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Friday, April 27
1:00 p.m. – 3:00 p.m. Poster Setup
1:00 p.m. – 3:30 p.m. APSA Plenary Session
1:00 p.m. –
1:30 p.m.
APSA Keynote 1 – Roger Lewis
1:30 p.m. –
2:00 p.m.
APSA Keynote 2 – Elizabeth Engle
2:00 p.m. –
3:00 p.m.
APSA Session I: Women in Medicine Panel
3:00 p.m. –
3:30 p.m.
APSA Keynote 3 – Fred Kaplan
3:30 p.m. – 6:00 p.m. Plenary Session I – Understanding Disease Mechanisms to Improve Human Health
3:30 p.m. –
4:00 p.m.
Invited Speaker
Jenny Ting, PhD
University of North Carolina
NLR Innate Immune Sensors in Diseases and Disease Models
4:00 p.m. –
4:30 p.m.
Invited Speaker
Olufunmilayo Olopade, MD
The University of Chicago
Closing the Knowledge Disparity Gap: From Molecular Mechanisms to Interventions and Back
4:30 p.m. –
4:45 p.m.
Career Development Awardee Presentation
4:45 p.m. –
5:15 p.m.
Invited Speaker
Craig Venter, PhD
Venter Institute
Synthetic Life
5:15 p.m. –
5:45 p.m.
Invited Speaker
Ramesh Rao, PhD
University of California, San Diego
Information Technology for Disruptive Changes in Medicine
5:45 p.m. –
6:00 p.m.
Q&A
6:00 p.m. – 7:00 p.m. ASCI Welcome Reception and Poster Viewing
6:00 p.m. – 9:30 p.m. Poster Viewing
7:00 p.m. – 9:00 p.m. AAP Offsite President's Dinner –
Mid America Club
Intelligent Life
Speaker: Tony Haymet
University of California, San Diego
7:00 p.m. – 9:00 p.m. ASCI Annual Dinner/Introduction of New Members
Speaker: TBD
7:00 p.m. – 9:00 p.m. APSA Dinner Outing
(On Your Own) Groups will meet by the Registration Desk at the Fairmont Hotel
9:00 p.m. – Midnight APSA Welcome Reception
APSA Presidential Address
Speaker: TBD
Saturday, April 28
7:00 a.m. – 8:00 a.m. AAP Council Meeting
7:00 a.m. – 8:15 a.m. Mentoring Breakfast
8:15 a.m. – 11:15 a.m. Plenary Session II – Understanding Disease Mechanisms to Improve Human Health
8:15 a.m. –
8:45 a.m.
Invited Speaker
Michael Karin, PhD
University of California, San Diego
Iin the Footsteps of Virchow: Tumor Elicited Inflammation – Mechanisms and Outcome
8:45 a.m. –
9:15 a.m.
Invited Speaker
Matthew Meyerson, MD, PhD
Dana–Farber Cancer Institute
Somatic Genome Alterations and Targeted Therapy in Human Epithelial Cancers
9:15 a.m. –
9:30 a.m.
APSA trainee oral abstract presentation 1
9:30 a.m. –
10:00 a.m.
Invited Speaker
Nancy Andrews, MD, PhD
Duke University
The Secret Life of the Transferrin Receptor
10:00 a.m. – 10:30 a.m. Break
10:30 a.m. –
11:00 a.m.
Invited Speaker
Lennart Mucke, MD
Gladstone Institute of Neurological Disease
Brain Against Alzheimer's Disease: Rivals in Complexity
11:00 a.m. –
11:15 a.m.
APSA trainee oral abstract presentation 2
11:15 a.m. –
11:45 a.m.
Invited Speaker
Beth Levine, MD
The University of Texas Southwestern Medical Center at Dallas
Exercise, Autophagy, and Glucose Metabolism
11:45 a.m.– 1:30 p.m. Poster Session with Lunch
12:45 pm – 1:30 pm Poster Reviewer Meeting
1:30 p.m. – 2:00 p.m. Poster Dismantle
1:45 p.m. – 2:15 p.m. and 2:30 p.m. – 3:00 p.m. APSA Session – Career Development Workshop Sessions (Residency 101, Mentorship, and Funding)
Residency 101 – Choosing and Surviving Your Path
Grant Writing & Funding – From F–30 to R–01 and Everything In Between
Ethical Research
1:30 p.m. – 3:00 p.m. ASCI and AAP New Member Presentations
3:00 p.m. – 3:30 p.m. Break
3:30 p.m. –
4:00 p.m.
APSA Keynote 4 – Sam Gambhir
4:00 p.m. –
4:15 p.m.
APSA trainee oral abstract presentation 3
4:15 p.m. –
4:45 p.m.
APSA Award
5:00 p.m. – 5:30 p.m. AAP Presidential Address:
David Brenner, MD
5:30 p.m. – 6:00 p.m. ASCI Presidential Address:
Elizabeth McNally, MD, PhD
5:00 p.m. – 6:00 p.m. APSA Policy Panel
7:30 p.m. – 9:00 p.m. APSA Dinner
Speaker: TBD
7:00 p.m. – 10:00 p.m. AAP Annual Business Meeting, Reception and Dinner
Connected: The Surprising Power of Our Social Networks and How They Shape Our Lives
Speaker: James H. Fowler
University of California, San Diego
10:00 p.m. – Noon Dessert Reception (open to all attendees)
Sunday, April 29
7:00 a.m. – 8:15 a.m. Mentoring Breakfast
8:30 a.m. – 11:30 a.m. Plenary Session III – Understanding Disease Mechanisms to Improve Human Health
8:30 a.m. –
9:15 a.m.
Kober Medal Presentation
Recipient: Arthur H. Rubenstein, MBBCh
Presenter: Kenneth Polonsky, MD
9:15 a.m. –
10:00 a.m.
Kober Lecture:
Barry S. Coller, MD
The Rockefeller University
Translating From the Rivers of Babylon to the Coronary Bloodstream
10:00 a.m. –
10:15 a.m.
APSA trainee oral presentation 4
10:15 a.m. –
11:00 a.m.
ASCI/Stanley J. Korsmeyer Award Lecture
William G. Kaelin, Jr., MD
Dana-Farber Cancer Institute
Gregg L. Semenza, MD, PhD
Johns Hopkins Medicine
11:00 a.m. –
11:15 a.m.
APSA trainee oral presentation 5
11:15 a.m. –
11:45 a.m.
APSA Keynote 5 – David Relman
11:45 a.m. –
Noon
APSA trainee oral presentation 6
12:15 p.m. –
1:00 p.m.
Post Graduate Opportunities Panel
1:00 p.m. – 2:30 p.m. Residency Luncheon