[CSBi-events] Program Agenda

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Register now until January 19, 2007
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CSBi Symposium Program

Discovery, Design and Development of Human Drugs and Therapeutics

Computational and Systems Biology, (CSBi) at the Massachusetts  
Institute of Technology
Wednesday, January 31, 2007
Kresge Auditorium, Cambridge, MA

Poster Session on Tuesday, January 30, 2007 5-7 p.m.
Biology Koch Building, Rooms 68-180 and 181

8:00             On-site Registration

8:45             Welcome, Paul Matsudaira, Whitehead Institute for  
Biomedical Research
                      and MIT Morning Session Chair
                     “From Systems Designs to Protein Therapeutics”

9:00              Jim Wells, University of California at San Francisco
                     “Site Directed Chemistry and Signaling in  
Caspases”

9:45             Tillman Gerngross, Dartmouth College
                    “Humanized Yeast: A Tool to Dissect the  
Glycomics Space”

10:30           Break

11:00           Douglas Lauffenburger, Massachusetts Institute of  
Technology
                     Bruce Tidor, Massachusetts Institute of Technology
                    “Therapeutic Discovery in Context: Framing a  
Bigger Picture”

12:00           Lunch, Stratton Student Center, W-20, Mezzanine and  
20 Chimney’s

  1:30           Frank Douglas, Massachusetts Institute of Technology,
                    Afternoon Session Chair, “Systems and Disease”

  1:45          Liping Zhao, Shanghai Tong University
                  “Integration of Metabonomics and Metagenomics for  
Understanding
                   Human Organismal Level Complexity”

  2:30          Aram Adourian, BG Medicine, Inc.
                  “System level Biomarker Profiles of Drug  
Treatments for Diabetics/Hypertension”

  3:15          Break

  3:45         Susan Lindquist, Whitehead Institute for Biomedical  
Research and MIT
                  “α-Synuclein and Parkinsons’s Disease”

  4:30         Erich E. Wanker, Max-Delbruck Center for Molecular  
Medicine
                  'Generation of Interaction Networks for  
Understanding Neurodegenerative
                   Disease Processes"

  5:15         Bruce Tidor, Massachusetts Institute of Technology
                  Closing