Research Seminars/Events

Current Events for the week from 15-Nov-2009 to 21-Nov-2009
Date/Time Speaker Title November 16 12:00 PM   Fumihiko Urano, M.D. Ph.D.  The Binary Switch Between Life and Death of ER Stressed Cells  November 17 9:00 AM   Neil Aronin & Molly Hammell  RNA Club: Neil Aronin, Dept. of Medicine, Prog. in Neuroscience & Molly Hammell, Ambros Lab  November 17 9:00 AM   Allison Rapa  Radiation Safety Orientation  November 17 10:00 AM   Juleen Zierath, Ph.D.  Gene/Environment Influence On Skeletal Muscle Insulin Sensitivity  November 17 12:15 PM   Leigh Hochberg, MD, PhD  Neurologists Listening to Neurons: Intracortically-based Brain-computer Interfaces and Restorative Neurotechnology  November 17 1:00 PM   Kristen Alexa  Endoderm Patterning in Zebrafish: Pancreas Development  November 17 2:00 PM   Douglas Green, Ph.D.  Caspases and Apoptosis: Cinderella and her ugly stepsisters  November 17 4:00 PM   Miroslav Koulnis  Distinct dynamic properties for two survival pathways in erythropoietic stress  November 18 9:00 AM   Paul S. Rennie, Ph.D., FCAHS  RNAi and small molecule targeting of the androgen receptor to control advanced, castration-resistant prostate cancer  November 18 12:00 PM   David Underhill, Ph.D.  Medical Research Lecture: “Phagocytosis and Inflammation: What’s the Connection?”  November 18 12:00 PM   Dr. Guido Silvestri, M.D.  Beyond Immune Activation: How African Monkeys Became Resistant to AIDS  November 18 12:00 PM   David Underhill, Ph.D.  Medicine Research Lecture: “Phagocytosis and Inflammation: What’s the Connection?”  November 18 12:00 PM   Jeff Gelles, PhD  Untangling Transcription Regulation One Molecule at a Time  November 18 1:30 PM   Dr. Chen Dong  Helper T cell differentiation - New pathways and regulators  November 18 2:30 PM   Irene Maumenee, MD  Leber Congenital Amaurosis – Clinical and Genetic Observations  November 18 4:00 PM   Theodore Rasmussen  Epigenetic Regulation of ES Cell Proliferation and Pluripotency  November 18 5:00 PM   Ellen S. More, PhD  Personal Stories, Political Change: Women Physicians and the Cultures of Medicine  November 19 8:00 AM   Robert Weinstein, MD  Hematology/Oncology Grand Rounds: “Evidence and Clinical Decision Making in Apheresis Medicine”  November 19 12:00 PM   Harvey Makadon, MD  Medical Grand Rounds: “Meeting The Needs of Lesbian, Gay, Bisexual and Transgendered Populations: The End to LGBT Invisibility”  November 19 12:15 PM   C. P. Kyriacou, Ph.D., FMedSci  Biological clocks: evolution, ecology, and neurobiology  November 19 4:00 PM   Melissa Fischer, MD,MEd LInC Trustees & Co-Leaders  LInC Town Hall ,Opportunity to hear plans for the new Foundations of Medicine 1 Curriculum  November 19 4:00 PM   Ryan Nistler  Role for dicer in mammalian innate immunity and miRNA biogenesis  November 20 12:15 PM   Thomas Bernhardt, Ph.D.  Cytokinetic ring-activated cell wall hydrolysis governs daughter cell separation in E. coli  November 21 10:00 AM     International Craft Fair