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James S. McDonnell Foundation 21st Century Science Initiative
2003 Program Meeting
Creating Knowledge from Information
June 4-6, Tarrytown Inn and Conference Center

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Monday, June 2    
     
6:30 -- 9:00 p.m.: Dinner -- Biddle House
  Advisory Board Members and JSMF staff
     
     
Tuesday, June 3
     
8:00 -- 8:30 a.m.: Breakfast -- Biddle House
     
9:00 -- noon: Brain Cancer Panel Meeting -- Harris Room
    CLOSED SESSION
     

     
    BEGINNING OF PROGRAM MEETING
     
The events described below are open to all meeting participants. Program Advisors and all Program Meeting participants are welcome. All meeting sessions will be held in the Tarrytown Room (Carriage House)
     
     
Tuesday, June 3    
     
12:00 noon: Opening Lunch, Garden Room (Biddle House)
     
 1:30 -  5:00 p.m.:   Session 1, Experimental Models - true to life or just a pretty face?
    Chair: Joe Costello, UCSF
     
   1:30 --  1:45 p.m.: Introduction, Susan Fitzpatrick, JSMF
   1:45 --  2:00 p.m.: Introductory Remarks, Joe Costello
   2:00 --  2:30 p.m.: Robert Wechsler-Reya, Duke University --
    Science Imitating Disease: The ups and downs of modeling brain tumors in mice
   2:45 --  3:00 p.m.: Break
   3:00 --  3:30 p.m.: Robert Clark, UCSD --
    An Animal Model of Human Medial Temporal Lobe Amnesia in the Rat
   3:45 --  4:15 p.m.: Janet Pierrehumbert, Northwestern University --
    Ecological Validity of Language Sound Systems
   4:30 --  5:00 p.m.: Discussion
   
 6:30 --  9:30 p.m.: Reception and Dinner, Biddle House
     
     
Wednesday, June 4    
     
All meeting sessions will be held in the Tarrytown Room (Carriage House)
     
8:00 -- 8:30 a.m.: Breakfast, Biddle House
     
     
 8:30 -- 12:00 noon:   Session 2, New ways of thinking about old problems
    Chair:

John Holland, University of Michigan

     
   8:30 --  9:00 a.m.: Introductory Remarks, John Holland
   9:10 --  9:40 a.m.: Susan Short, Gray Cancer Institute --
    Non-Targeted Effects of Radiation in Gliomas and CNS
   9:50 -- 10:05 a.m.: Break
  10:05 -- 10:35 a.m.: Melanie Mitchell, Oregon Health and Science University --
    Getting a Computer to Understand What It Sees
  10:45 -- 11:15 a.m.: David Bessler, Texas A&M --
    On World Poverty: What does TETRADII tell us?
  11:30 -- 12:00 noon: Discussion
     
12:00 noon: Lunch, Biddle House
   
 1:30 -- 5:00 p.m.:   Session 3, Spatial/Temporal Aspects of Change
    Chair: Ann Kinzig, Arizona State University
     
   1:30 --  2:00 p.m.: Introductory Remarks, Crawford "Buzz" Holling
   2:10 --  2:40 p.m.: Ann Kinzig, Arizona State University --
    Spatiotemporal Aspects of Resilience in a Complex Prehistoric Society
   2:50 --  3:05 p.m.: Break
   3:05 --  3:35 p.m.: Rosalind Segal, Dana Farber Cancer Institute --
    Limiting Proliferation in Time and Space: Sonic hedgehog modifiers
   3:45 --  4:15 p.m.: Todd Preuss, Emory University --
    Levels of Organization in Organismal Biology
   4:30 --  5:00 p.m.: Discussion
   
6:00 --  7:30 p.m.: Poster Session, King House
  All meeting participants are invited to present a poster. Those presenting posters should plan to have them up by lunch on Wednesday, June 4.
   
7:30 -- 9:30 p.m.: Dinner, Biddle House
   
   
Thursday, June 5  
   
All meeting sessions will be held in the Tarrytown Room (Carriage House)
   
8:00 -- 8:30 a.m.: Breakfast, Biddle House
   
8:30 -- 12:00 noon:   Session 4, Adaption
    Chair: Scott Grafton, Dartmouth College
     
   8:30 --  9:00 a.m.: Introductory Remarks, Scott Grafton
   9:10 --  9:40 a.m.: William Chambers, University of Pittsburgh --
    "Them Changes" -- Adaptation and Immune Evasion in Brain Tumors
   9:50 -- 10:05 a.m.: Break
  10:05 -- 10:35 a.m.: Miles Davenport, University of New South Wales --
    Vaccines for HIV: Developing an understanding of the possibilities and pitfalls
  10:45 -- 11:15 a.m.: Scott Johnson-Frey, Dartmouth College --
    The Adapting Brain: Organization and reorganization in sensory-motor systems
  11:30 -- 12:00 noon: Discussion
   
12:00 noon: Closing Lunch, West Terrace
   
    END OF PROGRAM MEETING
   

   
Thursday, June 5  
   
1:00 -- 4:30 p.m.: Complex Systems Panel Meeting -- Harris Room
    CLOSED SESSION
   
1:00 -- 4:30 p.m.: Brain, Mind and Behavior Panel Meeting -- Astoria Room
    CLOSED SESSION
   
 
   
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