Seventh Annual NIH Director’s
Pioneer Award Symposium
September 20 – 21, 2011
Doubletree Bethesda
8120 Wisconsin Avenue, Bethesda, Maryland
Featuring
Presentations by the “Graduating Class” of 2006 Pioneer Award Recipients
and selected New Innovator Award Recipients
Poster Sessions by Pioneer and New Innovator
Award Recipients
AGENDA – TUESDAY, SEPTEMBER 20, 2011
| 8:00 a.m. | Welcome and Introductions of the 2011 NIH Director’s Pioneer Awardees |
| 8:30 a.m. | Cheng Chi Lee, Ph.D. University of Texas Health Science Center at Houston 5’-AMP-Induced Deep Hypometabolism in Mammals: Insight Into Its Mechanism and Potential Applications |
| 9:00 a.m. | Karla Kirkegaard, Ph.D. Stanford University School of Medicine Quenching Rainbows: Suppressing Diversity in RNA Viruses |
| 9:30 a.m. | Evgeny A. Nudler, Ph.D. New York University School of Medicine Bacterial Gas Defense |
| 10:00 a.m. | Break |
| 10:15 a.m. | David A. Relman, M.D. Stanford University Explorations of Self: The Human Microbiome |
| 10:45 a.m. | Younan Xia, Ph.D. Washington University in St. Louis Putting Nanomaterials to Work for Biomedical Research |
| 11:15 a.m. | Thomas J. Kodadek, Ph.D. Scripps Research Institute, Florida Unbiased Discovery of Serum Antibody Biomarkers |
| 11:45 a.m. | Lunch Break |
| 1:15 p.m. | Ed Boyden, Ph.D. Massachusetts Institute of Technology Tools for Controlling Brain Circuits with Light |
| 1:30 p.m. | Jerilyln Timlin, Ph.D. Sandia National Laboratories Visualizing Early Immune Response to Bacterial Infections: Reorganization at the Nanoscale |
| 1:45 p.m. | Alysson Muotri, Ph.D. University of California, San Diego Revealing Common Molecular Pathways in Autism Spectrum Disorders Using Human Neurons |
| 2:00 p.m. | Julie Hotopp, Ph.D. University of Maryland Baltimore Lateral Gene Transfer from the Microbiome as a Source of Novel Mutations in the Human Genome |
| 2:15 p.m. | Mark Johnson, M.D., Ph.D. Brigham and Women’s Hospital A Cooperative MicroRNA Network in Glioblastoma |
| 2:30 p.m. | Gabriel Kreiman, Ph.D. Children’s Hospital Boston Towards Deciphering the Neuronal Circuits Underlying Perception and Cognition |
| 2:45 p.m. | Break |
| 3:00 p.m. | Poster Session and Reception – New Innovator Award Recipients |
| 4:30 p.m. | Close |
AGENDA – WEDNESDAY, SEPTEMBER 21, 2011
| 8:00 a.m. | Rebecca W. Heald, Ph.D. University of California, Berkeley Mechanisms of Intracellular Scaling |
| 8:30 a.m. | Arup K. Chakraborty, Ph.D. Massachusetts Institute of Technology A Journey from Basic T-Cell Biology to How to Hit HIV Where It Hurts |
| 9:00 a.m. | Kwabena A. Boahen, Ph.D. Stanford University Neurogrid: Emulating a Million Neurons in the Cortex |
| 9:30 a.m. | Break |
| 9:45 a.m. | James L. Sherley, M.D., Ph.D. Boston Biomedical Research Institute Advancing “Adult” Stem Cell-Based Medicine |
| 10:15 a.m. | Rosalind A. Segal, M.D., Ph.D. Dana-Farber Cancer Institute Modulators of Shh Signaling: Novel Approaches |
| 10:45 a.m. | Gary J. Pielak, Ph.D. University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill Protein and RNA Biophysics in Cells |
| 11:15 a.m. | Lila M. Gierasch, Ph.D. University of Massachusetts, Amherst Protein Folding: From Test Tube to Cell |
| 11:45 p.m. | Lunch Break |
| 1:15 p.m. | Brief Talks by the 2010 Pioneer Awardees Previewing Their Posters |
| 2:45 p.m. | Poster Session and Reception – Pioneer Award Recipients |
| 4:30 p.m. | Adjourn |
Attendance is free and registration is not required.
Send questions and requests for reasonable accommodations to Pioneer@NIH.gov or call (301) 594-3555.
The symposium will not be videocast live, but the platform presentations will be videotaped and available for viewing after the meeting at Webcast.
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