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On behalf of the graduate students at the University of Minnesota who have organized this symposium, it is our pleasure to invite you to participate in this year's event. This is the second year that the day-long symposium has been organized by students. Our primary goal is to facilitate interactions between graduate students and distinguished faculty, and to give students and postdocs a place to showcase their research. We are especially excited about this year's symposium, as we have attempted to invite speakers, students and faculty from an even more diverse arena of research. In part, this has been to accentuate the new Chemical Biology Initiative on campus, which highlights interdisciplinary research in the areas of Chemical Genetics, Biotechnology, and Biomaterials Engineering. However, in addition, we hope to make our symposium a showcase for all research related to chemistry and biology and to expand our perspective of interdisciplinary research. The day's events will include several talks about research in chemical biology, a mid-day student poster session, lunch at EBC and a banquet at Coffman Memorial Union.
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2004 Symposium Organizing Committee: Graduate Students (Front, L to R) Bryan Johnson, Bob Poe, Ben Duckworth, (Middle, L to R) Abbey Rosen and My Vo, (Back, L to R) Karen Olson and Aimee Erickson |
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2003 Symposium Pictures
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In order to fully grasp the day of interdisciplinary science that this symposium will offer, the symposium organizing committee will be hosting an informal, literature workshop to discuss some recent publications by the invited speakers. We hope that this workshop will acquaint students with the speaker's research, create interest for their lectures and foster student-speaker interactions. Papers to be reviewed will be announced prior to the workshop.
Workshop: Thursday, May 20th, 2:00pm
Smith Hall, room 117/119
Refreshments and Snacks served
Questions: Please contact My at mntvo@chem.umn.edu
The “Chemical Biology Initiative” (CBI) at the University of Minnesota is designed to stimulate and encourage interdisciplinary biomedical/biotechnology research, technological development, and education at the cross roads of chemistry, physics, biology, and engineering. This effort will enhance scholarship in traditional fields like drug design, chemical engineering and biochemistry, as well as enable the exploration of entirely new concepts at the interface of these disciplines. Specific areas of focus include Chemical Genetics (bioprobe design, molecular modeling, synthetic chemistry, nucleic acid chemistry, bioorganic and bioinorganic chemistry), Biomaterials Engineering (biomicroelectronics, tissue engineering, cellular engineering, nanobiotechnology), and Biotechnology (combinatorial biosynthesis, microbial engineering, biocatalysis). This initiative is moving forward with seed funding from the Provost, the Institute of Technology, the Academic Health Center, and the College of Biological Sciences, which will be used to fund interdisciplinary research in these areas.
2004 Symposium jointly sponsored by:
NIH Chemical Biology Interface Training Grant Chemical Biology Initiative
NIH Biotechnology Training Grant Department of Medicinal Chemistry