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Past Retreats: 2007 Agenda

Thursday, May 10, 2007
Airlie Center, Warrenton, Virginia
3:00 - 5:00 p.m. Registration
5:00 - 6:00 p.m. Keynote Address
“Nuclear Transfer and Stem Cells: Interrogating Development and Disease”
Kevin Eggan, Ph.D.
Assistant Professor of Molecular and Cellular Biology & Assistant Investigator
Stowers Medical Institute
Harvard University
6:15 - 7:15 p.m. Dinner
7:15 - 8:45 p.m. Poster Session I (odd numbers)
Friday, May 11, 2007
Airlie Center, Warrenton, Virginia
7:30 - 8:30 a.m. Breakfast
8:30 a.m. Welcome
Claudia Gebert, Ph.D., D.V.M.,
and
Rachel Heimeier, Ph.D.,
Cochairs, Annual Meeting Steering Committee

Owen M. Rennert, M.D.,
Scientific Director, NICHD
8:50 a.m. Scientific Perspectives: From the beginning to the end of life
“Assisted Reproductive Technology (IVF): Past and Future”
Alan DeCherney, M.D.,
Program Director, Reproductive Biology and Medicine Branch, NICHD

“Prion Protein Cell Biology and Neurodegeneration”
Ramanujan Hegde, M.D., Ph.D.
Unit on Protein Biogenesis
Cell Biology and Metabolism Program, NICHD
10:15 a.m. Coffee break
10:30 - 12 noon Fellow and student presentations
12:00 - 1:30 p.m. Lunch
Education Session
“Making Learning Visible: Teaching in the 21st Century”
Randy Bass, Ph.D. Executive Director and Assistant Provost
for Teaching and Learning Initiatives and Department of English,
Georgetown University, Washington DC
1:30 - 3:00 p.m. Poster Session 2 (even numbers)
3:30 - 5:00 p.m. Career Profiles
“Communicating Science to the General Public”
Maggie Fox
Editor in Charge, Health and Science
Reuters, Washington DC

“Clinical Research in the Pharmaceutical Industry”
Mary R. Flack, M.D.
Vice President, Clinical & Regulatory Affairs
NanoBio, Ann Arbor, Michigan

“Research, Academia, and the Pursuit of Happiness”
Sandy Hayes, Ph.D.
Assistant Professor of Microbiology and Immunology
Upstate Medical University, Syracuse, NY