Apoptosis and Autophagy: Programs of Cell Death. April 24-25. Guest speakers: Eileen White, Ph.D., Rutgers University; Jay Debnath, Ph.D., University of California at San Francisco; Gerard Evan, Ph.D., University of California at San Francisco; Paula Grammas, Ph.D., Texas Tech University; Andrew Thorburn, Ph.D., UCDHSC; Peter Henson, Ph.D., UCDHSC/NJC; Mary Reyland, Ph.D., UCDHSC; Karen Newell, Ph.D., UCCS; Philippa Marrack, Ph.D., UCDHSC/NJC; Ding Xue, Ph.D., CU-Boulder. Vendors participating: Fisher Scientific; Beckman Coulter; Bio-Rad Laboratories; Roche Applied Science; Millipore Bioscience Division; North Central Instruments; New England Biolabs; Light Lab Systems; Caliper Life Sciences; Sigma Aldrich; Kimble-Chase.
Epigenetics: Beyond the Sequence. April 10-11, 2007. Guest speakers: Marisa Bartolomei, University of Pennsylvania; John Donelson, University of Iowa; Steven Henikoff, Fred Hutchinson Cancer Research Center; Yi Zhang, University of North Carolina; Yang Shi, Harvard University; Yury Chernoff, George Institute of Technology; Karolin Luger, Colorado State University; Tatiana Kutateladze, UCHSC; James Hagman, UCHSC; Jessica Tyler, UCHSC. Vendor participation: Talecris Biotherapeutics, New England Biolabs, Affymetrix, Applied Biosystems, Carl Zeiss MicroImaging, Fisher Scientific
Integrated DNA Technologies, Invitrogen, Light Labs USA, Millipore, North Central Instruments, Roche Applied Science, Sigma-Aldrich, and VWR International.
Stem Cell Biology: Progress & Potential. April 6-7, 2006. Guest Speakers: Ihor Lemischka, Ph.D., Princeton University; Jeffrey Rosen, Ph.D., Baylor College of Medicine; Tudorita Tumbar, Ph.D., Cornell University; Hynek Wichterle, Ph.D., Columbia University; Ramesh Akkina, Ph.D., Colorado State University; Kristi Anseth, Ph.D., University of Colorado at Boulder; Bradley Olwin, Ph.D., University of Colorado at Boulder; several UCDHSC affiliates: Curt Freed, M.D., Marilyn Coors, Ph.D., James DeGregori, Ph.D., Kristin Artinger, Ph.D., Michael Zawada, Ph.D., Yosef Refaeli, Ph.D., and John Camiber, Ph.D.
Simultaneous product show with sponsors: Talecris Biotherapeutics, Chemicon/Upstate, Fisher Scientific, Invitrogen, Nalge Nunc Internatinoal, New England Biolabs, Sargent-Welch, Sigma-Aldrich, VWR International.
On the Front Lines: Emerging Diseases and Biodefense. April 28-29, 2005. Guest Speakers: Ann
Powers, Centers for Disease Control and Prevention; Sonia Tusell, UCHSC; Andres Vazquez-Torres, UCHSC; Robert Hodges, UCHSC;
Mike Vasil, UCHSC; Luis Villarreal, University of California at Irvine; Martin Voskuil, UCHSC; Laurel Lenz, National Jewish
Medical & Research Center; Vincent Fischetti, Rockefeller University; Alex Hoffmaster, Centers for Disease Control and
Preention, NCID, DBMD; Ross Kedl, UCHSC; Charles Calisher, Colorado State University; Barry Beaty, Colorado State University.
Simultaneous product show with sponsors: Invitrogen, VWR International, GE Healthcare & Biosciences, Promega, Roche,
Millipore, Fisher Scientific, Kendro, and Bio-Rad.
GENE ECLIPSE. Blocking Gene Expression Using Small RNAs: Mechanisms, Techniques, and
Applications. April 19-20, 2004. Guest Speakers: Andrew Fire, Stanford Univ.; Tom Blumenthal, UCHSC;
Thomas Tuschl, The Rockefeller Univ.; Anastasia Khvorova, Dharmacon; Witold Filipowicz, Friedrich Miescher Institute for
Biomedical Research in Basel, Switzerland; Barry Polisky, Sirna Therapeutics; Robert Gemmill, UCHSC; Kerry Lowrie, Invitrogen,
Inc.; Christophe Echeverri, Cenix BioScience GmbH at Dresden, Germany; Andriy Marusyk, UCHSC; Laura Zerbe, UCHSC; Heide
Ford, UCHSC; Alexander Sorkin, UCHSC; Yosef Refaeli, National Jewish Medical & Research Center.
