Schedule and Speakers
AGENDA as of: February 16, 2005
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Monday, March 7, 2005
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| 7:00 am |
Registration and Continental Breakfast
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| 8:30 am |
Welcome
James Pomerantz, Ph.D.
Professor, Psychology, Rice University
Conference Opening
David W. Leebron, J. D.
President, Rice University
Conference Overview
Michael Gustin, Ph.D
Conference Co-chair
Associate Professor, Biochemistry and Cell Biology, Rice University
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THE CHANGING ROLE OF BIOSCIENCE AND MEDICINE IN SOCIETY |
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| Session Chair: |
John Spudich, Ph.D.
Conference Co-chair
Professor and Director, Center for Membrane Biology,
UT Health Science Center at Houston
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| 9:00 am |
The Evolving Relationship of Science and Society
Alan Leshner, Ph.D.
Chief Executive Officer and Executive Publisher Science,
American Association for the Advancement of Science
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| 9:45 am |
Systems Biology: Revolutionizing Biology and Medicine
Leroy Hood, M.D., Ph.D.
President, Institute for Systems Biology
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| 10:30 am |
Break
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| 10:50 am |
Bioscience Research and Medicine in the Genomic Era
Presidents Panel Discussion
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| Panelists: |
Peter G. Traber, M.D.
President and Chief Executive Officer, Baylor College of Medicine
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David W. Leebron, J.D.
President, Rice University
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Jay Gogue, Ph.D.
Chancellor, University of Houston System and President, University of Houston
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James T. Willerson, M.D.
President, The University of Texas Health Science Center at Houston
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John D. Stobo, M.D.
President, The University of Texas Medical Branch at Galveston
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John Mendelsohn, M.D.
President, The University of Texas M. D. Anderson Cancer Center
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| Moderator: |
Kathleen S. Matthews, Ph.D.
Professor and Dean, Wiess School of Natural Sciences, Rice University
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| 12:00 pm |
Lunch
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| Session Chair: |
Anne Delcour, Ph.D.
Associate Professor, Biology and Biochemistry, University of Houston
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| 1:30 pm |
Citizenship and Politics in the Profession of Science:
Advocacy in the "Postdoubling" Era
William R. Brinkley, Ph.D.
Senior Vice President and Dean, Graduate School of Biomedical Sciences, Baylor College of Medicine
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THE FUTURE OF PHARMACOLOGY
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| Session Chair: |
James W. Patrick, Ph.D.
Senior Vice President and Dean of Research, Baylor College of Medicine
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| 2:15 pm |
Discovery of Some of the Biological Effects of Nitric Oxide and Cyclic GMP
and Their Role in Drug Development
Ferid Murad, M.D., Ph.D.
Professor and Chair, Department of Integrative Biology and Pharmacology
The University of Texas-Medical School at Houston
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| 3:00 pm |
Break
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| 3:20 pm |
The Changing Face of Drug Discovery in the 21st Century
Menelas Pangalos, Ph.D.
Vice President Neuroscience Research
Wyeth Research
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| 4:05 pm |
The Brain, Biotechnology, and the Future
Baroness Susan Greenfield, Ph.D.
Professor, Department of Pharmacology
University of Oxford
(Sponsored by UK Science & Technology, British Consulate-General of Houston)
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| 4:50 pm |
Closing Comments - Day 1
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| 5:00 pm |
Adjourn
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| 5:15 pm |
Banquet Reception
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| 6:00 pm |
Banquet
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KEYNOTE SPEAKER
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| Session Chair: |
James Pomerantz, Ph.D.
Professor, Psychology, Rice University
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| 7:30 pm |
Challenging Mother Nature: Biotechnology in a Spiritual World
Lee M. Silver, Ph.D.
Professor, Department of Molecular Biology
Princeton University
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| 9:00 pm |
Adjourn
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Tuesday, March 8, 2005
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| 7:00 am |
Continental Breakfast
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THE STRUCTURE AND FUNCTION OF MEMBRANE PROTEINS AND LIPIDS
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| Session Chair: |
Stanley G Schultz, M. D.
Dean, The University of Texas Medical School at Houston
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| 8:15 am |
Evolution of our Current View of Membrane Structure
Stanley G. Schultz, M.D.
