Wednesday, March 23rd 2011

The City College of New York
The Great Hall
160 Convent Avenue
New York, NY 10031

Program 8:30 AM  – 9:30 AM                 Breakfast Session 1 (Chair: Ruth Stark, The City College of New York) 09:30 AM – 09:45 AM             Introductions by President Lisa Staiano-Coico 09:45 AM – 10:00 AM             Introduction by Dean Ruth Stark, Division of Science 10:00 AM – 11:00 AM             Lewis Kay (University of Toronto) 11:00 AM – 11:15 AM             Break Session 2 (Chair: David Eliezer, Weill Cornell Medical College) 11:15 AM – 12:00 PM             Chad Rienstra (University of Illinois, Urbana-Champaign) 12:00 PM – 12:45 PM             Hashim Al-Hashimi (University of Michigan) 12:45 PM – 2:00 PM               Lunch Buffet Session 3 (Chair: Ming-Ming Zhou, Mount Sinai School of Medicine) 2:00 PM – 2:45 PM                  Lila Gierasch (University of Massachusetts, Amherst) 2:45 PM – 3:30 PM                  Charalampos Kalodimos (Rutgers University) 3:30 PM – 4:15 PM                  Kevin Gardner (University of Texas Southwestern Medical                                                     Center) 4:15 PM – 4:30 PM                  Break Session 4 (Chair: David Cowburn, Albert Einstein College of Medicine) 4:30 PM – 5:30 PM                  Ad Bax (NIH) 5:30 PM – 5:45 PM                  Concluding Remarks