Thursday and Friday
12:45 pm – 1:45 pm
Bring your lunch and join your colleagues for a short introductory session into one of the following sessions below. For your convenience during lunchtime, affordably priced lunch items and beverages will be available for purchase in the convention center.
Thursday, November 18
Professional Development Session: Grantsmanship Session
This very successful session returns for 2010 with a renewed look at the rapidly-changing subject of grant submission. In addition to covering classical topics such as basic grantsmanship, the session will also cover the recent substantial changes to the NIH grant writing and scoring process, and will also provide attendees with a list of resources and funding agencies. The session is aimed at investigators at all levels.
Professional Development Session: Intellectual Property...Turning Your Molecule Into a Drug
This session will give attendees an introduction to the field of patents, intellectual property protection, and commercialization of ideas in the life sciences. The session is aimed at anyone interested in taking their ideas in the lab' into the realm of pharmaceutical development, and will include discussions on how to time such developments, what resources are available, attracting venture capital, protecting your discovery, and how to keep your academic/commercial enterprises separate.
Friday, November 19
Professional Development Session: Getting Your Point Across – The Basics of a 15-minute Conference Lecture
This session starts with the preparation of abstracts and develops the principles of presentations using power point as applied to research presentations. The workshop is aimed at students, post-docs and junior investigators.
Professional Development Session: Publications...From Bench to Bookshelf
This session is designed for investigators at all levels, and presents an inside-out look at the world of scientific publishing, from the perspective of both the publisher and an associate editor of FRBM. In addition to covering broad topics such as manuscript preparation and how to deal with reviewer's comments, the workshop will also touch on novel developments in publishing such as on-line technologies (Scopus, Pubget, SML).