{"id":1473,"date":"2019-04-30T10:15:20","date_gmt":"2019-04-30T14:15:20","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/health.uconn.edu\/postdoctoral-affairs\/?page_id=1473"},"modified":"2019-09-24T09:56:04","modified_gmt":"2019-09-24T13:56:04","slug":"2019-postdoc-research-day","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/health.uconn.edu\/postdoctoral-affairs\/current-postdocs\/2019-postdoc-research-day\/","title":{"rendered":"2019 Postdoc Research Day"},"content":{"rendered":"<p style=\"text-align: center\"><strong><span style=\"color: #000080\"><em>Tuesday, September 17th, 2019<\/em><\/span><\/strong><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center\"><em><strong><span style=\"color: #000080\">1:00 &#8211; 6:00 PM\u00a0\u00a0 <\/span><\/strong><strong><span style=\"color: #000080\">Academic Rotunda<\/span><\/strong><\/em><\/p>\n<p>The third annual UConn Health \/ Jackson Laboratory Postdoc Research Day, a part of the National Postdoc Appreciation Week (NPAW) celebration, will be held at the UConn Health Academic Rotunda in Farmington, CT.<\/p>\n<p>Our full agenda will include:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Keynote address by Dr. Steven N. Austad, Distinguished Professor &amp; Chair, Department of Biology, University of Alabama at Birmingham<\/li>\n<li>Speak4Science Postdoc Talks (4-minute, big picture talks)<\/li>\n<li>Postdoc poster session<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p style=\"text-align: center\"><strong>Keynote address:\u00a0<\/strong>Dr. Steven N. Austad-&#8220;Busting the Bestiary: Why Worms, Flies, and Mice Are Not Enough for Aging Research&#8221;<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center\"><a href=\"https:\/\/health.uconn.edu\/postdoctoral-affairs\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/23\/2019\/07\/steven-austad.jpg\" class=\"broken_link\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-medium wp-image-1570\" src=\"https:\/\/health.uconn.edu\/postdoctoral-affairs\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/23\/2019\/07\/steven-austad-200x300.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"200\" height=\"300\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Dr. Steven N. Austad is Distinguished Professor and Chair of the Department of Biology at the University of Alabama at Birmingham and also Scientific Director of the American Federation for Aging Research.<\/p>\n<p>With an undergraduate degree in English literature and experience ranging from New York City taxi driver to lion trainer for the film industry, he receiving his PhD degree in evolutionary ecology from Purdue University in 1981.\u00a0 He had had faculty positions at Harvard University, the University of Idaho, and the Barshop Institute for Longevity &amp; Aging Studies at the University of Texas Health Science Center San Antonio in San Antonio, Texas before moving to his current position in 2014.<\/p>\n<p>His research encompasses many aspects of the biology of aging from the molecular to the population level.\u00a0 His research specialty is the identification and study of nontraditional species \u2013 particularly exceptionally long-lived species \u2013 for insight into processes of slow aging.<\/p>\n<p>Dr. Austad\u2019s research has won multiple awards, including the Geron Corporation-Samuel Goldstein Distinguished Publication Award, the Nathan A. Shock Award, the Robert W. Kleemeier Award, the Purdue Outstanding Alumnus Award, the <em>Fondation<\/em> IPSEN Longevity Prize, and the Irving S. Wright Award of Distinction.\u00a0 He maintains a keen interest in communicating science to the general public and in that capacity has served on the Science Advisory Board of National Public Radio and has been a consultant to the Oregon Museum of Science and Industry, the Perot of Nature and Science, and the American Museum of Natural History in New York City.<\/p>\n<p>He has written popular science articles for numerous publications including <em>Natural History<\/em> magazine, <em>Scientific American<\/em>, <em>National Wildlife<\/em>, and <em>International Wildlife<\/em>. His trade book, <em>Why We Age<\/em> (1997), has been translated into nine languages.\u00a0\u00a0 He has also written more than 150 newspaper columns on science and aging. His current book, <em>Methuselah\u2019s Zoo: the Natural History of Exceptional Longevity<\/em> (MIT Press) is due out in fall 2019.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><em><strong>Our organizing committee for questions\/concerns:<\/strong><\/em><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li><a href=\"mailto:cheinen@uchc.edu\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Chris Heinen<\/a> (UConn Health)<\/li>\n<li><a href=\"mailto:koshychenthittayil@uchc.edu\">Sherli Koshy-Chenthittayil<\/a> (UConn Health)<\/li>\n<li><a href=\"mailto:sordovieira@uchc.edu\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Luis Sordo Vieira<\/a> (The Jackson Laboratory)<\/li>\n<li><a href=\"mailto:vigone@uchc.edu\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Giulia Vigone<\/a> (UConn Health)<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>View the Program Book <a href=\"https:\/\/health.uconn.edu\/postdoctoral-affairs\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/23\/2019\/09\/2019_Program_-Book_Final.pdf\">here<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Speak4Science Winners:<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><strong>First Prize: <\/strong>Wojciech Rosikiewicz<\/p>\n<p><strong>Second Prize: <\/strong>Hakimeh Ebrahimi-Nik<\/p>\n<p><strong>Third Prize: <\/strong>Joyshree Biswas<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Tuesday, September 17th, 2019 1:00 &#8211; 6:00 PM\u00a0\u00a0 Academic Rotunda The third annual UConn Health \/ Jackson Laboratory Postdoc Research Day, a part of the National Postdoc Appreciation Week (NPAW) celebration, will be held at the UConn Health Academic Rotunda in Farmington, CT. 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