TEACHING POSTER SESSIONS

Recognizing that techniques and issues related to teaching and the use of computers in research and teaching cross all biomedical disciplines, EB 2005 will combine education posters from all participating societies into two special poster sessions.  Although posters will be on display during exhibit hours Sunday through Tuesday, authors are required to be present during a scheduled day and time for demonstration, which will be listed in the Program.  Authors must prepare a standard-sized poster in addition to the demonstration.

 

• Computers in Research & Teaching - Topic Category 8100-EB

Demonstrate collegial (not for sale) software for research and teaching purposes.  A special area of the exhibit hall will have both IBM PC compatible and MacIntosh computers with Internet access.  Authors are encouraged to bring laptops. For more information, please contact Dr. Jerry Collins at the Department of Biomedical Engineering, Vanderbilt University, Nashville, TN,  Tel: 615-322-3003. Email: jerry.collins@vanderbilt.edu

 

• Teaching, Learning and Testing in the Biological and Biomedical Sciences - Topic Category 8200-EB

This is for all teaching/education related posters, regardless of discipline, that do not require a computer.  Posters describing any aspect of teaching and learning in the biological and biomedical sciences should be submitted to this category.  For presentations that involve a demonstration, authors are encouraged to bring the actual materials that they use for teaching.  Tables and electrical outlets will be available at each poster board for demonstrations.

 

HOW TO PREVENT INSTITUTIONAL SHUTDOWNS:

Safeguarding Your Human Subjects Research Program

 

This workshop, scheduled for Tuesday, April 5 from 12:00 – 1:30 PM, will describe comprehensive, non-draconian approaches that researchers and their institutions can take to conduct ethically sound scientific research utilizing human biological materials and human subjects without compromising the quality of the research. The experience of researchers from institutions that have been shutdown by Federal government agency order, and how they have re-constituted their research programs, will be stressed.

 

EB 2005/FASEB MARC GENOMICS SYMPOSIUM AND POSTER SESSION:

Health Disparities in Cardiovascular Disease: Genetic and Therapeutic Applications

 

Organized by the FASEB MARC Program Advisory Board.  Sponsored by the FASEB Career Resources and MARC Program Office.  Coordinators:  Sandra Murray, Professor of Cell Biology and Physiology, University of Pittsburgh, School of Medicine; Frank Talamantes, Professor of Endocrinology, University of California at Santa Cruz.

 

MODERATOR (invited, not yet confirmed): Augustus Grant, Duke University Medical Center, Durham, NC and current President of the American Heart Association; John Fakunding, Director of the Heart Research Program, Division of Heart and Vascular Diseases, NHLBI/NIH, Bethesda, MD;

 

KEYNOTE SPEAKERS Herman Taylor, University of Mississippi Medical Center, Jackson Heart Study, Jackson, MS; C.W. Yancy, University of Texas Southwestern Medical Center at Dallas; Richard Cooper, Loyola University, Chicago, IL; Jorge R. Kizer, Weill Medical College, New York, NY; Curt Furberg, Wake Forest Medical School, NC; Craig Hanis, University of Texas, Houston Health Sciences Center; Jean MacCluer, Southwestern Foundation for Medical Research, San Antonio, TX; Elisa T. Lee, University of Oklahoma; Warren Lockette, University of California at San Diego.

 

RELATED POSTER SESSION:  Posters will be selected from the abstracts submitted to Experimental Biology 2005 participating societies. At least 20 posters from students and postdoctoral fellows involved in research related to the genetic basis of cardiovascular disease and its treatment in diverse populations will be selected for display during the symposium and reception/mixer. Travel awards for poster presenters (first authors only) included in this special session will be available through the FASEB MARC Program.  NOTE: You must be a U.S. Citizen or Permanent Resident of the U.S. (green card required) in order to receive a FASEB MARC Program travel award.

 

For further information, please contact Lisa Dennison, Program Coordinator, FASEB MARC Program, 9650 Rockville Pike, Bethesda, MD 20814-3998; Email: ldennison@faseb.org; Tel: 301-634-7930.

 

The EB 2005/FASEB MARC Genomics Symposium is funded by a grant from the National Institute of General Medical Sciences, National Institutes of Health.  (T36-GM-08637).