 4:00 pm - 6:00 pm)
Latham Ballroom A

5:45 pm - 6:15 pm

Award Announcements and Closing Remarks by Bob Cohen
Latham Ballroom A

Breakout Session Schedule: Speakers and Moderators

Session 1

 

Alumni Assembly Hall

Latham Ballroom B

Moderator Melissa Burt (Whitehead) Safoura Salar (Schubot)
1:05 - 1:15 pm Xavier Ozowara (Whitehead)
Nathan Esteves (Scharf)
1:15 - 1:25 pm Marissa Langager (Hawley) Hollyn Franklin (Hsu)
1:25 - 1:35 pm Nichole Laggan (Hoyt) Jesse Janoski (Finkielstein)
1:35 - 1:45 pm Alex Longcamp (Draghi) Meghan Sedovy (Johnstone)
1:45 - 1:55 pm Alex Grimaudo (Langwig) Mathew Bloomfield (Cimini)
1:55 - 2:05 pm Macy Kailing (Langwig) Mahmudul Hasan (Capelluto)
2:05 - 2:10 pm Wiggle room for technical glitches, delay, etc.

Session 2

 

Alumni Assembly Hall

Latham Ballroom B

Moderator Stephen Plont (Hotchkiss)
Tiffany Roach (Capelluto)
2:25 - 2:35 pm Sam Silknetter (Mims)
Mason Wheeler (Pfleger)
2:35 - 2:45 pm Camilo Alfonso (Moore)
Christina Wheeler (Lamouille)
2:45 - 2:55 pm Casey Gregory (Belden)
Kenneth Young (Lamouille & Smyth)
2:55 - 3:05 pm Paul Risteca (Barrett)
Zarley Rebholz (Tholl)
3:05 - 3:15 pm Sangita Karki (Aylward)
Sukhman Kaur (Tholl)
3:15 - 3:25 pm Paula Erazo (Aylward) -
3:25 - 3:30 pm Wiggle room for technical glitches, delay, etc.