Sir Hans Kornberg

Life Science and Engineering Building
24 Cummington Street Room B01 Boston, MA 02215
Saturday, January 19, 2008 at 10:00 a.m.

Organizer: Ulla Hansen (Professor of Biology, Boston University)

Speakers:

Antonio M. Gotto Jr. (Professor of Medicine and Dean, Weill Medical School Cornell University)

Peter J. F. Henderson (Professor of Biochemistry and Molecular Biology, University of Leeds)

H. Ronald Kaback (Professor of Microbiology, Immunology and Molecular Genetics, University of California Los Angeles)

William Kay (Professor Emeritus of Biochemistry, University of Victoria, President and CEO, Microtek)

Antonio H. Romano (Professor Emeritus of Molecular and Cellular Biology and Dean Emeritus, University of Connecticut)

William Whelan (Professor of Biochemistry and Molecular Biology, University of Miami Miller School of Medicine)

Christopher Lourenco (Graduate Student, Boston University)

Andrew Sproul (Graduate Student, Columbia University)

Schedule of Events:

9:30 Light breakfast and checkin

10:00 Peter J.F. Henderson "Sweetness and insight-Carbohydrate
transport 37 years on"

10:45 H. Ronald Kaback "LacY: Crystal Ain't Everything"

11:30 Antonio Romano "Comparative Studies of Microbial Sugar Transport systems"

12:00 Lunch- Room LSE 103

1:30 Christopher Lourenco "Dinner or Dessert: Why does E.coli like its glucose pudding better than its fructose entree?"

2:00 Andrew Sproul "Three RINGS and Control of Apoptotic JNK
signaling and neuronal cell death"

2:30 Break

2:45 Antonio Gotto "Carbohydrates and Cholesterol: From Microbial to Human Metabolic Pathways"

3:30 William Whelan "It was there all the time"

4:15 William Kay ”Looking out at the abyss: the Salmonella
extracellular matrix”

There will be no fees for this event. However, capacity is limited and we therefore recommend that you register for your slot. To do so, please email Mrs. Deirdre James (dejames@bu.edu) and include your name, affiliation, and e-mail address.

Click here to view a pdf version of the symposium poster.