| Knockdown Strategies in Biomedicine - RNAi and Beyond |
Sponsored by The Forsyth Institute
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| Time: | 9:00am 6:00pm Thursday, November 19th 2009 |
| Place: | M. Barbara Schulze Conference Center (3rd floor)
The Forsyth Institute, 140 The Fenway, Boston, MA 02115, USA
[Direction to Forsyth]
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| Registration: | IABMR members: Free (Annual Membership Fee: $20)
Forsyth Employees: Free
Non-members: $20
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MEETING SCHEDULE
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| 9:00 | 10:00 | Registration and Coffee |
| 10:00 | 12:30 | Poster Sessions I & II |
| 11:00 | 1:30 | Vendor Exhibition & Luncheon Reception
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| 1:15 | 1:30 | Welcome and Introduction
Tsute Chen, PhD
President of IABMR Opening Remarks
Philip Stashenko DMD, PhD
President and CEO, The Forsyth Institute
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| 1:30 | 4:40 | Scientific Symposium
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| 1:30 | 2:10 | Delivery is in the Details
Catherine Pachuk, PhD
Senior Director, Delivery Biology
Pfizer Research Technology Center
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| 2:10 | 2:50 | Lost in translation: mechanisms and tumor suppressive activity of microRNAs
Carl Novina, MD, PhD
Assistant Professor of Pathology
Dana-Farber Cancer Institute
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| 2:50 | 3:20 | Coffee Break
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| 3:20 | 4:00 | MicroRNA in gliomas: small regulators of a big problem
Anna Krichevsky, PhD
Assistant Professor of Neurology
Brigham and Womans Hospital
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| 4:00 | 4:40 | Genome wide RNAi screens in Drosophila: A journey from pre-RNAi to RNAi days
Norbert Perrimon, PhD
Professor of Genetics
Harvard Medical School
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| 4:40 | 6:00 | Poster Awards Ceremony |
