Cell and Molecular Biology Department Retreat
Tuesday, October 11, 2016   


Time: 8:00 a.m. to 6:00 p.m. Followed immediately with a reception
Meeting location: Kona Kai Resort & Spa, 1551 Shelter Island Drive, San Diego, California (USA)
Hosted: James C. Paulson (Chairman)


The goal of the retreat is to foster discussions and networking, open to our department and affiliates' laboratories.
If you sign up, please do commit to participating the entire day (breakfast and lunch will be provided).

Program


8:00 a.m. to 9:00

BREAKFAST

9:00 a.m. to 9:05 Welcome / Open Remark
James C. Paulson

9:05 a.m. to 9:45 Keynote Lecture: Hugh Rosen
Interrogating folds: deep choices in moving from bench to bedside

9:55 a.m. to 10:15 Steve Reed
Promoting neuronal survival: Implications for Parkinson's disease and other neurological disorders

10:20 a.m. to 10:40 Supriya Srinivasan
The neurobiology of body fat metabolism: lessons from C. elegans

10:45 a.m. to 11:15 AM BREAK

11:15 a.m. to 11:35 Peng Wu
Chemoenzymatic labeling of N-Acetyllactosamine on the cell surface: methods and applications

11:40 a.m. to 12:00 Gabriel Lander
Visualizing molecules in motion with electron microscopy

12:05 p.m. to 12:30 Poster "Lightning Talks"

12:35 p.m. to 2:00 LUNCH / POSTER SESSION

2:00 p.m. to 2:40 Keynote Lecture: Richard Lerner
Discovering new biology with combinatorial antibody libraries

2:45 p.m. to 3:05 Vaughn Smider
Cow antibodies: structural and genetic diversity

3:10 p.m. to 3:30 Lindsey A. Miles
Regulation of inflammation and fibrosis by the plasminogen receptor, Plg-RKT

3:35 p.m. to 4:00 PM BREAK

4:00 p.m. to 4:20 Eros Lazzerini Denchi
A recipe for good ends: identification and functional analysis of telomere-associated factors

4:25 p.m. to 4:45 Joel Gottesfeld
Trinucleotide expansion diseases: Basic mechanisms to therapy

4:50 p.m. to 5:00 Closing

5:00 p.m. to 6:00 RECEPTION


   ANY COMMENTS/ QUESTIONS contact Anna (annacrie@scripps.edu)