Friday & Saturday, September 24-25, 2004

Program

12:00 Registration
1:30 Jim Carrington, Director, CGRB
Introduction
1:45 Scott Givan, Bioinformatics Coordinator, "Computational Biology in the CGRB"
2:10 Barbara Cohen, Senior Editor, Public Library of Science (PLoS)
"Open Access - The Future of Scientific Publishing"
2:35

Roundtable Discussion: Barbara Cohen, Anne Christie, Brian Staskawicz

"Open Access, Publication and OSU"

3:45

Kevin Drost, Co-Director, Microproducts Breakthrough Institute and OSU Academic Director For ONAMI, 

"Overview of the Oregon Nanoscience and Microtechnology Institute"

4:10

Brian Staskawicz, UC Berkeley, Dept. of Plant and Microbial Biology,

"Molecular Basis of Plant Innate Immunity in Arabidopsis"

5:00 Poster Session
8:30 Entertainment
9:00 AM

Claudia Maier, Assistant Professor, Dept of Chemistry,

"Mass Spectometry in Proteome Research"

9:20

Hiro Nonogaki, Assistant Professor, Dept. of Horticulture,

"Enhancer Trap of Seed Germination-Associated Genes"

9:50 Stephen Mayfield, Guest Speaker, The Scripps Research Institute, Dept. of Cell Biology,
"Regulation of Chloroplast Gene Expression: What We've Learned on the Way to Making Human Antibodies in Eukaryotic Algae"
11:00 Luiz Bermudez, Professor & Interim Head, Dept. of Biomedical Sciences,
"Mechanisms of Interaction Between Mycobacteria and The Host"
11:25 Steve Giovannoni, Director, MCB Program, Open Forum
"The Future of MCB: What's Next?"
12:00 Working Lunch, Continuation of MCB Discussion
  Meeting Adjourns