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Symposium honors biologist


The latest medical and scientific information will be the focus of this year’s Ernest Just Scientific Symposium to be held Feb. 25.

The 11th annual symposium will be from 8 a.m. to 4 p.m. in the Basic Science Building auditorium. Each year this event is held in memory of Ernest Just, Ph.D., a Charleston native, and distinguished scientist of the 20th century.

Just was a prominent marine biologist, who had a passion for science and was known for his work on artificial parthenogenesis and the physiology of cell development. Through his studies, he became known as the father of cell adhesion research.

The symposium was originally created as a way to expose minority undergraduate students to the scientific accomplishments of Just through presentations and discussions by young scientists who were working on similar research areas.

Speakers, topics
  • Charles A. Christopher, M.D., surgeon general for Mega Psi Phi Fraternity Inc and retired contract physician—“Ernest Everett Just/ History and Retrospective, Philosophical Analysis of the birth of Omega Psi Phi Fraternity, Inc.”
  • Kelly M. Mack, Ph.D., program director, ADVANCE National Science Foundation—“None Shall Perish.”
  • Levi Watkins, M.D., professor of cardiac surgery and associate dean at the School of Medicine at The John Hopkins Hospital—“Human Defibrillation: History and Evolution.”
  • Eric Neilson, M.D., Thomas Fearn Frist senior professor of medicine and professor of Cell and Developmental Biology at Vanderbilt University School of Medicine—“Epithelial plasticity and the origin of fibroblasts.”
  • Jonathan Slack, Ph.D., professor and director Stem Cell Institute at University of Minnesota—“Respecification of cell type using transcription factors.”
  • Akira Kudo, Ph.D., professor in the Department of Biological Information at Tokyo Institute of Technology—“Periostin in fibrillogenesis for tissue regeneration.”
Visit http://www.musc.edu/grad/just/index.html. For information on Just, visit
http://www.musc.edu/grad/just/Biography.htm.



Friday, Feb. 11, 2011

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