SPECIAL COURSE

Friday, March 12, 2004  —  8:00 AM - 1:00 PM
Room I

ADVANCED MOLECULAR PATHOLOGY



COURSE DIRECTORS:

Frederic G. Barr, M.D., Ph.D.
University of Pennsylvania School of Medicine
Philadelphia, Pennsylvania
Matthijs van de Rijn, M.D., Ph.D.
Stanford University Medical Center
Stanford, California

AGENDA

8:00 Introduction
Frederic G. Barr, M.D., Ph.D., University of Pennsylvania, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania
8:10 Ubiquitin-mediated protein degradation in health and disease
Poul H. B. Sorensen, M.D., Ph.D., University of British Columbia, Vancouver, BC, Canada
8:55 Importance of imprinted genes in human pathology
Benjamin Tycko M.D., Ph.D., Columbia University, New York, NY
9:40 Defining the prostatoma: A new challenge for molecular pathology
Mark A. Rubin, M.D., Brigham and Women's Hospital, Boston, MA
10:25Coffee Break
10:45Wnt signaling in normal development and in cancer
Roel Nusse, Ph.D., Stanford University School of Medicine, Stanford, CA
11:30Chromosomal translocations in solid tumors: the evolving role of molecular pathology
Frederic G. Barr, M.D., Ph.D., University of Pennsylvania School of Medicine, Philadelphia, PA
12:15Therapeutic targeting of oncogenic signal transduction molecules: Getting the 'GIST' of it
Christopher Corless, M.D., Ph.D., Oregon Health & Science University, Portland, OR
1:00 Concluding Remarks