We announce the Sackler Institute and IGPPEB Inaugural Symposium to celebrate the establishment of the Sackler Institute for Biological, Physical and Engineering Sciences and to welcome the first class of students to the Integrated Graduate Program in Physical and Engineering Biology. This one-day symposium will feature outstanding speakers who are leaders in using integrated approaches to study the grand challenges in the biological sciences. The symposium will also feature poster sessions from symposium attendees and IGPPEB students and postdocs. There is no charge for attendance, but attendees must register by September 15, 2009.

List of confirmed speakers include:

• Howard Berg, Department of Physics, Department of Molecular and Cellular Biology, Harvard University
   
• Martin Chalfie, Department of Biological Sciences, Columbia University
   
• Prof. Dennis E. Discher, Department of Chemical and Biomolecular Engineering and Bioengineering, University of Pennsylvania
   
• Prof. Terrence Hwa, Center for Theoretical Biological Physics, Department of Physics, University of California, San Diego
   
• Prof. Susan Lindquist, Whitehead Institute for Biomedical Research, Department of Biology, Massachusetts Institute of Technology
   
• Alexander van Oudenaarden, Department of Biomedical Engineering, Department of Physics, Massachusetts Institute of Technology
   
• Prof. Daniela Rhodes, Laboratory of Molecular Biology, Cambridge University, UK
   
• Prof. Michelle Wang, Laboratory of Atomic and Solid State Physics, Department of Physics, Cornell University
   

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