9:30 a.m. – 10:00 a.m.

Registration and Continental Breakfast

10:00 a.m. – 10:30 a.m.

Welcome by the Deans & Alumni

10:30 a.m. – 11:30 a.m.

Presentations from Current Sackler Students

• Kelly E. Beazley, Cell, Molecular, and Developmental Biology Program
• Peter Cheslock, Genetics Program
• Sarah E. Poplawski, Biochemistry Program

11:30 a.m. – 11:45 a.m.

Break

11:45 a.m. – 1:00 p.m.

Alumni Keynote Lecture

Chandra Mohan, M.D., Ph.D.
Associate Professor of Internal Medicine at the University of Texas Southwestern Medical School, Dallas, TX (’95 Immunology Program graduate)

1:00 p.m. – 2:15 p.m.

Lunch with your Sackler Program

2:15 p.m. – 3:15 p.m.

Graduate School Can Be Fun

Skits and other highlights from program retreats and holiday parties.

3:15 p.m. – 3:30 p.m.

Break

3:30 p.m. – 4:45 p.m.

Panel Session “Creativity in Career Choices for Sackler Graduates”

• M. S. AtKisson, Ph.D. – Scientific Proposal Specialist, Office of the Vice Provost, Tufts University, Medford, MA (’02 Neuroscience Program graduate)
• Paul Beresford, Ph.D. – Vice President of New Technologies and Personalized Medicine, Ventana Medical Systems, Tucson, AZ (’98 Immunology Program graduate)
• Sharon Cantor, Ph.D. - Assistant Professor of Cancer Biology, University of Massachusetts Medical School, Worcester, MA (’97 Biochemistry Program graduate)
• Nicole D'Avirro Chiravuri, Ph.D. – Licensing Associate, Brigham and Women’s Hospital, Boston, MA (’02 Genetics Program graduate)
• Martha Grossel, Ph.D. - George and Carol Milne Associate Professor of Biology, ConnecticutCollege, New London, CT (’96 Molecular Microbiology Program graduate)
• Peter G. Carroll, Ph.D. - Partner, Medlen & Carroll, LLP, Quincy, MA ('83 Immunology Program graduate)

6:00 p.m. – 8:30 p.m.

Evening Festivities at the State Room

Sixty State Street, 33rd Floor, Boston, MA, overlooking the Boston Harbor