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PROGRAM

Monday, June 17

6:30 p.m. -- 9:00 p.m.

Dinner -- Biddle House

Advisory Board Members of the Brain Cancer and Complex Systems Panels along with JSMF staff

Tuesday, June 18

8:00 a.m. -- 8:30 a.m.

Breakfast -- Biddle House

9:00 a.m. -- 4:00 p.m.

Advisory Board Meeting -- CLOSED SESSION

Brain Cancer Panel -- Terry Room

9:00 a.m. -- 4:00 p.m.

Advisory Board Meeting -- CLOSED SESSION

Studying Complex Systems Panel -- Harris Room

Lunch for the Advisory Board Meetings will be held in the Biddle House

The events described below are open to all meeting participants. Program Advisors and all Program Meeting participants welcome.

Tuesday Evening, June 18

6:00 p.m. -- 6:30 p.m.

6:30 p.m. -- 10:00 p.m.

Opening Reception -- Garden Room

Dinner -- Mary Duke Ballroom

Wednesday, June 19

All meeting sessions will be held in the Tarrytown Room (Carriage House)

7:00 a.m. -- 8:30 a.m.

Breakfast -- Biddle House

8:30 a.m. -- 8:45 a.m.

8:45 a.m. -- 9:30 a.m.

9:30 a.m. -- 10:15 a.m.

10:15 a.m. -- 10:40 a.m.

10:40 a.m. -- 11:25 a.m.

11:25 a.m. -- 11:50 a.m.

Introductory Remarks: Susan Fitzpatrick, James S. McDonnell Foundation -- Tarrytown Room (Carriage House)

Session 1 -- What's important to whom? Important questions in Brain Cancer Research, Studying Complex Systems and Bridging Brain, Mind and Behavior.

Liz Phelps, New York University -- We feel, therefore we think: Studying the interactions between emotion and cognition.

Diana Downs, University of Wisconsin -- Addressing complexity in a bacterial model system.

BREAK

Joe Costello, U. of California, S.F. -- Molecular mechanisms of brain tumor formation.

Discussant: Steve Petersen, Washington University

12:00 noon -- 1:30 p.m.

Lunch -- Biddle House

1:40 p.m. -- 1:45 p.m.

1:45 p.m. -- 2:25 p.m.

2:25 p.m. -- 3:05 p.m.

3:05 p.m. -- 3:25 p.m.

3:25 p.m. -- 4:05 p.m.

4:05 p.m. -- 4:35 p.m.

Introduction: Susan Fitzpatrick, JSMF

Session 2 -- Scales that matter.

Mercedes Pascual, University of Michigan -- Simple models, relevant scales, and complex ecological systems.

Monica Nister, Uppsala University -- Context matters: Do normal cells and cancer cels respond to signals differently?

BREAK

David Sheinberg, Brown University -- How the brain sees a complex world.

Discussant: Mercedes Pascual, University of Michigan

5:00 p.m. -- 7:00 p.m.

Reception and Poster Session -- King House

All meeting participants are invited to present a poster. Participants presenting posters should plan to have them up by lunch on Thursday, Oct. 4.

7:00 p.m. -- 9:00 p.m.

Dinner -- Garden Room

Thursday, June 20

7:00 a.m. -- 8:30 a.m.

Breakfast -- Biddle House

8:30 a.m. -- 8:45 a.m.

8:45 a.m. -- 9:40 a.m.

9:40 a.m. -- 10:35 a.m.

10:35 a.m. -- 10:55 a.m.

10:55 a.m. -- 11:50 a.m.

Introductions -- John Bruer, James S. McDonnell Foundation -- Tarrytown Room (Carriage House)

Session 3 -- James S. McDonnell Foundation Collaborative Award Activity: A new mechanism for tough problems.

Troy Hackett, Vanderbilt University -- Understanding hearing.

Jeff Lichtman, Washington University School of Medicine -- Monitoring synapses and circuits in fluorescent mice.

BREAK

Brian Walker, CSIRO Sustainable Ecosystems -- Resilience analysis: A conceptual underpinning for sustainability in social-ecological systems.

12:00 noon -- 1:30 p.m.

Lunch -- Biddle House

1:40 p.m. -- 1:50 p.m.

1:50 p.m. -- 2:30 p.m.

2:30 p.m. -- 3:10 p.m.

3:10 p.m. -- 3:30 p.m.

3:30 p.m. -- 4:10 p.m.

4:10 p.m. -- 4:50 p.m.

Introduction: Susan Fitzpatrick, JSMF

Session 4 -- Putting theory into practice -- the ultimate complex system.

Organizer: Bruce McCandliss, Cornell University -- Cognitive neuroscience meets educational practice, what happens next?

Ed Taub, University of Alabama at Birmingham -- Translating an efficacious neurorehabilitation intervention from bench to bedside.

BREAK

Jamshid Ghajar, Brain Trauma Foundation -- Changing traumatic brain injury acute care practice: Will art yield to science?

James Dearing, Michigan State University -- Theory-based acceleration of the diffusion of innovations.

6:00 p.m. -- 8:00 p.m.

Dinner -- Biddle House

END OF PROGRAM MEETING

Friday, June 21

8:00 a.m. -- 8:30 a.m.

Breakfast -- Biddle House