Antipoverty Vaccines Strategies against Neglected Tropical Diseases Speakers: Peter Hotez, George Washington U. and Sabin Vaccine Institute; Luis de la Maza, UC Irvine; Albert Ko, Weill Medical College and Fundação Oswaldo Cruz, Brazil Sponsored by: Vaccine Science and Emerging Infectious Diseases Discussion Groups A Deeper Silence Piwi-Interacting RNA (piRNA) and the Genome Speakers: Phillip Zamore, University of Massachusetts Medical School; Alexei Aravin, Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory; Nelson Lau, Harvard Medical School; Doron Betel, Memorial Sloan-Kettering Cancer Center Sponsored by: RNAi Discussion Group Educated Guesses The Second Dialogue on Reverse Engineering Assessment and Methods (DREAM) Organizers: Andrea Califano, Columbia University; Gustavo Stolovitzky, IBM Computational Biology Center Sponsored by: Systems Biology Discussion Group A Fine Balance New Developments in Hemostasis and Thrombosis Speakers: Bruce Furie, Harvard Medical School; Mortimer Poncz, U. Pennsylvania School of Medicine; Andrew Schafer, Weill-Cornell Medical College; Steven Steinhubl, U. Kentucky Sponsored by: Novo Nordisk The Genetics of Schizophrenia Tracking the Origins of the "Cancer of the Mind" Speakers: Kári Stefánsson, deCODE Genetics; Daniel Weinberger, National Institute of Mental Health Sponsored by: Genomic Medicine Discussion Group How to Defuse a Time Bomb Therapies against Cancer Stem Cells Speakers: Austin Gurney, OncoMed Pharmaceuticals; Elsa Quintana-Fernandez, U. Michigan; Jean Wang, University Health Network, Toronto; Ivan Bergstein, Stemline Therapeutics Sponsored by: Biochemical Pharmacology Discussion Group Invasive Aspergillosis New Approaches against a Dangerous Fungal Infection Speakers: David Denning, U. Manchester; Kieren Marr, U. Washington; Thomas Walsh, National Cancer Institute; Jean-Paul Latgé, Pasteur Institute; Gordon Brown, U. Cape Town Sponsored by: Emerging Infectious Diseases Discussion Group Life's Throttle The PI3K-PTEN-Akt-TOR Pathway in Cell Growth and Survival Organizers: Pier Paolo Pandolfi, Beth Israel Deaconess Medical Center; Domenico Accili, Columbia University Sponsored by: Cancer & Signaling Discussion Group Mitochondria and Oxidative Stress in Neurodegenerative Disorders Keynote speakers: Douglas Wallace, UC Irvine; Doug Turnbull, Newcastle U. Sponsored by: Weill Medical College and Graduate School of Medical Sciences at Cornell University and Burke Medical Research Institute The NYSCF First Annual Translational Stem Cell Research Conference Co-Chairs: Thomas Jessell, Columbia University; Douglas Melton, Harvard University; and Harold Varmus, Memorial Sloan-Kettering Cancer Center Sponsored by: The New York Stem Cell Foundation Obesity and Diabetes Connections between Brain and Body Speakers: Antonio Convit, NYU School of Medicine; Lawrence Reagan, U. South Carolina School of Medicine; Barry Levin, UMDNJ–NJMS; Panayotis (Peter) Thanos, Brookhaven National Laboratory Sponsored by: Diabetes and Obesity Discussion Group Severe Malaria Seeking Solutions to a Complex and Deadly Disease Organizers: Mats Wahlgren, Karolinska Institute; Louis H. Miller, NIH; Artur Scherf, Pasteur Institute; Louis Schofield, Walter and Eliza Hall Institute; Patrick Duffy, SBRI; Dominic Kwiatkowski, Wellcome Trust; Terrie Taylor, Michigan State U.; Kevin Marsh, KEMRI Sponsored by: The New York Academy of Sciences and the Karolinska Institute, in collaboration with the Earth Institute at Columbia University What Do We Want To See in Brain Imaging? Plenary speakers: Paul Grasby, Imperial College London; Thomas Klausberger, U. Oxford; Christine Holt, U. Cambridge; Karl Friston, University College London Sponsored by: The New York Academy of Sciences, Imperial College London, King's College London, and University College London, with the support of GlaxoSmithKline and the Royal Institution of Great Britain

