The Department of Chemistry of the University of Cincinnati and the
Cincinnati Section of the American Chemical Society
present
The 2009 Ralph and Helen Oesper Banquet & Poster Session
honoring
Susan Lindquist
Whitehead Institute for Biomedical Research
Massachusetts Institute of Technology
on
Friday, October 30, 2009
at
The Great Hall, Tangeman University Center, University of Cincinnati
Program:
5:30 – 7:00pm: Local Cincinnati Poster Session/Social Hour
7:15 – 9:30pm: Oesper Banquet and Award Presentation
Featured after dinner speaker:
Elaine Fuchs
Head of the Laboratory of Mammalian Cell Biology and Development
The Rockefeller University
Registration: The banquet price, which includes salad, dessert and one drink, is $20 (1/2 price for emeritus, students, K-12, unemployed and new members) is payable at the door.
Please register online at:
http://registration.acscincinnati.org/
Registration has closed.
THE DEADLINE FOR REGISTRATION IS OCTOBER 21st. (Earlier than normal)
Dinner choices are:
1. Chicken Chausseur (chicken in a white wine sauce with mushrooms and tomatoes) and served with red skin mashed potatoes and sauteed green beans.
2. Filet in a red wine sauce and served with red skin mashed potatoes and sauteed green beans.
3. Vegetarian/Vegan Option: Peppers stuffed with a lentil ragu and served with sauteed green beans.
About the speaker:
Elaine Fuchs is the Rebecca C. Lancefield Professor in Mammalian Cell Biology and Development at The Rockefeller University. She is also an Investigator, Howard Hughes Medical Institute. Fuchs has published >250 papers and is internationally known for her research in skin biology and associated human genetic disorders, which include skin cancers and life-threatening genetic syndromes such as blistering skin disorders. Fuchs’ current research focuses on the molecular mechanisms that underlie how multipotent stem cells respond to external cues, change their program of gene expression, exit their niche and adopt specific fates to make the epidermis, sebaceous glands and hair follicles of the skin.
Fuchs received her Ph.D. in Biochemistry from Princeton University, and after her postdoctoral research at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology, she joined the faculty at the University of Chicago. She stayed there until 2002 when she relocated to The Rockefeller University. Fuchs’ awards and honors include the Presidential Young Investigator Award, the Richard Lounsbery Award from the National Academy of Sciences, the Novartis-Drew Award for Biomedical Research, the Dickson Prize in Medicine, the FASEB Award for Scientific Excellence and the Beering Award. She is a member of the National Academy of Sciences, the Institute of Medicine of the National Academy of Sciences, the American Academy of Arts and Sciences and the American Philosophical Society, and she holds honorary doctorates from Mt. Sinai/New York University School of Medicine and from the University of Illinois, Champaign-Urbana. Fuchs is also a past President of the American Society of Cell Biology and in summer 2009, she will be President-Elect of the International Society for Stem Cell Research.