April 30, 2004
9:30 AM Farkas Auditorium
New York University School of Medicine

Destruction and renewal form a leitmotif throughout human literature, art, politics, culture—and biology. Under the aegis of this distinctly expansive theme, this year’s Skirball Symposium provides a forum for examining degradation, repair, remodeling, and regeneration at the molecular, cellular, and organismal levels. The talks range widely over such remarkable processes as DNA repair, aging, cellular matrix remodeling, and limb regeneration.

Of special note is this year’s Severo Ochoa lecture, presented by Dr. Alfred Goldberg on the topic of protein turnover. The Ochoa lectureship was established by Drs. Bernard Levine and Joseph Schlessinger in 1998 to honor Severo Ochoa, Chairman of the Department of Pharmacology and then of Biochemistry at New York University School of Medicine. Dr. Ochoa shared the 1959 Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine with Arthur Kornberg of Stanford University for unraveling the mechanisms of the biological synthesis of ribonucleic acid and deoxyribonucleic acid.

Program

Speakers

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Directions

The 2004 Skirball Institute Sixth Annual Symposium is organized by David Ron & David B. Roth

Direct all inquiries to Ms. Annie Angell (tel 212-263-6184)