Forum of Biomedical Sciences

Tsinghua Univ. - Washington Univ. (St. Louis)

June 17, 2009

Li-Wen-Da Lecture Hall (B323), Building of Medical Science

08:50 – 09:00 AM Welcome Speech

09:00 – 09:10 AM Overview

Frank Yin, MD/PhD, Chair, Dept. of Biomedical Engineering

Session Chair: Fang-Lin Sun

09:10 – 09:50 AM

Eric Leuthardt, MD, Assistant Professor of Neurosurgery, Director, Ctr. for Innovation in Neurosciences & Technology

Title: "The Emergence of Electrocorticographic Brain Computer Interfaces"

09:50 – 10:30 AM

Zhi-Jie Chang, PhD, Professor, School of Medicine

Title: "A role of CHIP on the regulation of osteoblast differentiation"

10:30 – 10:50 AM Coffee Break

10:50 – 11:30 AM

David Wang, PhD, Assistant Professor of Molecular Microbiology

Title: "Genomic approaches to viral detection and discovery"

11:30 AM – 12:10 PM

Lin-Qi Zhang, Director/ Professor, Institute of Human Virology, Comprehensive AIDS Research Center

Title "Vaccines and Therapeutics against HIV and Influenza viral infections in China"

Session Chair：Frank Yin

14:00 – 14:40 PM

Gerald Dorn, Professor of Medicine, Director, Ctr for Pharmacogenomics

Title: "Endoplasmic reticulum-mitochondrial crosstalk in apoptotic and non-apoptotic programmed cell death."

14:40 – 15:20 PM

Li Yu, PhD, Professor, Department of Biological Sciences and Biotechnology

Title: "Autophagy termination and lysosome reformation regulated by mTOR"

15:20 – 15:40 PM Coffee/ Tea Time

15:40 PM Meeting Closed