DRAFT AGENDA

Welcome

• 09:30 Coffee & tea & light snacks

• 10:00 Event welcome (Kathryn Kauffman)

Keynote 

• 10:05 - 10:50 Daria Van Tyne, Dept of Medicine, Univ of Pittsburgh

Talks

• 11:00 - 12:15

Lunch & Poster Session

• 12:20 - 13:30

Talks

• 13:30 -  16:30 (including break)

“After Hours” space for…

• Open time for ad hoc conversations and connections

Anticipated Speakers

• Yolanda Huang, Dept of Microbiology & Immunology, Jacobs School of Medicine & Biomedical Sciences, UB

• Patrick Kenney, Dept of Pediatrics, Jacobs School of Medicine & Biomedical Sciences, UB

• Nicholas Smith, Dept of Pharmacy Practice, School of Pharmacy, UB

• Yinyin Ye, Dept of Civil, Structural and Environmental Engineering,  School of Engineering and Applied Sciences, UB

• Mark Gallo, Niagara University

• John Crane, Dept of Medicine, Jacobs School of Medicine & Biomedical Sciences, UB

• Gerald Koudelka, Dept of Biological Sciences, College of Arts & Sciences, UB

• Mitchell O'Connell, Dept of Biochemistry and Biophysics, Univ of Rochester Medical Center

• Andrew Varble, Dept of Microbiology & Immunology, Univ of Rochester Medical Center

• Cynthia Monaco, Depts of Medicine and Microbiology & Immunology, Univ of Rochester Medical Center

• Kathryn Kauffman, Dept of Oral Biology, School of Dental Medicine, UB

• Siân Owen, Wadsworth Center, Department of Health, New York State

• Julie Thomas, Thomas H. Gosnell School of Life Sciences, Rochester Institute of Technology