2009 Conference, January 8-9, 2009
Hilton Dallas Lincoln CentreDallas, Texas
Thursday, January 8, 2009
Membership Meeting
J. Tinsley Oden, Ph.D.
2008 TAMEST President
State of The Academy Address
Steve Holditch, Ph.D.
2008 TAMEST Treasurer
Treasurer's Report
(Members and Affiliates Only)
Opening Session
Senator Kay Bailey Hutchison
Honorary Academy Chairman
Welcome Address
William R. Brinkley, Ph.D.
Education Committee Co-Chair
Education Report
Mary Ann Rankin, Ph.D.
Education Committee Co-Chair
Education ReportLuncheon Keynote Speaker
Charles Elachi, Ph.D.
Director
NASA Jet Propulsion LaboratoryExploring the Earth with Imaging Technologies Symposium Presenters
Lori Magruder, Ph.D.
Research Associate, Applied Research Laboratories
The University of Texas at Austin
Laser Ranging (LIDAR) for Remote Sensing Applications
Uwe Albertin, Ph.D
Advanced Imaging Team
BP America
Seismic Imaging: an Industrial Perspective
Timothy Dixon, Ph.D.
Professor, Marine Geology & Geophysics
University of Miami
Imaging Subsidence of Earth's Surface: What It Can Tell Us About Oil, Fresh Water, and Flooding of the Gulf Coast
Gordon Wells, D. Phil.
Research Associate, Center for Space Research
The University of Texas at Austin
Hurricane Ike: Uses of Remote Sensing for Disaster ResponseDefining Tomorrow's Transportation Symposium Presenters
Keynote Speaker
Ralph Cicerone, Ph.D.
President
National Academy of Sciences
Robert Skinner, Ph.D.
Executive Director
Transportation Research Board
Henry Schwartz, Ph.D, P.E.
Sverdrup/Jacobs Civil, Inc.
The Impacts of Climate Change on Tomorrow's Transportation
Ronald Matthews, Ph.D.
Carl J. Eckhardt Fellow
The University of Texas at Austin
Powering the Future AutomobileDinner for 2009 Edith & Peter O'Donnell Awards Recipients
Friday, January 9, 2009Edith & Peter O'Donnell Awards recipient presentations
Brendan H. L. Lee, M.D., Ph.D.
Investigator, Howard Hughes Medical Institute
Professor, Department of Molecular and Human Genetics
Baylor College of Medicine
Brian Korgel, Ph.D.
Associate Professor and Frank A. Liddell, Jr. Centennial Fellow in Chemical Engineering
The University of Texas at Austin
Rama Ranganathan, M.D., Ph.D.
Professor, Department of Pharmacology
Director, Green Center for Systems Biology and Cecil H. and Ida Green Chair in Biomedical Science
The University of Texas Southwestern Medical Center at Dallas
Bio-Medical Imaging: The Future of Medicine symposium presenters
Ananth Annapragada, Ph.D.
Associate Professor of Health Information Sciences
The University of Texas Health Science Center at Houston
Novel Nanoparticle Based Imaging Agents
John Carrano, Ph.D.
Vice President, Research and Development
Luminex Corporation
Disruptive Diagnostics: A Compelling New Solution for Multiplexed Detection
Michael Mancini, Ph.D.
Associate Professor
Baylor College of Medicine
Nuclear Receptor Functional Analyses by High Throughput Systems Biology
Eva M. Sevick, Ph.D.
Professor and Director, Center for Molecular Medicine
The University of Texas Health Science Center at Houston
Near-infrared Fluorescence Optical Imaging and Tomography
Luncheon Keynote Speaker
Michael E. Phelps, Ph.D.
Norton Simon Professor & Chair
Department of Molecular and Medical Pharmacology
University of California Los Angeles