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Date: Friday, October 4, 2024
Time: Check-in begins at 8:30am and the conference runs from 9:00am – 3:15pm
Location: UC Merced Campus, Conference Center - Grand Ballroom
National Labs Day is a one-day conference that showcases research and career pathways available at the National Labs. It is both a mini-conference with research talks, and also professional development for our graduate students, postdocs and junior researchers. We have invited representatives from national labs to speak and serve on a panel: Lawrence Livermore National Labs (LLNL), the Joint Genome Institute (JGI) at Lawrence Berkeley National Labs (LBNL), SANDIA and National Renewable Energy Lab (NREL).
National Labs Day Schedule
| 8:30 AM | Check-in and Continental Breakfast |
| 9:00 AM | Welcome Address: Hrant Hratchian, Vice Provost and Graduate Dean |
| 9:15 AM | Presentation: Synergy of National Labs and Academia - Asmeret Asefaw Berhe, UC Merced |
| 9:30 AM | Presentation: Materials innovation for energy applications - Kirstin Alberi, NREL |
| 10:00 AM | Presentation: Our understanding of the storage and dynamics of global soil organic carbon - Umakant Mishra, Sandia |
| 10:30 AM | BREAK |
| 11:00 AM | Presentation: Single-cell and funcational genomics of plant/environmental interactions - Benjamin Cole, JGI/LBL |
| 11:30 AM | Presentation: Overview of the Academic Engagement Office at LLNL - Elizabeth Wheeler, LLNL |
| 12:00 PM | Networking Lunch with Poster Session |
| 1:30 PM | Presentation: Artic soil microbes and climate change - Nesilhan Tas, LBL |
| 2:00 PM |
Presentation: Geochemical water-rock evolution at underground CO2/H2 geological storage condition - Gaby Davila Ordonez, LLNL |
| 2:30 PM | Open Q&A |
| 3:15 PM | Adjourn |
Speaker Information:
Kristin Alberi, National Renewable Energy Lab (NREL)
Benjamin Cole, Joint Genome Institute (JGI) at Lawrence Berkeley National Labs (LBNL)
Gaby Davila Ordenez, Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory (LLNL)
Umakant Mishra, Sandia
Elizabeth Wheeler, Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory (LLNL)
Neslihan Tas, Lawrence Berkeley National Labs (LBNL)
For more information:
Please contact the Graduate Resource Center at gradresources@ucmerced.edu
