Save the date - June 11, 2009, at UCSF

Venue: UCSF, Byers Auditorium in Genentech Hall, 600, 16th Street, San Francisco, CA
Time and Date: 4 PM to 7 PM, June 11, 2009
Dinner: 7 PM in the atrium outside the hall

RSVP: medha_pathak@hms.harvard.edu

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3.30pm
Welcome reception

4.00 pm
Aathavan Karunakaran (UCSF) & K. VijayRaghavan (NCBS).
Introductions

4.15-4.45 pm
M.K. Bhan (DBT)
The trajectory of life science research in India and emerging opportunities.

4.45-5.30 pm
Martha Gray (MIT), Dinakar Salunke (NII), Sudhanshu Vrati (NII), Satyajit Rath (NII)
The new Health Science and Biotech Cluster in Delhi:
-The Translational Health Sciences and Technology Institute
-The Regional Center for Biotechnology
-The Infectious Disease and Vaccine Center
-The premature child biology Center

5.30- 6:10 pm
Satyajit Mayor (NCBS), Jyotsna Dhawan (Stem Cell Institute), K. VijayRaghavan (NCBS)
Bioscience Cluster in Bangalore:
-NCBS, Bangalore
-The Stem Cell Institute

6.10-6.25 pm
Ron Vale (UCSF)
Young Investigator meet: From Trivandrum to Sunderbans

6.25-7.00 pm
M. K. Bhan (DBT), John Kuriyan (UC Berkeley), Satyajit Rath (NII), Martha Gray (MIT), Satyajit Mayor (NCBS), Iswar Hariharan (UC Berkeley), Jim Spudich (Stanford) and S. Natesh (DBT)
Panel discussion: Settling in and getting science done in India: Views from outside and inside.

7.00-8.00 pm
All!
Dinner and discussions

8.00 pm
Last shuttles leave UCSF for BART and Caltrain Stations