The 2009 Ralph and Helen Oesper Banquet & Poster Session

The Department of Chemistry of the University of Cincinnati
and the
Cincinnati Section of the American Chemical Society
present
The 2009 Ralph and Helen Oesper
Banquet & Poster Session
honoring

Susan Lindquist
Whitehead Institute for Biomedical Research
Massachusetts Institute of Technology
 
Friday, October 30, 2009
The Great Hall, Tangeman University Center (TUC), UC
Map of UC Campus

Local Cincinnati Poster Session/Social Hour
5:30-7:00 p.m.

Deadline for abstracts is October 15, 2009.

Abstracts/Poster Information:

The University of Cincinnati Department of Chemistry and the Cincinnati Chapter of The American Chemical Society announce, The 28th Ralph & Helen Oesper Symposium, Banquet and Student Poster Session to be held October 30, 2009.  Professor Susan Lindquist, MIT, is this years Oesper award winner.   

Abstracts are invited for the 29th Ralph & Helen Oesper Poster Session; and should be single spaced, 100 words or less not including references.   Please email your abstracts to Heather Trenary hrtrenary@gmail.com by October 15, 2009. For more information about all the Oesper events log on to: http://www.che.uc.edu/alumni_community/oesper/default.html

NOTE: You do NOT have to attend the banquet to participate in the poster session. The poster session is open to anyone who wishes to participate.

Assorted light refreshments will be provided during the poster session at no additional cost.

Oesper Banquet and Award Presentation
7:15-9:30 p.m.  

Featured after dinner speaker

Elaine Fuchs

Head of the Laboratory of Mammalian Cell Biology
and Development
The Rockefeller University

  Stem cells: Biology and Promise for Regenerative Medicine

Stem cells can self-renew and to differentiate along multiple lineages to generate different tissues. In the embryo, multipotent stem cells respond to various cues to undergo morphogenesis and produce these tissues. Many adult tissues retain a reservoir of multipotent, relatively undifferentiated stem cells to be used for normal tissue homeostasis and for repairing damaged tissue from injuries. Such reservoirs are typically small, reflecting the fact that stem cells are used sparingly, dividing infrequently, but able to give rise when called upon to generate rapidly proliferating and differentiating progeny. The long-term potential of stem cells makes them beneficial for rejuvenating tissues. The Fuchs’ laboratory works on skin stem cells, which have long been used for burn therapy but have generated recent interest for conditions ranging from baldness to treatments for certain kinds of blindness. In the past few years, skin stem cells have catapulted to the top of the stem cell arena, as researchers have begun to devise methods to turn skin cells into “induced pluripotent stem cells” or iPS cells which share similarities to totipotent embryonic stem cells. These methods are still unfolding and it is not yet clear whether they will be useful for regenerative medicine. However, their promise is real for advancing basic scientific research about many human diseases for which our understanding is limited and cures are not available. Dr. Fuchs will discuss the basic science underlying stem cells and their potential uses as well as the hurdles which must be overcome before this basic research can be brought safely to the clinic.

About the Speaker:

Elaine Fuchs is the Rebecca C. Lancefield Professor in Mammalian Cell Biology and Development at The Rockefeller University. She is also an Investigator, Howard Hughes Medical Institute. Fuchs has published >250 papers and is internationally known for her research in skin biology and associated human genetic disorders, which include skin cancers and life-threatening genetic syndromes such as blistering skin disorders. Fuchs’ current research focuses on the molecular mechanisms that underlie how multipotent stem cells respond to external cues, change their program of gene expression, exit their niche and adopt specific fates to make the epidermis, sebaceous glands and hair follicles of the skin.

Fuchs received her Ph.D. in Biochemistry from Princeton University, and after her postdoctoral research at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology, she joined the faculty at the University of Chicago. She stayed there until 2002 when she relocated to The Rockefeller University. Fuchs’ awards and honors include the Presidential Young Investigator Award, the Richard Lounsbery Award from the National Academy of Sciences, the Novartis-Drew Award for Biomedical Research, the Dickson Prize in Medicine, the FASEB Award for Scientific Excellence and the Beering Award. She is a member of the National Academy of Sciences, the Institute of Medicine of the National Academy of Sciences, the American Academy of Arts and Sciences and the American Philosophical Society, and she holds honorary doctorates from Mt. Sinai/New York University School of Medicine and from the University of Illinois, Champaign-Urbana. Fuchs is also a past President of the American Society of Cell Biology and in summer 2009, she will be President-Elect of the International Society for Stem Cell Research.

Meeting reservation form: COMING SOON.......

This is the best and easiest way to register. As a lesser alternative, you may send your reservations by email to Kim.Carey@uc.edu. If absolutely impossible to make reservations via the internet, telephone 513-556-0293. Deadline for reservations is 12:00 noon on Wednesday, October 15, 2008. Include your name, affiliation, banquet dinner choice, and state if you're in one of the 1/2 price categories. As a reminder, if you decide you must miss a meeting after you have made reservations, please call to cancel. If you do not cancel, the Section will have to charge you because it will have been charged by the University.

The banquet price, which includes the following and one drink, is $20 (1/2 price for emeritus, students, K-12, unemployed and new members), and is payable at the door.

The banquet dinner choices are:

1) Grilled marinated portobello mushroom with pesto angel hair primavera
2) New York Strip steak au Poivre
3) Chicken Roulades with smoked mozzarella and Virginia ham

Directions: If you approach via I-75, take the Hopple Street exit and turn left at the light. You will pass over the highway. At the next light, go straight (straight here is actually about a 45 degree turn to the left). You are now on Martin Luther King Drive. Continue up King to the 4th traffic light. You will reach the first one quickly, the second one about ½ mile after that, the third (Clifton Ave.) after going up a long hill, and the 4th as you continue eastward with the campus on your right. Turn right at this 4th traffic light onto campus, and then right into the Woodside Garage.

If you approach Cincinnati coming south on I-71, get off at the Taft Street exit (exit 3). After the light at the end of the off-ramp, continue straight (west) on Taft for about 1.3 miles. At this time, Hughes High School is directly in front of you, and you must turn. Turn right onto Clifton Avenue. The University is now on your right side. Continue on Clifton to King; turn right (eastbound) on King and follow to the first light. Turn right onto campus, and then right into the Woodside Garage.

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Directions to UC Campus

Hotel Information: Out of town guests may make hotel reservations by contacting:

1) Kingsgate Conference Center, 151 Goodman Dr., Cincinnati, OH 45219, 513-487-3800;
 http://marriott.com/property/propertypage/cvgkg

2) The Clifton House Bed & Breakfast, 500 Terrace Ave., Cincinnati, OH 45220, 513-221-7600;  http://www.thecliftonhouse.com/

For further information please contact:
Phone: (513) 556-0293 or email Kim.Carey@uc.edu