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| Darrin Akins Director, OK INBRE, Professor, Microbiology & Immunology University of Oklahoma Health Sciences Center Darrin R. Akins is a Professor in the Department of Microbiology & Immunology at OUHSC and a well-established biomedical research scientist with a long history of past and current laboratory-based NIH research funding. He has been heavily involved in career development and mentoring and has helped numerous junior faculty members throughout Oklahoma onto successful R01 and career development awards. Developing a diverse pipeline of new researchers and healthcare professionals at OUHSC and throughout Oklahoma continues to be a primary focus for Dr. Akins. As PI of the Oklahoma IDeA Network of Biomedical Research Excellence award (OK-INBRE; P20GM103447) from the NIH and in his prior role as the Associate Dean for Research in the College of Medicine, Dr. Akins has been able to engage a vast array of high school teachers and students as well as college undergraduates in Oklahoma. Additionally, as Associate Dean, Dr. Akins helped hundreds of clinical and postdoctoral trainees and faculty throughout the OUHSC campus with various training, mentoring, and career development programs. He has been a standing member of a National American Heart Association study section and was a full member of the Microbiology and Infectious Disease Research Committee study section at NIAID where he reviewed only T and K awards (2005-2009). He has also served as a standing member of the Bacterial Pathogenesis study section (BACP) at NIH from 2012-2016 and currently is a standing member of the NIGMS Advisory Council (2019-2022). As an established scientist and member of the Cherokee tribe (registry #C0167837), Dr. Akins also has served ad hoc on several underrepresented minority pre-doctoral fellowship study sections at the NIH and directed all summer undergraduate research programs on the OUHSC campus as the Graduate College Assistant Dean from 2006-2011. | |
| Maysaa Alobaidi Senior Program Associate American Association for the Advancement of Science (AAAS) Research Competitiveness Program Dr. Maysaa Alobaidi is a Senior Program Associate with the Research Competitiveness Program at the American Association for the Advancement of Science (AAAS). In this role, she leads external programmatic assessment and data-driven evaluation of large-scale, multi-institutional, multi-disciplinary STEM programs, including NSF EPSCoR RII Track-1&2 projects and NIH INBRE programs. Dr. Alobaidi has a strong background in evaluation design and methods and 15 years of experience working in a variety of settings to conduct needs assessment, strategic planning, and evaluation of health technologies and services as well as research, education and training programs. Dr. Alobaidi holds a Ph.D. from University of Arizona in Pharmaceutical Economics, Policy and Outcomes Research. Her areas of expertise include program evaluation, survey instrument development and validation, research and evaluation study design and implementation, advanced statistical analysis, economic modeling, and qualitative data collection and analysis. | |
| Irene Aninye Senior Program Associate American Association for the Advancement of Science (AAAS) Research Competitiveness Program Dr. Irene O. Aninye is a Senior Program Associate with the Research Competitiveness Program at the American Association for the Advancement of Science (AAAS). At AAAS, she leads strategy teams to evaluate and guide the progress and outcomes of STEM research programs, often for large-scale multi-institutional initiatives like NIH INBRE and NSF EPSCoR. Dr. Aninye also works with external organizations to design and manage peer review processes for their grant competitions. A Washington, DC native, she attended the University of Maryland Baltimore County as a Meyerhoff Scholar. Irene completed her Ph.D. in Molecular and Integrative Physiology at the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign and postdoctoral training at Johns Hopkins School of Medicine, where her research investigated nuclear receptor action in growth, development, and reproductive cancers. Dr. Aninye has spent over 15 years engaging the scientific community through academic service, outreach, and teaching. She has served on multiple educational program, career development, and award review committees at professional societies and universities. She is actively involved in the Endocrine Society, maintains a faculty appointment in Biology at Loyola University Maryland, and instructs courses and workshops at the NIH and AAAS to build research capacity in the U.S. and internationally. | |
