AACBNC
2024 AACBNC MEETING PROGRAM
Wednesday January 24 -- Saturday January 27, 2024
St. Kitts Marriott Resort, Frigate Bay
Wednesday January 24th 4:00-6:00 pm -- AACBNC Executive Committee meeting -- Monserrat Room 7:00-9:00 pm -- Welcome Reception -- Keys or North Pool
Thursday January 25th 7:30-8:30 am – Breakfast - Ocean View Terrace 8:00 am-1:00pm – Exhibitors - Ballroom Foyer 8:30-8:45 am – Alex Robling (AACBNC President): Welcome, New Chair Introductions, and 2024 Meeting Overview - Saba Room 8:45 am-12:00 pm – Virtual Session “High risk/high reward funding opportunities at the Federal level”. Session Chair: Anthony Kirilusha, PhD 8:45 -9:25 am – Part 1: “High-risk/high reward funding opportunities through the NIH Office of Strategic Coordination (Common Fund)” Anthony Kirilusha, PhD, Senior Director/Program Lead, NIH OSC. 9:25-10:05 am – Part 2: “High-risk/high reward and other biomedical funding opportunities through the Department of Defense/CDMRP (Virtual presentation)” Dr. Donna Kimbark, Deputy Director for Awards Management, Congressionally Directed Medical Research Programs (CDMRP), U.S. Army Medical Research and Development Command. 10:05-10:20 am – Coffee Break - Ballroom Foyer 10:20-10:30 am – Sponsor presentation: Graham Whiteside, Anatomical Excellence 10:30-11:10 am – Part 3: “High-risk/high reward funding opportunities through the Advanced Research Projects Agency for Health (ARPA-H; Virtual Presentation)” Ravi Basavappa, PhD, Program Manager, ARPA-H. 11:20-11:50 am – Panel discussion (AACBNC members) 11:50 am-12:00 pm – Policies and Anatomical Collections – Kevin McCarthy, LSU Shreveport
Friday January 26th 7:30-8:30 am – Breakfast - Ocean View Terrace 8:00 am-1:00pm – Exhibitors - Ballroom Foyer 8:30-11:10 am – Session “Vertical integration of basic science curriculum in medical education”. Session Chair: Margaret McNulty, PhD, Associate Professor of Anatomy, Cell Biology & Physiology, IU School of Medicine 8:30-8:35 am – Session Introduction: “What is vertical integration and why do we care?” Margaret McNulty 8:35-9:05 am – “Finding time in a traditional UME curriculum” Margaret McNulty, PhD, Associate Professor, Indiana University School of Medicine 9:05-9:35 am – “All pre-clerkship systems are go, now what?” Lela Giannaris, PhD, Associate Professor, UMass Chan Medical School 9:35-9:50 am – Coffee Break - Ballroom Foyer 9:50-10:00 am – Sponsor presentation: Larry Kennedy, Green Solutions 10:00-10:30 am – “Graduate medical education and beyond” Derek Harmon, PhD, Associate Professor, Ohio State University College of Medicine 10:30-11:00 am – Panel discussion (AACBNC members). 11:00-11:10 am – Sponsor presentation: Jake Shearer, Toltech 11:10 am-12:00 pm – AACBNC Business Meeting - Saba Room 6:00-9:00 pm – Annual Banquet - North Pool
Annual Meeting Agenda -- Click here to open PDF
Saturday January 27th 7:30-8:30 am – Breakfast - Ocean View Terrace 8:00am-1:00pm – Exhibitors - Ballroom Foyer 8:30-11:45 am – Session “The rapidly evolving use of Artificial Intelligence in biomedical research and education”. Session Chair: Jesse Spencer-Smith, PhD, Chief Data Scientist, Vanderbilt Data Science Institute 8:30-8:40 am Session Introduction: Jesse Spencer-Smith, PhD 8:40-9:20 am – “Research, teaching, and work in the age of generative AI” Jesse Spencer-Smith, PhD, Chief Data Scientist, Vanderbilt Data Science Institute 9:20-10:00 am – “The dawn of the AI age in protein science” Hassane Mchaourab, PhD, Professor, Center for Structural Biology, Vanderbilt University 10:00-10:15 am – Coffee Break - Ballroom Foyer 10:15-10:25 am – Sponsor presentation: 10:25-11:00 am – “Navigating innovation and education in the generative AI era” Yaa Kumah-Crystal, MD, Associate Professor of Biomedical Informatics and Pediatric Endocrinology, Vanderbilt University Medical Center 11:00-11:30 am – Panel discussion (AACBNC members) 11:30-11:45 am – Sponsor presentation 12:00 pm – Meeting Ends
