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Please RSVP by September 28th, 2007

Herbert E. Carter Symposium on Sphingolipids and Glycolipid

8:00 am	Continental Breakfast available in ILC courtyard
9:00 - 9:05	Welcome - Thomas O. Baldwin
	Session 1 Herb Carter’s Approach to Science: If Research Isn’t Fun, It Shouldn’t Be Done! Charles C. Sweeley, Presiding
9:05-9:20	Introduction, Charles C. Sweeley
9:20-9:50	"From meso-Carbons to Diets, Disease & Death" Bill Lands, College Park, MD
9:50-9:55	Discussion
9:55-10:25	"Novel regulation of post-translational modifications in the Golgi Apparatus: from Basic Science to Diseases" Carlos B. Hirschberg, Boston University
10:25-10:30	Discussion
10:30-10:50	Break
10:50-11:20	"Omega-3 and Omega-6 Fatty Acids in Prostaglandin Synthesis and Signaling" William L. Smith
10:20-10:25	Discussion
10:25-11:55	"Defense Fluids of Formosan Termites Contain Novel Sphingosines in Free Ceramides" Roger A. Laine
11:55-12:00	Discussion
12:00 - 1:30	Lunch in ILC courtyard
	Session 2 Two Fields Founded by Herb Carter: Sphingolipids and Glycolipids Robert K. Yu, presiding
1:30-1:40	Introduction, Robert Yu
1:40-2:10	"Analysis of sphingolipids by mass spectrometry for 'omic' studies and tissue imaging" Alfred H. Merrill, Georgia Institute of Technology
2:10-2:15	Discussion
2:15- 2:45	"The family of neutral sphingomyelinases in cell regulation" Yusuf A. Hannun, Medical College of South Carolina
2:45-2:50	Discussion
2:50-3:10	Break
3:10-3:40	"Sphingolipid long-chain bases regulate cellular processes in yeast" Robert Dickson, University of Kentucky
3:40-3:45	Discussion
3:45-4:15	"Gangliosides and angiogenesis" Thomas N. Seyfried, Boston College
4:15-4:20	Discussion
4:20-4:50	"The functional role of glycosphingolipids in neural stem cells" Robert Yu, Medical College of Georgia
4:50-4:55	Discussion
4:55 - 5:05	Summary, John H. Law
6:30	Dinner at the Four Points by Sheraton Tucson University Plaza - please RSVP

For more information, contact Ellie Warder at 520-621-5903