American Association for the Advancment of Science

Session : AAAS1401
7504: Engaging with Journalists
Conference : 2014 Annual Meeting
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Moderator: Cornelia Dean, The New York Times and Brown University Speakers: Carl Zimmer, Independent Science Journalist Carl Zimmer Robert Lee Hotz, The Wall Street Journal Robert Lee Hotz David Baron, Public Radio International David Baron Paula Apsell, NOVA Paula Apsell

A distinguished panel of three-time winners of the AAAS Kavli Science Journalism Award will reflect on changes in science journalism and communication during the time in which they won their awards and beyond.

Session : AAAS1402
7505: Engaging with Social Media
Conference : 2014 Annual Meeting
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Moderator: Dominique Brossard, University of Wisconsin Speakers: Kim Cobb, Georgia Institute of Technology Navigating the Science-Social Media Space: Pitfalls and Opportunities Danielle N. Lee, Cornell University Raising STEM Awareness Among Under-Served and Under-Represented Audiences Maggie Koerth-Baker, BoingBoing.net What's the Point of Social Media?

This session will discuss how and why scientists can use social media for science communication, how to find the right voice and audience, and how to define success. The panelists will share best practices and lessons learned from their own experiences using social media to communicate science.

Session : AAAS1403
7506: Engaging with Public Events
Conference : 2014 Annual Meeting
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Moderator: Ben Lillie, The Story Collider Speakers: Rabiah Mayas, Museum of Science and Industry Never Too Young: Museum-Based Approaches to Connecting Youth with Scientists Kishore Hari, University of California The Science Education Melting Pot Amy Rowat, University of California, Los Angeles Engaging General Audiences in Science Through Interactive Events

This session will discuss the goals and impacts of public science events, types of audiences and events, how scientists can find events to participate in, and how to prepare effectively. The panelists will talk about how they find and collaborate with scientists, best practices for reaching audiences not typically interested in science, and share communication tips and resources.

Session : AAAS1404
7156: Addiction: Our Compulsions and Brain Reward Systems
Conference : 2014 Annual Meeting
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Organizer: Wilson Compton, National Institute on Drug Abuse Co-Organizer: Aidan Gilligan, SciComMaking Sense of Science Moderator: Klaus Bock, Danish Ministry of Science, Technology and Innovation Discussant: Seema Kumar, Janssen Global Services Speakers: Wilson Compton, National Institute on Drug Abuse Understanding Gene-Environmental Interactions in the Etiology of Addictions Paul J. Kenny, Scripps Research Institute Understanding Vulnerability to Obesity Delon Human, Health Diplomats Understanding Vulnerability to Nicotine

Wouldnt it be wonderful to attribute our compulsion for addictive damaging activities, such as overeating, taking illicit drugs, or smoking, wholly to our genetic makeup? Then we could blame our parents for everything! We know it is bad for us, but we still do it. Why? This session explores the latest scientific evidence behind compulsive behavior. Personalized medicine provides plenty of research linking genetics and disease, but establishing a relationship between genetic variation and behavior is trickier. How does over-consumption of high-fat food trigger addiction-like neuro adaptive responses in our brain-reward circuitry? Why are less than 25 percent of heroin users proven to be dependent, while other addictive substances need only one try for a permanent susceptibility to addiction to occur? How does nicotine work as the principal reinforcing component in tobacco smoke responsible for addiction? This symposium highlights new research showing that genetics plays but one part, demonstrating that compulsive behavior usually comes about after extended access. As biologically deterministic as that may sound, we all have our aptitudes, traits, and susceptibilitiesand free will can prevail. The speakers contend that the same is true with addiction. This session sheds new light on how the three strands of biological, psychological, and social elements work together and emphasizes the importance of continued global research into many unknown underlying mechanisms.