	Granular Materials The Unusual Properties of Powders, Ball-Bearings, and M&Ms Speakers: Bruno Hancock, Pfizer; Mark Shattuck, City College of New York; Paul Chaikin, New York University Sponsored by: Soft Materials Discussion Group Nanoscale Electronics The Columbia NSEC 5th Year Anniversary Symposium Speakers: Mark Ratner, Northwestern U.; Latha Venkataraman, Columbia U.; Mark Hybertsen, Brookhaven National Laboratories; Paul McEuen, Cornell U.; Colin Nuckolls, Columbia U. Sponsored by: Nanobiotechnology Discussion Group and Columbia University Origins of Time's Arrow Organizers: Brian Greene, Columbia U.; Justin Khoury, Perimeter Institute; Laura Mersini-Houghton, U. North Carolina Sponsored by: Columbia University Institute for Strings, Cosmology, and Astroparticle Physics (ISCAP); Perimeter Institute; U. North Carolina Toward a Science of Trading The Quantitative Finance Symposium Speakers: David Shaw, DE Shaw & Co., Columbia U.; Robert Engle, NYU; Doyne Farmer, Santa Fe Institute; H. Eugene Stanley, Boston U. Sponsored by: Physical Sciences and Engineering Program

	Climate Change What We Know and What We Can Do Speakers: Michael Oppenheimer, Princeton U., IPCC; Paul Falkowski, Rutgers U.; William Schlesinger, Cary Institute of Ecosystem Studies; William Solecki, Hunter College; Stephen Leatherman, Florida Intl. U.; George Hendrey, Queens College; Robert Paaswell, CCNY; Michael Bobker, CUNY; Robert Bell, Brooklyn College; Charles Komanoff, Carbon Tax Center Sponsored by: Green Science and Environmental Systems Discussion Group Greening the Built Environment How Construction Materials Can Make Buildings More Sustainable Speakers: Christian Meyer, Columbia U.; Tom Richardson, Lawrence Berkeley Natl. Laboratory; Chris Garvin, Cook+Fox Architects Sponsored by: Green Science and Environmental Systems Discussion Group Green Chemistry Its Role in Building a Sustainable World Speakers: Paul Anastas, Yale U.; Richard Wool, U. Delaware; Joseph DeSimone, U. North Carolina Sponsored by: Green Science and Environmental Systems Discussion Group

	Biology and Art Two Worlds or One? Keynote Speaker: Jens Hauser, curator and author Sponsored by: The William A. Haseltine Foundation for Medical Sciences and the Arts Your Brain and Yourself Perspectives on Our Golden Age of Neuroscience Speakers: Nancy Andreasen, U. Iowa; Michael Gazzaniga, UC Santa Barbara; Eric Haseltine, The Haseltine Foundation; Miguel Nicolelis, Duke U.; Marcus Raichle, Washington U. in St. Louis; Jeffrey Rosen, George Washington U.; Bob Woodruff, ABC News Sponsored by: The William A. Haseltine Foundation for Medical Sciences and the Arts, in collaboration with the Aspen Ideas Festival

	Start Me Up Building a Business from Academic Research Speakers: Peter Fiske, RAPT Industries; Corey Goodman, Renovis, Inc.; Avi Spier, The Genomics Institute of the Novartis Research Foundation; Irwin Mettler, UC Berkeley Office of Technology Licensing; Karl Handelsman, CMEA Ventures Sponsored by: Science Alliance for Students and Postdocs