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Fellow Networking

The IGERT fellows will be encouraged to network professionally and through social situations (including brown bag lunches; coffee hours; hiking trails, etc.) The IGERT trainees will establish a IGERT Trainee Advisory Council (ITAC), comprising all the current and past IGERT trainees and their elected Chair, which will meet 6 times a year to discuss the strengths and shortcomings of the IGERT program, and communicate these confidentially to the Executive Committee, and summarize the S-W-O-T (Strengths-Weaknesses-Opportunities-Threats) analysis annually for the Internal Advisory Board and External Industrial Advisory Board. The ITAC will give the trainees a significant collective voice for providing feedback to the IGERT administration regarding the re-prioritization of the proposed activities. The typical shortcoming of various graduate training programs is that the graduate trainees do not continue to feel vested in the community after their support ends. The ITAC will serve as a "glue" to maintain GTF interest and participation in the activities of the IGERT community even after they have graduated from IGERT funding support. The ITAC scholarly and related social activities will be therefore enthusiastically supported from the IGERT administrative budget.

Major Events
  • IRIF:Megan Anderson Fri., 12/11 in BME-122, 12-1 pm
    Enhanced Survival of Progeny of Neural Stem Cells in Response to Trace Eyeblink Conditioning
  • IRIF:Andrew LHuillier Thurs., 11/19 in BME-122, 12-1pm
    Mesenchymal Stem Cell Mediated Immunosuppression and IDO Metabolites
  • RESCHEDULED: Bioindustry Ethics Luncheon Part II w/ David Finegold (IGERT Fellows ONLY) 11/5/09
    Part II of the Ethics Luncheon will be rescheduled to the Spring semester IRIF schedule.
  • IRIF:Dr. Debu Banerjee 10/22 in BME-122, 12-1 pm
    Therapeutic applications of bone marrrow derived Mesenchmal stem cells
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    More News

  • Congratulations!
    IGERT Fellows Aaron Carlson and Mohamed Sadik took 1st and 3rd place (respectively) in the Poster Presentations at the 3rd Annual NJ Stem Cell Symposium held Thursday, September 24, 2009. Aaron Carlson's poster was titled “3-D Electrospun Polymer Scaffolds Promote Human Embryonic Stem Cell Self-Renewal and Controlled Organization". Mohamed presented “Electroporation-Mediated Molecular Delivery”. Jonathan Davilla took 2nd place with “Identification of Biologically Functional microRNAs in Human ESCs by Ago2 Immunoprecipitation and Sequencing”. The keynote address was delivered by Hakim Djaballah, PhD of the Memorial Sloan Kettering Cancer Center.
  • Congratulations to Professor Ki-Bum Lee, Stem Cell IGERT Faculty in Chemistry and Chemical Biology, who is the recipient of the NIH Director’s New Innovator award, 2009.
    The NIH Director's New Innovator Award program is designed specifically to support unusually creative early stage investigators with highly innovative research ideas at an early stage of their career.
  • IGERT fellow wins award:
    Congratulations to IGERT fellow Nicole Plourde who was recipient of the 2009 Schering-Plough Innovation Award. She was presented with an awards plaque and a check for $5000 at a ceremony on Thursday, April 16th.
  • Chris Ricupero featured on Epigenie interview
    Follow link here for full interview.
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