5th Annual Postdoc Symposium

Please register to attend and consider submitting an abstract to the 5th Annual Postdoc Symposium. The deadline for registration and abstract submission is  Friday, April 1.

 

The YPA symposium committee is NOW recruiting poster judges for the 5th Annual Symposium. If you are a Yale postdoc or ARS and interested in being a poster judge, please email sheila.nagamatsu@yale.edu and ypa.symposium@yale.edu for more information.

 

This symposium is an excellent opportunity for professional development and networking within the Yale community. The goals of this event are for you to:

This event is designed to increase the visibility of postdocs and ARS research at Yale. It will focus on the diversity of the community and its contribution to Yale’s research excellence. The symposium is an excellent way to discover new research fields, connect with unexpected future collaborators, and increase your network in the Yale research community. This event will give you an opportunity to get more out of your time at Yale.

 

Thursday, May 19th | 8:30 AM – 7:00 PM

 

Poster session 1 (11:30 AM - 12:15 PM)
Emily Sutton	Defining a role for C12orf29 in ribosome biogenesis
Dhanusha Nalawansha	Hijacking Methyl Reader Proteins for Nuclear-Specific Protein Degradation
Tatiana Sukhanova	The role of NUMB in neuromuscular junction development
Lina Sanchez-Botero	Stretchable, breathable and washable wearable capacitive sensor for human motion monitoring
Krishna Mudumbi	Understanding EGFR interactions in live cells using single-molecule microscopy
Jenna DiRito	Regulation of cell death during cold preservation of marginal human kidneys
Manjula Ramu	A Cysteine Variant at an Allosteric Site Alters MIF Dynamics and Biological Function in Homo- and Heterotrimeric Assemblies.
Jing Wu	Mechanisms of KCNT1 channel gain-of-function in epilepsy and intellectual disability
Ayesha Butt	Identifying Unique Complement and Endothelial Proteomic Profiles in Patients with Alcohol and Non-Alcoholic Steatohepatitis Associated Cirrhosis
Sonali Vishal	Sequence determinants of TDP-43 RNP granule transport properties
Dora Koller	The association of endometriosis with negative mental health outcomes: a genetically-informed study
Brenda Cabrera-Mendoza	The impact of socioeconomic status on the risk to psychiatric traits
Gita Pathak	Genetic liability score of post-traumatic stress disorder highlights association with cardiovascular and respiratorydisorders in clinical cohort of >94,000 individuals
Anne Hahn	Tracking SARS-CoV-2 evolution
Anna York	Investigating serotype switching patterns in Streptococcus pneumoniae

Poster session 2 (3:00 - 3:45 PM)
Lisa Li	New Mechanism of Protein Maturation
David Moreno Fortuño	Phenotypic selection during laboratory evolution of yeast populations leads to a genome-wide sustainable chromatin compaction shift
Duhan Toparlak	On the emergence of the first cells on prebiotic Earth
Vidyadhara D J	Dopamine transporter and synaptic vesicle sorting defects initiate auxilin-linked Parkinson’s disease
Gregory Roytman	Use of a Low Back Pain Electronic Health Record Tool in a Multisite Randomized Pragmatic Clinical Trial
Diego Grinman	Cancer Induced Hypercalcemia Causes Anorexia
Mar Giner-Calabuig	Heterozygous mutations in DNA repair genes confer genetic susceptibility to colorectal cancer among lynch-like cases
Ayesha Butt	Iron Infusion Reactions: Risk Factors and Real-World Experience
Juan Velasco	Surgical Approach for Anomalous Origin of the Right Coronary Artery from the Left Sinus of Valsalva: A Literature Review
Leila Fletcher	Testing for a trade-off between relative growth rate and adaptation to climate across natural ecotypes of Arabidopsis
Ashley Hadwiger	The relationship between shape discrepancies, internalized weight bias, and eating disorder psychopathology in adults with loss-of-control eating after bariatric surgery
Diana Núñez	Parallel neuronal-specific differential methylation and hydroxymethylation identifies immune dysregulation in PTSD
José Martínez-Magaña	The prefrontal cortex transcriptomic landscape of the interaction between post-traumatic stress disorder and opioid misuse
Orchid Allicock	Impact of temporary storage conditions on the viability of Streptococcus pneumoniae in saliva
Warren Pettine	Human Latent-State Generalization Through Prototype Learning and Discriminative Attention

 

The YPA symposium committee is excited to announce Melanie Sinche as the keynote speaker for the 2022 symposium. She will speak on “Career Options for PhDs: Opening the Doors of Opportunity”.

 

 

Panel Discussion: Establishing your brand online

1. Dr. Florian Schüder (Postdoctoral Fellow in the Department of Cell Biology)
2. Dr. Anderson Brito (Research Scientist at Instituto Todos pela Saúde) 
3. Dr. Ulrike Böhm (Optical Scientist at ZEISS in Oberkochen, Germany)

Each presentation type provides a unique opportunity for you to present your research to the amazing crowd of Yale Postdocs and ARS.

 

 

Please consider the following guideline to be sure your abstract is accepted and correctly evaluated before submitting it.

 

• Abstracts must be written for a general/broad/lay/multidisciplinary audience. Do not use jargon, abbreviations, symbols, or non-English letters. Abstracts that have been submitted for presentations elsewhere are welcomed but must be updated accordingly to these requirements.
• Please focus on the big-picture importance of your research rather than on extensive amounts of methods and data. Clarity is an important criterion for the overall evaluation of the abstract.
• The abstract main text is limited to 300 words. Title length is limited to 40 words and acknowledgments to 80 words. Please make sure non-English letters (ß, æ, é, etc.) are absent from the text, title, and acknowledgements.
• Your abstract should be structured as follows: Introduction, Methods, Results (if applicable), Conclusion, and General Impact.
• Acknowledgments should list the sources of support of your research (limited to 80 words).
• You must have all parts of your abstract (title, author list, main text, and acknowledgments) ready before starting the submission process.
• Each abstract will be evaluated by several members of the YPA symposium committee according to the scoring rubric that can be found here.
• To promote the diversity of presentations, each person will only be allowed one type of presentation (either 10-min talk, 5-min flash talk, or poster presentation with 1-min talk). More details about each presentation format are available in the FAQs. While you have the option to choose for your abstract to be considered for each of these presentation types during the registration process, if selecting multiple presentations types, your abstract will be considered in the following order: 10 min talk > 5-min flash talk > poster presentation with 1-min talk.
• You can also find the grading rubric that will be used to evaluate abstract submissions for the different presentation types here.
• If you want to present a poster, we encourage you to bring one from a previous conference, this event is a great opportunity to present previously submitted works. However, keep in mind you must adapt your abstract to follow our guidelines and it (and your poster) should be understandable by non-experts (i.e., a layman audience). 
• Your abstract and title will be added to the Abstract Booklet, which will only be made available to those registered to attend the Symposium. If you do not want your abstract to be included in the symposium booklet, please contact the YPA symposium committee at ypa.symposium@yale.edu

Who can register to attend the symposium?

Any Postdoc or Associate Research Scientist at Yale can attend the symposium.

To foster a welcoming environment for Postdocs to network and present, aside from a selected few guests, no PI/faculty members will be in attendance, nor will any graduate or undergraduate students.

If you have not done it yet, please register to attend the 5th Annual Postdoc Symposium.

Who will be presenting?

Any Postdoc or Associate Research Scientist (or equivalent level) can submit an abstract to be considered for presentation. We only ask that you are affiliated to Yale and that you present a project done at Yale (or in a Yale-associated structure). We also welcome presentations that can be of major interest to the community (tools, services, experiences, community improvement, etc).

What am I getting into?

	Long Talk	Flash Talk	Poster Presentation
Time	10-min talk and 5-min Q&A	5-min talk	Poster session + 1-min talk
Format	10 slides max. (including title slide)	3-4 slides (including title slide)	Maximum 40x30 inches (HxW) - portrait format preferred
Details	Present an overview of your project and important findings in 10 minutes. Your work will be representative of the diversity and quality of the Postdoc research being conducted at Yale. The presentation must be understandable to a broad audience.	Present your research concisely! Consider this an “elevator pitch” of your research in only 3-4 slides. This can be difficult to achieve but is a great exercise, as your presentation needs to be both accessible and efficient at delivering scientific ideas to a broad audience.	For online distribution of poster presentations to symposium attendees, please submit a PDF version of your poster and 1-min talk recording (MP4 format) by Thursday, May 12th. They will  be uploaded to Google Drive and  made available during the symposium. You are welcome to recycle posters from previous conferences – just be sure to adapt your presentation to convey your work to postdocs that are not in your field.
Selection process details for abstract	Abstracts selected for 10-minute talks will best represent the diversity of Yale Postdoc/ARS research and be written in a way that ensures that they will appeal to a broad audience. Scoring will be based on the quality and clarity of the abstract, as well as the novelty and interests of the results and conclusions.	Abstracts selected will showcase the diversity of Postdoc research being conducted at Yale. Scoring will lay emphasis on the quality of the abstract in terms of clarity.	Abstract from all fields will be considered.

 

Will there be prizes and awards?

How can I contact the organizers to sponsor the event, obtain information, or ask for help?