The American Heart Association's
Philadelphia Heart Walk 2009
We cannot achieve our mission without each one of you!
Event Information:
(610) 234-2415
philadelphia.ahw@heart.org
Event Registration:
http://www.pennmedicine.org/heartwalk/
8AM-6PM
2009 CAMB Symposium at the University of Pennsylvania Museum of Archaeology and Anthropology
Keynote address::Understanding the Words of Chromatin Remodeling
Dr. Gerald R. Crabtree, Stanford University
Carla J. Shatz, Ph.D.
Professor
Departments of Biology and Neurobiology
Stanford University
“Tuning up the Brain: Moonlighting MHCI and Synapse Plasticity During Developmental Critical Periods”
Tishina Okegbe - DiNardo Lab
"A requirement for Notch signaling in the establishment of the Drosophila testis stem cell-niche system"
Christopher Weber - Fisher Lab
"Interrogating transcriptional control of extracellular BMP modulators in craniofacial development"
Explore some of the more advanced features in Photoshop. Learn manual adjustments for brightness, contrast and color balance; overlay techniques, actions and adding measurement rulers. Final exercise includes a start-to-finish composite complete with multiple images, labels and rulers. Register on KnowledgeLink (http://knowledgelink.upenn.edu).
Room 202 (Computer Training Lab), Anatomy-Chemistry Bldg.
Learn about the faculty tracks, the processes for reappointment and promotion, responsibilities and expectations, and resources to help you succeed. Session led by staff from the Office of Faculty Affairs and Professional Development (FAPD). Register on KnowledgeLink (http://knowledgelink.upenn.edu).
ONSITE at Penn Presbyterian Hospital Medical Center
51 N. 39th Street, Gardner Conference Room
As the first opportunity to elaborate and sustain the proposal's central argument, the background and significance section depends upon establishing a coherent line of argument. This workshop focuses on creating integration and flow, sentence by sentence, through specific strategies for effective revision. Register on Knowledgelink (http://knowledgelink.upenn.edu).
Room 1412 BRB II/III
Laurie J. Goodyear, PhD, Harvard Medica; Scjpp;
"Novel Signals Regulating Glucose Transport in Skeletal Muscle"
Hyosun Cho, PhD
Chang Lab
Floor Meeting
Yonghai Li, Research Specialist
Kaplan Lab
Floor Meeting
Joseph Buxbaum, M.Sc., Ph.D., Professor of Psychiatry, Neuroscience, Genetics and Genomic Sciences, Mount Sinai School of Medicine
Joseph Buxbaum, M.Sc., Ph.D., Professor of Psychiatry, Neuroscience, Genetics and Genomic Sciences, Mount Sinai School of Medicine
Title: Incretin Therapy
Presenter: Dr. Mark Schutta
“Mechanism of protein sorting at the trans Golgi membrane”
For additional information, please contact Angie Young at 215 898-4639 or younga@mail.med.upenn.eduUsing a Mixture Model for Multiple Imputation in the Presence of Outliers
A symposium sponsored by: The Greater Philadelphia Philosophy Consortium (GPPC) Temple University Center for Urban Bioethics and Humanities Temple University Department of Philosophy |
CHAIRS: Miriam Solomon, Temple University W. Mark Goodwin, Rowan University |
SPEAKERS:
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Attendance is open to the Temple community and to the public. Registration for CME credits is forthcoming. In order for us to plan this event PLEASE RSVP to templecubh@gmail.com. |
David A. Sinclair, PhD
Co-Director, Paul F. Glenn Laboratories for the
Molecular Biology of Aging and
Professor, Pathology, Harvard Medical School
Co-Founder, Sirtris Pharmaceuticals
“Finding Genes and Medicines That Extend Healthy Lifespans”
Featuring Senior Fellow Jonathan Moreno, and moderated by Visiting Scholar Ana Lita:
The Appignani Bioethics Center, a project of the American Humanist Association, will hold a press conference and panel discussion to examine controversies in biomedical and environmental science and policy, including stem cell research, brain and cognition, and climate change technologies.
Date & Place: Monday, November 9, 2009 at the); 9:30am-10:00am (press conference) and 10:00am-11:30am (panel discussion)
The Appignani Bioethics Center welcomes two distinguished speakers to lead this discussion: ProfessorJonathan Moreno, David and Lyn Silfen University Professor, University of Pennsylvania and Senior Fellow, Center for American Progress (www.americanprogress.org) and Professor Andrew Light, Senior Fellow at Center for American Progress and Director of the Center for Global Ethics at George Mason University. The panel discussion will be moderated by Ana Lita, Ph.D., Director - Appignani Bioethics Center
For more details about the event, and to RSVP please contact kfranz@americanhumanist.org or alita@americanhumanist.org;
| Featuring Senior Fellow Jonathan Moreno, and moderated by Visiting Scholar Ana Lita: The Appignani Bioethics Center, a project of the American Humanist Association, will hold a press conference and panel discussion to examine controversies in biomedical and environmental science and policy, including stem cell research, brain and cognition, and climate change technologies. |
Brenda Porter, MD, PhD
Assistant Professor of Neurology and Pediatrics
“Transcriptional Control of Epileptogenesis”Featuring Susan Reveryby
Marion Butler McLean Professor of History and Women's and Gender Studies
Wellesley College
A Richard Shryock Lecture in American History
Susan M. Reverby has been a pioneer in U.S. women’s history, and has written extensively on the history of nursing, health care, and medical ethics. Her publications include Ordered to Care: The Dilemma of American Nursing (l987), Gendered Domains: Beyond the Public and Private in Women's History (1992), Health Care in America: Essays in Social History (1979), and America's Working Women: a Documentary History (1976). An edited collection of articles and documents entitled Tuskegee’s Truths: Rethinking the Tuskegee Syphilis Study appeared in 2000. Her latest book is Examining Tuskegee: The Infamous Syphilis Study and Legacy, published this fall by the University of North Carolina Press