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| 8:30 am |
Structure and Function of a Protein-Conducting Channel
Tom Rapoport, Ph.D.
Professor, Department of Cell Biology
Harvard Medical School
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| 9:15 am |
Membrane Protein Folding and Evolution
Donald M. Engelman, Ph.D.
Professor, Department of Molecular Biophysics and Biochemistry
Yale University
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| 10:00 am |
Break
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| Session Chair: |
William Dowhan, Ph.D.
Professor, Biochemistry and Molecular Biology & Center for Membrane Biology
The University of Texas Medical School at Houston
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| 10:20 am |
The LIPID MAPS Approach to Eicosanoid Lipidomics and Phospholipase A2
Signaling in Membranes
Edward A. Dennis, Ph.D.
Professor and Chair, Department of Chemistry and Biochemistry
University of California, San Diego
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| 11:05 am |
Specific Protein-Lipid Interactions in Membrane Proteins
Carola Hunte, Ph.D.
Group Leader, Department of Molecular Membrane Biology
Max Planck Institute of Biophysics
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| 12:00 pm |
Lunch
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MEMBRANE TRANSPORT AND SIGNALING I
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| Session Chair: |
Javier Navarro, Ph.D.
Professor, Neuroscience and Cell Biology
U. T. Medical Branch at Galveston
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| 1:15 pm |
Iron Transport Through the Bacterial Outer Membrane
Johann Deisenhofer, Ph.D.
Professor, Department of Biochemistry
The University of Texas Southwestern Medical Center at Dallas
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| 2:00 pm |
Connecting Signaling Pathways Regulated by Exercise with Cancer
Dario Alessi, Ph.D.
Professor, The School of Life Sciences
University of Dundee
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| 2:45 pm |
The Morphogenesis of A Transport Vesicle
Randy Schekman, Ph.D.
Professor, Department of Molecular and Cell Biology
University of California, Berkeley
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| 3:30 pm |
Break
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| Session Chair: |
Theodore G. Wensel, Ph.D.
Professor, Biochemistry, Baylor College of Medicine
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| 4:00 pm |
G-protein Structure and Function
Heidi Elizabeth Hamm, Ph.D.
Professor and Chair, Department of Pharmacology
Vanderbilt University Medical Center
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| 4:45 pm |
Haplotype Mapping in Pharmacogenetics
David B. Goldstein, Ph.D.
Professor, Department of Biology
University College London
(Sponsored by UK Science & Technology, British Consulate-General of Houston)
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| 5:30 pm |
Closing Comments - Day 2
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5:45 pm
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Reception (Sponsored by  UK Science & Technology, British Consulate-General of Houston)
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| 7:00 pm |
Adjourn
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Wednesday, March 9, 2005
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| 7:00 am |
Continental Breakfast
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MEMBRANE TRANSPORT AND SIGNALING II
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| Session Chair: |
Huey W. Huang, Ph.D.
Professor, Physics and Astronomy, Rice University
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| 8:30 am |
Molecular Design as a Tool for Understanding the Structure and Function of Membrane Peptides and Proteins
William F. DeGrado, Ph.D.
Professor, Department of Biochemistry and Biophysics
University of Pennsylvania School of Medicine
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| 9:15 am |
Potassium Channels
Lily Y. Jan, Ph.D.
Professor, Department of Physiology and Biophysics
University of California, San Francisco
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| 10:00 am |
Break
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| Session Chair: |
William E. Brownell, Ph.D.
Professor, Otorhinolaryngology, Baylor College of Medicine
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| 10:20 am |
Traffic into the Nucleus
Günter Blobel, M.D., Ph.D.
Professor, Laboratory of Cell Biology
The Rockefeller University
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| 11:05 am |
The Molecular Basis of Mechanotransduction in Zebrafish Sensory Hair Cells
Teresa Nicolson, Ph.D.
Assistant Professor, Oregon Hearing Research Center and Vollum Institute
Oregon Health & Science University
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| 11:50 am |
From Peppers to Peppermints: The Molecular Biology of Thermosensation
David Julius, Ph.D.
Professor, Department of Cellular and Molecular Pharmacology
University of California, San Francisco
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| 12:35 pm |
Conference Close
Michael Gustin, Ph.D.
Conference Co-chair and Associate Professor
Rice University
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