UMBI's Research Day a Success

Rockville, MD - On Wednesday November 30, 2005, UMBI hosted the third in a series of programs in recognition of its 20th Anniversary celebration. UMBI's "Research Day" provided an audience of more than 150 people with the opportunity to learn about cutting-edge bioscience research done at UMBI's five centers of excellence. Speakers included: Vik Vakharia from UMBI's Center for Biosystems Research (CBR), his topic was "Diagnosis and control of poultry virus infections"; Russell Hill from UMBI's Center of Marine Biotechnology (COMB), he spoke about "Microbial symbionts of marine invertebrates as sources of bioactive compounds"; Bruce Vogel from UMBI's Medical Biotechnology Center (MBC), his title was "Extracellular matrix proteins in development and disease"; John Marino from UMBI's Center for Advanced Research in Biotechnology (CARB), spoke on "Probing the mechanism of heterotrimeric G-protein signaling using high-resolution NMR"; Alfred Garzino-Demo from UMBI's Institute of Human Virology (IHV), talk was entitled "Host factors limiting HIV infection"; Zeev Pancer from COMB spoke about "Leucine-rich repeat (LRR) modules: linking innate and adaptive immunity"; Shuwei Li from CARB spoke on "Protein detecting microarray, a new tool for medical diagnosis"; Jum Sook Chung from COMB talked about "Hormonal regulation of the blue crab molting and reproduction"; Illarion Turko from CARB finished the day with his topic of "Mucosal proteomics: linking innate and adaptive immunity".

      
(1st photo left Dr. Vik Vakharia from CBR speaks to the audience about poultry virus infections while Dr. W. Jonathan Lederer looks on. 2nd photo right Dr. Russell Hill from COMB answers a question from Dr. Jennie Hunter-Cevera about microbial symbionts.)

      
(1st photo left Dr. Yonathan Zohar introduces Dr. Alfredo Garzino-Demo from IHV before his talk about the HIV infection. 2nd photo right Dr. Jum Sook Chung from COMB responds to a question after her talk about the blue crab, while Dr. Donald Nuss looks on.)

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Celebrating our 20th anniversary year, UMBI is Maryland's premier biotechnology research institute within the University System of Maryland and was established in 1985. The University of Maryland Biotechnology Institute (UMBI) consists of five major research and education centers and is dedicated to advancing the frontiers of biotechnology. UMBI’s centers of research include: CARB, the Center for Advanced Research in Biotechnology located in Rockville; CBR, the Center for Biosystems Research located in College Park; and COMB, the Center of Marine Biotechnology, MBC, the Medical Biotechnology Center, and IHV, the Institute of Human Virology, all located in Baltimore. For more information, visit www.umbi.umd.edu