1. General Guidelines
2. Guidance for Panelists
3. Schedule of Panels

A. General Guidelines (see How to Prepare for a Panel for further advice)

• Where: Harris Hall Room 2120 (see map)
   
• Day: Tuesday, Dec 10
   
• Time: We have no time to spare, so panels start promptly at 9:00 AM. See schedule for times of specific panels. Presenters should be in the room at least 5-10 minutes before the time of their panel. Non-presenters (and panelists) are welcome at any time.
   
• Duration of presentation: Seven minutes and no more. At six minutes, you'll hear a courteous tinkle of a bell. At seven minutes, a bone-shaking clang will stop your presentation if it has not already concluded. If you're in the middle of a sentence, you'll be permitted to complete the sentence (with no more than one conjunction), but that's it.
   
• Duration of question and answer period: Seven minutes, marked by a bell. Questions will be posed by the panel concerning the presentation and the written proposal.
   
• Loading presentations: There won't be time to download your presentation. It must be on the computer before the panels begin. This can be done in either of two ways, and only these two ways:
   
  • E-mail your presentation to me before 8:00 AM the day of the presentation
  • Bring your presentation on a memory device by 8:45 AM. Do not expect to download it from your e-mail.
     

B. Guidance for Panelists

• Reviewers: Each proposal has been assigned a primary reviewer, noted in the schedule. The primary reviewer will begin the discussion after the presentation. The other panelists are invited, nay, urged to join in as well.
   
• Goals of the proposal: Please see How to Write a Research Proposal to see the goals presenters were asked to address. If you like, you can also take a look at an example of a proposal.
   
• Goals of presentation: Please see How to Give a Presentation Focused on an Experiment to see the goals presenters were asked to address.
   
• Goals of the course: The primary goal of the course was to bring students into the scientific process of approximating truth, giving due weight to what has been observed, limited by how it was observed, and distinguishing observation from mere assertion.
   
• Goals of the review process: Please consider whether the proposal and presentation has addressed the general goals of the course and the specific goals of presentations and proposals. For example, a generally useful question would be "How do you know that [some assertion] is true?". If the proposal and presentation does not make clear that the presenter understands the principle behind the proposed experiment, you might through probing questions give the presenter an opportunity to display (or perhaps discover) such understanding.
   
• Feedback: The seven minutes of questioning will by itself provide valuable feedback to the presenter. You're certainly invited to provide written feedback as well. Presenters have four days after the panel meets to revise their proposals, if they wish.
   
• Thanks: Please accept them for the bracing experience you've given fledgling molecular biologists.

C. Schedule of Panels

Panel I (9:00 - 9:45 AM)
Panelists: Billy Budd, John Ryan, Brian Verrelli

9:00	Nicholas Rodriguez	Effect of 1,25 dimethylhydroxyvitamin D3 on Th-17 and osteoclast precursor cells Primary: John Ryan       (Presentation)
9:15	Sobi Abbasi	Using a tyrosine-kinase inhibitor to possibly regulate JNK pathways and see its effect as a possible treatment for Parkinson's disease Primary: Brian Verrelli      (Presentation)
9:30	Mariam Sankoh	Developing alternative diagnostic pathways: Dysregulation of micro-RNAs in neurodevelopment as a predictive mechanism for diagnosing schizophrenia Primary: Billy Budd      (Presentation)

Panel II (9:50 - 10:50 AM)
Panelists: Jessica Bell, Allison Johnson, Raymond Tademy, Peter Uetz

9:50	Vince Yokois	Components of neutrophil extracellular traps and their origin Primary: Jessica Bell      (Presentation)
10:05	Winston Sanders	A novel method to study differential G-protein activation states utilizing X-mutant G-proteins Primary: Allison Johnson      (Presentation)
10:20	Michael Kiflezghi	Inferring the route of Odontotaenius disjunctus gut microbiome colonization Primary: Raymond Tademy      (Presentation)
10:35	Michael Vuong	Difference in Gene Regulation by Smad and CLIC proteins in Drosophila Primary: Peter Uetz      (Presentation)

Panel III (10:55 - 11:40 AM)
Panelists: Bonnie Brown, Mike Grotewiel, Wenheng Zhang

10:55	Switu Patel	Signaling pathways produced by combining dsRNA with paclitaxal in order to treat ovarian cancer Primary: Mike Grotewiel      (Presentation)
11:10	Keith Herbert	An integrative plasmid vector for zinc inducible gene expression in cyanobacteria Primary: Wenheng Zhang      (Presentation)
11:25	Brian Barltrop	Determination of host-associated bacterial communities in the rhizospheres of maize, acorn squash, and pinto beans Primary: Bonnie Brown      (Presentation)

Panel IV (11:45 - 12:30 AM)
Panelists: Wan-Ling Chiu, Maria Rivera, Fernando Tenjo

11:45	Min Im	Roles of insulin signaling pathways in age-related locomotor impairment Primary: Fernando Tenjo      (Presentation)
12:00	Annie Vo	Regulation of ORMDL3 gene expression through the ESK/CREB pathway Primary: Wan-Ling Chiu      (Presentation)
12:15	Donald Ta	The effects of increased net reactive oxygen species on mitophagy Primary: Maria Rivera      (Presentation)