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Bio Science and Technology (BST)

Date Time Event

Session 1: Developmental Biology
Session Chair:Paul S. Oh (University of Florida, USA)
Gouyoung Koh (KAIST, Korea)

Aug. 10th 8:00 - 9:30 am 1.1Role of angiopoietins in angiogenesis and lymphangiogenesis 
Gouyoung Koh (KAIST, Korea)
1.2
    Regulation of epithelial polarity by LKB1-dependent signaling pathway
    Jongkyeong (JK) Chung (KAIST, Korea)
1.3 In vivo assessment of the ALK1-ALK5 balance for mediating TGF-beta signal in endothelium during vascular development in mice
Paul S. Oh (University of Florida, USA)
    1.4 ER71 regulates Flk-1+ mesoderm generation and endothelial cell differentiation
    Kyunghee Choi (Washington University School of Medicine, USA )
1.4 Basic and Applied Neuroscience of the Dopaminergic Nervous System
Kwang-Soo Kim (Harvard Medical school, USA)

Session 2: Signal transduction
Session chair:Sue Goo Rhee (Ewha Womans University, Korea)
Seong-Jin Kim (NIH/ Lee Gil Ya Cancer and Diabetes Institute, Korea/ Case Western Reserve Univ. School of Medicine, USA)

Aug. 10th 9:45 - 11:15 am 2.1 Intracellular Messenger Function of Hydrogen Peroxide and Regulation of Peroxiredoxins via Posttranslational Modification.
Sue Goo Rhee (Ewha Womans University, Korea)
2.2 Viral Hijacking of G-Protein Signaling Networks  
Silvio Gutkind (NIDCR/NIH, USA)
2.3 Targeting the polo-box domain of polo-like kinase 1 for cancer therapy 
Kyung Sang Lee (NCI/NIH, USA)
2.4 Inhibitory Smads, Smad6 and Smad7 , are critical mediators of TGF-beta signals that block proinflammatory signals
Seong-Jin Kim (Lee Gil Ya Cancer and Diabetes Institute, Korea/ Case Western Reserve Univ. School of Medicine, USA)

Session 3 : Molecular Mechanism for Insulin Resistance in Obesity and Diabetes I
Session chair: Kim, Young-Bum (Harvard Medical School, Boston)

Aug. 10th 2:15 - 3:45 pm 3.1 The Autoantigenome of Human Autoimmune Diseases
Abner Notkins (NIDCR/ NIH)
3.2 Adipokines and diabetes mellitus
Park, Kyong Soo (Seoul National University College of Medicine, Seoul)
3.3 Role of the Peroxisome proliferator-activated receptor-gamma co-activator-1 alpha (PGC-1alpha) in diabetes
Lee, Inkyu (Kyungpook National University Hospital, Daegu)
3.4 Role of Pyruvate Dehydrogenase Kinase 4 Gene Expression in the Development of Skeletal Muscle Insulin Resistance
Youn, Jang Hyun (University of Southern California, Los Angeles)

Session 4: Molecular Mechanism for Insulin Resistance in Obesity and Diabetes II
Session chair: Lee, Ki-Up (Asan Medical Center, Seoul)

Aug. 10th 4:00 - 5:30 pm 4.1 Reciprocal Relationships Between Insulin Resistance and Endothelial Dysfunction
Michael Quon (NCCAM/NIH, USA)
4.2 G6PD: A Novel Controller of Redox Regulating System in Adipose Tissue of Obesity
Kim, Jae Bum (Seoul National University, Korea)
4.3 New strategies for reversing endothelial dysfunction in metabolic syndrome
Park, Joong-Yeol
  (Ulsan College of Medicine, Korea)
4.4 Application of Bayesian paradigm in clinical trial design
Dong Woo Kang (Pfizer, USA)

Session 5: Drug Discovery/ Biotech
Session chair:Sunghoon Kim (Seoul National University, Korea)

Aug. 11

8:00 - 9:30 pm

5.1 Discovery of Novel Topoisomerase Inhibitors
Yves Pommier (NCI/NIH, USA)
5.2 Functional peptidomics for discovery of ligand for cell surface receptor
Sung Ho Ryu (POSTECH, Korea )
5.3 Novel anticancer targets discovered in protein synthesis machinery
Sunghoon Kim (Seoul National University, Korea)
5.4 Discovery of Novel HDAC Inhibitors and Their Structure based Lead Optimization for the Anti-cancer Chemotherapy Developmental Biology  
Gyoonhee Han (Yonsei University, Korea)

Session 6: Women in Bioscience
Session chair:Myung Hee Park (NIDCR/NIH, USA)

Aug. 11 9:45 - 11:15 am 6.1 Small Leucine-Rich Proteoglycans in Skeletal Aging
Marian Young (NIDCR/NIH, USA)
6.2 Chromatin Structure Modification and DNA Damage  Response
Mira Jung  (Georgetown University, USA)
6.3 In vivo analysis of Sonic hedgehog-responding quiescent adult neural stem cells
Sohyun Ahn (NICHD/NIH, USA)
6.4 Mutational analysis of human eIF5A
Myung Hee Park (NIDCR/NIH, USA)