Back to the Future:
Conversations with
Science Alumni Conference
Saturday, October 18, 2014
Supported by the Phyllis W. and Lawrence A. Patrie
Endowment for the Sciences
SCHEDULE AT A GLANCE
INTERDISCIPLINARY SESSIONS – KELLY FAMILY AUDITORIUM
10:30 - 12:40
10:30 – 10:40
Interdisciplinary Sessions – Kelly Family Auditorium
Welcome – President Horvath
12:40 - 1:30
10:40-11:00
Lunch - Atrium
Dr. Michael Marletta, ’73, Professor of Chemistry, The Scripps Research
Institute, “I am a chemist. No, I am a biologist. No wait, I am both. How’d
1:40 - 3:40
Disciplinary Sessions
Carnahan Classroom
that happen?”
Disciplinary Sessions
Wilson Classroom
11:00 – 11:20
Disciplinary Sessions
Hefner Seminar Room
“The role of technology Innovation in addressing climate change, lessons
Dennis Costello, ’72, Managing Director/Principal Braemar Energy Ventures,
learned to date and future opportunities”
Disciplinary Sessions
Lake Shore Saving Sci Ed
11:20 – 11:40
3:40 - 4:40
Dr. Christopher Cahill, ’93, Professor of Chemistry and International Affairs,
Interdisciplinary Sessions – Kelly Family Auditorium
Chair of Graduate Admissions - Chemistry, Department of Chemistry, George
Washington University, “A Career in Crystallography- Nucleated at Fredonia.”
FREDONIA SCIENCE CENTER
FIRST FLOOR PLAN
11:40 – 12:00
Dr. Julia Gavin Butchko, ’93, VP, Oncology- Medicines Development Unit
KourelisStavrides
Courtyard
Kelly Family
Auditorium
HolmbergWettingfeld
Biology
Laboratory
Kaminski
Chemistry
Laboratory
Atrium
Lesher
Carnahan
Classroom
Costello
Reading
Room
Garden &
Waterfall
Mud
Room
l
Office in
honor of
Dr. K Wood
Dr. Jeffery Kelly, ’82, Chairman Department of Molecular and Experimental
Medicine, The Scripps Research Institute & Christopher Mirabelli, ’77,
12:40 - 1:30
Head
Titus
Volatile
l
Brown
Ecology
Research
GTA/
Adjuncth
GTA/
adjunct
Kazial
Research
Computer
Lab
Mantai
Research
Lab
12:00 – 12:40
made in the biotechnology industry” Wilson Alcove
Hefner Costello
Seminar Reading
Room
Room
the Patient”
Managing Director, Healthcare Ventures, LLC, “How small molecule drugs are
Lab
Prep
Storch
Ecology
Laboratory
Schall Alcove
Lesniak
SECOND
FLOOR
Willson
Classroom
Cafe
Lake Shore
Savings Science
Education
Laboratory
Eli Lilly and Company, ”Bringing New Medicines from the Chemistry Bench to
Falcone
Greenhouse
Lunch and Student Poster Session
DISCIPLINARY SESSIONS
1:40 – 2:00
2:20 – 2:40
Thomas J. Arnone D.O., ’82, Lead Physician, Unity Family Medicine at
Lindsey Wittmeyer, ’12, BS, MT(ASCP), Medical Technologist, URMC
Country Village, Rochester, NY, MD, “PCMH, EMR (and some of the other
Microarray CGH Laboratory, “Microarrays - Applications in Medicine.”
alphabet soup) in Primary Care 2014.”
CARNAHAN CLASSROOM
CARNAHAN CLASSROOM
Dr. Prudence Bradley, ’68, Pharmaceutical Scientist and Executive
Cynthia Hoover Sr., ’91, R&D Director, Praxair, “Innovation Process:
Consultant, Triway International Group, “Chemistry in the Pharmaceutical
Turning ideas into commercial products.”
Industry: More than the Molecule.”
WILLSON CLASSROOM
WILLSON CLASSROOM
Randy Blood, ’03, Petrophysicist, EQT Production.
Dr. Hannes E. Leetaru, ’75, Professor, Department of Geology, University of
“From reservoir architecture to wellbore placement: the many uses of
Illinois, Petroleum Geologist (Sequestration Team), Illinois State Geological
chemostratigraphy in understanding and developing oil and gas deposits.”
Survey, “Our Energy Future, is there a Perfect Solution?”
LAKE SHORE SAVINGS SCIENCE EDUCATION LABORATORY
LAKE SHORE SAVINGS SCIENCE EDUCATION LABORATORY
Dr. Michael Symans, ’90, Associate Professor, RPI, “Energy Absorbing Systems
Dr. David Christian, ’93, Sr. Scientist, Navy/Marine Corps, Adjunct Professor,
for Vibration Control of Structures: Applications and Recent Developments.”
