8:00-8:10am Welcome and Introductions Sameer Sonkusale, Tufts University Valencia Joyner-Koomson, Tufts University Eduardo Rosa-Molinar, University of Puerto Rico- Rio Piedras
8:10 – 8:15am Welcome Remarks James Deshler, Deputy Division Director, Division of Biological Infrastructure, NSF
8:15-8:30am Overview of the IDBR Program Joyce Fernandes, Program Director, NSF Robert Fleischman, Program Director, NSF
8:35 – 9:10am Keynote: Ken Wise, University of Michigan
9:10 – 10:00am Session 1 Interdisciplinary collaborations between biologists and engineers Session Chair: Adam Hoppe, South Dakota State University
9:10 - 9:35am Lihong Wang, Washington University of Saint Louis 9:35 – 10:00am Andrea M Armani, University of Southern California
10:00 – 10:15am Coffee Break
10:15 – 11:30am Session 2 Interdisciplinary collaborations between biologist and engineers Session Chair: Chrysanthe Preza, The University of Memphis
10:15 – 10:40am Lingje Guo, University of Michigan 10:40 – 11:05am Leslie Shor, University of Connecticut 11:05 – 11:30am Kimani Toussaint, University of Illinois Urbana Champaign
11:30-12:00am Session 1 and 2 Discussions
12:00-1:30pm Working Lunch with Panel Discussion Leveraging your IDBR Research Session Chair: Eduardo Rosa-Molinar, University of Puerto Rico – Rio Piedras
Steve Ellis, NSF ICORP Program Athanassios Sambanis, NSF CBET Division Ruth Shuman, NSF SBIR/ STTR Program Friedrich Sreinc, NSF CBET Division Gayatri Varma, University of Maryland Tech Transfer Malgorzata Klosek, National Institute of Health
Afternoon Sessions:
1:30-2:45pm Session 3 Dissemination - Enabling Access to IDBR-funded Instruments Session Chair: Nada Boustany, Rutgers University
1:30 – 1:55pm Rudolf Oldenbourg, Marine Biological Laboratory 1:55 – 2:20pm Yoonsuck Choe, Texas A&M University 2:20 – 2:45pm Paul Goodwin, GE Health care
2:45 – 3:15pm Session 3 Table Discussion
3:15-3:30pm Coffee break
3:30 – 4:45pm Session 4 Integration of Education, Research and International Activities Session Chair: Ross Snider, Montana State University
3:30 – 3:55pm David Dickensheets, Montana State University 3:55 - 4:20pm Jessica Houston, New Mexico State University 4:20 – 4:45pm Sang-Hyun Oh, University of Minnesota
4:45 – 5:15pm Session 4 Table Discussion
5:30 – 6:30pm Poster Session by IDBR PIs Session Chair: Valencia Joyner Koomson, Tufts University 6:30 – 8:00pm Dinner and Networking