The Arabinose Operon

Bob, 1978

web site design: Kathy Martin (1981-1985)

CLOSING THE LOOP

Celebrating 40 Years of Mentoring : 1969 to 2009

The Symposium | Reunion Photos | Reunion Photos Slide Show | Students, Families & Friends | New & Old Lab Photos | New & Old Lab Photos Slide Show

The Symposium

SATURDAY MORNING

Coffee and donuts 8:30 AM

Modern Times

9:00 AM - Welcome and introductory comments by the Planning Committee.

9:10 AM - John (Jed) Weldon (2001-2006) - "Immunotoxins for the targeted treatment of cancer: Engineering a "magic bullet"

9:20 AM - Anjali Dhiman (1995-2000) Hoffman - LaRoche- "Challenges at the Interface of Science and Business"

9:30 AM - Martin Wu (1995-2000) University of Virginia - "From Genes to Genomes"

9:50 AM - Beatrice Saviola (1992-1997) Western University of Health Sciences - "Mycobacterial Responses to Acidic Stress"

10:10 AM - Xin Zhang (1992-1997) Indiana University School of Medicine - "Don't Call Me Bug-Eyed: FGF Signaling in Retinal Development"

10:30 AM - Casonya Jackson (1990-1996) Affiliation - "Transcriptional Regulation by the REF-1 Family of bHLH Proteins in C. Elegans, or What does AraC Protein Have to Do With the C. Elegans Nervous System?"

The Middle Ages

10:50 AM - Susan M. Egan (1991-1994) University of Kansas - "Ara's Sweeter Relative: Regulation of the E. COli Rhamnose Operons"

11:10 AM - Jeff Withey (Bob's technician from 1990-1994) Wayne State University - "Regulation of Vibrio Cholerae Virulence Gene Expression by ToxT"

11:30 AM - Steve Hahn (1980-1984) Fred Hutchinson Cancer Center- "Life after Bob, Ellis, and Nancy"

LUNCH BREAK 11:50 PM - 1:00 PM

The 2nd Generation: Petunial Coexistence - Moderator: Jay Hirsch

1:00 PM - Brad Kosiba (Piled Hip Deep from 1975-1981 - The Petunia Years) Wyeth - "Conjugate Vaccines of How Vaccines Do It (Wyeth Censored Edition)"

1:20 PM - David Kolodrubetz (1975-1980) University of Texas, San Antonio - "Ara to ARA (Anaerobic Regulation in Actinobacillus)"

The Historic Originals- Moderator: Brad Kosiba

1:40 PM - David Leibowitz Steffen (1971-1976) Houston - "Biology 2.0: Biomed Computing"

2:00 PM - Jay NMN Hirsh (1971-1976) University of Virginia - "Flies on the Verge of a Nervous Breakdown"

2:20 PM - John Thornbirnbaum Lis (1970-1975) Cornell University - "Some Like it Hot; The Pause That Refreshes"

2:40 PM - Neil Morningstar Nathanson (dates of my sentence 1970-1975) University of Washington - "Playing in Traffic with Muscarinic Receptors"

3:00 - 3:30 PM - Robert F. Schleif - The Last Word

Appetizers 6:00 PMGroup Photo 7:00 PM

DINNER 7:30 PM

Concluding Remarks ~ 8:30 PM

Reunion Photos

Current Photos of Students, Families & Friends

Please upload more photos at http://bioarray.us/FTP.html or email them to me.

  Kathy Martin and family; Theresa Dunn, Carol Fierke, Suzie Doctrow, and Barb Sherry

  Alan Brunelle and family; Alan's son in the Colorado mountains

 Wendy Williams and family

Lab Photos 1969 - 2009

The annual Tulip Party aty Bob's house; Saying good-bye to Bob's dog

 Graduation: Duc Ngyyen, Bobby Seabold, Bob Schleif, Xin Zhang, and Beatrice Saviola, 1998

 Jeff Withey and Xin Zhang, 1995; Kathy Martin, Jim Tobin and Alan Brunelle, 1984

Theresa Dunn and Art 1980; Steve Hahn and others, 1980

Julie Schecter, Joyce, Max and Sharon Ogden, 1979; Kelvin and Sigma, 1979

David Kolodrubetz and Ellen Kraig, 1978; David Kolodrubetz and Dennis Haggerty, 1977

David Kolodrubetz and Brad Kosiba, (OMG) 1978; Bob Gradient

  Bob on couch in office at Brandeis University, 1979; Anne Favreau, Carol Stoner, Brad Kosiba and Joyce, 1979

Bob and Kelvin, 1979; Sigma, 1979 

 Neil Nathanson, 1979; Sigma, 1979

John Lis, ~1975. (Note John's hair in the electrophoresis photo - David Steffen was off-camera right with the lab hair drier.)

 David Steffen, Neil Nathanson, Robert Schleif, Cathy, John Lis, Jay Hirsh and Sigma