Schedule for MITACS Semi-Annual Team Meeting

Wednesday Sept 24, 2003

Room 216 PIMS Main Facility, 1933 West Mall, UBC

• 1:00 PM: Lunch provided for participants at PIMS lounge
  
  
• 1:30 PM: Introductions, Opening remarks: Keshet/Finegood
  
  
• 1:45 - 2:05 PM: Session I: Brief summaries of projects by young scientists (5 min each)
  
  
  • Adriana Dawes: Actin dynamics in cell motility
    
  • Clive Glover: Global measurement of mRNA turnover rates
    
  • Alicia Shim: Analysis of an epidemiology model
    
  • Richard Kublik: The Copenhagen model and Type 1 Diabetes
    
  
  
  
• 2:05 - 2:30 PM: Coffee Break
  
  
• 2:30 - 3:15 PM: Session II: Type 1 (autoimmune) Diabetes (15 min each)
  
  
  • 2:30: Overview of recent theoretical work: Stan Maree (presented by Keshet)
    
  • 2:45 Challenges and problems for the future: Finegood
    
  • 3:00: Links to ongoing experimental work: Finegood Lab (presented by Cheryl Dyke)
    
  
  
• 3:15 - 3:30 PM: Break
  
  
• 3:30 - 4:20 PM: Session III: Theoretical Immunology
  
  
  • 3:30 Hugo van den Berg
    
  • 4:00 Dan Coombs
  
  
  
• 4:20-4:40 PM: Informal team discussions/ suggestions
  
  
• 4:40 PM General meeting adjourns
  
  
• 4:45 - 5:30 PM: Management Committee Meeting