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The
Charge to the Committee on Diversity
is to:
- Develop strategies to attract minority
students into science in general and
pharmacology in particular.
- Work with ASPET membership to address
issues of relevance to the recruitment,
retention and advancement of minorities in science and pharmacology.
- Increase the recruitment of minority
students into ASPET.
- Encourage
the submission of nominations of outstanding minority members for
Society and FASEB awards.
Membership of the Committee
Martha I. Davila-Garcia
Howard University School of Medicine
Marcus Delatte
FDA
Sakina E. Eltom
Meharry Medical College
Rayna Bauzo,
Student/Fellow Representative
Emory University
Carol A. Paronis,
Liaison, Women in Pharmacology Committee
Harvard Medical School
Joey V. Barnett, Liaison, Graduate Recruitment and Education Committee
Vanderbilt University
Elaine Sanders-Bush, Council Liaison
Vanderbilt University
Christine K. Carrico, ASPET Staff liaison
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Workshops at Experimental Biology
EB 2008 - San Diego,
CA, April 5
Implications of Pharmacogenomics for Health Disparities
Chairs: Sakina E. Eltom and
Martha I. Dávila-Garcia
Genetics and health disparities in cardiovascular
drug therapy - Dan Roden, Vanderbilt University
Pharmacogenomics and health disparities in cancer disease -
H.L. McLeod, University of North Carolina, School of Pharmacy
Racial differences in nicotine pharmacology: Implications for
disease risk and addiction - Neal Benowitz, UCSF
EB 2007 -
Washington, DC, April 28
Workshop: Mentoring: How to Find a Good Mentor
and How to Be a Good Mentor
Chairs: Martha I. Dávila-Garcia
and Gonzalo E. Torres
How to find
a good mentor - Howard G. Adams,
H.G. Adams and Associates, Inc.
How to be a good mentor - James G. Townsel, Meharry Medical
College
EB 2006
- San Francisco,
CA, April 1
Bridges to Success in Academia: From
Undergraduate Student to Professor and Beyond
Chairs: Gonzalo E.
Torres and Martha I. Davila-Garcia
Sunday, April 1
Graduate
Student: Application to graduate school, selection of graduate
program and life as a graduate student - Tara Macey
Univ of Washington HSC
and Rayna Bauzo,
Emory Univ
Postdoc:
Transition from graduate student to postdoctoral fellow and
experiences in finding an ideal lab, and being a postdoc in
a lab - Rayna
Gonzales, UCI
Junior
Faculty: Job search, finding the ideal position, and setting up
and managing a successful laboratory - Martha Davila-
Garcia, Howard
Univ Col of Med
Career
Advisor/Dept Chair: General Strategies for achieving career
goals and success at all levels in academia - Susan G.
Amara, Univ of Pittsburg Sch of Med
EB 2005 -
San Diego, CA, April 2
Effective Communication for Scientific Success
Marriott Hotel, Marriott Hall 2
Welcome and
introduction - Margarita L. Dubocovich, Northwestern Univ.
Overview of
communication modes and media - Ashiwel S. Undie, Univ. of
Maryland Sch. of Pharm.
A personal experience with communication and networking -
Martha I. Davila-Garcia, Howard Univ.
Communication principles for effective scientific writing -
Stephanie W. Watts, Michigan State Univ.
Communication basics for effective presentations and teaching -
Richard Dalby, Univ. of Maryland Sch. of Pharm.
Communication approaches in steering a mentoring relationship -
Joan Y. Reede, Harvard Med. Sch.
Communication techniques for productive networking and collaboration
- Floyd E. Bloom, Scripps Res. Inst.
EB 2004
Careers in Science: The Specifics of How to Get Where You Want to Be
Chairs: M. Dubocovich and R. De La Garza
The Minority Affairs Committee: Current goals and future objections
- Margarita Dubocovich, Northwestern U.
An overview of career paths in science - Richard De La
Garza, UCLA
A career in academia - S. E. Ohia, U. Houston
A career in industry - M.L. Cohen, Creative Pharm.
Solutions, LLC
A career in government science - J. L. Cadet, NIH
A career as a college professor - S.K. DebBurman, Lake
Forest College
A career in science editing - B. B. Van
Renterghem, Eaton Publishing
EB 2003
Securing Your Future Through Competitive Grant Writing
Chair: S. E. Ohio
Funding opportunities at the predoctoral level - A.S.
Undie, U. Maryland Sch of PharmacY
Funding opportunities at the postdoctoral level - R. De
La Garza, Albert Einstein College of Medicine
Funding opportunities at the faculty level - R. J.
Valentino, Children's Hospital of Philadelphia
EB 2002
How to Prepare for a Career in Science
Chairs. M.L. Dubocovich and S. E. Ohia
Our journey toward excellence in research and academia
- M.L. Dubocovich, Northwestern U. and S. E. Ohia, Creighton U.
Transformation of a transport physiologist: From
mad scientist to nutty professor - P. Gunter-Smith, Spelman College
From Haiti through Columbia University to the NIH/NIDA:
A not too tortuous path to the neuroscience of drug abuse - J.L.
Cadet, NIH
From the land of reggae to unraveling the signaling of
a new receptor - L.P. Edwards, Loma Linda U.
Research on neuropeptides, receptors and transporters
and my dream of becoming a professor - G.E. Torres, Duke U.
A love for science and the onset of a journey to
understand depression and drug abuse - R. De La Garza, Albert
Einstein Col of Medicine
From marine biology to neuropharmacology:
Structure-function, signal transduction and gene expression - M.M.
