Eighth Principal Investigators Meeting

Eighth Principal Investigators Meeting
Innovative Molecular Analysis Technologies (IMAT) Program
July 24-25, 2007
Sofitel San Francisco Bay
Redwood City, CA

Participant Roster

James R. Baker, Jr., M.D. Director Michigan Nanotechnology Institute for Medicine and Biological Sciences University of Michigan Medical Science Research Building III, Room 9220 1150 West Medical Center Drive Ann Arbor, MI 48109 (734) 647-2777 (734) 936-2990 Fax jbakerjr@umich.edu	Aleksandar Milosavljevic, Ph.D. Associate Professor Department of Molecular and Human Genetics Human Genome Sequencing Center Baylor College of Medicine Alkek Building, Room 1619 1 Baylor Plaza Houston, TX 77030 (713) 798-4357 (713) 798-4373 Fax amilosav@bcm.tmc.edu
Brian M. Balgley, Ph.D. Chief Technology Officer Calibrant Biosystems, Inc. Suite 220N 910 Clopper Road Gaithersburg, MD 20878 (301) 977-7900, ext. 14 (301) 977-7981 Fax brian.balgley@calibrant.com	Hans Minderman, Ph.D. Assistant Director Flow and Image Cytometry Facility Roswell Park Cancer Institute Buffalo Life Science Complex, Room L1-412 Elm and Carlton Streets Buffalo, NY 14263 (716) 845-1162 hans.minderman@roswellpark.org
Paul J. Bertics, Ph.D. Professor Department of Biomolecular Chemistry School of Medicine and Public Health University of Wisconsin-Madison Medical Sciences Building, Room 571A 1300 University Avenue Madison, WI 53706 (608) 262-8667 (608) 262-5253 Fax pbertics@wisc.edu	Lance L. Munn, Ph.D. Associate Professor Massachusetts General Hospital/Harvard Medical School Room 3409 149 13th Street Charlestown, MA 02129 (617) 726-4085 lance@steele.mgh.harvard.edu
Rustom B. Bhiladvala, Ph.D. Assistant Professor Materials Research Institute and Department of Electrical Engineering The Pennsylvania State University Davey Laboratory, Room 104 University Park, PA 16802 (814) 863-5344 rbb16@psu.edu	Hiroshi Nakashima, Ph.D. Postdoctoral Researcher Dardinger Laboratory for Neuro-Oncology and Neurosciences Department of Neurological Surgery College of Medicine The Ohio State University Wiseman Hall, Room 352 Comprehensive Cancer Center 400 West 12th Avenue Columbus, OH 43210 (614) 292-1321 hiroshi.nakashima@osumc.edu
Ian Burbulis, Ph.D. Senior Research Fellow Department of Biochemistry The Molecular Sciences Institute 2168 Shattuck Avenue Berkeley, CA 94704 (510) 647-0690, ext. 252 (510) 647-0699 Fax burbulis@molsci.org	Timothy J. O’Leary, M.D., Ph.D. Director, Biomedical Laboratory Research and Development Director Clinical Science Research and Development Service Armed Forces Institute of Pathology U.S. Department of Veterans Affairs 810 Vermont Avenue, NW Washington, DC 20420 (202) 254-0262 timothy.oleary@va.gov
Han Cao, Ph.D. Chief Scientific Officer BioNanomatrix, LLC Suite 5E 3624 Market Street Philadelphia, PA 19104 (215) 266-5124 (267) 499-2001 Fax han@bionanomatrix.com	Lewis K. Pannell, Ph.D. Head Proteomics and Mass Spectrometry Research Facility Mitchell Cancer Institute University of South Alabama MSB 2310 307 North University Boulevard Mobile, AL 36688-0002 (251) 554-9996 lpannell@usouthal.edu
Paul D. Chastain, Ph.D. Research Associate Department of Pathology and Laboratory Medicine School of Medicine The University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill Brinkhous-Bullitt Building, Room 603 Campus Box 7525 Chapel Hill, NC 27599 (919) 966-1396 (919) 966-5046 Fax pchastai@med.unc.edu	Maikel Petrus Peppelenbosch, M.D. Department of Cell Biology and Immunology University Medical Center Groningen P.O. Box 30.001 Groningen 9713 AV The Netherlands 31 50 3632522 31 50 3632512 Fax m.peppelenbosch@med.umcg.nl
