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Past Retreats: 2011 Agenda

Monday, May 16, 2011
Airlie Center, Warrenton, Virginia
3:00 - 5:00 p.m. Registration
5:00 - 6:00 p.m. Keynote Address
Moderator, Kristofor Langlais, Ph.D.
"Science, Society, and the Social Contract"
Ann C. Bonham, Ph.D.
Chief Scientific Officer
Association of American Medical Colleges
Washington, DC
6:15 - 7:15 p.m. Dinner
7:15 - 8:45 p.m. Poster Session 1 (Odd Numbers)
Outdoors in the pavilion
Tuesday, May 17, 2011
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
Kristofor Langlais, 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, Jason Riley, Ph.D.
"Manipulation of Host Cell Signaling Proteins by Legionella pneumophila"
Matthias Machner, Ph.D.
Unit on Microbial Pathogenesis
Cell Biology and Metabolism Program, NICHD

"Making the Invisible Visible with Diffusion MRI"
Peter J. Basser, Ph.D.
Laboratory of Tissue Biophysics & Biomimetics
Director, Program on Pediatric Imaging & Tissue Sciences, NICHD
10:00 a.m. Coffee break & check-out
10:30 - 12 noon Poster Session 2 (Even Numbers)
Outdoors in the pavilion
12:00 - 1:00 p.m. Tuesday Keynote Address
Moderator, Kara Lukasiewicz, Ph.D.
"Improbable Research and the Ig Nobel Prizes"
Marc Abrahams, Ph.D.
Editor & Co-founder, Annals of Improbable Research
Boston, MA
1:00 - 2:00 p.m. Lunch
2:00 - 3:15 p.m. Career Q&A Tables
Moderators, Drs. Melissa Crocker, Lina Gugliotti
Select 3 rotations, 20 minutes each, from:
  1. Research, Academe/NIH
    • Xiangyun Qiu, Ph.D., Dept. of Physics, George Washington University
  2. Science Policy
    • Christine Torborg, Ph.D., NINDS
  3. Grants & Scientific Administration
    • Melissa Cunningham, Ph.D., CDMRP, Ft. Detrick
  4. Consulting
    • Zigurts Majumdar, Ph.D., Booz Allen Hamilton
  5. Food and Drug Adminsitration (FDA)
    • Newton Woo, Ph.D., FDA
  6. Research, Pharma/Private Sector
    • Jeanne Fringer, Ph.D., U.S. Pharmacopeia
3:15 - 4:00 p.m. Fellow Presentations 1-3
Moderator, Jana Kainerstorfer, Ph.D.
"Hindered Diffusion in Polymeric Solutions Studied by Fluorescence Correlation Spectroscopy"
Silviya Zustiak, Ph.D.
NICHD Program in Physical Biology

"Modulation of DNA Condensation by Ion Valence for Nanomedicine Applications"
Preethi Chandran, Ph.D.
NICHD/NIBIB Fellow

"An N-terminal Truncated Carboxypeptidase E Splice Isoform Induces Tumor Growth and Is a Biomarker for Predicting Future Metastasis in Human Cancers"
Saravana Murthy, Ph.D.
NICHD Program in Developmental Neuroscience
4:00 - 4:10 p.m. Break
4:10 - 5:00 p.m. Fellow Presentations 4-6
Moderator, Cheryl Bolinger, Ph.D.
"Expression Profiling of Autism Candidate Genes during Human Brain Development Implicates Central Immune Signaling Pathways"
Mark Ziats
MD-PhD student, Cambridge University/NIH Laboratory of Clinical Genomics, NICHD

"Analysis of DNA Re-replication Dynamics: What Can We Learn about Origins of Replication in Mammals?"
Christelle de Renty, Ph.D.
NICHD Program in Genomics of Differentiation

"Generation of Induced Pluripotent Stem Cells Is Regulated by Mitochondria within the Somatic Cell of Origin"
Kevin Francis, Ph.D.
NICHD Program in Genomics of Differentiation