Jan Lab Reunion/Symposium -- August 23 & 24, 2006

The Symposium | Reunions & New Introductions | Families & Fun | Chinese Banquet on Sat. Night

The Symposium

SATURDAY MORNING
Chair: Tom Schwarz (1983-1989) Harvard Medical School

9:00 AM - 10:15 AM
Dale Branton  (1981-1988) University of Minnesota - "Genesis"
Chauncey Bowers  (1984-1987) City of Hope -  "Molecular parasites and genetic imprinting"
Constance Royden  (1982-1988) College of the Holy Cross - "The legacy of tko: from mitochondria to hearing and vision"
Bingwei Lu  (1996-2001) Stanford University - "Playing on the course of neurodegeneration: PAR-1"
Blanche Schwappach  (1997-2000) University of Heidelberg, ZMBH - "Shuttling in and out of U-285"

 

11:00 AM - 12:30 PM
Alain Ghysen  (1980-1992) UniversitÈ Montpellier 2, France - "32 years with Lily and Yuh-Nung"
Christine Dambly-Chaudiere  (1980-1992) UniversitÈ Montpellier 2 - "Migrating from fly to fish"
Bruce Tempel  (1984-1988) University of Washington, Seattle
Jian Yang  (1994-1996) Columbia University
Bruce Cohen  (1997–2005) Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory - "Better living through quantum dots"
Adrian Moore  (1999–2003) RIKEN Brain Science Institute, Japan - "Transcription factor mediated control of dendrite arbor ultrastructure"
 

SATURDAY LUNCH BREAK 12:30 PM - 2:00 PM
 

SATURDAY AFTERNOON
Chair: Liqun Luo (1992-1996) Stanford University

2:00 PM - 3:15 AM
Diane Papazian  (1984-1989) University of California, Los Angeles - "Potassium channels and neuronal survival during development and aging"
Min Li  (1990-1992) Johns Hopkins Medical School
Ed Giniger  (1988-1993) NINDS, NIH - "Notching up another victim"
Michelle Rhyu  (1989-1994) Cooley Godward, LLP - "Asymmetric distribution of power: defending immigrant rights against the Department of Homeland Security"
Ed Cooper  (1994-2002) University of Pennsylvania School of Medicine - "KCNQ/Kv7/M channels and the evolution of the action potential"
 
3:45 PM - 5:00 PM
Kevin Lee  (1985-1987) Sentigen Biosciences
Morgan Sheng  (1990-1994) Massachusetts Institute of Technology
Paul Slesinger  (1991-1997) The Salk Institute
Jürgen Knoblich  (1994-1997) Institute of Molecular Pathology, Vienna - "Proliferation control in Drosophila ovarian stem cells"
Yuh Nung Jan  (1979-) UCSF - "Six degrees of separation: our scientific lineage"

 

SATURDAY NIGHT BANQUET

8:00 PM - 10:00 PM
Emily Jan  Timbuktu Design
Max Jan  Princeton University
Ehud Isacoff  (1986-1991) University of California, Berkeley
Yi Rao  (1986-1991) Northwestern University
Tom Schwarz  (1983-1989) Harvard Medical School

 

SUNDAY MORNING
Chair: Ethan Bier (1986-1990) University of California, San Diego

10:00 AM - 11:15 AM
Ethan Bier  (1986-1990) University of California, San Diego - "Threshold dependent BMP signaling in neural and non-neural ectodermal domains of the Drosophila embryo"
Harald Vaessin  (1987-1992) Ohio State University
Georg Feger  (1991-1995) Serono Pharmaceutical Research Institute
Monica Vetter  (1994-1996) University of Utah - "Becoming neural in the developing retina"
Gaia Tavosanis  (2000-2003) Max Planck Institute of Neurobiology
 
11:45 AM - 1:00 PM
Rolf Bodmer  (1984-1990) The Burnham Institute
Kim McCall  (1986-1988) Boston University
Tadashi Uemura  (1987-1989) Kyoto University - "Passion of the people for science "
Vivian Siegel  (1989-1994) University of California, San Francisco - "The pain of peer review"
Noa Zerangue  (1997-2000) XenoPort Inc.
 

SUNDAY LUNCH BREAK  1:00 PM - 2:15 PM

 

SUNDAY AFTERNOON
Chair: Ehud Isacoff (1983-1992) University of California, Berkeley

2:15 PM - 3:30 PM
Friederike Haass  (2003-) "Happy Birthday variations by Peter Heidrich"**
Michael Caudy (1985-1989) Cornell University
Ming Chan  (1995-2000) Childrenís Hospital Boston - "Neonatal diabetes caused by a gain-of-function mutation in KCNJ11"
Salim Seyfried  (1997-2001) Max Delbrück Center for Molecular Medicine, Germany - "Molecular control of heart morphogenesis by cell polarity regulators"
Yu-Fung Lin  (1997-2003) University of California, Davis - "KATP channels in ischemic preconditioning"
 
4:00 PM - 5:15 PM
Yang Hong  (1999-2005) University of Pittsburgh School of Medicine - "Smashing the gene targeting in fly"
Robin Shaw   (2003-) University of California, San Francisco - "Gap Junction Targeting"
Chay Kuo  (2002-) University of California, San Francisco - "Yuh-Numb: The Dynamic Duo"
Hee Jung Chung (2002-) University of California, San Francisco - "Elegantly choreographed dance potassium channel trafficking"
Lily Jan  (1979-) UCSF - Closing comments

** Quintet: Hee Jung Chung, Shaohua Xiao, Wei Zhou, Peter Soba, Friederike Haass





Over 75 former Jan Lab members and 45 current lab members gathered in honor of Lily and Yuh Nung's upcoming 60th birthdays.


