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Friday, April 20th |
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8:00-8:30 |
Conference Registration |
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8:30-8:50 |
Opening Addresses
Yigong Shi, PhD
Dean, School of Life Sciences & Senior Vice Dean, School of Medicine, Tsinghua University
Arthur S. Levine, MD
Senior Vice Chancellor for the Health Sciences and Dean, School of medicine, University of Pittsburgh |
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Session 1: Drug Discovery and Development (Chair: Linqi Zhang, PhD) |
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9:00-9:30
9:30-10:00 |
D. Lansing Taylor, PhD (U Pitt)
Title: Drug Discovery in the Era of Systems Biology
Gang Liu, PhD (THU)
Title: The Effort on the Discovery and Optimization of New Chemical Agents that Inhibit
Non-replicating and Replicating Mtb |
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Session 2: Advances in Neuroscience (Chair: Jeremy Berg, PhD) |
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10:15-10:45
10:45-11:15
11:15-11:45
11:45-12:15 |
Peter L. Strick, PhD (U Pitt)
Title: Basal Ganglia Loops with the Cerebral Cortex and Cerebellum: Circuits for
Movement, Cognition, and Affect
Jisong Guan, PhD (THU)
Title: The Role of Epigenetic Regulation in Memory Storage and Alzheimer's Diseases
and its Role in Speech Disorders
Susan G. Amara, PhD (U Pitt)
Title: A New Take on Uptake: Dopamine Transporters and the Cellular Mechanism of
Amphetamine Action
Guosong Liu, PhD (THU)
Title: Prevention of Cognitive Deficits in Alzheimer’s Mouse Model by Elevating Brain
Magnesium |
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Session 3: Infectious Diseases and Vaccine Development (Chair: Li Wu, MD, PhD ) |
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14:00-14:30
14:30-15:00 |
Linqi Zhang, PhD (THU)
Title: Antibody Profiling, Epitope Mapping, and Vaccine Design Based on Yeast Surface
Display System
Donald S. Burke, MD (U Pitt)
Title: Models and Meta-Models for Public Health Decision Making |
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Session 4: Epigenetics in Cancer Diagnosis and Treatment (Chair: Li Wu, MD, PhD) |
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15:00-15:30
15:30-16:00
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Nancy E. Davidson, MD (U Pitt )
Title: Epigenetics and Breast Cancer
Wei Guo, PhD (THU)
Title: Characterization and Targeting of Pten null Leukemia Stem Cells |
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16:15-16:45
16:45-17:15 |
Li Wu, MD (THU)
Title: Molecular Regulation of Dendrtic Cell Development and Function
Fadi G. Lakkis, MD (U Pitt)
Title: Memory T Cells and Transplant Rejection |
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Saturday, April 21st |
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Session 6: Developmental Biology and Regenerative Medicine (Chair: Angela M. Gronenborn, PhD) |
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9:00-9:30
9:30-10:00 |
Xiaohua Shen, PhD (THU)
Title: Epigenetic Regulation of Stem Cell Pluripotency and Oncogenesis by Polycomb Group Proteins
Cecilia W. Lo, PhD (U Pitt)
Title: Genetic Etiology and Developmental Mechanisms of Congenital Heart Disease |
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10:00-10:15 |
Refreshment Break (Room B323 Lobby) |
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Session 7: Structural Biology and Drug Development (Chair: Xiaohua Shen, PhD) |
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10:15-10:45
10:45-11:15
11:15-11:45
11:45-12:15
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Angela M. Gronenborn, PhD (U Pitt)
Title: Synergy between NMR and cryo-EM—Novel Findings for HIV Capsid Function
Haitao Li, PhD (THU)
Title: Atypical and Combinatorial Readout of Histone Methylation by ATRX ADD Domain
Jeremy M. Berg, PhD (U Pitt)
Title: A Thermodynamic Logic for Peroxisomal Protein Targeting
Michael Zhang, PhD (THU)
Title: DNA Methylation Detection by Array Capture and Single Molecule Bisulfite Sequencing |
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12:15-12:30 |
Conclusion Remark:
Li Wu, MD, PhD (THU)
Conference Closing |
