Day 3
Day 3
Sunday, November 14
7:30 - 9:00AM
Registration Desk
7:30 - 9:00AM
Early Checkout
8:00 - 9:30AM
Working Breakfast / Guest Presentations
Location: Palmar Ballroom A-C
Speaker Introductions- Dr. Jose F. Rodriguez-Orengo
8:00 - 8:45AM
Speaker: Dr. Eugene Krentsel, Chief Scientific Officer and Vice President Strategic Partnership and Alliances, Xlerate Health Regional Technology Transfer Accelerator Hub, Louisville, KY
"Regional Accelerator Hub"
8:45 - 9:30AM
Speaker: Eng. Lucy Crespo, Chief Executive Officer
Puerto Rico Science , Technology and Research Trust, San Juan, PR
"Developing the Entrepreneurial Ecosystem of Puerto Rico"
9:30 - 12:30PM
Consecutive Sessions C
Location: Palmar Ballroom A-C
9:30 - 10:30PM
Session C.1 - Virtual Education and Training-Data Science and Bioinformatics Workshop
Chairperson
Konstantin “Gus” Kousoulas, Ph.D.
Program Director, Louisiana Biomedical Research Network
Louisiana State University at Baton Rouge, LA
Speaker: Elia Brodsky, PhD, Pine Biotech/Haifa University, New Orleans, LA
"Data Science and Bioinformatics Workshop"
10:30 - 12:30PM
Session C.2 - NIH/NIGMS Program Overviews
10:30 - 11:15AM
"High Risk High Reward Program Overview"
Chairperson
Jose Lasalde, PhD
Neuroplasticity COBRE Center, UPR-MSC
Speaker: Ravi Basavappa, PhD, Program Leader for the Common Fund Program, NIH Office of Director
11:15 - 12:30PM
R15 and R16 Program Overview and Panel Discussion (Hybrid Session)
Chairperson
Bruce Mattingly, PhD
Program Coordinator, KY-INBRE
Morehead State University
Morehead, KY
Jerry Ware, Ph.D.
Program Coordinator, AR-INBRE
Department of Physiology and Cell Biology
University of Arkansas for Medical Sciences, Little Rock, AR
Jim Pauly, Pd.D.
University of Kentucky
Lexington, KY
12:30 - 2:00PM
Networking Lunch
Location: Palmar Ballroom A-C
12:45PM
Excellence Awards Ceremony
2:00PM