School of Medicine | Basic Sciences
15th Annual Basic Sciences Research Symposium
Date: Monday, October 29, 2012
Location: Wong Kerlee International Conference Center
Sponsor: LLU School of Medicine Basic Science Departments
About the Symposium
The Annual LLU Basic Science Research Symposium is held every fall and is generally organized around a central research theme. Based on this theme, we invite an external keynote speaker, as well as several LLU faculty members, to present recent work during the morning sessions. In the afternoon, we open up the forum and invite students and LLU investigators to present and discuss their recent research in a poster session format. The presentations and poster sessions provide an excellent opportunity for incoming students to be exposed to the local research environment and provides a forum for which students and mentors can interact to discuss potential collaborations.
For this year’s symposium, the theme will be “’Omics’ and the Path to Personalized Medicine.” We are privileged to have Dr. Eileen Dolan from the University of Chicago as our keynote speaker. "Her talk is entitled, "Identification of Pharmacogenomic Markers in Oncology," and a mini-biography can be found here. Presentations will also be given by LLU faculty Eugenia Mata-Greenwood, Salvador Soriano, Michael de Vera, and Ravi Goyal. Recent awardees of the GCAT and GRASP awards will also be highlighted in their own poster session.
This year, we are also excited to have a student led breakout session entitled. “Alternative Career Pathways: What You Do With a Ph.D. Outside of Academia.” For this, we have invited several LLU alumni and regional biotech speakers who recently graduated to describe their experiences in the industrial, business, and government sectors.
Registration ends October 15th, 2012. Registration is required for all participants, so please sign up. Abstracts are also due by October 15th, 2012. Awards will be given to the top three most outstanding student posters. We look forward to seeing you there!
Sincerely,
Kimberly J. Payne
Co-Chair, 2012 Steering Committee
Assistant Professor, Division of Anatomy
Member, Center for Health Disparities and
Molecular Medicine
School of Medicine
Loma Linda University
Michael J. Pecaut
Co-Chair, 2012 Steering Committee
Associate Research Professor
Department of Radiation Medicine
Radiation Research Laboratories
Loma Linda University