How to put the ‘Fun’ in Funding: Applying, Maintaining Grant Funds and Managing your Finances
New Investigator Bootcamp Webinar Series
Join us for the upcoming webinar, “How to Put the ‘Fun’ in Funding: Applying, Maintaining Grant Funds, and Managing Your Finances,” where we’ll dive into key strategies for securing and managing finances as a new investigator. This session features a diverse panel discussing how to navigate funding opportunities, write effective grant applications, and manage lab finances. Attendees will learn about new investigator-specific and general grants, the grant application process, essential tips for grant writing, financial reporting, lab budgeting, and resources to streamline financial management.
KEYNOTE AND PLENARY SPEAKERS
Chris Geyer
Dr. Chris Geyer completed a B.S. in 1995 in Biology at the Virginia Polytechnic Institute and State University (Virginia Tech), and then worked for two small biotechnology companies (PPL Therapeutics and CropTech Biosciences). In 2000, he entered the Ph.D. program at The University of Texas Health Science Center at San Antonio in the laboratory of Dr. John McCarrey. After graduating in 2005, he joined Dr. E. Mitch Eddy’s laboratory as a postdoctoral fellow at the National Institute of Environmental Health Sciences (NIEHS) in Research Triangle Park, NC. In 2010, Chris joined the faculty of the Department of Anatomy & Cell Biology at the Brody School of Medicine at East Carolina University. The Geyer laboratory uses the stem cell-based developmental system of mouse spermatogenesis as a model system to investigate mechanisms regulating cellular differentiation and meiotic initiation.
Paige Cooper
Paige Cooper Byas is a Program Officer at Burroughs Wellcome Fund, focusing on Biomedical & Reproductive Sciences and supporting Physician Scientist development. Dr. Cooper Byas has a BS in Biochemistry from Spelman College and a PhD in Molecular Cell Biology. After a brief postdoc focused nutrient transport through the placenta, she recognized her fulfillment came from supporting scientists and is enjoying a career journey/path exploring the many ways and roles in which you can carry that out.
Stephanie Pangas
Dr. Pangas is the Roger Rosen Endowed Professor in the Department of Pathology & Immunology at Baylor College Of Medicine in Houston, Texas. She received her PhD from Northwestern University in Neurobiology & Physiology, followed by a postdoctoral fellowship at Baylor College Of Medicine, before joining the faculty and rising to the rank of Professor. Her research program focuses on reproductive biology using mouse genetic models to understand fundamental mechanisms regulating gonad development and physiology.
Susan Taymans
Susan Taymans, PhD, is the Deputy Branch Chief and Program Director of the Fertility and Infertility Branch of the Eunice Kennedy Shriver National Institute of Child Health and Human Development. She manages grant portfolios in the areas of Ovarian Function and Dysfunction; Fertility Preservation; and Embryonic Gonad and Gamete Development, as well as managing the branch’s institutional training grants (T32s). She co-chairs NICHD’s Training Policy Committee and runs the T32 diversity supplement program.