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College of Medicine Biomedical Sciences Dept-Inagural Retreat
May 31, 2017 @ 8:00 am - 5:00 pm
| The Elson S. Floyd College of Medicine’s Biomedical Sciences Department is hosting its inaugural retreat on May 31 at the Davenport Grand Hotel just four blocks west of campus (333 W. Spokane Falls Blvd.).
Please join the Biomedical Sciences Department for all or part of the day for scientific addresses, good food and the departmental poster session.
RSVP here on or before May 26. Attendees will have the pleasure of hearing from two accomplished keynote speakers, in addition to addresses from two WSU and two departmental scientists.
Below is a list of the speakers and times so that you can mark your calendar. For questions please contact Chris Davis or Breezy Tottenhoff.
| Time |
Event/Speaker |
Title |
| 8:30 a.m. – 9:15 a.m. |
Check in/breakfast |
|
| 9:15 a.m. – 9:30 a.m. |
Marcos Frank |
Welcome to the Department |
| 9:30 a.m. – 9:45 a.m. |
John Tomkowiak |
Message from the Dean |
| 9:45 a.m. – 10:35 a.m. |
Keynote Address: Paul Shaw |
Can Sleep Fix the Broken Brain? |
| 10:40 a.m. – 11:20 a.m. |
Barb Sorg |
Capturing Cocaine Memories in the Perineuronal Net |
| 11:25 a.m. – 12:05 p.m. |
Jason Gerstner |
Brain Fatty Acid Binding Protein: A Node Linking Sleep and Clocks in Astrocytes? |
| 12:10 p.m. – 1:40 p.m. |
Lunch |
|
| 1:40 p.m. – 2:30 p.m. |
Keynote Address: Tso-Pang Yao |
Wheel of Aging: An Interplay of Metabolism, Mitochondria, Proteasomes and Autophagy |
| 2:35 p.m. – 3:15 p.m. |
Jon Oatley |
Molecular Determinants of the Stem Cell State in the Male Germline |
| 3:20 p.m. – 4:00 p.m. |
Weihang Chai |
Decoding Replication Stress-Induced Genome Instability in Carcinogenesis and Developmental Diseases |
| 4:00 p.m. – 5:30 p.m. |
Poster Session – Drinks |
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| 5:30 p.m. |
Depart |
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