From chemistry-request@ccl.net Wed Jan 15 13:38:38 1992
Date:    Wed, 15 Jan 1992 13:23:05 -0500 (EST)
From: SEMINARI@a.psc.edu
Subject: Cancer Workshop
To: chemistry@ccl.net
Status: R

I am posting the announcement of the interdisciplinary cancer 
research workshop which might be of interest to some members of the net.
e-mail inquires can be directed to me.

Jorge M. Seminario
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                          FIRST ANNOUNCEMENT
                        of the Fifteenth Annual

                       INTERDISCIPLINARY CANCER
                           RESEARCH WORKSHOP
     to be held at the Doubletree Hotel, 300 Canal St., New Orleans, LA
                          March 26, 1992.

The Workshop will have four lectures presented by distinguished scientists who
will discuss recent developments in several areas of cancer research.  These
lectures will be followed, in the afternoon session, by an extended
discussion-workshop, stressing a general exchange of ideas and experience.  This
Workshop on the Cell Biology of Cancer is a prologue to the joint meeting of the
International Cell Cycle and the Cell Kinetics Societies.  This meeting will run
from March 27 through March 29, 1992.


The speakers at the Workshop and their topics will be:

Dr. Renato Baserga, Jefferson Cancer Center, Thomas Jefferson University.
"Introduction to the Cell Cycle and Cancer"

Dr. G. Barry Pierce, University of Colorado Health Sciences Center.
"Programmed Cell Death: Possible Treatment for Cancer"

Dr. W. H. Lee, University of Texas Health Sciences Center at San Antonio.
"The Retinoblastoma Gene and Retinoblastoma"

Dr. Manfred J. Lohka, University of Colorado Health Sciences Center.
"Decision to Divide:  A Conserved Mechanism of Cell Cycle Control"

The Workshop is sponsored by the Cancer Association of Greater New Orleans, a
United Way agency.  It will be open to all interested persons; there will be no
registration fee.  Further information can be obtained from the Workshop
organizer:

Dr. Peter Politzer
Department of Chemistry
University of New Orleans
New Orleans, Louisiana, 70148
Telephone (504) 286-6850


(For further information concerning the International Cell Cycle and the Cell
Kinetics Societies' joint meeting, please contact: Dr. James Jeter, Department
of Anatomy, Tulane Medical School, 1430 Tulane Avenue, New Orleans, LA, 70112;
telephone: (504) 588-5255.)
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 Jorge M Seminario            Bitnet%"jsmcm@uno"
 Department of Chemistry      Internet%"seminari@cpwsca.psc.edu"
 University of New Orleans    TEL: 504-286-7216
 New Orleans, LA 70148        FAX: 504-286-6860
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