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Fourth International
RNAi-2006-Boston Meeting
on
RNA interference: Biochemical
Genetics to Drugs & Therapeutics
May
1-3, 2006
Venue: Doubletree Guest Suites, 550 Winter Street,
Waltham, MA, USA
The Most Popular and The Best
Global Event in the RNAi Field!
Target Audience: |
300 |
Total Speaker Presentations: |
40 |
Total Poster Presentations: |
30 |
| Total Exhibit
Booths: |
30 |
AGENDA/SPEAKERS
(Click
Here for Detailed Agenda)
Monday, May 1, 2006
7:00 – 8:30 A.M: Registration Open
7:30 – 8:45 A.M: Continental breakfast
2:00 – 7:00 P.M: Technology Session I (consists of 8
lectures)
Tuesday, May 2, 2006
7:00 – 8:30 A.M: Registration Open
7:30 – 8:45 A.M: Continental breakfast
8:00 - 9:00 A.M: Technology Session
II
Wednesday, May 3, 2006
7:00 – 8:30 A.M: Registration Open
7:30 – 8:45 AM: Continental breakfast
8:00 - 9:00 A.M: Technology Session
III
Scientific Sessions Start at 9:00 A.M and Ends at 5:30 P.M
on all three days.
Scientific Organizing
Committee:
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Krishnarao
Appasani, PhD., MBA (Chair)
Founder & CEO
GeneExpression Systems, Inc. Waltham, MA USA |
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Frank Slack,
Ph.D.
Associate Professor of Molecular, Cellular and Developmental
Biology
Yale University, New Haven, CT USA |
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Marc Vidal,
PhD.
Associate Professor of Genetics at Harvard Medical School
and
Director of the Center for Cancer Systems Biology at Dana-Farber
Cancer Institute
Boston, MA USA |
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Roberto
Weinmann, PhD.
Director of Oncology Discovery
Bristol Myers Squibb, Princeton, NJ |
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Ulrike
Gaul, PhD.
Associate Professor of Developmental Neurogenetics
Rockefeller University, New York, NY USA |
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Kuan-Teh
Jeang, MD., PhD. (On his own private time)
Head of Molecular Virology Section
National Institutes of Health, NIAID, Bethesda, MD USA |
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Olivier
Voinnet, PhD. (EMBO Sponsor Scholar)
CNRS-Institut de Biologie Moleculaire des Plantes
Strasbourg, France |
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W. Marshall,
PhD.
Executive Vice President of Research & Development
Dharmacon, Inc., Lafayette, CO |
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Keynote
Speaker (Co-suppression Innovator Award) on May 1, 2006
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Richard
A. Jorgensen, PhD.
Associate Professor of Plant Sciences
The University of Arizona, Tucson, AZ
Title: A paragenetic perspective on the significance of
RNAi in the biology of plants |
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Jason Moffat,
Ph.D.
RNAi Consortium
Whitehead Institute for Biomedical Research
Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Cambridge, MA
Title: Construction, Characterization and Application
of Arrayed Lentiviral RNAi Library to High Content Screening |
Inaugural
Speaker (Life-Time Achievement Award) on May 2, 2006
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Earl R. Stadtman, PhD.
National Institutes of Health-NHLBI, Bethesda, MD |
Inaugural Speaker (Life-Time Achievement Award) on May 3,
2006
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Richard
J. Roberts, PhD.
Nobel Laureate 1993 (Physiology or Medicine)
Director of Research
New England Biolabs, Inc. Ipswich, MA
Title: The Genomics of Restriction and Modification |
Other Speakers:
John
M. Maraganore, Ph.D.
President and CEO
Alnylam Pharmaceuticals, Inc., Cambridge, MA
Ihor Lemischka, PhD.
Professor of Molecular Biology, Princeton University, Princeton,
NJ
Antonio J. Giraldez, PhD.
Skirball Institute of Bimolecular Medicine, New York University
School of Medicine
New York, NY 10016
Mark A. Behlke
MD, PhD.
Vice President, Molecular Genetics & Biophysics
Integrated DNA Technologies, Inc., Coralville, IA
Christopher Sullivan, Ph.D.
Asst. Professor
University of California San Francisco, San Francisco, CA
Stefen Panzner, PhD.
Chief Executive Officer, Novosom AG, Halle, Germany
Ramin Shiekhattar, Ph.D.
Associate Professor, Wistar Institute, Philadelphia, PA
Ian Ley
Vice President, Marketing, Panomics, Inc. Fremont, CA
Peter Roberts, PhD.
Brand Manager,
Exiqon A/S, Vedbaek, DENMARK
Sakari Kauppinen, Ph.D.
Institute of Medical Biochemistry and Genetics, University
of Copenhagen, DENMARK
Eric Lader, Ph.D.
Associate Director, R&D, Qiagen, Germantown, MD
Parker B. Antin, Ph.D.
Professor of Cell Biology & Anatomy, University of Arizona,
Tucson, AZ
Donald Jackson, PhD.
Scientist, Bristol-Myers Squibb, Princeton, NJ
Zaklina Strezoska,
PhD.
Senior Scientist, ALTANA Research Institute, Waltham,
MA
Aurora Esquela
Kerscher, Ph.D.
Department of Molecular, Cellular & Dev. Biology,
Yale University, New Haven, CT
David Dorris, Ph.D.
Senior Director & GM, RNAi Technologies,Ambion, Inc.An
Applied Biosystems Business,Austin, TX
Klaus Giese, Ph.D.
CSO and VP Research, atugen AG, Berlin, Germany
Shi-Hsiang Shen, Ph.D.
Principal Research Officer, National Research Council (NRC)
of Canada, Montreal, Quebec Canada
Graham Brock, Ph.D.
Director of Target and Drug Discovery, Ordway Research Institute,
Albany, NY
Mohammed Amarzguioui,
PhD.
Research Director, siRNAsense AS, Oslo, Norway
Mark J. Murray, PhD.
Chief Executive Officer, Protiva Biotherapeutics Inc. Burnaby,
Canada
Isidore Rigoutsos, PhD.
Manager, Bioinformatics & Pattern Discovery Group,
Computational Biology Center, IBM Thomas J Watson Research
Center, Yorktown Heights, NY
Johan Pihl,PhD.
Senior Scientist, Cellectricon AB, Gothenburg, Sweden
And many more from Biotech
and Large pharma…..
Each speaker will have 20 min for presentation
and 5 min for discussion.
Panel Discussion on May 3rd
with experts from:
- Venture Capital Firm
- Technology Transfer Office
- Professional Science/Business Journalists
- Patent Attorney from a Law Firm
and selected speakers from the conference.
Key Sessions:
The most-up-to-date developments will be addressed:
The Biochemical Genetics of RNAi and microRNAs
RNAi Biochemistry and Mechanisms in various organisms
New vectors for RNAi delivery in vivo, in vitro
microRNA discovery and their diverse roles in biology
Computational and Disease Biology of miRNAs
Drug Target identification and Validation
High throughput genome-wide screenings
Innovative strategies to develop anti-viral, ocular and cancer
therapeutics
Exhibitors are welcome to reserve
their booth space early!
Please contact if you are interested
in speaking in the scientific or Technology workshops of this
meeting.
GeneExpression Systems, Inc.
P.O. Box 540170
Waltham, MA 02454 USA
Tel: (781) 891-8181
Fax: (781) 891-8234
E-mail: Genexpsys@expressgenes.com
www.expressgenes.com
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