Please join us as the USC School of Dentistry Center for Craniofacial Molecular Biology hosts its first Developmental Biology and Tissue Regeneration Symposium on May 19, 2008. The symposium will take place in the IGM Harkness Assembly, CSC 250 on the Health Science Campus.

Invited prominent speakers include:
- Dr. Matthew Scott, Professor of Developmental Biology & Genetics, Stanford University
- Dr. Paul Sharpe, Head of the Division of Craniofacial Biology and Biomaterials, King's College Dental Institute, London
- Dr. Joan Richtsmeier, Professor of Biological Anthropology, Pennsylvania State University
- Dr. Philippe Soriano, Member of Basic Sciences, Fred Hutchinson Cancer Research Center
- Dr. Robb Krumlauf, Scientific Director, Stowers Institute for Medical Research
- Dr. Gerard Karsenty, Professor and Chair of Genetics and Development, Columbia University
- Dr. Rusty Lansford, an Instructor at the Division of Bioengineering and Senior Scientist at the Division of Biology and Biological Imaging Center of the California Institute of Technology
-Dr. Freda Miller, a Senior Scientist of Medical Genetics and Microbiology at the Hospital for Sick Children Research Institute, Faculty of Medicine, University of Toronto, Canada

To view the symposium brochure with specific topic information, click here (PDF) .

Online registration is available at http://www.usc.edu/hsc/dental/ccmb.

For more information, please contact the following:
-- Dr. Yang Chai at (323) 442-3480 or at ychai@usc.edu
-- Elsa Miranda at (323) 442-2467 or at emiranda@usc.edu