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Past Retreats: 2013 Agenda

Tuesday, May 21, 2013
Smithsonian National Museum of the American Indian
8:30 a.m. Welcome
Thomas Miller, Ph.D., Chair, Annual Meeting Steering Committee
Constantine A. Stratakis, M.D. D(med)Sci., Scientific Director, NICHD
9:00 - 10:00 a.m. Science, the Arts & the World
Moderator: Maria Lyanguzova, Ph.D.
"How to Have Fun with a Ph.D."
John Bohannon, Ph.D.
Harvard University & Journalist
10:00 - 10:30 a.m. Fellow Talks 1&2
Moderator: Chris Crutchfield, Ph.D.
"Neto Proteins Bidirectionally Alter Glutamate Receptor Expression at the Synapse"
Megan Wyeth, Ph.D., Section on Cellular and Synaptic Physiology, NICHD

"Population Density, Chronic Stress, and Intra-Group Conflict: Predictors of Infant Mortality in Semi-Free Ranging Rhesus Monkeys at the LCE Field Station"
Amanda Dettmer, Ph.D., Laboratory of Comparative Ethology, NICHD
10:30 - 10:45 a.m. Break
10:45 - 11:15 a.m. NICHD Scientific Update
Moderator: Kevin Francis, Ph.D.
"Development of a Therapeutic Intervention for Niemann-Pick Disease, type C1"
Forbes D. (Denny) Porter, M.D., Ph.D.
Section on Molecular Dysmorphology
Program in Developmental Endocrinology and Genetics
11:15 a.m. - 1:45 p.m. Career Focus: Round Tables
Moderator: Stephanie Cologna, Ph.D.
11:15 - 11:45 a.m. Introductions & Overview
11:45 a.m. - 12:30 p.m. Rotations, 15 minutes each, from:
  1. Research, Academe
    • Mark Bayfield, Ph.D., York University, Toronto, Canada (Maraia lab)
  2. Industry
    • Cheryl Bolinger-Miles, Ph.D., Intrexon Corporation (Dever lab)
  3. Industry
    • Joaquin Villar, Ph.D., GeneDx-BioReliance (Dufau lab)
  4. Teaching, Academe
    • Aarthi Ashok, Ph.D., University of Toronto (Hegde lab)
  5. Science Writing
    • Carolyn Peluso, Ph.D., American Type Culture Collection (Serpe lab)
  6. Government
    • Andrea McCollum, Ph.D., U.S. Patent & Trade Office (NCI)
  7. Government (NIH)
    • Margaret Ochocinska, Ph.D., Health Program Specialist, Office of Translational Research, NINDS (Klein lab)
12:30 - 1:45 p.m. Lunch & Continued Career Round-Table Discussions
1:45 - 2:15 p.m. Fellow Presentations 3&4
Moderator: Celine Cluzeau, Ph.D.
"The Neural Substrates of Fly Color Vision"
Krishna Melnattur, Ph.D., Section on Neuronal Connectivity, NICHD

"A High-Throughput Approach to Mapping the Host-Pathogen Interactome of Legionella pneumophila, the Cause of Legionnaire's Disease"
Kimberly Decker, Ph.D., Unit of Microbial Pathogenesis, NICHD
2:15 - 2:45 p.m. NICHD Scientific Update
Moderator: Sisi Liu, Ph.D.
"Transposon Silencing, Parental Conflicts, and the Evolution of Genomic Imprinting"
Todd Macfarlan, Ph.D.
Unit on Mammalian Epigenome Reprogramming
Program in Genomics of Differentiation
2:45 - 3:00 p.m. Break
3:00 - 4:00 p.m. Keynote Address
Moderator: Thomas Miller, Ph.D.
"Educating a Biomedical Workforce for the 21st Century"
Shirley Tilghman, Ph.D.
President, Princeton University
4:00 - 6:30 p.m. Poster Session
With refreshments
4:00 - 5:15 p.m. Posters 1-31
5:15 - 6:30 p.m. Posters 32-62