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Departmental Retreat - 2013


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Biology Retreat 2013:
Increasing Connectivity and Reinforcing Our Sense of Purpose
 

Thursday, Jan 17 - 1103 BRB
1:00 pm State of the Department
• Opening Remarks - Jerry Wilkinson
• Optimal workflows - Cathy Beard    ppt
• Overview of Curriculum - Reid Compton    pdf
• Departmental Budget and Research Portfolio - Jerry Wilkinson    ppt

2:30 pm Faculty Presentations - Research Focus
• Lipid channels in apoptosis: regulation by proteins - Marco Colombini    ppt
• Studying neural circuits with high throughput electron microscopy - Josh Singer    pdf
• Recent next generation sequencing results - Carlos Machado    ppt
• How deep sequencing changed my (worm) sex life - Eric Haag    ppt

3:45 pm Break

4:00 pm Faculty Presentations - Teaching and Curriculum Focus
• Rethinking how we teach: Physics - Karen Carleton    ppt
• The Maryland Neuroimaging Center (MNC) and neuroscience at Maryland - Jonathan Simon    ppt
• What's going on in conservation/environmental science? - Karen Lips    ppt
• A social network analysis of department faculty - Bill Fagan    ppt

5:30 pm Reception (Atrium, Stamp Union)

6:00 pm Buffet Dinner (Atrium, Stamp Union)

7:00 pm Dean's Address - Dean Jayanth Banavar
Dean Banavar will discuss his research, followed by a short dialogue about his vision for the department and biological sciences within CMNS    ppt

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