| Tony Beck Program Director , Science Education Partnership Award (SEPA) Division for Research Capacity Building, NIGMS, NIH Tony Beck, Ph.D., is a program director in the Division for Research Capacity Building, where he manages the Science Education Partnership Award (SEPA) program that supports pre-K to grade 12 diversity pipeline projects and health-related exhibits at science centers and museums. Beck also manages the SBIR/STTR Serious STEM Interactive Digital Media program and the NIH Curriculum Supplement Series. Prior to joining NIGMS, Beck managed the SEPA program in the Office of Research Infrastructure Programs and in the former National Center for Research Resources, where he also managed Clinical and Translational Science Awards and human embryonic stem cell infrastructure programs. He started his NIH career in 2000 as a scientific review officer at NIAAA, and he worked for three Maryland area biotechnology companies before coming to NIH. Beck earned a B.A. and M.S. in biological sciences at the University of California, Riverside, and a Ph.D. in cell and molecular biology from the University of California, Irvine and Brookhaven National Laboratory. He conducted postdoctoral research in Denver at the University of Colorado Health Sciences Center and the Eleanor Roosevelt Institute for Cancer Research. | |
| Ann Bertagnolli, PhD MT INBRE Principal Investigator Montana State University For the past 17 years, Ann Bertagnolli has led the Montana INBRE Network program. Under her leadership, the Montana INBRE Network has become the backbone of a statewide biomedical research network that now involves 15 academic institutions, including seven tribal colleges. Bertagnolli has coordinated over 200 faculty research projects and helped facilitate over 2,000 student research projects across Montana, including eight Native American graduate fellowships. | |
| Gabor Bethlendy CEO & Founder Meenta Gabor has 20 years of business expertise in the area of genomics and diagnostics spanning some of the best companies in the field including Agilent Technologies and Roche Diagnostics. As founder and Chief Commercial Officer of Parabase Genomics he built the company from the ground up creating the first commercial play in the field of Neonatal Precision Medicine. | |
| Brian Bothner, PhD Professor of Chemistry and Biochemistry, MT INBRE Principal Investigator Montana State University Brian Bothner is a professor in chemistry and biochemistry and the research in his lab is directed toward understanding biological function by investigating systems. He is currently the MT INBRE Principal Investigator. Montana INBRE is a collaborative network of Ph.D.-granting institutions, baccalaureate schools and tribal colleges that invests in Montana's biomedical research capacity and workforce pipeline. | |
| Susan Brown Professor Kansas State University Sue Brown's studies in genetics, genomics and bioinformatics are inspired by a lifelong fascination with DNA. She pioneered the use of RNAi to study gene function in the red flour beetle, Tribolium castaneum. She has spent much of her career developing genetic and genomic tools for this global pest of stored grain, which is now a model organism for studies in development and pest management. She led an international consortium of researchers that sequenced the Tribolium genome, the first for a beetle. She teaches courses in genetics and bioinformatics at KSU and Directs the KINBRE Bioinformatics Core. | |
| Kaye Burke, CMP, CMM Director, Global Sales HelmsBriscoe ResourceOne Prior to HBR1, Kay spent nine years with JCPenney directing company initiatives for events such as store manager conferences, incentive programs, analyst and board of directors meetings and trade shows ranging in attendance up to 5,000. Prior to JCP, she worked with other Fortune 500 companies including Sprint, Thomson Reuters and Pearle Vision where she managed national golf tournaments, tradeshows, medical continuing education programs and national franchise conferences giving her a vast range of knowledge and experience to share with HelmBriscoe ResourceOne clients. Kay is based in Dallas, Texas. | |
| Sarah Codd, PhD Professor of Mechanical Engineering MT INBRE Director of Student Programs Montana State University Sarah Codd is co-director of the Magnetic Resonance Lab and a Professor in the Department of Mechanical and Industrial Engineering at Montana State University. Her research focuses on technique development, flow and diffusion studies in porous media, and investigation of fluid dynamics. She is the director of Student Programs for the Montana INBRE program which includes running a summer program that supports 50 undergraduates involvement in a 10 week research internship. | |
| Lindsay Currie Executive Officer Council on Undergraduate Research Lindsay Currie is Executive Officer of the Council on Undergraduate Research (CUR). She has more than a decade of experience in nonprofit management and community engagement, focusing on empowering communities. She previously served as director of stakeholder engagement for the Regulatory Affairs Professionals Society in Rockville, MD (2015-summer 2019), and as CUR's director of communications and membership (2010-2015), building membership and volunteer service significantly in both positions. She is a frequent speaker on strategies for increasing involvement by members in nonprofit organizations. Her advocacy experience includes a past position as a legislative aide to New Jersey State Assemblymen Michael J. Panter (D, 12th District) and Robert L. Morgan (D, 12th District). Currie earned a B.A. in history and political science summa cum laude from Monmouth University, a master's certificate in public relations from Monmouth University, and an M.A. in women and gender studies from Rutgers University. She also holds a certified association executive credential from ASAE: The Center for Association Leadership. | |
