Day 3

Sunday, November 14

7:30 - 9:00AM

Registration Desk

7:30 - 9:30AM

Early Checkout

8:00 - 9:30AM

Working Breakfast - Scientific Entrepreneurship

8:00 - 8:45AM

Regional Accelerator Hub Update

Keynote Speaker

Eugene Krentsel, Ph.D.

Chief Scientific Officer and Vice President Strategic Partnership and Alliances

Xlerate Health Regional Tedchnology

Transfer Accelerator Hub, Louisville, KY

8:45 - 9:30AM

Developing the Entrepreneurial Ecosystem of Puerto Rico

Keynote Speaker

Eng. Lucy Crespo

Chief Executive Officer

Puerto Rico Science , Technology and

Research Trust, San Juan, PR

9:45 - 11:45AM

Consecutive Sessions

Workshops and Panel Discussions

Chairperson

Konstantin “Gus” Kousoulas, Ph.D.

Program Director, Louisiana Biomedical Research Network

Louisiana State University at Baton Rouge, LA

9:45 - 10:45AM

Session C.1 - Virtual Education and Training-Data Science and Bioinformatics Workshop

Elia Brodsky, Ph.D.

Pine Biotech/Haifa University, New Orleans, LA

10:45 - 11:45AM

Session C.2 - NIGMS R15 Program Overview

Alexandra Ainztein, Ph.D.

Program Director NIGMS Division of Genetics and Molecular, Cellular, and Developmental Biology and point of contact for the NIGMS R15 program.

R15 Program Panel Discussion

Jerry Ware, Ph.D.

Program Coordinator, AR-INBRE

Department of Physiology and Cell Biology

University of Arkansas for Medical Sciences, Little Rock, AR

Bruce Mattingly, Ph.D.

Program Coordinator, KY-INBRE

Morehead State University

Morehead, KY

Jim Pauly, Pd.D.

University of Kentucky

Lexington, KY

11:45 - 12:30PM

Break for Late Checkout

12:30 - 2:00PM

Working Lunch

12:45PM

Students, Postdocs, and Faculty Recognitions; NAIPI Awards

2:00PM