2005 Meeting Agenda              

 
 

2005 AMGDB Annual Meeting
Gamboa Rainforest Resort, Panama Canal, Panama
January 13-16, 2005

AMGDB 2005 Registration and Brochure
COPA Airlines Special  
Gamboa Pictures

Scientific Sessions:

  • Regulation of p27Kip1 Expression Through the 5'-UTR of Its mRNA
    W. Keith Miskimins, University of South Dakota School of Medicine. 
     
  •  Sphingosine-1-Phosphate and Sphingolipidomics
    Sarah Spiegel
    ,  Virginia Commonwealth University School of Medicine (tentative).
     
  • O-GlcNAc Cycling on Nucleocytoplasmic Regulatory Proteins
    Gerald W. Hart, The Johns Hopkins University School of Medicine. 
     
  • Role of Coactivators and Protein Methylation in Transcriptional Regulation by Nuclear Receptors
    Michael R. Stallcup,
    University of Southern California Keck School of Medicine. 
     
  • Title TBA
    Eldredge Bermingham,
    Staff Scientist and Deputy Director of the Smithsonian Tropical Research Institute (Panama).

 

Public Affairs Session:

  • Funding 21st Century Science with a 20th Century Budget
    David B. Moore, Associate Vice President of the Association of American Medical Colleges.
     
  • Characterizing and Understanding Biological Complexity: Opportunities, Challenges, and the Role of NIGMS/NIH
    Eric Jacobsson, Director of the NIGMS Center for Bioinformatics and Computational Biology.
     
  • In the Spirit of the NIH Roadmap: The LIPID MAPS Large Scale Collaborative "Glue" Grant
    Edward A. Dennis, University of California, San Diego, School of Medicine. 
     
  • Title TBA
    Ira Rubinoff
    , Director, Smithsonian Tropical Research Institute (Panama). 
     
  • Report on the 2004 Meeting of the National Caucus of Basic Biomedical Science Chairs
    Dianne Beattie (Vice President), West Virginia University School of Medicine.
     
  • Report on the ASBMB
    Bettie Sue Masters (Past President), University of Texas at San Antonio School of Medicine.
    Judith Bond (President), Pennsylvania State University School of Medicine.
     

Education Sessions:

  • International Trends in Graduate Education:
    Exploring the Impact on Programs in Biochemistry

    Heath Brown, Director of Research and Policy Analysis, Council of Graduate Schools
     
  • The CUSBA Program: From 1995 to Present
    Robert K. Yu, Medical College of Georgia

Dinners/Parties:

  • Welcome Reception/Dinner
  • Closing Reception/Dinner

Optional Tours:

  • Embera Indian Village - Overnight Excursion

  • Portobello/Snorkel

  • VIP Canal

  • Barro (Smithsonian)

  • Panama City

  • Portobelo