Molecular and Cellular Biology Program sponsors symposium

Graduate students in the Molecular and Cellular Biology Program at the UW and Fred Hutchinson Cancer Research Center have organized a day-long symposium with invited speakers for Friday, April 9. Preregistration is not required and people do not need to attend the whole program. Presentations will be in Pelton Auditorium at the FHCRC South Lake Union campus. For more information, call Douglas Kim at 543-0858.

9 a.m.—“TNF: A Validated Therapeutic Target for Rheumatoid Arthritis” by Kendall Mohler and Roy Black, Immunex Corporation

10 a.m.—“Latent Reservoirs for HIV: Can Combination Therapy Ever Cure the Infection?” by Robert Siliciano, Johns Hopkins School of Medicine

11 a.m.—“Microchimerism, a New Etiology for Human Disease?” by J. Lee Nelson, FHCRC

1 p.m.—“Cancer, Genomic Instability, and Yeast” by Leland Hartwell, FHCRC

2 p.m.—“Protein Crystallography and the Design of Therapeutics for Global Diseases” by Wim G. J. Hol, UW

3:30 p.m.—“The Neurobiology of Drug Addiction” by George Koob, The Scripps Research Institute

4:30 p.m.—“Analysis of the Ancient Insulin Metabolic Control Pathway by C. elegans Genetics” by Gary Ruvkun, Harvard Medical School