Columbia University, College of Physicians & Surgeons Elvin A. Kabat Memorial Symposium 1:00-6:00, Friday November 9th, 2001 Black Building Alumni Auditorium Welcoming Remarks Leonard Chess Saul Silverstein Gerald Fischbach Department of Medicine, P&S, Columbia University Department of Microbiology, P&S, Columbia University Dean, Faculty of Medicine, Vice President of Health & Biomedical Sciences, P&S, Columbia University Keynote Remarks Baruj Benacerraf Dana Farber Inc., Boston "Personal experience with Elvin, and what he taught me" The Elvin Kabat Impact in Immunology Chair: Leonard Chess and Bernard Erlanger William E. Paul Bernard Erlanger Ben Pernis Rose Mage Tai Te Wu Martin Weigert Jacqueline Sharon Hidde L. Ploegh Byron Waksman Laboratory of Immunology, NIAD, NIH "Elvin Kabat and Immunology - A brief overview" Department of Microbiology, Columbia University "Elvin's first graduate student and me" Department of Microbiology, Columbia University "Experiment and reason in immunology" Molecular Immunogenetics Section, Laboratory of Immunology, NIAID, NIH "From combining site heterogeneity to gene conversion in rabbit B-cell clones." Department of Biochemistry Molecular Biology and Cell Biology, Northwestern University "30 years with Dr. Kabat" Department of Molecular Biology, Princeton University "Kabat makes sense of diversity" Department of Pathology and Laboratory of Medicine, Boston University School of Medicine "Polyclonal Antibody Libraries for Cancer and Infectious Diseases" Department of Pathology, Harvard Medical School "Another member of the Ig family?" Pres Fndn Microbiol. "The view from the Heidelberger veranda" Refreshment Break Heidelberger/Kabat Lecture Chair: Leonard Chess Frederick Alt Howard Hughes Medical Institute "Non-homologous DNA end joining in VDJ combination and B cell tumorigenesis: the up and down sides of antibody CDR3 diversification" The Elvin Kabat Impact in Glycobiology Chair: Ten Feizi and Donald Marcus Donald Marcus Kenneth Lloyd Ten Feizi Sten Hammarstrom Denong Wang Marilynn Etzler Department of Medicine, Baylor College of Medicine "Reminiscences" Department of Immunology, Mem. Sloan-Kettering Cancer Center "The story of Y" Glycosciences Laboratory, Imperial College School of Medicine "From I antigen to probing information in the glycome" Clinical Microbiology, Umea University, Northern Sweden "Post-doc with Elvin Kabat 1967-1969" Columbia Genome Center, Columbia University "From a single antigen to a carbohydrate microarray: Dr. Kabat's recurring influence" Section of Molecular and Cell Biology, University of Cal-Davis "From Kabat to LNPs - Enough to Make One's Hairs Curl (if you are a plant)" Reception Dinner Words of Appreciation of Elvin Kabat Phillip Heidelberger Isidore Edelman Michael Sela Charles Wood Avadhesha Surolia Nathan Sharon Michael Mage Michael Heidelberger's Grandson Columbia Genome Center, Columbia University Weizmann Institute of Science, ISRAEL Nebraska Center for Virology, University of Nebraska Molecular Biophysics Unit, Indian Institute of Sciences, INDIA Weizmann Institute of Sciences, ISRAEL National Cancer Institute, NIH, Bethesda, MD Kabat's Family's Remarks John Kabat Zinn Geoffrey Kabat Sally Kabat Symposium's Sponsors This symposium is sponsored by Department of Microbiology and Heidelberger Lecture Fund, College of Physicians and Surgeons, Columbia University The Symposium: > Symposium Program                                > Letter of Invitation from Organization Committee                                > Elvin A. Kabat Guest List                                > Letter of Invitation from Dr. Wang