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James S. McDonnell Foundation 21^st Century Science Initiative
2008 Advisory Board and Program Meetings
June 23-26, 2008
The Randolph Hotel --Oxford, United Kingdom
Agenda

*Monday, June 23, 2008*
Arrival of all guests -- The Randolph Hotel

3:00 – 5:00 p.m.	BMB Advisory Board meeting (closed session),
	St. John’s College, New Seminar Room

6:00 – 8:00 p.m.	Opening Hospitality Room with drinks and appetizers
	The Lancaster Room, The Randolph Hotel

*Tuesday, June 24, 2008*
7:30 – 8:30 a.m.	Breakfast, The Randolph Hotel

All meeting events will take place at The Ashmolean Museum -- Headly Lecture Theatre (all participants)

8:30 – 12:00	Symposium 1:	It’s the Network! Brain and Cognitive Function in Health and Disease
	Chair:	Lance Gunderson, Emory University
	Speakers:	Steve Hanson, Rutgers University Daphne Maurer, McMaster University Randy McIntosh, Rotman Research Institute Marc Raichle, Washington University

9:00 – 9:10 a.m.	Introduction, Lance Gunderson
9:15 – 9:40 a.m.	Steve Hanson, Collaboration as a Graph: Making the Nodes and Finding the Edges.
9:45 – 10:10 a.m.	Daphne Maurer, From GABA to Videogames: Can a Network Redefine Critical Periods and Cure Lazy Eyes?
10:15 – 10:35 a.m.	BREAK
10:40 – 11:05 a.m.	Randy McIntosh, Collaboration on Brain Network Recovery: Greater than the sum of its parts?
11:10 – 11:35 a.m.	Marc Raichle, Glycolysis, Synapses, Learning and Memory.
11:40 – 12:15 p.m.	Discussion

12:15 p.m.	Lunch, The Ashmolean Museum

1:30 – 5:00 p.m.	Free time for meeting participants
1:30 – 5:00 p.m.	BC and CS Advisory Panel meetings (closed sessions), St. John’s College Annex (street address 20 St Giles)
6:00 – 8:00 p.m.	Poster Session and Buffet Reception, The Ashmolean Museum—Randolph Sculpture Gallery

*Wednesday, June 25, 2008*
7:30 – 8:30 a.m.	Breakfast, The Randolph Hotel

All meeting events will take place at The Ashmolean Museum – Headly Lecture Theatre (all participants)

8:30 – 12:00 noon	Symposium 2:	As Brains Mature – What Happens?
	Chair:	Steve Petersen, Washington University
	Speakers:	Charles G. Eberhart, Johns Hopkins University Richard Aslin, University of Rochester Allison Gopnik, University of California, Berkeley

8:30 – 8:40 a.m.	Introduction, Steve Petersen
8:40 – 9:25 a.m.	Charles Eberhart, Recapitulation Theory Revisited: Brain Ontogeny and Glial Tumor Biology
9:30 – 10:15 a..m.	Dick Aslin, Infant language, learning, and cognition: Promise and prospects of near-infrared spectroscopy.
10:15 – 10:35 a.m.	BREAK
10:35 – 11:20 a.m.	Alison Gopnik, Finding out about the world: The meeting of Cognitive Development, Machine Learning, and the Philosophy of Science.
11:15 – 12:00 noon	Discussion

12:00 noon	Lunch, The Ashmolean Museum

1:30 – 5:00 p.m.	Symposium 3:	Rocking the Boat: How Does Knowledge Change Practice?
	Chair:	Carolyn Baum, Washington University
	Speakers:	Roddy Roediger, Washington University Timothy Buchman, Washington University Vimla Patel, Arizona State University Lance Gunderson, Emory University

1:30 – 1:55 p.m.	Carolyn Baum -- What’s doing got to do with it? Changing the focus of post-stroke care.
2:00 – 2:25 p.m.	Roddy Roediger – Applying cognitive psychology to enhance educational practice: How can we translate research from the lab to the classroom?
2:30 – 2:55 p.m.	Timothy Buchman – Collaboration in critical care: The life that gets saved just might be your own.
3:00 – 3:20 p.m.	BREAK
3:25 – 3:50 p.m.	Vimla Patel – Complexity and error in critical care: Is simpler always safer?
3:55– 4:20 p.m.	Lance Gunderson, Lessons from the Resilience Alliance: Our field may be wet—but we’ve learned how not to get stuck in the mud.
4:25 – 5:00 p.m.	Discussion: Lance Gunderson

6:00 – 7:00 p.m.	Closing Reception, Garden Quad
7:00 – 8:30 p.m.	Dinner, St. John’s Hall

*Thursday, June 26, 2008*
Depart Hotel