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MMSB Retreat - 2008
  Tuesday, April 29th -- Contact Dr. Das (x3405) Dr. Schiller (x4610) for further information.

The Retreat will be held at the University of Hartford Gray Conference Center.
Click here for driving/parking directions and map.

CLICK HERE FOR PHOTOGRAPHS FROM THE 2008 RETREAT

Schedule      >> click here for a print version.
  
8:00 - 9:00Arrival, Breakfast & Poster Session
  
9:00 - 9:05 Dr. Sandy Weller, Welcoming Remarks
  
9:05 - 10:20SESSION 1 (Chair: Lawrence Rothfield)
 Jennifer Tirnauer "Mitotic Spindle Orientation in APC Mutant Mice"
 Purva Vats (Rothfield Lab) "Duplication and segregation of the actin (MreB) cytoskeleton during the prokaryotic cell cycle"
 Patricia Pelczar (Setlow lab) "Studies on the GerD protein of Bacilis subtilis spores and its role in spore germination"
  
10:20 - 10:45Coffee Break
  
10:45 - 12:00SESSION 2 (Chair: Stephen King)
 Martin Schiller "Specificity of short peptide motifs - gold standard techniques?"
 Jay Vyas (Gryk lab) "High throughput annotation of short sequence peptide motifs""
 Vitaliy Gorbatyuk (Hoch Lab) "NMR studies of Kalirin GEF domain"
  
12:00 - 1:20 Lunch and Posters
1:20 - 1:30 Retreat Photo
  
1:30 - 2:45SESSION 3 (Chair: Sandra Weller)
 Shlomo Eisenberg "The role of MCM10 in initiation of DNA replication in Saccharomyces cerevisiae"
 Stacey Leisenfelder (Weller lab) "Herpes simplex virus requires host DNA replication proteins for viral propagation"
 April Bobenchik (Ben Mamoun lab) "Screening Chemical Libraries for Inhibitors of the Malarial Phosphoethanolamine Methyltransferase"
  
2:45 - 3:10Coffee Break
  
3:10 - 4:35 SESSION 4 (Chair: John Carson)
 Kristen Felice (Furneaux lab) "What's up with Argonaute?"
 Vedakumar Tatavarty (Carson lab) "Busty translational output from individual RNA granules in dendritic spines"
 Gordon Carmichael "Regulation of gene expression by RNA editing"
  
4:35 - 5:35Poster Session & Happy Hour
  
3:30 - 4:30SESSION 5 (Chair: Mary Osborn)
 Anjali Mandlik (Ton-That lab) "A switch between polymerization and cell wall anchoring of pili"
 Yunfeng Li (Hao lab) "Biochemical characterization of SCF FbX4/alphaB-crystallin ubiquitin ligase"
  
6:25 - 7:00Steven E. Pfeiffer Lecture
 Andrew Seddon, Pfizer "Science, Systems, & Serendipity"
  
7:00Gregory P. Mullen Poster Award
Zheng-yu Peng Poster Award
Reception