Friday and Saturday, September 23-24, 2005

Program

12:00	Registration & Poster setup
1:00	Jim Carrington, Director, CGRB Introduction, CGRB update
1:30	Steve Giovannoni – Pernot Chair and Professor, Microbiology “Genome Streamlining in Cosmopolitan Oceanic Bacteria”
1:55	Larry Wilhelm, Ph.D. Student, Microbiology “Microbial Genome Divergence in Environmental Sequence Data Sets”
2:15	Jim Carrington – Director, CGRB “Small RNA Pathways in Plants”
3:05	John Cassady – Vice President for Research “The Research Enterprise at OSU”
3:25	Luanne Lawrence – Vice President for University Advancement “Research: The Heart of University Advancement’s New Mission”
3:45	Moderated Forum with John Cassady and Luanne Lawrence
4:15	Steve Kay – Keynote Address, The Scripps Research Institute “Systems Approaches to Understanding Circadian Clocks”
5:00	Poster Session and Sponsor Displays
7:30 – 8:45 am	Continental Breakfast
8:45	Wei Chen – Ph.D. Student, Zoology “A Silky Way to Divide: Relaxing the Poles While Stimulating the Equator by Microtubules”
9:05	Taifo Mahmud – Assistant Professor, Pharmaceutical Sciences “Combinatorial Genetic and Synthetic Approaches to Novel Anti-Infective Drugs”
9:30	Eugene Koonin – Keynote Address, National Center for Biotechnology Information, NIH “Universal Trends in Protein Evolution”
10:45	Elisabeth Chapman – Ph.D. Student, MCB Program “RISC Management: Suppression of microRNA and Silencing Pathways by Viruses”
11:05	Ling Jin – Assistant Professor, Biomedical Sciences “Studies on Human Herpes Simplex Type 1 Virus Latency Reactivation Induced by Apoptosis”
11:30	Lunch
	Post Retreat
1:00	1st CGRB Golf Tournament – Eagle Crest Ridge Course

Thank you to our conference committee:

David Maddison, Integrative Biology
Kathy Magnusson, Biomedical Sciences
Steven Strauss, Forest Ecosystems & Society