Greetings everyone! I hope you all enjoyed the holidays with your friends and family! Here are the new committee members for this year.
List of Committee members:
Chair-Srivalli Telikepalli
Past Chair- Joshua Katz
Secretary – Michael Zaleski
Learning Opportunities Manager – Sumit Goswami, Sambit Kar
Member Engagement Manager – Andrea Hawe, Ehab Moussa
I am excited to be the chair for this year!
I apologize for the delay in getting this posted. The leadership team met in November to discuss ways to increase member engagement within our community and we came up with several ideas, described in detail in the meeting notes below. Our main discussion was on webinars since we believe that might be the best way to increase member engagement. We had several folks mention that they would help with recruiting potential speakers for various topics (see below). I will follow up with them in the next 1-2 weeks to see if we can get any talks scheduled in the next couple of months.
Another quick reminder that NBC is coming up shortly in April. The deadline for submitting posters/talks has already passed, but if you would like to highlight any specific talks or posters that might be of potential interest to this group, please let us know!
As always, if you have any ideas that you think our group can benefit from, please feel free to share directly with me or with the group.
Wish you all a very Happy New Year!
Best regards,
Srivalli
Meeting notes from November 2022
Attendees:
- Srivalli Telikepalli (Incoming Chair)
- Sumit Goswami
- Sambit Kar
- Joshua Katz (Outgoing chair)
- Hristo Svilenov
- Maria Nadeau (AAPS staff)
- Tim Menzen
- Michael Zaleski (Student Rep / Secretary)
Participation/engagement
- Some drop in participation last year, mainly because of people getting pulled in many directions during the pandemic.
- Need to strike right balance between giving people freedom to organize vs. leaders driving things.
Monthly organizational/housekeeping meetings
- In general not well attended. Maybe only do on as-needed basis, and only include Community leadership.
- To attract more people, keep meetings focused on science.
Webinars - 2 options for logistics
- AAPS provides platform and can assist with advertising, marketing, and technology. Need to be flexible with AAPS' schedule
- BPABC Community has its own GoToMeeting link. More flexibility for us, but less support from AAPS. We must oversee logistics of webinar, advertising, etc.
Ideas for webinars
- Webinars should be the main focus for now. They often lead to more engagement and collaborations among working communities and historically have led to publications/white papers.
- Shorter webinars that are not a big presentation from 1 person. But shorter talks and more scientific discussion. Good lively feedback.
- List of topics were compiled by Josh for last year and sent to Srivalli (see below)
- We can consider collaboration with other communities
- CMC part of cell and gene therapy community
- Cell and gene therapy used to be part of BPABC
Reasonable number of webinars?
- Roughly 6, including those done in collaboration with 'working communities' or other communities. One webinar every 2 months
Working communities
- Mechanisms of protein aggregation
- DP handling - there is a monthly meeting for this group.
- Cross-lab study? More of a deliverable, not a working group
- NOTE - objectives of working communities should be the same as the overall community. Overall community supports and facilitates working communities, does not have separate objectives and activities.
Next Steps – to increase community engagement
- Reach out to Working Community leads. BPABC and working communities should have same deliverables. See where we can overlap. (Srivalli)
- Reach out to CSTD. They had a deliverable about publishing a paper. Someone from group can give a webinar-contact Sreedhara
- Reach out to Paolo whose former student worked on AI/machine learning
- Reach out to T. Randolph to give talk on image processing/particle characterization
- CMC focused talk on challenges in cell and gene therapy--speaker from industry or academy-Sambit mentioned he may know someone.
- Career development talk-maybe folks from different sectors can provide insight-small pharma, big pharma, supplier, academia, etc. Easy to line up speakers for short talk
- Coformulated antibodies--Hristo and Tapan
- At NBC conference - community identifies posters of interest. Invite top students to give a webinar to the community (and platform to young scientists)
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Srivalli Telikepalli Ph.D.
Research Chemist
National Institute of Standards and Technology
Gaithersburg MD
[email protected]Disclaimer: Opinions expressed are solely my own and do not express the views or opinions of my employer.
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