Genetics Training Grant Retreat 2007
Shapiro Campus Center, Carl Shapiro Theater
Brandeis University
Wednesday, May 30, 2007

9:30 -10:00 AM Registration and coffee
10:00-10:30 AM Scott Lacadie
Zon Lab, Children's Hospital, Boston
"The Role of MicroRNAs in Zebrafish Hematopoiesis"
10:30-11:00 AM Monica Colaiacovo
Harvard Medical School
"Regulation of Chromosome Synapsis and Segregation During C. elegans Meiosis."
11:00 AM -12:00 PM

Angelika Amon
Center for Cancer Research
Howard Hughes Medical Institute
Massachusetts Institute of Technology
"Causes and Consequences of Aneuploidy"

12:00-1:00 PM Lunch (Shapiro Campus Center Atrium)
1:00-1:30 PM Mohan Viswanathan
Cambria Biosciences, Woburn, MA
"Resveratrol-Mediated Life Span Extension: Regulation of Longevity by ER-Stress Genes"
1:30-2:00 PM Jennifer Mehren
Vosshall Lab, Rockefeller University
"Behavioral and Anatomical Analysis of a Targeted Mutation in a Pheromone Receptor in Drosophila Melanogaster"
2:00-3:00 PM Robert Singer
Co-Chair & Professor of Anatomy and Structural Biology, Albert Einstein College of Medicine of Yeshiva University
“Systems Modeling the Behavior of mRNA in Single Cells”
3:00-5:00 PM Poster Session/Reception (Kugler Lounge)
Directions to Brandeis

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