Boston
University Life Sciences Symposium to Feature
Internationally Renowned Speakers
Boston University
will celebrate the academic inauguration
of the newly opened Life Science and Engineering
Building on October 12 with a day-long symposium
on the future of the life sciences. The
University’s life sciences faculty—from
the departments of Chemistry, Biology, and
Biomedical Engineering and the Program in
Bioinformatics—will play host to distinguished
scientists from across the country, including
a stellar roster of featured speakers:
Jeremy
Berg, director of the National
Institute of General Medical Sciences, whose
$1.8 billion budget funds basic biomedical
research in cell biology, biophysics, genetics,
pharmacology, biological chemistry, physiology,
and bioinformatics and computational biology;
Robert
Langer, the Kenneth J. Germeshausen
Professor of Chemical and Biomedical Engineering
at MIT and one of the most influential figures
in biotechnology;
Phillip
Sharp, MIT Institute Professor,
founding director of the McGovern Institute
for Brain Research, leading cancer researcher,
and co-winner of the 1993 Nobel Prize in
medicine;
Richard
Roberts, the other winner of the
1993 Nobel Prize in medicine (for their
separate discovery of split genes), and
research director at New England Biolabs.
Each visiting
speaker will be paired with a scientist
from Boston University, with the aim of
showing how interdisciplinary research in
the life sciences will grow and change in
the future, at BU and elsewhere. Interdisciplinary
collaboration is one of the significant
advantages afforded by the new Cummington
Street building, which brings together colleagues
whose research interests dovetail but whose
departments have typically been separated
both physically and institutionally.
The symposium
program is below. For more information,
contact Katinka Csigi in the Department
of Chemistry, at kcsigi@bu.edu
or 617-358-2838.
Boston University Symposium on
Interdisciplinary Research in the Life Sciences
A celebration
of the opening of the Life Science and Engineering
Building at Boston University
24 Cummington
Street, Lecture Hall B01
October 12, 2005
9:15
a.m.
Boston University President Robert A. Brown
introduced by Provost David Campbell
Welcoming remarks and introduction to the
symposium
9:30 a.m.
Dr. Jeremy M. Berg, Director, National Institute
of General Medical Sciences, NIH
introduced by Professor Thomas Tullius
Opportunities and Challenges at the Chemistry-Biology
Interface
10:15 a.m.
Dr. John A. Porco, Jr., Professor of Chemistry,
Boston University
introduced by Professor Thomas Tullius
New Approaches to the Chemical Synthesis
of Bioactive Molecules
11 a.m.
Break
11:15 a.m.
Dr. Richard J. Roberts, Research Director,
New England Biolabs
introduced by Professor Charles DeLisi
Restriction Enzymes and Genomes
Noon
Lunch
1 p.m.
Dr. Simon Kasif, Professor of Biomedical
Engineering and Program in Bioinformatics,
Boston University
introduced by Professor Charles DeLisi
A Mosaic View of Nature's Imagination: Segmentally
Variable Genes
and Biological Context Networks
1:45 p.m.
Dr. Robert S. Langer, Institute Professor
and Professor of Chemical and Biomedical
Engineering, MIT
introduced by Professor Kenneth Lutchen
Advances in Drug Delivery and Tissue Engineering
2:30 p.m.
Dr. James J. Collins, Professor of Biomedical
Engineering, Boston University
introduced by Professor Kenneth Lutchen
Synthetic Biology and Systems Biology: Integrating
Biomedical Engineering, Bioinformatics,
Biology and Chemistry
3:15 p.m.
Break
3:30 p.m.
Dr. Philip A. Sharp, Institute Professor
and Professor of Biology, MIT
introduced by Professor Geoffrey Cooper
The Surprising Biology of Short RNAs
4:15 p.m.
Professor Ulla Hansen, Professor of Biology,
Boston University
introduced by Professor Geoffrey Cooper
Estrogen Receptors: Biological Complexities
Meet Computational Approaches
5 p.m.
Reception for symposium participants
6 p.m.
Dinner for speakers and invited guests
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