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Disease, Development and Darwin:
Experimental Models of Human Disorders
Whitehead Institute Symposium XXII
September 27, 2004
Experimental models, sometimes far removed from humans,
have proven invaluable to the study of human development
and disease. From flies and yeast to fish and frogs,
the pantheon of model systems represents a diverse collection
of organisms, each valued for its simplicity and unique
utility. Whitehead Symposium XXII will bring together
leading scientific experts to discuss how model organisms
can be used to bring efficient and novel approaches
to bear on the study of human biology. Speakers will
address ways to use model systems to study developmental
and disease processes, examine how researchers can use
evolution to efficiently and reliably understand human
disease, provide updates on simpler, faster, and cheaper
techniques to study biological processes, and share
strategies on how to direct resources in new and productive
ways.
Program
| 8:00am |
Registration,
Networking Breakfast
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| 8:45am |
Welcome
Susan Lindquist, Director, Whitehead
Institute
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| 8:50am
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Opening Remarks
Hazel Sive, Member,
Whitehead Institute
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| 9:00-9:40am |
Liver Re-population
by Extra- and Intrahepatic Stem Cells
Markus Grompe, Oregon Health
and Sciences University
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| 9:50 -10:30am |
Stem Cells
for Pancreatic Development
Douglas A. Melton, Harvard University
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| 10:40-11:00am |
Break
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| 11:00-11:40am |
Molecular Control of Cell
Motility in the Drosophila Ovary and in Ovarian
Cancer
Denise Montell, Johns
Hopkins University School of Medicine
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| 11:50-12:30pm |
Diseases and Therapies
Involving Wnt Signaling Pathways
Randall
T. Moon, University of Washington
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| 12:40-2:00pm |
Lunch
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| 2:00-2:40pm |
Genes and Cells that Regulate
Lifespan
Cynthia Kenyon, University
of California, San Francisco
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| 2:50-3:30pm |
HIV Vif: Defeating Innate
Immunity
Nathaniel Landau,
Salk Institute for Biological Studies
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| 3:40-4:20pm |
Mammalian Prion Biology
Adriano Aguzzi, University Hospital
of Zurich
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Past Topics
2003: Scripts for Life: Biological Regulatory Mechanisms
2002: Biological Challenges to Humanity: Emerging and Re-emerging Pathogens
2001: Genomic Information
2000: Molecular Machines
1999: The Biology of Drug Discovery
1998: Neurobiology
Last updated October 3, 2004. |
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