The Active Site 2019
Our Mission:
- This event is designed to expose undergraduates to current peer research and to serve as a networking and professional development platform
- Attendees will interact with undergraduates from institutions across the ASBMB Northeast region, as well as with the keynote speaker, judges, and other scientific researchers in attendance
- This year’s Active Site event will begin with separate professional development sessions for undergraduates and for postdocs and professors
- Breakout sessions in Snell Engineering (marked as SN on campus map)
- Undergraduate sessions will focus on preparing successful scholarship and grant applications
- Postdoc and professor sessions will focus on the topic of student-centered group learning instructional strategies
- Our keynote speaker, Dr. Abigail Sloan Devlin, will then speak both about her research on the microbiome as well as her career path that led to her securing a position as an Assistant Professor at Harvard Medical School
- Keynote in Snell Engineering
- See her biographical information below for more!
- Finally, refreshments will be served while the poster presenters will compete for three $500 travel awards that can be used for attendance at the ASBMB Annual Meeting in San Diego in April 2020
- Poster session (and registration!) in Raytheon Amphitheater (marked as EC on campus map)
- More information about the Annual Meeting can be found here
2019 Keynote Speaker
Dr. Abigail Sloan Devlin, Ph.D., Assistant Professor of Biological Chemistry and Molecular Pharmacology at Harvard Medical School
Dr. Devlin's work focuses primarily on issues of the human microbiome, specifically how to control the chemistry of human-associated bacteria to understand their effects on human health and disease. She has focused on questions of microbial imbalance, as well as the molecular mechanisms of the microbiota.
During her keynote presentation at the 2019 Active Site, Dr. Devlin will speak for approximately 1 hour discussing both her latest research and the path she has taken to success. The organizers of The Active Site are excited to be hosting Dr. Devlin in part because we think that exposure to such an emerging topic in biochemical research is invaluable to young biochemists, yet often overlooked. If you wish to read more about Dr. Devlin and her research, please visit the link below.
https://devlin.hms.harvard.edu/sloan/
During her keynote presentation at the 2019 Active Site, Dr. Devlin will speak for approximately 1 hour discussing both her latest research and the path she has taken to success. The organizers of The Active Site are excited to be hosting Dr. Devlin in part because we think that exposure to such an emerging topic in biochemical research is invaluable to young biochemists, yet often overlooked. If you wish to read more about Dr. Devlin and her research, please visit the link below.
https://devlin.hms.harvard.edu/sloan/
