May23-25, 2007             Wednesday, May 23, 2007             4:00 - 6:45 pm Registration Newcomb Hall   7:00 pm Welcome Address Newcomb Hall Theater Barry Gumbiner, Director MRMI   7:10 pm Introduction Newcomb Hall Theater   Rob Grainger, Professor of Biology   7:15 pm Keynote Lecture Newcomb Hall Theater   Irving Weissman – Stanford University, “Stem Cell Biology”   8:30 – 10:00 pm Reception Newcomb Hall Ballroom     Thursday, May 24, 2007     8:00 am Continental Breakfast Newcomb Hall, South Meeting Room   9:00 am Introductory Remarks Newcomb Hall Theater   Ray Keller, Co-director MRMI           Session 1: Cellular Morphogenesis Newcomb Hall Theater   Session leader: Ian Macara, Professor of Microbiology       9:15 – 10:00 am Alan Hall – Memorial Sloan-Kettering Cancer Center “GTPase signaling during polarized cell migration” 10:00 – 10:45 am Tom Pollard – Yale “Actin regulation, cytokinesis” 10:45 – 11:15 am Coffee Break Newcomb Hall, South Meeting Room   Session 2: Systems Biology Approaches Newcomb Hall Theater   Session leader: Shayn Peirce-Cottler, Assistant Professor of Biomedical Engineering 11:15 – 12 noon Alex Mogilner – UC Davis “Computational modeling of cytoskeletal networks”   12:00 – 2:00 pm Lunch Break     2:00 – 2:45 pm John Reinitz – Stony Brook University “Determination and error correction in the Drosophila blastoderm”   2:45 – 3:30 pm Michael Levine – UC Berkeley “Genetic Networks and development”   3:30 – 4:00 pm Coffee Break Newcomb Hall, South Meeting Room           Session 3: Stem Cell Biology Newcomb Hall Theater   Session leader: Jeff Corwin, Professor of Neuroscience           4:00 – 4:45 pm Sean J. Morrison – U. Michigan “Stem cell self-renewal”   4:45 – 6:30 pm Poster Session Newcomb Hall Ballroom   6:30 – 8:30 pm Buffet Dinner Newcomb Hall Ballroom and Main Lounge     Friday, May 25, 2007     8:00 am Continental Breakfast Newcomb Hall, South Meeting Room           Session 4: Tissue Morphogenesis and Organogenesis Newcomb Hall Theater   Session leader: Ann Sutherland, Associate Professor of Cell Biology           9:00 – 9:45 am Norbert Perrimon - Harvard Medical School “A comprehensive approach to muscle growth”   9:45 – 10:30 am Lee Niswander – University of Colorado Health Science Center, Denver “Development and closure of the vertebrate neural tube”   10:30 – 11:00 am Coffee Break Newcomb Hall, South Meeting Room   11:00 – 11:45 am Gail Martin – UC San Francisco “FGF signaling and organogenesis”   11:45 – 12:30 pm Cori Bargmann – Rockefeller University “Left-right asymmetry in nervous system development”           12:30 –2:30 pm Lunch Break     2:30 – 4:00 pm Poster Session Newcomb Hall Ballroom   Session 5: Stem Cells and Regeneration Newcomb Hall Theater Session leader: Jeff Corwin, Professor of Neuroscience       4:00 – 4:45 pm Elaine Fuchs – Rockefeller “Epidermal stems cells and skin growth” 4:45 – 5:30 pm Jeremy Brockes – University College London “Regeneration in salamanders” 5:30 pm Thanks and Wrap-up Newcomb Hall Theater Doug DeSimone, Associate Director MRMI       The University of Virginia School of Medicine is accredited by the ACCME to provide continuing medical education for physicians. The University of Virginia School of Medicine designates this educational activity for a maximum of 13 AMA PRA Category 1 Credits.TM   Physicians should only claim credit commensurate with the extent of their participation in the activity.   The University of Virginia School of Medicine awards 0.1 CEU per contact hour to each non-physician participant who successfully completes this educational activity. The CEU (Continuing Education Unit) is a nationally recognized unit of measure for continuing education and training activities that meet specific educational planning requirements. The University of Virginia School of Medicine maintains a permanent record of participants who have been awarded CEUs.

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