Meeting schedule

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Included with workshops fee
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Free, registration required
1Friday11:00 am - 4:00 pmNASW Board Meeting (closed meeting)
Location: Board Room, Hilton University of Florida Conference Center
1:00 - 4:00 pmFlorida Museum Collections tour
Location: Meet in hotel lobby; tours leave on the hour at 1 pm, 2 pm & 3 pm
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1:00 - 4:00 pmUF Health Orthopaedics and Sports Medicine Institute
Location: Meet in hotel lobby; tours leave on the hour at 1 pm, 2 pm & 3 pm
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1:00 - 4:00 pmUF/IFAS Entomology Department tour
Location: Meet in hotel lobby; tours leave at 1 pm and 2:30 pm
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2:00 - 6:00 pmProfessional Headshots with Mark Bennington
Location: Prefunction Area/Lobby, Hilton University of Florida Conference Center
3:00 - 7:00 pmCheck-in
Location: Hilton University of Florida Conference Center
4:00 - 5:00 pmAerial camera drone demo
Location: Hilton University of Florida (front lawn)
6:00 - 9:00 pmWelcome reception
Location: Florida Museum of Natural History
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9:00 - 11:00 pmAfter party
Location: Two Bits Lounge, Hilton University of Florida Conference Center
2Saturday7:00 - 8:30 amContinental Breakfast
Location: Prefunction Area, Hilton University of Florida Conference Center
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7:00 am - 5:00 pmCheck-in
Location: Prefunction Area, Hilton University of Florida Conference Center
7:15 - 8:00 amPower Pitch Sign-ups
Location: Live Oak
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7:30 - 8:00 amNewcomer meet and greet
Location: Century A Ballroom, Hilton University of Florida Conference Center
8:00 - 9:00 amNASW Business Meeting
Location: Century Ballroom A
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9:00 am - 6:00 pmProfessional Headshots with Mark Bennington
Location: Prefunction Area/Lobby, Hilton University of Florida Conference Center
9:15 - 10:30 amA1) From Star Trek to The Big Bang Theory: Science goes Hollywood
Location: Century Ballroom A
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9:15 - 10:30 amA2) Working with editors
Location: Century Ballroom C
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9:15 - 10:30 amA3) Becoming a backpack PIO
Location: Century Ballroom B
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9:15 - 10:30 amA4) Online and offline tools for mastering your workflow
Location: Dogwood
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10:30 - 11:00 amMorning Break
Location: Prefunction Area
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11:00 am - 12:15 pmB1) A view from the future
Location: Century Ballroom C
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11:00 am - 12:15 pmB2) Take a lesson from the universe: expand
Location: Dogwood
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11:00 am - 12:15 pmB3) Power Pitch
Location: Century Ballroom A
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11:00 am - 12:15 pmB4) Going tribal: Cultivating community in an isolating profession
Location: Century Ballroom B
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12:15 - 1:45 pmLunch
Location: Albert’s Restaurant and Prefunction Area, Hilton University of Florida Conference Center
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1:45 - 3:00 pmC1) Social media law: How just 140 characters can get you in trouble
Location: Century Ballroom C
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1:45 - 3:00 pmC2) If you can’t go long, write short
Location: Century Ballroom A
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1:45 - 3:00 pmC3) Show me the money
Location: Century Ballroom B
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1:45 - 3:00 pmC4) Why research matters: Communicating scientific success stories to policy makers and the public
Location: Dogwood
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3:00 - 3:45 pmAfternoon Break
Location: Prefunction Area
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3:45 - 5:00 pmD2) Starting new publications
Location: Century Ballroom C
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3:45 - 5:00 pmD3) Freelancer ethics: Navigating the changing media landscape
Location: Dogwood
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3:45 - 5:00 pmD4) Rising above the noise: Using statistics-based reporting
Location: Century Ballroom A
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5:05 - 6:30 pmD1) The XX question
Location: Century Ballroom A
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6:30 - 10:00 pmAwards Gala
Location: Samuel P. Harn Museum of Art at the University of Florida (a short walk from the hotel; shuttle available)
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3Sunday7:00 - 8:30 amBreakfast
Location: Prefunction area
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7:00 am - 12:00 pmCheck-in
Location: Prefunction area
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8:30 - 9:30 amThe tree of lice and the tree of life: Tales of evolution and symbiosis written in one parasite’s gut
Location: Century Ballroom A
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9:00 am - 6:00 pmProfessional Headshots with Mark Bennington
