Come and join us for the 10th Annual Texas Tech Biological Sciences Symposium. This symposium will be held at the Texas Tech University Student Union Building (SUB) on Friday April 26th, 2019 and Saturday April 27th, 2019. The program and schedule of events will soon be available. Please see our call for abstracts. Also, please find the description for the Emerging Professionals category here. We look forward to seeing you there!

Key Dates

• Early Registration: January 14, 2019 - March 18, 2019
• Regular Registration: March 19, 2019 - April 12, 2019
• Late Registration: April 13, 2019 - April 26, 2019 (stipulations: presentation time not guaranteed, and no goodie bag)
• Early registration is discounted to $30. Regular registration is $40 and late registration is $45

Schedule of Events

Friday April 26th, 2019

• 4:30 pm – 5:00 pm: Poster Set-up and Registration, Matador Room, Student Union Building, Texas Tech University
• 5:00 pm – 5:15 pm: TTABSS 2019 kick off by Dr. John Zak, Interim Department of Biological Sciences Chair, TTU
• 5:30 pm – 6:30 pm: Plenary Talk - Dr. Ramy Karam Aziz, Cairo University - Mesa Room, Student Union Building “Our Microbiome Cloud, Our Health, and Our Drugs: Common Destiny and Conflicts of Interest”
• 6:30 pm – 8:30 pm: Poster Session, Judging, and Vendor Show (heavy hors d'oeuvres will be served)
• 8:30 pm – 9:00 pm: Poster Takedown

Saturday April 27th, 2019 (Morning)

• 7:30 am – 8:30 am: Registration and Breakfast, Matador Room, Student Union Building, Texas Tech University
• 8:00 am – 8:15 am: Welcoming by Dr. Lou Densmore, Graduate Advisor, Department of Biological Sciences, TTU
• 8:30 am – 10:00 am: Oral Presentations - Mesa Room, Playa Room, Traditions Room, Canyon Room
• 10:00 am – 10:15 am: Coffee Break
• 10:15 am – 12:00 pm: Oral Presentations - Mesa Room, Playa Room, Traditions Room, Canyon Room

Saturday April 27th, 2019 (Afternoon)

• 12:00 pm – 1:30 pm: Lunch Break (On Your Own)
• 1:30 pm – 3:00 pm: Oral Presentations - Mesa Room, Playa Room, Traditions Room, Canyon Room
• 3:00 pm – 3:30pm: Coffee Break
• 3:30 pm – 4:30 pm: Plenary Talk, William Lindsay Chadderton MSc, Nature Conservancy - Mesa Room “Progress towards the development of a Great Lakes surveillance program - the what, where, and how”
• 6:00pm – 9:00 pm: Awards Banquet and Dinner, Matador Room, Student Union Building

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