Agenda

April 6, 2027, 9:00 a.m. – 5:45 p.m. CDT
April 7, 2027, 9:00 a.m. – 3:00 p.m. CDT

April 6, 2027

9:00 a.m. – 10:15 a.m.	Plenary Session Moderator: Susan T. Weintraub, Ph.D., Professor, UT Health San Antonio
9:00 a.m. – 9:15 a.m.	Welcome to the S10 Symposium TBD
9:35 a.m. – 9:50 a.m.	What’s New with S10 Notices of Funding Opportunities (NOFOs) Jeffrey Spector, Ph.D., Health Scientist Administrator, Program Officer, DCI, ORIP, DPCPSI, NIH
9:50 a.m. – 10:05 a.m.	Overview of NIH Extramural Construction (C06) Programs Yong Chen, Ph.D., Health Scientist Administrator, Program Officer, DCI, ORIP, DPCPSI, NIH
10:05 a.m. – 10:15 a.m.	Why the S10 Program Is Important to You and Me? Simon C. Watkins, Ph.D., Distinguished Professor, University of Pittsburgh
10:15 a.m. – 10:45 a.m.	Break
10:45 a.m. – 12:00 p.m.	Session I: How to Write a Successful S10 Application Moderators: Susan T. Weintraub, Ph.D., Professor, UT Health San Antonio; and Adam Kusak, Ph.D., Health Scientist Administrator, Office of Dietary Supplements, NIH
10:45 a.m. – 11:05 a.m.	Keynote Presentation: Tips and Tricks on How to Prepare a Competitive S10 Submission Simon C. Watkins, Ph.D., Distinguished Professor, University of Pittsburgh
11:05 a.m. – 11:15 a.m.	Strategies for Calculating Accessible Usage Time (AUT) and How to Present Neela H. Yennawar, Ph.D., Research Professor, The Pennsylvania State University
11:15 a.m. – 11:25 a.m.	How to Write Compelling Research Summaries Pablo Ariel, Ph.D., Associate Professor, The University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill
11:25 a.m. – 11:35 a.m.	How to Demonstrate Your Need Joseph Dragavon, Ph.D., Director, Core Facilities and Shared Instrumentation Research and Innovation Office, University of Colorado Boulder
11:35 a.m. – 11:45 a.m.	The Extras: Supportive Infrastructure Needs and the Advisory Committee Makeup and Responsibilities Christine Beeton, Ph.D., Professor, Baylor College of Medicine
11:45 a.m. – 11:55 a.m.	The Importance of Institutional Support and Institutional Support Letters Caroline Shamu, Ph.D., Associate Dean for Research Cores and Technology, Harvard Medical School
12:00 p.m. – 1:30 p.m.	Meet with NIH Staff (During Lunch Break)
2:45 p.m. – 4:00 p.m.	Session II: S10 Review and Post-review Process Moderators: Simon C. Watkins, Ph.D., Distinguished Professor, University of Pittsburgh; and Kristin H. Gilchrist, Ph.D., Program Director, National Institute of Biomedical Imaging and Bioengineering, NIH
2:45 p.m. – 3:05 p.m.	Keynote Presentation: Overview of S10 Grant Review and the Key Players Susan T. Weintraub, Ph.D., Professor, UT Health San Antonio
3:05 p.m. – 3:20 p.m.	Exactly What Is a Shared Instrument and What Is a Core? Caroline Shamu, Ph.D., Associate Dean for Research Cores and Technology, Harvard Medical School
3:20 p.m. – 3:35 p.m.	How to Read Your Summary Statement and What to Do with It Constadina Arvanitis, Research Associate Professor, Northwestern University
3:35 p.m. – 4:00 p.m.	Post-review Process for an NIH S10 Grant Monika Aggarwal, Ph.D., Health Scientist Administrator, Program Officer, DCI, ORIP, DPCPSI, NIH
4:30 p.m. – 5:45 p.m.	Meet the Experts: Breakout Room 1 for New NOFOs Breakout Room 2 for Writing and Review Process Breakout Room 3 for Post-award Management and AUT

