Nuclear Receptors: Bench to Bedside
August 27 - 31, 2008
Abstracts due: June 4, 2008

Organizers:
Ron Evans, HHMI/Salk Institute for Biological Studies
Sohaib Khan, University of Cincinatti
Charles Sawyers, HHMI/Memorial Sloan-Kettering Cancer Center
Keith Yamamoto,University of California, San Francisco

Past Program

You are cordially invited to participate in the second meeting on Nuclear Receptors: Bench to Bedside, which will be held at Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory. The meeting will begin on the evening of Wednesday, August 27, 2008, and will conclude with lunch on Sunday, August 31.

Topics include:
-Metabolic and Insulin Resistance Disorders
-NRs in Heart and Muscle Disease
-Nuclear Receptors in Cancer
-Nuclear Receptors in Inflammation
-Nuclear Receptor Architecture & Designer Drug
-Estrogen Action & Disease
-NRs in the Brain

Keynote Speakers:
Nancy Davidson, Johns Hopkins University
Mitchell Lazar, University of Pennsylvania

Speakers & Discussion Leaders:
Adam Antebi, Baylor College of Medicine
William Chin, Eli Lilly & Company
Marc Diamond, University of California, San Francisco
Brian Feldman, University of California, San Francisco
Leonard Freedman, Wyeth Research
John Funder, University of Melbourne, Australia
Suzanne Fuqua, Baylor College of Medicine
Christopher Glass, University of California, San Diego
Geoffrey Greene, University of Chicago
Hinrich Gronemeyer, University of Strasbourg, France
Gordon Hager, NIH, National Cancer Institute
Daniel Kelly, Washington University School of Medicine
Cynthia Kenyon, University of California, San Francisco
David Mangelsdorf, UTSW Medical Center at Dallas
Donald McDonnell, Duke University
Laszlo Nagy, University of Debrecen, Hungary
Bert O'Malley, Baylor College of Medicine
Didier Picard, University of Geneva, Switzerland
Fraydoon Rastinejad, University of Virginia
Inez Rogatsky, Hospital for Special Surgery and Weill Cornell
Thomas Scanlan, Oregon Health & Science University
Howard Scher, Memorial Sloan Kettering Cancer Center
Michael Stallcup, University of Southern California
Marc Van Gilst, Fred Hutchinson Cancer Research Center
Bjorn Vennstrom, Karolinska Institute, Sweden
Nancy Weigel, Baylor College of Medicine

Abstracts should contain only new and unpublished material and must be submitted electronically by the abstract deadline. Selection of material for oral and poster presentation will be made by the organizers and individual session chairs. Status (talk/poster) of abstracts will be posted on our web site as soon as decisions have been made by the organizers.

We are eager to have as many young people as possible attend since they are likely to benefit most from this meeting. We have applied for funds from government and industry to partially support graduate students and postdocs. Apply in writing to meetings@cshl.edu stating need for financial support - preference is given to those submitting abstracts.

We look forward to seeing you at Cold Spring Harbor in August.

This conference is supported in part by funds provided by:

We have funds to provide partial scholarships for individuals who are US citizens/permanent residents from minority groups under-represented in the life sciences. Please provide justification in writing to meetings@cshl.edu and state your financial needs. Preference will be given to those applying who submit abstracts to the meeting.

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Regular packages are all inclusive and cover registration, food, housing, parking, wine-and-cheese party, lobster banquet, etc. No Housing packages include all costs except housing. Full payment is due 4 weeks prior to the meeting.