Location: Prefunction Area, Hilton University of Florida Conference Center
9:30 - 10:30 amCrashing markets, power blackouts and sudden death: The physics of a networked world
Location: Century Ballroom B
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9:30 - 10:30 amFrom Haiti to the Hajj: Real-time science to prevent pandemics
Location: Century Ballroom A
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10:30 - 10:45 amBreak
Location: Prefunction area
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10:45 - 11:45 amSimplicity, surprise, science
Location: Century Ballroom A
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11:45 am - 1:45 pmLunch with a scientist
Location: Conference Center meeting rooms
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1:45 - 2:30 pmRethinking the origins of dogs
Location: Century Ballroom A
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1:45 - 2:30 pmWhen you go to Mars, take a towel—and a handful of seeds
Location: Century Ballroom B
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1:45 - 3:45 pmPowell Structures Lab tour
Location: Depart from Conference Center lobby
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2:30 - 3:15 pmProbing nanoparticles for answers to big climate questions
Location: Century Ballroom A
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3:15 - 3:45 pmBreak
Location: Prefunction area
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3:30 - 4:30 pmU.F. Poinsettia and Coleus Breeding Program tour
Location: Depart from Conference Center lobby
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3:45 - 4:30 pmOne Medicine: How dogs are accelerating human cancer research
Location: Century Ballroom A
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3:45 - 4:30 pmPlanck cosmology: Zooming in on big-bang inflation
Location: Century Ballroom B
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4:30 - 5:30 pmThe future of spaceflight: An update from Virgin Galactic
Location: Century Ballroom A
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6:30 - 7:30 pmFlorida Innovation Hub reception
Location: Depart from Conference Center lobby
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7:30 - 11:00 pmGainesville Downtown dine-around
Location: Walk from Innovation Hub, shuttles back to hotel. Pay on your own.
4Monday7:00 - 8:30 amBreakfast
Location: Prefunction area
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8:30 - 9:30 amFrom reductionism to sustainable science
Location: Century Ballroom A
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9:30 - 10:15 amTiny mammals, giant reptiles: Fossil snapshots of biotic response to climate
Location: Century Ballroom B
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9:30 - 10:15 amViral gene therapy: Leveraging structural biology for safer cures
Location: Century Ballroom A
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10:15 - 10:30 amBreak
Location: Prefunction area
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10:30 - 11:15 amA pathogen hunter flies into African dust plumes
Location: Century Ballroom A
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10:30 - 11:15 amThe cell as a pump
Location: Century Ballroom B
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11:15 am - 12:00 pmReading the drug-dosing instructions written in your genome
Location: Century Ballroom A
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12:00 - 1:00 pmLunch
Location: Main ballroom
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12:45 - 2:45 pmU.F. McKnight Brain Institute tour
Location: Depart from Conference Center lobby
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1:00 - 1:45 pmCan the climate-change locomotive be stopped?
Location: Century Ballroom A
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1:45 - 2:30 pmLEDs arm a greenhouse "light brigade"
Location: Century Ballroom A
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2:30 - 3:00 pmBreak
Location: Prefunction area
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2:45 - 4:15 pmU.F. Health Cancer & Genetics Institute tour
Location: Depart from Conference Center lobby
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3:00 - 3:45 pmClimate CSI: A geologist reports from Greenland’s melting ice sheet
Location: Century Ballroom A
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3:45 - 4:30 pmBursts of color on the tree of life: The turbulent evolution of flowers
Location: Century Ballroom A
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4:30 - 5:30 pmI don’t feel your pain: Solving the puzzle of subjective measurement
Location: Century Ballroom A
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5:30 - 7:00 pmFood truck rodeo
Location: Location TBD, Pay on your own.
7:30 - 9:30 pmBig Bad Voodoo Daddy concert
Location: Phillips Center for the Performing Arts
5Tuesday7:00 - 8:30 amBreakfast
Location: Conference Center lobby
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7:30 am - 12:00 pmThomas Farm fossil dig
Location: Depart from Conference Center lobby; limit 35.
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7:30 am - 4:00 pmFlorida springs tour
Location: Depart from Conference Center lobby; additional cost, registration required, limit 40.
7:30 am - 4:00 pmHistoric St. Augustine tour
Location: Depart from Conference Center lobby; additional cost, registration required, limit 50.

Meeting schedule

Friday, Nov. 1

11:00 am to 4:00 pm

Friday, Nov. 1
11:00 am to 4:00 pm
Board Room, Hilton University of Florida Conference Center

1:00 pm to 4:00 pm

Friday, Nov. 1
1:00 pm to 4:00 pm
Meet in hotel lobby; tours leave on the hour at 1 pm, 2 pm & 3 pm
Friday, Nov. 1
1:00 pm to 4:00 pm
Meet in hotel lobby; tours leave on the hour at 1 pm, 2 pm & 3 pm
Friday, Nov. 1
1:00 pm to 4:00 pm
Meet in hotel lobby; tours leave at 1 pm and 2:30 pm

2:00 pm to 6:00 pm

Friday, Nov. 1
2:00 pm to 6:00 pm
Prefunction Area/Lobby, Hilton University of Florida Conference Center

3:00 pm to 7:00 pm

Friday, Nov. 1
3:00 pm to 7:00 pm
Hilton University of Florida Conference Center

4:00 pm to 5:00 pm

Friday, Nov. 1
4:00 pm to 5:00 pm
Hilton University of Florida (front lawn)

6:00 pm to 9:00 pm

Friday, Nov. 1
6:00 pm to 9:00 pm
Florida Museum of Natural History

9:00 pm to 11:00 pm

Friday, Nov. 1
9:00 pm to 11:00 pm
Two Bits Lounge, Hilton University of Florida Conference Center
Saturday, Nov. 2

7:00 am to 8:30 am

Saturday, Nov. 2
7:00 am to 8:30 am
Prefunction Area, Hilton University of Florida Conference Center

7:00 am to 5:00 pm

Saturday, Nov. 2
7:00 am to 5:00 pm
Prefunction Area, Hilton University of Florida Conference Center

7:15 am to 8:00 am

Saturday, Nov. 2
7:15 am to 8:00 am
Live Oak

7:30 am to 8:00 am

Saturday, Nov. 2
7:30 am to 8:00 am
Century A Ballroom, Hilton University of Florida Conference Center

8:00 am to 9:00 am

Saturday, Nov. 2
8:00 am to 9:00 am
Century Ballroom A

9:00 am to 6:00 pm

Saturday, Nov. 2
9:00 am to 6:00 pm
Prefunction Area/Lobby, Hilton University of Florida Conference Center

9:15 am to 10:30 am

Saturday, Nov. 2
9:15 am to 10:30 am
Century Ballroom A
Saturday, Nov. 2
9:15 am to 10:30 am
Century Ballroom C
Saturday, Nov. 2
9:15 am to 10:30 am
Century Ballroom B
Saturday, Nov. 2
9:15 am to 10:30 am
Dogwood

10:30 am to 11:00 am

Saturday, Nov. 2
10:30 am to 11:00 am
Prefunction Area

11:00 am to 12:15 pm

Saturday, Nov. 2
11:00 am to 12:15 pm
Century Ballroom C
Saturday, Nov. 2
11:00 am to 12:15 pm
Dogwood
Saturday, Nov. 2
11:00 am to 12:15 pm
Century Ballroom A
Saturday, Nov. 2
11:00 am to 12:15 pm
Century Ballroom B

12:15 pm to 1:45 pm

Saturday, Nov. 2
12:15 pm to 1:45 pm
Albert’s Restaurant and Prefunction Area, Hilton University of Florida Conference Center

1:45 pm to 3:00 pm

Saturday, Nov. 2
1:45 pm to 3:00 pm
Century Ballroom C
Saturday, Nov. 2
1:45 pm to 3:00 pm
Century Ballroom A
Saturday, Nov. 2
1:45 pm to 3:00 pm
Century Ballroom B

3:00 pm to 3:45 pm

Saturday, Nov. 2
3:00 pm to 3:45 pm
Prefunction Area

3:45 pm to 5:00 pm

Saturday, Nov. 2
3:45 pm to 5:00 pm
Century Ballroom C
Saturday, Nov. 2
3:45 pm to 5:00 pm
Dogwood
Saturday, Nov. 2
3:45 pm to 5:00 pm
Century Ballroom A

5:05 pm to 6:30 pm

Saturday, Nov. 2
5:05 pm to 6:30 pm
Century Ballroom A

6:30 pm to 10:00 pm

Saturday, Nov. 2
6:30 pm to 10:00 pm
Samuel P. Harn Museum of Art at the University of Florida (a short walk from the hotel; shuttle available)
Sunday, Nov. 3

7:00 am to 8:30 am

Sunday, Nov. 3
7:00 am to 8:30 am
Prefunction area

7:00 am to 12:00 pm

Sunday, Nov. 3
7:00 am to 12:00 pm
Prefunction area

8:30 am to 9:30 am

9:00 am to 6:00 pm

Sunday, Nov. 3
9:00 am to 6:00 pm
Prefunction Area, Hilton University of Florida Conference Center

9:30 am to 10:30 am

Sunday, Nov. 3
9:30 am to 10:30 am
Century Ballroom B
Sunday, Nov. 3
9:30 am to 10:30 am
Century Ballroom A

