Keynote Speaker: Danielle Dick, Ph.D.
The 2024 Genetics Student Retreat will be held at the Biology Building East and University Capital Center on September 27th and 28th. Friday, there will be a public presentation by our keynote speaker, Danielle Dick, PhD Director of Rutgers Addiction Research Center. Doors will open at 3:20pm, presentation will begin at 3:30. Light refreshments will be provided.
Danielle M. Dick, Ph.D. is a tenured Professor of Psychiatry at Rutgers Robert Wood Johnson Medical School, where she serves as the inaugural director of the Rutgers Addiction Research Center at the Brain Health Institute and holds the Greg Brown Endowed Chair in Neuroscience. She received her Ph.D. in Psychology in 2001 from Indiana University and subsequently completed a postdoctoral fellowship in the Department of Medical and Molecular Genetics. She was on the faculty at Washington University, St. Louis from 2003 – 2007, and Virginia Commonwealth University from 2007 – 2022, before joining Rutgers University. Her research involves studying how genetic predispositions interact with environmental factors to contribute to patterns of substance use/dependence and related behavioral disorders across development. She has served as the Principal Investigator (PI) or site PI on 16 National Institutes of Health (NIH) grants, and Co-Investigator on another 9 NIH grants, with grant funding totaling >55 million dollars. She has >425 peer-reviewed publications, and has won numerous national and international awards. She has been named as one of the top 1.5% most highly cited researchers in the world across all fields of science and is an internationally recognized and award-winning expert on genetic and environmental influences on substance use and mental health in youth. She is passionate about bringing research to the public in ways that are engaging and accessible; her first book “The Child Code: Understanding your child’s unique nature for happier, more effective parenting” is out now from Penguin Random House.
Schedule
September 27th - Public presentation by keynote Dr. Danielle Dick - cancelled
(Biology Building East, Kollros Auditorium room 101)
- 3:20pm - doors open, light refreshments provided
- 3:30pm - presentation "Using Genetics to Stop Addiction Before it Starts: Science Fiction or Science Fact?”
September 28th - 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
- Chloe Beck (Darbro lab)
- Joseph Oberlitner (Smolikove lab)
- Julianna Koenig (Summers lab)
- 9:45 Poster session 1
- 10:45 Alumnus speaker – Kellie Schaefer, Ph.D. (2020 Mahajan/Bassuk labs)
- 11:15 Alumnus speaker – Wesley Goar, Ph.D. (2019 Sheffield/Scheetz labs)
- 12:00 Lunch
- 1:00 Student oral presentations—Session 2
- Marcelo Miranda Melo (El-Shanti lab)
- Krislen Tison (Williams lab)
- Nikki Recka (Van Otterloo lab)
- 2:00 Poster session 2
- 3:15 Keynote speaker – Danielle Dick, PhD
- 4:30 Closing remarks & award ceremony