Opening Plenary Session: "The Era of the Brain"

Monday, September 22, 2014
10:00 a.m. – 12:00 p.m.	Masur Auditorium, Building 10

Co-chairs

• Catherine Bushnell, Scientific Director, NCCAM
• Michael Krause, Scientific Director, NIDDK

Program

The opening plenary session will have a variety of presentations this year. We will start the plenary with a welcome by NIH Director Francis Collins and then have the FARE Awards Ceremony and two scientific lectures. The Fellows Award for Research Excellence (FARE) Program is in its 20^th year of providing recognition for the outstanding scientific research performed by intramural fellows. There will be a short ceremony to recognize the FARE winners from this year. We then will have two 30-minute lectures by Drs. Antonello Bonci and Mark Hallett about their latest brain research on addiction and movement, respectively.

• Welcome: Exceptional opportunities in biomedical research - Dr. Francis Collins, Director, NIH
• FARE award winners recognition - Drs. Lori Conlan, Hien Dang, and Sudhir Rai
• "Optogenetic approaches to understanding substance use disorders" - Dr. Antonello Bonci, Scientific Director, NIDA
• "Focal Hand Dystonia: A failure of just one highly skilled movement" - Dr. Mark Hallett, Senior Investigator, NINDS

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