AY 2009-2010 Students and Reunion for BMEP Alumni

The Farmington Inn and The Country Club of Farmington, Farmington, Connecticut
April 9 – 11, 2010

Friday, April 9
8:00 to 8:45 AM	Breakfast at the Farmington Inn
8:55 AM	Meet in the Tunxis Room of the Farmington Inn
9:00 – 9:30 AM	Welcome and Introduction of Morning Session Speakers – Laurie Williams, U.S. Program Coordinator, BMEP
9:30 – 10:15 AM	“Physicians as Advocates” - BMEP Alumnus Benjamin Schäfer, M.D. FACC, Northeast Cardiology Associates, Bangor Maine
10:15 – 10:45 AM	“Micropatterning Cell-Laden 3D Hydrogels to Induce Cellular Alignment” - AY 2009-2010 Student Hug Aubin, Harvard-MIT, Cambridge, MA
10:45 – 11:15 AM	Coffee Break
11:15 – 11:45 AM	“A Common Variant of DISC1 is Associated with Cortical Thickness” - AY 2009-2010 Student Stefan Brauns, Harvard Medical School, Boston, MA
11:45 – 12:30 PM	“Practicing Surgery in the United States” - BMEP Alumna Claudia Hriesik, M.D., Ph.D., Rochester Colon & Rectal Surgeons, PC, Rochester General Hospital, Rochester, NY
12:30 – 01:30 PM	Lunch in the Tunxis Room
1:30 – 3:00 PM	Tour of the Hill-Stead Museum, Mountain Road, Farmington, CT (includes travel time to and from the museum)
3:00 – 3:10 PM	Introduction of Afternoon Session Speakers – Laurie Williams
3:10 – 4:00 PM	“The History of Medicine” – Ralph Arcari, Ph.D., University of Connecticut Health Centers School of Medicine, Farmington, CT
4:00 – 4:15 PM	Coffee Break
4:15 – 4:45 PM	“Immunological Characterization of Tumor Stromal Cells Derived from Pediatric Neoplasias” - AY 2009-2010 Student Pascal-David Johann, Children’s Hospital, Harvard Medical School, Boston, MA
4:45 – 5:15 PM	“Better Technology – What We Need: THE LIVING ATLAS” AY 2009-2010 Student Ingolf Karst, Northwestern University Feinberg School of Medicine, Chicago, IL The Evening is Free for Dinner at a Restaurant of Your Choice
Saturday, April 10
8:00 – 8:45 AM	Breakfast at the Farmington Inn
8:55 AM	Meet in the Ballroom of the Country Club of Farmington
9:00 – 9:15 AM	Welcome and Introduction of the Speakers for the Day – Moderator - BMEP Alumnus Elmar Burchardt, M.D., Ph.D.
9:15 – 9:45 AM	“Optimizing the Infection Rate of the Oncolytic Vesicular Stomatitis Virus by Adaptation to Glioblastoma Cells” - AY 2009 – 2010 Student Ines Rudolph, Yale University School of Medicine, New Haven, CT
9:45 – 10:30 AM	“Are You Living the Dream? – A Not So Serious Take on Physician-Scientists in the Land of (Un-)limited Possibilities” – BMEP Alumnus Dirk Hentschel, M.D., Brigham and Women’s Hospital, Harvard Medical School, Boston, MA
10:30 – 11:00 AM	Coffee Break
11:00 – 11:30 AM	“The Role of BRP-39 in Renal Epithelial Cell Death and Tissue Inflammation” - AY 2009 – 2010 Student Insa-Marie Schmidt, Yale University School of Medicine, New Haven, CT
11:30 – 12:00 PM	“The Role of the E3 Ubiquitin Ligase Itch in Mesenchymal Stem Cells” - AY 2009 – 2010 Student Christoph Schünemann, Yale University School of Medicine, New Haven, CT
12:00 – 1:00 PM	Lunch at the Country Club of Farmington
1:00 – 1:45 PM	“The Operating Room of the Future - Flight Simulator for the Operating Room” – BMEP Alumnus Thomas Schwaab, M.D., Ph.D., Roswell Park Cancer Institute, Buffalo, NY
1:45 – 2:15 PM	“Evaluation of the Cytotoxic Effect of Natural Killer Cells on Opportunistic Pathogens” - AY 2009 – 2010 Student Elena Widmann, Tufts University School of Medicine, Boston, MA
2:15 – 2:45 PM	Coffee Break
2:45 – 3:30 PM	“A Personal Journey in Personalized Medicine”– BMEP Alumnus Elmar R. Burchardt, M.D., Ph.D., Aastrom Biosciences, Inc., Ann Arbor, MI
3:30 – 4:15 PM	“Age-Associated Decrease in TLR Function in Primary Human Dendritic Cells Predicts Influenza Vaccine Response” - BMEP Alumnus Alexander Panda, M.D., Ph.D., Yale University School of Medicine, New Haven, CT
4:15 – 6:30 PM	Free Time
6:30 – 7:00 PM	Cocktails at the Country Club of Farmington
7:00 – 9:00 PM	Dinner in the Main Dining Room at the Country Club of Farmington
Sunday, April 11
8:00 to 9:00 AM	Breakfast at the Farmington Inn
9:00 – 9:30 AM	Pack in Preparation for Mandatory 11:00 AM Check-out Time
9:30 – 10:30 AM	Students Meet with Some of the Doctors in the Lobby of the Inn
10:30 – 11:00 AM	Check Out of the Farmington Inn

The BMEP was established in 1979 by John Boylan, M.D.. University of Connecticut. Medical School, Farmington, and Hilmar Stolte, M.D., Medizinische Hochschule Hannover. The Academic Year Program was conceived for students of the Biomedical Sciences (Human Medicine, Biology, Chemistry, Physics, Psychology, the Health Sciences, etc.). In the field of Medicine it is geared towards students in their 4th and 5th years of study. Its main aim is to further young scientists, as well as academic careers in Biomedicine and the Life Sciences.

CONTACT:

Prof. Hilmar Stolte M.D. President IALS & Univ. Professor em. Carl-Neuberg-Str. 1 D-30625 Hannover, Germany T +49-(0)511-532-6662 F +49-(0)511-532-6663 E-mail: ials@lifesciences.net

IALS  & BMEP Laurie Williams B.A. 56 Hancock Street Ellsworth, Maine 04605, USA T +1-207-667-1920 F +1-207-667-5513 E-mail: bmep@midmaine.com