Protein: The Secret of Life. April 10-11,
2003.Guest Speakers: John Kappler,
UCHSC; Xiaojiang Chen, UCHSC; Steven F. Dowdy,
University of California-San Diego; Rytis Prekeris,
UCHSC; Joanna Albala, Lawrence Livermore National
Laboratory; Larry Gold, Somalogic/UC-Boulder.
Participation by speakers from Avigenics, Invitrogen,
Clontech, PerkinElmer Life Sciences and Pierce
Biotechnology.
Beauty Is In
the Eye of the Beholder: Advances in Molecular
Imaging. April 17-19, 2002.Guest
Speakers: Roger Tsien, University of
California-San Diego; Richard Day, University of
Virginia; J. Richard McIntosh, University of
Colorado-Boulder; Joe Angelson, University of
Denver; Diego Restrepo, UCHSC; Sasha Sorkin, UCHSC;
Adam Zweifach, UCHSC; Colin Monks, 3i.
Seminars and hands-on demos with guests speakers.
Protein - The Other Biomolecule:
Applications for Proteomics. February
15-16, 2001. Guest Speakers: Michael
Snyder, Yale University; David Goodlett, Institute
for Systems Biology; Katheryn Resing, University of
Colorado at Boulder; David Friedman, UCHSC; Mark
Duncan, UCHSC; Sandy Martin, UCHSC; Kathryn Howell,
UCHSC; Kim Fung, UCHSC; Cherie Mueller, UCHSC; and
Christine Wu, UCHSC. Seminars and
workshops with guest speakers.
Scoring a Knockout: Engineering Mutations
in Mice. February 3-4, 2000.
Guest speakers: Susan Dymecki, Harvard Medical
School; Gary Johnson, University of Colorado Health
Sciences Center; Jacqueline Lee, University of
Colorado at Boulder; Philippe Soriano, Fred
Hutchinson Cancer Research Center; Lori Sussel,
University of Colorado Health Sciences Center; and
Pumin Zhang, National Jewish Medical & Research
Center. Seminars and workshops with guest
speakers.
Reversing Into the Future: Functional Genomics and RNA Interference in Flies and Worms. May 5, 1999. Guest speakers: John Spieth, Washington University; Steve Chervitz, Stanford University; Mary Montgomery, Macalester College; Rich Carthew, University of Pittsburgh; Tom Blumenthal and Tom Evans, University of Colorado Health Sciences Center. Seminars and discussion with guest speakers.
Surfing the Genome: DNA Chips, SAGE Analysis and Differential Display. April 8-9, 1998. Guest speakers: Karen Considine, Affymetrix; Elizabeth Winzeler, Standord University; Lin Zhang, The Johns Hopkins School of Medicine; Daniel Kuritzkes, University of Colorado Health Sciences Center; Traci Roth Yerby, Clontech. Seminars and practical application of subject matter.
Macromolecular Structure Analysis: NMR, the BiSMaRC Facility, and X-ray Crystallography. May 5-6, 1997. Facilitators: Michael Overduin and Brad Bendiak, University of Colorado Health Sciences Center. Seminars and discussion, with a student session at the BiSMaRC facility.
DNA Sequence Analysis: Understanding and Using Computer Algorithms to Get the Most from Your Sequences. May 7-10, 1996. Facilitated by Dr. Gary Stormo, University of Colorado-Boulder; Dr. Bill Pearson, University of Virginia Medical School; and Dr. Mark Johnston, Washington University Medical School. Talks and discussion with facilitators, and hands-on computer opportunity for students.
Power in Diversity: Recombinant Antibody and Phage Display Library Construction. February 6-9, 1995. Guest speakers: Dr. Wayne Marasco, Dana Farber Cancer Institute; Dr. Bruce Roberts, Protein Engineering Corp.; and Dr. James Marks, University of California-San Francisco. Composed of talks by guest speakers and local speakers, as well as student-led discussion of relevant research papers.
Manipulating Gene Expression: Present and Future Tools and Technologies. January 10-14, 1994. Guest speakers: Susan Freier, Isis Pharmaceuticals; Jim McSwiggin, RPI; Cori Gorman, Megabios Corp.; and Brian Karger, BRL. Attendance: 85+. An interactive examination of current methodologies and applications of various cell delivery systems and the manipulation of gene expression. Featured student-led discussions of relevant research papers, as well as seminars by guest speakers.
Protein-Protein Interactions: Isolating the Unknown Partner. November 3-6, 1992 Led by Stanley Fields, Ph.D., State University of New York, Stony Brook. Attendance: 60+. An interactive and intellectually stimulating course involving lectures by local and guest speakers, as well as presentation and discussion of relevant papers by course participants. Representative paper: Chien, Cheng-Ting, P.L., Barte, R., Sternglanz, and S. Fields. (1991) The two-hybrid system: A method to identify and clone genes for proteins that interact with a protein of interest. Proc. Natl. Acad. Sci. USA 88: 9578-9582.
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