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Third Annual NIH Director’s
Pioneer Award Symposium
Wednesday, September 19, 2007
Auditorium
Natcher Conference Center (Building 45)
National Institutes of Health
Bethesda, Maryland
Agenda
| 8:15 a.m. |
Welcome
Jeremy M. Berg, Ph.D., NIGMS, NIH |
| 8:30 a.m. |
Introductory Remarks and Announcement of 2007 Pioneer Award Recipients
Elias A. Zerhouni, M.D., NIH |
| 8:50 a.m. |
Dominant Drug Targets in RNA Viruses
Karla Kirkegaard, Ph.D., Stanford University School of Medicine |
| 9:10 a.m. |
New Approaches to Fight Bacterial Infections
Evgeny Nudler, Ph.D., New York University School of Medicine |
| 9:30 a.m. |
It's a Jungle in There: Explorations of the Human Microbiome
David Relman, M.D., Stanford University |
| 9:50 a.m. |
Break |
| 10:20 a.m. |
Neurogrid: Emulating a Million Neurons in the Cortex
Kwabena Boahen, Ph.D., Stanford University |
| 10:40 a.m. |
Putting Nanostructures to Work for Biomedical Research
Younan Xia, Ph.D., Washington University in St. Louis |
| 11:00 a.m. |
Understanding Adaptive Immunity and Its Aberrant Regulation: A Crossroad of the Physical, Life, and Engineering Sciences
Arup Chakraborty, Ph.D., Massachusetts Institute of Technology |
| 11:20 a.m. |
Moving the Protein Folding Problem from the Test Tube to the Cell
Lila Gierasch, Ph.D., University of Massachusetts Amherst |
| 11:40 a.m. |
Protein Biophysics Under Physiological Conditions
Gary Pielak, Ph.D., University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill |
| Noon |
Lunch |
| 1:30 p.m. |
Monitoring the Immune System with Synthetic Molecule Microarrays: A New Route to Biomarker Discovery
Thomas Kodadek, Ph.D., University of Texas Southwestern Medical Center at Dallas |
| 1:50 p.m. |
Proteoglycan Interactions with Sonic Hedgehog Are Selectively Required for Mitogenic Responses
Rosalind Segal, M.D., Ph.D., Dana-Farber Cancer Institute |
| 2:10 p.m. |
Break |
| 2:30 p.m. |
Making Human Adult Stem Cell Expansion Routine
James Sherley, M.D., Ph.D., Boston Biomedical Research Institute |
| 2:50 p.m. |
Elucidating Mechanisms of Intracellular Scaling
Rebecca Heald, Ph.D., University of California, Berkeley |
| 3:10 p.m. |
Suspended Animation of Non-hibernating Mammals
Cheng Chi Lee, Ph.D., University of Texas Health Science Center at Houston |
| 3:30 p.m. |
Concurrent Poster Session and Reception |
| 5:30 p.m. |
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