| Kelvin Droegemeier Director, White House Office of Science and Technology Policy As Director of The White House Office of Science and Technology Policy (OSTP), Dr. Kelvin K. Droegemeier serves as President Donald J. Trump’s science advisor and leads OSTP in its coordination of science and technology initiatives across the Federal Government. Kelvin’s background is in extreme weather, numerical weather prediction, and data assimilation. Before joining The White House, Kelvin served as Vice President for Research and Regents’ Professor of Meteorology at the University of Oklahoma, where he joined the faculty in 1985 as Assistant Professor of Meteorology. In his 33 years at the University of Oklahoma, Kelvin generated more than $40 million in research funding and authored or co-authored more than 80 refereed articles and 200 conference publications. He also co-founded, directed, and led the National Science Foundation (NSF) Science and Technology Center for Analysis and Prediction of Storms (CAPS) and served as co-founder and Deputy Director of the NSF Engineering Research Center for Collaborative Adaptive Sense of the Atmosphere (CASA). Kelvin served two six-year terms on the National Science Board, the governing body of the NSF, including the last four years as Vice-Chairman, having been nominated by Presidents George W. Bush and Barack Obama and twice confirmed by the United States Senate. He has also served on and chaired numerous national boards and committees and is a Fellow of the American Meteorological Society and American Association for the Advancement of Science. He was appointed in 2017 as Oklahoma Cabinet Secretary of Science and Technology. Born in Kansas, Kelvin earned a B.S. in meteorology from the University of Oklahoma and M.S. and Ph.D. degrees in atmospheric science from the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign. | |
| Mohamed Elasri, PhD Mississippi INBRE Program Coordinator and co-PI The University Southern Mississippi Dr. Mohamed (Moe) Elasri is T. W. Bennett Distinguished Professor of Microbiology at the University of Southern Mississippi (USM). His research focuses on the elucidation of the regulatory mechanisms of the human pathogen Staphylococcus aureus. He uses both molecular genetics techniques as well as bioinformatics to study microbes that cause infections. Dr. Elasri has discovered a new operon in S. aureus that plays a critical role in infection and antibiotic resistance. This operon is a potential therapeutic target to combat antibiotic-resistant staph infections caused by MRSA or VRSA strains. Dr. Elasri has published over 40 peer-reviewed articles and trained and trained a significant number of doctoral, masters and undergraduate research students (10 PhD, 3 MS, >60 undergrads). As an investigator, Dr. Elasri has also worked on several interdisciplinary projects (e.g. microbiology/material sciences) that have been productive and resulted in publications and funding. Before Joining USM, Dr. Elasri received his PhD from Oklahoma State University and was a post-doctoral fellow at the National Institutes of Health (NIH) and at the University of Arkansas for Medical Sciences. Dr. Elasri's research has been funded by several agencies such as NIH, the American Heart Association, and the US Department of Agriculture. Since joining USM in 2002, Dr. Elasri has been awarded a total of $64,634,972 in extramural funding as PI or co-PI. Dr. Elasri assumed several leadership roles in various societies such as the South-Central Branch of the American Society for Microbiology, the Mississippi Academy of Sciences, and the Mississippi BIO Association. Dr. Elasri has also assumed several administrative leadership positions that involved leading teams of faculty and staff with different backgrounds, developing strategic plans, and working with various constituencies at different institutions. In 2006, Dr. Elasri took on the administrative role of Program Coordinator and co-PI of the Mississippi INBRE program which is funded by NIH to augment biomedical research in the state | |
| Samantha Farrell Grants Management Specialist NIH / NIGMS Samantha Farrell has been a grants management specialist at the National Institutes of Health (NIH) since 2011 and with the National Institute of General Medical Sciences (NIGMS) since 2015. At NIGMS, she is one of seven grants management specialists who, with their Team Leader Christy Leake, work with the grants under the Division for Research Capacity Building (IDeA, SCORE, SEPA, and NARCH programs). Samantha has a Masters of Health Sciences in Health Education and Behavioral Sciences from the Johns Hopkins Bloomberg School of Public Health and a Bachelor of Sciences in Psychobiology from Long Island University. Her career has included a number of positions related to research and grants administration, including peer review meeting coordination for the Congressionally Directed Medical Research Programs (CDMRP), research assistant at Johns Hopkins, a Health Communications Intern at the National Cancer Institute, and a program manager for capacity building research centers funded by the Department of Veterans Affairs Health Services Research & Development (HSR&D) Service. | |
