Program

Monday, September 25, 2006

9:00 am – 12:00 pm

Medical student research presentations

Speakers TBA

LOCATION: Searle Center Lecture Hall

Graduate student research presentations

Speakers TBA

LOCATION: Bryan Research Building Auditorium (Room 103)

12:00 – 1:00 pm

Lunch break

1:00 – 3:00 pm

Medical and graduate student research poster session

LOCATION: Searle Center

Location: Searle Center Lecture Hall

3:30 – 3:40 pm

Introduction and Welcome

R. Sanders Williams, M.D.

Dean, Duke University School of Medicine

3:40 – 4:00 pm

Presentation of Student Research Awards

Edward Halperin, M.D.

Associate Vice Chancellor for Academic Affairs

Vice Dean of Education

Duke University School of Medicine

4:00 pm

Introduction of Paul Nurse

Peter C. Agre, M.D.

2003 Nobel Prize in Chemistry

Vice Chancellor for Science and Technology

James B. Duke Professor of Cell Biology and Medicine

Duke University School of Medicine

4:05 – 5:05 pm

Chancellor’s Lecture and Keynote

“The Great Ideas of Biology”

Paul Nurse, Ph.D.

2001 Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine

President, The Rockefeller University

Dr. Nurse’s lecture will be simulcast to the Schiciano Auditorium in the Fitzpatrick CIEMAS Building.

5:05 – 5:35 pm

Q&A

Tuesday, September 26, 2006

Location: Searle Center Lecture Hall (broadcast to Schiciano Auditorium in the Fitzpatrick CIEMAS Building)

8:10 – 8:30 am

Welcoming Remarks

Victor J. Dzau, M.D.

R. Sanders Williams, M.D.

Plenary Session:

8:30 – 9:00 am

“Unraveling the Sense of Smell”

Linda Buck, Ph.D.

2004 Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine

Investigator, Howard Hughes Medical Institute

Associate Director, Basic Science Division, The Fred Hutchinson Cancer Research Center

Affiliate Professor, Department of Physiology and Biophysics

University of Washington, Seattle

Concurrent Sessions:

	Searle Center Lecture Hall	Fitzpatrick CIEMAS

9:15 – 9:45 am	“An Ambitious Agenda for Science: Spreading Innovation and Rationality” Bruce Alberts, Ph.D. Former President, National Academy of Sciences Professor, Dept. Biochemistry and Biophysics University of California, San Francisco	“Genetics, Genomics and the Future of Medicine” Richard P. Lifton, M.D., Ph.D. Sterling Professor of Genetics and Chairman, Department of Genetics Sterling Professor of Medicine and Molecular Biophysics & Biochemistry Investigator, HHMI Yale University School of Medicine

10:00 – 10:30 am	“Curiosities About Growth Factor Signaling in the Adult Brain” Steven L. McKnight, Ph.D. Distinguished Chair in Basic Biomedical Research Sam G. Winstead and F. Andrew Bell Distinguished Chair in Biochemistry University of Texas Southwestern Medical Center at Dallas	“Telomerase and the Consequences of Telomere Dysfunction” Carol W. Greider, Ph.D. Daniel Nathans Professor and Director Dept. of Molecular Biology & Genetics The Johns Hopkins University School of Medicine

10:45 – 11:00 am	BREAK	BREAK

11:00 – 11:30 am	“Genetic Protection from Coronary Atherosclerosis: From Genes to Public Health” Helen H. Hobbs, M.D. Investigator, HHMI Professor, Internal Medicine and Molecular Genetics University of Texas Southwestern Medical Center at Dallas	“Transcriptional Control of Heart Development and Disease” Eric N. Olson, Ph.D. Professor and Chairman Department of Molecular Biology University of Texas, Southwestern Medical Center at Dallas

11:45 – 12:15 pm	“Novel Neural Messengers” Solomon H. Snyder, M.D. Distinguished Service Professor of Neuroscience, Pharmacology and Psychiatry The Johns Hopkins University School of Medicine	“From Understanding the Ribosome Structure and Function to Designing New Antibiotics” Thomas A. Steitz, Ph.D. Sterling Professor of Molecular Biophysics and Biochemistry Yale University

12:30 – 1:00 pm	“Bacterial-Host Iron Wars” Christopher T. Walsh, Ph.D. Hamilton Kuhn Professor of Biological Chemistry and Molecular Pharmacology Harvard Medical School	“Genomic Approaches to Cancer Diagnosis and Therapy” Bruce Stillman, Ph.D. President Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory