Kuggie Vallee Distinguished Lectures: Michelle Monje, MD, PhD, HHMI, Stanford University and Erin Schuman, PhD, Max Planck Institute for Brain Research

Kuggie Vallee Distinguished Lectures and Workshops

Lectures: September 24, 10:00am-12:00pm | Workshops Lectures: September 25, 9:30am-2:30pm

Registration is required to attend the September 25 workshops and lunch. Please click here to register.

In honor of the Foundation’s co-founder, Kuggie Vallee, and in order to inspire young women to continue a career in science, the Vallee Foundation has established a prestigious annual series of Kuggie Vallee Distinguished Lectures. These Lectures are designed to highlight major successes made by women in the biomedical sciences and are given at institutions around the world where Vallee Visiting Professors and Young Investigator Awardees are affiliated. The Kuggie Vallee Distinguished Lecturer gives a public lecture about her own science and, over a period of several days, meets more informally or in workshops with other faculty at the host institute to talk about women in science and career building.

2024 Kuggie Vallee Distinguished Lecturers:

Michelle Monje, MD, PhD, HHMI, Stanford University

Erin Schuman, PhD, Max Planck Institute for Brain Research

Workshop Speakers:

Kara McKinley, PhD, HHMI, Harvard University

Susan S. Silbey, PhD, Leon and Anne Goldberg Professor of Humanities, Sociology and Anthropology, MIT

Stacie Weninger, PhD, President, F-Prime Biomedical Research Initiative

Program

Tuesday, September 24

10:00-10:10am: Opening Remarks from Li-Huei Tsai (Director,Picower Institute, MIT) and Peter Howley (President, Vallee Foundation)

10:10-11:10am: Presentation and Q&A, Michelle Monje (HHMI, Stanford University), "Neuron-glial interactions in health and disease: from cognition to cancer"

11:10am-12:10pm: Presentation and Q&A, Erin Schuman (Max Planck Institute for Brain Research), "Protein synthesis at neuronal synapses"

Wednesday, September 25

8:30-9:30am: Breakfast

9:30-10:30am: Talk and q&a, Susan S. Silbey (Sociology and Anthropology, MIT)

10:30-11:00am: TALK AND Q&A, Kara McKinley (HHMI, Harvard University) "Leading Edge: A grassroots initiative to increase gender diversity among biomedical research faculty"

11:00-11:15am: Break

11:15-11:45am: TALK AND Q&A, Stacie Weninger (President, F-Prime Biomedical Research Initiative)

11:45am-12:45pm: Breakout Lunches

1:00-2:30pm: Panel Discussion moderated by Elly Nedivi (Picower Institute, MIT)

Panelists: Kara McKinley, Michelle Monje, Erin Schuman, Susan S. Silbey, Stacie Weninger

2:30-3:30pm: Reception

Organizing Committee: Professors Li-Huei Tsai, Elly Nedivi, Myriam Heiman, Gloria Choi, and Sara Prescott

Host

Li-Huei Tsai

Organizer

Brittany Greenough

Date/Time

September 24-25, 2024

Location

43 Vassar Street
3rd Floor, Singleton Auditorium (46-3002)
Cambridge, MA 02139
United States

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