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ANNOUNCEMENT
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REGISTRATION FORM | PRINTER-FRIENDLY
REGISTRATION FORM
2009 Annual Spring Meeting
200 9
ANDP Spring Meeting
Hyatt Regency Bethesda
Bethesda, MD
April 25 - 26, 2009
Agenda
Saturday,
April 25, 2009
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1:00
pm – 1:15 pm
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Welcome
and Introduction
Rae
Nishi, PhD
President,
ANDP; University of Vermont
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1:15
pm – 3:15 pm
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Session
I
Strengthening
the Pipeline from Primarily Undergraduate Institutions
(PUIs) to Grad Programs
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Christopher
Korey, PhD
President, FUN; Assistant Professor, Biology College of Charleston
“PUIs: An Untapped Source of Future Neuroscientists”
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Jean Hardwick, PhD
Professor, Biology, Ithaca College
“Neuroscience Research Opportunities at PUIs"
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Pamela
Scott-Johnson, PhD
Morgan
State University
“Developing a Pipeline for Recruiting Minorities from PUIs”
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Discussion
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3:15
pm –
3:45 pm
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Snack
and Networking Break
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3:45
pm – 4:30 pm
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Session II
Public Advocacy and Training Programs
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Ramesh Raghupathi, PhD
Associate Professor, Department of Neurobiology & Anatomy, Drexel University
Our professional societies are now realizing the importance of public advocacy to inform our congressional representatives about the importance of funding for scientific training and research. How much of a part of graduate training should this become? If our trainees learn about public advocacy, will they become the savvy scientists of the future who are effective at informing the public and securing money?
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5:30
pm – 6:30 pm
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Networking
Reception
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6:30 pm – 7:15 pm
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Dinner
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7:15
pm
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After-Dinner
Talk
ScienceDebate 2008: Lessons Learned about Bringing Science to
Politics
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Shawn Otto
CEO, ScienceDebate
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Shawn Otto is the CEO of ScienceDebate
2008 - a website that he started during the campaign for president that called for a presidential debate on science- a long-neglected area under the Bush Administration. It grew from a core of 6 to arguably the largest political initiative in the history of science with support from 39,000 individual scientists, engineers, and concerned citizens along with nearly every major American scientific organization. Shawn’s observations about the melding of news with politics and science are fascinating and very relevant to programs with an interest in training scientists.
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Sunday, April
26, 2009
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am – 8:30 am
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Breakfast
and Business Meeting
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8:30
am – 10:00 am
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Session III
Promoting
Retention of Minorities in Science
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Joseph Whittaker, PhD
Morgan University
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Legena Henry
MIT
Graduate Student
ACME Retention Program at MIT
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10:00
am – 10:45 am
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Session
IV
Possible
Merger of ANDP with the Society for Neuroscience
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Michael Lehman,
PhD
Past President, ANDP;
University of Western Ontario
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10:45 am –
11:00 am
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11:00
am – 11:30 pm
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Session
V
Report of the
National Advisory Mental Health Council Workgroup on
Research Training (http://www.nimh.nih.gov/about/advisory-boards-and-groups/namhc/reports/investing-in-the-future.pdf)
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Nancy Desmond,
PhD
Associate Director for Research and Training Development, NIMH
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11:30
am – 12:00 pm
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Session
VI
Discussion about NIMH
Report with Other Program Directors in Charge of
Training at NIH
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Beth Babecki, PhD
NIDA
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Steven Korn, PhD
NINDS
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12:00
am – 12:30 pm
(Light
lunch at 12:00)
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Session
VII – Opportunities for
Funding Neuroscience Training at NSF and how to be
Competitive for Them
Aixa Alfonso, PhD
NSF |
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