6th Principal Investigators Meeting Agenda

6th Principal Investigators Meeting
Innovative Molecular Analysis Technologies Program
September 7-9, 2005
Ritz-Carlton
Washington, DC

Agenda

WEDNESDAY, SEPTEMBER 7, 2005
8:00 a.m. – 8:30 a.m.		Registration and Continental Breakfast
8:30 a.m. – 8:45 a.m.		NCI Technology Development Initiatives Anna D. Barker Deputy Director for Advanced Technologies and Strategic Partnerships, NCI
Session 1 — IMAT Alumni and Achievements MODERATOR Gregory J. Downing, Office of Technology and Industrial Relations, NCI
8:45 a.m. – 9:45 a.m. KEYNOTE		Vascular Zip Codes in Tumor Targeting Errki Ruoslahti, The Burnham Institute
9:45 a.m. – 10:15 a.m.		Functional Proteomics using FALI to Identify Proteins in Cancer Invasion Daniel Jay, Tufts University
10:15 a.m. – 10:45 a.m.		BREAK
10:45 a.m. – 11:15 a.m.		MELT: A Novel Method for RNA Preservation and Isolation from Solid Tissue Gary Latham, Ambion, Inc.
11:15 a.m. – 11:40 p.m		IMAT: Past, Present, and Future Gregory J. Downing, Director Office of Technology and Industrial Relations, NCI
11:40 a.m. – 12:15 a.m.		Questions and Panel Discussion Session Speakers and IMAT Program Directors
12:15 p.m. – 1:30 p.m.		LUNCH
Session 2 — Epidemiology and Molecular Analysisd Technologies MODERATOR Andrew Freedman, Division of Cancer Control & Population Sciences, NCI
1:30 p.m. – 2:30 p.m. KEYNOTE		From Bench to Populations: Epidemiology and the Development of New Molecular Technologies Jane C. Schroeder, University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill
2:30 p.m. – 3:00 p.m.		Longitudinal Cancer-specific Serum Protein Signatures Brian Haab, Van Andel Institute
3:00 p.m. – 3:30 p.m.		BREAK
3:30 p.m. – 4:00 p.m.		Mapping the Proteome of the Human Bone Marrow Stromal Cells using Non-gel Based Technology Beerelli Seshi, University of California at Los Angeles
4:00 p.m. – 4:30 p.m.		Typing the Transcriptome of Prostate Cancer by Splicing Array Xiang-Dong Fu, University of California, San Diego
4:30 p.m. – 5:15 p.m.		Questions and Panel Discussion
5:15 p.m. – 7:30 p.m.		Dinner and Poster Session
THURSDAY, SEPTEMBER 8, 2005
Session3— Sample Preparation MODERATOR Rebecca Huppi, Division of Cancer Treatment & Diagnosis, NCI
9:00 a.m. – 9:30 a.m. KEYNOTE		Human Biospecimens: A Critical Resource for Translational Research and Molecular Medicine Update on the Development of the National Biospecimen Network Carolyn Compton Program Director, Biorepositories and Biospecimens Research, NCI
9:30 a.m. – 10:00 a.m.		Tissue Print Micropeels for Molecular Profiling of Cancer Sandra Gaston, Beth Israel Deaconess Medical Center and Harvard Medical School
10:00 a.m. – 10:30 a.m.		Proteomic Profiling of Fixed Tissue Archives by Mass Spectrometry David Krizman, Expression Pathology, Inc.
10:30 a.m. – 11:00 a.m.		BREAK
11:00 a.m. – 11:30 p.m.		Genome Amplification Tolerant to Sample Degradation G. Mike Makrigiorgios, Dana Farber Cancer Institute
11:30 a.m. - 12:00 p.m.		Questions and Panel Discussion
12:00 p.m. – 1:00 p.m.		LUNCH
Session 4 – Cross-Sector Opportunities in Technology Development MODERATOR Sherwood Githens, Division of Extramural Activities, NCI
1:00 p.m. – 1:30 p.m.		A Government Perspective Wendy R. Sanhai, Ph.D., Senior Scientific Advisor Office of the Commissioner, FDA
1:30 p.m. – 2:00 p.m.		A Venture Perspective Linda Powers, Managing Director, Toucan Capital Corporation
2:00 p.m. – 2:30 p.m.		An Industry Perspective Andrew Berlin, General Manager, Biomedical and Life Sciiences, Intel Corporation
2:30 p.m. – 3:00 p.m.		BREAK
3:00 p.m. – 3:30 p.m.		The Role of the University in Advancing Innovation Lesa Mitchell, Vice President for Advancing Innovation, Kauffman Foundation
3:30 p.m. – 4:00 p.m.		NASA's Innovative Partnerships Program: Developing Technologies for the Moon, Mars, and Earth-based Applicattions Michael Weingarten Office of Technology & Industrial Relations, NCI (formerly Director of NASA's Partnership Development Team)
4:00 p.m. – 5:00 p.m.		Questions and Panel Discussion
5:00 p.m. – 7:00 p.m.		Poster Session
FRIDAY, SEPTMEBER 9, 2005
Session 5 - Technology's Impact on Cancer Biology: The Big Picture MODERATOR Jennifer Couch, Division of Cancer Biology
9:00 a.m. – 9:30 a.m. KEYNOTE		caBIG Technology Workspace Ken Buetow, NCI Center for Bioinformatics
9:30 a.m. – 10:00 a.m.		Flow-Through Lab-on-a-Chip Biosensors for the Collection of Rare Circulating Tumor Cells and the Analysis of Their Intracellular Contents Steve Soper, Louisana State University
10:00 a.m. – 10:30 a.m.		Mapping Reulator Pathways in Cancers Roland Green, NimbleGen Systems, Inc., Madison, WI
10:30 a.m. – 11:00 a.m.		BREAK
11:00 a.m. – 11:30 p.m.		Harnessing the Human Proteome Joshua LaBaer, Harvard Medical School
11:30 a.m. – 12:30 p.m.		Questions and Panel Discussion
12:30 p.m.		ADJOURN