Friday, October 3, 2008
| 9:00 - 9:15 (Biotechnology Building, G10) | Opening remarks by Ronald P. Lynch Dean of the College of Agriculture and Life Sciences, Dr. Susan Henry |
| 9:15 - 9:40 (Biotechnology Building, G10) | Cornell President Emeritus, Dr. Hunter Rawlings "Remembering Ray Wu" |
| 9:40 –10:10 (Biotechnology Building, G10) | Dr. Ajay Garg, Cornell University “Feeding the Hungry -Transgenic Rice Plants Tolerant to Drought and Salt” |
| 10:10 -10:40 (Biotechnology Building, G10) | Dr. Junying Yuan, Professor of Cell Biology, Harvard Medical School "A quest to understand the mechanisms of neurodegeneration” |
| 10:40 -11:10 (Biotechnology Building, G10) | Coffee break |
| 11:10 -11:40 (Biotechnology Building, G10) | Dr. Guoliang Yu, Chairman, President and CEO, Epitomics, Inc. “Discovery and Development of Monoclonal Antibody Drugs Using RabMAb Technology” |
| 11:40 -12:10 (Biotechnology Building, G10) | Dr. Ning Wei, Principle Investigator, Department of Molecular, Cellular and Developmental Biology, Yale University. "The COP9 Signalosome: a regulator of protein degradation and gene expression in plants and animals." |
| 12:15 -2:00 (Biotechnology Building, G10) | Lunch /poster set up |
| 2:00-2:30 (Rockefeller Hall, Schwartz Auditorium) | Dr. Qiufu Ma, Associate Professor, Department of Neurobiology, Harvard Medical School, Department of Cancer Biology, Dana-Farber Cancer Institute. “Pain circuitry development” |
| 2:30-3:00 (Rockefeller Hall, Schwartz Auditorium) | Dr. Liqun Luo, Professor of Biology, Stanford University; Investigator, Howard Hughes Medical Institute. “Probing Neural Circuits with Genetic Mosaics” |
| 3:00-3:20 (Rockefeller Hall, Schwartz Auditorium) | Dr. Robert Bambara, Chair and Professor of Biochemistry & Biophysics, University of Rochester Medical Center. "How Things I Learned with Dr. Ray Wu Shaped Our Future Work" |
| 3:20-3:40 (Rockefeller Hall, Schwartz Auditorium) | Dr. R.Pad Padmanabhan, Professor, Microbiology & Immunology, Georgetown University Medical Center. "Professor Ray Wu's Lasting Impact " |
| 4:00-6:30 (Biotechnology Building, atrium) | Poster session + reception |
| 7:00 pm (Biotechnology Building, G10) | Dinner and Informal talks |
Saturday, October 4, 2008
| 9:00 – 9:30 (Biotechnology Building, G10) | Dr. Min Han, Investigator and Professor, Howard Hughes Medical Institute and University of Colorado at Boulder. “Systematic analysis of microRNA effector complexes in C. elegans” |
| 9:30-10:00 (Biotechnology Building, G10) | Dr. Xuemei Chen, Associate Professor, Department of Botany and Plant Sciences, Institute of Integrative Genome Biology, University of California-Riverside. “microRNA biogenesis and function in Arabidopsis” |
| 10:00 -10:30 (Biotechnology Building, G10) | Coffee Break |
| 10:30 – 11:00 (Biotechnology Building, G10) | Dr. Xiaodong Wang, Investigator, Howard Hughes Medical Institute and George L. MacGregor Distinguished Chair in Biomedical Science, UT-southwestern. “Biochemical pathways of cell death and their applications in treating diseases” |
| 11:00-11:45 (Biotechnology Building, G10) | Dr. Albert Wu, Professor, Johns Hopkins Bloomberg School of Public Health. “Discipline, humility and the red necktie: a personal perspective; The World Alliance for Patient Safety of the World Health Organization” |
| 11:45 (Biotechnology Building, G10) | Closing remarks |