KSEA South Texas (KSEA-ST) Chapter hosted the 2022 KSEA West Gulf Coast Regional Conference on Saturday, December 10, 2022, at Houston Methodist Conference Center in Houston, Texas. The KSEA West Gulf Coast Regional Conference is an annual conference for undergraduate and graduate students, postdoctoral associates, instructors/research scientists, and faculty in the Southwest region, which includes KSEA South Texas, KSEA North Texas, KSEA Austin Texas, KSEA Texas Coastal Bend, and KSEA Arkansas. Kyuson Yun, PhD, Associate Professor of Neurology at Houston Methodist, served as Conference Chair, and Hyuntaek Oh, PhD, Assistant Professor of Psychiatry at Baylor College of Medicine (BCM), served as a Program Organizer. Organizing committees included Drs. Goo Jun (UT Health), Sung Yun Jung (BCM), Jung Hwan Kim (BCM), Crystal Shin (BCM), Jeong Min Park (UT MD Anderson), Jong Min Choi (BCM), and PhD student Chloe Kang (Texas A&M).
The meeting featured one keynote speaker, invited faculty research talks, and a research presentation competition for young scientists (i.e., trainees). We invited Peter Jay Hotez, MD, Ph.D., Dean of the National School of Tropical Medicine and Director of the BCM and Texas Children’s Hospital Center for Vaccine Development. Moreover, there was an oral presentation section for young scientists (post-doctoral trainees and graduate students) to expose themselves to the West Gulf Coast Community and help develop their scientific careers. In the oral presentation section, therefore, we prepared several presenting awards to recognize their achievements. Finally, we invited two medical industries to participate in a technical discussion with attendees: illumine and 10x Genomics.
Reported by Hyuntaek Oh, Ph.D.
KSEA-ST Vice President Biomedical
Assistant Professor of Psychiatry, Baylor College of Medicine
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