T H E   N I H    C A T A L Y S T     J U L Y  –  A U G U S T   2007

 
 
 

Upcoming Events

SEPTEMBER GALA: NIH RESEARCH FESTIVAL CELEBRATES ITS 20TH ANNIVERSARY

The 2007 NIH Research Festival, to be held September 25-28, 2007, on the NIH Bethesda campus, also commemorates the 20th anniversary of the NIH Intramural Program. This year's organizing committee is co-chaired by Alan Koretsky, NINDS, and Dan Longo, NIA. The opening plenary session on Tuesday, September 25, at 9:30 a.m. in Masur Auditorium, features presentations on "Chromosomes in Modern Biology and Medicine."

Other events during this four-day showcase of the NIH Intramural Program include cross-cutting symposia and poster sessions; the 2008 FARE awards ceremony and reception; special exhibits on resources for intramural research; the job fair for NIH postdoctoral, research, and clinical fellows; the festival food and music fair; and the Technical Sales Association scientific equipment tent show.

All NIH investigators and Bethesda FDA/CBER investigators are invited to submit poster abstracts online through July 30. Posters in any area of research conducted within the NIH Intramural Program will be considered for presentation, but the organizing committee requests a limit of one poster submission per first author. Applicants will be notified of acceptance by e-mail in mid-August.

For a preliminary schedule of events and online poster registration, go to the NIH Research Festival website at http://researchfestival.nih.gov. For more information about poster registration, contact Paula Cohen or Amy Blackburn, Research Festival logistics co-coordinators, at researchfest@mail.nih.gov.

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FUNCTIONAL GENOMICS OF CRITICAL ILLNESS AND INJURY

The fifth symposium on the Functional Genomics of Critical Illness and Injury entitled "Forging a Critical Alliance: Are We Meeting the Need?" will be held November 14-15, 2007 (8:00 a.m. to 6:30 p.m. and 8:00 a.m. to 5:30 p.m.), at the Natcher Conference Center. The conference is sponsored by NIGMS, the CC Critical Care Medicine Department, and the Critical Illness and Injury Interest Group.

The meeting will assemble acute- and critical-care specialists (intensivists from internal medicine, surgery, pediatrics, and anesthesiology), microbiologists, immunologists, cell biologists, molecular biologists, experts in high-throughput technologies, and computational scientists. Scientific presentations are scheduled for the first day and collaborative workshops the second day.

The deadline for abstract submission is September 15; registration for the meeting closes October 15. For additional information, go to http://www.strategicresults.com/fg5.

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ROLE OF NITRITE IN PHYSIOLOGY, PATHOPHYSIOLOGY, AND THERAPEUTICS

The second international meeting on the Role of Nitrite in Physiology, Pathophysiology, and Therapeutics—sponsored by NHLBI, NIDDK, CCMD, Wake Forest University in Winston-Salem, N.C., and the ORD—will be held September 6-7, 2007 (8:00 a.m. to 6:30 p.m. and 8:00 a.m. to 5:30 p.m.), at the Natcher Conference Center. The deadline for abstract submission is July 22; online registration closes August 3. For more information, visit http://www.strategicresults.com/nitrite2.

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