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Tuesday, March 24, 2009
9 a.m. to 5 p.m.

Chan Shun Auditorium, 
Valley Life Sciences Bldg, Rm 2050
 

9am

Karsten Weis, Div. of Cell & Developmental Biology

Welcome and Opening Remarks

Introduction of Keynote Speaker : David Drubin, Head, Div. of Cell & Developmental Biology

9:10-10:10am

Marc Kirschner, Harvard Medical School, Keynote Address

"A quantitative look at old problems: cell growth and signaling."

  

10:10-10:45am

Coffee Break

 

2nd Session Chair: Michael Eisen, Div. of Genetics, Genomics and Development

 

10:45-11:25am

Erin O'Shea, Harvard University

"Signaling nutrient availability."

11:25-12:05pm

Alexander van Oudenaarden, MIT

"Nature, nurture, or just blind chance: stochastic gene expression and its consequences."

 

12:05-1:45pm

Lunch Break

 

3rd Session Chair: Doug Kellogg, UC Santa Cruz

 

1:45-2:25pm

Lucas Pelkmans, ETH Zurich

"Population context predicts activity in human cells."

2:25-3:05pm

Ulrike Eggert, Harvard Medical School

"A combined chemical genetic/RNAi approach: new tools to study cell division."

 

3:05-3:35pm

Coffee break

 

4th Session Chair: Rebecca Heald, Div. of Cell & Developmental Biology

 

3:35-4:15pm

Charlie Boone, University of Toronto

"Integrating high-throughput yeast genetics and high-content screening."

4:15-4:55pm

Jonathan Weissman, UCSF

"Biology without bias: functional insights from high-resolution genetic interaction maps."

4:55-5:00pm

Michael Rape, Div. of Cell & Developmental Biology

Closing Remarks

 

 

 5:00-5:45pm

Reception in the VLSB courtyard - all are invited (if the weather is poor, the reception will be held in the area between the auditorium and the courtyard)