Program - Friday, September 28                                             Wed-Thurs-Fri

SESSION 5: SYSTEMS BIOLOGY/GENOMIC SCIENCES THROUGH TRANSGENIC TECHNOLOGY
8:30 am KEYNOTE ADDRESS: Lee Hood, Institute for Systems Biology
Systems Biology and Disease Development
9:15 am PRESENTATION: Oliver Yu, Danforth Plant Science Center
Metabolic Engineering of Plant Systems for Metabolite Production
9:45 am PRESENTATION: Claudia Schmidt-Dannert, University of Minnesota
Biosynthesis of Small Molecules
10:15 am BREAK
10:45 am PRESENTATION: Gustavo Tiscornia, The Salk Institute for Biological Studies
Transgenic Knockdown Mice Using siRNA Mediated Viral Transgenesis
11:15 pm PRESENTATION: Jeff Gordon, Washington University Center for Genome Sciences
Metagenomics of the Human Gut Microflora
11:45 pm LUNCH and Poster Prize Announcement
SESSION 6: NEW METHODS FOR TRANSGENESIS
1:00 pm PRESENTATION: Martin Dickman, Texas A&M University
Plant Transformation with Expression of Antiapoptosis Genes
1:30 pm PRESENTATION: Chris Taylor, Danforth Plant Science Center
Desarmed Rhyzogenes Transformation
2:00 pm PRESENTATION: Yashwant Deo, AviGenics, Inc.
Retroviral Vectors to Produce Transgenic Chickens
2:30 pm BREAK
3:00 pm PRESENTATION: Kan Wang, Iowa State University
Nanotechnology and Transformation
3:30 pm PRESENTATION: Mike Lindenbaum, Agrisoma Biosciences, Inc.
New Mini Chromosome System for Animals and Plants
4:15 pm CONCLUDING REMARKS: Pam Matson, Stanford University (pending)
Global Warming and Biology