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Talk Title
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Aseem Ansari
UW-Madison |
Co-Organizer
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Uttam RajBhandary
MIT |
Co-Organizer
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Sankar Adhya
National Cancer Institute
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The Puzzle of Prophage λ Stability |
Julius Adler
UW-Madison |
Gobind Khorana and My Current Research on Drosophila Behavior |
Alan Attie
UW-Madison |
Gene Networks and Type 2 Diabetes |
Peter Besmer
Sloan-Kettering |
Oncogenic Kit Receptor Signaling and Targeted Molecular Therapies – in Mouse Models of Gastrointestinal Stromal Tumor |
Fredrick Blattner
UW-Madison |
Reducing the genome of E. coli: a top down approach to synthetic biology |
James Bradner
Dana-Farber Cancer Institute |
Direct Inhibition of the Notch Transactivation Complex |
Ronald Breaker
Yale
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Large Structured Non-coding RNAs Revealed by Bacterial Metagenome Analysis |
Patrick Brown
Stanford |
The "Dark Matter" of Biological Regulation?
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Marvin Caruthers
University of CO-Boulder |
Nucleic Acid Chemistry: From Gobind to the Present |
Simon Chang
LSU |
The First Crystallographic Structure of Mammalian Phosphofructokinase from Rabbit Skeletal Muscle |
Alta Charo
UW-Madison |
Synthetic Biology in Ethical Perspective |
George Church
Harvard Medical |
Reading and Writing Genomes |
James Dahlberg
UW-Madison |
Dissecting the roles of X. laevis miRNAs and Ago proteins in RISC activity |
Peter Dervan
Caltech |
Transcription Factors as Targets for Cancer Therapy |
William Dove
UW-Madison |
Banquet Speaker |
David Farrens
Oregon Health & Science |
Dynamics of G-Protein Coupled Receptor (GPCR) Activation and Attenuation: Insights from Fluorescence Studies |
Hans-Joachim Fritz
Georg-August-Universitat |
The Hopeful Cornucopia - A study into Combinatorial Gene Synthesis |
Audrey Gasch
UW-Madison |
Acquired Stress Resistance in Yeast: Multiple Means to the Same End |
Marie-Alda Gilles-Gonzalez
UT Southwestern |
Oxygen Control of Cyclic di-GMP Homeostasis |
Hikoya Hayatsu
Okayama University |
Bisulfite Modification of Nucleotides: Mechanistic Consideration leading to improved Protocols of DNA Methylation Analysis |
Lee Hood
Systems Biology |
Systems Biology, Transforming Technologies and the Emergence of P4 Medicine (Predictive, Personalized, Preventive and Participatory) |
Wayne Hubbell
UCLA |
Gobind Khorana and the “Central Dogma” of Receptor Activation |
John Hwa
Dartmouth |
Pharmacogenetics of the Human Prostacyclin Receptor: “hIP, SNiP COX and Vioxx” |
Jay Keasling
Berkeley |
Synthetic Biology for Synthetic Fuels |
Ryan Kershner
UW-Madison |
Top Down Meets Bottom Up: Controlled Placement of DNA Nanostructures |
Laura Kiessling
UW-Madison |
Chemical Probes of Receptor Assembly in Signaling |
Peter Kim
Merck |
Viral Membrane Fusion and its Inhibition |
Judith Klein-Seetharaman
University of Pittsburgh |
Learning from Rhodopsin about Metabotropic Glutamate Receptors |
Thomas Knight
MIT |
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Robert Landick
UW-Madison |
Genome-scale Chromosomal Engineering of Bacterial Hosts for Bioenergy Production |
Henry Lardy
UW-Madison |
The Metabolism and Function of Dehydroepiandrosterone |
Michael Levine
Berkeley |
Transcriptional Precision in the Drosophila Embryo |
Wendell Lim
UCSF |
Biological Innovation: The Evolution and Engineering of New Signaling Systems
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Marshall Nirenberg
National Institute of Health |
Deciphering the Genetic Code |
Li Niu
University at Albany
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One RNA Aptamer Sequence, Two Structures: A Collaborating Pair that Competitively Inhibits AMPA Receptors |
Eiko Ohtsuka
AIST |
Efficient Synthesis of Oligonucleotide Conjugates on Solid-Support Using an (Aminoethoxycarbonyl) aminohexyl Group for 5’-Terminal Modification
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Rob Phillips
Caltech |
The Physics of Genome Management |
Mark Ptashne
Sloan Kettering |
Binding Reactions: Epigenetic Switches, Signal Transduction, Evolution and Cancer |
Kevin Ridge
University of Texas |
Signaling via Structure Change: NMR Analysis of GPCR and G protein Activation |
Marsha Rosner
University of Chicago |
Regulation of Tumor Metastasis by MAP Kinase and MicroRNAs |
Thomas Sakmar
Rockefeller |
Heptahelical Receptors: Ligand Recognition and Conformational Dynamics in Bilayers |
Nadrian Seeman
New York University |
DNA: Not Merely the Secret of Life |
Phillip Sharp
MIT |
RNA as a Gene Regulation Modality |
William Shih
Harvard Medical |
Programmable Self-assembly of DNA into Nanoscale Three-dimensional Shapes |
Hamilton Smith
J. Craig Venter Institute |
Making a Synthetic Cell |
Dieter Söll
Yale |
The Genetic Code Revisited – Four Decades after Francis Crick |
Waclaw Szybalski
UW-Madison |
Closing Remarks |
James Thomson
UW-Madison
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Human Induced Pluripotent Stem Cells Derived with Episomal Vectors |
Robert Wells
Texas A&M |
Non-B DNA Conformations, Mutagenesis and Disease |
George Whitesides
Harvard |
Questions about Questions about the Origin of Life |
Richard Young
Whitehead Institute MIT
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Programming Cell State |
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