| Monday, May 22, 2006 |
2:00 - 7:00 pm |
Registration |
Main Lounge |
| 5:30 - 7:30 pm |
Opening Reception |
Tripp Commons |
| 7:30 – 9:00 pm |
Welcome: Provost Patrick Farrell
PLENARY 1:
Michael Meaney (Montreal): Maternal care, genes & the development of strategy
Moderator: Richard Davidson |
Union Theater |
| 10:00 pm |
Set-up Posters |
Tripp Commons |
| Tuesday, May 23, 2006 |
| 7:30 am – 6:00 pm |
Registration Continues |
Annex Room |
| 9:00 – 11:30 am |
SESSION 1:
Interactions between nutrition and aging;
Alan Attie (Wisconsin): Convener, Moderator and Speaker
New diabetes susceptibility genes from genetic and genomic studies in mice
Rudolf Leibel (Columbia): Molecular physiology of the regulation of body weight
Vamsi Mootha (Harvard): Systematic maps, measures, and models of mitochondrial function
Eric Schadt (Rosetta): Reconstructing gene networks associated with obesity and related metabolic traits |
State Historical Society |
| 9:00 – 11:30 am |
SESSION 2:
Emotion and the Brain
Richard Davidson (Wisconsin): Convener, Moderator and Speaker
On emotion and the brain
Elizabeth Phelps (NYU): Emotion, cognition, and the human amygdala |
Union Theater |
| 12:00 – 1:15 pm |
ATTENDED POSTER
SESSION I
See Abstracts by Carlson (#48), Clee (#51), Dumont (#55), Giampetro (#58), Hensel (#60), Hoffmann (#62), Kavathas (#64), Scalf (#74), Thompson (#77), Walker (#79), Wan (#80), and Zhu (#82) |
Tripp Commons |
| 12:00 – 1:15 pm |
Selected talks: Technology ForumDavid Beebe (Moderator)
See Abstracts by Dobosy (#53), Hershleb (#61), Peters (#72), Raines (#73), Smits (#76), and Huttlin (#63) |
Playcircle Theater |
| 1:30 – 4:00 pm |
SESSION 3:
Technology, stem cells, and regenerative biology
Paul Bach-y-Rita (Wisconsin): Electrotactile arrays for sensory substitution and treatment of vestibular disorders
Charles Cantor (Sequenom): Systems for noninvasive biomarker identification
Clive Svendsen (Wisconsin): Neural stem cells
David Beebe (Wisconsin): Convener, Moderator and Speaker
In vitro microenvironments for understanding cellular function and disease |
Union Theater |
| 1:30 – 4:00 pm |
SESSION 4:
Learning science and the science of learning
Millard Susman (Wisconsin): Convener
Rayla Temin (Wisconsin): Moderator
Mark McDaniel (St. Louis): Speaker
Sarah Lauffer (Wisconsin): Discussant
Jim Stewart (Wisconsin): Discussant
Mitch Nathan (Wisconsin): Discussant |
State Historical Society |
| 4:30 – 6:00 pm |
PLENARY 2:
Cynthia Kenyon (San Francisco): The hormonal control of aging
Moderator: Judith Kimble |
Union Theater |
| 8:30 – 9:00 pm |
Evening of flying objects
Madison Area Jugglers |
Memorial Union Terrace |
| Wednesday, May 24, 2006 |
| 9:00 – 11:30 am |
SESSION 5:
Systems biology and reductionism
John Yin (Wisconsin): Convener
William Dove (Wisconsin): Moderator
Erin O’Shea (UC San Francisco): Cellular Nutrient Homeostasis
Naama Barkai (The Weizmann Institute): Modeling morphogen gradient output
Ranga Sampath (ISIS Pharmaceuticals): Rapid Microbial Detection and Characterization Using ESI-MS Platform
John Yin (Wisconsin): Speaker
From Genome to Organism: a Virus-World View |
Union Theater |
| 9:00 – 11:30 am |
SESSION 6:
Psychosocial factors and biology
Carol Ryff (Wisconsin): Convener and Moderator
Dennis Charney (Mt. Sinai, NY): Psychobiological mechanisms of human resilience to extreme stress: a resilience prescription
Andrew Steptoe (Univ College London): Positive well-being, biological responses, and physical disease risk |
State Historical Society |
| 12:00 – 1:15 pm |
ATTENDED POSTER SESSION IIPosters from Tuesday noon’s Technology Forum
Also see Abstracts by Abhyankar (#43), Ananiev (#45), Felton (#56), Lee (#66), Meyvantsson (#68), Pasch (#70), and Payseur (#71) |
Tripp Commons |
| 12:00 – 1:15 pm |
Selected Talks: Cancer Biology Forum William Dove (Moderator)
See Abstracts by Amos-Landgraff (#44) Bilger (#46), Cormier (#52), Dubovsky (#54), and McCarthy (#67) |
Playcircle Theater |
| 1:30 – 4:00 pm |
SESSION 7:
Cancer biology
William Dove (Wisconsin): Convener
Bill Sugden (Wisconsin): Moderator
John Dick (Toronto): Cancer stem cells: lessons from leukemia
Caroline Alexander (Wisconsin): Mammary stem cells: tumor precursors?
