AGENDA – THURSDAY, SEPTEMBER 13, 2012
EIGHTH ANNUAL NIH DIRECTOR’S
PIONEER AWARD SYMPOSIUM
SEPTEMBER 13 – 14, 2012
DOUBLETREE BETHESDA
8120 WISCONSIN AVENUE, BETHESDA, MARYLAND
FEATURING
PRESENTATIONS BY THE “GRADUATING CLASS” OF 2007 PIONEER AWARD RECIPIENTS
AND SELECTED NEW INNOVATOR AWARD RECIPIENTS
POSTER SESSIONS BY PIONEER AND NEW INNOVATOR
AWARD RECIPIENTS
AGENDA – THURSDAY, SEPTEMBER 13, 2012
| 8:00 a.m. | Welcome and Introduction of the 2012 NIH Director’s Pioneer and New Innovator Awardees |
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| 8:30 a.m. | Mark J. Schnitzer, Ph.D. Stanford University Automation and Integration: Towards Massively Parallel Brain Imaging in Awake-Behaving Flies and Mice |
| 9:00 a.m. | Takao K. Hensch, Ph.D. Boston Children’s Hospital /Harvard Medical School Shaping Neural Circuits by Early Experience |
| 9:30 a.m. | Gina Turrigiano, Ph.D. Brandeis University Firing Rate Homeostasis: From Molecules to Networks |
| 10:00 a.m. | Break |
| 10:15 a.m. | Frances E. Jensen, M.D. |
| 10:45 a.m. | Thomas R. Clandinin, Ph.D. Stanford University Dissecting Visual Computation in Flies and Humans |
| 11:15 a.m. | Cristin Dorgelo Assistant Director for Grand Challenges, Office of Science and Technology Policy, Executive Office of the President |
| 11:30 a.m. | Lunch Break |
| 1:00 p.m. | Aaron B. Baker, Ph.D. University of Texas, Austin Reengineering Growth Factor Signaling in Ischemic Disease |
| 1:15 p.m. | Adam E. Cohen, Ph.D. Harvard University |
| 1:30 p.m. | Sean S. Davies, Ph.D. Vanderbilt University Therapeutic Modification of Gut Bacteria Prevents Development of Obesity |
| 1:45 p.m. | Amy E. Herr, Ph.D. University of California, Berkeley Next-Generation Proteomics |
| 2:00 p.m. | Alexander B. Niculescu, III, M.D., Ph.D. Indiana University School of Medicine Biomarkers in Psychiatry: From Genetics to Biology to Predictive Medicine |
| 2:15 p.m. | Dana Pe’er, Ph.D. Columbia University Mapping Tumor Heterogeneity Using 40 Markers at Single-Cell Resolution |
| 2:30 p.m. | Leor S. Weinberger, Ph.D. Gladstone Institutes and University of California, San Francisco Engineering Antivirals that Autonomously Target High-Risk Populations |
| 3:00 p.m. | New Innovator Awardee Poster Session and Reception
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| 4:30 p.m. | Close |
AGENDA – FRIDAY, SEPTEMBER 14, 2012
| 8:00 a.m. | Rustem F. Ismagilov, Ph.D. University of Chicago Curiosity, Technology, and Global Health |
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| 8:30 a.m. | Margaret Gardel, Ph.D. University of Chicago Physics of Living Matter |
| 9:00 a.m. | Peter Bearman, Ph.D. Columbia University Understanding the Increased Prevalence of Autism |
| 9:30 a.m. | Emery N. Brown, M.D., Ph.D. Massachusetts General Hospital/Massachusetts Institute of Technology The Unconscious Brain and General Anesthesia |
| 10:00 a.m. | Break |
| 10:15 a.m. | Lisa Feldman Barrett, Ph.D. Boston College/Harvard Medical School/Massachusetts General Hospital From "Where" to "How": A Paradigm Shift in the Science of Emotion |
| 10:45 a.m. | James J. Collins, Ph.D. Boston University Radical Approaches to Antibiotics |
| 11:15 a.m. | Marshall S. Horwitz, M.D., Ph.D. University of Washington School of Medicine Decoding Cell Lineage from Acquired Mutations |
| 11:45 p.m. | Lawrence A. Tabak, D.D.S., Ph.D. |
| 12:00 p.m. | Lunch Break |
| 1:15 p.m. | 2011 Pioneer Awardee Poster Preview Talks |
| 2:15 p.m. | Pioneer Awardee Poster Session and Reception |
| 4:00 p.m. | Adjourn |
Attendance is free and registration is not required.
Send questions and requests for reasonable accommodations to Pioneer@NIH.gov or call (301) 594-3555.
The symposium will not be videocast or archived.
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