Saturday-Sunday, September 29-30, 2007
Program
| 12:00 pm | Registration and Poster setup |
| 1:00 | Jim Carrington, Director, CGRB Welcome, Updates and Announcements |
| 1:20 | Gary Merrill, Biochemistry and Biophysics “MCB Core Program Curriculum Revisions” |
| 1:35 | Darryl Conte, University of Massachusetts Medical Center “Dicer-Related Helicases: Defining Conserved Complexes and New RNAi-Related Pathways in C. elegans” |
| 2:10 | Tai Montgomery, MCB Graduate Program “ARGONAUTEs and Silencing Specificity” |
| 3:05 | Siva Kullori, Environmental and Molecular Toxicology “Signaling from Nucleus to Mitochondria: Nuclear Receptor Nur77 Based Cancer Therapeutics” |
| 3:30 | Michael Freitag, Biochemistry and Biophysics “Centromere Assembly and Maintenance” |
| 3:55 | Shelley Halpain, University of California, San Diego “MAPs, MARCKS, and Morphology: A Few Keys to Neuronal Development” |
| 5:00 | Poster Session, Sponsors’ Displays and Open Bar |
| 6:45 | Dinner |
| 8:00-12:00 | Entertainment, Announcement of Awards |
| 8:45 am | Jeff Chang, Botany and Plant Pathology “Functional Genomic Screen for Type III Effectors of Mutualistic Rhizobia” |
| 9:10 | Martin Schuster, Microbiology “Social Cheating in Pseudomonas aeruginosa Quorum Sensing” |
| 9:35 | Jennifer Nemhauser, University of Washington “Manipulation and Dissection of Plant Growth Control Networks” |
| 10:45 | Valerian Dolja, Botany and Plant Pathology “Origin of Viruses and Cells in Light of Comparative Genomics” |
| 11:10 | Joe Beckman, Linus Pauling Institute “Mass Spectometry of Native Proteins from Brain: Understanding How SOD Causes ALS” |
| 11:35 | Theresa Filtz, Pharmaceutical Sciences “Lipids, Dimers, Phosphates, Calcium and Lipase: Fine Tuning the Regulation of a Common Signaling Pathway” |
| 12:00 pm | Lunch |