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Masks are optional but strongly encouraged throughout the entire conference unless you are eating or drinking. We will have masks available for those who may need one.

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3rd Biennial Deaf/HH Scientists Roc Conference – Poster Award Winners

Sara Blick-Nitko
PhD Student
Cell Biology of Disease
University of Rochester Medical Center

THE IMMUNOMETABOLIC ROLE OF PLATELETS IN UNCOMPLICATED MALARIA INFECTION
Sara K. Blick-Nitko^1,2, Sara K. Ture², Alison Livada^1,2, Preeti Maurya², Joshua Munger^3,4, Xenia Schafer³, Craig Morrell^1,2,4

¹Department of Pathology and Laboratory Medicine, University of Rochester Medical Center, Rochester, NY ²Aab Cardiovascular Research Institute, University of Rochester Medical Center, Rochester, NY ³Department of Biochemistry and Biophysics, University of Rochester Medical Center, Rochester, NY ⁴Department of Microbiology and Immunology, University of Rochester Medical Center, Rochester, NY

Anna Kasper
Undergraduate Student
Biology
Rochester Institute of Technology

UNCOVERING THE NEURAL BASIS OF PATERNAL CARE IN AFRICAN STRIPED MICE
Anna Kasper, Forrest D. Rogers, Catherine J. Peña

Princeton Neuroscience Institute, Princeton University

Courtney Kellogg
PhD Student
Cell Biology of Disease
University of Rochester Medical Center

ANALYSIS OF TEMPORALLY DISTINCT ROLES OF THE NOTCH LIGAND JAGGED1 DURING SENSORY DEVELOPMENT OF THE COCHLEA
Courtney Kellogg^1,2 and Amy Kiernan²

^1.Department of Pathology, University of Rochester, Rochester, NY ^2.Department of Ophthalmology, University of Rochester, Rochester, NY

DEAF ROC: Building Collaborations between Deaf and Hearing Scientists

The second biennial DEAF ROC conference, held at URMC this August, brought together Deaf and hearing scientists to help them navigate and build collaborations.

Quotes from Attendees

• “The existence of Deaf exemplars in the world would lead the deaf young generation to take over and to continue or to improve things nowadays”

• “Thank you for a wonderful opportunity to network and launch careers!”

• “The conference is a great way for me to learn how to become a better ally to the deaf and hard-of-hearing community.”

•  “Excellent for information exchange, networking & adding new ‘tools’ for future research!”

• “It was so great to see Flaum Atrium transformed into Deaf space. I hope this will be an ongoing conference. It’s a unique contribution to diversity at U of R.”

2019 Poster Winners

Congratulations to all.  See the winner's posters.

Perspective from 2019 Travel Award Recipient

"Last week, I attended DEAF ROC conference hoping to discover what it means to be a Deaf scientist and join the collaborative discussions on improving inclusion of scientists that identify as Deaf or hard of hearing. But I had realized that a theme was constant throughout the conference: that people, either Deaf or hearing, always have the power to make a change, and that effective communication is a shared team responsibility. I owe this realization to my fruitful discussions with scholars, scientists, and service providers."

Read his entire perspective.