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6TH ANNUAL PIC MEETING PROGRAM

Wednesday, May 10
Facility for Rare Isotope Beams (FRIB) 1300

15:00 – 15:15	Welcome, opening remarks Erik Shapiro, Michigan State University
15:15 – 16:15	Session 1: Suns, planets, and biomedical imaging Thomas Glasmacher, FRIB Laboratory Director *The Facility for Rare Isotope Beams* Greg Severin, Michigan State University *Interfacing nuclear science with molecular imaging*
16:15 – 17:15	Keynote lecture Carolyn Anderson, University of Missouri The Evolution of Preclinical Imaging in Theranostics Development
17:30 – 18:00	Buses depart for gala dinner
18:00 – 22:00	Gala Dinner sponsored by Bruker and Molecubes

Thursday, May 11
MSU Kellogg Center

8:00 – 8:30	Breakfast
8:30 – 10:00	Session 2: Emerging animal models for biomedical research (Moderator: Kendell Pawelec) Amir Kol, UC Davis From Furry Friends to Human Healing and Back: Unleashing the Potential of Companion Animal Diseases in Translational Medicine Jie Xu, University of Michigan *Gene edited rabbits for biomedical research* Randall Prather, University of Missouri *Genetically Engineered Pigs for Preclinical Evaluation*
10:00 – 10:30	Coffee break sponsored by Sofie
10:30 – 12:00	Industrial Innovations Session (Vendors)
12:00 – 14:00	Lunch and Industry Poster Session
14:00 – 15:30	Session 3: Turning images into information (Moderator: Peter Wang) Kurt Zinn, Michigan State University Advancing Preclinical Imaging and Therapy into Phase I Clinical Trials Kooresh Shoghi, Washington University in St. Louis *Co-clinical quantitative imaging and informatics in cancer research* Corinna Beale, Tufts University *Academics and Industry in Preclinical Imaging, a recipe for creating mutually beneficial collaborations*
15:30 – 16:00	Coffee break sponsored by Sofie
16:00 – 17:30	Session 4: Imaging large animals for biomedical research – ins and outs (Moderator: Christiane Mallett) Kirk Munoz, Ohio State University Special considerations and guidelines for working with large animals in research Piotr Walczak, University of Maryland Image-guided neurointerventions in large animals Loreta Sutkus, University of Illinois *Utilizing the Domestic Pig for Multimodal Neuroimaging*
17:30 – 18:00	Make our way over to Interdisciplinary Science and Technology Building
18:00 – 21:00	Reception and Research & Facility Posters

Friday, May 12
MSU Kellogg Center

8:30 – 9:00	Breakfast
9:00 – 10:30	Session 5: Cutting edge techniques in preclinical MRI (Moderator: Erik Shapiro) Chunqi Qian, Michigan State University *Integrated wireless detector for simultaneous imaging and electrophysiological sensing* Craig Ferris, Northeastern University *Functional MRI in Awake Animals: Methods and Applications* Sam Grant, Florida State University *High field Non-Proton MRI at 21.1 T: Metrics for function & recovery*
10:30 – 10:50	Coffee break sponsored by Visualsonics
10:50 – 12:20	Session 6: New imaging technology on the horizon (Moderator: Carolina de Aguiar Ferreira) Henk de Feyter, Yale University School of Medicine *Preclinical applications of Deuterium Metabolic Imaging* Zibo Li, University of North Carolina *Development of photoredox labeling technology for PET probe development* David Cormode, University of Pennsylvania *Photon Counting CT technologies*
12:20 – 13:30	Lunch
13:30 – 14:30	Session 7: Imaging non-biomedical samples in biomedical imaging centers (Moderator: Jeremy Hix) Michael Schueller, University of Missouri Unique Challenges in the Use of Nuclear Imaging Techniques in Plant Science Douglas Rowland, University of California Davis *Beyond biospecimen imaging*
14:30	Closing Remarks Erik Shapiro, Michigan State University

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