GeneExpression Systems, Inc., Garden Inn, 420 Totten Pond Road, Waltham, MA 02451 USA
April 1-2, 2009
Topics or Highlights of the Meeting: The Biochemical Genetics of RNAi and microRNAs RNAi Biochemistry and Mechanisms in various organisms RNAi, MiRNAS in Stem Cells New vectors for RNAi delivery in vivo, in vitro microRNAs discovery and their diverse roles in biology Computational and Disease Biology of miRNAs Drug Target identification and Validation High throughput genome-wide screenings Innovative strategies to develop anti-viral, ocular and cancer therapeutics
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Invited Speakers:
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Keynote Speaker: H. Robert Horvitz, Nobel Laureate (MIT), Norbert Perrimon (Harvard), Paul Zamecnik (Harvard) Speakers include: Francois Vigneault of Harvard Medical School, David Root, of Broad Inst of Harvard and MIT, Greg Goodall of the University of Adelaide, Australia, Bob Brown of Dicerna, Georg Sczakiel of University of Lubeck, Germany, Hakiko Hata of Tufts, Iris Eisenberg– Loebl of Children’s Hospital Boston, William Marshall of miRagen Therapeutics, Paul Anderson of Brigham and Women’s Hospital, Patrick Lu of Siranomics, Steven Haney of Pfizer, Ye Ding of Wadsworth Center of New York, Jingfang Ju of Stony Brook University, Andre Pietrzykowski of UMass Medical School, and several biotech and pharmaceutical Communities will be speaking on the biology of RNAi and their utilizations in Target validation, drug and therapeutic development.
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