2008 Botanicals Symposium
Eighth Annual Purdue-UAB Botanicals Center Symposium
Botanicals and Age-Related Diseases
March 2-4, 2008
University of Alabama at Birmingham
Doubletree Hotel
| Sunday, March 2 | |
| 6 pm | Dinner, The Birmingham Botanical Gardens (2600 Lane Park Road) |
| Monday, March 3, Doubletree Hotel, Heritage 1 and 2 | |
| 7:30-8:00 am | Continental Breakfast and poster set up |
| 8:00-8:10 am | Welcome Connie Weaver (Purdue University) Director, Botanicals Center Stephen Barnes (University of Alabama at Birmingham), Associate Director, Botanicals Center |
| 8:10-8:30 am | "NIH update" Christine Swanson (National Institutes of Health), Program Director within the Office of Dietary Supplements |
| 8:30-9:00 am | "Phytonutrients in pancreatic cancer" Vay Liang W. Go (UCLA) (University of California-Los Angeles-David Geffen School of Medicine), Professor of Medicine |
| 9:00-9:30 am | "Epigenetic gene control in response to EGCG in cancer prevention" Trygve Tollesfbol (University of Alabama at Birmingham), Professor of Biology |
| 9:30-10:00 am | "Biosynthesis and genetic manipulation of bioactive flavonoids
in plants" Richard A Dixon (Samuel Roberts Noble Foundation, Ardmore, OK), Senior Vice-President and Director, Plant Biology Research Division |
| 10:00-10:30 am | Coffee Break |
| 10:30-11:00 am | "The changing faces of kudzu" J. Michael Wyss (University of Alabama at Birmingham), Professor of Cell Biology |
| 11:00-11:20 am | "Preserving Bone" Connie M. Weaver (Purdue University), Chair and Professor of Human Nutrition |
| 11:20-11:40 am | "Preserving the lens" Stephen Barnes (University of Alabama at Birmingham), Professor of Pharmacology and Toxicology |
| 11:40-12 noon | Discussion |
| 12 noon | Luncheon Heritage 2 "Diet and exercise in rural Alabama" Lunch speaker - Ed Partridge, MD (University of Alabama at Birmingham), Director of the UAB Comprehensive Cancer Center |
| 1:15-3:00 pm | Poster session - Heritage 1 |
| 3:00-5:00 pm | Facility Tours |
| 4:30-6:00 pm | Executive Meeting of the External Advisory Board, MCLM 108 |
| 6:00-7:15 pm | External Advisory Board discussion with the Internal Steering Group re Center Progress, MCLM 108 |
| 7:30 pm | Dinner |
| Tuesday, March 4 | |
| 8:00-12 noon | Center Scientists meeting, MCLM 108 Identification of potential projects for the renewal |