Retreat Schedule
Schedule
August 20, 2020
Session ONE 10:00 - 12 Noon
10:00 AM: Directors Introduction and Welcome
10:10 AM: Faculty Keynote, Michael Werner, PhD
10:40 AM: Post Doc, María Jose Endara, PhD (Coley/Kursar lab)
11:00 AM: Break (Trivia competition)
11:15 AM: Graduate Student Lightning Talks
- Austin Green (Sekercioglu lab)
- Crystal Su, (Dale lab)
- Kaitlyn Ellis, (Caron lab)
11:30 AM: Q&A with all 3 speakers
11:45 AM: Overview of Grad Student / Post Doc Associations & Activities (Dale Forrister)
Lunch/Poster Sessions
12:00 NOON: Click here and scroll down to find the poster submissions and vote on your favorite.
Session TWO 1:00 PM - 2:45 PM
1:00 PM: New Grad Student Introduction
1:20 PM: Postdoc, Lisa Kursel, PhD (Rog lab)
1:40 PM: Break (Trivia competition)
1:55 PM: Faculty Keynote, Talia Karasov, PhD
2:25 PM: Poster Competition Winners Announced
2:35 PM: Closing Remarks
Keynote Bios
Michael S. Werner arrived at the University of Utah in 2020 from the Max Planck Institute for Developmental Biology in Tübingen, Germany, where he was a post-doctoral researcher with Professor Ralf J. Sommer. There he studied the mechanisms of environmental influence, and the evolution of new genes. Prior to that, in May 2016, he earned his PhD in the Department of Molecular Genetics and Cell Biology at the University of Chicago in the laboratory of Alexander J. Ruthenburg, where his research focused on non-coding RNA, chromatin and genomics. During his PhD, Michael was a Chicago Biomedical Consortium (CBC) Scholar and the recipient of a University-wide teaching assistant award. Currently, Werner’s research Links to an external site. focus combines his PhD and post-doctoral work to dissect the epigenetic mechanisms of phenotypic plasticity and their potential roles in ecology, evolution and human health. Werner is a native of Palm Bay, FL.
Talia Karasov was born and raised in Madison, Wisconsin. As an undergraduate at Stanford University, working in the laboratory of Dmitri Petrov, she studied the evolution of insecticide resistance in Drosophila and the spread of resistance across populations. As a graduate student at the University of Chicago with Joy Bergelson, she transitioned to working on plant-pathogen interactions, studying the genetics of coevolution between Arabidopsis and a major pathogen. As a post-doc at the Max Planck Institute working with Detlef Weigel, she continued her work on plant-microbe interactions with the goal of understanding how plants and their pathogens coevolve and how plant genetics and the microbiome influence the emergence of pathogens. In 2018 she gave the K. Gordon Lark Lecture at the Science Retreat. In 2020 SBS recruited her as assistant professor. To learn more about Talia and her work click here Links to an external site..