Appendix 2 – Meeting Program - New Investigator Forum Meeting Report

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Appendix 2 – Meeting Program

Friday, October 14, 2011


Time Description Location
3:00 pm Registration open Hall
3:00 – 5:30 pm Poster Set-up Huard room
5:30 – 6:45 pm Dinner Main dining room
7:00 – 7:15 pm Marc Ouellette - Scientific Director III - Welcome
Chair: B. Coombes		 Outarde room
7:15 – 7:45 pm Ian Graham, Vice-President, CIHR, Knowledge translation and Public Outreach Outarde room
7:45 – 8:15 pm The Bhagirath Singh Early Career Award in Infection and Immunity 2010 - Keynote Address
Thomas Martin Schmeing, McGill University
"Structural and Function Studies of Ribosomes and Nonribosomal Peptide Synthetases"		 Outarde room
8:15 – 10:00 pm Poster Session & Networking
Chairs: G. Wu & J. Raven		 Huard room

Saturday, October 15, 2011


Time Description Location
7:30 – 8:30 am Breakfast Main dining room
8:30 – 8:45 am Introduction, Goals and Objectives
Chair: B. Coombes		 Outarde room
8:45 – 10:15 am Workshop: Career Development / Research Management
Chair: B. Coombes & J. Bettinger
Speakers:
  • Kathy Barker – Seattle, USA
    "I was trained to do everything but run a lab"
Outarde room
10:15 -10:30 am Refreshment Break Hall, 2nd floor
10:30–11:30 am Workshop: Grant Writing and Peer Review – Session 1 – Overview of the peer review process and grant writing
Chairs: S. Ramanathan, R. Russell & J. Stankova Speakers:
  • Sylvia Kairouz – Concordia University
  • Joaquin Madrenas – McGill University
Outarde room
11:30 – 1:00 pm Lunch / Free Time Main dining room
1:00 – 3.20 pm Workshop: Grant Writing and Peer Review – Session 2 – Peer review in small groups according to research theme
Chairs: S. Ramanathan, R. Russell & J. Stankova
Speakers:
  • Éric Cohen – Institut de recherches cliniques de Montréal
  • Sylvia Kairouz – Concordia University
  • Joaquin Madrenas – McGill University
  • David Speert – University of British Columbia
  • Pierre Talbot – INRS-Institut Armand-Frappier
Breakout rooms
3.25 - 3.45 pm Refreshment Break Hall, 2nd floor
3:45 – 5:30 pm Workshop: Grant Writing and Peer Review – Session 3 – Period of questions with the speakers
Chairs: S. Ramanathan, R. Russell & J. Stankova 		Outarde room
5:30 – 6:00 pm Free time
6:00 – 7:30 pm Dinner Main dining room
7:30 – 8:30 pm Saturday Night Keynote
  • André Veillette, Institut de Recherches Cliniques de Montréal
    "Protein-protein Interaction in Immune Regulation: pursuing simple findings for 25 years"
Outarde room
8:30 – 10:00 pm Poster session
Chairs: Gillian Wu & Jennifer Raven 		Huard rooms

Sunday, October 16, 2011


Time Description Location
7:30 – 8:30 am Breakfast Main dining room
8:30 – 10:15 am Workshop: Research Funding
Chair: E. Allen-Vercoe & G. Wu
Speaker:
  • Emma Allen-Vercoe – University of Guelph
    Non-Traditional Funding Support: Beyond CIHR and NSERC/SSHRC
  • Krissy Davidge - CIHR-Knowledge Translation
    Branch Fostering Industry Partnership to Leverage your Research $$
  • Louise Laperrière – Université Laval
    Finding and Responding to Targeted RFAs: What you need to know to succeed
Outarde room
10:15 – 10:30 am Refreshment break Hall, 2nd floor
10:30 – 12:00 am Workshop: Defining and developing roles in graduate supervision relationships
Chair: D. Brennan and J. Uzonna
Speaker:
  • Paola Borin – Ryerson University
Outarde room
12:00 – 12:30 pm Summary / Evaluation: Outarde room
12:30 pm Lunch Main dining room