| Gabriel Fosu Associate Director for Diversity and Workforce Development NIH – Center for Scientific Review Dr. Gabriel Fosu is the Associate Director for Diversity and Workforce Development at the Center for Scientific Review. Between 2013 and 2019, he served as the Chief of the Healthcare Delivery and Methodologies IRG. Prior to that, he served as the Scientific Review Officer for CSR's Risk, Prevention and Intervention for Addictions study section. Before joining NIH, Dr. Fosu served on the faculties of the Catholic University of America, Howard University and the University of Maryland Baltimore County (UMBC), where he was an associate professor. He took a leave of absence from UMBC to work as the United Nations Chief Technical Adviser at the United Nations Department of Economic and Social Affairs-Statistics Division and United Nations Population Fund, where he directed the evaluation, analysis and dissemination of the 1991 Population Census of the Federal Republic of Nigeria and completed seven volumes of technical and policy monographs. He has also served as a consultant to the U. S. Agency for International Development and the World Health Organization. Dr. Fosu received his Ph.D. in sociology from Brown University. He has been the author of a number of peer-reviewed journal articles, chapters in edited books and book reviews. His research has been in the areas of demography, social epidemiology, health services research, health disparities and applied research and evaluation methods. | |
| Alison Gammie Director TWD@NIGMS NIGMS/NIH Alison Gammie, Ph.D., is the Director of the National Institute of General Medical Sciences (NIGMS) Division of Training, Workforce Development, and Diversity (TWD). TWD is the focal point for NIGMS programs aimed at developing a strong and diverse biomedical research workforce. Dr. Gammie received a B.A. from Reed College in Biology and a Ph.D. from the Oregon Health & Sciences University. She was initially a Jane Coffin Childs Postdoctoral Fellow and eventually a Senior Lecturer at Princeton University. While at Princeton, in addition to teaching, mentoring and running a research laboratory, she served as an academic advisor, an Associate Member at the Cancer Institute of New Jersey, and the Director of Diversity Programs & Graduate Recruiting. Honors include Princeton's President's Award for Distinguished Teaching, the Graduate Mentoring Award and the American Society for Microbiology Hinton Award for advancing the research careers of under-represented minorities. | |
| Dan Gassel Director, Global Accounts HelmsBriscoe Dan is in his 17th year partnering with his clients as the Manager of Global Accounts for HelmsBriscoe. HelmsBriscoe streamlines the meeting planning process by managing the time-consuming task of researching, evaluating venues, and negotiating with hotels for your next offsite meeting. Dan is proud to have partnered with numerous partner organizations for various NIH and INBRE _ IDeA programs, including the University of Kansas; the University of Rhode Island; New Mexico State University; the University of Nevada Reno; and also Louisiana State University ( the Sponsoring Organization for the upcoming 9th and 10th Biennial NISBRE Conferences back here in Washington, DC.) Partnering with HB allows you more time to focus on your attendees, your agenda, and your overall program. Allow HB to do what they do best (hotel site selection and contract negotiation) so you can focus on whatÍs most important: your guestÍs quality experience with your off-site program. Dan resides in Overland Park, KS with his wife and four children. In addition to enjoying keeping up with his kidsÍ activities, he enjoys playing competitive tennis regularly and singing along to the music of Johnny Cash when he thinks no one is listening. | |
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| Joel Graber Sr. Staff Scientist Maine INBRE Program and MDI Biological Laboratory Joel Graber is a Senior Staff Scientist and Director of the Computational Biology and Bioinformatics Core at the MDI Biological Laboratory. Dr. Graber is co-Director of the Maine INBRE Bioinformatics Core that supports biomedical research faculty and students across12 institutions in Maine. Dr. Graber received his PhD from Cornell University and a post-doctoral fellowship with Temple Smith at Boston University. | |
| William Green Director, NH INBRE Past Director, Dartmouth Immunology COBRE Professor of Microbiology and Immunology Dartmouth College William R. Green is PI/Program Director of the New Hampshire INBRE. The NH INBRE grant supports intensive research training and mentoring of faculty and trainees across eight colleges and small universities in NH. Dr. Green also served for over 15 years as PI of the IDeA COBRE grant in Molecular, Cellular, and Translational Immunology at Dartmouth College, and for 20 years as PI/Program Director of an NIAID Immunology Training Grant, and mentor of several T32 and RO1-grant supported student and postdoc trainees in the immunology and retrovirology research programs in his lab. Dr. Green has served, and continues to serve, as a Member or Chair of several EAC advisory groups for COBREs at other institutions, as well as ad hoc committee memberships for other IDeA programs: leadership on the regional tech hub/DRIVEN, and two elected terms on the NAIPI group of COBRE, INBRE, and CTR IDeA PIs. He has also served as Chair of the Department of Microbiology and Immunology at the Geisel School of Medicine at Dartmouth (2002-2018); Dean of the then Dartmouth Medical School (2007-2010); and in various national leadership venues and awards, including for the American Association of Immunologists. Dr. Green's research has focused on retrovirus-mediated diseases, most recently, a mouse retrovirus causing a disease complex that includes profound and broad immunodeficiency -- murine AIDS (MAIDS), with many similarities to HIV/AIDS. His lab has worked at the intersection of cellular and molecular immunology with molecular retrovirology, focusing on retroviral pathogenesis vs. protective CD8 T-cell immunity. His work has included the first description of myeloid derived suppressor cells in a retroviral model, with both T and B cells as targets for MDSCs. | |
