Bioscience Day 2004

Agenda

Registration/ Continental Breakfast
8:30 a.m. - Grand Ballroom

Secondary School Teaching Symposium
(requires special registration)

Posters available for review
8:00 a.m. - 3:00 p.m. - Grand Ballroom

Bioinformatics: The Current State of the Art and a Look to the Future - Symposium
9:30 - 11:30 a.m. - Pyon-Su Room   (details)

Nanotechnology for the Life Sciences - Symposium
9:30 - 11:30 a.m. - Margaret Brent Room     (details)

Keeping our Food Safe: Challenges and Responses - Symposium
9:30 - 11:30 a.m. - Nanticoke Room   (details)

Moving Toward an Ecologically Sustainable Future - Symposium
9:30 - 11:30 a.m. - Prince Georges Room   (details)

Internship & Career Fair - Special registration required
10:30 a.m. - 2:30 p.m. in the Colony Ballroom

Lunch & Poster Session - Meet the Researchers
11:30 p.m. - 1:30 p.m. in the Grand Ballroom

"Theoretical Neuroscience: Is it Possible? Can it be Useful?" - Keynote speech by
Professor Leon N. Cooper
Nobel Laureate
Department of Physics
Brown University
1:30 - 2:30 p.m. in the Hoff Auditorium

Evolutionary Genomics: From Microbes to Mammals - Symposium
2:30 - 4:30 p.m. - Nyumburu Multipurpose Room   (details)

Molecular Insights into Nervous System Development, Memory Storage and Disease - Symposium
2:30 - 4:30 p.m. - Prince Georges Room   (details)

The Endless War: Pathogens vs. Hosts - Symposium
2:30 - 4:30 p.m. - Margaret Brent Room   (details)

For more information about the Bioscience Research & Technology Review Day, please contact Gene Ferrick at (301) 405-7016, or gene@umd.edu.