Fourth Annual NIH Director’s
Pioneer Award Symposium
September 22–23, 2008
Auditorium
Natcher Conference Center (Building 45)
National Institutes of Health
Bethesda, Maryland
No registration is required and attendance is free. The symposium will be Web cast.
Agenda – Monday, September 22, 2008
| 8:30 - 9:15 a.m. | Introductory Remarks and Announcement of 2008 Awardees Elias A. Zerhouni, M.D., Director, NIH Jeremy M. Berg, Ph.D., Director, NIGMS, NIH |
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| 9:15 - 10:00 a.m. | Keynote Talk: Elias A. Zerhouni, M.D., Director, NIH |
| 10:00 - 10:20 a.m. | Emery Neal Brown, M.D., Ph.D., Massachusetts General Hospital/MIT Imaging Loss of Consciousness Under Anesthesia |
| 10:20 - 10:40 a.m. | Frances E. Jensen, M.D., Children's Hospital, Boston/Harvard Medical School Understanding Cognitive Consequences of Early Life Epilepsy |
| 10:40 - 11:00 a.m. | Break |
| 11:00 - 11:20 a.m. | Takao K. Hensch, Ph.D., Children's Hospital Boston/Harvard Medical School Epigenetic Control of Critical Period Plasticity |
| 11:20 - 11:40 a.m. | Thomas R. Clandinin, Ph.D., Stanford University Toward a Genetic Dissection of Visual Computation |
| 11:40 a.m. - noon | Mark J. Schnitzer, Ph.D., Stanford University New Paradigms for in vivo Microscopy in Live Subjects |
| 12:00 - 12:20 p.m. | Gina G. Turrigiano, Ph.D., Brandeis University Mapping the Location of Synaptic Proteins Using Super-Resolution Fluorescence Microscopy |
| 12:20 - 1:50 p.m. | Lunch break |
| 1:50 - 2:30 p.m. | Poster Moderation for Pioneer Awardees |
| 2:30 - 4:30 p.m. | Poster Session for Pioneer Awardees and Reception |
Agenda – Tuesday, September 23, 2008
| 8:30 - 8:50 a.m. | Lisa Feldman Barrett, Ph.D., Boston College/Harvard Medical School/Massachusetts General Hospital What is an Emotion? |
| 8:50 - 9:10 a.m. | Peter S. Bearman, Ph.D., Columbia University Social Dynamics and Autism Prevalence |
| 9:10 - 9:30 a.m. | Marshall S. Horwitz, M.D., Ph.D., University of Washington School of Medicine Inferring Cell Lineage From Somatic Mutations |
| 9:30 - 9:50 a.m. | James J. Collins, Ph.D., Boston University A Network Biology Approach to Antibiotic Action and Bacterial Defense Mechanisms |
| 9:50 - 10:20 a.m. | Break |
| 10:20 - 10:40 a.m. | Rustem F. Ismagilov, Ph.D., University of Chicago Space – The Final Frontier |
| 10:40 - 11:00 a.m. | Margaret L. Gardel, Ph.D., University of Chicago Emergent Behaviors of the Cellular Cytoskeleton |
| 11:00 a.m. - noon | Concurrent Roundtable Discussions: – Training and Collaboration in the Conduct of Highly Innovative Research – Recognizing and Fostering Highly Innovative Research: The Investigator's Perspective |
| 12:00 - 1:30 p.m. | Lunch break |
| 1:30 - 2:10 p.m. | Poster Moderation for New Innovator Awardees |
| 2:10 - 4:00 p.m. | Poster Session for New Innovators |
| 4:00 p.m. | Adjourn |
Activities of the symposium are supported in part by the Foundation for the National Institutes of Health through grants from Booz Allen Hamilton and the Ewing Marion Kauffman Foundation.
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