Seminars 2009-2010 Academic Year

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This page shows the UMass Cancer Biology and Cancer Center seminars database for the full academic year 2009-2010. For a listing of upcoming seminars and past speakers, please select an appropriate link from the list below.

For the complete UMass Medical School Seminar list, see the Institution wide list.

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September 2009
Tuesday, September 8, 2009 "Tumor hypoxia: mechanisms for survival and opportunities for therapeutic targeting" Andrew L. Kung, M.D., Ph.D. Assistant Professor of Pediatrics Dana-Farber Cancer Institute, Harvard Medical School
Tuesday, September 15, 2009 "MTA Family of Coregulators in Invasion and Metastasis" Rakesh Kumar, Ph.D. Professor and Chairman Catharine Birch & William McCormick Chair Department of Biochemistry & Molecular Biology The George Washington University
October 2009
Tuesday, October 6, 2009 "Role of Rho GTPases in normal and malignant hematopoiesis" David A. Williams, MD Chief, Division of Hematology/Oncology Director of Translational Research for Children’s Hospital Boston Leland Fikes Professor of Pediatrics, Harvard Medical School
Tuesday, October 13, 2009 "Transcription Factor Stat5a/b as a Therapeutic Target Protein for Prostate Cancer" Marja T. Nevalainen, M.D., Ph.D. Associate Professor/Associate Director of Education Department of Cancer Biology Department of Medical Oncology Department of Urology Kimmel Cancer Center Thomas Jefferson University
Tuesday, October 13, 2009 "Transcription Factor Stat5a/b as a Therapeutic Target Protein for Prostate Cancer" Marja T. Nevalainen, M.D., Ph.D. Associate Professor/Associate Director of Education Department of Cancer Biology Department of Medical Oncology Department of Urology Kimmel Cancer Center Thomas Jefferson University
Tuesday, October 20, 2009 "Transcriptional control of erythromegakaryocytic differentiation" Mitchell J. Weiss, M.D., Ph.D. Associate Professor of Pediatrics The Children's Hospital of Philadelphia
November 2009
Tuesday, November 3, 2009 "Mechanisms Regulating Anchorage Independence of Tumor Cells" Joan S. Brugge, Ph.D. Louise Foote Pfeiffer Professor of Cell Biology, Head of the Department of Cell Biology, Harvard Medical School
Tuesday, November 17, 2009 "Caspases and Apoptosis: Cinderella and her ugly stepsisters" Douglas Green, Ph.D. Peter Doherty Chair, Department of Immunology St. Jude Children's Research Hospital
Wednesday, November 18, 2009 "RNAi and small molecule targeting of the androgen receptor to control advanced, castration-resistant prostate cancer" Paul S. Rennie, Ph.D., FCAHS Director, Laboratory Research - Vancouver Prostate Center Professor of Urologic Sciences, Surgery, Pathology & Laboratory Medicine University of British Columbia
December 2009
Tuesday, December 1, 2009 2:00 PM, LRB-416 4th Floor Conference Room in the Aaron Lazare Medical Research Building on the University Campus 4th Floor Cancer Biology Host: Michelle Kelliher, Ph.D. (508) 856-8620	"Zebrafish Models Reveal A New Apoptotic Pathway that Holds Promise for Improved Cancer Therapy" A. Thomas Look, MD Vice Chair for Research, Dept of Pediatric Oncology Dana-Farber Cancer Institute Professor of Pediatrics, Harvard Medical School
Tuesday, December 15, 2009 2:00 PM, S1-608 Jacob F. Hiatt Auditorium (GLC) in the Medical School Building on the University Campus Goff Learning Center Cancer Biology Host: Sharon Cantor, Ph.D. (508) 856-4421	"Targeting DNA Repair in Cancer Therapy" Aland D. D'Andrea, MD The Fuller-American Cancer Society Professor Chief, Division of Genomic Stability and DNA Repair Department of Radiation Oncology, Dana-Farber Cancer Institute, Harvard Medical School
New Information Wednesday, December 16, 2009 1:00 PM, LRB-416 4th Floor Conference Room in the Aaron Lazare Medical Research Building on the University Campus 4th Floor Cancer Biology Host: Lucia Languino, Ph.D. (508) 856-3710	"The role of cytoprotective chaperones in prostate cancer" Amina Zoubeidi, Ph.D. Assistant professor, Department of Urologic Sciences, University of British Columbia, Vancouver Prostate Centre
Tuesday, December 22, 2009 2:00 PM, LRB-416 4th Floor Conference Room in the Aaron Lazare Medical Research Building on the University Campus 4th Floor Cancer Center Host: Lucia Languino, Ph.D. (508) 856-3710	"Why do prostate cancer cells go to bone?" Sue-Hwa Lin, Ph.D. Professor and Deputy Chair Department of Molecular Pathology University of Texas M.D. Anderson Cancer Center