April 7, 2027

9:00 a.m. – 10:15 a.m.	Plenary Session Moderator: Caroline Shamu, Ph.D., Associate Dean for Research Cores and Technology, Harvard Medical School
9:00 a.m. – 9:30 a.m.	Keynote Presentation: NIH S10-Enabled Mass Spectrometry Discoveries: Where We’ve Been and Where We’re Going Susan T. Weintraub, Ph.D., Professor, UT Health San Antonio
9:30 a.m. – 9:45 a.m.	Resource Sharing and Cryo-Electron Microscopy Daniel Stoddard, Ph.D., Associate Professor, The University of Texas Southwestern Medical Center
9:45 a.m. – 9:55 a.m.	Empowering Reproducible In Vitro Models at Scale: Shared Instrumentation and Emerging Needs in Organoid and Assembloid Research Fikri Birey, Ph.D., Assistant Professor, Emory University
9:55 a.m. – 10:10 a.m.	Shared Instrumentation and Technologies for Sequencing and Bioinformatic Analysis Stuart Levine, Ph.D., Director, BioMicro Center, Massachusetts Institute of Technology
10:10 a.m. – 10:20 a.m.	Multi-immersion Oblique Plane Microscope (miOPM): A New, Reconfigurable Platform for High-Resolution Light-Sheet Fluorescence Microscopy Reto Fiolka, Ph.D., Associate Professor, The University of Texas Southwestern Medical Center
10:20 a.m. – 10:45 a.m.	Break
10:45 a.m. – 12:00 p.m.	Session III: Effective Ways to Manage S10 Instruments Moderators: Constadina Arvanitis, Ph.D., Research Associate Professor, Northwestern University; and Yong Chen, Ph.D., Health Scientist Administrator, Program Officer, DCI, ORIP, DPCPSI, NIH
10:45 a.m. – 10:55 a.m.	The What, When, and How of S10 Reporting Requirements Jeffrey Spector, Ph.D., Health Scientist Administrator, Program Officer, DCI, ORIP, DPCPSI, NIH
10:55 a.m. – 11:05 a.m.	After the NOA: Setting Your S10 Up for Success in Year 1 Pablo Ariel, Ph.D., Director, Microscopy Services Laboratory, The University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill
11:05 a.m. – 11:15 a.m.	Administrative Oversight for Reporting and Sustainability Post Award Christine Beeton, Ph.D., Professor, Baylor College of Medicine
11:15 a.m. – 11:25 a.m.	Managing an S10 Instrument in an IDeA State: Challenges, Outreach, and Opportunities Bret Freudenthal, Ph.D., Professor, The University of Kansas Medical Center
11:25 p.m. – 11:35 p.m.	Managing Installation, Supplies, and Inventory Albert Sinusas, Ph.D., Professor, Yale School of Medicine
11:35 p.m. – 11:45 p.m.	Challenges and Strategies for Computational and Data Instruments Patricia Kovatch, Dean for Scientific Computing and Data Science, Icahn School of Medicine at Mount Sinai
12:00 p.m. – 1:30 p.m.	Meet with NIH Staff (During Lunch Break)
1:30 p.m. – 2:45 p.m.	Session IV: Future Needs and Directions: A Roundtable Discussion Moderators: Georges El Fakhri, Ph.D., Vice Chair for Scientific Research in Radiology & Biomedical Imaging, Yale School of Medicine; Monika Aggarwal, Ph.D., Health Scientist Administrator, Program Officer, DCI, ORIP, DPCPSI, NIH; Jeffrey Spector, Ph.D., Health Scientist Administrator, Program Officer, DCI, ORIP, DPCPSI, NIH; and Xin (Jean) Yuan, M.D., Ph.D., Acting Director, Office of the Director, Division of Extramural Activities, National Institute on Aging, NIH
1:30 p.m. – 2:00 p.m.	Challenges with Big Data, Data Science for Computational Needs
2:00 p.m. – 2:15 p.m.	Access Barriers and Regional Impact: How to Optimize Access and Utilization Within Geographical Regions
2:15 p.m. – 2:30 p.m.	Developing Technical Expertise for Cutting-Edge Technologies Supported by S10
2:30 p.m. – 2:45 p.m.	Configurable Integration of Open-Source Instruments for Emerging Technologies
2:45 p.m. – 3:00 p.m.	Closing Remarks Xiang-Ning Li, M.D., Ph.D., Director, DCI, ORIP, DPCPSI, NIH