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 |