Mini Symposium: Cell Signaling Structure and Function

8:50 am               Opening Remarks

9:00 am               Presenter 1 (Christina Woo, Harvard)

                            Chemical Biological Studies of the Thalidomide Binding Domain of Cereblon

9:50 am               Presenter 2 (Jean-Philippe Julien, University of Toronto)

                            Molecular Basis of Siglec CD22 Function and Therapeutic Targeting

10:40 am             Graduate Flash Talk Session

                            3 Sections in Series Comprised of

                            4.5 min Talks (X4)

                            7 min Breakout Sessions for Questions

12:00 pm             Lunch

1:00 pm               Presenter 3 (John Kuriyan, University of California, Berkeley)

                            Structure and Mechanism of Cell Signaling Enzymes and Switches

1:50 pm               Presenter 4 (Jose Dinneny, Stanford)

                            Resilient by Design: Using Comparative Genomics and Synthetic Biology to Explore Stress Tolerance in Plants

2:40 pm               Speaker Breakout Sessions

3:30 pm               Panel Discussion

4:15 pm               Closing Remarks