Recent efforts to elucidate the multiple functions of genes in adult animals have revealed unanticipated connections between organs, allowing broader questions about physiology and molecular pathogenesis of degenerative disease. This conference will assess the field and develop plans for moving it forward.
May 9, 2008• 11:00 AM - 6:00 PM 11th Northeast String Cosmology Meeting Steve Allen, Stanford; Rachel Bean, Cornell; Sergei Dubovsky, Harvard; Nemanja Kaloper, University of California, Davis
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May 15, 2008• 6:00 PM - 8:00 PM Taking Stock of New York City's Water Cathleen Breen, Watershed Protection Coordinator, New York Public Interest Research Group (NYPIRG); Joan Hoffman, PhD, Professor of Economics, John Jay College of Criminal Justice; Bernard W. Sweeney, PhD, Director, Stroud Water Research Center
Moderator: Mirele B. Goldsmith, PhD
May 21, 2008• 6:00 PM - 8:00 PM Green Science: Bioindustrial Processes Alex Zaks, Schering Plough; Raina Maier, College of Agriculture and Life Sciences, University of Arizona; Birgit Kosjek, Merck;
Panel Moderator: John Leazer, Merck RSVP
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;