2003 Annual Retreat Program
8:30 - 9:15 Arrival, Poster Set-Up and Continental
Breakfast
9:15 - 9:30 Opening Remarks – Dr. Michael Hampsey
Morning Session I Chair-Matt Simmons
9:30 - 9:45 Yuh-Hwa Wang
How do Disease-Causing triplet Repeats get Expanded?
9:45 - 10:30 Keynote Speaker – Dr. Steven Brill
Control of Genome Stability by the bloom syndrome Homolog Sgs1 And
Overlapping Pathways in Yeast
10:30 - 11:00 Coffee Break
Morning Session II Chair-Rushad Pavri
11:00 - 11:15 Brian Lewis
Identification and Functional Recapitulation of Downstream Core
Promoter Elements
11:15 - 11:30 Nancy Walworth
Msc1: A Fission Yeast Homologue of an Rb-binding Protein
11:30 - 11:45 Monica Roth
Retroviral Entry
11:45 - 12:00 Raymond Habas
Understanding WNT Signaling During Vertebrate Development and Cancer
12:00 - 1:30 Lunch and Recreational Activities
1:30 - 3:00 Poster Session and Dessert
Afternoon Session Chair-Mariela Reyes-Reyes
3:00 - 3:15 Junjie Zhang
mRNA Interfarases for Programmed Cell Death in E. coli
3:15 - 3:30 Madhura Gurjar
Working Mechanism of HCV Helicase
3:30 - 3:45 Krishna Shankarling
SSU72 is an RNAP II CTD Phosphatase
3:45 - 4:00 Rian Pillateria (Barbara Brodsky’s lab)
Structure-related Bias in the Collagen Triple Helix in Diverse
Connective Tissue Diseases
4:00 - 4:15 Awards Presentation – Dr. Michael Hampsey
4:15 - 4:30 Closing Remarks – Dr. Masayori Inouye
4:30 - 5:30 Social Hour-DCC Lounge