Rivera-Bermudez, Northwestern U.
EB 2001
Workshop I: Bioinformatics in Pharmacology
R. L. Copland, Howard University
Workshop II: Show Me the Money
D. Potter, Morehouse Sch
of Medicine; Y.D. Mock, NIH; J. Roberts, FASEB-MARC
EB 2000
Career Opportunities in Academia and Industry
Chairs: S.E. Ohia, D.E. Potter, and W.R.
Dixon
Career opportunities in industry - M.L. Contreras,
Pharmacia & Upjohn
Why academia - M.L. Dubocovich, Northwestern U.
EB 1999
High School Student Meeting: Career Options
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Travel Awards
Other Sites of Interest
ASPET Student Chapter
ASPET Summer Undergraduate Research Fellowship (SURF) Program
Annual Biomedical
Research Conference for Minority Students (ABRCMS)
FASEB Minority
Access to Research Careers (MARC) Program
FASEB Summer Research Conferences
Minorities in the Sciences: Top 20 Annotated Bibliography
NIGMS
Minority Access to Research Careers Program
Overview of NIGMS Minority Programs by Career Stage
Society for the
Advancement of Chicanos and Native Americans in Science (SACNAS)
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Past Travel Award Winners
EB
2007
Graduate Students
Rayna Bauzo, Emory University
Efrain Garcia, Vanderbilt University
Fernanda Regina Casagrande Giachini, Medical College of Georgia
Porche' D. Kirkland, Emory University
Tracie Locklear, University of Illinois at Chicago
Marcelo de Avilez Rocha, UMDNJ-Robert Wood Johnson Medical
School
Dania V Rossi, University of Texas Health Science Center at San
Antonio
Inimary Toby, The Ohio State University
Melissa I Torres-Altoro, Purdue University, West Lafayette,
Indiana
Nichelle Chantil Whitlock, University of Tennessee, Knoxville
Young Scientists
Aurea Elizabeth Linder,
Michigan State University
Ann A. Tobin, Medical College of Wisconsin
I. Jovan Williams, Virginia Commonwealth University
EB 2006
Graduate Students
Jazmin I. Acosta,
Arizona State University
Marcelo Rocha, UMDNJ-Robert Wood Johnson Med Sch
Tatiana Sousa Cunha, Wright State University
Natavia Middleton, University of South Alabama
Isabel Arrillaga-Romany, Tufts University
Rayna M. Bauzo, Emory University
Young Scientists
Aurea Elizabeth Linder, Medical College of Georgia
Raudel Sandoval, University of Illinois at Chicago
EB 2005
Graduate Students
Mary
Lolis Garcia Cazarin, University of Kentucky
Michael D. Davis, University of Virginia
John H. Dubinion Jr., University of Pittsburgh
Alejandro Dunnick, Medical University of South Carolina
Chris Evelyn, University of Michigan, Ann Arbor
Demian F. Obregon, Tulane University Health Science Center
Bladimir J. Ovando, University of Buffalo
Oné R. Pagan, Cornell University
Lorraine Nn Sunday, University of California-Irvine
Okechukwu T. Ukairo, Duquesne University
Young
Scientists
Marcus Delatte, McLean
Hosp/Harvard Med School
Rayna J. Gonzales, UCI
Anjelica L. Gonzalez, Baylor College of Medicine
Aurea Elizabeth Linder, Medical College of Georgia
Terrilyn A. Richardson, Emory Univ
EB 2004
Graduate Students
Marcus Delatte, LSU Health Sciences Center
Efrain Garcia, Vanderbilt University
Demion Obrigon, Tulane University
Alex Pérez-Rivera, Michigan State University
Janelle Saulter, UNC
Young Scientists
Chantal Rivera, Baylor University
Rayna Gonzalez, UC-Irvine
EB 2003
Graduate Students
Adepero Adewale, St. Louis University
Veroniqe Guillemard, McGill University
Renee Hayslett, Howard University
Lisa Montoya, Emory University
Gustavo Rodriguez, Purdue University
Young Scientists
Moisés Rivera-Bermúdez, Northwestern University
EB 2002
Graduate Students
Marco Bennett, University of Maryland School of Pharmacy
Jason Biggs, University of Utah
Joseph DeSoto, Howard University
Kamisha Johnson-Davis, University of Utah
Antonie Rice, University of Kansas
Veronica Sandoval, University of Utah
Kennie Shepherd, Florida A&M University
Khandra Tyler, Howard University
Conwin Vanterpool, Loma Linda University
Michelle Walker, Florida A&M University
Young Scientists
Guy Jean Louis LaGaud, Albert Einstein College of Medicine
Catherine Opere, Creighton University
Moisés Rivera-Bermúdez, Northwestern University
Javier Eduardo Stern, Wright State University
EB 2001
Graduate Students
Adepero Adewale, St. Louis Univeristy
Harriet Kamendi, Howard University
Angela LeDay, Creighton University
Jane Reuben, Florida A&M University
Nancy Sevieux, LSU Health Sciences Center
Young Scientists
Richard De La Garza, Albert Einstein College of Medicine
Lincoln Edwards, Case Western Reserve University
Elmi Tibaduiza, New England Medical Center
Gonzalo Torres, Duke University
Meetings of Interest
Write Winning Grants - a seminar
sponsored by FASEB Career Resources/MARC Program
August 10th, 2007
Bethesda, Maryland
Travel
Awards will be given to registrants that qualify. Other
attendees will pay a registration fee. FASEB Society members
receive a discounted rate.
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