Brief
April 17, 2003
Ilona Holcomb, John Chevillet and David Baldwin (from left), of the Trask, Vasioukhin and Salama labs, respectively, netted the top prizes for posters presented at the Human Biology retreat held March 31-April 1 at Semi-ah-moo Resort in Blaine, Wash. Honorable mentions went to Lichen Jing, postdoc in the Zarbl lab, Heidi Parker, graduate student in the Ostrander lab and Sarah Benki, graduate student in the Overbaugh lab.
The retreat, which drew 150 from the division, included faculty research presentations on molecular regulation of growth and differentiation, the genetic basis of cancer, human/pathogen interactions and genome diversity and phenotype.
Human Biology program coordinators participated in a session entitled "The Four Frames: Viewing Organizational Challenges," presented by Dick Williams, an instructor at Seattle University. The session focused on the PeopleSoft system that will be implemented at the center for budget and grant management.
Dr. Roger Brent, president and research director of the Molecular Sciences Institute in Berkeley, Calif., presented the keynote talk entitled, "The Alpha Project and the dream of a predictive biology," which focused on the institutes efforts to understand how how cells receive, amplify and integrate signals from a variety of stimuli.