Jung-Hye Choi, Ph.D. Division of Gynecology Departments of Pathology, Oncology, and Gynecology Johns Hopkins Medicine Johns Hopkins University Cancer Research Building II, Room 376 1550 Orleans Street Baltimore, MD 21231 (410) 502-7773 jchoi63@jhmi.edu	Rossanna C. Pezo, M.S. Department of Anatomy and Structural Biology Albert Einstein College of Medicine Golding Building, Room 601 1300 Morris Park Avenue Bronx, NY 10461 (718) 430-8716 (718) 430-8996 Fax rpezo@aecom.yu.edu
Wei-Sing Chu, M.D. Director of Research and Development Chief Hematopathology Laboratory Department of Scientific Laboratories Armed Forces Institute of Pathology U.S. Department of Veterans Affairs 6825 16th Street, NW Washington, DC 20306-6000 (202) 782-2816 chu@afip.osd.mil	Ramila Philip, Ph.D. Chief Scientific Officer Immunotope, Inc. Pennsylvania Biotechnology Center 3805 Old Easton Road Doylestown, PA 18902 (215) 489-4955 (215) 489-4920 Fax rphilip@immunotope.com
Kevin Claffey, Ph.D. Associate Professor Department of Cell Biology Center for Vascular Biology University of Connecticut Health Center 263 Farmington Avenue Farmington, CT 06030-3501 (860) 679-8713 (860) 679-1201 Fax claffey@nso2.uchc.edu	Sylvia K. Plevritis, Ph.D. Associate Professor Department of Radiology Lucas MRS Imaging Center Stanford University Room P267 1201 Welch Road Stanford, CA 94305-5488 (650) 498-5261 (650) 723-4595 Fax sylvia.plevritis@stanford.edu
Gary A. Clawson, M.D., Ph.D. Professor of Pathology and of Biochemistry and Molecular Biology Director Gittlen Cancer Research Foundation Chief Division of Experimental Pathology Department of Pathology Penn State College of Medicine The Pennsylvania State University Room H059 500 University Drive Hershey, PA 17033 (717) 531-5632 (717) 531-0661 Fax gac4@psu.edu	Leslie B. Poole, Ph.D. Director Center for Structural Biology Professor Department of Biochemistry School of Medicine Wake Forest University Medical Center Boulevard Winston-Salem, NC 27157 (336) 716-6711 (336) 777-3242 Fax lbpoole@wfubmc.edu
Richard J. Cote, M.D. Professor of Pathology and Urology Department of Pathology Director Genitourinary Cancer Program Director Laboratory of Immuno and Molecular Pathology Co-Director USC Biomedical Nanoscience Initiative Keck School of Medicine Norris Comprehensive Cancer Center University of Southern California NOR 2424 1441 Eastlake Avenue Los Angeles, CA 90033 (323) 865-3294 (323) 442-3089 Fax cote_r@ccnt.usc.edu	Niroshan Ramachandran, Ph.D. Research Associate Harvard Institute of Proteomics Harvard Medical School/Dana-Farber Cancer Institute 320 Charles Street Cambridge, MA 02141 (617) 324-1384 (617) 324 0824 Fax niroshan@hms.harvard.edu
Roger Cubicciotti, Ph.D. President and Chief Executive Officer NanoMedica, Inc. 258 Midland Avenue Montclair, NJ 07042 (973) 634-7537 rcubic@comcast.net	Arfaan A. Rampersaud, Ph.D. Principal and Partner Columbus NanoWorks, Inc. Suite 100 1381 Kinnear Road Columbus, OH 43212 (614) 485-9293 (614) 485-9291 Fax arfaan@columbusnanoworks.com
Zhiyong Ding, Ph.D. Instructor Department of Systems Biology University of Texas M.D. Anderson Cancer Center 1515 Holcombe Boulevard Houston, TX 77030 (713) 563-4225 (713) 563-4235 Fax zding@mdanderson.org	Bing Ren, Ph.D. Assistant Professor Ludwig Institute for Cancer Research School of Medicine University of California, San Diego 9500 Gilman Drive La Jolla, CA 92093-0653 (858) 822-5766 biren@ucsd.edu
