Annual Biomedical Sciences Retreat Speakers

8:00 – 8:50 a.m.         
Check-in & Breakfast
8:50 – 9:00 a.m.          
Welcome
9:00 – 9:30 a.m.          
"Human Cytomegalovirus Dissemination: The Akt of Building the "Trojan Horse.” "
Gary C. Chan, PhD, Professor, Microbiology & Immunology
SUNY Upstate Medical University
9:30 – 10:00 a.m.       
“Gut-Brain Communication: Regulating Feeding Behavior for Specific Nutrients.”
Hui-Hao Lin, PhD, Assistant Professor, Neuroscience & Physiology,
SUNY Upstate Medical University
10:00 – 10:30 a.m.     
“Designing Switchable Proteins for Biotechnology and Medicine”
Stewart Loh, PhD, Professor, Biochemistry & Molecular Biology
SUNY Upstate Medical University
10:30 – 10:40 a.m.      
Break
10:40 – 11:40 a.m.     
“Sirtuin Modulators Inhibit Viral Replication and Spread: A Discovery in My Lab Moves to a Biotech”
Thomas E. Shenk. PhD, James A. Elkins Professor of Life Sciences, Emeritus, Molecular Biology, Princeton University.
11:40a.m.–12:00p.m.  
Introduction to Incoming Class
12:00 – 1:30 p.m.         
Lunch
Group A (12:00 p.m. to 1:00 p.m.)
Group B (12:30 to 1:30 p.m.)
1:30 – 2:30 p.m.         
"From Bench to Bovie: Musculoskeletal Oncology Translational Research.”
Department of Orthopedic Surgery
Keynote: Kurt R. Weiss, MD,  Associate Professor and Vice-Chair of
Translational  Research at the University of Pittsburg Medical Center
2:30 – 3:00 p.m.         
"Push and Pull: The Roles of Actin Assembly and Myosin-1 in Endocytosis"
Vladimir Sirotkin, PhD, Assistant Professor, Cell & Developmental Biology
SUNY Upstate Medical University
3:00 -3:30 p.m.           
“A Well-defined Nanoplatform for Therapeutic Delivery and Immune Modulation.”
Juntao Luo, PhD, Associate Professor, Pharmacology
SUNY Upstate Medical University
3:30 – 5:00 p.m.           
Poster Session & Reception Begins