BMB Seminars 2011-2012
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2011
| Date |
Guest Speaker |
Title |
Host |
| September 13 — Canceled |
Bal Lokeshwar, M.Sc., Ph.D. |
New Inflammatory Chemokine and Receptors in Prostate Cancer Growth and Progression: Potential New Avenues for a Cure |
Krishna Donkena, Ph.D. |
| September 20 |
Chawnshang Chang, Ph.D. |
Targeting Androgen Receptor to Battle Prostate Cancer and Liver Cancer |
Haojie Huang, Ph.D. |
| September 27 |
James Morrissey, Ph.D. |
Nanoscale Studies of Protein-Membrane Interactions |
John A. Heit, M.D. and Whyte G. Owen, Ph.D. |
| October 4 |
Michael Caplan, M.D., Ph.D. |
Playing in Traffic: Ion Transport Protein Sorting in Polarized Cells |
Vicente Torres, M.D., Ph.D. and Peter C. Harris, Ph.D. |
October 11 —
No seminar |
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| October 18 |
Mark E. Davis, Ph.D. — Kendall-Mattox Named Lecture |
Fighting Cancer with Nanoparticle Medicines |
Priyabrata Mukherjee, Ph.D. |
| October 25 |
Ramani Ramchandran, Ph.D. |
Signaling Molecules in Vascular Development and Disease |
Debabrata Mukhopadhyay, Ph.D. |
| November 1 |
Song Li, M.D., Ph.D. |
Targeting of Farnesoid X Receptor (FXR) for the Treatment of Cardiovascular and Hepatic Diseases |
Priyabrata Mukherjee, Ph.D. |
| November 8 |
Chang-Woo Lee, Ph.D. |
BubR1 Signaling to Checkpoint Adaptation in Tumorigenesis |
Jan van Deursen, Ph.D. |
| November 15 |
Kristen Johansen, Ph.D. |
Chromatin Epigenetic Domains and the Challenge of Nuclear Reorganization during the Cell Cycle |
Zhiguo Zhang, Ph.D. |
| November 29 |
Val Sheffield, M.D., Ph.D. |
The Molecular Genetics and Pathophysiology of a Complex Human Obesity Syndrome |
Peter C. Harris, Ph.D. |
| December 6 |
Shannon Fisher, M.D., Ph.D. |
Cell Specification in the Zebrafish Skeleton |
Stephen C. Ekker, Ph.D. and Rajiv Kumar, M.D. |
| December 13 |
Su Guo, Ph.D. |
Illuminating Stress Response in Zebrafish and Implications for Human Mood Disorders |
Stephen C. Ekker, Ph.D. |
| December 20 |
Charles Esmon, Ph.D.
Rusnak Named Lecture |
Preventing Multiorgan Failure with the Protein C Pathway and Histone Blockade |
Whyte G. Owen, Ph.D. |
2012
| Date |
Guest Speaker |
Title |
Host |
| January 10 — Canceled |
Rebecca Burdine, Ph.D. |
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Stephen C. Ekker, Ph.D., Peter C. Harris, Ph.D. and Translational Polycystic Kidney Disease (PKD) Center |
| January 17 |
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| January 24 |
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| January 31 |
Erik Snapp, Ph.D. |
Visualizing Misfolded Protein Stress in Living Cells |
Mark A. McNiven, Ph.D. |
| February 7 |
Marina Pasca di Magliano, Ph.D. |
Oncogene Dependency in Pancreatic Cancer Progression and Maintenance |
Martin E. Fernandez-Zapico, M.D. |
| February 14 |
Antonio D-Assoro M.D., Ph.D. |
Melior De Cinere Surgo: Role of Aurora-A Kinase in Breast Cancer Stemness and Metastasis |
Jeffrey L. Salisbury, Ph.D. |
| February 21 |
David MacAlpine, Ph.D. |
Chromatin Cues that Regulate the DNA Replication Program |
Zhiguo Zhang, Ph.D. |
| February 28 |
Barbara Panning, Ph.D. — Getz Named Lecture |
Epigenetic Regulation in Embryonic Stem Cells |
Zhiguo Zhang, Ph.D. |
| March 6 |
Daniel Kohane, M.D., Ph.D. |
Drug Delivery from Nano to Macro |
Priyabrata Mukherjee, Ph.D. |
| March 13 |
Peter Rubenstein, Ph.D. |
Regulation of Actin Polymerization — The Heart of the Matter |
Frank V. Brozovich, M.D., Ph.D. |
| March 19 - special seminar |
Shawn Burgess, Ph.D.
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Brian Neff, M.D. |
Please note different day, time and location
Burgess: Zebrafish and Metallica: How Fish Can Teach Us About Hearing Regeneration
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Neff: State of the Art in Clinical Sensorineural Hearing Loss Rehabilitation in 2012 |
Stephen C. Ekker, Ph.D. |
| March 20 |
Ruth Lupu, Ph.D. |
Cyr61/a New Therapeutic Target for Breast Cancer Invasive Carcinomas |
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| March 27 |
Ming-Fong Lin, Ph.D. |
p66Shc Longevity Protein-Dependent Reactive Oxygen Species Mediates Steroid Action on Cell Proliferation |
Haojie Huang, Ph.D. |
| April 3 |
Jonathan King, Ph.D. |
Lens Crystallin Folding, Aggregation and Chaperone Recognition in Relation to Cataract |
Marina Ramirez-Alvarado, Ph.D. |
| April 10 |
Bart Williams, Ph.D. |
Examining the Role of the Wnt Signaling Pathway in Bone Development and Disease |
Merry J. Oursler, Ph.D. |
| April 17 |
Balveen Kaur, Ph.D. |
Barriers to Oncolytic Viral Therapy: Progress and Challenges |
Zhiguo Zhang, Ph.D. |
| April 24 |
Nirao Shah, M.D., Ph.D. |
The Genetics and Neurobiology of Social Behaviors: Understanding How We Mate, Fight, and Parent |
Epigenetics in Reproductive Disease Laboratory - Gaurang S. Daftary, M.D., Gwen A. Lomberk, Ph.D., Raul A. Urrutia, M.D. |
| May 1 |
Benjamin Garcia, Ph.D. |
Quantitative Proteomics for Understanding the Histone Code |
H.R. Bergen, Ph.D. |
| May 8 |
Reza Ghiladi, Ph.D. |
The Role of Porphyrins in Biology: From Protein Biochemistry to Antimicrobial Materials |
Whyte G. Owen, Ph.D. |
| May 15 |
Eileen Shore, Ph.D. |
Fibrodysplasia ossificans progressiva (FOP), a genetic disorder of BMP signaling and ectopic endochondral ossification Regulation of Actin Polymerization – The Heart of the Matter |
Jennifer J. Westendorf, Ph.D. |
| May 22 |
Nawal Boukli, Ph.D. |
Alcohol triggers ER Stress responses in dendritic cells: cell death implications |
Marina Ramirez-Alvarado, Ph.D. |
| May 31 |
Anna Huttenlocher, M.D. |
Imaging cell migration in vivo: implications to human disease |
Stephen C. Ekker, Ph.D. |
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