12th Annual JBL Symposium
“Cellular Responses to Molecular Damage: Roles in Genetic Stability, Radioresistance, and Aging”
October 23-24, 2009
INVITED SPEAKERS |
Matthew Meselson
Thomas Dudley Cabot Professor of the Natural Sciences, Department of Molecular and Cellular Biology, Harvard University JBL Award Lecture: “How does ionizing radiation kill cells: early clues from bystander effects” |
Stephen P. Bell
Professor of Biology, Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Investigator, Howard Hughes Medical Institute “Triggering replication initiation: a cascade of kinases at the origin” |
Junjie Chen
Professor, M.D. Anderson Cancer Center, Department of Experimental Radiation Oncology, University of Texas “Chromatin structure and DNA damage response” |
Michael J. Daly
Professor of Pathology, Department of Pathology, Uniformed Service University of the Health Sciences “Small molecule proteome-shields in Deinococcus radiodurans” |
Anindya Dutta
Harry F. Byrd Professor, Department of Biochemistry and Molecular Genetics, University of Virginia “Mechanisms by which the human cell restricts DNA replication to once per cell cycle” |
Toren Finkel
Chief, Translational Medicine Branch, National Heart, Lung, and Blood Institute, National Institutes of Health “Mitochondrial function and oxidative stress in stem and progenitor cell function” |
Marcia Haigis
Assistant Professor, Department of Pathology, Harvard Medical School “Roles of Sirtuins in Mitochondrial Metabolism” |
Wade Harper
Professor of Pathology, Department of Pathology, Harvard Medical School “The SLX4 complex, a tool kit for DNA repair” |
Ursula Jakob
Associate Professor, Department of Molecular, Cellular, and Developmental Biology, University of Michigan “Oxidative stress and redox regulation” |
Penny Jeggo
Professor, Genome Damage and Stability Centre, University of Sussex “ATM, higher order chromatin structure and DNA double strand break repair: how they link” |
Laura Niedernhofer
Associate Professor, Department of Microbiology and Molecular Genetics, University of Pittsburgh “Therapeutic strategies for delaying aging” |
Lee Zou
Assistant Professor of Pathology, Harvard Medical School / Massachusetts General Hospital Cancer Center “Sensing and signaling DNA damage through the ATM and ATR checkpoints” |