The FUTURE-MINDS-QB doctoral bridge program held its first Symposium on Monday, June 26 in 612 Institute for Genomics (IGB) at the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign (UIUC). Five Fisk master’s trainees and four Fisk faculty members visited UIUC. The Symposium featured talks by the trainees and by faculty members from both Fisk and UIUC. It also included a special training session on Responsible Conduct of Research.
| 10:00 AM | Welcome Remarks | Leadership Committee |
| 10:10 AM | Student Presentation | Skye Faucher |
| 10:30 AM | Student Presentation | Leiana-Lavette Woodard |
| 10:50 AM | Student Presentation | V. Storm Robertson |
| 11:10 AM | Student Presentation | Elizabeth Daniels |
| 11:30 AM | Faculty Presentation | Prof. Catherine Murphy (UIUC, Chemistry) |
| 12:00 PM | Lunch and Networking | |
| 1:00 PM | Faculty Presentation | Assistant Prof. Dain Beezer (Fisk, Chemistry) |
| 1:30 PM | Faculty Presentation | Prof. Brendan Harley (UIUC, Chemical & Biomolecular Engineering) |
| 2:00 PM | Break; Networking | |
| 2:30 PM | Faculty Presentation | Associate Prof. Dave Zhao (UIUC, Statistics) |
| 3:00 PM | RCR Training: "How not to lie with statistics" | Prof. Jun Song (UIUC, Physics) |
| 4:00 PM | Concluding Remarks |