Two concurrent symposia will be held each afternoon, Sunday through Tuesday, December 6–8, from 4:00 pm–5:30 pm, and a special closing symposium will be held on Wednesday, December 9, from 11:00 am–12:30 pm. Seven minisymposia and one working group will be scheduled each morning, Sunday through Wednesday, December 6–9, 2009, during the ASCB Annual Meeting. Co-chairs will select up to six speakers for each minisymposium from regular abstracts submitted by July 30, 2009. Co-chairs are encouraged to present.
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9:00 am – 10:15 am |
Minorities Affairs Committee (MAC) Mentoring Symposium
PREREGISTRATION ENCOURAGED |
10:30 am – 12:30 pm |
MAC Panel Discussion
PREREGISTRATION ENCOURAGED |
10:30 am – 12:30 pm |
MAC Program for Undergrads and Graduate Students |
12:30 pm – 5:00 pm |
Member-Organized Special Interest Subgroup Meetings
MEETING REGISTRATION REQUIRED |
1:30 pm – 4:30 pm |
Education Workshop
PREREGISTRATION ENCOURAGED |
| 2:00 pm – 3:30 pm |
WICB Workshop – Negotiation Strategies for Work
and Life
PREREGISTRATION AND TICKET REQUIRED |
2:00 pm – 4:00 pm |
Minorities Affairs Poster Session/Reception PREREGISTRATION ENCOURAGED |
3:00 pm – 3:30 pm |
Undergraduate Poster Set-up |
3:00 pm – 5:00 pm |
Educational Resources/MAC Booth Open |
3:30 pm – 4:30 pm |
Undergraduate Student Program |
4:30 pm – 5:15 pm |
Reception for Undergraduate Poster Authors |
5:00 pm – 5:45 pm |
First-time Attendees ONLY
Meet the ASCB Leadership Session |
5:15 pm – 5:45 pm |
Undergraduate Poster Tear-down |
6:00 pm – 7:30 pm |
Keynote Symposium |
After Keynote –10:00 pm |
Opening Night Reception |
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7:00 am – 11:00 pm |
Exhibitor Showcases |
7:30 am – 9:00 pm |
Posters on Display |
7:30 am – 9:00 pm |
Career Center Open |
8:30 am – 10:35 am |
Eight Concurrent Minisymposia/Working Groups |
9:00 am – 5:00 pm |
Educational Resources/MAC Booth Open |
10:00 am – 11:00 am |
Press Briefing |
10:00 am – 4:30 pm |
Exhibit Hall Open |
10:30 am – 11:30 am |
Morning Refreshment Break |
11:00 am – 12:30 pm |
Odd-Number Poster Presentations |
12 Noon – 2:00 pm |
Postdoc Presentation
PREREGISTRATION ENCOURAGED |
12 Noon – 2:00 pm |
K–12 Science Education Workshop PREREGISTRATION ENCOURAGED
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12:30 pm – 2:00 pm |
Even-Number Poster Presentations |
2:00 pm – 4:00 pm |
High School Program and Exhibit Tour
(3:00 pm – 4:00 pm) |
2:00 pm – 3:00 pm |
E.E. Just Lecture |
2:30 pm – 3:30 pm |
WICB Network Reception |
2:30 pm – 3:30 pm |
Afternoon Refreshment Break |
3:15 pm – 3:45 pm |
Bruce Alberts Award and Presentation |
4:00 pm – 5:30 pm |
Symposium I – The Human Model: Genetics as Two-Way Information |
Symposium II – Under the Hood of the Cell: Dynamic Organelles |
5:30 pm – 6:00 pm |
Q&A Session for Symposium I |
5:30 pm – 6:00 pm |
Q&A Session for Symposium II |
6:00 pm – 7:00 pm |
Keith Porter Lecture |
6:30 pm – 7:30 pm |
CBE-LSE Reception |
7:00 pm – 8:00 pm |