| Rick Greenwald, PhD Co-Founder & President Simbex Dr. Greenwald is an entrepreneur and biomedical engineer. He is the Co-Founder and President of Simbex and Co-Founder of iWalk (now BionX). He is co-founder and Executive Director of the non-profit National Institute for Sports Science and Safety, and is an Adjunct Professor at Thayer School of Engineering at Dartmouth College. He is Co-Director of the NIH funded Center for Translation of Rehabilitation Engineering Advances and Technology (TREAT), a national rehabilitation infrastructure resource, and Co-Director of the previously FDA funded New England Pediatric Device Consortium (NEPDC). Dr. Greenwald's research interests include biomechanics, injury prevention, sports equipment, product development, and technology commercialization. In 2000, he founded Simbex, and has long been active in the development of biofeedback and data acquisition products for the medical and rehabilitation industries. Dr. Greenwald and Simbex have received numerous research and development awards, including ones from NIH, NSF, and the Department of Defense, for product development through the Small Business Innovation Research (SBIR) program. Dr. Greenwald previously served as a member of the National Advisory Child Health and Human Development Council of the Eunice Kennedy Shriver National Institute of Child Health and Human Development and as a member of the NIH Council of Councils in the Office of the Director at the National Institutes of Health. He is a Fellow of the National Academy of Inventors (NAI) and the American Institute of Medical and Biological Engineering (AIMBE), and also served as President of the International Society for Skiing Safety. He has 85 peer reviewed publications, and holds 15 US patents, with 4 patents pending. | |
| Susan Gregurick Associate Director for Data Science Office of the Director at NIH Susan K. Gregurick is the Associate Director of Data Science and the Office of Data Science Strategy, a newly formed office within the Office of the Director at NIH. Susan has a long career in federal service at the NIH and at the DOE, leading colleagues in programs and activities in computational bioscience and developing data science infrastructures. During Susan’s academic career she was a Professor of Computational Biology at the University of Maryland, Baltimore County and her research interests include dynamics of large biological macromolecules. Susan holds a Ph.D. in Computational Chemistry. | |
| Laura Haas Director of Evaluation and Operations New Mexico INBRE Laura Haas is the New Mexico INBRE Director of Evaluation and Operations. She brings more than 20 years of relevant experience, including 14 years creating de novo evaluation processes for NIH- and CDC-funded research, training, and STEM education programs and 12 years working with directly with faculty and research administrators to strengthen federal research proposals. She obtained her BA in writing from the University of Arizona and her MS in Biology from New Mexico State University. During free moments, you might catch her riding her horse Merlin among the quail and acacia of the New Mexico desert. | |
| Carolyn Hovde Bohach, PhD University Distinguished Professor, Director of the Idaho INBRE Program University of Idaho Carolyn Hovde Bohach is a Distinguished Professor at the University of Idaho and Director of the Idaho INBRE Program. Her B.S. and Ph.D. are in microbiology from the University of Illinois and the University of Minnesota, respectively. She was a post-doctoral fellow at Harvard Medical School in the Department of Microbiology and Molecular Genetics. She has taught undergraduate microbiology, graduate immunology, medical school biochemistry, and graduate level scientific writing and scientific oral presentation courses. Her laboratory studies E. coli O157:H7 with a primary focus on understanding the relationship between this human pathogen and its silent reservoir, healthy cattle. Projects include basic science as well as the development of effective interventions such as bovine vaccination, bacteriophage therapy, and on-farm management strategies to reduce cattle carriage of the pathogen. Dr. Hovde Bohach is the recipient of numerous honors and awards including election as a Fellow to the AAAS, the American Society for Microbiology Carski Foundation Distinguished Undergraduate Teaching Award, the University of Idaho Excellence in Research Award, the R. M. Wade Excellence in Teaching Award, the Alumni Award for Faculty Excellence, and the Gamma Sigma Delta Research Award. | |
