| 8:15 a.m. |
Welcome
Jeremy M. Berg, Ph.D., NIGMS, NIH
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| 8:30 a.m. |
Introductory Remarks and Announcement of 2007 Pioneer Award Recipients
Elias A. Zerhouni, M.D., NIH
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| 8:50 a.m. |
Dominant Drug Targets in RNA Viruses
Karla Kirkegaard, Ph.D., Stanford University School of Medicine
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| 9:10 a.m. |
New Approaches to Fight Bacterial Infections
Evgeny Nudler, Ph.D., New York University School of Medicine
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| 9:30 a.m. |
It's a Jungle in There: Explorations of the Human Microbiome
David Relman, M.D., Stanford University
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| 9:50 a.m. |
Break
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| 10:20 a.m. |
Neurogrid: Emulating a Million Neurons in the Cortex
Kwabena Boahen, Ph.D., Stanford University
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| 10:40 a.m. |
Putting Nanostructures to Work for Biomedical Resrch
Younan Xia, Ph.D., Washington University in St. Loueais
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| 11:00 a.m. |
Understanding Adaptive Immunity and Its Aberrant Regulation: A Crossroad of the Physical, Life, and Engineering Sciences
Arup Chakraborty, Ph.D., Massachusetts Institute of Technology
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| 11:20 a.m. |
Moving the Protein Folding Problem from the Test Tube to the Cell
Lila Gierasch, Ph.D., University of Massachusetts Amherst
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| 11:40 a.m. |
Protein Biophysics Under Physiological Conditions
Gary Pielak, Ph.D., University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill
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| Noon |
Lunch |
| 1:30 p.m. |
Monitoring the Immune System with Synthetic Molecule Microarrays: A New Route to Biomarker Discovery
Thomas Kodadek, Ph.D., University of Texas Southwestern Medical Center at Dallas
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| 1:50 p.m. |
Proteoglycan Interactions with Sonic Hedgehog Are Selectively Required for Mitogenic Responses
Rosalind Segal, M.D., Ph.D., Dana-Farber Cancer Institute
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| 2:10 p.m. |
Break
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| 2:30 p.m. |
Making Human Adult Stem Cell Expansion Routine
James Sherley, M.D., Ph.D., Boston Biomedical Research Institute
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| 2:50 p.m. |
Elucidating Mechanisms of Intracellular Scaling
Rebecca Heald, Ph.D., University of California, Berkeley
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| 3:10 p.m. |
Suspended Animation of Non-hibernating Mammals
Cheng Chi Lee, Ph.D., University of Texas Health Science Center at Houston
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| 3:30 p.m. |
Concurrent Poster Session and Reception
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| 5:30 p.m. |
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