TOMORROW: Have your voice heard

[Vincent Chan]

Join the effort to shape the Future of Research!


*2nd Annual Future of Research Symposium*

*Register here
<http://www.eventbrite.com/e/future-of-research-symposium-boston-2015-tickets-18503562654?ref=ebtn>*


This Thursday, Friday, and Saturday at BU

Students, postdocs, faculty, administrators all welcome

$5 registration provides *food* and *alcohol* for 3 days






*PROGRAM*


*Thursday, October 22*

COM101, BU College Of Communication, 640 Commonwealth Ave.

3:30p Registration

4:00p Opening of the symposium

4:30p Panel 1: Defining The Postdoc: A Grassroots Perspective

5:45p Panel 2: Defining The Postdoc: A Institutional Perspective

7:00p Networking reception *Cornwall’s Pub, 654 Beacon St.*



*Friday, October 23*

Jacob Sleeper Auditorium (CGS 129),BU College of General Studies, 871 Comm.
Ave.

8:30a Coffee and registration

9:00a Keynote: Paula Stephan, “The Economics of the Postdoctoral Position”

10:00a Panel 3: Academic Data & the Labor Market

11:30a Panel 4: Career Paths

1:00p Lunch

Move To:  COM101, BU College of Communication, 640 Commonwealth Ave.

2:00p Panel 5: The Role of Early Career Researchers in Publishing

3:30p Panel 6: Diversity

5:00p Closing remarks



*Saturday, October 24: Hack Day*

CGS 130, BU College of General Studies, 871 Commonwealth Ave.

9:00a Coffee and registration

10:15a Teams present project pitches

1:00p Lunch

2:00p Project hacking

7:00p Dinner

11:00p Project submission



*SPEAKERS:*

*PANEL 1: *Defining The Postdoc: A Grassroots Perspective

*Moderators: Rebeccah Lijek (HMS) & David Riglar (HMS)*

Abigail Anderson (NYU), Kyle Dolan (U Chicago), Kristin Krukenberg (HMS),
Juliet Moncaster (NPA) & Tobias Otto (BDPA)



*PANEL 2: *Defining The Postdoc: A Institutional Perspective

*Moderators: Rebeccah Lijek (HMS) & David Riglar (HMS)*

Cynthia Fuhrmann (UMass Med) James Gould (HMS)Sarah Hokanson (BU)Daniel Jay
(Tufts) & Dana Bresee Keeth (MIT)



*PANEL 3: *Academic Data & the Labor Market

*Moderator: Gary McDowell (Tufts)*

Jonathan Dinman (U Maryland), Eve Marder (Brandeis),Melanie Sinche (Jackson
Labs), Paula Stephan (Georgia State), &  Michael Teitelbaum (Harvard Law)



*PANEL 4: *Career Paths

*Moderators: Erica Walsh (BWH) & Cara Weismann (UMass)*

Sarah Cardozo Duncan (Career Strategist), Tyler Ford (Addgene),  Misty
Heggeness (NIH), Chris Pickett (ASBMB) & Brian Plosky (Cell Press)



*PANEL 5: *The Role of Early Career Researchers in Publishing

*Moderators: Sarah Mazzilli (BU) & Karen Carniol (Cell)*

Heather Fleming (Broad Institute), Kinga Hosszu (F1000 Americas), Josh
Nicholson (Winnower), Debbie Sweet (Cell) & Marian Walhout (UMass Med)



*PANEL 6: *Diversity

*Moderator: Jessica Polka (HMS)*

Moon Duchin (Tufts),Rafael Luna (HMS),Joan Reede (HMS),Alberto Roca
(Minority Postdoc) & Jessica Tytell (MASS AWIS)
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