NCI Staff Scientist and Staff Clinicians Professional Development Day (Agenda)

Agenda

Date: Friday, October 4, 2024
Time: 9:30 AM-3:30 PM
Venue: Seminar Rm#406, NCI Shady Grove, Gaithersburg, MD
Theme: “Boosting Collaboration to Achieve your Career Goals”

 

Time

Topic

9:30 am

Registration and Set Up

9:40 am

Welcome Address
Bala Kuppusamy, PhD
Chair, Professional Development Committee

9:45 am

Opening Remarks

James Gulley, MD
Acting Co-Director and NCI Clinical Director, CCR
Moderator: Bala Kuppusamy, PhD

9:50 am-11:00 am

Core facilities Presentations & collaborative opportunities

9:50 am-10:05 am

Steven Lockett, PhD
Director, Optical Microscopy and Analysis Laboratory, FNLCR
Moderator: Nicolas Cuburu, PhD

10:05 am-10:20 am

Thorkell Andresson, PhD
Director, Protein Characterization Laboratory, FNLCR
Moderator: Haydar Bulut, PhD

10:20 am-10:30 am

Coffee break

10:30 am-10:45 am

Ferenc Livak, MD
Staff Scientist and Manager, Flow Cytometry Core
Moderator: Acong Yang, PhD

10:45 am-11:00 am

Madeline Wong, PhD
Scientist, Cancer Genomics Core
Moderator: Sudheer Gara, PhD

11:00 am-12:00 pm

Elevator Pitch/Sharing your Expertise/Meet/Know Your SSSC Peers)
Peers (Sixty Second presentation by SSSCs)
Moderator: David Davis, PhD

12:00 pm-1:00 pm

Lunch & Networking

1:00 pm-1:45 pm

How to Set Career Goals
Scott Morgan
President, The Morgan Group, LLC
Moderator: Sabina Kaczorowska, PhD

1:45 pm-2:30 pm

Quad review updates and SSSC Handbook/Resources
Cynthia Masison, PhD, Scientific Program Specialist
Rena Rodriguez, PhD, Deputy Director, CCR ARC
Moderator: Dale Lewis, PhD

2:30 pm-3:00 pm

Former SSSCs- Panel discussion
Cristina Bergamaschi, PhD, Associate Director, AstraZeneca
Anita Tandle, PhD, Scientific Review Officer, NCI
Even Walseng, PhD, Director, AstraZeneca
Moderator: Sukhbir Kaur, PhD

3:00 pm

Closing Remarks
Stephen Chanock, MD
Director, Division of Cancer Epidemiology & Genetics Moderator: Imran Khan, PhD

Photography Courtesy: Dale and Haydar
Coffee courtesy: All the PDC members