PROGRAM
| Coffee and pasteries: 8:00 - 9:00 AM |
2nd Floor Lobby, LKS | |
| Session 1: 9:00 - 10:20 AM |
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| 9:00 - 9:10 AM |  |
Opening Remarks: Randy Schekman (Prof., Univ. of California, Berkeley) |
| 9:10 - 9:20 AM |  |
Chair: Stan Fields (Prof. Emeritus, Univ. of Washington, Seattle) |
| 9:20 - 9:50 AM |  |
David Julius (Prof., Univ. of California, San Francisco) - "Peptides and pain: My tribute to JT" |
| 9:50 - 10:20 AM |  |
Trisha Davis (Prof. Emerita, Univ. of Washington, Seattle) - "A life of biochemistry: From bacteriophage to the kinetochore" |
| Break: 10:20 - 10:35 AM |
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| Session II: 10:35 -12:15 PM |
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| 10:35 -10:45 AM |  |
Chair: Mark Rose (Prof. Emeritus, Georgetown Univ.) |
| 10:45 -11:15 AM |  |
Lindsay Garrenton (Principal Scientist & Group Leader, Merck, Inc.) - "From cell signaling in yeast to human medicines" |
| 11:15 -11:45 AM |  |
Jesse Patterson (Research Scientist, Yaffe Lab, MIT) - "Synergistically targeting a cancer-specific mitotic vulnerability through combined Plk1 inhibition and microtubule poisons" |
| 11:45 -12:15 PM |  |
Melissa Wharton (Scientist II, Allen Institute for Immunology, Seattle, WA) - "Decoding autoimmunity: Immune signatures of the at-risk state" |
| Lunch Break: 12:15 - 1:15 PM |
2nd Floor Lobby, LKS | |
| Session III: 1:15 - 2:25 PM |
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| 1:15 - 1:25 PM |  |
Chair: Jim Ferrell (Prof., Stanford Univ.) |
| 1:25 - 1:55 PM |  |
Kendall Blumer (Prof., Washington Univ. Sch. of Med.) - "Ocular melanoma: New strategies for therapeutic intervention" |
| 1:55 - 2:25 PM |  |
Alexander Muir (Asst. Prof., Univ. of Chicago) - "Microenvironmental control of gene essentiality in microbes and cancers" |
| Break: 2:25 - 2:50 PM |
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| Session IV: 2:50 - 4:00 PM |
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| 2:50 - 3:00 PM |  |
Chair, G. Steven Martin (Prof. Emeritus, Univ. of California, Berkeley) |
| 3:00 - 3:30 PM |  |
Allyson O'Donnell (Assoc. Prof., Univ. of Pittsburgh) - "From here to there: Mechanisms of alpha-arrestin-mediated protein trafficking" |
| 3:30 - 4:00 PM |  |
Michael McMurray (Prof., Anschutz Med. Campus, CU Sch. of Med., Aurora) - “Some assembly required: Managing orphan subunits during septin complex formation" |
| Closing Remarks: 4:00 - 4:40 PM |
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| 4:00 - 4:10 PM |  |
Richard Harland (Prof. & Dean of Biological Sciences, UC Berkeley) |
| 4:10 - 4:20 PM |  |
Matt Welch (Co-Chair, MCB Dept., UC Berkeley) |
| 4:20 - 4:40 PM |  |
Jeremy Thorner (Distinguished Prof. Emeritus, MCB Dept, UC Berkeley) |
| Reception: 4:40 - 5:45 PM |
2nd Floor Lobby, LKS |