Saturday, May 3, 2008 

1:00 p.m. – 1:15 p.m.

Welcome and Introduction
      Mike Lehman (University of Western Ontario)
                    President, ANDP  

1:15 p.m. – 1:30 p.m.

Session I – Update from SfN President
      Eve Marder (SfN)

2:30 p.m. – 3:45 p.m.

Session III – Trends in the Evaluation of NIH Training Grants: A reviewer’s perspective – panel discussion and small group, break-out sessions
      Stephen J. Korn  (NINDS)
                    Director, Training and Career Development
      Alison Hall  (Case Western Reserve University)
      Mike Lehman  (University of Western Ontario)
      George Rebec  (Indiana University)     

3:45 p.m. – 4:00 p.m.

Break

4:00 p.m. – 5:45 p.m.

Session IV – Promoting Diversity in Neuroscience Training Programs
      Chair:  Rae Nishi  (University of Vermont)
                    President-Elect, ANDP
      Jim Townsel  (Meharry Medical College)
      Joe Martinez  (The University of Texas at San Antonio)
      Rachel Casas  (University of Iowa)
      Rhonda Dzakapasu  (Georgetown University)
      Anne Etgen  (Albert Einstein College of Medicine, Yeshiva University)     
      

6:00 p.m. – 6:30 p.m.

Reception 

6:30 p.m. – 7:30 p.m.

Dinner 

7:30 p.m.

After-Dinner Talk:  “Women and Minorities in Neuroscience:  Is there a future?”
       Shirley Malcom  (American Association for the Advancement of Science)
                    Head, Directorate for Education and Human Resources Programs

Sunday, May 4, 2008 

Breakfast and Short Business Meeting 

8:30 a.m. – 10:00 a.m.

Session V –  Neuroscience Training: An International Perspective 
      Chair:  Mike Lehman (University of Western Ontario)
                    President, ANDP
      Remi Quirion  (Canadian Institutes for Health Research)
                   Director, Institute of Neurosciences, Mental Health and Addiction
      Laurence Garey (IBRO)
                   Chairman, Neuroscience Programmes Network
      Mike Lehman (an expatriate’s view)                  

10:00 a.m. – 10:15 a.m.

Break
 

10:15 a.m. – 11:15 a.m.

Session VI – The NIH Funding Drought: Implications for the future of graduate programs
      Stephen J. Korn  (NINDS)
                    Director, Training and Career Development
      Clifton Poodry  (NIGMS)
                    Director, Division of Minority Opportunities in Research 
           

11:15 a.m. – 1:30 p.m.

(Light lunch at 12:00)

Session VII – News Updates on Other Neuroscience Organizations
      Alison Hall  (SfN Government and Public Affairs Committee)
      Elisabeth Van Bockstaele  (SfN Chapters Committee)
      George Rebec  (SfN Public Education Committee)
      Cheryl Sisk  (CID)
      Bruce Johnson  (FUN)
      Alison Hall  (AAMC Great Group)