Retreat Agenda & Presentations - Monday, March 10, 2008
The following is the schedule and agenda for the Infectious Disease Faculty Retreat held on Monday, March 10, 2008 at The Inn at Virginia Tech.
Retreat presentations are available in PDF format using the links below.
You may download the retreat agenda in PDF format for printing.
| 8:30 AM | Breakfast and on-site registration |
| 9:00 AM | Welcome and Introductions: Deans LN Chang and GG Schurig (Boyle) |
| 9:15-9:30 | Background, goals and agenda for the Fall Deans’ Forum on Infectious Disease (DFID) |
| 9:30–10:00 | Possible four areas to be represented at the DFID-short summaries of research (15 minutes each) Host-Pathogen Interaction (Tyler) ID Ecology and Epidemiology (Alexander) |
| 10-10:30 | COFFEE BREAK |
| 10:30–11:00 | Molecular Pathogenesis (Melville) Prevention/Control (Sriranganathan) |
| 11:00 | Descriptions (15 minutes) of cross campus graduate programs related to
ID by representatives of each group Microbiology (Popham) Cell and Developmental Biology (Sible) Immunology (Bassaganya-Riera) Genetics, Bioinformatics, and Computational Biology (Bevan) |
| 12-1:30 | Lunch and informal discussions |
| 1:30 | Choosing/reaffirmation of the Areas to be covered at the DFID |
| 2:30 | Role of campus institutes in ID-related research VBI - Bruno Sobral IBPHS - Dennis Dean |
| 3:10-3:40 | COFFEE BREAK |
| 3:40-4:00 | ICTAS - Roop Mahajan |
| 4:00 | Proposals for campus-wide research initiatives Project grants Collaborative grants |
| 4:30 | Summary of discussions and end of meeting |
| 4:45 | Further discussions (to be arranged on an ad-hoc basis) |
