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The
13th Annual Midwest Stress Response and Molecular Chaperone Meeting will
be held on Saturday, January 19, 2008 on the Evanston Campus of Northwestern
University. This meeting will provide the opportunity for those interested
in the areas of stress response, heat-shock proteins, and molecular
chaperones to present their own work and learn from others working
in this field. The meeting is organized by Richard Morimoto at Northwestern
University and will be chaired by Jeffrey Brodsky of the University of
Pittsburgh. Lila
Gierasch of the University of Massachusetts, Amherst will be the keynote
speaker. Talks by graduate students, postdoctoral fellows and new investigators
will be featured as well as a poster session.
After the meeting on Saturday night, please join us at a dinner honoring
David Smith and David Toft, who have been regular participants in this
meeting since its inception and have made major contributions to our field
as investigators at the Mayo Clinic. The "Two Davids" will soon be moving
on to pursue other interests, and--as a community--we wish to thank them
for all that they have done. This dinner will be held at a Mt.
Everest, which is near the meeting site. (We have arranged for a buffet
dinner. The cost is $20 per person for dinner and there will be a cash
bar.)
Program and Poster Information:
PROGRAM:
The meeting will start promptly at 8:55 AM (coffee, juice and bagels at
7:30 am) and end at 6:30 PM. A wine and hors d'oeuvre reception follows
immediately after. You may download this year's schedule
HERE.
The poster abstracts will be in the program book, which everyone will receive
on Saturday. If you would like an advance look at them, the abstracts
are provided below.
You may download abstracts for the posters here. HERE.
POSTER: Poster space dimensions are 4 feet wide
by 4 1/2 feet high. Push pins will be provided. The Poster Session
will be held in the Pancoe Cafe on the 2nd floor of the Pancoe-ENH Life
Sciences Pavilion. (Looking out the front door of the Allen Center, the
Pavilion is to the right, across the road and just a few seconds away).
We will hold
the meeting at the James L. Allen Center as we have in the last few years,
and the poster session will be held next door at the Pancoe-ENH Pavilion. The Allen Center is at 2169 Campus Dr. in Evanston, IL.
You may download Directions and a
Map here.
A campus map and the surrounding area
can be found here. This will be helpful if you are walking from nearby hotels.
Directions
to Northwestern University can be found here.
Directions to the hotels can be found by clicking on their websites (listed
below).
If you are
FLYING IN, it will take approximately 30-45 minutes from O’Hare
and 45-60 minutes from Midway.
Three cab services familiar with Evanston are Norshore Cab (800-244-9200),
American Taxi (800-244-1177) and 303 Cab (800-255-5303). Call to arrange for pick up
after you land. They have cars at the airport, so the wait will not be long.
(We do NOT recommend going to the cab stand). BE SURE TO ASK FOR THE FLAT RATE TO EVANSTON. It should
be close to $30.00.
Continental Airport Express is a shared van service to/from O'Hare Airport and Midway Airport. A one-way trip is $25.00 and round-trip is $46.00. Call 1-888-284-3826 to reservations.
For Limousine service call ABC Limousine (800-258-4935).
Meeting Registration and Deadlines:
Please fill out the ONLINE REGISTRATION FORM. The deadline for registrations and abstracts for those who wish to present a poster and/or a talk is December 15, 2007. (For attendees who will not be submitting an abstract, the deadline for registration is January 4). If you have trouble with the online registration, please send your information to Georgette Pliml at g-pliml@northwestern.edu, or by fax to 847-491-4461.
PLEASE NOTE: If you would like to give either a poster or a talk, you must submit your registration as well as an ABSTRACT BY DECEMBER 15. See abstract submission guidelines below.
There is no registration fee for this meeting, as funding has been granted by the Daniel F. and Ada L. Rice Institute for Biomedical Research and other funds will be sought.
If at any time you need to cancel, please email g-pliml@northwestern.edu.
If you cannot
communicate electronically, you may reach us by mail, phone, or fax:
Georgette Pliml
2205 Tech Drive; Hogan 2-100
Northwestern University
Evanston, IL 60208
Tel: 847-467-2126, Fax: 847-491-4461
g-pliml@northwestern.edu
| INSTRUCTIONS
FOR THOSE WHO WISH TO PRESENT A POSTER Registrations and abstracts must be received by December 15. Speakers will be notified by December 28. Abstracts should be no more than 400 words. Please save the abstract as a Microsoft Word document (Times 12 point font) using the last name of the presenter as the file name. Email the abstract to Georgette Pliml (g-pliml@northwestern.edu) as an attachment. For a sample of an acceptable abstract, please click here.
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