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Saturday, September 8th, Morning

Venue: held in Muenzinger Auditorium

  • 9:00 Welcome to the Anniversary Celebration by Dick McIntosh
  • 9:10 Sean Eddy: Computational searches for unusual catalytic and structural RNAs
  • 9:35 Steve Block: Molecular mechanics observed with biophysical tools
  • 10:00 Alison Cleary: There is no "I" in cancer
  • 10:25 A science blitz by current MCDB graduate students
  • 10:55 Coffee break
  • 11:15 Dominique Bergman: Making adaptable plants by adjusting the (epidermal) valves
  • 11:40 Kathy King: Insight to impact
  • 12:05 Pat O'Farrell: Havoc raised by the rogue genome in your mitochondria
  • 12:30 Lunch

Saturday, September 8th, Afternoon-Evening

Venue: held in Muenzinger Auditorium

  • 2:00 Tom Maniatis: A cell surface protein “barcode” provides individual human neurons with unique identities.
  • 2:25 Susan Strome: Passing an epigenetic “memory of germline" from parents to offspring
  • 2:50 Chandra Richter: Studying winemaking with molecular biology tools
  • 3:15 Pat Zambryski: Plants and microbes: a feast of fundamental insights
  • 3:40 Coffee break
  • 4:00 Craig Mello: RNA-mediated regulation of gene expression
  • 4:30 A science blitz by current MCDB graduate students
  • 5:15 Judith Kimble: Of niches and naïveté
  • 5:30 Reception at the Glenn Miller Ball Room, CU’s UMC
  • 6:30 Dinner at the UMC for all Anniversary Registrants

Sunday, September 9th

Session open to the public and held in Muenzinger Auditorium

  • 10:00 Larry Goldstein: Human stem cells in the treatment of neurological diseases
  • 10:30 Ken Miller: Does Science Really Matter in America Today? How Scientists and Educators Can Address a Culture of Denial
  • 11:00 Sean Carroll: The Thrill of Discovery
  • 11:30 Coffee break
  • 11:45 Zoe Donaldson: Decoding monogamy: The neuroscience of social bonding
  • 12:05 Sara Sawyer: Bird flu, Ebola, and HIV: When animal viruses threaten humans
  • 12:30 Lee Niswander: MCDB today and envisioning the future