Program

Check this page often, because Program details will be posted as each component of the Conference develops.

The Conference will consist of three days of scientific presentations, job forums, workshops, poster sessions and symposia on a variety of topics. As a common thread running throughout the Conference there will be a series of invited plenary lectures on topics of general interest. The first of these lectures, focusing on the molecular basis of diabetes and the impact of this disease in South Carolina, will be delivered by Dr. John W. Baynes, (USC),  the 2004 recipient of the Governor’s Award for Excellence in Scientific Research, and a life-long researcher in the field of diabetes. Other plenary lectures will feature past recipients of the Governor’s Awards for Excellence in Scientific Research, SC Research Centers of Economic Excellence Endowed Chair holders, and invited speakers of national reputation. For example, Dr. Brian Athey, of the University of Michigan, has accepted to deliver the keynote lecture on Biomedical Informatics, for the Bioinformatics Symposium.

The SC Science, Technology and Health Conference will include the following major symposia, open to all registrants, including students:

The Second SC Bioinformatics Symposium (April 14-15, 2009), organized by SC INBRE (preliminary Program)

The SC Bioengineering Symposium, (April 14-15, 2009) organized by SC INBRE and the SC Bioengineering Alliance (preliminary Program)

The 2009 SC Health Disparities Symposium, organized by the USC/Claflin University Center of Excellence in Cervical Cancer and HIV (Project EXPORT), Institute for Partnerships to Eliminate Health Disparities, University of South Carolina (April 14-15, 2009)

 

The Annual Meeting of the SC Academy of Science (Senior Academy) includes all the symposia listed above, and will also include a series of sessions dedicated to student presentations, on the topics listed below, and on topics emerging from the submitted abstracts. Registration entitles participants (students included)  to attend all three days, or any of the days of the STH Conference.

However, most of the presentations specific to the Senior Academy meeting will take place on Wednesday, April 15. Check this page often for updates on the program.

 

The Annual Meeting of the SC Junior Academy of Science (Thursday, April 16, 2009)

 

Additional mini-symposia are being organized on the following topics:

 

   Cancer Research

   Nanotechnology and Nanoscience

   Molecular/Cell Biology and Genetics

   Field Biology

   Environmental Sciences

   Chemistry

   Physics/Astronomy

 

Each Symposium will consist of oral and poster sessions.

 

In addition, several workshops and teachers' continuing education sessions are in the plans.

 

Come back soon for details!