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VCU BBSI Closing Symposium 2003
Program

Presenter Time Title
8:45 am *** BAGELS etc ***
Tom Huff
Greg Buck
9:15 am Greetings
Josh Grant 9:30 am An electrical impedance sensor for cell migration and seeding on thin fiber electrodes in 3D fibrin gels
Robert Mullowney 9:45 am Relation of phages to pathogenic Escherichia coli
Danielle King 10:00 am Sequencing the genome of bacteriophage 80
Mark Delboy 10:15 am Competition for metabolism of compounds by CYP3A4 and MAO
Rebecca Ganetzky 10:30 am Gene expression profiles associated with ethanol abuse
Chris Heffelfinger 10:45 am Assembling network genes
11:00 am *** BREAK ***
Paul Fawcett 11:10 am KEYNOTE ADDRESS: Putting microarrays to work: Exploring host responses to an intracellular bacterial pathogen
12:20 pm *** LUNCH/ROUNDTABLE DISCUSSION ***
Career choices: Different paths, different decisions
David Black 1:45 pm Cloning and crystallization of the Phe56Ala U1A RNA-binding protein
Peter Likarish 2:00 pm Estimating energy changes produced by mutations in the U1A protein complex
Gaurav Rana 2:15 pm Visualizing Trypanasoma cruzi: Introduction to OpenGL and software development
Luke Chaney 2:30 pm Gap-closing primer design
Emily Colby 2:45 pm Discovery of a vaccine against Cryptospiridium parvum using genome sequence
Greg Ziegler 3:00 pm Identifying splice variants in the Treacher-Collins gene: TCOF1
Tom Murphy 3:15 pm Characterization of a 37bp short regularly spaced repeat in the genome of Nostoc punctiforme
Lyndsey Schutte 3:30 pm Early events governing patterned differentiation in the cyanobacterium Anabaena
4:00 pm *** VOLLEY BALL (Monroe Park) ***

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