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| Adam Josephs Founding Partner Celerity Consulting Adam Josephs is a founding partner at Celerity Consulting Group LLC. Celerity trains and coaches organizations all over the world on applying Risk Up Front to accelerate product development and organizational change. Before Celerity, he managed engineering projects and product organizations at Apple Computer, Microsoft and a variety of startups. Adam is an adjunct faculty member in entrepreneurship and strategy at the David Eccles School of Business at the University of Utah, and has taught these subjects at New York University, U.C. Berkeley, Singularity University, and many industry conferences. He is a graduate of Stanford University and Oxford University. Adam makes his home in New York City, where he plays rugby and board games. He is a passionate advocate for local animal rescues. | |
| Benjamin King Assistant Professor Maine INBRE Program & University of Maine Benjamin King is an Assistant Professor of Bioinformatics in the Department of Molecular and Biomedical Sciences at the University of Maine. Dr. King is co-Director of the Maine INBRE Bioinformatics Core that supports biomedical research faculty and students across12 institutions in Maine. Dr. King received his PhD from the Graduate School for Biomedical Science and Engineering at the University of Maine. | |
| Kimberly Kirkpatrick Distinguished Professor and Program Director Kansas State University Dr. Kimberly Kirkpatrick is a University Distinguished Professor at Kansas State University. She studies the neurobiology of impulsivity and timing using rodent pre-clinical and human translational approaches. She is the PI and program director for the Cognitive and Neurobiological Approaches to Plasticity (CNAP) COBRE center, which was funded in 2017 for Phase I. The CNAP center utilizes systems neuroscience approaches to study cognitive and neural plasticity in humans and animal pre-clinical models. | |
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| Laura Lessard Director of Evaluation Delaware INBRE Laura Lessard is the Director of Evaluation for Delaware INBRE and Assistant Professor of Behavioral Health and Nutrition at the University of Delaware. A professional evaluator for over 13 years, Dr. Lessard has experience evaluating programs and policies in diverse sectors including education, healthcare and social services. She has a PhD in Behavioral Sciences and Health Education from Emory University and an MPH from Tufts University. | |
| Jon Lorsch, Ph.D. Director NIGMS Jon R. Lorsch, Ph.D., became the director of the National Institute of General Medical Sciences (NIGMS) in August 2013. | |
| Karen McCallson Sales and Program Director HelmsBriscoe ResourceOne Karen McCallson joined HelmsBriscoe ResourceOne as a Program Director in 2014. She is responsible for the successful planning and execution of meetings and corporate events, working closely with Clients at every step of the process to ensure that each event exceeds expectations while maximizing the Client's return on investment. With more than 30 years of industry experience, Karen is a Certified Meeting Planner (CMP) and a Certified Meeting Management Professional (CMMP), and a member of Meeting Professionals International. Karen previously worked in Marketing and Public Relations for Merrill Lynch and PHH Corporation, where she managed incentive travel, trade shows, C-level and board meetings, and conferences ranging from 100 to 10,000+ attendees. Karen's marketing background has given her a deep understanding of the value of identity and branding, and the importance of creating a unique impression at each event. With a vivacious, outgoing personality, Karen brings a wealth of talents in conference management and program development to the table. The core values of respect, trust and transparency guide Karen's work every day. Karen is based out of Mt. Laurel, New Jersey. | |
| Heather McInnis Associate Program Director American Association for the Advancement of Science (AAAS) Research Competitiveness Program Dr. Heather McInnis is the Associate Director of the Research Competitiveness Program (RCP) at the American Association for the Advancement of Science (AAAS) where she provides strategic planning and operational leadership to support implementation of RCP's core programs in program evaluation and assessment, peer review, innovation and entrepreneurship, and short courses. A primary focus of her work is designing and leading independent, peer-to-peer assessments of STEM programs, university initiatives, scientific and technical advances to support research capacity-building initiatives and inform and foster strategic planning, funding portfolio development, and interdisciplinary collaboration. Since joining the AAAS in 2011, Heather has implemented more than 40 external assessments of large-scale, multi-institutional, multi-disciplinary, STEM programs for university consortia in the U.S. and abroad, including for NSF- and NIH-funded programs totaling more than $600 million in 13 U.S. jurisdictions. Heather holds a Ph.D. in Anthropology from the University of Oregon, and a M.S. in Quaternary Studies from the Climate Change Institute at the University of Maine, and has interdisciplinary expertise in paleoenvironmental archaeology, zooarchaeology and ethnography. Prior to joining AAAS, Dr. McInnis taught undergraduate and post-graduate science courses at DePaul University and led field, lab, and museum research projects and training programs in the U.S. and South America. | |
