Schedule
Monday, September 27, 2004
11:00.....Registration/Check-in/ Poster set-up
Great Hall, Coffman Memorial Union
1:30.......Welcoming Remarks
1:35.......Eric Green
National Human Genome Research Institute
"Comparative Genome Sequencing: Using Evolution to Decode the Human Genome"
2:40.......Ethan Bier
University of California, San Diego
"Using Drosophila as a vechile for discovery in human genetics"
3:30.......BREAK
3:50.......Jeff Esko
University of California, San Diego
"Heparan Sulfate Deficiency Causes Hereditary Multiple Exotoses"
4:40.......Chi-Bin Chien
University of Utah, Medical Center
"Genetic control of zebrafish axon guidance: connections to human disease"
BANQUET (banquet ticket required to attend banquet activities and after dinner lecture)
6:00.......Art Museum Gallery viewing and cocktails
7:30.......Banquet and After Dinner Lecture:
Maximiliam Muenke
National Human Genome Research Institute
"Cholesterol, Sonic Hedgehog, and the developing brain"
Tuesday, September 28, 2004
8:00.......Continental Breakfast
9:00.......Christopher Walsh
Harvard Medical School
"Human mental retardation: genes that control the shape and size of the cerebral cortex"
9:50.......Sally Camper
University of Michigan Medical School
"Cell signaling and transcription factor regulation of pituitary gland development"
10:40......POSTER SESSION VIEWING & BREAK
12:15......LUNCH: Mississippi Room, Coffman Memoral Union
1:30.......Klaus Willecke
Institut für Genetik
"Biological functions of mammalian gap junctions"
2:20.......Michael Stern
Yale University, School of Medicine
"Integrating Biological Events: FGF Signling and Computational Modeling in C. elegans"
3:10.......Closing Remarks
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