This is the conference agenda as of 4/23/09. Some changes are anticipated. Please consult the printed program brochure at the conference for actual speakers, room assignments, and talk titles. More information on speakers is forthcoming.

Sunday 6/7
3:00-6:00 pm	Registration
5:00-6:00 pm	Welcome Reception
6:00-8:00 pm	Dinner and Keynote Speaker, Dr. Bruce Alberts "Science and the World’s Future"	Bruce Alberts
Monday 6/8
7:30-8:30 am	Registration for latecomers
7:30-8:30	Breakfast
8:00-8:30	Welcome and Update on IRACDA Programs	Pat Calarco Clifton Poodry
8:30-8:45	short break
8:45-10:00	Being Part of the Solution: How Postdocs and New Faculty Can Help Diversity Efforts in Academia	Renee Navarro
10:00-10:30	break
10:30-11:45	The Academic Job Search: New Faculty Share Advice About How to Get Where You Want to Go	Panelists: Karen Crow-Sanchez Jennifer Grant Beth Kochly Lauren Weiss Moderator: Ray Blind
11:45-Noon	short break
Noon-1:20	Lunch The Importance of Race/Ethnicity in Biomedical Research and Clinical Practice	Estaban González Burchard
1:20-1:30	short break
1:30-2:45 pm	Breakout Sessions
Session for program evaluators and administrators	Evaluating IRACDA Programs	Discussion lead by Lisel Blash and Monique Nakagawa
Session for Postdocs	Engaging Students in a Large Lecture Course: Using New Technolgies and Techniques to Make a Small Classrom Out of a Large One	Panelists: Teaster Baird Kevin Kelly Marieke Kruidering-Hall Moderator: Jennifer Breckler
2:45-3:00	short break
3:00-4:00	Keep Your Eye on the Stars, Even if You Have to Make a Pit-Stop on the Moon: Advancing Toward a Faculty Position, Even if you Can't Find One Right Away	Rick Reis with Bill Lindstaedt
4:00-4:30	Poster set-up for Session I (odd numbers)
4:30-5:30	Poster session I (odd numbers)
5:30-6:00	Poster set-up for Session II (even numbers)
6:00-7:00	Poster Session II (even numbers)
	Dinner on your own (See list of nearby restaurants.)
Tuesday 6/9
7:30-8:30 am	Breakfast The Howard Hughes Medical Institute's Phage Genomics Projects	Tuajuanda Jordan
8:30-8:45	short break
8:45-10:00	From Mentee to Mentor: Outstanding Mentors Share Advice on How to Make the Transition from Being Mentored to Mentoring	Panelists: Leticia Márquez-Magaña Tracy McKnight Sam Pleasure Moderator: Jamila Newton
10:00-10:30	break
10:30-11:30	Improving Teaching and Learning in 50 Minutes	Barbara Gross Davis
11:30-Noon	Writing Your Statement of Teaching Philosophy	Cynthia Fuhrmann
Noon-2:00 pm	Lunch on your own (See list of nearby restaurants.)
2:00-4:00	Business meeting for program PI's and staff with NIGMS staff	discussion lead by Clifton Poodry
2:00-3:00	Breakout Sessions for Postdocs
Session I	Where Do You See Yourself in Five Years?: Postdocs Try to Answer the Tough Questions in Mock Interviews	Interviewers: Deneb Karentz and Tuajuanda Jordan Mark Carlson Vanessa Corby-Harris
Session II	Publishing in Science Education Journals	Kimberly Tanner
3:00-3:15	short break
3:15-4:15	Breakout Sessions for Postdocs
Session I	Where Do You See Yourself in Five Years?: Postdocs Try to Answer the Tough Questions in Mock Interviews	Interviewers: Deneb Karentz and Tuajuanda Jordan Interviewees: IRACDA Postdocs Fatima Rivas Jennifer Uno
Session II	A Fine Balance: How to Do Research, Teach, and Still Have a Life	Panelists: Tejal Desai Philip Sabes Diara Spain Zena Vexler Moderators: Dorothy Jones-Davis and Tigwa Davis
4:15-6:30	free time
6:30-8:30	Closing Dinner Dr. Susan Desmond-Hellman, incoming Chancellor of the University of California, San Francisco Poster Awards Presentations	Susan Desmond-Hellman