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 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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