10:30 am to 10:45 am

Sunday, Nov. 3
10:30 am to 10:45 am
Prefunction area

10:45 am to 11:45 am

Sunday, Nov. 3
10:45 am to 11:45 am
Century Ballroom A

11:45 am to 1:45 pm

Sunday, Nov. 3
11:45 am to 1:45 pm
Conference Center meeting rooms

1:45 pm to 2:30 pm

Sunday, Nov. 3
1:45 pm to 2:30 pm
Century Ballroom A
Sunday, Nov. 3
1:45 pm to 2:30 pm
Century Ballroom B

1:45 pm to 3:45 pm

Sunday, Nov. 3
1:45 pm to 3:45 pm
Depart from Conference Center lobby

2:30 pm to 3:15 pm

Sunday, Nov. 3
2:30 pm to 3:15 pm
Century Ballroom A

3:15 pm to 3:45 pm

Sunday, Nov. 3
3:15 pm to 3:45 pm
Prefunction area

3:30 pm to 4:30 pm

Sunday, Nov. 3
3:30 pm to 4:30 pm
Depart from Conference Center lobby

3:45 pm to 4:30 pm

Sunday, Nov. 3
3:45 pm to 4:30 pm
Century Ballroom A
Sunday, Nov. 3
3:45 pm to 4:30 pm
Century Ballroom B

4:30 pm to 5:30 pm

Sunday, Nov. 3
4:30 pm to 5:30 pm
Century Ballroom A

6:30 pm to 7:30 pm

Sunday, Nov. 3
6:30 pm to 7:30 pm
Depart from Conference Center lobby

7:30 pm to 11:00 pm

Sunday, Nov. 3
7:30 pm to 11:00 pm
Walk from Innovation Hub, shuttles back to hotel. Pay on your own.
Monday, Nov. 4

7:00 am to 8:30 am

Monday, Nov. 4
7:00 am to 8:30 am
Prefunction area

8:30 am to 9:30 am

Monday, Nov. 4
8:30 am to 9:30 am
Century Ballroom A

9:30 am to 10:15 am

Monday, Nov. 4
9:30 am to 10:15 am
Century Ballroom B
Monday, Nov. 4
9:30 am to 10:15 am
Century Ballroom A

10:15 am to 10:30 am

Monday, Nov. 4
10:15 am to 10:30 am
Prefunction area

10:30 am to 11:15 am

Monday, Nov. 4
10:30 am to 11:15 am
Century Ballroom A
Monday, Nov. 4
10:30 am to 11:15 am
Century Ballroom B

11:15 am to 12:00 pm

Monday, Nov. 4
11:15 am to 12:00 pm
Century Ballroom A

12:00 pm to 1:00 pm

Monday, Nov. 4
12:00 pm to 1:00 pm
Main ballroom

12:45 pm to 2:45 pm

Monday, Nov. 4
12:45 pm to 2:45 pm
Depart from Conference Center lobby

1:00 pm to 1:45 pm

Monday, Nov. 4
1:00 pm to 1:45 pm
Century Ballroom A

1:45 pm to 2:30 pm

Monday, Nov. 4
1:45 pm to 2:30 pm
Century Ballroom A

2:30 pm to 3:00 pm

Monday, Nov. 4
2:30 pm to 3:00 pm
Prefunction area

2:45 pm to 4:15 pm

Monday, Nov. 4
2:45 pm to 4:15 pm
Depart from Conference Center lobby

3:00 pm to 3:45 pm

Monday, Nov. 4
3:00 pm to 3:45 pm
Century Ballroom A

3:45 pm to 4:30 pm

Monday, Nov. 4
3:45 pm to 4:30 pm
Century Ballroom A

4:30 pm to 5:30 pm

Monday, Nov. 4
4:30 pm to 5:30 pm
Century Ballroom A

5:30 pm to 7:00 pm

Monday, Nov. 4
5:30 pm to 7:00 pm
Location TBD, Pay on your own.

7:30 pm to 9:30 pm

Monday, Nov. 4
7:30 pm to 9:30 pm
Phillips Center for the Performing Arts
Tuesday, Nov. 5

7:00 am to 8:30 am

Tuesday, Nov. 5
7:00 am to 8:30 am
Conference Center lobby

7:30 am to 12:00 pm

Tuesday, Nov. 5
7:30 am to 12:00 pm
Depart from Conference Center lobby; limit 35.

7:30 am to 4:00 pm

Tuesday, Nov. 5
7:30 am to 4:00 pm
Depart from Conference Center lobby; additional cost, registration required, limit 40.
Tuesday, Nov. 5
7:30 am to 4:00 pm
Depart from Conference Center lobby; additional cost, registration required, limit 50.

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