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Seminars 2007-2008 Academic Year
Use the selection list below to find more information about our seminar programs.
This page shows the Program in Molecular Medicine seminars database for the full
academic year 2007-2008. For a listing of upcoming
Molecular Medicine seminars, please select an appropriate link in the select list below.
For the complete UMass Medical School Seminar list, see
the Institution wide list.
Please bookmark this page and check back frequently, especially
just before the events you wish to attend, as schedules often shift.
Monthly Navigation Aides
September 2007 |
Friday, September 21,
2007
"New roles for mitotic condensin proteins in RNAi and chromatin-based gene silencing"
James Carey
Hagstrom Lab
Program in Cell Dynamics |
October 2007 |
Monday, October 1,
2007
"The BRCA1-associated BACH1/FANCJ helicase at the crossroads of DNA repair"
Sharon Cantor, Ph.D.
Assistant Professor
Cancer Biology |
Friday, October 5,
2007
"Regulation of cytokinesis by asymmetric localization of Etd1"
Juan Carlos Garcia-Cortes
McCollum lab
Program in Cell Dynamics |
Thursday, October 18,
2007
"Dissecting a circuit for olfactory behavior in C.elegans"
Cori Bargmann, Ph.D.
Howard Hughes Medical Institute
The Rockefeller University
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Friday, October 26,
2007
"Differential protein glycosylation activity by the two vertebrate Oligosaccharyltransferases
A- and B-OST"
Catalina Ruiz-Canada
Gilmore Lab
BMP |
November 2007 |
Monday, November 12,
2007
"Inflammation NF-kB and MicroRNAs Play their Roles"
David Baltimore, Ph.D.
California Institute of Technoloty |
December 2007 |
Monday, December 10,
2007
"Oral Delivery of DNA, Protein and siRNA Encapsulated in Yeast Cell Wall
Particles "
Gary R. Ostroff, Ph.D.
Research Professor
Program in Molecular Medicine |
Friday, December 14,
2007
"Structural basis for the interaction of ZPR1 with eEF1A, receptors, SMN complexes and its role in cell growth and proliferation"
Ashwini Mishra
Lambright Lab
PPM |
January 2008 |
Thursday, January 3,
2008
"Membrane bending and phosphoinositide signaling at sides of endocytosis"
Pietro De Camilli, M.D.
Eugene Higgins Professor, Cell Biology
Howard Hughes Medical Institute
Yale University School of Medicine |
Monday, January 7,
2008
"Sugar, Fat, and Consumption"
Hardy Kornfeld, M.D.
Professor of Medicine |
Thursday, January 17,
2008
"Small RNA-Argonaute Specialization in a Model Organism"
James C. Carrington, Ph.D.
Oregon State University |
Friday, January 25,
2008
"RDE-8 encodes a novel protein with a conserved domain required for RNAi"
Hsin-Yue Tsai
Mello lab
PMM |
February 2008 |
Monday, February 4,
2008
"Nicotine Addiction in Schizophrenia"
Douglas M. Ziedonis, MD, MPH
Professor and Chairman
Department of Psychiatry |
Thursday, February 7,
2008
"Cancer and Aging: Rival Demons?"
Judith Campisi, Ph.D.
Ernest Orlando Lawrence Berkeley
National Laboratory and the
Buck Institute for Age Research |
Friday, February 22,
2008
"Evaluating the "Substrate Envelope" Hypothesis:
Structural analysis of novel HIV-1 protease inhibitors designed to be robust against resistance"
Madhavi Nalam
Schiffer lab
BMP |
March 2008 |
Monday, March 3,
2008
"Ciliary Assembly Defects Cause Polycystic Kidney Disease and Retinal Degeneration"
Greg J. Pazour, Ph.D.
Associate Professor
Program in Molecular Medicine |
Friday, March 7,
2008
"Natural resistance of an HIV-1 envelope to the CD4 binding site mAb, b12"
Maria Duenas-Decamp
Clapham Lab
PMM |
Friday, March 21,
2008
"Mortals and others:
The story of three oncogenes"
Narendra Wajapeyee
Green Lab
PGFE |
Wednesday, March 26,
2008
"Role of Inflammation in Diabetes and Complications"
Jason K. Kim, Ph.D.
Penn State College of Medicine |
Thursday, March 27,
2008
"Potassium Channel Studies"
Lily Y. Jan, Ph.D.
Jack & Delores Lange Professor
Howard Hughes Medical Institute
University of California, San Francisco |
April 2008 |
Friday, April 4,
2008
"Analysis of C. elegans endogenous small RNAs"
Weifeng Gu
Mello Lab
PMM |
Monday, April 7,
2008
"Return to the RNAi World:
Rethinking Gene Expression,
Evolution and Medicine"
Craig C. Mello, Ph.D.
Blais University Chair in Molecular Medicine
Howard Hughes Medical Institute |
Thursday, April 10,
2008
"Using reprogramming and stem cells to model neurodegeneration"
Kevin Eggan, Ph.D.
Stowers Medical Institute
Harvard University |
Thursday, April 17,
2008
"Stem Cells, Pluripotency and Nuclear Reprogramming"
Rudolf Jaenisch, M.D.
Whitehead Institute for Biomedical Research
and MIT |
May 2008 |
Thursday, May 1,
2008
"Switching Core Transcription
Complexes to Direct Differentiation
and Maintain Stem Cell Programs"
Robert Tjian, Ph.D.
University of California, Berkeley
Howard Hughes Medical Institute |
Friday, May 2,
2008
"Mitosis and DNA damage
Does DNA damage signaling occur during M phase of the cell cycle?"
Hanne Varmark
Theurkauf lab
PMM |
Monday, May 12,
2008
"Genetic Nonsense:
From Bench to Bedside"
Allan Jacobson, Ph.D.
Professor and Chair
Molecular Genetics & Microbiology |
Tuesday, May 13,
2008
"A general system for targeted gene inactivation: using zinc finger nucleases to engineer the zebrafish genome"
Scot A. Wolf, Ph.D. and Nathan Lawson, Ph.D.
Program in Gene Function and Expression |
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