8:30     Breakfast and Poster Setup

9:00     Welcome

9:05     Functional MRI of White Matter
John Gore, Vanderbilt University

Session 1: Imaging Technologies and Core Facilities in the Texas Medical Center

Convener:  TBD

9:45     Update from the TCH small animal imaging facility
Mostafa Waleed Gaber, BCM-TCH

9:55    A Highly Utilized Small Animal Imaging Facility
John Hazle, MDACC

10:05  Cellular and Live Animal Optical Imaging Resources at UTMB
Massoud Motamedi, UTMB

 10:15   The MRI Center at UTHealth McGovern Medical School
Refaat Gabr, UTHealth

10:25   Break

 10:45   Labeling and Imaging Macrophages in Breast Tumor Model
Angelique Louie, UC Davis

11:25   Selected trainee abstracts

11:45   Poster data blitz

12:00   Lunch and Poster session

1:30     MRI Detection of Cell Migration in the Brain
Alan Koretsky, NINDS

Session 2: Current and Contemporary Imaging Initiatives

Convener:  TBD

2:10     Imaging Metabolism with Hyperpolarized Pyruvate
Jim Bankson, MDA

2:20     Protective Effects of Intranasally Administered Nanoantioxidants in the Olfactory System in Mouse Models of Alzheimer’s Disease
Robia Pautler, BCM

2:30     MR Initiative at University of Texas Health Science Center
Ponnada Narayana, UTHealth

2:40    Developing Immunomodulating Biomaterials for Cell Based Therapeutics
Omid Veiseh, Rice

2:50     TBD

3:00    Multiplexed Imaging and Computational Analysis Methods for Comprehensive In-situ Profiling of Brain Cellular Alterations in the Injured Brain
Badri Roysam,  University of Houston

3:10     Break

3:25     NCI  Imaging Data Science
Janet Eary, NIH Cancer Imaging Program

4:05     Session 3: Meet a Collaborator Rapid-Fire Introductions

5:05     Reception