Time

Session

Room Assignment

8:00am - 8:40am

Registration

8:40am - 9:00am

Welcoming Remarks

Bruce Tromberg, NIBIB Institute Director

9:00am - 9:45am

Keynote Speaker

Challenges and Opportunities for Mammalian Synthetic Biology

Ron Weiss, Massachusetts Institute of Technology 

Part 1:

9:45am - 10:45am

Break:

10:45am - 11:00am

Part 2:

11:00am - 12:00pm

Breakout Session I

Embryogenesis & Morphogenesis

Room C1/C2

Moderator: Ahmad Khalil, Boston University

NIH Program Officer(s): Mahua Mukhopadhyay, (NICHD) & Tuba Fehr (NICHD)                        

Natural Products

Room E1/E2

Moderator: Mary Dunlop, Boston University

NIH Program Officer(s): Craig Hopp (NCCIH) 

Vaccine Development

Room G1/G2

Moderator: Julius Lucks, Northwestern University

NIH Program Officer(s): Brigitte Sanders (NIAID) & Karen Lacourciere (NIAID)        

Immunotherapy

Room F1/F2

Moderator: Josh Leonard,  Northwestern University

NIH Program Officer(s): Kevin Howcroft (NCI) 

*Please see room assignments under breakout session topic

1:00pm - 2:30pm

Grant/Technical Writing Session - Principal Investigators

Room E1/E2         

Presentation: Discussion of different funding mechanisms (R01s, R03s, and R21s), application process, and peer-reviewed process

Craig Giroux, NIH Scientific Review Officer

Panel Discussion: Interactive Q&A session with panel speakers

Craig Giroux, NIH Scientific Review Officer

Josh Leonard, Northwestern University

David Rampulla, NIBIB Program Director

Grant/Technical Writing Session - Trainees          

Room F1/F2                                               

Presentation: Discussion of T's, K's, and F's and how these are different from other research grants                                                                                 

Manana Sukhareva, NIBIB Director, Office of Scientific Review

Tiffani Bailey Lash, NIBIB Program Director

Panel Discussion: Interactive Q&A session with panel speakers

Manana Sukhareva, NIBIB Director, Office of Scientific Review

Tiffani Bailey Lash, NIBIB Program Director

*Please see room assignments under breakout session topic

2:30pm - 3:00pm

Break

3:00pm - 5:00pm

Poster Session

Time

Session

Room Assignment

8:00am - 8:30am

Registration

8:30am - 8:40am

Welcoming Remarks

David Rampulla, NIBIB Program Director

Part 1:

8:40am - 9:40am

Break:

9:40am - 10:00am

Part 2:

10:00am - 11:00am

Breakout Session II

Embryogenesis & Morphogenesis

Room C1/C2

Moderator: Tara Deans, University of Utah

NIH Program Officer(s): Mahua Mukhopadhyay (NICHD) & Tuba Fehr (NICHD)    

Natural Products

Room E1/E2

Moderator: Mary Dunlop, Boston University

NIH Program Officer(s): Craig Hopp (NCCIH) 

Vaccine Development

Room G1/G2

Moderator: Julius Lucks, Northwestern University

NIH Program Officer(s): Brigitte Sanders (NIAID) & Karen Lacourciere (NIAID)    

Immunotherapy

Room F1/F2

Moderator: Josh Leonard,  Northwestern University

NIH Program Officer(s): Anthony Welch (NCI)

*Please see room assignments under breakout session topic

11:00am - 11:30am       

Break and Breakout Summary Preparation

11:30am - 12:15pm

Breakout Readout

12:15pm - 1:15pm    

Networking Lunch (Optional)

Synthetic Biology at the NIH: Overview

Brief presentations from NIH ICs with interest in Synthetic Biology

Michelle Bond, NIGMS Program Director

Craig Hopp, NCCIH Deputy Director, Division of Extramural Research

Jerry Li, NCI Program Director

Mahua Mukhopadhyay, NICHD Program Officer

David Rampulla, NIBIB Program Director

Brigitte Sanders, NIAID Health Scientist Administrator

Michael Smith, NHGRI Program Director

2:00pm - 2:15pm                            

Break

IC Roundtable

Talk with NIH Program Officers about your research, grant mechanisms, and IC missions

Room E1/E2:

NIBIB and NIGMS

Room G1/G2:

NCI and NIAID

Room C1/C2:

NCCIH and NICHD

Closing Remarks

Josh Leonard, Northwestern University