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Session : AAAS1405
7311: Global Public Health Security: It Takes a Village
Conference : 2014 Annual Meeting
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nizer: David Blazes, Johns Hopkins University Speakers: Christopher W. Woods, Duke University An Academic Medical Perspective: Working in Developed and Developing Countries Scott F. Dowell, Centers for Disease Control and Prevention Global Public Health Security: Imagination and Reality Jennifer Yang, Toronto Star Global Health from a Journalist's Perspective: Giving the Public What It Needs and Wants

Addressing transnational challenges such as global public health security requires cooperative action between countries and between sectors. The World Health Organization (WHO) has said that vulnerability is now universal, especially in times of limited resources and increasing risks, due to our globally connected world. SARS, cholera, avian influenza, the resurgence of dengue, and antimicrobial resistance among bacteria are just a few of these challenges. Populations continue to grow, interactions with our animal brethren become more frequent and familiar, climate change alters the dynamics of disease transmission, and information flows more freelymaking for a complex situation that resists easy solutions. This symposium examines global public health from several perspectives, describing how the global village may attempt to address these challenges. Perspectives include that of an academic working in a developing country, a global health journalist, and a policymaker from a government agency tasked with developing an agenda and funding a research portfolio. The symposium will discuss similarities and differences between perspectives and the complexity of finding solutions for these challenges.

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Session : AAAS1406
7049: Intelligent Context-Aware Systems for Healthcare, Wellness, and Assisted Living
Conference : 2014 Annual Meeting
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ganizer: Louise Byrne, European Commission, Research Executive Agency Moderator: Franois Willekens, European Commission, Research Executive Agency Speakers: Olivier Amft, Eindhoven University of Technology Context Aware Systems: From Sensors to Social Factors Axel Steinhage, Future Shape GmBH Long-Term Activity Monitoring in Assisted Living Using a Large-Area Sensitive Floor Illapha Cuba Gyllensten, Philips Research Early Detection of Worsening Heart Failure Using Continuous Noninvasive Measurements

Context awareness has the potential to revolutionize the way people interact with information technology. Whereas conventional computers merely interpret explicit user input, context aware systems analyze and automatically respond to users' behavior and the current situation. This enables electronic systems to assist users in situations in which the use of conventional computers and mobile devices is out of question. This is of particular relevance in the field of healthcare, wellness, and assisted living (HWA) applications. Research on context awareness has continued to intensify in the last decade due to the availability of cheap sensing technologies and mobile systems. Still, building reliable context aware systems that can deal with complex real-life situations and environments remains an open research challenge and requires a multidisciplinary effort. An international consortium of 24 universities, companies, and research organizations have formed to provide a decisive contribution toward solutions, leveraged through an interdisciplinary perspective ranging from sensing and sensor integration to human computer interaction and social factors involved in the deployment of context aware applications and, in doing so, train the next generation of researchers in the field. The symposium illustrates the advances made in the field of context awareness by this large consortium and the benefits for HWA applications in particular.

Session : AAAS1407
7335: New Business Models for Accelerating Biomedical Innovation
Conference : 2014 Annual Meeting
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Organizer: Andrew W. Lo, Massachusetts Institute of Technology Moderator: Andrew W. Lo, Massachusetts Institute of Technology Speakers: John McKew, National Center for Advancing Translational Science (NCATS) NCATS: Catalyzing Innovation Pablo Legorreta, Royalty Pharma Drug Royalty Investment Companies as Catalysts for Innovation Bruce Lehmann , University of California, San Diego Some Simple Economics for Early Stage Drug Development

There is growing consensus that the process of translating biomedical research into effective therapeutics is broken and that the current business model for life sciences research and development (R&D) is flawed. The trend of increasing risk and complexity within the biopharmaceutical industry implies that the traditional sources of financinge.g., private and public equityare becoming less effective because the needs and expectations of limited partners and shareholders are becoming less aligned with the new realities of biomedical innovation. The result is a push toward funding projects and strategies with clearer and more immediate payoffs, leaving the more speculative but potentially more transformative science and translational research to languish. In order to address these issues, the seemingly disparate worlds of business and finance and science and medicine must converge; new business models that provide the proper incentives for all key stakeholders to work together toward the common goal of improving biomedical innovation must be developed. This session highlights emerging ideas and concepts with this intent.

