The Histochemical Society

at Experimental Biology 2003
Official Guest Society of the American Association of Anatomists
April 11-15
San Diego, California

  SYMPOSIA SESSIONS

TURNING BIOINFORMATION INTO BIOUNDERSTANDING: HISTOCHEMISTRY IN THE POSTGENOMIC ERA
Saturday, April 12, 8:15 am - 12:45 pm, Room 24AB
Co-Chairs: Elizabeth R. Unger, M.D., Ph.D. (Centers for Disease Control and Prevention) and Dale Abrahamson, Ph.D. (University of Kansas Medical Center)
Co-Sponsored by the American Association of Anatomists
SPEAKERS:
Kevin A. Roth, M.D., Ph.D.  (University of Alabama at Birmingham)
'From Chips to Cells: Sensitive Methods for In Situ Molecular Localization'
Michael F. Press, M.D., Ph.D.  (University of Southern California)
'Clinical Testing for HER-2/neu as a Molecular Target for Therapy'
Brenda J. Rongish, Ph.D.  (University of Kansas Medical Center)
'Dynamic Imaging of ECM Assembly During Embryogenesis'
Bruce A. Molitoris, M.D.  (Indiana University School of Medicine)
'Using Multi-photon Microscopy to Understand Renal Physiology'
Frank Costantini, Ph.D.  (Columbia University)
'Visualizing Branching Morphogenesis During Kidney Development'
Jason C. Mills, M.D., Ph.D. (Washington University School of Medicine)
'A Gut Feeling About Chips: Using Microarrays to Understand Gastric Epithelial Renewal'

REALIZING THE PROMISE OF GENOMICS AND PROTEOMICS: IMPACT OF LASER CAPTURE MICRODISSECTION ON HUMAN DISEASE
Saturday, April 12, 3:30 pm - 5:30 pm, Room 24AB
Chair: Debra J. Hazen-Martin, Ph.D. (Medical University of South Carolina)
SPEAKERS:
Michael Donovan, Ph.D. (Incyte Genomics)
'The Advent of Laser Capture Microdissection in the Post-genome Era'
Dennis C. Sgroi, M.D. (Harvard Medical School)
'Gene Expression Profiling in Human Breast Cancer Progression'
Emanuel Petricoin, Ph.D. (FDA-National Cancer Institute)
'FDA-NCI Clinical Proteomics Program: Applications at the Bedside'
Mark Erlander, Ph.D. (Arcturus Applied Genomics)
'Clinical Molecular Profiling with Laser Capture and Gene Expression Techniques'

PLATFORM SESSIONS

SIGNAL TRANSDUCTION: HISTOCHEMICAL TECHNIQUES FOR VISUALIZING INDIVIDUAL PATHWAYS IN VITRO AND IN VIVO
Sunday, April 13, 8:15 am - 10:15 am, Room 24AB
Chair: Charles Frevert, D.V.M., Sc.D. (University of Washington, Seattle VA Medical Center)
SPEAKERS:
Frederique Gaits (The Scripps Research Institute)
Kaushik Parthasarathi (Columbia University)
M. Brett Everhart (Vanderbilt University School of Medicine)
Richard W. Burry (Ohio State University)
Joseph Mazurkiewicz (Albany Medical College)
Hanna Ojaniemi (Centers for Disease Control)
Kevin Niswender (University of Washington, Harborview Medical Center)

Awards Banquet
Monday, April 14, 7:00 pm - 11:00 pm, Marriott Ballrooms F & G
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ASIP's 3rd Annual Mentoring Luncheon
Sunday, April 13, 12:00 pm - 2:00 pm 
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Co-Sponsored by the American Association of Anatomists and the American Society for Investigative Pathology

HCS Business Meeting
Saturday, April 12, 5:30 pm - 6:30 pm, Room 25BC

HCS, AAA and ISS Student Posters and Reception
Saturday, April 12, 6:30 pm - 8:30 pm, Room 25BC

Histochemistry Poster Session
Monday, April 14, 1:00 pm - 2:30 pm, Exhibit Hall