Graduate Student Research Day

• What Is Graduate Student Research Day?
• Schedule of Events
• Graduate Student Poster Session and Contest Rules (you must sign up to present!)
• Student Lunch (you must sign up to attend!)
• Area of Concentration Oral Presentations
• Keynote Speaker: Dr. Henry Kronenberg
• Dinner with Dr. Kronenberg (you must sign up to attend!)
• Previous Guest Speakers

What Is Graduate Student Research Day?

Once a year, the Graduate Student Organization (GSO) holds an event on the UConn Health Center campus called Graduate Student Research Day (GSRD). GSRD is a forum for the students in the graduate school to present their research (from lab rotation or thesis projects) orally or through poster presentations.

At the end of the day, there is a keynote address by an invited speaker.

Our guest speaker for 2009 will be Dr. Freda Miller, senior scientist in the Department of Developmental Biology at the Hospital for Sick Children in Toronto and professor at the University of Toronto.

This year, GSRD will be held on Thursday, June 25, 2009.

Schedule of Events

Graduate Student Poster Session and Contest Rules

At this time, the GSO is asking for abstract submissions for posters for this event. The poster session will be held on Thursday morning, June 25, between 9:30 and 11:30 a.m. in the Academic Lobby. Beyond being a venue to present your research, there will also be a poster contest with a cash prize for those posters which best fit the following criteria:

• clarity and conciseness
• integrity of methodology and support of aim(s)
• importance and relevance
• organization and aesthetics

Abstracts are due Friday, June 13. (Any abstract submitted after the announced date will not be included in the event’s booklet nor given wall space to be posted)

Abstract formatting rules:

• Title of the poster: centered and all caps – except for scientific abbreviations.
• Authors of the poster: full first and last names, centered, with presenting author(s) underlined.
• Your poster abstract: text should be justified.
• Format: single-spaced, Arial font, size 12; the ENTIRE document (title, authors, text and references) is not to exceed 2,500 characters, including spaces.
• Save your abstract as a Word document, naming it: (your last name) Abstract (for example: “Smith Abstract”).
• View a sample abstract.
  

Once completed, attach your Word document to an email and send to GSO@student.uchc.edu by Friday, June 13.

In the body of your email, alert us as to whether or not you want to participate in the poster contest (if you do not state this in the email body, you will not be included in the contest).

Good luck writing and see you on the 25th!

Student Lunch

All students and faculty are invited to this year’s GRSD lunch in the Center Courtyard. Please email GSO@student.uchc.edu if you are planning to attend.

Area of Concentration Oral Presentations

Faculty from each area of concentration will choose a representative student from their respective disciplines. Each presenter will have approximately 20 minutes to present their work.

The oral presentations will be followed by a presentation by the 2009 Lepow award winner, Ms. Kristin Felice.

Keynote Speaker: 2009

We are pleased to announce that our keynote speaker this year will be Dr. Freda Miller, enior scientist in the Department of Developmental Biology at the Hospital for Sick Children in Toronto and professor at the University of Toronto.

Dinner with Dr. Miller

All UConn Health Center Graduate School students are invited to a dinner with Dr. Miller; details TBA. Space is limited; please email GSO@student.uchc.edu if you are planning to attend.

Previous Guest Speakers

• Dr. Henry Kronenberg (2008), Division Head of Endocrinology at Massachusetts General Hospital in Boston and Professor of Medicine at Harvard Medical School.
• Dr. Craig Hunter (2007), Professor of Molecular and Cellular Biology at Harvard University.
• Dr. George Q. Daley (2006), Associate Professor of Pediatrics and Associate Director of the Stem Cell Program at Children's Hospital, Boston and Associate Professor of Biological Chemistry and Molecular Pharmacology at Harvard Medical School.
• Dr. James Allison (2005), Chairman of Immunology and David H. Koch Chair in Immunological Studies at Memorial Sloan-Kettering Cancer Center.
• Dr. Bruce Spiegelman (2004), from the Dana Farber Cancer Institute.
• Dr. Phillip Zamore (2003) of the UMASS Medical School.
• Dr. Marina Picciotto (2002) of Yale University.