Events
MCB Seminars 2011-2012
Invited Speakers
ALL SEMINARS IN LECTURE ROOM C 3:30pm (unless otherwise stated)
September 1 2011
John F Kearney, PhD
Professor of Microbiology
University of Alabama at Birmingham
Birmingham Al
jfk@uab.edu
http://www.uab.edu/luckielab/
Host: Dr. Mitre
Title: "Effects of neonatal Microbial Exposure on Development of Asthma and Type 1 Diabetes in Mice"
September 15, 2011
Hsing-Jien Kung, PhD
UCDMC, Research III
Sacramento, CA
E-mail: hkung@ucdavis.edu or frances.richardson@ucdmc.ucdavis.edu
Host: Dr. Giam
Title: "Targeting Tyrosine Kinases and Autophagy in Prostate Cancer"
September 29, 2011
Dr. Cynthia E. Dunbar
Hematology Branch
National Heart, Lung, Blood Institute, NIH
Bethesda, MD
Host: Dr. Du
Title: "Insights into Hematopoiesis and Leukemogenesis from Stem Cell Gene Transfer Studies"
October 13, 2011
Thomas C. Terwilliger
Laboratory Fellow
Los Alamos National Laboratory
Los Alamos, NM
Email: terwilliger@lanl.gov
Host: Dr. Wang
Title: "Achievements of Structural Genomics"
December 8, 2011
Dr. Leslie G. Biesecker
Chief, Genetic Disease Research Branch
National Human Genome Research Institute, NIH
Email: Lb63o@nih.gov or bergerm@mail.nih.gov
Host: Dr. Sambuughin
Title: "Genome-First Approaches to Clinical Research and Clinical Diagnosis"
January 5, 2012
Dr. Carole Parent
Senior Investigator & Deputy Chief
Laboratory of Cellular and Molecular Biology
NCI, NIH
Bethesda, MD
Email: parent@mail.nig.gov
Host: Dr. Cutler
Title: "Live Imaging of Signal relay During Chemotaxis & its Revelevance to Inflammation"
January 19, 2012
STUDENT SEMINARS
"Engineering Fort Morgan Virus to be a Vaccine Vector" by David Chang
"ssSPTs in Fly" by Saurav Majumder
February 2, 2012
STUDENT SEMINARS
February 15, 2012
Dr. Hsiu-Ming Shihia
Research Fellow
Institute of Biomedical Sciences
Academia Sinica, Taipei, Taiwan
Email: hmshih@ibms.sinica.edu.tw
Host: Dr. Giam
Title: "Sumoylation and Ubiquitination in Infectious Disease and Cancer"
February 16, 2012
Dr. Ravi Bhatia
Department of Hematology and Hematopoietic Cell Transplantation
City of Hope National Medical Center
Email: RBhatia@coh.org
Host: Dr. Du
Title: "Biology & targeting Leukemia Stem Cells"
March 1, 2012
Dr. Thomas Hays
Department of Genetics, Cell Biology and Development
University of Minnesota
Email: haysx001@umn.edu
Host: Dr. Xiang
Title: "TBD"
March 15, 2012
Dr. Alan Rapraeger
Department of Pathology and Laboratory Medicine
University of Wisconsin-Madison
Email: rapraeger@humonc.wisc.edu
Host: Dr. Dveksler
Title: "TBD"
March 29, 2012
Dr. Mark Mamula
Yale University School of Medicine
Host: Dr. Scott
Title: "TBD"
April 12, 2012
Y. Eugene Yu, Ph.D.
Associate Professor, Genetics Program
Roswell Park Cancer Institute
New York State Center of Excellence in Bioinformatics and Life Sciences
Buffalo, New York
Email: yuejin.yu@roswellpark.org
Host: Dr. Galdzicki
Title: "Mouse genome engineering to genetically dissect human trisomy 21"
April 26, 2012
Dr. Rakesh Kumar
Department of Biochemistry and Molecular Biology
George Washington University
Host: Dr. Cutler
Title: "TBD"
May 10, 2012
Philip L. Cohen, MD
Rheumatology Section Chief & Professor of Medicine
Temple University SOM
Philadelphia, PA
Email: philco@temple.edu
Host: Dr. Via
Title: "The TAM Receptors: Key of Immunity & Autoimmunity"
May 24, 2012
STUDENT SEMINARS
June 6, 2012
Dr. Shane Crotty
Division of Vaccine Discovery
La Jolla Institute for Allergy & Immunology
Host: Dr. Snapper
Title: "TBD"
June 7, 2012
STUDENT SEMINARS