Oak Crest hosted its 4th Annual U19 (NIAID NIH Award Number U19AI113048) meeting on May 9th and 10th, 2018. Colleagues and friends from Johns Hopkins Medical Institute (JHMI), Vanderbilt, UTMB, UCSD, UCLA, Scripps, the Miriam Hospital, and CDC arrived on Tuesday May 8th and attended a casual reception and dinner at 38 Degrees Ale House in Monrovia.
Wednesday’s activities were held at the Arboretum, which provided a natural and inviting setting for talks on grant-related topics. Peacocks could be heard chiming in with their approval. The Lime Truck provided excellent eats accompanied by Jim Jediken’s jazz quartet at Oak Crest for the evening social in our lab’s parking lot.
On Thursday everyone moved back to the Monrovia Canyon Cabin to continue the meeting. The cabin is located in Monrovia Canyon Park which is on 80 acres of beautiful hiking trails, a waterfall and a nature center. Some participants took advantage of the setting and could be seen taking a hike on the trails during the lunch break.
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