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
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| 8:30 a.m. |
Developing Brain Circuitry
Hollis T. Cline, Ph.D., Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory
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| 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
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| 9:30 a.m. |
Mechanisms of Protein-Protein Interaction in Neurodegeneration
Junying Yuan, Ph.D., Harvard Medical School
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| 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
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| 10:40 a.m. |
Evolution, Computation, and Human Motivation
Leda Cosmides, Ph.D., University of California, Santa Barbara
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| 11:00 a.m. |
Announcement of 2006 Pioneer Award Recipients
Elias Zerhouni, M.D.
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| 11:30 a.m. |
Lunch
|
| 1:00 p.m. |
Unique Tandem Repeats Mediate Heritable Chromatin
Vicki L. Chandler, Ph.D., University of Arizona
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| 1:20 p.m. |
A New Approach to the DNA Damage Response
Titia de Lange, Ph.D., The Rockefeller University
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| 1:40 p.m. |
Stem Cell Self-Renewal in Regenerating Tissue
Thomas A. Rando, M.D., Ph.D., Stanford University School of Medicine
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| 2:00 p.m. |
Chemical Evolution
Pehr A.B. Harbury, Ph.D., Stanford University School of Medicine
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| 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
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| 3:00 p.m. |
Antigenic Cartography
Derek J. Smith, Ph.D., University of Cambridge
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| 3:20 p.m. |
Monitoring the Emergence of Viruses
Nathan D. Wolfe, D.Sc., Johns Hopkins University, Bloomberg School of Public Health
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| 3:40 p.m. |
Concurrent Poster Session and Reception
|
| 5:30 p.m. |
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