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The Penn in Latin America and Caribbean’s 5th Annual Symposium RSVPs are open! Please RSVP here to attend the virtual conference. The following sessions (social, scientific, and cultural) will each take place from 12-1:30 PM. See the full program here.
Dr. Garret FitzGerald and the Institute for Translational Medicine and Therapeutics at the University of Pennsylvania cordially invite you to the 15th Annual ITMAT International Symposium, which will take place as a free virtual event on Mon. Oct. 12 and Tues. Oct. 13, 2020. The symposium program is attached; this year’s theme is Novel Therapeutics and Democratization of Access: Implementation of Translational Science.
Register here (registration is required): https://primetime.bluejeans.com/a2m/register/zxtzbeaj
The program is available here.
For inquiries please contact Genevieve D. Markle: gdmarkle@upenn.edu
The Fellows of the Chemistry-Biology Interface Training Grant would like to invite you to join us for our 2020 Chemistry-Biology Interface Summer Retreat on Friday, July 24th, which will be held virtually over zoom.The symposium will take place from 9:00am – 1:30pm. We are currently accepting abstract submissions for short (15 min) oral presentations. Talks may cover any topic within Chemistry and Biology. There will be no poster session this year due to the virtual event, so please consider giving a 15-minute talk (you will receive a CBI t-shirt if you participate)! The deadline to be considered for a talk is July 10th.
Our keynote speakers this year are Yael David (MSK), Cynthia Wolberger (Johns Hopkins SOM), and Alexis Komor (UCSD). Please see the current schedule attached.
Please register using the following link: https://forms.gle/JmXgYnhTVSNEz1ij8
You can visit our CBI website (https://www.med.upenn.edu/cbit32/) for information on past symposia.
Join the Mahoney Institute for Neurosciences online on April 28th beginning at 9AM for the all-day MINS Year of Brain Science Technology UnRetreat! Guest speakers include, Polina Anikeeva from MIT, Tony Zador from Cold Spring Harbor, and Michael Yartsev from UC Berkeley.
There will be mini symposia on recording/imaging and behavior with Penn faculty speakers, and parallel sessions with short talks. If you are at UPenn, please submit an abstract for short talk sessions. Submissions are open immediately as part of event signup.
The UnRetreat will also feature a “Brain Buddies” matchmaking program that will match registrants with others who have shared interests for future interaction. Regardless where you are, please submit an abstract for one-on-one matching.
Please sign up here (this is also where the meeting will happen and where all talks will be available afterwards): https://crowdcast.io/e/Yobst
The Penn Center for Research on Coronavirus and Other Emerging Pathogens will be hosting its first symposium, titled “The Coronavirus Outbreak” on Friday, April 3 from 11am to 5pm. The symposium will feature insights on coronaviruses from Penn experts. A detailed agenda of the symposium can be found here.
The symposium will be presented online and is accessible from a web browser, mobile browser, or phone. See below for access instructions.
Please mark your calendars for the inaugural Penn BioConnect Symposium, scheduled for Tuesday, May 5, 2020, from 11am to 5pm, in the Smilow Center for Translational Research.
This first-of-its-kind symposium is designed to connect Penn trainees with BioTech companies here in Philadelphia and to provide opportunities for increased integration and alignment between Penn’s training programs and industry needs. Faculty keynote by Dan Rader, MD, and faculty-led discussions by Jon Epstein, MD, Emma Meagher, MD, Garret FitzGerald, MD, FRS, and Saar Gill, MD, PhD. Invited guests include leadership from BioTechs in our region.
Please register by April 25 and contact dkacy@pennmedicine.upenn.edu for any questions.
