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A CELEBRATION OF 50 YEARS OF DISCOVERY !!
Sponsored by:
The Dr. John T. Macdonald Foundation Center for Medical Genetics
At the University of Miami School of Medicine
APRIL 25, 2003       ROSENSTIEL SCIENCES BUILDING - 5TH FLOOR AUDITORIUM
10:00 - 10:05 am Welcome, Opening Remarks
  • Dr. Louis J. Elsas
  • Webcast Begins
10:05 - 10:15 am Video - 50 Years Ago: "Watson & Crick Story"
10:15 - 10:25 am Discussion Period
  • Dr. Lisa Baumbach
10:25- 10:35 am Video - Present: "Secret of Our Lives"
  • From The Human Genome Project educational packet
10:35 - 10:45 am Discussion Period
  • Dr. Rodney Howell
10:45 - 11:00 am BREAK
11:00 - 11:30 am Science Review - Dr. Louis J. Elsas
  • Video - Excerpt from "Exploring Our Molecular Selves"
  • "DNA: The Basis for the Discipline of Medical Genetics"
11:30 - 11:50 am Patient Presentation - Gaucher disease
  • Dr. Karl H. Muench
11:50 - 12:10 pm
(Lunch-time)
Discussion Period/Meet the Patient (Not to be webcast)
  • Boxed Lunch will be handed out
12:10 - 12:35 pm Video - How to Sequence the Genome
  • Mary Ellen Ahearn, MS
12:35 - 1:25 pm Scientific Presentations from University of Miami Faculty
  • Dr. Mary Lou King (How to Maintain a Species)
  • Dr. Roland Jurecic (How Stem Cells decide to become Blood)
  • Dr. Eckhard Podack (Gene Therapy for Cancer)
1:25 - 1:30 pm Closing Remarks - Q & A
  • Dr. Louis J. Elsas

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