Events
MCB Seminars 2010-2011
Invited Speakers
ALL SEMINARS IN LECTURE ROOM C 3:30pm (unless otherwise stated)
September 16 2010
Shiv Srivastava, PhD
Co-director and Scientific Director, Center for Prostate Disease Research
Professor of Surgery, USU
CPDR Rockville
Department of Surgery
Uniformed Services University of the Health Sciences
ssrivastava@cpdr.org
Host: Dr. Mary Cutler
Title: "Bio-Marker & Therapeutic Target Potential of Prevalent Gene Alterations"
September 30, 2010
Lalage Wakefield, Ph.D
Chief, Cancer Biology of TGF-C Section,
Lab. of Cancer Biology and Genetics,
National Cancer Institute, NIH
E-mail: lw34g@nih.gov
Host: Dr. GabrielaDveksler
Title: "The TGF-beta Pathway in Breast Cancer: Complex Roles and Therapeutic Opportunities"
October 14, 2010
Valeria Cavalli, PhD
Assistant Professor of Neurobiology
Department of Anatomy and Neurobiology
Hope Center for Neurological Disorders
Washington University School of Medicine
e-mail: cavalli@pcg.wustl.edu
Host: Dr. Xiang
Title: "Sunday Driver, A Scaffolding Protein Linking Axonal Transport to Nerve Regeneration"
October 28, 2010
Dr. Chi-Hon Lee, M.D., Ph.D.
Investigator, Laboratory of Gene Regulation and Development
NICHD
Email: leechih@mail.nih.gov
Host: Rachel Cox
Title: "Assembly and Function of Drosophila Visual Circuits"
December 9, 2010
STUDENT SEMINARS
Reyda Gonzales-Nieves- "Regulation of Cell Migration in Mammary Epithelial Cells"
Sangeetha Rajesh- "Soluble Factors Stimulating Lymphangiogenesis in Tuberous Sclerosis Complex (TSC)"
January 13, 2011
V. Craig Jordan, OBE, PhD, DSc
Scientific Director, Lombardi Comprehensive Cancer Center
Vincent T. Lombardi Chair of Translational Cancer Research.
Vice Chairman, Department of Oncology
Professor of Oncology and Pharmacology
Georgetown University Medical School
Host: Dr. Cutler
POC/Seminar Scheduling: Ms. Julia Tijerina (jht35@georgetown.edu)
Title: "Deciphering the Molecular Pharacology of Tamoxifen Treatment for Breast Cancer: The Critical Role of the Graduate Student"
January 27, 2010
STUDENT SEMINARS
Saurav Majumder- "Identification of Positive Regulatory Subunits of Serine Palmitoyltransferase in Plant (A. Thaliana)"
Ashley Shaloo - "Identification of a Novel Bcl10 Domain That Contributes to NF-?B Activation"
February 10, 2011
STUDENT SEMINARS
David Chang-
"Dirty Jobs: Finding Broadly Cross Reactive Neutralizing Antibodies in HIV Patients"
Nivedita Sengupta - "Mechanism of ORM Proteins Regulation of the Serine Palmitoltransferase (SPT) Activity in the Sphingolipid Biosynthetic Pathway"
Mark Smith - "Development of Vaccines Against Uropathogenic Escherichia coli Toxins to reduce Morbidity Associated with Urinary Tract Infections"
February 24, 2010
Erik Lee Snapp, Ph.D.
Assistant Professor
Department of Anatomy and Structural Biology
Co-Director of the Fluorescent Protein Resource Center
Albert Einstein College of Medicine
Email: erik-lee.snapp@einstein.yu.edu
Host: Johnan Kaleeba
Title: "Visualizing Misfolded Protein Stress in Living Cells"
March 10, 2010
Pentao Liu, Ph.D.
Investigator, Wellcome Trust Sanger Institute,
Wellcome Trust Genome Campus,
Hinxton, Cambridge.
pl2@sanger.ac.uk
Host: Dr. Yang (Dennis) Du
Title: "ITNKs, A New Type of Cancer Killer Cellst"
March 30, 2010
Thomas Conrad, PhD
Director of Basic Science
Gynecologic Cancer Center of Excellence
Dept of Defense
Annadale, VA
Host: Dr. Cutler
Title: "Mass Spectrometry-Based Proteomics for Cancer Biomarker Discovery & Validation"
April 13, 2010
Imre M. Boros, PhD, DSc
Professor & Head, Dept of Biochemistry & Molecular Biology
Szeged University
Szeged, Hungary
email: borosi@bio.u-szeged.hu
Host: Dr. Giam
"The Effect of Drosophila SAGA & ATAC Histone Acetyltransferase Complexes on Chromatin Structure & Gene Regulation"
April 14, 2010
Ed Harhaj
Associate Professor
Department of Microbiology and Immunology
University of Miami, Miller School of Medicine
Sylvester Comprehensive Cancer Center
Miami, FL
email: eharhaj@med.miami.edu
Host: Dr. Brian Schaefer
Title: "Negative regulation of NF-kB signaling and inflammation"
April 28, 2010
Raul M. Torres, Ph.D.
Associate Professor
Director, Graduate Program in Immunology
Integrated Department of Immunology
University of Colorado Denver and National Jewish Health
Denver, CO
Email: torresr@njhealth.org
Hos: Dr. Snapper
Title: "Signaling Enhances the T-cell Independent Antibody Responset"
May 12, 2010
STUDENT SEMINARS
Ronald Panganiban - "Molecular Mechanisms of Ionizing Radiation-Induced Cell Death in Primary Lung Cells"
Darwin Larco - "Identifying the GnRH-(1-5) Signaling Pathway"
Genevieve Sullivan - "Modulating CNS Regeneration After Mild Traumatic Brain Injury"
May 26, 2010
Tim R. Mosmann, Ph.D.
Director, David H. Smith Center for Vaccine Biology and Immunology
Professor, Department of Microbiology and Immunology
University of Rochester
School of Medicine and Dentistry
Rochester, NY
Tim_Mosmann@URMC.Rochester.edu
Host: Dr. Dveksler
Title: "UCommitted & Flexible Cytokine Phenotypes of Human T Cellst"
June 9, 2010
STUDENT SEMINARS
Derek Holman - "Unravelling the Epigenetic Contribution to Cognitive Deficits in the Ts65Dn Mouse Model of Down Syndrome"
Alyssa Flora - "Dissemination of Ricin From the GI Tract"
Jacqueline Surls - "Cholesterol-Enriched Plasma Membrane Promotes Th1 While Inhibiting Th2 Differentiation"