Joint 2002 Winter Meeting of the World High Tech Society and the
Society for
Industrial Microbiology - New England Section
Translating Cutting Edge Science into Applications in the 21st Century
Date: March 27, 2002
Place: Whitehead Institute for Biomedical Research (at MIT)
Cambridge Center, Cambridge, MA
Meeting Chair: Dr. Lixin Zhang, President of WHTS, Section Head of
Microbiology, Cetek Corporation, Marlborough, MA
1:30 PM - 2:00 PM: Registration (Whitehead Lobby)
2:00 PM - 2:10 PM Opening Remarks: Dr. Ted C. Crusberg,
President
of NE-SIM, Dept. of Biology &
Biotechnology, Worcester
Polytechnic Institute
2:10 PM -3:10 PM Novel Approach To Fight Against Anthrax Toxin
Dr. R. John Collier, Maude and Lillia Presley
Professor of Microbiology and Molecular
Genetics,
Harvard Medical School, and Member, National
Academy of Sciences (1991)
3:10 PM - 4:10 PM An Entrepreneur Adventure
Mr. James Waters, Chairman and CEO of Cetek
Corporation
4:10 PM - 5:10 PM Finding Restriction-Modification Systems by
Genomics
Dr. Richard J. Roberts, Nobel Laureate,
Physiology or Medicine,
1993, New England Biolabs
5:10 PM - 5:20 PM Closing Remarks: Dr. Lixin Zhang and Dr. Ted
Crusberg
5:30 PM Reception and dinner (Whitehead Cafeteria)
There is no registration fee for the scientific meeting. Please help
us
fill the room for this exciting program. We encourage you and your
guests
to take part in our Social and Dinner which is a festive function of
this
meeting and provides you an opportunity to meet and mingle with your
colleagues from this region. Use the form below for a Dinner
reservation
prior to March 22, 2002. Cost for members and guests will be $30 and
$15 for
students. Cost for non-section members will be $45 (New England
Section SIM membership fee included).
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NE/SIM Dinner Reservation, Wednesday, March 27, 2002, 5:30 pm,
Whitehead Institute at MIT. Please make a check payable to New
England Section
of SIM and mail to: Dr. T. Crusberg, Biology & Biotech. Dept.,
Worcester Polytechnic Inst., Worcester MA 01609
Name: ________________________________________________
Address:
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Tel __________________________ Fax _______________
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Total Enclosed: $_________
Our Choices of Meal are: Meat____ Fish____ Vege
