Friday, April 25 |
1 – 7 p.m. |
Registration |
1 – 3 p.m. |
Poster Setup |
2:30 – 3 p.m. |
ASCI Business Meeting |
3 – 9:30 p.m. |
Poster Viewing |
3 – 4 p.m. |
Reception for Trainees and MD/PhD Students |
4 – 6 p.m. |
Opening Plenary Session |
4 – 4:35 p.m. |
Speaker: Nancy Andreasen, MD, PhD
University of Iowa Hospitals and Clinics
Topic: The Creating Brain: The Neuroscience of Genius |
4:35 – 5:10 p.m. |
Speaker: Christopher Walsh, MD, PhD
Harvard Medical School
Topic: Genetics of Autism and MRI Similarities and Differences |
5:10– 6 p.m. |
Speaker: Edward Scolnick , MD
The Broad Institute of MIT and Harvard
Topic: Stanley Center for Psychiatric Research: Status and Progress |
6 – 7 p.m. |
ASCI Welcome Reception |
7 – 9 p.m. |
ASCI Annual Dinner/ Introduction of New Members Dinner Address |
7 – 9 p.m. |
Speaker: Jonathan Alter
Newsweek
Topic: Science, Medicine, Politics and Advocacy: Views from the Campaign Trail |
Saturday, April 26 |
7 – 8:15 a.m. |
Mentoring Breakfast |
7 – 11:15 a.m. |
Poster Viewing |
8:30 – 11:35 a.m. |
Plenary Session Genome-Wide Association Studies/Genetics of Complex Diseases |
8:30 a.m. – 9:10 a.m. |
Speaker: David Altshuler, MD, PhD,
Broad Institute
Topic: Genomic Variation and the Inherited Basis of Common Disease |
9:10 a.m. – 9:50 a.m. |
Speaker: Judy H. Cho, MD,
Yale University School of Medicine
Topic: Genome-Wide Association Studies in Crohn's Disease: Insight into Disease |
9:50 a.m. – 10:15 a.m. |
Break |
10:15 a.m. – 10:55 a.m. |
Speaker: Kari Stefansson, MD,
deCODE Genetics
Topic: Common Diseases: The Juxtaposition of Nature and Nurture |
10:55 a.m. – 11:35 a.m. |
Speaker: Richard P. Lifton, MD, PhD,
Yale University School of Medicine
Topic: Genetics of Hypertension: From Rare Patients to Common Pathways |
11:35 a.m. – 1:30 p.m. |
Poster Session with Lunch |
1:30– 3 p.m. |
Poster Dismantle |
1:30– 3:30 p.m. |
Plenary Session: Breaking Science from the JCI |
| 1:30–1:45 p.m. |
Session Introduction
Speaker: Laurence Turka, MD
JCI Editor in Chief, University of Pennsylvania |
| 1:45–2:05 p.m. |
Speaker: Ezio Bonifacio, MD, PhD
Center for Regenerative Therapies Dresden, Dresden University of Technology
Topic: Islet Transplantation in Autoimmune Diabetes Patients Induces Homeostatic Cytokines that Expand Autoreactive Memory T Cells |
| 2:05–2:25 p.m. |
Speaker: Daniela Calipia Tirziu, PhD
Dartmouth University
Topic: Angiogenesis-Driven Myocardial Hypertrophy |
| 2:25–2:45 p.m. |
Speaker: Kory Lavine, MD, PhD
, Washington University
Topic: Hedgehog Signaling is a Critical Regulator of the Coronary Vasculature |
| 2:45–3:05 p.m. |
Speaker: Mark S. Anderson, MD, PhD
University of California, San Francisco
Topic: Mechanisms of a Novel Autoimmunity Syndrome Caused by a Dominant Mutation in Aire |
| 3:10– 3:30 p.m. |
Speaker: Daniel Anthony, MA, PhD
University of Oxford
Topic: Revealing Invisible Brain Pathology with Novel MRI Contrast Agents |
3:30– 3:45 p.m. |
Break |
3:45– 5:05 p.m. |
ASCI and AAP New Member Presentations |
3:45– 4:05 p.m. |
Speaker: ASCI New Member: Mary Leonard, MD, MSCE
The Children's Hospital of Philadelphia
Topic:Glucocorticoid-Induced Osteoporosis in Children: Impact of the Underlying Disease
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4:05– 4:25 p.m. |
Speaker: AAP New Member: Laurie H. Glimcher, MD
Brigham and Women’s Hospital
Topic:Trawling for Treasure: Tales of T-bet |
4:25– 4:45 p.m. |
Speaker: ASCI New Member: Norman Sharpless, MD
University of North Carolina, Lineberger Comprehensive Cancer Center
Topic: The INK4/ARF Locus and Aging
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4:45– 5:05 p.m. |
Speaker: AAP New Member: Marc Feldman, PhD
Kennedy Institute of Rheumatology, The Charing Cross Hospital Campus
Topic: Human Disease Tissue Reveals Cytokine Targets for Therapy |
5:05– 5:35 p.m. |
ASCI Presidential Address
Charles L. Sawyers, MD
ASCI President
Memorial Sloan Kettering Cancer Center
Topic: Molecularizing Medicine: Are We Up for the Challenge? |
5:35– 6:05 p.m. |
AAP Presidential Address
Judith Swain, MD
AAP President
Singapore Institute for Clinical Sciences
University of California
San Diego School of Medicine
Topic: Our U.S.-Centric Focus: Lessons to be Learned from the British Empire |
7 – 10 p.m. |
AAP Annual Reception and Dinner |
7 – 10 p.m. |
Speaker: Jeffrey R. Boehm, DVM
Shedd Aquarium
Topic: North America's Great Lakes: Navigating Science and Society Towards Great Lakes Conservation |
Sunday, April 27 |
6:45 – 7:45 a.m. |
Mentoring Breakfast |
7 – 7:45 a.m. |
ASCI Institutional Representatives Retreat |
8 – 8:15 a.m. |
AAP Business Meeting |
8:15 – 9 a.m. |
Kober Medal Presentation
Topic: Wandering
Recipient: Samuel Thier, MD
Harvard Medical School
Massachusetts General Hospital
Presenter: Dennis Ausiello, MD
Massachusetts General Hospital |
9 – 9:20 a.m. |
Best Poster Awards Presentation/Bridge Grant Awards Recognition |
9:20 – 10 a.m. |
The Stanley J. Korsmeyer ASCI Award Lecture
Topic: Cellular Mechanisms of Insulin Resistance: Implications for Type 2 Diabetes, Obesity and the Metabolic Syndrome
Speaker: Gerald Shulman, MD, PhD
Yale University School of Medicine
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10 a.m. |
Meeting Adjourns |
