2nd Structural Birth Defects Trainee Symposium
Virtual | September 18, 2023
Overview
2nd Structural Birth Defects Trainee Symposium
September 18, 2023 | 10 AM – 5:30 PM ET
The 1st Virtual Structural Birth Defects Trainee Symposium was such an overwhelming success that the steering committee has decided to hold this event again. This one-day trainee symposium will bring together structural birth defects researchers spanning the scientific spectrum from basic to clinical to translational, including developmental biologists, cell biologists, biophysicists, clinicians, geneticists, epidemiologists, biostatisticians and bioinformaticians.
The Structural Birth Defects Trainee Symposium will welcome trainees, researchers, and their mentors in the birth defects research community. The symposium will also be open to other interested registrants and will provide a unique opportunity to hear the latest research on the etiology and development of structural birth defects.
The program will include two keynote addresses from Elizabeth Leslie, Ph.D., Associate Professor of Human Genetics at Emory University, and D’Juan Farmer, Ph.D., Assistant Professor of Molecular, Cell, and Developmental Biology at the University of California, Los Angeles. In addition, presentations will consist of about 20 short talks from submitted abstracts by trainees.
Structural Birth Defects Steering Committee
Irene Zohn, Children's National Medical Center
Daryl Armstrong Scott, Baylor College of Medicine
Elizabeth J. Bhoj, Children's Hospital of Philadelphia
Rebecca D. Burdine, Princeton University
Ida Chow, Society for Developmental Biology
Dan Cohn, University of California, Los Angeles
Patricia K. Donahoe, Massachusetts General Hospital and Harvard Medical School
Emily Durham*, Children's Hospital of Philadelphia
Nicole Edwards*, Cincinnati Children’s Hospital
Matthew Harris, Harvard Medical School
Mustafa K Khokha, Yale School of Medicine
Eric E. Liao, Children's Hospital of Philadelphia
Tony Qu*, University of California, San Francisco
Licia Selleri, University of California, San Francisco
Weinian Shou, Indiana University School of Medicine
Rolf Stottmann Nationwide Children’s Hospital
Jennifer Watts*, Nationwide Children’s Hospital
Carol Wise, Texas Scottish Rite Hospital for Children at UT Southwestern
Katherine Woronowicz*, Harvard Medical School
Peixin Yang, University of Maryland School of Medicine
Aaron Zorn, Cincinnati Children’s Hospital
*Trainee representatives
Keynote Speakers
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D'Juan Farmer, Ph.D.
Assistant Professor, Molecular, Cell and Developmental Biology
University of California, Los Angeles
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Elizabeth Leslie, Ph.D.
Associate Professor of Human Genetics
Emory University