New technologies are making it possible to sequence megabases of nuclear DNA and cDNAs at a time and, consequently, to investigate new kinds of biological problems.
Speakers: Peter Sicinski, Harvard Medical School; David Glover, Cyclacel; Rachael Hawtin, Sunesis Pharmaceuticals; René Medema, University Medical Center, Utrecht; Chiang Li, Boston Biomedical
Speakers: Michael Snyder, Yale University; Graham Ruby, Whitehead Institute for Biomedical Research, MIT; Katsutomo Okamura, Memorial Sloan-Kettering Cancer Center;
Speakers: Peter Hotez, George Washington U. and Sabin Vaccine Institute; Luis de la Maza, UC Irvine; Albert Ko, Weill Medical College and Fundação Oswaldo Cruz, Brazil
Speakers: John Davis, Pfizer Global Research and Development; Carol Reed, Clinical Data, Inc.; Steve Shak, Genomic Health; Langdon Miller, PTC Therapeutics; Barbara J. Evans, University of Houston Law Center
Organizers: Moses Chao, NYU Medical Center; Marie Filbin, Hunter College, CUNY; Lorne Mendell, SUNY, Stony Brook; Dominic Purpura, Albert Einstein College of Medicine; Jonathan Wolpaw, Wadsworth Center, New York State Department of Health
Sponsored by: The New York State Spinal Cord Injury Research Board and the New York Academy of Sciences
Organizers: David Albert, Panos Papapanou, Burton Edelstein & Steven Shea, Columbia University; Robert Klaus, National Periodontal Disease Coalition
Sponsored by: Columbia U. College of Dental Medicine, Columbia U. College of Physicians and Surgeons, the New York Academy of Sciences, and the National Periodontal Disease Coalition
Speakers: Denise Montell, Johns Hopkins University School of Medicine; J. Silvio Gutkind, National Institute of Dental and Craniofacial Research, NIH; Jiri Zavadil, NYU School of Medicine
Speakers: Sean Carroll, California Institute of Technology; Petr Hořava, University of California, Berkeley; Lisa Randall, Harvard University; Jeff Harvey, University of Chicago
Sponsored by: Columbia University Institute for Strings, Cosmology, and Astroparticle Physics (ISCAP) and the New York Academy of Sciences
Speakers: J. Anthony Movshon, NYU; Brian Wandell, Stanford U.;
Charles Gilbert, The Rockefeller University; Takao Hensch, Harvard U.; Len Press, Family Eyecare Associates; Susan Barry, Mount Holyoke College
Sponsored by: Sponsored by the Academy and the James S. McDonnell collaborative network for Critical Period Re-examination (Brain CPR)
Speakers: Roger Glass, NIH; Debbie Saslow, American Cancer Society; Keith Klugman, Emory University; Christopher Plowe, University of Maryland; Rino Rappuoli, Novartis – Siena, Italy
Speakers: Takushi Kaneko, Global Alliance for TB Drug Development; Ronald J. Quinn, Griffith University; Guy T. Carter, Wyeth Research; Ray Lam, Nereus Pharmaceuticals; Sheo Singh, Merck Research Laboratories; Arnold Demain, Drew University
Plenary speakers: Paul M. Grasby, Imperial College London; Thomas Klausberger, University of Oxford; Christine Holt, University of Cambridge; Karl Friston, University College London
Sponsored by: The New York Academy of Sciences, Imperial College London, King's College London and University College London, with the support of GlaxoSmithKline and the Royal Institution of Great Britain
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