2024 CSB Annual Retreat

Friday, October 11th, 2024

Join the Center for Synthetic Biology (CSB) faculty, staff and trainees, and guest speakers from academia and industry for our Annual Retreat to exchange ideas, career experiences, and path-breaking research across different disciplines in the field of synthetic biology.

Location:
Hilton Garden Inn
Evanston, IL

Parking:

-NU faculty, staff, and visitors with purple or yellow parking permits are able to park in the NU lot behind the Hilton.
-NU wildcard holders can also use the Intercampus Shuttle.
-Paid parking is also available in the public parking garage adjacent to the Hilton.

Registration has closed. Please email csb@northwestern.edu with registration questions.

Agenda

Times	Activity
9:00am – 9:45am	Registration
9:45am – 10:00am	Opening Remarks
10:00am – 11:00am	Poster Session / Coffee Break & Networking
11:00am – 11:15am	Group Photo
11:15am – 12:15pm	Keynote Address César de la Fuente University of Pennsylvania
12:15pm – 12:45pm	Transition / Coffee Break
12:45pm – 1:45pm	Lunch
1:45 pm – 2:00pm	Travel Transition for Career Panel 1
2:00pm – 3:00pm	Career Panels – Concurrent sessions. Please choose one to attend.
2:00pm – 3:00pm	Career Panel 1 – Academia (1801 Maple, Rm 1304) Ludmilla Aristilde, Associate Professor of Civil and Environmental Engineering César de la Fuente, University of Pennsylvania Krishna Shrinivas, Assistant Professor of Chemical and Biological Engineering Lisa Volpatti, Assistant Professor of Biomedical Engineering
2:00pm – 3:00pm	Career Panel 2 – Industry (Hilton Garden Inn) Heather Calcaterra, Senior Scientist, AbbVie Michael Fiske, Invention Manager, Northwestern University Khalid Alam, Founder & CEO, Stemloop
3:15pm – 3:45pm	Student Talks Dylan Brown, PhD Student, Lucks Lab Edric Choi, PhD Student, Lucks Lab
3:45pm – 4:00pm	Coffee Break
4:00pm – 4:30pm	Faculty Talk Krishna Shrinivas, Assistant Professor of Chemical and Biological Engineering
4:30pm – 5:30pm	CSB Social