Saturday, May 8, 1999 The 5th Annual Yale Science Forum
WHEN: Saturday, May 8, 1999. Talks begin at 10:00 a.m.
WHERE: Seminars: 211 Mason Lab, 9 Hillhouse Avenue
Coffee Breaks: Mason Lab Lounge, first floor
Lunch and Dinner: The President’s Room, Woolsey Hall, Corner of Grove and Prospect Streets.
PROGRAM
9:30 a.m. Coffee, Mason Lab Lounge, first floor, 9 Hillhouse Avenue
10:00 a.m. SESSION I: Nanoscale Physics and Biosensors, 211 Mason Lab
Chairman’s Introduction: Paul Lizardi, Dept. of Pathology
10:10 a.m. Mark Reed, Dept. of Electrical Engineering
“Conductance of Molecular Junctions”
10:55 a.m. Discussion
11:20 a.m. Coffee break, Mason Lab Lounge, first floor
11:50 a.m. Ronald Breaker, Dept. of Molecular, Cellular, & Developmental Biology
“Molecular Switches Made From RNA and DNA”
12:35 p.m. Discussion
1:00 p.m. – Lunch Break, President’s Room, Woolsey Hall
2:30 p.m. SESSION II: Genomics
Chairman’s Introduction: Michael Snyder, Dept. of Molecular, Cellular, & Developmental Biology
2:40 p.m. Richard Lifton, Dept. of Genetics
“Molecular Genetic Approaches to Human Disease”
3:25 p.m. Discussion
3:50 p.m. Coffee break, Mason Lounge, first floor
4:20 p.m. Stephen DellaPorta, Dept. of Molecular, Cellular, & Developmental Biology
“Plant Functional Genomics, the Next Green Revolution”
5:05 p.m. Discussion
5:30 p.m. Cocktails, President’s Room, Woolsey Hall
6:00 p.m. Dinner, President’s Room, Woolsey Hall
After-dinner talk
Charles Baltay, Dept. of Physics
“Measuring the Age of the Universe Using Gravitational Lensing”