SYIS Activities
Student involvement has been a critical component of every conference, and remains part of the TERMIS' mission. We will continue our commitment to provide many learning opportunities during the conference, as well as the opportunity to interact and network with today's leading regenerative medicine experts.
Student and Young Investigator Section (SYIS)
Student involvement is a critical component of TERMIS. SYIS provides a platform for the "next generation" of scientists and engineers in the field of tissue engineering and regenerative medicine to interact. SYIS aims to further the professional and scientific development of its members. The TERMIS definition for a Student member is any individual, who is engaged as a full-time graduate or undergraduate, in a university or college program and is actively involved in research in the field of tissue engineering and regenerative medicine. Young Investigators are defined as persons who are employed by an academic institution in the field of tissue engineering and regenerative medicine, who have been awarded their doctoral degree within the past 3 years and who are not holding an appointment as a faculty or academic staff in a university/research institute.
If you'd like to be part of the planning for many exciting events in Houston, send your ideas to:
Sarah Wilburn
swilburn@termis.org
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Tentative NA-SYIS events as follows:
SCIENTIFIC SESSION CO-CHAIRS
Open for all SYIS members
TERMIS-NA SYIS is pleased to announce the opportunity for students and young investigators to serve as
co-chairs for the scientific sessions at the TERMIS-NA Houston Meeting in December.
All applicants for these positions must meet the criteria below:
Criteria:
- Must be a TERMIS-SYIS member
- Must have submitted an abstract and have it accepted for either an oral or poster presentation
- All sessions will be held in English
Applications must include:
- Short Bibliographic Sketch (100 words)
- Your research details: institution, advisor, and research topic
- A list of the 3 top sessions for which you would like to be co-chair (in order of preference)
SYIS Poster Awards
The top 25 young investigator posters, as scored by the abstract reviewers (authors will be notified
prior to the conference), will be judged by members from the Scientific Advisory Committee. SYIS Poster
Competition posters will remain up for both Poster Sessions I and II. Awards for 1st place ($300), 2nd
place ($200), and 3rd place ($100) will be given.
Support for the SYIS Poster Awards has been provided by Centre for Commercialization of Regenerative Medicine (CCRM).
Career Panel Discussion
Monday, December 12th 2:30-3:00 PM
As a student or young researcher, the question of your career options is a very important one. We will
have an informal Q&A session with representatives from academia, funding and industry to help answer
the questions you have. The session open to both graduate students and postdocs, and no sign up is
necessary, so please come along!
Academic panellist: Dr Todd C McDevitt, Petit Faculty Fellow for the Institute for Bioengineering and
Bioscience and Director of the Stem Cell Engineering Center at the Wallace H. Coulter Dept. of Biomedical
Engineering, Georgia Institute of Technology.
Funding panellist: Dr Rosemarie Hunziker, Program Director, Division of Discovery Science and Technology
at the National Institute of Biomedical Imaging and Bioengineering (NIBIB), part of the National
Institutes of Health (NIH)
Industry panellist: Dr Anthony Ratcliffe, President and CEO of Synthasome, Inc., a company developing orthobiologics for regenerative medicine therapies.
SYIS Reception and Rice University Lab Tours
Monday, December 12th
BioScience Research Collaborative, Rice University
Meet in the Hilton Lobby at 6 PM for Shuttle
Student Meet Mentor Lunch
Tuesday, December 13th
12:00-1:30 PM, Room 335AB
The Student Meet Mentor Lunch gives SYIS members the opportunity to enjoy a plated lunch with a mentor, with
seating arranged by student preference. Mentors include Session Chairs, members of the Scientific Advisory Committee,
and local industry leaders. Advanced sign-ups required.
Click here to sign up.
SYIS-NA Business Meeting
The annual TERMIS SYIS-NA business meeting is open to all students and young investigators. Attend this meeting to
learn more how to get involved in SYIS.
Tuesday, December 13th
2:30 - 3:00
Everyone is invited to participate. Please look for signs onsite for the room location.
More information to follow. If you are intersted in receiving more information on the SYIS-NA activities planned, please contact Sarah Wilburn.