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Location:  

Lister Hill Auditorium, NIH Campus, Bethesda, MD

• The Conference Center is located on the NIH Main Campus. You will need to go through security to get onto the campus.
• Closest Metro Stop:

Medical Center Metro Station (Red line)
 

Hotel: Hilton Garden Inn Bethesda

7301 Waverly Street, Bethesda, Maryland, 20814

• $169/night (exluding tax/fees) includes wifi and hot breakfast
• Reserve at 888-440-1834 and ask for the MMCG Group or book a room online
• Reservation Deadline: 8/3/2014

Dinner: Vapiano Bethesda
September 3, 6:30pm

Transportation:

• The Lister Hill Center (Building 38A) is just off Center Drive (which intersects with Rockville Pike), on the NIH campus. The Lister Hill Center is approximately 300 yards from the Medical Center stop on the Metro Red Line.

• Metered parking for visitors is available in front of the main Library (Building 38) at a rate of $.25 in a 10-minute zone and $.50 in a 20-minute zone. Maximum charge is $6.00 for three hours. Please do not park in the "NIH EMPLOYEE ONLY" spaces or other spaces unauthorized for public use. You may be ticketed or towed.

Security:

• All guests to the NIH will be required to go through the NIH Visitor Gateway Center and show a photo ID to receive a temporary 1-day visitor's pass.

Wireless:

• Wireless is free at NIH and can be accessed using the NIH-Guest-Network

- CLICK HERE for Draft Agenda including MSM 2014 Satellite Session on Sept 5 -

Themes: 

• The BRAIN Initiative and its links to MSM Theme (Bill Lytton, Raj Vadigepalli leads)

• Special Keynote: Terry Sejnowski

• MSM in Drug Discovery and Development Theme (David D’Argenio lead)
• Model-based Physiomarkers Theme (Vasilis Marmarelis lead)
• Multicellular Tissue Models Theme (Herbert Sauro lead)
• Public Health and Behavioral Modeling Theme (Allison Galvani, Madhav Marathe leads)

Special Sessions:

• Introduction to the New Index of Predictive Models

• Committee on Credible Practice of Modeling & Simulation in Healthcare

• IEEE/EMBS Technical Committee on Computational Biology and the Physiome (CBaP)

• The NIH as a Digital Enterprise

• Defense Health

2014 MSM Working Group discussions

• Biomechanics Working Group
  • Ahmet Erdemir, Jay Humphrey
• Cell-to-Macroscale Working Group
  • Ching-Long Lin, Edward Sander
• Clinical and Translational Issues Working Group
  • Marc Garbey, Bill Lytton
• Computational Neuroscience Working Group
  • Ilya Rybak, Ted Berger, Bill Lytton, Rajanikanth Vadigepalli
• High Performance Computing Working Group
  • Pratul Agarwal, Yufang Jin
• Integrated multiscale biomaterials experiment and modeling group (ImuBEAM)
  • Markus Buehler, Guy Genin
• Model and Data Sharing Working Group
  • Peter Hunter, Herbert Sauro, Roger Mark, Jim Bassingthwaighte, George Moody
• Multiscale Systems Biology Working Group
  • Dan Beard, Mike King, Sasha Popel
• Population Modeling Working Group
  • Madhav Marathe, Alison Galvani
• Theoretical and Computational Methods
  • Suvranu De, Vasilis Marmarelis