The Bayer School of Natural and Environmental Sciences Center for Metals in Biological Systems Second Annual Mini-Symposium on Metals in Biological Systems December 1, 2006 College Hall, Room 104

1:00 – 1:15 – Dr. David W. Seybert (www.science.duq.edu)

Dean, Bayer School of Natural and Environmental Sciences

Welcome address

1:20-2:00 – Dr. Carol A. Fierke (http://www.umich.edu/~michchem/faculty/fierke/ )

Jerome and Isabella Karle Collegiate Professor of Chemistry Professor of Biological Chemistry

University of Michigan

“Zinc Homeostasis Probed by Cellular Imaging”

2:10-2:50 – Dr. Valerian E. Kagan (http://www.eoh.pitt.edu/)

Professor of Environmental and Occupational Health  

University of Pittsburgh

“Cytochrome C -- A major player in programmed cell death: role of iron. ”

3:00-3:40– Dr. Dianne K. Newman (http://www.gps.caltech.edu/labs/newmanlab/ )

Professor of Geobiology, Howard Hughes Medical Institute

California Institute of Technology

"A decade of studying As(V) respiration: from the environment to molecules and back"

Poster Session & Refreshments - Mellon Hall Lobby 4:00 – 6:00 pm

For more information contact 412-396-6340 or http://www.science.duq.edu/cMBS.htm