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      on Saturday, May 17, 2003
     9:00 AM - 6:30 PM
     Michigan State University Detroit College of Law Building

Room 471

Symposium Description

Poster Session
Program participants who wish to present a research poster (4’ x 4’) are invited to do so. Please e-mail a poster title to the Genetics Program Office (genetics@msu.edu) no later than May 2, 2003. Graduate students from the Genetics Program at MSU are particularly encouraged to present their work.

Program

8:30 - 9:00 Registration, Poster Set Up
9:00 - 9:15 Introductory Remarks
9:15 - 10:15 Dr. Patrick Piggot
Compartmentalization of gene expression during spore formation by Bacillus subtilis
10:15 - 11:15 Dr. Margaret Fuller
Cell Type-Specific Transcription Controlled by Tissue-Specific TAFs
11:15 - 11:45 Break
11:45-12:45 Dr. Ueli Grossniklaus
Maternal control of seed development through genomic imprinting and PcG-dependent gene regulation
12:45 - 2:45

Lunch and Poster Session

 

2:45-3:45

Dr. Justin Nodwell
Morphogenesis in a multicellular prokaryote

3:45 - 4:45 Dr. Steven Clark
The defining role of gene expression on receptor and ligand function in Arabidosis
4:45 - 5:45 Dr. Nipam Patel
The Evolution of Arthropod Segmentation and Body Patterning

5:45 - 6:30 Reception

Registration
Faculty Registration Fee: $30.00
Student and Post Doc Fee: $15.00
Registration fee includes lunch
Checks should be made payable to MSU - Genetics Program.
To charge to a MSU account call 353-9845 for JVE account number.

To register: send name, work address, phone number, email address, department, and University.
Indicate whether you are faculty, post doc, graduate student, or undergraduate student.
Mail registration and fee to: Genetics Program, 2240 E Biomedical and Physical Sciences Building, Michigan State University, East Lansing, MI 48824

Registration Deadline is May 2, 2003.

Speaker Information

Steven Clark, PhD

University of Michigan
clarks@umich.edu

Margaret Fuller, PhD

Stanford University School of Medicine
fuller@cmgm.stanford.edu

Ueli Grossniklaus, PhD

University of Zürich
grossnik@botinst.unizh.ch

 

Justin Nodwell, PhD


McMaster University
nodwellj@mcmaster.ca

Nipam Patel, PhD


Howard Hughes Medical Institute, University of Chicago
npatel@midway.uchicago.edu

Patrick Piggot, PhD


Temple University of Medicine
piggotp@astro.ocis.temple.edu

Symposium Organizers
Genetics Program Office: 353-9845, genetics@msu.edu
Dr. David Arnosti: 432-5504, arnosti@msu.edu
Dr. Lee Kroos: 355-9726, kroos@msu.edu
Dr. Steve van Knocker: 432-7133, vannocke@msu.edu

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