Norman J. Dovichi, Ph.D. Endowed Professor of Analytical Chemistry Department of Chemistry University of Washington Box 351700 Seattle, WA 98195-1700 (206) 543-7835 dovichi@chem.washington.edu	Rick A. Rogers, Ph.D. Director Biomedical Imaging Laboratory Department of Environmental Health Harvard School of Public Health Building I, Room 1402A 665 Huntington Avenue Boston, MA 02115 (781) 962-0866 rogers@bioimage.harvard.edu
Andrew Ellington, Ph.D. Wilson M. and Kathryn Fraser Research Professor in Biochemistry Department of Chemistry and Biochemistry College of Natural Sciences The University of Texas at Austin Mail Code A5300 1 University Station Austin, TX 78712 (512) 232-3424 (512) 471-7014 Fax euneoh@mail.utexas.edu	Rodney J. Rothstein, Ph.D. Professor Department of Genetics and Development College of Physicians and Surgeons Columbia University Medical Center Hammer Health Sciences Center, Room 1608 701 West 168th Street New York, NY 10032-2704 (212) 305-1733 rothstein@cancercenter.columbia.edu
Bevin P. Engelward, Sc.D. Associate Professor of Biological Engineering Biological Engineering Division Department of Mechanical Engineering Massachusetts Institute of Technology Room 56-631 7 Massachusetts Avenue Cambridge, MA 02139 (617) 258-0260 (617) 258-0499 Fax bevin@mit.edu	Yoshinaga Saeki, M.D., Ph.D. Associate Professor Department of Neurological Surgery College of Medicine The Ohio State University Wiseman Hall, Room 385B Comprehensive Cancer Center 400 West 12th Avenue Columbus, OH 43210 (614) 292-3804 saeki.6@osu.edu
Shoshana Frankenburg, Ph.D. Sharett Institute of Oncology Hadassah University Hospital P.O. Box 12000 Jerusalem 91120 Israel 9722677-8442 9722677-8721 Fax franks@cc.huji.ac.il	Cleo M. Salisbury, Ph.D. Postdoctoral Fellow Departments of Cell Biology and Chemistry The Scripps Research Institute The Cravatt Laboratory BCC 159 10550 North Torrey Pines Road La Jolla, CA 92037 (858) 784-7728 cleos@scripps.edu
Sandra M. Gaston, Ph.D. Principal Investigator Division of Surgical Research Department of Surgery Beth Israel Deaconess Medical Center/Harvard Medical School Stoneman 8M, Room 10D 330 Brookline Avenue Boston, MA 02215 (617) 667-1804 sgaston@bidmc.harvard.edu	Jeffrey E. Segall, Ph.D. Professor Department of Anatomy and Structural Biology Albert Einstein College of Medicine 1300 Morris Park Avenue Bronx, NY 10461 (718) 430-4237 (718) 430-8996 Fax segall@aecom.yu.edu
Thaddeus C. George, Ph.D. Principal Scientist Biology Department Amnis Corporation Suite 210 2505 Third Avenue Seattle, WA 98121 (206) 576-6859 t.george@amnis.com	Shan-Rong Shi, M.D. Professor of Clinical Pathology Department of Pathology Keck School of Medicine University of Southern California HMR 310A 2011 Zonal Avenue Los Angeles, CA 90033 (323) 442-3399 (323) 442-1154 Fax sshi@usc.edu
Neal F. Gordon, Ph.D. President Epitome Biosystems, Inc. 100 Beaver Street Waltham, MA 02453 (781) 891-3816 (781) 891-3843 Fax bberger@epitomebiosystems.com	Darryl Shibata, M.D. Professor Department of Pathology Keck School of Medicine University of Southern California Unit I, Room 2428 1200 North State Street Los Angeles, CA 90033 (323) 226-7067 dshibata@usc.edu
Faqing Huang, Ph.D. Associate Professor Department of Chemistry and Biochemistry University of Southern Mississippi Room 5043 118 College Drive Hattiesburg, MS 39406-5043 (601) 266-4371 (601) 266-6075 Fax faqing.h.huang@usm.edu	Rohit K. Shukla, M.A. Founder and Chief Executive Officer Larta Institute Suite 750 714 West Olympic Boulevard Los Angeles, CA 90015 (213) 765-4835 (213) 744-1791 Fax rshukla90064@larta.org
