2009 Conference, January 8-9, 2009
Hilton Dallas Lincoln Centre

Dallas, Texas

 

Thursday, January 8, 2009

Membership Meeting

J. Tinsley Oden

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

Senator Kay Bailey Hutchison
Honorary Academy Chairman
Welcome Address

William Brinkley

William R. Brinkley, Ph.D.
Education Committee Co-Chair
Education Report

Mary Ann Rankin

Mary Ann Rankin, Ph.D.
Education Committee Co-Chair
Education Report

Luncheon Keynote Speaker

Charles Elachi

Charles Elachi, Ph.D.
Director
NASA Jet Propulsion Laboratory

Exploring the Earth with Imaging Technologies Symposium Presenters

Lori Magruder

Lori Magruder, Ph.D.
Research Associate, Applied Research Laboratories
The University of Texas at Austin
Laser Ranging (LIDAR) for Remote Sensing Applications

Uwe Albertin

Uwe Albertin, Ph.D
Advanced Imaging Team
BP America
Seismic Imaging: an Industrial Perspective

Timothy Dixon

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

Gordon Wells, D. Phil.
Research Associate, Center for Space Research
The University of Texas at Austin
Hurricane Ike: Uses of Remote Sensing for Disaster Response

Defining Tomorrow's Transportation Symposium Presenters

Ralph Cicerone

Keynote Speaker

Ralph Cicerone, Ph.D.
President
National Academy of Sciences

 

Robert Skinner

Robert Skinner, Ph.D.
Executive Director
Transportation Research Board

 

Henry Schwarz

Henry Schwartz, Ph.D, P.E.
Sverdrup/Jacobs Civil, Inc.
The Impacts of Climate Change on Tomorrow's Transportation

Ronald Matthews

Ronald Matthews, Ph.D.
Carl J. Eckhardt Fellow
The University of Texas at Austin
Powering the Future Automobile

Dinner for 2009 Edith & Peter O'Donnell Awards Recipients

2009 O'Donnell Award Recipients

2009 Awards Recipients


Friday, January 9, 2009

Edith & Peter O'Donnell Awards recipient presentations

Brendan Lee

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

Brian Korgel, Ph.D.
Associate Professor and Frank A. Liddell, Jr. Centennial Fellow in Chemical Engineering
The University of Texas at Austin

 

Rama Ranganathan

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

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

John Carrano, Ph.D.
Vice President, Research and Development
Luminex Corporation
Disruptive Diagnostics: A Compelling New Solution for Multiplexed Detection

 

Michael Mancini

Michael Mancini, Ph.D.
Associate Professor
Baylor College of Medicine
Nuclear Receptor Functional Analyses by High Throughput Systems Biology

 

Eva Sevick

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 Phelps

Michael E. Phelps, Ph.D.
Norton Simon Professor & Chair
Department of Molecular and Medical Pharmacology
University of California Los Angeles