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
