The San Diego Consortium for Systems Biology will be hosting the event RNAi Screening on the Mesa on September 15th from 9 a.m. to 4 p.m. at the Trustee’s Room at the Salk Institute of Biological Studies. The speakers will include Sumit K. Chanda, PhD, Group Leader, Division of Cellular Genomics, The Genomics Institute of the Novartis Research Foundation; Anthony P. Orth, PhD, Group Leader, Gene Core, The Genomics Institute of the Novartis Research Foundation; Pedro Aza-Blanc, PhD, Director, Functional Genomics, The Burnham Institute for Medical Research; Christina Buchanan, PhD, Technical Application Specialist, Ambion; Arumugham Raghunathan, PhD, Sales Development Manager- Advanced Technology Group, Qiagen Inc.; Peter Welch, PhD, Director of Research and Development, Invitrogen Corp.; Edward J. Weinstein, PhD, Principal Biologist, Functional Genomics Department, Sigma-Aldrich Corp.; Troy Moore, PhD, Chief Technical Officer, Open Biosystems; Loren Miraglia, Principal Investigator, Division of Cellular Genomics, The Genomics Institute of the Novartis Research Foundation; and Amy Kiger, PhD, Assistant Professor, Universtiy of California, San Diego.