Jingfang Ju, Ph.D. Head Cancer Genomics Laboratory Mitchell Cancer Institute University of South Alabama MSB 2316 307 North University Boulevard Mobile, AL 36688-0002 (251) 460-7393 jju@usouthal.edu	Robert H. Singer, Ph.D. Professor and Co-Chairman Department of Anatomy and Structural Biology Albert Einstein College of Medicine 1300 Morris Park Avenue Bronx, NY 10461 (718) 430-8646 (718) 430-8697 Fax rhsinger@aecom.yu.edu
David G. Kaufman, M.D., Ph.D. Professor and Vice Chair Department of Pathology and Laboratory Medicine School of Medicine The University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill Brinkhous-Bullitt Building, Room 620 160 North Medical Drive Chapel Hill, NC 27599-7525 (919) 966-1396 (919) 966-5046 Fax uncdgk@med.unc.edu	Steven A. Soper, Ph.D. William L. and Patricia Senn, Jr. Professor of Chemistry Department of Chemistry Professor Department of Mechanical Engineering Director Center for BioModular Multi-Scale Systems Louisiana State University Choppin Hall, Room 229 Baton Rouge, LA 70803 (225) 578-0092 (225) 578-3595 Fax chsope@lsu.edu
William Garrow Kerr, Ph.D. Associate Professor of Interdisciplinary Oncology and Biochemistry and Molecular Biology School of Medicine University of South Florida/H. Lee Moffitt Cancer Center and Research Institute SRB2 12902 Magnolia Drive Tampa, FL 33612-9416 (813) 903-6840 (813) 979-7265 Fax kerrw@moffitt.org	Wendy D. Streitz Director Policy, Analysis, and Campus Services Office of Technology Transfer University of California System Fifth Floor 1111 Franklin Street Oakland, CA 94607-5200 (510) 987-9108 (510) 587-6090 Fax wendy.streitz@ucop.edu
Stephen Kron, M.D., Ph.D. Associate Professor Ludwig Center for Metastasis Research The University of Chicago Room 320 924 East 57th Street Chicago, IL 60637 (773) 834-0250 skron@uchicago.edu	Ye Sun, Ph.D. Senior Scientist SciTec, Inc. Room 300 10425 Cogdill Road Knoxville, TN 37932 (865) 671-2166 (865) 671-2167 Fax sun_ye1@yahoo.com
David Andrew Largaespada, Ph.D. Associate Professor Department of Genetics, Cell Biology, and Development University of Minnesota Cancer Center Jackson Hall, Room 6-160 321 Church Street, SE Minneapolis, MN 55455 (612) 626-4979 larga002@umn.edu	Luke Tolley, Ph.D. Assistant Professor Department of Chemistry Southern Illinois University 1245 Lincoln Drive Carbondale, IL 62901 (618) 453-6459 ltolley@chem.siu.edu
Philip J. Lee, Ph.D. Director of Research and Development CellASIC Corporation 2551 Merced Street San Leandro, CA 94577 (510) 895-1985 pjlee@cellasic.com	Timothy J. Triche, M.D., Ph.D. Pathologist-in-Chief and Chairman Department of Pathology and Laboratory Medicine Childrens Hospital Los Angeles 4650 Sunset Boulevard Los Angeles, CA 90027 (323) 669-4516 (323) 667-1123 Fax triche@usc.edu
Richard M. Levenson, M.D. Director of Research Biomedical Systems Cambridge Research & Instrumentation, Inc. 35B Cabot Road Woburn, MA 01801 (781) 935-9099 (781) 935-3388 Fax rlevenson@cri-inc.com	Frederic M. Waldman, M.D., Ph.D. Professor of Laboratory Medicine and Urology Director Molecular Pathology Clinical Laboratory Comprehensive Cancer Center University of California, San Francisco Box 0808 2340 Sutter Street San Francisco, CA 94143-0808 (415) 476-3821 (415) 476-8218 Fax waldman@cc.ucsf.edu