Science Department, George Washington University, “How I got here
HEFNER SEMINAR ROOM
from Fredonia.”
HEFNER SEMINAR ROOM
2:00 – 2:20
Todd Tetrault, ’92, Commander, Navy Medical Service Corps, U.S. Navy
2:40 - 3:00
MA, MA(Ed), MBA, MS(CLS), MT(AMT), MT(ASCP)DLM, FACHE
Steve Gangloff, ’12, Third Year Medical Student (MSIII), Class of ’16
Assistant Specialty Leader to the Navy Surgeon General for Medical
Representative, University at Buffalo School of Medicine, “Dolor Del Diablo:
Technology “Medical Technology: Outside the Traditional Hospital Role.”
Solving the Puzzle of a Curious Constellation of Systemic Symptoms:
CARNAHAN CLASSROOM
PATIENT CASE REPORT”
Scott A. Kuzdzal, Ph.D., ’87, Life Science Business Manager, Shimadzu Scientific
CARNAHAN CLASSROOM
Instruments, “Development of Next-Generation Molecular Medicine Platforms.”
Steven Taylor, ’97, director Medicinal Chemistry Boehringer Ingelheim
WILLSON CLASSROOM
Pharmaceuticals, Inc., “New Approaches to Drug Discovery.”
Donna C. Jones, ’95, “How muscle force shapes a growing mandible”
WILLSON CLASSROOM
Research Assistant Professor, Division of Plastic Surgery, Cincinnati Children’s
Dr. Loren Babcock, ’83, Professor of Earth Sciences, School of Earth
Hospital Medical Center.
Sciences, Ohio State University, “Building the global Cambrian
LAKE SHORE SAVINGS SCIENCE EDUCATION LABORATORY
time-scale: new insights concerning the dawn of animal life on Earth.”
Dr. David Starling, ’06, Assistant Professor, Penn State Hazelton, “Getting
LAKE SHORE SAVINGS SCIENCE EDUCATION LABORATORY
undergraduates involved in research: engineers getting their hands dirty.”
Eteri Svanidze,’09, Ph.D. candidate, Rice University, “Search, Discovery
HEFNER SEMINAR ROOM
and Characterization of Itinerant Magnets Composed of Non-Magnetic
Constituents.”
HEFNER SEMINAR ROOM
INTERDISCIPLINARY SESSIONS – KELLY FAMILY AUDITORIUM
3:00 – 3:20
3:40 – 4:00
Dianne Ritter, ’81, Principal Scientist, Pfizer (Have asked her what division),
Claire Vasios, PhD, ’78, Vice-President, Intellectual Property, Alkermes, Inc.
“Schistosoma mansoni, an Old Friend or a Persistent Pest.”
“Patenting Inventions in the Biotech Industry”
CARNAHAN CLASSROOM
Alex Ladowski ’08 & ’11, Chairman Science Department, Mount Mercy
Academy, “The Qualities of an Effective 21st Century Science Educator.”
WILLSON CLASSROOM
Kimberlee Neifer Caldwell, PhD, ’87, Professor, Department of Biological
Sciences at the University of Alabama, “ Soil - An Environmental cause of
Parkinson’s?”
LAKE SHORE SAVINGS SCIENCE EDUCATION LABORATORY
4:00 – 4:20
Hugh Share, ’82, Senior Global Director, Beer & A Better World, “Brewing
a Better World: Environmental Sustainability at Anheuser-Bush InBev”
4:20 – 4:40
Jason Gestwicki, Associate Professor, Dept. Pharmaceutical Chemistry,
Institute for Neurodegenerative Disease, University of California at
San Francisco, “Chemical Approaches to Protein Misfolding Disease”
Barry Doust, ’91, Principal Acoustic Systems Engineer, Group Leader Acoustic
Systems, Ultra Electronics - Ocean Systems, “Cross Discipline Approach to
4:40
Education: Foundations for Industry Success.”
Wrap up
HEFNER SEMINAR ROOM
3:20 – 3:40
Mindy McMinn, MD, ’91 Medical Director of Palliative Medicine Service,
Crouse Hospital, Syracuse, “Palliative Medicine: From sideline to center stage
in American Healthcare and Abroad.”
CARNAHAN CLASSROOM
Norman J. Karin, Ph.D., ’76, Associate Dean for Graduate Studies, Roswell
Park Graduate Division, “From Molecules to Cells to Bones and Back Again.” WILLSON CLASSROOM
Dr. Zachary Brown, ’08, Recent Ph.D. recipient, College Of William and Mary,
“Computational physics to QCD.”
HEFNER SEMINAR ROOM

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