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Leading Researchers Discuss Biological Discoveries at Newest Rensselaer Center
World-renowned experts in the biosciences and bioengineering shared their views on the promise and the societal implications of biotechnology research during a symposium and Presidential Colloquy on Sept. 9-10.
The symposium, titled "Biological Discoveries That Will Change the World," opened with a plenary session featuring keynote speeches from Shirley Tilghman, Ph.D., president of Princeton University and a highly respected molecular biologist; Robert Langer, Sc.D., the Kenneth J. Germeshausen Professor of Chemical and Biomedical Engineering at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology; and Troy Duster, Ph.D., professor of sociology at New York University and Chancellor's Professor at the University of California, Berkeley.
The daylong event, which was held in the auditorium of the Center for Biotechnology and Interdisciplinary Studies, also featured several Rensselaer faculty members and invited guests who made presentations about their research. Topics discussed during the symposium included genomic sequencing, regenerative medicine, enzymes in drug discovery, and related research.
Capping the activities was a poster session consisting of more than 90 posters, a dinner featuring speaker Roderic Pettigrew '73, Ph.D., M.D., the director of the National Institute of Biomedical Imaging and Bioengineering, and the first EMPAC-hosted event, a play called The Fly-Bottle.
The Fly-Bottle, produced by Shakespeare & Company, also will be performed at 8 p.m. on Sept. 15-18 in the auditorium of the Center for Biotechnology and Interdisciplinary Studies. More information is available at http://empac.rpi.edu/.
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