NEI Intramural Events
Focus on Fellows
Program
Thursday September 6, 2007
| Time | Session |
|---|---|
| 8:30 | Registration |
| 8:45 | Welcome Remarks Dr Sheldon Miller, Scientific Director, NEI |
| 9:00 | Maximizing Mentoring Relationships Dr Sharon Milgram, Director, NIH training program, Office of Intramural Training and Education |
| 10:00 | Break |
| Oral Presentations | |
| 10:30 | A second path from eye to cortex: relay neurons in the primate pulvinar R.A. Berman, R.H. Wurtz, LSR |
| 10:55 | Evidence for Notch(2) signaling in lens differentiation S. Saravanamuthu, CY Gao, PS Zelenka, LMDB |
| 11:20 | Methionine sulfoxide reductase A (MSRA) gene is regulated by two promoters. I. Pascual, I.R. Rodriguez, LRCMB |
| 11:45 | Inflammatory Cytokines Inhibited PDGF-C and -D Induced Human RPE Proliferation/Migration R. Li, A. Maminishkis, F. Wang, T. Banzon, S. Jalickee, S. Miller, OSD |
| 12:10 | Clinical and Genetic Study of Ocular von Hippel-Lindau (VHL) Disease W. Wong, E. Agron, H. Coleman, G. Reed, M. Linehan, J. Peterson, G. Glenn, E. Chew, OGVFB |
| 12:35 | Essential role for IL-23 but not for the Th17 effector response in pathogenesis of experimental ocular autoimmunity. D. Luger, Phyllis Silver, Daniel Cua, Zoe Chen, Yoichiro Iwakura, Edward Bowman, Nicole Sgambellone, Chi-Chao Chan, Rachel Caspi, LI |
| 13:00 | Lunch |
| 13:45 | Workshop on Visas issues Amy Powers, Immigration Policy Analyst, and Vivian Weaver, Senior Immigration Specialist, Division of Immigration Services) J-1 issues Life after NIH (what are the options) |
| 15:15 | Break |
Thursday September 6, 2007
| Time | Session |
|---|---|
| 15:30 |
Grants workshop (Extramural team) NEI Funding 101 Lore Anne McNicol PhD., Director of Extramural Research, NEI Postdoc to Independent Investigator : Funding your Research Career Chyren Hunter PhD., Program Director and Training Officer, NEI Does the Intramural Post Doctoral Training Program Prepare You for a Career as an Independent Investigator in Academics? Nancy J. Philip, PhD., Associate Professor Department of Pathology, Anatomy, and Cell Biology Thomas Jefferson University Introduction to NEI Extramural Programs: Research Highlights Retina Programs, Andrew Mariani, PhD. Anterior Segment, Ellen Liberman, PhD. Neuroscience, Michael Oberdorfer, PhD. Clinical Research, Donald Everett, MA. |
| 17:00 | Meeting adjourned |
Friday September 7, 2007
| Time | Session |
|---|---|
| 8:30 | |
| 8:45 | Overview of the NEI fellows population Dr Sarah Sohraby, Deputy Scientific Director |
| 9:00 | Key note lecture : "Gene Sharing, Neutrality and Thoughts on Science and Being a Scientist" Dr Joram Piatigorsky, Chief, Laboratory of Molecular and Developmental Biology, NEI |
| 10:00 | Break |
| Oral Presentations | |
| 10:20 | Intermediate uveitis and retinal pigment epithelial dysfunction following tumor-infiltrating lymphocyte and interleukin-2 immunotherapy for metastatic melanoma S. Yeh, R. Bishop, W. Wong, Z. Li, R. Caruso, G. Levy-Clarke, D. Palmer, N. Restifo, S. Rosenberg, R. Nussenblatt, LI |
| 10:40 | Closing the Gap: Novel Participants in Optic Fissure Closure. J. Brown, R Bonner, P Munson, S Loftus, R Alur, F Onojafe, W Chan, B Brooks, OGVFB |
| 11:00 | Expression of c-fos in an Experimental CNV model M. Campos, J. Amaral, J. Tsai, P. Becerra, R. Fariss, OSD |
| 11:20 | A PEDF receptor in the retina: Structure-function relationships. S. Locatelli-Hoops, L. Notari, R. Heredia, S.P. Becerra, LRCMB |
| 11:40 | Olfactomedin and myocilin: new roles in normal eye development and pathology. N. Nakaya, H-S LEE, H-S Kwon, S. Tomarev, LMDB |
| 12:00 | A top-down origin of choice-related activity in sensory neurons. H. Nienborg, Bruce G. Cumming, LSR |
| 12:30 | Lunch |
| 13:00 | The GRIP and FIRCA programs, Dr Aron Primack, Program Officer Division of International Training and Research, The Fogarty International Center |
| 13:45 | Workshops on Career Training, Patricia M. Sokolove, Ph.D. Deputy Director Office of Intramural Training & Education, NIH |
| 14:15 | FELCOM presentation : Bobbie Austin |
| 14:30 | General discussion |
| 14:45 | Closing remarks and AWARDS Presentation |
| 3:00 | Meeting Over |
