Plants vs. disease: 'Trench warfare at the molecular level'
...a, N.Y., Martin will present this information to a plenary session of the American Society of Plant Biologists on Tuesday, July 24, at 4 p.m. at the Rhode Island Convention Center in Providence. The session is titled "Signal transduction mechanisms in plant defense activation." One combatant is Pseudomonas......tion Agency (EPA). The symposium will also include plenary speakers, panel discussions and technical presentations. All of the conference activities are designed to energize the community that is driving environmental systems initiatives in New York State and across the country. We hope to establish relation...First-ever autism research conference to explore new frontiers
...ons, slide and poster presentations, workshops and plenary sessions will highlight many different topics in autism, including structural imaging, molecular and genetic approaches, and epidemiological investigations. In addition, the conference will feature a "State-of-the-Science" symposium that will provid...2002 International Conference on Emerging Infectious Diseases
...fectious disease issues. The program will include plenary sessions and symposia with invited speakers, presentations on emerging infections and oral poster presentations. Major topics include current work on surveillance, epidemiology, research, communication and training, bioterrorism and prevention and c...Smarr to speak at AAAS meeting
...16 technology visionary Larry Smarr will deliver a plenary lecture before the Annual Meeting of the American Association for the Advancement of Science (AAAS). The topic: Extending the Internet with Sensornets: Supporting Science and Emergency Preparedness. Smarr is the Director of the California Institute f...University of Louisville leads project to customize ethics training for genetic researchers
...n sections using specially developed case studies, plenary sessions highlighting historical and developing trends in the field, and evaluation sessions to assess how much the participants have learned. The course also will provide continuing education credit....Wake Forest investigator shows new way that alcohol affects brain
...ccepted view on how alcohol acts in the brain in a plenary session presentation at the Research Society on Al...se inhibitory synapses. Weiner is one of only six plenary speakers at the five-day meeting....Scientists, researchers, animal advocates & regulators to discuss alternatives to animal testing
...s of this year's Congress include Charles DeLisi's plenary lecture on the Virtual Human project. DeLisi, a professor and director of bioinformatics at Boston University, began the Human Genome Project and is currently designing cutting-edge software that will mimic all of the physiological processes of a hum...Transplant patients from 40 years ago cause Pittsburgh doctors to take an about-face
... is speaking at 12 p.m. on Wednesday, Aug. 28 in a plenary session titled "What's New and Hot in Transplantation" (Plenary Session IV, Grand East/West), at which time he will elaborate on the lessons learned from history and present results of 50 kidney transplant patients who were treated under the new stra...Ghana takes aim at bushmeat hunting
...hana Standards Board Yaw Agyei-Henaku informed the plenary that 30 percent of bushmeat samples collected contained chemical poisoning. Laboratory analysis of bushmeat carcasses revealed the presence of organochlorines, carbamates and organophosphorus, elements commonly found in pesticides. Indeed, a survey c...University of Pittsburgh scientist discusses blood cell damage from biomedical devices
...Medicine. Dr. Kameneva will discuss the issue in a plenary lecture on "hemorheological aspects of flow induced blood trauma in artificial organs" on Sept. 26 during a joint meeting of the 11th International Congress of Biorheology and the 4th International Conference on Clinical Hemorheology in Antalya, Turk...OSU genetics expert wins award for lifetime achievement
... a medal and a $10,000 personal prize, and gives a plenary address to the ASHG annual meeting. De la Chapelle's keynote address will be, "Inherited Diseases: Challenges, Victories and Disappointments." "I am really quite honored, and very surprised," says de la Chapelle. "There are so many others who have ...Inhibitor of novel cancer target, LPAAT-beta, demonstrates selective anti-cancer effects
Frankfurt, Germany--In a plenary session at the Symposium on Molecular Targets and Cancer Therapeutics, Dr Jack W. Singer, M.D. and Research Program Chairman of Cell Therapeutics, Inc. (CTI) today (Thursday 21 November) presented data from preclinical studies on a novel cancer targe...CHF and BIO to present Biotechnology Heritage Award to William J. Rutter
...president of CHF. The award will be presented at a plenary breakfast at the four-day BIO 2003 Annual Convention, June 22-25, at the Washington, D.C., Convention Center. More than 3,000 scientists and biotechnology leaders are expected to attend the award presentation. The Biotechnology Heritage Award recogni...Cell Transplant Society holds 6th International Congress in Atlanta March 2-5
...countries. The scientific program includes eleven plenary sessions, nine oral abstract sessions, a poster session, and a tribute to Paul E. Lacy, MD, PhD, retired chair of pathology at Washington University School of Medicine, who is recognized for developing the first experimental model for transplanting i...World's largest scientific society convenes regional meeting June 8 - 11 in Princeton, N.J.
... for advanced technology consumer products) at the plenary lecture from 7 - 8:30 p.m. on Monday, June 9, in McDonnell Hall, Room A02. Shirley Tilghman , President of Princeton University, will speak at the Women Chemists Luncheon at 12 Noon on Tuesday, June 10, in the Wu Dining Hall. There will be three si...Organization for Human Brain Mapping 2003 Annual Meeting
...tform sessions, the meeting will include a special plenary lecture by Eric Kandel, 2000 Nobel Laureate in Physiology or Medicine, with a presidential symposium on integration of neuroimaging with computer modeling of brain function. The full meeting program and the abstracts will be available next week on ou...Organization for Human Brain Mapping annual meeting abstract highlights
...tform sessions, the meeting will include a special plenary lecture by Eric Kandel, 2000 Nobel Laureate in Physiology or Medicine, and a presidential symposium on integration of neuroimaging with computer modeling of brain function. The full meeting program and all of the abstracts are available on our websit...New opportunities for accelerating the conquest of human cancer
...:15-4:45 p.m., Friday, July 11, during the opening plenary session of the 94th Annual Meeting of the American Association for Cancer Research (AACR) in Washington, D.C. In addition to Dr. von Eschenbach, other scientists participating in the session include: Drs. Michael R. Stratton, professor of cancer gene...Plant pathologists from around the world to discuss national agricultural security initiatives
...s in plant health science will be the focus of the plenary session at the 2003 Annual Meeting of the American...ty (APS) in Charlotte, NC, August 9-13, 2003. The plenary session will feature new national initiatives for plant biosecurity. "The actions APS is proposing a...