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Concurrent Symposium Sessions

Tuesday, September 25
Natcher Conference Center
Concurrent Symposia Session I 2:00 p.m. - 4:00 p.m.

*All symposia are held in the Natcher Conference Center

Please click on the titles below to get full symposium program information.

Genome Wide SNP Assays Reveal a Role for Genetics in Normal and Abnormal Variation
Chair: Andrew Singleton, NIA
Main Auditorium  
   

Role of TOR in Cell Growth and Cancer
Co-Chairs: Beverly Mock, NCI, and Alan Kimmel, NIDDK

Balcony A  
   

Research is Going Swimmingly at NIH: Aquatic Model Organisms in the Intramural Program
Co-Chairs: Brant Weinstein, NICHD, and Dennis Hickstein, NCI

Balcony B  
   

Emerging Imaging Technologies: From the Synapse to the Brain
Chair: John Isaac, NINDS

Balcony C  
     

Chemistry from Beaker to the Bench
Chair: Matthew Hall, NCI

Conference Room D

 
     

Cytokines in Development and Disease
Chair: Lothar Hennighausen, NIDDK

Conference Room E1/E2  
     

Mechanisms of Viral Persistence
Chair: Roland Owens, NIDDK, and Jeffery Cohen, NIAID

Conference Room F1/F2  

Wednesday, September 26
Natcher Conference Center
Concurrent Symposia Session II 10:30 am to 12:30 pm
Organelle Trafficking and Dysfunction in Diseases
Co-Chairs: Zu - Hang Zheng, NINDS, and Ramanujan Hegde, NICHD
Main Auditorium  
   

Beta Cell Biology
Chair: Sushil G. Rane, NIDDK

Balcony A  
   

Immune Cell Dynamics: From Movies to Monkeys to Models and Disease
Chair: Ronald M. Germain, NIAID

Balcony B  
   

New Molecular Insights into Vascular Physiology and Disease
Co-Chairs: David Roberts, NCI and Triantafyllos Chavakis, NCI

Balcony C  
     

A New Non-invasive Method for Detecting Stress and Immune-related Biomarkers in Sweat
Chair: Esther M. Sternberg, NIMH

Conference Room D

 
     

G-Proteins - The Second Generation
Chair: David Armstrong, NIEHS

Conference Room E1/E2  
     

RNA Structure/Function and RNA Nanobiology
Chair: Bruce A. Shapiro, NCI

Conference Room F1/F2  

Wednesday, September 26
Natcher Conference Center
Concurrent Symposia Session III 2:30 pm to 4:30 pm
Immunotherapy vs. Immunosuppression
Chair: Biragyn Arya, NIA
Main Auditorium  
   

Glycans in Biology: Highly Relevant Yet Still Under Appreciated
Chair: Joseph Barchi, NCI

Balcony A  
   

Tissue Engineering and Regenerative Medicine
Chair: Rocky S. Tuan, NIAMS

Balcony B  
   

Molecular Genetics of Development
Chair: Heinrich Westphal, NICHD

Balcony C  
     

The Role of Prostaglandins and Other Inflammatory Markers in Brain Physiology and Pathology
Co-Chairs: Francesca Bosetti, NIA, and Afonso Silva, NINDS

Conference Room D

 
     

Biomarkers and Pathogenic Mechanisms of Parkinson’s Disease
Co-Chairs: Huaibin Cai, NIA, and David Goldstein, NINDS

Conference Room E1/E2  
     

Forestalling Blindness: Two Decades of Progress
Chair: Patricia Becerra, NEI, and Michael Redmond, NEI

Conference Room F1/F2  
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