Public Service Award Presentation |
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7:00 am – 11:00 pm |
Exhibitor Showcases |
7:30 am – 9:00 pm |
Posters on Display |
7:30 am – 9:00 pm |
Career Center Open |
8:30 am – 10:35 am |
Eight Concurrent Minisymposia/Working Groups |
9:00 am – 5:00 pm |
Educational Resources/MAC Booth Open |
10:00 am – 11:00 am |
Press Briefing |
10:00 am – 4:30 pm |
Exhibits Open |
10:30 am – 11:30 am |
Morning Refreshment Break |
11:00 am – 12:30 pm |
Odd-Number Poster Presentations |
12:30 pm – 2:00 pm |
Even-Number Poster Presentations |
2:00 pm – 3:30 pm |
WICB Career Discussion and Mentoring Roundtables
PREREGISTRATION AND TICKET REQUIRED |
2:30 pm – 3:30 pm |
Afternoon Refreshment Break |
2:30 pm – 3:30 pm |
Congress 101 |
3:00 pm – 4:00 pm |
NSF Program |
3:15 pm – 3:45 pm |
Education Initiative Forum |
4:00 pm – 5:30 pm |
Symp III – All You Can Be –The Biology of Multipotency |
Symposium IV – In a Pinch: Cell Division from Prokaryotes to Sex Cells |
5:30 pm – 6:00 pm |
Q&A Session for Symposium III |
5:30 pm – 6:00 pm |
Q&A Session for Symposium IV |
5:45 pm – 7:15 pm |
Tutorials |
7:15 pm – 8:15 pm |
CellSlam |
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7:00 am – 11:00 pm |
Exhibitor Showcases |
7:30 am – 9:00 pm |
Posters on Display |
7:30 am – 9:00 pm |
Career Center Open |
8:30 am – 10:35 am |
Eight Concurrent Minisymposia/Working Groups |
9:00 am – 4:30 pm |
Exhibitor Registration Open |
9:00 am – 5:00 pm |
Educational Resources/MAC Booth Open |
| 10:00 am – 11:00 am |
Press Briefing |
10:30 am – 11:30am |
Morning Refreshment Break |
11:00 am – 12:30 pm |
Odd-Number Poster Presentations |
10:00 am – 4:30 pm |
Exhibits Open |
11:00 am – 12:00 Noon |
ASCB Business Meeting & Interactive Forum |
| 12:30 pm – 2:00 pm |
Even-Number Poster Presentations |
| 2:00 pm – 3:30 pm |
Translational Session |
| 1:30 pm – 3:00 pm |
NIH Program – Conversation with NIH: Peer Review |
| 2:30 pm – 3:30 pm |
Congressional Liaison Committee Seminar
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| 2:00 pm – 3:30 pm |
WICB Awards and Mentoring Theater |
| 2:30 pm – 3:30 pm |
Afternoon Refreshment Break |
| 3:15 pm – 3:45 pm |
Education Initiative Forum |
| 3:30 pm – 4:00 pm |
Celldance Award Presentation |
| 4:00 pm – 5:30 pm |
Symposium V – Cellular Sociology: Working Together in Morphogenesis
Symposium VI – Movers and Shapers: Nuclear Dynamics and Gene Regulation |
| 5:30 pm – 6:00 pm |
Q&A Session for Symposium V |
| 5:30 pm – 6:00 pm |
Q&A Session for Symposium VI |
| 6:00 pm – 7:00 pm |
E.B. Wilson Medal Presentation |
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| 9:00 am – 12:00 pm |
Educational Resources/MAC Booth |
| 8:30 am – 10:35 am |
Eight Concurrent Minisymposia/Working Groups |
| 10:35 am – 11:05 am |
Refreshment Break |
| 11:00 am – 12:30 pm |
Closing Symposium: Breaking the Diffraction Barrier |
| 12:30 pm – 1:00 pm |
Q&A for Closing Symposium |
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