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| Scott Minnich, PhD Professor and Associate Director of the Idaho INBRE Program University of Idaho | 0 |
| Sharon O'Connor Senior Research Scientist, Center for Program Design & Evaluation Dartmouth College Sharon O'Connor is a Senior Research Scientist with the Center for Program Design & Evaluation (CPDE) at Dartmouth College. With 25 years of experience in mixed-methods research, she specializes in program evaluation of multi-year grant-funded research. She is the Evaluation Director for both the New Hampshire and Rhode Island INBRE programs, and serves the same role for other NIH as well as Health Resources & Services Administration (HRSA) grants. She has an MS in Clinical and Health Services Research from the Dartmouth Institute for Health Policy and Clinical Practice, and an MBA from Boston University. | |
| Jeffrey Osborn Dean of the School of Science, Professor of Biology The College of New Jersey Jeffrey M. Osborn is Dean of the School of Science at The College of New Jersey. His primary scientific research addresses questions about plant evolutionary biology, and his higher education foci include the undergraduate research, leadership of organizational and cultural change, teacher-scholar role of faculty, faculty workload models, and the integration of high-impact educational practices into the curriculum. He has served as President of the Council on Undergraduate Research (CUR), led a number of institutional and multi-institutional programs to support the institutionalization of undergraduate research and the advancement of undergraduates and faculty who have traditionally underserved by higher education and STEM. Through these efforts, Osborn has worked with over 400 colleges and universities across the U.S. His work has been funded by the Howard Hughes Medical Institute, National Science Foundation, J. William Fulbright Foundation, Henry Luce Foundation, Natural Sciences and Engineering Research Council of Canada, among others. His work has been recognized by the AAAS Fellows Award, CUR Fellows Award, Centennial Award from the Botanical Society of America, and the Antarctica Service Medal of the United States of America from the National Science Foundation. Among other roles, he serves as an Associate Editor for the American Journal of Botany and on the External Advisory Committee for the State of Oklahoma's NIH-INBRE program. He holds B.S. and M.S. degrees from Texas State University-San Marcos and a Ph.D. from Ohio State University. For more information: https://osborn.pages.tcnj.edu/. | |
| Ashok Ragavendran Lead Data Scientist Center for Computational Biology of Human Disease COBRE & Brown University Ashok Ragavendran is the Lead Data Scientist for the Computational Biology Core in the Center for Computational Biology of Human Disease at Brown University. Dr. Ragavendran and his colleagues developed the bioflows (https://compbiocore.github.io/bioflows) package for running several analysis pipelines for high-throughput DNA sequencing datasets. Dr. Ragavendran received his PhD from Michigan State University and a post-doctoral fellowship at Purdue University. | |
| Gary Rankin, PhD WV-INBRE Principal Investigator, Professor and Chair, Department of Pharmacology Marshall University Joan C. Edwards School of Medicine Dr. Rankin received his B.S. degree in Chemistry from the University of Arkansas at Little Rock in 1972, and his Ph.D. degree in Medicinal Chemistry from the University of Mississippi in 1976. He served as Postdoctoral Fellow in Pharmacology at the Medica | |
| Jake Reder, PhD CEO, Celdara Medical PI, DRIVEN Accelerator Hub Celdara Medical Jake cofounded Celdara Medical and currently serves as a Director and as CEO. He is the PI on the DRIVEN Accelerator Hub, with a mission to increase quality-adjusted life years (QALY) by supporting biomedical entrepreneurs in IDeA states. He had previously founded the New Ventures Office at Dartmouth Medical School and still serves as its first Director. Prior to Dartmouth, Jake led business development, open innovation, and knowledge management initiatives at Cabot Corporation where he served as a member of Cabot's Research Council, Technology Board, and Nanotechnology EHS Council. Jake joined Cabot from PolyTechnos Venture-Partners, a Munich-based venture capital firm. He has served on numerous non- and for-profit boards, including Virtici, MBV, StemSynergy Therapeutics, NIH's TREAT Program and the University of Vermont's SPARK Program. Jake has testified before Congress on entrepreneurship, was appointed by the Governor to the New Hampshire Innovation Research Center's Board of Directors, and by US Senator Jeanne Shaheen to her Small Business Advisory Council. Jake earned a B.Sc. with First Class Honours from the University of Waterloo, and a Ph.D. (Chemistry) as a Brown-Wetherill Fellow at Purdue University and Ludwig Maximilians Universit_t. | |
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| Joseph Sevignhy Graduate Student, Molecular Evolutionary Systems Biology Program University of New Hampshire Joseph is a Ph.D. candidate in the Molecular Evolutionary Systems Biology Program at UNH. Joseph has several years of training in bioinformatics and leading workshops for developing core skills. He will lead the implementation of tools for the assembly and annotation of microbial genomes. | |
