Keynote Speaker: Susan Rosenberg
The 2023 Genetics Student Retreat will be held at the Biology Building East and UI Art Building West on September 22nd and 23rd. There will be a public presentation by our keynote speaker, Dr. Susan Rosenberg. Doors will open at 3:00pm, presentation will begin at 4:00. Light refreshments will be provided.
Dr. Rosenberg received a PhD in molecular biology at the University of Oregon working with Franklin Stahl, and did postdoctoral work with Miroslav Radman (Paris). Her lab studies molecular mechanisms that promote genome stability and instability, and their impacts on evolution, infectious disease, and cancer. Her lab originated technologies for studying DNA damage in living bacterial and human cells, and discovered mechanisms of mutation formation activated by stress responses, which potentially accelerate evolution when cells are poorly adapted to their environments, and are now evident from bacteria to cancer.
Schedule
September 22nd - Public presentation by keynote Dr. Susan Rosenberg
- 3:00pm - doors open, light refreshments provided
- 4:00pm - presentation "Why cancers (and infections) beat us and how to turn the tables.”
September 23rd - Genetics Program Events (Genetics Program students & faculty only)
- 8:00am Check-in & continental breakfast
- 8:30 Opening remarks
- 8:40 Student oral presentations—Session 1
- 9:45 Poster session 1
- 10:45 Alumnus speaker – Tanner Koomar, Ph.D.
- 11:15 Alumnus speaker – Timothy Parnell, Ph.D.
- 12:00 Director remarks
- 12:05 Lunch
- 1:00 Student oral presentations—Session 2
- 2:00 Poster session 2
- 3:15 Keynote speaker – Susan Rosenberg, Ph.D.
- 4:30 Closing remarks & award ceremony