Fall 2009 Meeting ofMCS 2009

"Frontiers in Microcirculation:
Control Processes and Clinical Applications"

October 16-17, 2009
The University of Missouri - Columbia


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Keynote Speakers

Kris Noel Dahl, Ph.D.
Department of Chemical Engineering
Carnegie Mellon University
http://www.cheme.cmu.edu/people/faculty/krisdahl.htm


Mary Dickinson, Ph.D.

Department of Molecular Physiology and Biophysics
Baylor College of Medicine
http://www.bcm.edu/db/db_fac-dickinson.html


Dai Fukumura, M.D., Ph.D.
Department of Radiation Oncology, Edwin L. Steele Laboratory
Massachusetts General Hospital – Harvard University
http://steele.mgh.harvard.edu/main/index.php


D. Neil Granger, Ph.D.

Department of Molecular and Cellular Physiology
Louisiana State University Health Sciences Center
http://www.shreveportphysiology.com/fac_neil_granger.htm


Luisa Iruela-Arispe, Ph.D.
Department of Molecular, Cell and Developmental Biology
University of California Los Angeles
http://www.mcdb.ucla.edu/Research/Arispe/index.php


William C. Sessa, Ph.D.
Department of Pharmacology & Boyer Center for Molecular Medicine
Yale University School of Medicine
http://info.med.yale.edu/pharm/sessa/index.html


Mihaela Skobe, Ph.D.
Department of Oncological Sciences
Mount Sinai School of Medicine
http://gsevals.mssm.edu/gradhome/rfaculty.php?cid=164


Donald G. Welsh, Ph.D.

Department of Physiology and Biophysics
University of Calgary
http://www.ucalgary.ca/smrg/faculty/donald-welsh


Keynote speakers will be present for the entire meeting to interact with attendees, particularly graduate and MD/PhD students, residents and postdoctoral trainees. Informal discussion groups provide opportunities to address questions and concerns facing young investigators including: How to find the right job, obtain funding, set up a laboratory, recruit and train laboratory personnel, conduct innovative research, develop fruitful collaborations and publish in leading journals.