Date of Event:
Friday, May 29, 2009
9:00-5:00pm
Lunch Provided
No registration required

Symposium Location:
Forum Hall, Palmer Commons
University of Michigan
100 Washtenaw Avenue, Ann Arbor, MI

 Parking and Transportation
      Click on Central & South Campus map to find closest visitor parking venue
      for Palmer Commons.

Symposium Agenda Details:

Time	Speaker & Topic
8:45-9:00am	Introduction & Welcome, David Sherman, Director CCG
9:00-9:45am	"HTS in the Biopharmaceutical Industry: Fueling Sustainable Pipelines" Jeff Paslay, Vice President of Screening Sciences at Wyeth Pharmaceuticals and President of the Society of Biomolecular Screening (SBS)
9:45-10:15am	"The identification of thieno[3,2-b]pyrrole derivatives as novel small molecule inhibitors of neurotropic alphaviruses" David Miller, Assistant Professor of Internal Medicine and Microbiology & Immunology, University of Michigan Medical School
10:15-10:35am	Break
10:35-11:30am	"Challenges in genome-scale siRNA screening" Caroline Shamu, Director ICCB Longwood, Harvard University
11:30-12:00pm	"Developing novel approaches for control of Acinetobacter biofilm development" Chuanwu Xi, Assistant Professor of Environmental Health Sciences, School of Public Health, University of Michigan
12:00-1:15pm	Lunch in LSI Lobby, Tours of CCG HTS facility
1:15-2:00pm	"Drug and Ligand Discovery in Academia" Corey Hopkins, Associate Director of Medicinal Chemistry, Vanderbilt Program in Drug Discovery
2:00-2:30pm	"Multiplexing Cell Viability Assays as an Internal Control During Screening" Terry Riss, PhD, R&D Director of Project Management, Promega Corporation
2:30-3:00pm	"Exploiting the apoptotic arm of the unfolded protein response as a novel approach to treating oral cancer" Andrew Fribley, Research Fellow, Biological Chemistry, University of Michigan
3:00-3:15pm	Break
3:15-3:45pm	"Exploring novel antimicrobial reagents by inhibiting Group A Streptococcal virulence factors" Hongmin Sun, Assistant Professor of Internal Medicine, University of Missouri
3:45-4:15pm	"Discovery and engineering of new antibiotics against VRE" David Sherman, Hans W Vahlteich Professor of Medicinal Chemistry, College of Pharmacy and CCG Director, Life Sciences Institute, University of Michigan

 Download Symposium Agenda (3905 KB PDF)

 Parking and Transportation
      Click on Central & South Campus map to find closest visitor parking venue for Palmer Commons.

Questions?
Contact Jim Nowak, Field Applications Specialist
Tel: (586) 242-8833
Email: jim.nowak@promega.com

Organized by:
University of Michigan, Center for Chemical Genomics