| 8:00 - 8:30 | | Registration
and Continental Breakfast |
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Session 1 | | Symposium
Introduction; Non-Invasive Imaging of Living Organisms. Moderator: John T. Stubbs III, Department of Microbiology,
Howard University |
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8:30 - 9:15 | | W.
Malcolm Byrnes, Howard University |
| | | E. E. Just--His Scientific Contributions and Their Importance Today |
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9:15 - 10:00 | | William A. Mohler, University of Connecticut The Challenges and Benefits of High-Resolution Imaging of Intact Specimens |
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10:00 - 10:15 | | Coffee Break |
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Session 2 | | Novel Cellular Roles for RNAs; Fertilization and Early Development. Moderator:
William R. Eckberg, Department of Biology and the Graduate School, Howard University |
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10:15
- 11:00 | | Malgorzata
Kloc, The Methodist Hospital
Emerging Novel Functions of RNAs, and Binary Phenotype |
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11:00 - 11:45 | | Paul M. Wassarman, Mount Sinai School of Medicine Mammalian Fertilization: Molecular Profile of a Sperm Receptor |
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11:45 - 12:30 | | Gary Wessel, Brown University Cell Surface Changes in the Egg at Fertilization |
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12:30 - 2:00 | | Catered
Luncheon
Orlando Taylor, Howard University The
Howard University Science Legacy |
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| | | Keynote Speaker: Kenneth R. Manning, Massachusetts Institute of Technology E. E. Just and African Americans in Science and Medicine |
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Session 3 | | Epigenetic Mechanisms of Inheritance; Cell Adhesion and Morphogenesis; The Responsiveness
of Developmental Systems. Moderator: Carolyn Broome, Department of Biochemistry and Molecular Biology, Howard
University |
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2:00 - 2:45 | | Mariusz Nowacki, Princeton University An RNA-Mediated Epigenetic Mechanism for Inheritance of Acquired Mutations |
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2:45 - 3:30 | | Rachel Brewster, University of Maryland-Baltimore
County The Brawn behind Brain Cells: Mechanisms of Neural
Tube Morphogenesis |
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3:30 - 4:15 | | Stuart A. Newman, New York Medical College Developmental Systems as Excitable Media: Variations on a Justian Theme |
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4:15 - 4:30 | | Coffee Break |
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Session 4 | | Development, Evolution and the Environment. Moderator: Daryl P. Domning, Department
of Anatomy, Howard University |
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4:30 - 5:15 | | Sonia E. Sultan, Wesleyan University Studying Development in Context: The Eco-Devo Approach |
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5:15 - 6:00 | | Gerd B. Müller, Konrad Lorenz Institute (Austria) The Environment-Development Relation and the Biologische Versuchsanstalt in Vienna |
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6:00 - 7:00 | | Meet-the-Speaker Informal Dinner for Junior Scientists, Carnegie Building |
