Past Announcements

"Chemical Biology: An Interface for Discovery,"  seminar hosted by affiliates of the Chemical Biology Interface Training Grant and Biotechnology Training Grant, will be held at the Education and Conference Center located on the U of MN's St. Paul Campus Wed. May 30th, 2007.
Speakers include:

Dr. Philip Low from Purdue Univ.
Dr. Matthew Francis from UC Berkeley
Dr. Tom Tullius from Boston University
Dr. Yi Lu from UIUC
Dr. John  Kozarich of ActivX Biosciences
Dr. Gunda Georg, Univ. Minn.

The symposium will also include a student research poster session, so students may consider submitting abstracts.

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F. E. Shideman-Sterling Annual Lecture

"Building Molecules to Spy on Cells and Tumors"

ROGER Y. TSIEN, PH.D.

Professor, Howard Hughes Medical Institute and
Department of Pharmacology
University of California, San Diego  

Thursday, April 5, 2007

1:30 p.m.
Mayo Auditorium
University of Minnesota

Reception immediately following at the Mayo Auditorium

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"Chemical Biology: An Interface for Discovery,"  seminar hosted by affiliates of the Chemical Biology Interface Training Grant and Biotechnology Training Grant, will be held at the Education and Conference Center located on the U of MN's St. Paul Campus Wed. May 30th, 2007.
Speakers include:

Dr. Philip Low from Purdue Univ.
Dr. Matthew Francis from UC Berkeley
Dr. Tom Tullius from Boston University
Dr. Yi Lu from UIUC
Dr. John  Kozarich of ActivX Biosciences
Dr. Gunda Georg, Univ. Minn.

The symposium will also include a student research poster session, so students may consider submitting abstracts.

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Developmental Biology is hosting a seminar Tuesday,  September 25 and Wednesday, September 26, 2007 in Coffman Memorial Union entitled "Cells Doing Development".  As the title implies, this year's event will feature key cell biological processes that underlie developmental events.  Session topics will include: Cell migration; signal reception, processing and trafficking; cellular mechanisms for generating asymmetry; cytoskeletal functions in development.  Invited speakers will cover a wide array of systems including worms, flies, plants, and mammals.  Attendees are also invited to a banquet held on Tuesday evening, Sept. 25, at the Weisman Art Museum.

Scheduled platform speakers include:

Kathryn Anderson (Sloan-Kettering)  - signaling and cilia in mouse development
Frank Gertler (MIT) - neuronal cell migration in mammals
Bob Goldstein (Univ. North Carolina) - actin cytoskeleton and cellular asymmetry in C. elegans
Caroline Hill (London Research Institute) - signal trafficking/ nuclear transport/ microtubule cytoskeleton in vertebrate cell signaling
Jean Schwarzbauer (Princeton) - gonad cell migration in C. elegans
Jurgen Knoblich (IMB-Vienna) - endosomal pathway and signal reception in Drosophila

"Expanding the Language of Bacterial Communication using Synthetic Ligands"
Nov. 17 (4:15 - 331 Smith)
Helen E. Blackwell, Assistant Professor of Chemistry, University of Wisconsin - Madison

Frontiers of Drug Discovery: Chemical Library Development and Screening

View online lecture footage here

"Frontiers of Drug Discovery: Chemical Library Development and Screening," an upcoming University of Minnesota Chemical Biology workshop, will be held May 17, 2006. (Additional details.)

Chemical Biology Symposium, June 1, 2006

The University of Minnesota NIH Training Grant Symposium

On behalf of the Chemical Biology Interface Symposium planning committee, we are pleased to invite you to the Chemical Biology Interface Symposium which will be held Thursday, June 1st at the St. Paul campus.  This symposium will focus on cutting edge science which combines different
disciplinary approaches in Chemistry, Physics, Molecular Biology, Biochemistry, etc.   We have invited some truly exciting guest speakers who hail from Harvard Medical School, Genentech, and University of Wisconsin-Madison School of Pharmacy, to name a few. Two poster sessions will also be held, so be sure to register to present your research.  The following link contains registration and program information:

http://www.chem.umn.edu/bio/Symposium2006/

Top Drug Researcher Lands at the U

An internationally known drug researcher with a knack for winning big federal research grants will join the University of Minnesota next fall, a move that could catapult the U's pharmaceutical research efforts. The full  article will be available on the Web for a limited time.

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