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Agenda

SEPTEMBER 9

10:00 a.m. to adjournment – This portion of the meeting is open to the Public.

This meeting will be videocast from 10:00 a.m. to 1:00 p.m.:  http://videocast.nih.gov

10:00 to 10:30 a.m.

  1. Call to Order———————————————————— Dr. Richard Hodes

10:30 to 10:45 a.m.
II.  Report:  Task Force on Minority Aging Research
Dr J Taylor Harden

10:45 to 11:45 a.m.

III. Report:  Working Group on Program

Dr. Stephen Kritchevsky

11:45 to 12:00 p.m.

IV. A Word from Retiring Members

Dr. Richard Hodes

David Bennett, J Taylor Harden, David Holtzman, Stephen Kritchevsky, and Sue Peschin

12:00 to 12:30 p.m.

V.  Council Guest Speaker

Dr. Eliseo J. Pérez-Stable

Director, National Institute on Minority Health and Health Disparities “Health Disparities Challenges in Aging Research”

12:30 to 1:00 p.m.                                             

VI. Council Guest Speaker

Dr. Monica A. Driscoll

Professor, Department of Molecular Biology and Biochemistry Rutgers, the State University of New Jersey

“Neurons Put Out the Trash: A Novel Facet of Proteostasis and Mitochondrial Quality Control”

1:00 p.m.

Adjournment