Society for Experimental Biology & Medicine

Meetings

The Society for Experimental Biology and Medicine holds an annual member's meeting in conjunction with the EB meetings each year. In 2007,the Member's Reception was held at the Renaissance Washington DC Hotel, where one of the Mentoring Award Program recipients, Melissa Wei Li accepted her award presented by President Charles Blake with Ms Li's Mentor Dr. Mark Chapleau looking on (left photo). The Society arranged for an exhibit booth to display the new EBM journal and promote membership. Pictured right are Nancy Blake, SEBM administrative and editorial assistant and Council Member Neil Shay manning the SEBM booth at the Washington Convention Center.

SEBM Symposium at EB 2007, Washington D.C.

"Nanotechnology, Biology, and Medicine in SEBM's Second Century"

Date: Sunday, April 29 — 3:15-5:15 PM

Location: Washington, DC Convention Center — Room 147B

SEBM gratefully acknowledges Genentech for their donation in support of this symposium.

Chairs: Burton E. Sobel, University of Vermont and Charles A. Blake, University of South Carolina

This symposium will address the promise of nanotechnology in biology and medicine with respect to three general areas including: 1) the promise of nanotechnology in prevention of disease; 2) the promise of nanotechnology in improved diagnosis; and 3) the promise of nanotechnology in enhanced therapy. Speakers will focus on specific approaches taken and illustrate them with descriptions of specific applications of nanotechnology. Examples include: 1) elucidation of biological structures in the 5-500 nm size range and their role in determining function particularly with respect to electron transport and biological oxidations (Dr. S. Sliger); 2) engineered viruses for biomedical science with consideration of their potential role in drug delivery (Dr. M.G. Finn); and 3) applications of nanotechnology in cardiovascular surgery with emphasis on modulation of the systemic inflammatory response syndrome (Dr. T. Gourlay). Dr. Steven Goodman, editor of Experimental Biology and Medicine, will present some thoughts regarding the journal’s emphasis on the nanotechnology, informatics, integrated and multidisciplinary research in the Society for Experimental Biology and Medicine’s second century.

SEBM Symposium at EB 2006, San Francisco

"The Role of Modern Biology and Medicine in Drug Development in Academia and Industry"

Chairpersons: Charles A.Blake, University of South Carollina and Kenneth L. Barker, State University of New York, Syracuse

Ted W. Love, Nuvelo, Inc.
"How to Attract the Best and Brightest to Benefit Drug Development"

Timothy P. Clackson, ARIAD Pharmaceuticals, Inc
"Translational Research In Academia and Industry"

Scott P. Kennedy, Pfizer Gobal R&D
"Effective Partnering of Academic and Physician Scientists with the Pharmaceutical Drug Development Industry"

Discussion Leader: Burton E. Sobel, University of Vermont

SEBM Symposium at EB 2005, San Diego

"Physiological Proteomics"

Chairpersons: Charles A. Blake and Steven R. Goodman

Charles A. Blake, University of South Carolina
"The proteomics of the anterior pituitary gland"

Steven R. Goodman, University of of Texas at Dallas
"The proteomics of sickle cell disease"

Carlos Gusti Gartner, Harvard Medical School
"Catch-and-release (CAR) reagents: new tools for broadscale analysis of the proteome"

Mark W. Duncan, Univeristy of Colorado Health Sciences Center
"Clinical applications of proteomics"

SEBM Symposium at EB 2004, Washington, DC

Support for this symposium has been provided by AstraZeneca

"Non-hemostatic Physiological Effects of Hemostatis-related Components"

Organized and Chaired by: Kenneth L. Barker, PhD, Upstate Medical University, Syracuse, New York

David J. Loskutoff, Scripps Research Institute
"Role of PAI-1 in Cell Adhesion and Detachment"

Daniel A. Lawrence, American Red Cross Holland Laboratories
"Fibrinolytic Molecules and Neural Function"

Jay L. Degen, Children's Hospital Research Foundation, Cincinnati
"Dissociation of the Hemostatic and Inflammatory Roles of Fibrinogen"

Jerry Ware, Scripps Clinic
"Septins in Platelets and Neural Tissue"

SEBM sponsors a symposium at the annual Experimental Biology meetings as a guest of the American Physiological Society. Past symposium topics are: nutrition and cancer; steroid hormone receptors; osteoporosis, aging and longevity; nitric oxide in physiological and pathologic function; high carbohydrate diets and cardiovascular disease; pathophysiology and genetics of body weight; and angiotensin and oxidative stress in hypertension. Papers from the symposia are published in Experimental Biology and Medicine.

SEBM Symposium at EB 2003, San Diego

Support for this symposium has been provided by Merck & Co and AstraZeneca.

"Career Planning for Experimental Biology, Biomedical and Physician Scientists"

Organized and Chaired by: Kenneth L. Barker, PhD, Upstate Medical University, Syracuse, New York

"Physician-Scientists: Preparation, Opportunities, and National Need"
Kenneth Kaushansky, MD, University of California at San Diego

Biological Scientists in Industry: What Companies Need and Their Criteria for Selection of Professional Scientific Staff"
William T. Schrader, PhD, Schrader Biotech Consulting, Inc

"Building and Supporting Effective Academic Clinical Research Programs in Today's Market-driven Health Care Environment"
Kenneth L. Barker, PhD, Upstate Medical University, New York

"Balancing the Competing Career Demands of the Academic Physician-Scientist: Personal Challenges and Rewards"
Mary Sue O'Dorisio, MD, PhD, University of Iowa

CHAPTER MEETINGS

SEBM regional chapters conduct annual meetings with invited speakers and graduate student abstract presentations.

For additional information, please contact the chapter.