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NIH Director’s Pioneer Award

NIH Director's Pioneer Award

Second Annual NIH Director’s
Pioneer Award Symposium

Tuesday, September 19, 2006
Masur Auditorium
Clinical Center (Building 10)
National Institutes of Health
Bethesda, Maryland

Agenda

8:15 a.m. Introductory Remarks
Elias Zerhouni, M.D., NIH and Jeremy Berg, Ph.D., NIGMS, NIH
8:30 a.m. Developing Brain Circuitry
Hollis T. Cline, Ph.D., Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory
8:50 a.m. Bringing Bioengineering to Psychiatry: Neural Circuit Engineering on the Millisecond Timescale
Karl Deisseroth, M.D., Ph.D., Stanford University
9:10 a.m. Brain Systems for Vocal Learning
Erich D. Jarvis, Ph.D., Duke University Medical Center
9:30 a.m. Mechanisms of Protein-Protein Interaction in Neurodegeneration
Junying Yuan, Ph.D., Harvard Medical School
9:50 a.m. Break
10:20 a.m. Sleep and Synaptic Homeostasis
Giulio Tononi, M.D., Ph.D., University of Wisconsin-Madison Medical School
10:40 a.m. Evolution, Computation, and Human Motivation
Leda Cosmides, Ph.D., University of California, Santa Barbara
11:00 a.m. Announcement of 2006 Pioneer Award Recipients
Elias Zerhouni, M.D.
11:30 a.m. Lunch
1:00 p.m. Unique Tandem Repeats Mediate Heritable Chromatin
Vicki L. Chandler, Ph.D., University of Arizona
1:20 p.m. A New Approach to the DNA Damage Response
Titia de Lange, Ph.D., The Rockefeller University
1:40 p.m. Stem Cell Self-Renewal in Regenerating Tissue
Thomas A. Rando, M.D., Ph.D., Stanford University School of Medicine
2:00 p.m. Chemical Evolution
Pehr A.B. Harbury, Ph.D., Stanford University School of Medicine
2:20 p.m. Break
2:40 p.m. Integrating Subcellular Systems in Cell Migration
Clare M. Waterman-Storer, Ph.D., The Scripps Research Institute
3:00 p.m. Antigenic Cartography
Derek J. Smith, Ph.D., University of Cambridge
3:20 p.m. Monitoring the Emergence of Viruses
Nathan D. Wolfe, D.Sc., Johns Hopkins University, Bloomberg School of Public Health
3:40 p.m. Concurrent Poster Session and Reception
5:30 p.m. Close

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