Symposium:               Comparative Genomics of the Lung

 

Track:                         Tissue Dynamics in the Lung

Saturday, 3:15 PM—5:15 PM, 20D

Chaired:                        John S. Torday

 

3:15 PM                       Parathyroid hormone-related protein drives lung evolution. John Torday. Harbor-UCLA Med. Ctr.

 

3:45 PM                       Comparative biology of the surfactant system. Sandra Orgeig. Univ. of Adelaide.

 

4:15 PM                       Perspectives on the comparative functional morphologies of the gas exchangers.  John Maina. Univ. of Witwatersrand.

 

4:45 PM                       Sprouty integrates lung biology from Drosophila to man. David Warburton. Children's Hosp. Los Angeles Res. Inst.