| Sunil Shaw Assistant Professor of Pediatrics Women & Infants' Hospital of Rhode Island and Brown University Sunil Shaw is the Program Director for the COBRE for Perinatal Biology, at Women and Infants' Hospital and Brown University in Providence, Rhode Island and an Assistant Professor of Pediatrics at Brown University. His research focuses on Candida yeast, and leukocyte and vascular biology. | |
| Teresa Shippy Bioinoformatics Specialist Kansas State University Teresa Shippy is a bioinformatics specialist in the Kansas-INBRE Bioinformatics Core. She received her PhD in Biology from Kansas State University and then spent 10 years researching developmental genetics in the red flour beetle, Tribolium castaneum. She became interested in genomics when the Tribolium genome was sequenced and is now focused on helping other researchers with their bioinformatics needs. She has taught several bioinformatics training workshops and is also a certified instructor for The Carpentries. | 0 |
| Devin Thomas Graduate Student, Computer Science Program University of New Hampshire Devin is a Master's student in the Computer Science Program at UNH. Devin has multiple years of experience working with regional faculty to implement curricula in bioinformatics. Devin specializes in the implementation of tools to study diversity in biological systems using molecular tools. | |
| W. Kelley Thomas Director, Hubbard Center for Genome Studies, Professor, Dept. of Molecular, Cellular, and Biomedical Sciences University of New Hampshire Throughout his career, W. Kelley Thomas has worked at a disciplinary interface. From his undergraduate field biology projects, to current work applying and innovating genomic tools to study genetic errors and biodiversity. As director of the Hubbard Center for Genome Studies at the University of New Hampshire he established new DNA sequencing technologies and the associated bioinformatics tools. Nine years ago, he became involved with NH-INBRE and is the director of the Bioinformatics and Genomics Core of that program. In that role he supports genomic and bioinformatics research and training at primarily undergraduate and lead institutions in New Hampshire. Most recently, I have become focused on the need for broad-based, effective training and curriculum development in bioinformatics. | |
| Andrew Vinard Director Centralized Core Facilities UMass Amherst, Institute for Applied Life Sciences Andrew Vinard assumed the role of Director of Centralized Core Facilities at UMass Amherst in October 2016. He is responsible for administrative management of 31 core facilities, housed in the Institute for Applied Life Sciences (https://www.umass.edu/ials/core-facilities). Prior to joining UMass Amherst, Andrew worked for 10 years at the University of Miami, first with the Sylvester Comprehensive Cancer Center as manager of Facilities and Shared Resources, then as the Director of Biotechnology Resources, providing support to 60 core facilities across the institution, and most recently as the Coulter Program Director, where he worked closely with researchers to identify projects could be converted from benchtop research to commercializeable technology, identify resources, funding and partners to aid in the process. Andrew received his BA in Environmental Planning, and Masters of Public Administration from the University of Miami, FL. | |
| Nathan Voss Graduate Evaluation Assistant Kansas State University Nathan Voss is an industrial-organizational psychology Ph.D. candidate at Kansas State University. His research interests include personnel selection and assessment, psychometrics, and survey methods. He currently serves as the graduate evaluation assistant for the Cognitive and Neurobiological Approaches to Plasticity (CNAP) COBRE center. | |
| Doug Wright Professor University of Kansas Medical Center Dr. Wright serves as a professor and vice chair of the Department of Anatomy and Cell Biology at the University of Kansas Medical Center (KUMC). Since 2011, he has served at the principal investigator of the Kansas Institutional Development Award (IDeA) Network of Biomedical Research Excellence (INBRE) program. Dr. Wright also serves as president of the National Association of IDeA principal investigators (NAIPI). He has extensive experience in organizing educational, training and symposia events in Kansas and nationally. Dr. Wright's research focuses on the cellular biology of peripheral nerve disease. He has authored 70 original peer-reviewed scientific papers. Among others, he is currently a principal investigator of a longstanding National Institutes of Health RO1 grant (NINDS RO1NS43314-13) that focuses on diabetic neuropathy. Dr. Wright has served on numerous grant review committees, including NIH, Juvenile Diabetes Research Foundation and the American Diabetes Association, as well as led numerous institutional committees at KUMC. He currently chairs the Clinical Neuroplasticity and Neurotransmitters (CNNT) NIH study section. Dr. Wright has received numerous teaching awards, including the Chancellor's Distinguished Teaching Award and the William T. Kemper Fellowship for Teaching. | |
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