Seminars were presented in the morning and afternoon by selected primary and secondary faculty and post-docs. Our keynote speaker this year was Gergely, Lukacs, M.D., Ph.D., Professor, Department of Physiology at McGill University. A poster session followed the talks and prizes were presented to the best poster submitted by a post-doc and graduate student.
The winners were:
Post-Doc: Wei Dong, Ph.D.
"Regulation of Cell Polarity Proteins Lgl by Hypoxia in Drosophila" Wei Dong, Weijie Liu, Juan Huang, Patty Chiu, Kenneth Hallows*, Alicia Celotto*, Michael Palladino* and Yang Hong
Graduate Student: Sarah Moore
"Proteomic Characterization of the Binding Partners of Dopamine Transporter (DAT) and Functional DAT Mutants." Sarah Moore, Alexander Sorkin, Christine Wu.
The event concluded with most people attending the Pittsburgh Pirate Game that evening.
For complete details of the 2011 retreat, please view this pdf (requires Acrobat Reader).