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A Distinguished Honorary Symposium: New Frontiers in Science will be held Saturday, June 28, to celebrate Dr. Joginder Nath’s impending retirement after 42 years of dedicated service as Professor, mentor and Chairman of the WVU Davis College’s Program in Genetics and Developmental Biology. The seminar will be held in 1021 South Agricultural Sciences on WVU’s Evansdale Campus. For more information, click Continue Reading below.

Co-chairs

• Dr. Barton Baker, Director, Division of Plant and Soil Sciences, West Virginia University, Morgantown, WV
• Dr. Gopala Krishna, Senior Director and Head, Preclinical Candidate Evaluation, Supernus Pharmaceuticals Inc, Rockville, MD
• Dr. Kirby Johnson, Associate Professor/Scientist, Division of Genetics, Department of Pediatrics, Tufts Medical Center, Boston, MA

Program

12:15 ? 12:45 p.m. Arrival and Seating

12:45 ? 1:00 p.m. Introduction: Baker/Krishna

1:00 ? 5:00 p.m. Presentations by former Students and Distinguished Scientists

1:00-1:30 p.m. Frontiers in Medicine: The Era of Medical Genomics, Thomas C. Spelsberg, PhD, Department of Biochemistry and Molecular Biology, Mayo Clinic, Rochester, MN

1:30 ? 2:00 p.m. Use of Gene Expression Profiling Towards in Utero Treatment of Down Syndrome, Kirby L. Johnson, PhD, Division of Genetics, Department of Pediatrics, Tufts Medical Center, Boston, MA

2:00-2:30 p.m. HIV-1 Drug Resistance: Mutational Analysis of Reverse Transcriptase, Krista Frankenberry, PhD, HIV Drug Resistance Program, National Cancer Institute, NCI-Frederick, Frederick, MD

2:30?3:00 p.m. Targeting the Effect of Biological and Pharmaceutical Molecules on Cord Blood Stem Cells and Lineage-Specific Progenitors, Doris A. Morgan, PhD, Division of Hematology/Oncology, Drexel University College of Medicine, Philadelphia, PA

3:00 ? 3:30 p.m. Coffee break

3:30-4:00 p.m. Use and Application of Mode of Action in Cancer Risk Assessment, Nagu Keshava, PhD, National Center for Environmental Assessment, Office of Research and Development, U.S. Environmental Protection Agency, Research Triangle Park, NC

4:00-4:30 p.m. Early-Phase Ionizing Radiation Response – Use of Molecular Biomarkers for Biodosimetry Applications, William F. Blakely, PhD, Uniformed Services University, Armed Forces Radiobiology Research Institute, Bethesda, MD

4:30?5:00 p.m. The Next Generation of Molecular Genetics and Geneticists – Understanding the Effects of Adverse Environmental Exposure in Humans: the Bystander Effect, Mitochondria, and Apoptosis, James D. Tucker, PhD, Department of Biological Sciences, Wayne State University, Detroit, MI

Close of symposium 5 p.m.