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Symposium In Honor Of Judy Lieberman


Thursday, September 7, 2017

Armenise Auditorium

Harvard Medical School
210 Longwood Avenue, Boston, MA 02115

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Program

09:00-09:10  Opening remarks

                         Fred Alt, Senior Investigator, Boston Children's Hospital

Session I (Chair: Carl Novina)

09:10-09:35  Genetic pathways for developmental robustness in C. elegans

                         Victor Ambros, Professor, UMass Medical School

09:35-10:00  BMP signaling pathway and fragile X syndrome

                         Akiko Hata, Professor, Cardiovascular Research Institute, UCSF

10:00-10:25  Lnc’ing Non-coding RNA Function to Melanoma Formation

                         Carl Novina, Associate Professor, DFCI, Harvard Medical School

10:25-10:45  Coffee Break

Session II (Chair: Nan Yan)

10:45-11:10  Innate immune response to infection and autoimmune disease

                         Nan Yan, Associate Professor, UT Southwestern Medical Center

11:10-11:35  Immunotherapeutics against Clostridium difficile Infection

                          Hanping Feng, Professor, Univ of Maryland School of Medicine

11:35-12:00  Immune control of malaria blood-stage by CD8+ Killer T cells

                          Ricardo Gazzinelli, Professor, UMass Medical School

12:00-01:15   Lunch Break

Session III (Chair: Paul Greer)

01:15-01:40  The MS4A proteins reveal a new mode of vertebrate olfaction

                         Paul Greer, Assistant Professor, UMass Medical School

01:40-02:05  Towards a Mechanism of Heritable Epigenetics

                         Eric Greer, Assistant Professor, Harvard Medical School

02:05-02:30  AIDS Vaccine Development: Defending the Frontline

                         Ruth Ruprecht, Director, Texas Biomed AIDS Research Institute

02:30-02:50  Coffee Break

Session IV (Chair: Ashish Lal)

02:50-03:15  High resolution imaging of endosomal damage and siRNA delivery

                         Anders Wittrup, Physician, Lund University, Sweden

03:15-03:40  “Personalized” RNAi screen using pro-siRNA technology

                         Linfeng Huang, Assistant Professor, City University of Hong Kong

03:40-04:05  Basal-like TNBC cells selectively depend on RNA splicing

                         Fabio Petrocca, Assistant Professor, BU School of Medicine

04:05-04:30  Regulating the regulator: Long noncoding RNAs in the p53 network

                          Ashish Lal, Head, Regulatory RNAs and Cancer, NCI, NIH

04:30-05:10  RNA becomes relevant to medicine  (Keynote)

                         Phil Sharp, Professor, MIT

05:10-05:30 Closing remarks

                        Ashish Lal, Nan Yan, Judy Lieberman

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