SPECIAL COURSE

Friday, March 28, 2003  —  8:00 AM - 1:00 PM
Marriott Salon 3

Advanced Molecular Pathology



COURSE DIRECTORS:

Frederic G. Barr, M.D., Ph.D.
Department of Pathology & Laboratory Medicine
University of Pennsylvania School of Medicine
Philadelphia, Pennsylvania

Ethel Cesarman, M.D., Ph.D.
Associate Professor of Pathology
Weill Medical College of Cornell University
New York, New York

AGENDA

8:00 Introduction
Frederic G. Barr, M.D., Ph.D. - University of Pennsylvania, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania
8:10 Gene Expression Profiling of Non-Hodgkin Lymphoma
Wing C. (John) Chan M.D. - University of Nebraska Medical Center, Omaha, Nebraska
8:55 The Hedgehog Signaling Pathway in Human Cancer
Allen Bale, M.D. - Yale University School of Medicine, New Haven, Connecticut
9:40 Microsatellite Instability and Mismatch Repair Alterations in Cancer
James R. Eshleman, MD, PhD. - Johns Hopkins School of Medicine, Baltimore, Maryland
10:25Coffee Break
10:45Molecular Pathology of Human Herpesvirus 8
Ethel Cesarman, MD, PhD. - Weill Medical College of Cornell University, New York, New York
11:30Molecular Pathology of Hereditary Breast Cancer
Sunil R Lakhani, MBBS, MRCPath. - Institute of Cancer Research, London, United Kingdom
12:15Analysis of DNA Copy Number Aberrations by Microarray-Based CGH
Donna Albertson - University of California San Francisco, San Francisco, California
1:00 Concluding Remarks