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Cell Signaling: Switches, Connectors, and Circuits
Whitehead Institute Symposium XXIII
September 26, 2005
Kresge Auditorium, MIT
From yeasts to flies and worms, to mice and humans
cells signal each other in countless ways. Cell signaling
is essential for normal development and for stem cells
to replace aged and malfunctioning cells. Abnormalities
in cell signaling underlie cancer, diabetes, and atherosclerosis.
Whitehead Symposium XXIII will bring together leading
scientific experts to discuss signaling molecules, the
receptors that bind them, and the proteins within cells
that transduce and modulate receptor signals into cell-specific
responses. Emphasis will be on the signaling circuitry
between cells that enables the organism as a whole to
coordinate the functioning of its component organs and
tissues, and the circuitry within cells that enables
them to integrate and regulate diverse hormonal signals
into specific cell-appropriate responses.
Program
| 8:00am |
Registration,
Networking Breakfast
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| 8:45am |
Welcome
David Page, Interim Director,
Whitehead Institute
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| 8:50am
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Opening Remarks
Harvey Lodish, Member,
Whitehead Institute
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| 9:00-9:40am |
Dynamics of
Signaling by PKA
Susan
Taylor, University of California
San Diego
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| 9:50 -10:30am |
Regulated Protein-protein
Interactions and Biological Complexity
Tony
Pawson, Samuel Lunenfeld Research
Institute
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| 10:40-11:00am |
Break
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| 11:00-11:40am |
Self-Renewal and Lineage
Selection by Adult Epidermal Stem Cells
Fiona
Watt, London Research Institute
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| 11:50-12:30pm |
Autocrine Circuits and EGF Receptor Signaling
Steven
Wiley, Pacific Northwest National Laboratory
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| 12:40-2:00pm |
Lunch
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| 2:00-2:40pm |
Schizophrenia, Stem Cells
and Sprouty Signaling
Steven
McKnight, University of Texas Southwestern
Medical Center
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| 2:50-3:30pm |
The Nutrient Input to the
mTOR/S6K1 Signaling Pathway
George
Thomas, University of Cincinnati Genome
Research Institute
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| 3:40-4:20pm |
Signal Transduction by
ß-arrestins and GRKs
Robert
Lefkowitz, Duke University Medical
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Past Topics
2004: Disease, Development and
Darwin: Experimental Models of Human Disorders
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 September 22, 2005. |
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