AMSNDC 2022 Spring Meeting
Long Beach, CA
April 27 - May 01, 2022

PRELIMINARY AGENDA

Note: Times are PST (Calif)

Wednesday, April 27
(PST)
     6:00 pm – 7:30 pm            Welcome Reception - Jardin de Palmeras Room

Thursday, April 28 (PST)
     8:30 am – 12:30 pm          AMSNDC Annual Meeting I
- Luna Solstice Room

     8:30 am - 9:00 am             Welcome & Introductions
                                               Lucia Notterpek, President

    9:00 am - 10:15 am            Panel: Annual Faculty Evaluations: Strategies to improve Performance
                                               Moderator: Kam Khodakhah
, PhD
                                               Panel:        Gwen Childs
                                                                  Linda Richards
                                                

    10:15 am - 10:30 am          Break

   
10:30 am - 11:30 am          NIH BRAIN Initiative- Brain Initiative 2.0
                                              
John Ngai, PhD
, Director

    11:30 am - 12:30 pm          Update from the Mentoring Institute for Neuroscience Diversity Scholars
                                               (MINDS) Program

                                               Gonzalo Torres, PhD

                                              
Amy Brewster, PhD, MINDS Fellow

    
2:30 pm                             Whale Watching Cruise
 
                                              Meet at 100 Aquarium Way, Dock #2
                                               Rainbow Harbor next to Long Beach Aquarium
                                               15 min walk from Maya Hotel

Friday, April 29 (PST)
     8:30 am – 12:30 pm          AMSNDC Annual Meeting II
- Luna Solstice Room

     8:30 am - 9:45 am             New Chair Bootcamp
                                              
Topics to include T&P, salary equity adjustments, teaching assignments etc
                                              
Moderator: Lin Mei, PhD

    
9:45 am - 10:00 am           Break
                                              
   
10:00 am - 11:00 am          Training Opportunities & Expectations at NINDS
                                              
Stephen Korn, PhD
, Director
                                               NIH Office of Training & Workforce Development, Division of Extramural Activities


    
11:00 am - 11:30 am         Title TBA
                                               Katja Brose, PhD, Science Program Officer
                                               Chan Zuckerberg Initiative


     1130 am - 12:30 pm          Teaching Neuroscience During the Pandemic: Lessons Learned 
                                               James W Bisley, PhD, Professor of Neurobiology
                                               UCLA

Saturday, April 30 (PST)
     8:30 am – 12:30 pm          AMSNDC Annual Meeting III
- Luna Solstice Room

     8:30 am - 9:45 am             Panel: Mentoring Early Career Faculty and How to Deal with Senior
                                               Inactive / Unfunded Faculty?

                                               Moderator:  Cheryl Dreyfus, PhD
                                               Panel:   
      Volker Neugebauer
                                                                   Harry Sontheimer

                                                                  
Lucia Notterpek
     9:45 am - 10:00 am          Break

    10:00 am - 11:15 am         Panel: Diversity-related Faculty Recruiting, Retention and Prevention of
                                              Faculty Departures in a "Climate of Perverse Incentives and Hyper-competition"
                                              Moderator: Paul Micevych, PhD
                                              Panel:        Paul Pfaffinger
                                                                Randy Nelson
                                                                Felix Schweizer
                                                                Stephanie White

     11:15 am - 12:00 pm       
Promoting a Diverse Research Workforce through National Research Mentoring
                                              Network (NRMN) and AIM-AHEAD

                                              Jamboor K. Vishwanatha, PhD
                                              Regents Professor and Vice President, Founding Director
                                              Texas Center for Health Disparities

     12:00 pm - 12:30 pm        AMSNDC Business Meeting

     6:00 pm – 9:00 pm           Farewell Reception & Dinner - Jardin de Palmeras Room

Sunday, May 01                   Check Out

REGISTRATION
    Chair - $650
    Social Guest - $250

Includes: Welcome Reception, Beverage Breaks, Conference Fees & Speakers, Closing Reception & Dinner and Whale Watching Cruise


Hotel Maya Doubletree Hotel
700 Queensbury Drive
Long Beach, CA
Tel: 562-435-7676


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