Sixth Chinese-American Symposium
Chinese Academy of Sciences - U.S. National Academy of Sciences
October 10-12, 2003
Shanghai, China
Sessions:
- Brain Cell Transplantation
- Cosmological Model
- Genome Plasticity
- Origin of Animal Life
- Single Molecule Detection
- Solid State Quantum Computing
- Stem Cells
- String Theory
Brain Cell Transplantation
Organizers: Khalid Iqbal and Chen Biao
Chair: Clive Svendsen, University of Wisconsin, Madison
Towards Stem Cell Therapy for Neurological Disorders
Speakers:
Ping Wu, University of Texas Medical Branch
Region-Specific Generation of Cholinergic Neurons from Fetal Human Neural Stem Cells Grafted in Adult Rat
Piu Chan, Xuanwu Hospital of Capital University of Medical Sciences
Brain Cell Transplantation in Parkinson's Disease
Cosmological Model
Organizers: Ken Lanzetta and Lou Yuqing
Chair: Lou Yu-qing, Tsinghua University
Speaker:
Jing Yipeng, Shanghai University
Structure Formation in the Universe
Genome Plasticity
Organizers: James Holden and Chen Biao
Chair: Suzanne Rutherford, Fred Hutchinson Cancer Research Center
Hsp90 as a Capacitor for Morphological Evolution
Speaker:
Susan M. Rosenberg, Baylor College of Medicine
Origin of Animal Life
Organizers: Yixian Zheng and Su Xin
Co-Chairs: Eric Gaidos, University of Hawaii and Su Degan, North West University
Speakers:
James Hagadorn, Amherst College
The Cambrian Substrate Revolution
Zhu Maoyan, Nanjing Institute of Geology and Palaeontology
Single Molecule Detection
Organizers: Shao Yuanhua and Nathaniel Finney
Chair: Fang Xiaohong, Institute of Chemistry, Chinese Academy of Sciences
Speakers:
Robert Dickson, Georgia Institute of Technology
Fang Xiaohong, Institute of Chemistry, Chinese Academy of Sciences
Solid State Quantum Computing
Organizers: Xingao Gong and Scott Ahlgren
Chair: C. P. Sun, Institute of Theoretical Physics, Chinese Academy of Sciences
Speakers:
Isaac Chuang, Massachusetts Institute of Technology
J. Q. You, The Institute of Physical and Chemical Research (RIKEN)
Superconducting Quantum Machines: From Quantum Bits to Quantum Computers
Stem Cells
Organizers: Chen Biao and Khalid Iqbal
Chair: Linzhao Cheng, Johns Hopkins University School of Medicine
Human Embryonic and Postnatal Stem Cells: Self-Renewal and Hematopoietic Differentiation
Speakers:
Alex Zhang, Beijing Institute of Geriatrics, Xuanwu Hospital
Pancreatic Stem Cells
Theo Palmer, Stanford University
Neural Stem Cells and Regeneration in the Central Nervous System
String Theory
Organizers: Scott Ahlgren and Li Jiayu
Chair: Lu Jianxin, North West University of China
Speaker:
Li Miao, National Taiwan University
