Symposium on Biological Complexity Posted By: David Kennedy - Aug 18, 2010Tool/Resource: Conferences, Workshops and Meetings Symposium on Biological Complexity: EMERGING CONCEPTS AND TRENDS http://links.ealert.nature.com/ctt?kn=1&... October 27-29, 2010 Salk Institute for Biological Studies La Jolla, CA, USA Founded in 1960, this year the Salk Institute celebrates its 50th anniversary. This conference, the fifth in the series of symposia on biological complexity, has been planned to reflect the Salk’s six main areas of research: cancer, metabolism and physiology, neuroscience, immunology and virology, plant biology, and stem cells and developmental biology. In each session, leaders in the field will, as well as giving an overview of how the field has developed over the past fifty years, discuss the most recent concepts and the trends that will inform how each field develops in the future. PROGRAM COMMITTEE: Salk Institute: Inder Verma (Chair), Juan Carlos Belmonte, Joanne Chory, Joseph Ecker, Ronald Evans, Fred (Rusty) Gage, Tony Hunter, Leanne Jones, Terrence Sejnowski, Reuben Shaw, Wylie Vale, John Young Nature: Francesca Cesari, Noah Gray, Therese Heemels, Barbara Marte, Deepa Nath, Ursula Weiss Fondation IPSEN: Yves Christen PROGRAM: Keynote Address: David Baltimore Session 1: CANCER Tony Hunter Bob Weinberg Craig Thompson Brian Druker Session 2: METABOLISM & PHYSIOLOGY Ron Evans Joe Goldstein Jeff Gordon Bruce Spiegelman Tamas Horvath Session 3: NEUROSCIENCE Terry Sejnowski Susan K. McConnell Susumu Tonegawa Larry Swanson Bob Wurtz Session 4: IMMUNOLOGY & VIROLOGY Inder Verma Ruslan Medzhitov Fiona Powrie Dan Littman Didier Trono Session 5: PLANT SCIENCES Joanne Chory David Baulcombe Caroline Dean Philip Benfey Elliot Meyerowitz Session 6: STEM CELLS & DEVELOPMENTAL BIOLOGY Fred (Rusty) Gage Irv Weissman Rudolf Jaenisch Tom Jessell Shinya Yamanaka Abstract Submission Deadline: September 10, 2010 Early Registration Deadline: October 1, 2010 For more information and to register visit: http://links.ealert.nature.com/ctt?kn=7&... |
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