Each Tuesday from 12:00PM to 2:30PM, beginning on May 28, 2024, trainees are required to attend weekly seminars. The majority of seminars will be held in Wallace Tumor Institute room 231 and all seminars will include lunch. Please note that 6/11 and 7/9 will be held in Wallace Tumor Institute room 101.
| Date | Location | Topics | Leaders |
| Tuesday, May 28 | WTI 231 | ENRICH Program Orientation / Individual Development Plan Work Life Balance Responsible Conduct of Research | Elizabeth E. Brown, PhD, MPH / Eve M. Phillips, MPH Zoria Miller – UAB Student Counseling Services Lisa Curtis, PhD – UAB Postdoctoral Office |
| Tuesday, June 4 | WTI 231 | Community Engagement 101: basic tools for engaging the community about cancer A Cancer Survivor’s Perspective | Claudia Hardy Lindsay Hickman |
| Tuesday, June 11 | WTI 101 | Pitching Your Science: 3 Minute Thesis – Optimizing Time for Effective Scientific Panel Discussion I: Approaches for Cancer Research – Imaging, Mass Spectrometry and Fly Cytrometry | John Shacka, PhD James Mobely, PhD, Alexa Mattheyses, PhD, Jonathan McConathy, MD |
| Tuesday, June 18 | WTI 231 | Translational Cancer Research: Implementing Change in Clinical Practice through Advances in Imaging for Cancer Surveillance, Diagnosis, and Treatment Response Formulating and Communicating a Clear Hypothesis | Anna Sorace, PhD Rob Welner, PhD |
| Tuesday, June 25 | WTI 231 | Clinical Trials UALCAN Platform | Ashley Anderson Soory Varambally, PhD |
| Tuesday, July 2 | WTI 231 | Happy 4th of July Holiday! NO IN-PERSON SEMINAR Please watch this Zoom on “A Guide to Scientific Posters” by Dr. Cristin Gavin | *see below for slide download |
| Tuesday, July 9 | WTI 101 | Cultural Competency, Implicit Bias, Micro-Aggression and Imposter Syndrome Delivering Effective Oral Presentations | Ivory Sirmans Becky Reamey, PhD |
| Tuesday, July 16 | WTI 231 | Basic Data Analysis, Optimizing Data Acquisition, Management and Quality Control to Maximize Rigor and Reproducibility Targeting Your Scientific Audience: Writing a Clear Scientific Abstract, Manuscript, Journal Correspondence and A Guide to Professional Orgs and Journals | Sejong Bae, PhD Wendy Demark-Wahnefried, PhD |
| Tuesday, July 23 | WTI 231 | Careers in Biomedical Research | Louis B. Justement, PhD |
| THURSDAY, July 25 | WTI 101 | ENRICH Program Research Symposium | Formal poster presentations – all trainees |