Sheng Li, Ph.D. Postdoctoral Employee Department of Medicine School of Medicine University of California, San Diego Biomedical Science Building, Room 4011 9500 Gilman Drive La Jolla, CA 92122 (858) 822-2164 (858) 534-2606 lisheng@ucsd.edu	Binghe Wang, Ph.D. Professor Department of Chemistry Center for Biotechnology and Drug Design Georgia State University Campus Box 4098 Atlanta, GA 30302-4098 (404) 413-5544 (404) 413 -5543 Fax wang@gsu.edu
Xiang Li, Ph.D., M.S. Department of Biological Sciences University of Maryland, Baltimore County 1000 Hilltop Circle Baltimore, MD 21250 (410) 455-2629 lxiang@umbc.edu	Yue Wang, Ph.D. Professor Department of Electrical, Computer, and Biomedical Engineering Virginia Polytechnic Institute and State University Suite 750 4300 Wilson Boulevard Arlington, VA 22203 (703) 387-6056 yuewang@vt.edu
Henry K. Lin Keck School of Medicine University of Southern California Hoffman Medical Research Building, Room 312 2011 Zonal Avenue Los Angeles, CA 90033 (323) 442-3477 henrylin@usc.edu	John Welsh, Ph.D. Associate Professor Sidney Kimmel Cancer Center 10905 Road to the Cure San Diego, CA 92121 (858) 450-5990, ext. 282 jwelsh@skcc.org
Darren R. Link, Ph.D. Senior Vice President, Research and Development RainDance Technologies, Inc. 530 Whitfield Street Guilford, CT 06437 (203) 458-2947, ext. 301 (203) 458-2514 Fax dlink@raindancetechnologies.com	Xiaowei Xu, M.D., Ph.D. Assistant Professor Department of Pathology and Laboratory Medicine School of Medicine University of Pennsylvania Founders Building, Room 6 3400 Spruce Street Philadelphia, PA 19104 (215) 662-6503 xug@mail.med.upenn.edu
Paul M. Lizardi, Ph.D. Professor Department of Pathology Yale University School of Medicine 310 Cedar Street New Haven, CT 06510 (203) 785-5107 (203) 737-1064 Fax paul.lizardi@yale.edu	Hui Zhang, Ph.D. Assistant Professor Clinical Chemistry Division Department of Pathology Johns Hopkins Medicine Johns Hopkins University Cancer Research Building II, Room 3M-07 1550 Orleans Street Baltimore, MD 21231 (410) 502-8149 hzhang32@jhmi.edu
G. Mike Makrigiorgos, Ph.D. Associate Professor Department of Radiation Oncology Dana-Farber Cancer Institute and Harvard Medical School Radiation Therapy, Level L2 Brigham and Women’s Hospital 75 Francis Street Boston, MA 02115 (617) 525-7122 (617) 582-6037 Fax mmakrigiorgos@partners.org	Yingming Zhao, Ph.D. Associate Professor Department of Biochemistry University of Texas Southwestern Medical Center 5323 Harry Hines Boulevard Dallas, TX 75390-9038 (214) 648-7947 (214) 648-8856 Fax yingming.zhao@utsouthwestern.edu
Kristie M. Melnik Principal and Partner Columbus NanoWorks, Inc. Suite 100 1381 Kinnear Road Columbus, OH 43212 (614) 485-9293 (614) 485-9291 Fax kmelnik@columbusnanoworks.com	Siyang Zheng, Ph.D., M.S. Division of Engineering and Applied Sciences Department of Electrical Engineering California Institute of Technology MC 136-93 1200 East California Boulevard Pasadena, CA 91125 (626) 395-2227 (626) 584-9104 Fax siyang@mems.caltech.edu
	Jiang (John) Zhong, Ph.D. Assistant Professor, Neurology Director of Bioinformatics School of Medicine University of Southern California Gene Therapy Laboratories, Room 210 2025 Zonal Avenue Los Angeles, CA 90033 (323) 442-2371 (323) 442-2311 Fax jzhong@usc.edu


Federal Participants
Richard Aragon, Ph.D. Technology Program Manager Office of Biorepositories and Biospecimen Research and Office of Technology and Industrial Relations National Cancer Institute National Institutes of Health Building 31, Room 10A-52 MSC 2580 31 Center Drive Bethesda, MD 20892-2580 (301) 435-3877 (301) 496-7807 Fax raragon@mail.nih.gov	James W. Jacobson, Ph.D. Chief Diagnostic Biomarkers and Technology Branch Cancer Diagnosis Program Division of Cancer Treatment and Diagnosis National Cancer Institute National Institutes of Health Executive Plaza North, Room 6035A 6130 Executive Boulevard Bethesda, MD 20892 (301) 402-4185 (301) 402-7819 Fax jacobsonj@ctep.nci.nih.gov
