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2007 Annual Spring Meeting

2007 ANDP Spring Meeting
Hyatt Regency Bethesda
Bethesda, MD
May 5-6, 2007

Where possible, speaker's names are linked to their presentations

Saturday, May 5, 2007
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1:00 p.m. – 1:15 p.m Welcome and Introduction
      Alison Hall (Case Western Reserve University), President, ANDP
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1:15 p.m. – 2:30 p.m.   Session I – Interactive Neuroscience Tools
     
Chair:  Rae Nishi  (University of Vermont)
                   
Councilor, ANDP      
     
Cynthia Forehand (University of Vermont)

              
      Professor, Department of Anatomy and  Neurobiology
      Richard Olivo  (Harvard University)
              
      Associate Director, Derek Bok Center for Teaching and Learning

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2:30 p.m. – 3:30 p.m.   Session II – ANDP and SfN:  Where Does Graduate Education Fit?  A Discussion with Membership
      Chair:  George Rebec  (Indiana University)
                   
Past-President, ANDP

     
Marty Saggese  (Society for Neuroscience)

                   
Executive Director, Society for Neuroscience

     
Eve Marder  (Brandeis University)

                    
President-Elect, Society for Neuroscience
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3:30 p.m. – 4:00 p.m . Break
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4:00 p.m. – 5:00 p.m.   Session IIIMentoring the Mentors
      Joan P. Schwartz  (National Institutes of Health)
                   
Assistant Director, Office of Intramural Research

     
Alan Sved  (University of Pittsburgh)

                   
Chair, Department of Neuroscience
                    Co-Director, Center for Neuroscience

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5:00 p.m. – 5:30 p.m.   Session IV –  Open Discussion
     
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6:00 p.m. – 6:30 p.m.   Reception
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6:30 p.m. – 7:30 p.m.   Dinner – Old Georgetown
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7:30 p.m.   After-Dinner Talk:  "University Management of Animal Use:  The UCLA Experience"
Marie-Francoise Chesselet  (University of California, Los Angeles)
                   
Chair, Department of Neurobiology

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Sunday, May 6, 2007
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8:00 a.m. – 8:30 a.m.   Breakfast and Short Business Meeting
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8:30 a.m. – 10:00 a.m.   Session V –  Funding Graduate Education in a Time of Declining NIH Resources
     
Michael T. Shipley (University of Maryland School of Medicine)
                   
Chair, Department of Anatomy and Neuroscience
                    Director, Program in Neurosciences
     
Yoland Smith  (Emory University)

                   
Director, Graduate Neuroscience Program
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10:00 a.m. – 10:15 a.m. Break
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10:15 a.m. – 11:15 a.m.   Session VI – How is NIMH Thinking About Trainee Support?
     
Tom Insel  (National Institutes of Health)
                   
Director, National Institute of Mental Health
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11:15 a.m. – 1:30 p.m.
(Light lunch at 12:15)  
Session VII  How to Plug the Leaky Academic Pipeline for Women
      Catherine Didion  (National Research Council)

                   
Director, Committee on Women in Science and Engineering

     
Diana Bilimoria  (Case Western Reserve University)

                   
Associate Professor, Department of Organizational Behavior

    
 Phoebe Leboy  (University of Pennsylvania)
                   
President-elect, Association of Women in Science

 

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