Ninth Annual Ernest E. Just Scientific Symposium

February 27, 2009
Basic Science Building Auditorium, Room 100

BIOGRAPHY

 

8:00 - 9:00 am

Registration and Breakfast - BSB 100 entrance to Auditorium

 

Introduction & History

 

 

 

 

9:00 - 9:15

Opening: MUSC Vice President, Provost and Professor; John Raymond, M.D.
Greetings: MUSC Director Office of Student Diversity; Willette Burnham, M.Ed.

 

 

 

 

 

 

9:15 - 9:45

Title: "Just's Dartmouth "
 Peter Carini, M.S.
Archivist

Dartmouth College
Hanover, NH 03755

 

 

 

 

 

Part II: Role Models

 

 

 

9:45 - 10:15

Title: "The Art of Indecision "

Joyce Hunter, Ph.D.

Deputy Director

National Center on Minority Health and Health Disparities

National Instututes of Health

Bethesda, Maryland 20892-5465

 

 

 

 

 

 

10:15 - 10:25

Break

 

 

 

 

Just Symposium Speaker

10:25 - 11:10

Title: "Merck Research Labs: Make a Future Where you can Make a Difference"
Lyndon Mitnaul, Ph.D.
Research Fellow at the Merck Research Laboratories

Merck and Company, Inc.

Rahway, New Jersey

 

 

 

 

 

11:15 - 11:30

Title: "Mitochondrial Dysfunction and Mechanisms of Protection in Amino-glycoside-induced Hair Cell Death "
Shimon Francis
Ph.D. Candidate
Department of Pathology and Laboratory Medicine
MUSC

 

 

 

 

 

 

11:30 - 12:15pm

BREAKOUT SESSIONS

 

 

 
  • Campus tour for visiting students
  • Undergraduate Advisors meet with MUSC College Admissions Officers
       

 

 

12:20 - 12:50

Lunch 1st floor Dental Medicine Lobby

 

 

 

 

 

Part III: Science

 

 
    1:00 BREAKOUT SESSIONS
      Students to meet with College Admissions Officers

 

 

 

 

 

1:00 - 1:50

Title: "Cadherin-cytoskeletal Interactions for Regulation of Cell-cell Adhesion"

Masatoshi Takeichi, Ph.D.

Director of the RIKEN Center for Developmental Biology

2-2-3 Minatojima-minamimachi

Chuo-Ku, Kobe 650-0047. Japan

       

 

2:00 - 2:50

Title: "Stem Cells in Lung Development and Repair"
Bridget Hogan, Ph.D.
Professor and Chair, Department of Cell Biology

Duke University School of Medicine

 

 

 

 

 

3:00 - 3:50

Title: "Challenges for Regenerative Medicine "
John Gearhart, Ph.D.
Professor of Cell and Developmental Biology

Biomedical Research Building

421 Curie Blvd., 1151

Philadelphia, PA 19104X

 

 

 

 

Thank you to our Sponsors:
MUSC Department of Cell Biology and Anatomy, SC EPSCoR/IDeA, SC NASA Space Grant Consortium, Office of the Provost, Office of Diversity, College of Graduate Studies, College of Dental Medicine, College of Pharmacy, College of Medicine, Marine Biomedicine and Environmental Sciences


For more information, contact:
Dr. Perry Halushka ( halushpv@musc.edu )
Dr. Titus A. Reaves ( reaves@musc.edu )
Phone: 792-1282
Website: www.musc.edu/grad/just

Archived Just Symposiums: 2008, 2007, 2006