8:00 - 8:30 a.m.

Continental Breakfast

UF Brain Institute

8:30 - 9:30 a.m.

Medical Student Research Day Winners

UFBI, LG-101

Christopher Barker - Functional Motor Cortex Development: The iSP in Healthy Children
Christine Nichols - The Expression of Alpha-Synuclein in Dementia with Lewy Bodies
Shari Wellen - A Model of Non-Small Cell Lung Cancer Based on the Regulation of Mutant Active K-Ras

9:30 - 12:00 p.m.

Medical Guild Graduate Research Competition

UFBI, LG-101

Kelly Leach (Biochemistry & Molecular Biology)
Recruitment of Transcription Complexes to the Human b-Globin Locus

Brian Raisler (Genetics)
AAV-Mediated Expression of PEDF or Angiostatin (K1K3) Reduces Retinal Neovascularization

Angela Starkes (Immunology & Microbiology)
Isolation of Virulence Factors of Vibrio vulnificus by Using In Vivo Selection in Mice

J. Michael Thomson (Molecular Cell Biology)
Experimental Paleobiochemistry: Joining Metabolism, History and Function in Yeast

Jason Coleman (Neuroscience)
Analyses of the Guanylate Cyclase Activating Protein-1 (GCAP1) Gene Promoter in the Developing Retina

Yi Tang (Physiology & Pharmacology)
A Cardiac Specific, Hypoxia Inducible Vector for Myocardial Ischemia Gene Therapy

11:00 a.m. - 2:00 p.m.

Poster Displays

Shands Atrium

12:00 - 1:00 p.m.

Medical Guild Awards and Lunch

UFBI, LG-110

2:00 - 3:00 p.m.

Faculty Presentations

UFBI, LG-101

Mark A. Atkinson, Ph.D., COM Faculty Basic Science 2001 Awardee
Two Decades of Type 1 Diabetes Research at UF: Have We Really Made Progress
In Understanding the Pathogenesis of this Disease?

John W. Sleasman, M.D., COM Faculty Clinical Science 2001 Awardee
Fixing the Problem: Immune Reconstitution in HIV-Infected Children Receiving Antiretroviral Therapy

3:00 - 4:00 p.m.

Keynote Speaker

UFBI, LG-101

Peter M. Howley, M.D., Professor and Chair, Harvard Medical School
"Warts, Cancer and Ubiquitination: Lessons from the Papillomaviruses"

6:00 - 9:00 p.m.

Faculty Dinner & Presentation of Awards

Sheraton Hotel

Poster Presentations, Faculty Clinical Science Award, Faculty Basic Science Award
Special Achievement Award Presented to: Kenneth I. Berns, M.D., Ph.D.