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NIDCR 60th Anniversary
Scientific Symposium

June 24, 2008
Natcher Auditorium, Building 45
National Institutes of Health
Bethesda, MD

There is no fee for attending, and no pre-registration.

Building the Molecular Toolbox:
Four Perspectives

8:30

Welcome
Lawrence A. Tabak, DDS, PhD, Director, National Institute of Dental and Craniofacial Research

8:45

Introduction
Dushanka V. Kleinman, DDS, MScD
University of Maryland, College Park


9:00

Salivary Diagnostics: Scientific and Clinical Frontiers
David T.W. Wong, DMD, DMSc
University of California at Los Angeles

9:30

Biopsychosocial and Genetic Risk Factors for TMJD and Related Disorders
William Maixner, DDS, PhD
University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill


10:00

Coffee Break

10:30

Gene Therapy Strategies for Craniofacial Regeneration
Paul H. Krebsbach, DDS, PhD
University of Michigan, Ann Arbor


11:00

Design Principles for Tissue Engineering and Regenerative Medicine
Linda Griffith, PhD
Massachusetts Institute of Technology


11:30

Discussion

Noon

Lunch – Natcher Cafeteria

 

The Human Microbiome:
Biology’s Next Revolution

1:15

Welcome
Elias A. Zerhouni, MD
Director, National Institutes of Health

1:30

Introduction
Pamela McInnes, DDS, MSc (Dent.)
National Institute of Dental and Craniofacial Research

1:45

High Throughput Genomics and the Microbiome
Francis S. Collins, MD, PhD
Director, National Human Genome Research Institute

2:15

Coffee Break

2:45

Open Wide: Microbial Ecology and Metagenomics in the Human Oral Cavity
David A. Relman, MD
Stanford University

3:15

The Human Oral Microbiome
Floyd E. Dewhirst, DDS, PhD
The Forsyth Institute, Boston  

3:45

Discussion

4:15

Adjourn

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