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Sunday, May 23 Morning 6:00 am -  8:00  am 7:00 am - 5:00 pm Registration 7:00 am - 8:00 am Plant Program Committee Breakfast SIVB/CABI/IAPTC&B Meeting Market Street Foyer Bayview A Board Room B 8:00 am-10:00 am Advances in Automation of Cell Culture and Cell- based Assays Functional Genomics of Aquatic Toxicology Plant Pathogen Genomics and Transformation Thinking Outside the Cell Seacliff A& B Seacliff C& D Grand Ballroom C Grand Ballroom B 10:00 am - 10:30 am Coffee Break Pacific Concourse 10:30 am-12:30 pm Opening Ceremony and Keynote Symposium "The Challenge and Approach of Today’s Disease/Pathogen Drug Treatments" Grand Ballroom C 12:30 pm-2:30 pm 12:30 pm - 1:30 pm Keynote Reception 1:30 pm - 2:30 pm Lunch and Poster Presentations Even Poster Authors in Attendance Interactive Poster Sessions: 1:30 pm - 2:15 pm Cell and Cell Culture Models for Toxicology Testing and Studies/In Vitro Tools 1:30 pm - 2:15 pm Cryopreservation/In Vitro Tools 1:30 pm - 3:00 pm Invertebrate Contributed Paper Session Interactive Poster Sessions: 2:00 pm - 3:00 pm Stress Tolerance 2:15 pm - 3:00 pm Cancer Biology 2:15 pm - 3:00 pm Cellular Model Characterization Pacific Concourse Pacific Concourse Pacific Concourse Seacliff C & D Pacific Concourse Afternoon 2:30 pm - 5:00 pm 3:00 pm - 5:00 pm RNA Interference: A New  Tool In Gene Discovery and Gene Therapy Grand Ballroom B Evening 5:00 pm - 11:00 pm 5:30 pm - 9:00 pm San Francisco Cruise Reception and Dinner Homblower