Meeting Agenda January 11-14, 2001  

Agenda

Thursday, Jan 11

7:00 am - 10:00 am

Buffet Breakfast

7:15 am - 1:30 pm Flum'in Da Ditch - Optional Tour
7:30 am - 6:00 pm Volcanoes National Park - Optional Tour
7:00 pm - 10:00 pm Welcome AMGDB Reception/Dinner

Friday, Jan 12

7:00 am - 10:00 am Buffet Breakfast
8:30 am -12:00 pm AMGDB Scientific Session

Introductions/Opening Remarks

William Smith, President AMGDB

"Structure/function Studies of Nerve Growth Factor: A Receptor Specific Mutant"

Kenneth Neet

"Type IV Collagen of Basement Membrane: Structure, Defects in Disease and a Cancer Therapeutic"

Billy Hudson

10:00 am - 10:30 am

Refreshment Break

"Novel Ubiquitin-Positive Nuclear Inclusions Generated by Mutations in the Rab24 GTPase"

Bill Maltese

"NMR Studies of the Regulatory Domains of the Hematopoietic Cellular Kinase"

Bill Geimer

"New Insights into the Regulation of Cholesterol Production - Is it really understood?"

Ishaiahu Schechter

AMGDB Business Meeting

William Smith, President

9:30 am - 12:00 pm Spouse/Guest Tour
PM Afternoon/Evening On Own
2:00 pm - 11:30 pm Mauna Kea Summit & Stargazing - Optional Tour

Saturday, Jan 13

7:00 am - 10:00 am Buffet Breakfast
8:30 am -12:00 pm AMGDB Public Policy Session

Overview of Session

Kenneth Mann

"Technology Transfer in the Academic Setting"

 

Jonathan Gottlieb, Chief, NHLBI Office of Technology Transfer and Development, National Institute of Health

 

Louis Berneman, Director, Center for Technology Transfer, University of Pennsylvania

 

Barry Coller, Chairman Department of Medicine, Mt. Sinai Medical Center

 

Dave Stump, Sr. Vice President, Human Genome Sciences, Inc.

10:00 am - 10:30 am

Refreshment Break

12:00 pm - 7:00 pm

Afternoon on Own

6:30 pm - 10:00 pm AMGDB Farewell Luau

Sunday, Jan 14

7:00 am - 10:00 am Buffet Breakfast
8:30 am -12:00 pm

AMGDB Education Session

 

Overview of Session

J. David Puett

 

Panel - Future Trends in Medical Education

"A biochemistry curriculum for first year medical student"

Edward A. Dennis, Panel Leader

 

Panel - Future Trends in Graduate and Postgraduate Education, Training and Placement

Judith S. Bond, Panel Leader

10:00 am - 10:30 am

Refreshment Break

"New Initiatives in scientific publishing: Evolving paradigms for students, postdoctoral fellows, and faculty to master"

Robert D. Simoni, Stanford University

 

"General discussion and solicitation of topics to be covered at the 2002 Annual Meeting"

J. David Puett

 

AMGDB Business Meeting

Future Site Selection

Kenneth Mann

 

Closing Remarks

William Smith, President

12:00 pm Afternoon/Evening on Own