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Session : AAAS1408
7158: Outsourcing Science: Will the Cloud Transform Research?
Conference : 2014 Annual Meeting
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Organizer: Ian Foster, Argonne National Laboratory Speakers: Elizabeth Iorns, Science Exchange, Inc. A Science Services Marketplace Gerhard Klimeck, Purdue University Scientific Simulation Software as a Service Rick Stevens, Argonne National Laboratory Accelerating Bacterial Genomics and Metagenomics via Science Services

Software-as-a-Service (SaaS), also known as software on demand, is a software delivery model in which software and associated data are located in the cloud rather than a users desktop or institution. First proposed as a cost reduction mechanism, SaaS has been widely adopted in industry as a disruptive technology. Businesses operate fundamentally differently today than just five years ago because of the rise of SaaS. Startups, larger companies, and consumers all outsource major information management and manipulation tasks to cloud providers. This symposium investigates the question of whether, how, and when a similar transformation may occur in science. In principle, challenging needs and limited budgets should create strong pressures for outsourcing many research functionsdriving, perhaps, the complete relocation of laboratories to the cloud. In practice, we see far less adoption of such technologies in the research community. Is this limited adoption due to fundamental properties of science or alternatively to complacency, conservatism, funding models, and/or university bureaucracy? The answer likely contains shades of all these theories and many more. This symposium brings together pioneers in the research SaaS field to discuss what has worked and what has not, and to identify challenges going forward.

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Session : AAAS1409
6809: Securing Fisheries Through Novel Approaches: Opportunities of Genetics and Genomics
Conference : 2014 Annual Meeting
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Organizer: Geraldine Barry, European Commission, Joint Research Center Speakers: Robin Waples, National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration; Marissa L. Baskett, University of California Strategies to Minimize Fitness Impact of Cultured Individuals on Wild Populations Gary R. Carvalho, Environment Center Wales Fisheries Resource Governance: Links Between Fisheries Forensics and Sustainability Jann Th. Martinsohn, European Commission, Joint Research Center Designing Sustainable Fishery Strategies Through Integration of Genetics and Genomics

Marine fish are a major natural resource, and fishingproviding nutrition and income since millenniais deeply embedded in human culture. However, in many regions massive fishing activitylegal and illegalhas had a dramatic impact, with virtually 70 percent of the worlds fish stocks being fully exploited, overexploited, or collapsing. Policymakers and fishery managers worldwide strive to design strategies for sustainable exploitation. These endeavors rely heavily on scientific information, and a number of countries actively seek scientific advice for marine management and conservation. Despite recent progress in fishery genetics, enabled by rapid technology advancement, genetics and genomics are not yet routinely applied for fishery or aquaculture management, with a few notable exceptions. Novel genetic and genomic approaches can readily be applied to address crucial issues, e.g., management and conservation unit identification, revealing adaptive responses to exploitation or environmental changes, identification of farm escapees, improvement of breeding schemes, and support to control. This session presents recent progress in fishery genetics and genomics, introduces innovative analytical approaches, provides examples of approaches that are successfully applied for management or control, and explores how the transfer of genetics and genomics into fishery and aquaculture management could be strengthened.

Session : AAAS1410
7144: Securing Food, Feed, and Fuel via Natural Diversity: Spotlight on the Maize Genome
Conference : 2014 Annual Meeting
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Organizer: Patrick Regan, Technical University Munich Co-organizers: Ulrich Marsch, Technical University Munich and Barbara Wankerl, Technical University Munich Speakers: Joachim Messing, Rutgers University Divergent Gene Amplification Based on Whole-Genome Sequences Chris-Carolin Schn, Technical University Munich Predicting Complex Phenotypes for Genome-Enabled Crop and Livestock Breeding Edward S. Buckler, U.S. Department of Agriculture Identifying DNA Variants That Control Maize Domestication, Adaptation and Nutrition

Farmers and plant breeders around the world have always worked to optimize the agricultural plants that support their societies. Given the current trends of climate change, booming human and livestock populations, and increasing demand for biofuels, the pressure on crops and croplands has never been greater. Fortunately, this challenge coincides with an unprecedented moment in science. Innovative, interdisciplinary research programs are poised to deliver knowledge and tools that can help secure food, feed, and fuel for a changing world. Genome-enabled selection can accelerate the breeding of plants adapted for climate change, modified to enhance nutrition, or tailored for more economical biofuel production. Such goals can be achieved by bringing out traits hidden in a plant's own genomevariations accumulated through evolution, inherited and modified down through the generations, though perhaps not expressed in modern varieties. Tapping this inherent, natural diversity is the key, whether through genome-wide approaches or by targeting links between specific genes and traits. This symposium explains genome-enabled selection, presenting recent advances and highlighting the maize genome. Arguably the world's most important crop, maize has another distinction: a genome exceptionally rich in natural diversity. Thus the story of exploring the maize genome is a paradigm for understanding the problems and opportunities associated with all agricultural plants.

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