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Charge to the Committee
 

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Workshops
 

Travel Awards

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  Meetings of Interest

 


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

Eric L. Barker
Purdue University School of Pharmacy

Marcus Delatte
FDA

Sakina E. Eltom
Meharry Medical College

Rayna Bauzo
, Student/Fellow Representative
Emory University

Gilandra Russell, Student/Fellow Representative
University of Louisville

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

bullet Minority Graduate Student Travel Awards to EB Meeting
bullet Minority Young Scientist Travel Awards to EB Meeting
bullet Past Travel Award Winners

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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