Shanghai Symposium - Signaling, Inflammation and Cancer
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Time: 2011-08-15
In order to promote basic research on signaling, inflammation and cancer in China, and to increase the impact of Chinese scientists’ work on the international scientific community, Institute of Biochemistry and Cell Biology, SIBS, CAS (IBCB) organized an Shanghai Symposium: Signaling, Inflammation and Cancer, which was held in IBCB from July 25th-28th .
The Symposium officially started at 8:30 AM, July 25th. Dr. Anning Lin, chairman of the Symposium and director of IBCB, presided at the opening ceremony and gave a welcome speech. The conference venue, the SIBS amphitheatre, was packed with more than 300 renowned scientists and students from top institutions both within China and around the world. Dr. Michael Karin, professor at UCSD and member of NAS-USA, gave the keynote talk titled Inflammation, metabolism, aging and cancer: Dangerous Liaisons.
The central part of the Symposium, 24 talks from international scientists and 17 talks from domestic scientists, were divided into six sessions: Mechanisms of Cell signaling, Cell Death and Autophage, Signaling and Inflammation, Inflammation and Cancer, Signaling and Cancer, and Emerging Paradigms in Signaling, Inflammation and Cancer. These sessions were chaired by Dr. Melanie Cobb (professor at UT Dallas and member of NAS-USA), Dr. Dan Wu (professor at Yale University), Dr. Jean Wang (professor at UCSD), Dr. Junying Yuan (professor at Harvard University), Dr. Shaocong Sun (professor at UT Houston), Dr. Ulrich Siebenlist (investigator at NIAID, NIH), Dr. Bing Su (associate professor at Yale University), Dr. Michael Lenardo (investigator at NIAID, NIH), Dr. Tony Hunter (professor at Salk Institute and member of NAS-USA), Dr. Marsha Rosner (Professor at the University of Chicago), Dr. Gary Johnson (professor at UNC), Dr. Junlin Guan (professor at the University of Michigan), Dr. Eileen White (professor at Rutgers University), and Dr. Geoffery Greene (professor at the University of Chicago). The speakers presented latest research progress and scientific ideas from their laboratories, which were followed by heated discussion between the speakers and the audience.
The Symposium ended at noon, July 28th amid the applause of the participants.
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