Date: Wed 1/8/2014
Time: 11 AM - 4 PM
Location: The Edge of Chaos Atrium Lister Hill Library, 4th floor 1700 University Boulevard Birmingham AL 35294-0013
Ideas Challenge Part 1: Each participant will be asked to write a title and abstract for a grant proposal addressing a question or challenge.
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| Time | Presenter/Facilitator | Topic/Task |
|---|---|---|
| 11 AM | David Allison | Welcome, Introduction, Overview |
| 11:10 AM | Andrew Brown | Andrew selects 5 papers from the literature on obesity or energetics from the last 5 years that he judges to be at the pinnacle of importance, impact, or beautiful creativity and makes a brief presentation about them offering his views on what why they made his list and general principles he extracts. |
| 11:25 AM | Molly Bernhard | Facilitate discussion of Andrew’s presentation by all participants. |
| 11:40 AM | Tapan Mehta | Choose at least 5 funded New Innovator grants and at least 5 funded NIH Director's Early Independence Awards from NIH RePorter (call these grants Group A). Choose 10 ordinary funded R01s with an ‘A1’ designation from NIH RePorter (call these grants Group B). Compare Group A to Group be and try to extract some principles. |
| 11:55 AM | Kathryn Kaiser & Milene Pufal | Facilitate discussion by all participants over lunch |
| 12:35 PM | Haider & Arie | Choose 10 funded grants from NIH RePorter that use advanced engineering approaches in areas related to obesity, nutrition, energetics, or physical activity and present on identified themes and ideas. |
| 12:45 PM | Patrice Capers | Facilitate discussion by all participants of Haider and Arie’s presentation. |
| 12:55 PM | Greg Pavela & Mike Sandel | Choose at least 5 funded Transformative R01 grants and at least 5 funded NIH Pioneer Awards from NIH RePorter (call these grants Group A). Choose 10 ordinary funded R01s with an ‘A1’ designation from NIH RePorter (call these grants Group B). Compare Group A to Group be and try to extract some principles. |
| 1:10 PM | Ed Archer | Facilitate discussion by all participants of Greg and Michael’s presentation |
| 1:25 PM | Tonia Schwartz | Choose at least 5 funded NSF grants from the last 3 years in the area of obesity or energetics (make sure at least 2 are in humans) that you find unusually interesting or creative. Present themes that seem to make these interesting and how investigators approached ‘pitching’ the ideas to NSF. |
| 1:35 PM | Dwight Lewis | Facilitate discussion by all participants. |
| 1:45 PM | David Allison | Ideas Challenge Part 1 – Each participant will be asked to write a title and abstract for a grant proposal addressing a question or challenge. No advance preparation needed – Bring a laptop. |
| 2:15 PM | Break | |
| 2:30 PM | Julie Locher | Ideas Challenge Part 2 – Presentation of – Each participant will be given 1 minute to present to the group their idea. Awards will be given for the best proposals in selected categories. |
| 3:00 PM | David Allison, Julie Locher, Tim Nagy, Murat Tanik | Awards – Details will follow. |
| 3:30 PM | Adjourn | |
Awards for Faculty and Awards for Trainees (each):
- Most Creative:
Faculty recipient: Daniel L. Smith Jr Ph.D., Assistant Prof, Nutrition Sciences
Trainee recipient: Kenneth P Kell, Graduate Student Trainee, Nutrition Sciences - Most Impactful:
Faculty recipient: Mohammad R Haider Ph.D., Assistant Prof, Electrical & Computer Engineering
Trainee recipient: Molly C Bernhard, Graduate Student Trainee, Environmental Health Sciences - Best Presentation:
Faculty recipient: Kathryn Kaiser Ph.D., Instructor, Office of Energetics
Trainee recipient: Gregory Pavela Ph.D., Postdoctoral Fellow, Nutrition Obesity Research Center