GGA Annual Retreat

The GGA Annual Retreat is the academy's flagship event, held every year during the Fall Semester. This is a great opportunity to reconnect with the GGA community after summer, catch up on amazing research from our labs, win prizes, and look forward to the coming year.

The 2026 Fifth Annual GGA Retreat

The fifth annual GGA retreat will be held on Friday September 4, 2026 at the Talley Student Union State Ballroom. The Annual Retreat welcomes new graduate students and new faculty, highlights the research of GGA laboratories, Research Interest Groups and upcoming activities.

Joseph Ecker, PhD

The Fred Gould Genetics and Genomics Annual Keynote Seminar

Joseph Ecker, a professor and investigator at the Salk Institute for Biological Studies, is a pioneering geneticist whose research spans from foundational plant biology to cutting-edge mammalian epigenomics.

Research

Information from the 2025 Retreat

Date: September 26, 2025

The Fred Gould Genetics and Genomics Annual Keynote Seminar Speaker: Dr. Richard Lenski, Michigan State University, “Dynamics and Repeatability of Evolution in a Long-Term Experiment with Bacteria”

Location Address: Talley Student Union, Mountains & Piedmont Ballrooms

Questions? Please contact ncstate-gga@ncsu.edu

Would you like to sponsor this event? Please contact ncstate-gga@ncsu.edu.

Schedule of Events

Time	Event
8:30 – 9:00 am	Breakfast
9:00 – 9:30 am	Opening Remarks
9:45 – 10:15 am	Coffee Break, Posters, &Vendors
10:15 – 11:15 am	Science Talks Cole Butler Stacy Zhang Mallory Choudoir Xingcheng Lin Paper-of-the-year winner
11:15 – 11:30 am	Coffee Break, Posters, &Vendors
11:30 – 12:30 pm	The Fred Gould Genetics and Genomics Annual Keynote Seminar Speaker: Dr. Richard Lenski, Michigan State University, “Dynamics and Repeatability of Evolution in a Long-Term Experiment with Bacteria”
12:30 – 1:30 pm	Lunch (catered by Rave!) and Vendors
1:30 – 2:45 pm	Introduce new graduate students and faculty Poster Voting and Vendors
2:45 – 3:00 pm	Spotlighting Seed and Dissertation Enhancement Grants GGA Contest Awardees Recognized (include mini-grants, travel grants, flash talks)
3:00 – 3:15 pm	Research Interest Group Updates
3:15 – 3:30 pm	Closing Remarks
5:00 – 7:00 pm	Happy Hour at Raleigh Brewing Company 3709 Neil St, Raleigh, NC 27607