The Sixth IABMR Annual Meeting, November 19th, 2009
Knockdown Strategies in Biomedicine - RNAi and Beyond |
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Sponsored by The Forsyth Institute
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| Time: |
9:00am –6:00pm Thursday, November 19th 2009 |
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M. Barbara Schulze Conference Center (3rd floor)
The Forsyth Institute, 140 The Fenway, Boston, MA 02115, USA
[https://www.forsyth.org/directions]
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| Registration: |
IABMR members: Free (Annual Membership Fee: $20)
Forsyth Employees: Free
Non-members: $20
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MEETING SCHEDULE
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| 9:00 – |
10:00 |
Registration and Coffee |
| 10:00 – |
12:30 |
Poster Sessions I & II |
| 11:00 – |
1:30 |
Vendor Exhibition & Luncheon Reception
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| 1:15 – |
1:30 |
Welcome and Introduction
Tsute Chen, PhD
President of IABMR
Opening Remarks
Philip Stashenko DMD, PhD
President and CEO, The Forsyth Institute
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| 1:30 – |
4:40 |
Scientific Symposium
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| 1:30 – |
2:10 |
Delivery is in the Details
Catherine Pachuk, PhD
Senior Director, Delivery Biology
Pfizer Research Technology Center
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| 2:10 – |
2:50 |
Lost in translation: mechanisms and tumor suppressive activity of microRNAs
Carl Novina, MD, PhD
Assistant Professor of Pathology
Dana-Farber Cancer Institute
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| 2:50 – |
3:20 |
Coffee Break
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| 3:20 – |
4:00 |
MicroRNA in gliomas: small regulators of a big problem
Anna Krichevsky, PhD
Assistant Professor of Neurology
Brigham and Woman’s Hospital
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| 4:00 – |
4:40 |
Genome wide RNAi screens in Drosophila: A journey from pre-RNAi to RNAi days
Norbert Perrimon, PhD
Professor of Genetics
Harvard Medical School
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| 4:40 – |
6:00 |
Poster Awards Ceremony |