Michael Gould (Wisconsin): Breast cancer modifier alleles
David Schwartz (Wisconsin): Single molecule approaches to mammalian genomics
Also See J. Hershleb et al (Abstract #61). This takes the place of Dr. Schwartz’s talk |
Union Theater |
| 1:30 – 4:00 pm |
SESSION 8:
Music and the brain
Jenny Saffran (Wisconsin): Convener and Moderator
Robert Zatorre (Montreal): Understanding the brain through music: perception, imagery, and emotion
Isabelle Peretz (Montreal): When the brain is out of tune |
State Historical Society |
| 4:30 – 6:00 pm |
PLENARY 3:
Peter Mombaerts(New York): Olfaction targeted
Moderator: Donata Oertel |
Union Theater |
| 8:00 – 9:30 pm |
Concert in honor of Professor James F. Crow
Sponsored by The Wisconsin Academy of Sciences, Arts, and Letters
Bach Dancing and Dynamite Society and friends
Music by Mozart, Schoenfield, and Brahms
Ticketed Event |
Overture Center Playhouse |
| 9:30 – 10:30 pm |
Post Concert & Tour Reception |
Overture Center Rotunda Stage |
| Thursday, May 25, 2006 |
| 9:00 – 11:30 am |
SESSION 9:
The making of Homo sapiens
John Hawks (Wisconsin): Convener
Sean Carroll (Wisconsin): Convener, Moderator and Speaker
On principles of regulatory evolution
Daniel Lieberman (Harvard): Brains versus brawn in human evolution
Svante Pääbo (Leipzig): A genomic view of human origins
Karen Strier (Wisconsin): Biological aspects of primate cultural behavior |
State Historical Society |
| 9:00 – 11:30 am |
SESSION 10:
Race, genetics, and disease
Joan Fujimura (Wisconsin): Convener and Moderator
Marcus Feldman (Stanford): Continental ancestry and human history in the “Race” debate
Troy Duster (NYU and UC-Berkeley): The relationship between racial classification and the research programs in human biology
Richard Cooper (Loyola, Chicago): Race, genes and common disease |
Union Theater |
| 12:00 – 1:15 pm |
ATTENDED POSTER SESSION III
Posters from Wednesday noon’s Cancer Biology Forum
Also see Abstracts by Bourdeau-Heller (#47), Chen (#49), Chen (#50), Fitzgerald (#57), Gulyaeva (#59), Kwong (#65), Nelson (#69), Shera (#75), Tse (#78), and Yu (#81) |
Tripp Commons |
| 1:30 – 4:00 pm |
SESSION 11:
Circadian biology in normal and disease states
William Dove (Wisconsin): Convener
Ruth Benca (Wisconsin): Moderator
Till Roenneberg (Munich): Epidemiology and genetics of chronotypes and social jetlag
Terry Young (Wisconsin): Untangling the epidemics of obesity, sleep apnea, and sleep deprivation
Giulio Tononi (Wisconsin): Sleep and synaptic homeostasis
Chiara Cirelli (Wisconsin): Sleep and Genes: from mechanisms to functions |
Union Theater |
| 1:30 – 4:00 pm |
SESSION 12:
Evolutionary interactions between H. Sapiens and microbes
Yoshihiro Kawaoka (Wisconsin and Tokyo): Enigmas of emerging viruses
Eddie Holmes (Penn State): The emergence and evolution of RNA viruses
Teresa Compton (Wisconsin): Convener, Moderator and Speaker
The complex dynamics of the early events in viral infections
Margaret McFall-Ngai (Wisconsin): Ecosystem management: living with thousands of bacterial phylotypes |
State Historical Society |
| 4:30 – 6:00 pm |
PLENARY 4:
Jeremy Nicholson (London): Of microbes, men and metabolism: global systems biology approaches to modeling human disease
Moderator: Burt Singer
Closing Remarks from the Organizing Committee |
Union Theater |
| 6:00 – 7:00 pm |
Closing Reception
Ticketed Event |
Class of ’24 Reception Room |
| 7:00 – 9:30 pm |
Banquet
Honorees include Professors Rayla G. Temin and James F. Crow
Ticketed Event |
Great Hall |
