Geropathology Research Network Symposium 2015

Geropathology Research Network Symposium 2015

The network is a newly formed consortium (Fig. 1) supported by the United States National Institutes of Health (NIH). The mission of the network is to develop ways to translationally enhance the level, scope, and consistency of molecular and anatomic pathology assessment in old animals involved in aging studies using a network of pathologists and scientists with expertise in the pathobiology of...

Introduction: Practical Social and Industrial Research (PSIR) Symposium 2015

The Practical Social and Industrial Research (PSIR) Symposium was scheduled to take place in the Hong Kong Institute of Vocational Education (IVE), Morrison Hill, Hong Kong, on 27 November 2015. The Symposium was organised with the intent of bringing together vocational education and training (VET) practitioners from different subject areas possessing diverse expertise, who were involved in car...

Herman Skolnik Award Symposium 2015

Introduction Veerabahu (Veer) Shanmugasundaram of Pfizer, who chaired the symposium, gave a brief introduction highlighting Jürgen’s achievements. (A lengthier tribute has appeared at http://bulletin.acscinf.org/node/655.) Jürgen obtained his diploma (M.S.) and Ph.D. degrees (under Wolfram Saenger) in biochemistry from the Free University of Berlin. He then did postdoctoral studies with Arnie H...

The 4th Great Wall Symposium, 2015

The Fourth Great Wall Symposium held in September 2015, in Florence, Italy featured the latest advances in the field of peptidoglycan metabolism. We hosted one keynote lecture by Waldemar Vollmer in honor of Joachim-Volker Höltje. The meeting was organized around six different sessions with 22 speakers and 12 short talks selected from the submitted abstracts. The meeting attracted a great deal ...

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