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Past Retreats: 2010 Agenda

Scientific Paths: Global, Translational, Visual

Monday, May 3, 2010
Airlie Center, Warrenton, Virginia
3:00 - 5:00 p.m. Registration
5:00 - 6:00 p.m. Keynote Address
Moderator, Kara Lukasiewicz, Ph.D.
"Global Health Challenge: Nimble Responses, Novel Solutions"
Maria C. Freire, Ph.D.
President, The Albert and Mary Lasker Foundation
New York, New York
6:15 - 7:15 p.m. Dinner
7:15 - 8:45 p.m. Poster Session 1
(Odd Numbers; All Posters on View)
Outdoors in the pavilion
Tuesday, May 4, 2010
Airlie Center, Warrenton, Virginia
6:30 - 7:30 a.m. Nature Walk: Fields and Ponds (Optional)
7:30 - 8:30 a.m. Breakfast
8:30 a.m. Welcome
Kara Lukasiewicz, Ph.D., Chair, Annual Meeting Steering Committee
Constantine A. Stratakis, M.D. D.(med.)Sci., Acting Scientific Director, NICHD
8:50 a.m. Scientific Perspectives:
Moderator, Kristofor Langlais, Ph.D.
"Humanity — A Model System"
Owen M. Rennert, M.D.
Laboratory of Clinical Genomics
Program in Reproductive and Adult Endocrinology
NICHD

"Neural Circuits Underlying Motor Control in Zebrafish"
Harold A. Burgess, Ph.D.
Unit on Behavioral Neurogenetics
Program in Genomics of Differentiation
NICHD
10:00 a.m. Coffee break & check-out
10:30 - 12 noon Poster Session 2
(Even Numbers; All Posters on View)
Outdoors in the pavilion
12:00 - 1:00 p.m. Tuesday Keynote Address
Moderator, Yvette Pittman, Ph.D.
"Biological Visualization Using Hollywood's Tools"
Gaël McGill, Ph.D.
Director of Molecular Visualization,
Harvard Medical School
President & CEO, Digizyme Inc.
1:00 - 2:00 p.m. Lunch
2:00 - 3:15 p.m. Career Q&A Tables
Moderators, Drs. Lina Gugliotti, Julian Lui, Jason Riley
Select 3 rotations, 20 minutes each, from:
  1. Research, Academe/NIH
    • Harold Burgess, Ph.D., NICHD
    • Brian A. Todd, Ph.D., Purdue University
  2. Science Policy
    • Jonathan Gitlin, Ph.D., NHGRI
  3. Grants & Scientific Administration
    • Wolfgang Lindwasser Ph.D., CDMRP, Ft. Detrick
    • Kenna Shaw, Ph.D., NCI
  4. Consulting
    • Ziggy Majumdar, Ph.D., Booz Allen Hamilton
  5. Food and Drug Adminsitration (FDA)
    • Mary D. Roberts, M.D., FDA
  6. Research, Pharma/Private Sector
    • Steven Sperber, Ph.D., GeneDx
3:15 - 4:00 p.m. Fellow Presentations 1-3
Moderator, Melissa Crocker, M.D.
"Protein-Membrane Interactions at Ângstrom Resolution: Association of the HIV-1 Gag Matrix Domain with Tethered Bilayer Lipid"
Hirsh Nanda, Ph.D.
NICHD Program in Physical Biology

"The Molecular Basis for Sog-mediated Transport of BMPs"
Carolyn Peluso, Ph.D.
NICHD Program in Cellular Regulation and Metabolism

"MMP-resistant Collagen in Carcinomas"
Elena Makareeva, Ph.D.
NICHD Laboratory of Physical Biochemistry
4:00 - 4:15 p.m. Break
4:15 - 5:00 p.m. Fellow Presentations 4-6
Moderator, Stephanie Fliedner
"rh5-HTTLPR and Peer Rearing Compromise Social Buffering of Arousal and Fear in Juvenile Rhesus Macaques (Macaca mulatta)"
Khalisa Herman, Ph.D.
NICHD Program in Developmental Neuroscience

"Molecular Dynamics of GLUT4 in the Plasma Membrane Visualized by Photo-activation Localization Microscopy"
Vladimir Lizunov, Ph.D.
NICHD Program in Physical Biology

"Multi-Modality Optical Imaging for Enhancing Principal Component Models in Real-Time Skin Chromophore Reconstruction"
Jana Kainerstorfer
NICHD Program in Pediatric Imaging and Tissue Sciences