CBIS President’s Opening Remarks by Dr. Weimin Zhong, Yale University

Welcome Speech by Mrs. Rong Huang, Deputy Mayor of Chengdu

Welcome Speech by Dr. Heping Xie, President of Sichuan University

Welcome Speech by Dr. Yan Shen, Deputy Director of

the National Natural Science Foundation of China

Keynote Session I

Chaired by Dr. Guo-Min Li, University of Southern California

Keynote Speech by Dr. Richard Kolodner, University of California San Diego “Genetic and biochemical dissection of exonuclease 1-dependent and –independent

mismatch repair”

Keynote Speech by Dr. Wei Yang, National Institutes of Health“From DNA repair to a paradigm shift in enzyme catalysis”

Questions and Discussion

Keynote Session II

Chaired by Dr. Yuquan Wei, Sichuan University

Keynote Speech by Dr. Carlo Croce, Ohio State University“Causes and consequences of microRNA dysregulation in cancer”

Keynote Speech by Dr. Yuquan Wei, Sichuan University“Translational medicine in Sichuan University”

Keynote Speech by Dr. James Chen, UT Southwestern Medical Center“The dark side of DNA – immune and autoimmune responses to cytosolic DNA”

Keynote Speech by Dr. Don Cleveland, University of California San Diego“Gene silencing therapy for human neurodegenerative disease”

Questions and Discussion