Special Symposium Session of the 9th NHLBI Investigators Meeting

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TOWARDS SYSTEMS PROTEOMICS
Symposium sponsored by the NHLBI Proteomics Initiative
during the Proteomics Initiative 9th Investigators Meeting
April 19, 2007

Hiebert Lounge, Boston University School of Medicine
Symposium Program, presentations and posters by investigators of the NHLBI Proteomics Initiative’s 10 nationwide centers and invited guests. Full two-day program.

8:30 am Opening Remarks, Catherine E. Costello, PhD, Director, Cardiovascular Proteomics Center, Boston University School of Medicine
8:40 am BIOINFORMATICS, chaired by Perry Miller, PhD, Center for Medical Informatics, Yale University
Presentations by researchers from Johns Hopkins University NHLBI Proteomics Center; Institute for Systems Biology (Seattle Proteome Center); and Yale/NHLBI Proteomics Research Center
9:25 am Invited lecture, “Integrated Proteomic Bioinformatics: The NIAID Biodefense Proteomic Research Program,” Cathy H. Wu, PhD, Director, Protein Information Resource, Georgetown University Medical Center
9:55 am POSTER BREAK
10:30 am KEYNOTE LECTURE, “Systems Biology and Personalized Medicine,” Joseph Loscalzo, Hersey Professor of the Theory and Practice of Medicine and Chair, Department of Medicine, Brigham and Women’s Hospital, Harvard Medical School
12:45 pm INSTRUMENTATION FOR PROTEOMICS, chaired by Kenneth Williams, PhD, Director, Yale/NHLBI Proteomics Research Center
Presentations by researchers from BUSM Cardiovascular Proteomics Center; Medical College of Wisconsin Proteomics Center; and Uniformed Services University Center for Medical Proteomics
1:30 pm Invited lecture, “Integrating Proteomics into Biomarker Discovery Workflows,” Stephen A. Martin, PhD, Senior Vice President and Chief Technical Officer, BG Medicine
2:00 pm POSTER BREAK
2:30 pm APPLICATIONS OF PROTEOMICS, chaired by Richard A. Cohen, MD, Co-Director, BUSM Cardiovascular Research Center
Presentations by researchers at Stanford University Proteomics Center; University of Texas Medical Branch/NHLBI Proteomics Center at Galveston; and University of Texas Southwestern Center for Proteomics Research
3:15 pm Invited lecture, “High Throughput Methods to Validate Disease Markers,” Steven A. Carr, PhD, Director of Proteomics, Broad Institute

A Continental Breakfast will be served at 8:00 am and a luncheon with poster session at 11:45 am.

Hosts:
Catherine E. Costello, Ph.D.
Professor of Biochemistry
Director, Center for Biological Mass Spectrometry
Director, BUSM Cardiovascular Proteomics Center

Richard A. Cohen, M.D.
Professor of Medicine
Director, Vascular Biology Unit
Co-Director, BUSM Cardiovascular Proteomics Center

RSVP and contact: Kirsten Levy

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