People flew in from as far away as China, Japan, Israel, France, Germany, the UK and Canada.  Along with former students, postdocs there were also several former technicians.


Tom Schwarz, an early lab member, welcomed people and chaired the first session.  
  


Dale Branton, the first postdoc in the lab, kicked off the symposium with a description of the early history of the lab and its members.


Alain Ghysen spoke about 32 years with Lily and Yuh Nung, beginning at Cal Tech.  The take home lesson: "Have clear ideas about what you want to do and then do something else"


Most of the 40+ speakers, including Bingwei Lu, highlighted some of their current research.

Reunions and new introductions


Lily Jan
  


Jürgen Knoblich, Yuh Nung Jan, and Dan Doherty
  


Gaia Tavosanis, Dale Branton, Diane Papazian, and Susan Younger
  


Helen Lai and Hee Jung Chung
  


Cheng-Ting Chien and Morgan Sheng
  


Bingwei Lu and Yuh Nung Jan
  


Bruce Tempel and Rabiya Tuma


  


Bing Ye and Wes Grueber
  


Tom Schwarz and Chauncey Bowers
  


Cheng-Ting Chien and Hsiu-Hsiang Lee
  


Yuh Nung Jan, Dan Doherty, Jürgen Knoblich, and
Monica Vetter
  


Christine Dambly-Chaudierand Rolf Bodmer
  


Peizhang Xu and Bruce Hay
  


Bruce Cohen, Ed Cooper, and Fen-Biao Gao
  


Shaohua Xiao and Evera Wong
  


Michael Grabe and Noa Zerangue
  


Sijun Zhu, Yi Zheng, and Sebastian Rumpf
  


Weimin Zhong, Ehud Isacoff, and Chou-Long Huang
  


Gaia Tavosanis, Adrian Moore, Salim Seyfried, and Fabrice Roegiers
  


Michael Caudy, Wes Grueber, Ethan Bier, Yi Zheng, Bruce Hay, Songhai Shi, Yang Xiang,
Michael Kim, and Robin Shaw
  


Harald Vaessin and Tadashi Uemura
  


Wei Song, Jill Wildonger, David Young, and Ye Zhang
  


Kevin Lee, Gabrielle Boulianne, Sandra Barbel, and Bruce Cohen
  


Kim McCall and Larry Ackermann
  


Nick Justice, Yee-Ming Chan and Bing Ye
  


Yuh Nung and Lily Jan
  


Bruce Cohen and Toral Surti
  


Michelle Rhyu, David Young, and Bruce Cohen
  


Shi-Bing Yang, Andy Jarman, and Adrian Moore
  


Paul Slesinger and Eitan Reuveny
  


Michael Caudy and Bruce Tempel
  


Ehud Isacoff
  


Rebecca Yang, Quan Yuan, and Hsiu-Hsiang Lee
  


Dan Minor, Blanche Schwappach, and Marta Margeta
  


Kazuo Emoto and Jay Parrish
  


Jill Wildonger, Sabina Zimmerman, and Sila Konur
  


Diane Papazian, Andy Jarman, and Liqun Luo
  


Fabrice Roegiers and Jay Parrish
  


Dale Branton, Yu-Fung Lin, and Kimberley Raab-Graham
  

Families and fun


Su Guo
  


Jürgen Knoblich
  


Lily Jan
  


Kim Raab-Graham and Yan Sun
  


  


Su Guo and Lily Jan
  

Chinese banquet on Saturday night


Yang Hong, Ye Zhang, Yuh Nung Jan, Kimberley Raab-Graham, Lily Jan, Bing Ye, and Weimin Zhong


Simone Eggert, Sijun Zhu, Yi Zheng, Alex Fay, Michael Grabe, Smita Nayak, Wei Song, and Maika Onishi
  


Kazu Emoto, Sebastian Rumpf, Yang Xiang, Jennifer Rhee, and Michael Kim
  


Tadashi Uemura, Dan Doherty, Yuh Nung Jan, and Jürgen Knoblich
  


Lily Jan, Shaohua Xiao, Lani Seto, and Evera Wong
  


Su Guo, Rebecca Yang, Hsiu-Hsiang Lee, Jill Wildonger, David McCulley, and Hongyan Wang
  


Ye Zhang, Kimberley Raab-Graham, Bing Ye, Weimin Zhong, and Jian Yang
  


Taihao Jin, Wei Zhou, Adrian Moore, Hee Jung Chung, and Wes Grueber