The First Annual WID Symposium will feature research talks, hub updates, poster sessions, networking opportunities, and more. This event is integral to being a WIDite, so please make your attendance a top priority and encourage your colleagues to do the same.
The focus of this year’s symposium is the newly-formed hubs. As we approach the one-year mark in WID’s Strategic Plan, the hubs are beginning to nucleate campus researchers, hire staff, and provide services. We will hear from leaders in each of the hubs as well as from graduate students and postdoctoral researchers engaged in research in each of the hubs.
| Each lab at WID is expected to bring at least one poster to present at the symposium. Note: posters do not need to be created specifically for the WID Symposium—recycled posters are acceptable. | Approximately six 15-minute slots are available to WID graduate students and postdocs to give high-level, accessible talks to the assembled audience of WIDites. You may nominate yourself or others. |
Tentative schedule:
| 9:00 am | Welcome, Introduction, & Expectations WID Director Jo Handelsman |
| 9:30 | Interactive Session Illuminating Discovery Students |
| 10:15 | Poster Session 1 Showcasing Research at WID Pyle Center Alumni Lounge (coffee and snacks provided) |
| 11:15 | DATA SCIENCE HUB OVERVIEW Data Science Hub Faculty Member |
| 11:35 | Data Science Hub Functions & Services Data Science Hub Staff Member |
| 11:50 | Research Talk 1 Nominated Graduate Student/Postdoc |
| 12:10 pm | Research Talk 2 Nominated Graduate Student/Postdoc |
| 12:30 | Lunch & Community Building WID Community Building Committee Pyle Dining Room (buffet lunch) |
| 1:20 | ILLUMINATING DISCOVERY HUB OVERVIEW Illuminating Discovery Faculty Member |
| 1:40 | Research Talk 3 Nominated Graduate Student/Postdoc |
| 2:00 | Research Talk 4 Nominated Graduate Student/Postdoc |
| 2:20 | Research Talk 5 Nominated Graduate Student/Postdoc |
| 2:40 | Poster Session 2 Showcasing Research at WID Pyle Center Alumni Lounge (coffee and snacks provided) |
| 3:40 | MULTI-OMICS HUB OVERVIEW Multi-Omics Hub Faculty Member |
| 4:00 | Multi-Omics Hub Functions & Services Sailendharan Sudakaran, Multi-Omics Hub Staff Member |
| 4:15 | Research Talk 6 Nominated Graduate Student/Postdoc |
| 4:35 | Research Talk 7 Nominated Graduate Student/Postdoc |
| 5:00 | Alumni Address Distinguished WID Alumni |
| 5:45 | Closing Remarks WID Director Jo Handelsman |
| 6:00 | Social Hour & Community Building Pyle Rooftop Terrace (hors d’oeuvres, cash bar) |
| 8:00 | Informal Gathering & Community Building Continued Memorial Union Terrace |