Annual PI Meeting for the Innovative Molecular Analysis Technologies (IMAT) Program (Agenda)

Agenda

Day 1, Monday December 16
10:00am	Early Career Session Natcher Room H (lower level)
1:00pm	Welcome - Natcher Auditorium (lower level) Kelly Crotty, National Cancer Institute
1:10pm	Protein Sciences and Synthetic Biology Methods Andre Karginov, University of Illinois - Chicago Shuichi Hoshika, Foundation for Applied Molecular Evolution Qiao Lin, Columbia University
2:10pm	Improvements in Sample Handling Alptekin Aksan, University of Minnesota Chad Borges, Arizona State University
2:50pm	Poster Session 1 - Natcher Atrium (main level) Office hours with NIH staff - Room H
4:20pm	Single Cell Technologies Ryan Kelly, Brigham Young University and Pacific Northwest National Laboratory Andrew Adey, Oregon Health and Science University Dan Landau, Cornell University Ray Moellering, University of Chicago Tom Norman, Memorial Sloan Kettering Cancer Center
6:00pm	End

Day 2, Tuesday December 17
9:00am	Lab on a Chip Wei Wei, Institute for Systems Biology Allon Klein, Harvard University, and Linas Mazutis, Vilnius University Sofia Merajver, University of Michigan Claire Hur, Johns Hopkins University
10:20am	break
10:40am	Nucleic Acid Technologies Vladimir Didenko, Baylor College of Medicine Megan Schertzer, New York Genome Center Tao Pan, University of Chicago
11:40am	Panel on Strategies for Implementing New Tools in a Research Setting
12:20pm	Lunch (on your own - Natcher cafeteria is open and sandwich preorders are available)
1:20pm	Clinical and Translational Technologies I Darryl Shibata, University of Southern California Brian Chiu, University of Chicago, and Wei Zhang, Northwestern University Joel Greenberg, Quadridox Charles van de Mark, Massachusetts Institute of Technology
2:40pm	Research Advocate Christina Sisti
2:50pm	Poster Session 2 - Natcher Atrium Office hours with NIH staff - Room H
4:20pm	Methods for Noninvasive Cancer Detection Adam Hall, Wake Forest University Jeff Wang, Johns Hopkins University Rick Drake, Medical University of South Carolina
5:20pm	Panel on Noninvasive Cancer Detection and Monitoring
6:00pm	End

Day 3, Wednesday December 18
9:00am	Clinical and Translational Technologies II Kai Chen and Charles McKenna, University of Southern California Sindy Tang, Stanford University Rohit Bhargava, University of Illinois Jenny Jiang, University of Pennsylvania, and Amy Brock, University of Texas - Austin
10:20am	Panel on Challenges in Clinical Translation of Novel Methods
11:00am	Break
11:20am	Novel Imaging Tools Summer Gibbs, Oregon Health and Science University Hakho Lee, Harvard University Vladislav Yakovlev, Texas A&M University, and Mikhail Berezin, Wash U in St. Louis
12:20pm	Closing remarks
	End