[CSBi-events] Invitation to Attend: 2007 CSBi Symposium

[CSBi events]

"Discovery, Design, and Development of Human Drugs and Therapeutics"

Wednesday, January 31, 2007 -- MIT, Kresge Auditorium (W16)

  Symposium Poster Session:   Date: Tuesday, January 30, 2007

Time: 5:00-7:00 p.m.   Location: 68-180, 181

  Register now until January 30, 2007 - Registration is free for  
those with MIT id, contact: Linda Earle lkn at mit.edu for free code

  http://csbi.mit.edu/events/annualsymposium/2007


  Program:

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 Jiao 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
                    "Yeast as a Discovery Platform for  
Neurodegenerative 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