Yale Bulletin and Calendar

May 5, 2000

Volume 28, Number 31

Graduate student scientists sharing
their research at two-day symposium

Scientific talks by students, presentations by senior researchers, a career fair, a product show and a banquet are among the events taking place at the Graduate Student Research Symposium (GSRS), the largest gathering of Yale's bioscience community.

The two-day symposium began on Thursday, May 4, and will continue on Friday, May 5, in several locations at the Medical School. The event gives students the opportunity to organize and run a scientific meeting as well as to present and discuss their work.

"The GSRS is a unique educational opportunity that is only offered by Yale. We are hoping that GSRS will reflect the way the Yale biological and biomedical community will view science in the new millennium, with excitement and support for its colleagues," say organizers Helen Seow and Shilpa Patel, both graduate students in pharmacology.

Participating departments are Cell Biology, Genetics, Neurobiology, Pharmacology, Experimental Pathology, Immunobiology, Ecology and Evolutionary Biology, Cellular and Molecular Physiology, the Interdepartmental Neuroscience Program, Molecular Biophysics and Biochemistry, and Molecular, Cellular and Developmental Biology.

GSRS was conceived by graduate students in 1996 to foster social and academic connections among more than 400 students in 12 different departments. Now entering its fifth year, GSRS remains entirely student organized and is the only large-scale annual gathering of the bioscience community at Yale. Each year more than 30 graduate students volunteer to organize the symposium.

The first day of GSRS included a vendor exhibition, career fair and an evening poster session presented by graduate students of all levels. In addition, Nobel laureate Gunter Blobel delivered the George Palades Lecture in Cell Biology. His talk was jointly sponsored by GSRS and the Department of Cell Biology.

The second day features scientific talks by six senior students who will present their thesis work. Mark Snyder, professor and chair of molecular, cellular and developmental biology, will give an opening address at 9 a.m. Harvey Lodish, professor of biology at MIT and author of the textbook "Molecular Cell Biology," will deliver the keynote address at 2 p.m. For the locations of their talks and other information, visit the GSRS website at www.info.med.yale.edu/gsrs.

-- By Gila Reinstein

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