Newborn Screening Summit: Sept. 8-10

NBSTRN is excited to host the Newborn Screening (NBS) Virtual Summit to celebrate newborn screening awareness month in September.

Attend the online summit on Sept 8-10, 2020 from 9 am to 12 pm (PST).

The event is free, but you must register at www.nbstrn.org. Once you registered, you will receive a separate email with the Zoom information to attend the virtual summit.

Here is the fantastic line-up of speakers on the latest newborn screening research.

Speaker Line-up (in PST time zone):

Sept 8, 2020

  • 9 am – Dr. Curt Scharfe, Machine Learning in NBS
  • 10 am – Dr. Tracy Trotter, Hearing Differences
  • 11 am – Terri Klein, Advocacy and NBS

Sept 9, 2020

  • 9 am – Dr. Jennifer Kwon, Spinal Muscular Atrophy
  • 10 am – Dr. Wendy Chung, Congenital Heart Disease
  • 11 am – Dr. Ronald Wapner and Jessica Giordano, Prenatal Genetics

Sept 10, 2020

  • 9 am – John Boyle, Alissa Huston, Lynn Albizo, Advocacy, and NBS
  • 10 am – Kim Piper, Community Engagement
  • 11 am – Dr. Michele Puryear, Sickle Cell Diseases

Each speaker will speak for 30-minutes, following a 15-minutes live-chat messaging session with attendees. The summit will take place online virtually using the Zoom meeting platform.

Be informed. Be transformed with new research.

To learn more about newborn screening research, visit www.nbstrn.org

This project has been funded in whole or in part with Federal funds from the NICHD, National Institutes of Health, Department of Health and Human Services, under Contract No. HHSN275201800005C.

 

A Virtual Experimental Biology in 2021

Given the ongoing COVID-19 pandemic, Experimental Biology has been forced to cancel our in-person meeting in Indianapolis, Indiana, May 1-4, 2021. However, we will offer Experimental Biology in a virtual format, which means that you and your colleagues will have many new and exciting opportunities for scientific discovery without travel.

Our new virtual meeting will bring you the latest research in anatomy, biochemistry, molecular biology, investigative pathology, pharmacology, and physiology. The 2021 dates will be announced soon.

What will our new virtual conference look like? Well, that’s up to you!

Please take five minutes to complete this brief survey by August 14, 2020. Your input will make Experimental Biology 2021 a creative and stimulating meeting that delivers the outstanding scientific content you expect.

As a thank-you for sharing your ideas, you can enter into a drawing for a $100 Amazon gift card.