Symposium: Science, Engineering
& Business at the Leading Edge

Friday, October 10, 2008 / Central Library Microsoft Auditorium

SYMPOSIUM OPENING

8:00 am

Doors open; coffee, juice and pastries

9:00 am

Welcoming Remarks
Roger M. Perlmutter, M.D., Ph.D.

MORNING SESSION

9:15 am

BIOLOGY

9:15 am

Normal and Neoplastic Stem Cells
Irving Weissman, M.D.
introduced by John Aitchison, Ph.D.

10:00 am

System Level Regulatory Logic For Development
Eric Davidson, Ph.D.
introduced by David Galas, Ph.D.

10:45 am

Break

11:00 am

TECHNOLOGY

11:00 am

Reading and Writing Genomes
George Church, Ph.D.
introduced by Aimée Dudley, Ph.D.

11:45 am

Talk title to be announced
James Heath, Ph.D.
introduced by Adrian Ozinsk y, Ph.D, M.D.

LUNCH BREAK

12:30 noon

Lunch break, one hour

AFTERNOON SESSION

1:30 pm

COMPUTATION

1:30 pm

Talk title to be announced
Nitin Baliga, Ph.D.
introduced by Marc Facciotti, Ph.D.

2:15 pm

eScience: Computational Science for the 21st Century
Ed Lazowska, Ph.D.
introduced by Ilya Shmulevich, Ph.D.

3:00 pm

Break

3:15 pm

KNOWLEDGE TRANSFER

3:15 pm

Where Is The Puck Going To Be?
Frederick Frank
introduced by Tim Galitski, Ph.D.

SYMPOSIUM CLOSING

4:00 pm

Concluding Remarks
Roger M. Perlmutter, M.D., Ph.D.

Gala Dinner:
Lee Hood at the Leading Edge

Friday, October 10, 2008 / W Hotel

COCKTAIL HOUR

6:00 pm

Cocktails & Hors d'oeuvres

DINNER

7:00 pm

Dinner Service Begins
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Remarks by Lee Silver, Ph.D, Roger Perlmutter, M.D., Ph.D and Alan Aderem, Ph.D.
A Video Tribute will be shown

DANCING

9:00 pm

Cocktails and Dancing
Band: HB Radke & The Jet City Swingers
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