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Kick-off Symposium for the Models to Medicine Center of the
Institute for Applied Life Sciences

University of Massachusetts Amherst
Friday, May 2, 2014

Symposium Schedule

11:00 – 12:45 PM
Atrium, Life Sciences
Laboratories
Poster Session: Models to Medicine Research at UMass
(Box lunch available)
12:45 PM – 12:50 PM
Campus Center
Student Union Ballroom
Symposium Introductory Remarks
12:50 – 1:40 PM
Panel Discussion
Models to Medicine: Challenges and Opportunities
1:40 – 2:20 PM
Alfred L Goldberg, Harvard Medical School
The Proteasome - From Basic Understanding
to Cancer Therapy
2:20 – 3:00 PM
Christopher Ross, Johns Hopkins University
Models to Medicine: Huntington’s Disease and Other
Neuropsychiatric Disorders
3:00 – 3:20 PM
Coffee Break
3:20 – 4:00 PM
Sheila Nirenberg, Weill Medical College, Cornell University
Talking to the Brain in Its Own Language
4:00 – 5:00 PM
Eric Lander, Keynote Lecturer, Broad Institute and MIT
Co-hosted by the Biochemistry & Molecular Biology Department
Secrets of the Human Genome
Following the
Symposium
Reception

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