Kevin Brand, J.D. Technology Transfer Specialist Technology Transfer Center National Cancer Institute National Institutes of Health Executive Plaza South, Room 450 6120 Executive Boulevard Bethesda, MD 20892 (301) 451-4566 (301) 402-2117 Fax brandk@mail.nih.gov	J.P. Kim, J.D., M.B.A., M.S. Director and Policy Officer Division of Extramural Inventions and Technology Resources Office of Policy for Extramural Research Administration Office of Extramural Research National Insitutes of Health Suite 310 MSC 7980 6705 Rockledge Drive Bethesda, MD 20892-7980 (301) 435-0679 (301) 480-0272 Fax jpkim@nih.gov
Carolyn C. Compton, M.D., Ph.D. Director Office of Biorepositories and Biospecimen Research and Office of Technology and Industrial Relations National Cancer Institute National Institutes of Health Building 31, Room 10A-03 MSC 2580 31 Center Drive Bethesda, MD 20892-2580 (301) 496-2741 (301) 480-4814 Fax comptcar@mail.nih.gov	J. Randy Knowlton, Ph.D. Program Director Structural Biology and Molecular Applications Branch Divison of Cancer Biology National Cancer Institute National Institutes of Health Executive Plaza North, Room 5006 6130 Executive Boulevard Bethesda, MD 20892 (301) 435-5226 (301) 480-2854 Fax knowltonj@mail.nih.gov
Jennifer Couch, Ph.D. Program Director Divison of Cancer Biology National Cancer Institute National Institutes of Health Executive Plaza North, Room 5000 6130 Executive Boulevard Bethesda, MD 20892 (301) 435-5226 (301) 480-2854 Fax couchj@mail.nih.gov	Avraham Rasooly, Ph.D. Program Director National Cancer Institute National Institutes of Health Executive Plaza North, Room 6035 6130 Executive Boulevard Bethesda, MD 20892 (301) 435-9012 rasoolya@mail.nih.gov
Jeffrey E. DeClue, Ph.D. Scientific Review Administrator Special Review and Logistics Branch Division of Extramural Activities National Cancer Institute National Institutes of Health Room 8053 MSC 8329 6116 Executive Boulevard Bethesda, MD 20892-8329 (301) 435-1822 (301) 402-0742 Fax decluej@mail.nih.gov	Lynn R. Sorbara, Ph.D. Program Director Cancer Biomarkers Research Group Division of Cancer Prevention National Cancer Institute National Institutes of Health Executive Plaza North, Room 3137 MSC 7362 6130 Executive Boulevard Bethesda, MD 20892-7362 (301) 435-0584 (301) 402-8990 Fax lynns@mail.nih.gov
Daniela S. Gerhard, Ph.D. Director Office of Cancer Genomics National Cancer Institute National Insitutes of Health Building 31, Room 10A-07 MSC 2580 31 Center Drive Bethesda, MD 20892-2580 (301) 451-8027 (301) 480-4368 Fax gerhardd@mail.nih.gov	Paul Wagner, Ph.D. Program Director Cancer Biomarkers Research Group Division of Cancer Prevention National Cancer Institute National Institutes of Health Executive Plaza North, Room 3140 MSC 7362 6130 Executive Boulevard Bethesda, MD 20892-7362 (301) 496-9424 (301) 402-8990 Fax wagnerp@mail.nih.gov


IMAT 2007 PI MEETING PLANNING COMMITTEE Chair: J. Randy Knowlton, Ph.D. Division of Cancer Biology
James W. Jacobson, Ph.D. Division of Cancer Treatment and Diagnosis	Carol H. Kasten, M.D. Cancer Genetics Network and Epidemiology and Genetics Research Program
Lynn R. Sorbara, Ph.D. Division of Cancer Prevention	Paul Wagner, Ph.D. Division of Cancer Prevention