RCMI Puerto Rico Medical Sciences Campus

Inauguration RCMI Clinical Proteomics Core Facility
Mini-Symposium on Proteomics:
Applications to Clinical and Biotechnology Developments

8:30 - 9:30 AM Welcome Remarks

Antonio García Padilla
President
University of Puerto Rico

José R. Carlo, M.D.
Chancellor
UPR Medical Sciences Campus

Douglas M. Sheely, Sc.D.
Director
Division of Biomedical Technology
NCRR-NIH

Emma Fernández-Repollet, Ph.D.
Vice President for Research and Technology
University of Puerto Rico

Loyda Meléndez, Ph.D,
Director Clinical Proteomics Core Facility
UPR Medical Sciences Campus

9:30 -10:30 AM

“Nuevos desarrollos en Proteómica y sus aplicaciones en
Biotecnología”

Jesús Vázquez, Ph.D.
Senior Investigator
Molecular Biology Center
Universidad Autónoma de Madrid
28049 Cantoblanco, Madrid, Spain

10:40 -11:40 AM

Proteomic Investigations of Disease Pathways: Oxidative Stress,
Microbial Invasions

Catherine E. Costello, Ph.D.
Research Professor of Biochemistry and Biophysics
Director, Mass Spectrometry Resource and
Cardiovascular Proteomics Center
Boston University School of Medicine
670 Albany Street, Room 511
Boston, MA 02118-2646

11:40 -1:00 PM Lunch break

1:00 -2:00 PM Tour to the RCMI Clinical Proteomics Core Facility

2:00 - 3:00 PM

HIV-1-associated Cognitive Impairment: Proteomic Approach

Pawel Ciborowski, Ph.D.
Assistant Professor of Pharmacology and Experimental Neuroscience
Assistant Professor of Biochemistry and Molecular Biology
Director, Proteomics Program
Center for Neurovirology and Neurodegenerative Disorders
985800 University of Nebraska Medical Center
Omaha, NE 68198-5800

3:00 - 4:00 PM
Systems Investigation of Signal Transduction
Xian Chen, Ph.D.
Associate Professor of Biochemistry and Biophysics
Director Faculty UNC-DUKE
Proteomics Center, University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill
Chapel Hill, NC



Friday August 3, 2007


9:00- 9:30AM Meeting with Dr. Emma Fernández-Repollet, PhD
Vice President for Research and Technology
RCMI Program Director, UPR Medical Sciences Campus
RCMI Office, 6th Floor Room 621A
Main Building UPR Medical Sciences Campus


9:45 – 11:00AM Meeting with Dr. Loyda Meléndez
Professor of Microbiology
Coordinator Clinical Proteomics Discovery Core Facility
Laboratory B-316, 3rd Floor
Main Building UPR Medical Sciences Campus

Sponsors: RCMIProgram
RCMI Clinical Research Center
SNRP NeuroAIDS Program
Department of Microbiology