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MMSB Retreat - 2009
  Monday, April 27th -- Contact Dr. Gryk (x3405) Dr. Hao (x4610) for further information.

The Retreat will be held at the University of Hartford Gray Conference Center.
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CLICK HERE FOR PHOTOGRAPHS FROM THE 2009 RETREAT

Schedule      >> click here for a print version.
  
8:30 - 9:25Arrival, Breakfast & Poster Session
  
9:25 - 9:30 Dr. Sandy Weller, Welcoming Remarks
  
9:30 - 10:30SESSION 1 (Chair: Asis Das)
 Ling-Ling Chen (Carmichael Lab) "dsRNA response pathways in human embryonic stem cells"
 Chitra Rajagopal (Eipper lab) "Intramembrane cleavage of a secretory pathway enzyme releases an unstructured domain targeted to the nucleus"
  
10:30 - 11:00Coffee Break
  
11:00 - 12:00SESSION 2 (Chair: Larry Rothfield)
 Keren Griffiths (Setlow lab) "Studies on the inner membrane of Bacillus subtilis spores""
 Nanda Balasubramanian (Weller Lab) "The HSV-1 exonuclease UL12 specifically interacts with the cellular MRN complex and is essential for viral growth"
  
12:00 - 1:20 Lunch and Posters
1:20 - 1:30 Retreat Photo
  
1:30 - 2:30SESSION 3 (Chair: Mark Maciejewski)
 Bing Hao "Structure of the Fbx4-Skp1 complex reveals a new class of the SCF ubiquitin ligase"
 Panteleimon Rompolas (King lab) "Planarians as a model system for analysis of motile cilia"
  
2:30 - 3:00Coffee Break
  
3:00 - 4:00 SESSION 4 (Chair: Martin Schiller)
 Angel Villahoz Baleta (Schiller lab) "MnM-HIV, a new free and interactive website containing information about the role of minimotifs in HIV infection"
 Larry Klobutcher "The Euplotes genetic code: one codon supports the site-specific insertion of two amino acids"
  
4:00 - 5:00Poster Session & Happy Hour
  
5:00 - 5:45Keynote Address
 Julie DiPaolo, CGI Pharmaceuticals "Building a successful start-up company: From yes-we-can to yes-we-have"
  
5:45 - 6:00Gregory P. Mullen Poster Award
Zheng-yu Peng Poster Award
Steven E. Pfeiffer Poster Award
  
6:00Reception featuring beer tasting with Marty