Featured Speakers and Presentation Titles

Luis Amaral, PhD, McCormick School, Northwestern University
Building a Cartography of Cellular Networks -- How Developing the
" Big Picture" Will Help Identify New Research Directions

Keith Baggerly, PhD, The University of Texas M.D. Anderson Cancer Center
The Analysis of Proteomic Spectra from Serum Samples

Augustine Choi, MD, University of Pittsburgh School of Medicine
Signaling Pathways of CO in Pathophysiologic States

John Cidlowski, PhD, National Institute of Environmental Health Sciences, NIH, DHHS
The Glucocorticoid Receptor: One Gene, Many Proteins, Extensive Post-translational Modifications Provide New Mechanisms for Tissue Specific Anti-inflammatory Actions of Glucocortocoids in Health and Disease

Bruce Freeman, PhD, University of Pittsburgh School of Medicine
Nitroalkene Regulation of Protein Function and Gene Expression – Pluripotent Cell Signaling Actions of NO-modified Fatty Acids

Mark Gladwin, MD, National Heart, Lung, and Blood Institute, NIH, DHHS
Nitrite as an Intrinsic Signaling Molecule that Regulates Hypoxic NO Homeostasis and Cytoprotection

Brahm Goldstein, MD, Oregon Health & Science University
Complex Systems Analysis in Traumatic Brain Injury

David S. Goldstein, MD, PhD, National Institute of Neurological Disorders and Stroke, NIH, DHHS
A Systems Approach to Stress, Distress, and Acute and Chronic Disease

Marti Jett, PhD, Walter Reed Army Institute of Research
Modeling of Gene Expression to Integrate Molecular Responses with Clinical, Pathological, and Biochemical Mechanisms

Teri Manolio, MD, PhD, National Human Genome Research Institute, NIH, DHHS
Genome-Wide Association Studies in the Study of Complex Injury Phenotypes

John Marshall, MD, St Michael’s Hospital, Toronto, Canada
Canadian Critical Care Trials Network

Christian Meisel, MD, Charité University Berlin
Mechanisms and Consequences of CNS Injury-induced Immunodepression

Sidney Morris, Jr., PhD, University of Pittsburgh School of Medicine
The Arginases: Toll Keepers at Critical Crossroads in Metabolism

Avery Nathens, MD, PhD, MPH, University of Toronto
Determinants of Early Gene Expression Following Injury

Carol Nicholson, MD, National Institute of Child Health and Human Development, NIH, DHHS
NIH/NICHD Collaborative Pediatric Critical Care Research Network

Frank Sharp, MD, M.I.N.D. Institute, University of California at Davis
Blood Genomics of Acute and Chronic Neurological Diseases including Stroke

Alan Shuldiner, MD, University of Maryland School of Medicine
High-throughput Genetic Approaches: Candidate Genes and Genome Wide Studies

Robert Vandre, COL, United States Army Medical Research and Materiel Command
Genomics and the US Army Combat Casualty Care Research Program

Richard Weinshilboum, MD, Mayo Clinic College of Medicine
Pharmacogenomics: Origins, Mechanisms, and Translation