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2006-2007 IMMAG Seminar Schedule

All seminars are held on Thursday, 4 PM, CA 1002
(unless otherwise noted)

Date

Speaker/ Affiliation Title

Host

2006

Aug 3

No Scheduled Seminar

Aug 10

No Scheduled Seminar

Aug 17 Ulf Wikesjö, DDS, DMD, PhD
Dept. of Periodontics, Oral Biology & Maxillofacial Pathology, Medical College of Georgia
"Periodontal and alveolar bone regeneration" 

Carlos Isales, MD
ext. 1-0692 

Aug 24

No Scheduled Seminar

Aug 31

Dean's Reception

   
Sep 7 Joseph K-K. Li
Professor, Dept. of Biology
Utah State University
Logan, UT

"Oncolytic bluetongue viruses for potential human cancer therapy"

Hubert Stöppler
PhD
ext. 1-1468
Sep 12
Special Day
Robert J. Lee, PhD
Associate Professor
Division of Pharmaceutics
College of Pharmacy
The Ohio State Univ.
Columbus, OH

"Folate receptor-targeted drug delivery"

William Dynan, PhD
ext 1-8756
Sep 14 Laura Lillien
University of Pittsburgh

"Precursor diversity in the central nervous system"

Huanshun Li MD
ext 1-8747
Sep 21 Andrew Engel
Professor of Neurology
Mayo Clinic College of Medicine
Rochester, MN

"Congenital myasthenic syndromes"

Lin Mei, PhD
ext. 1-8775
Sep 28

Di Chen, MD, PhD
Dept of Orthopaedics
University of Rochester
Medical Center
Rochester, NY

"Ubiquitin-Proteasome Regulation of the Bone-Specific Transcription Factor Runx2"
 

Xingming Shi, PhD
ext. 1-1097
Sep 29
*Note Special Time*
Edith Gardiner, PhD
Associate Professor
University of Queensland
Director, Bone Research Group, Centre for Diabetes and Endocrine Research
Brisbane, Australia
"Control of bone formation by neuropeptide Y and leptin" Carlos Isales and Mark Hamrick
ext. 1-0692
ext. 1934

 

Oct 5 Denise Cooper, PhD
Professor of Biochemistry & Molecular Biology
JA Haley Veterans Hospital, Tampa, FL
"The decision to splice: Akt and SR proteins regulate pre-mRNA alternative splicing via insulin signaling pathways" Wendy Bollag,
PhD
ext. 1-0698
Oct 12 Eva Anton
University of North Carolina

"Mechanisms of neuronal differentiation in the developing cerebral cortex"

Quansheng Du, PhD
ext. 1-3730
Oct 18
*Note Special Time*
*Neuroscience*
Nancy Ip, PhD
Professor, Director of Biotechnology Research Institute & Co-Director of Molecular Neuroscience Center
Hog Kong University of Science & Technology
Kowloon, Hong Kong
"Cdk5: a key regulator of synaptic functions" Lin Mei, PhD
ext. 1-8775

 
Oct 19 Mimmin Luo, PhD
National Institute of Biological Sciences
Beijing, PR China

"A specialized olfactory pathway for CO2 detection"

Huanshun Li MD
ext 1-8747
Oct 26

TBA

   
Nov 2 Dr. Harry Blair
Professor
Univ. of Pittsburgh
Pittsburgh, PA
"Estrogen, FSH and bone loss: New perspectives" Xingming Shi,
PhD
Wendy Bollag, PhD
ext. 1-1097
ext. 1-0698
Nov 9 Clinton Rubin, PhD
Director, Center for Biotechnology, State Univ. of NY
Stony Brook, NY
"Low-level mechanical signals as the basis for anabolic therapeutics for musculoskeletal disorders"

Carlos Isales, MD
ext. 1-0692

Nov 16
*Special Time - 3:00 PM*
Christian Raetz, MD, PhD
Professor and Chair
Dept. of Biochemistry
Duke Univ. Med. Ctr.
"Assembly, secretion and function of lipopolysaccharide endotoxins: potent bacterial activators of innate immunity" Robert Yu, PhD, Med.Sc.D
ext. 1-0699
Nov 23

Thanksgiving Holiday

Nov 30

**Canceled**
Ulrich Mueller, Associate Professor
Department of Cell Biology, University of Texas, Austin
"Cell Recognition Molecules in CNS Development and Sensory Perception Quansheng Du, PhD
ext. 1-3730
Dec 7 Scott Herness
Ohio State University

 

"Talking Too Much: Communication with neurotransmitters and neuropeptides in the taste bud"
 
Lynnette McClusky, PhD
ext. 1-7840
Dec 14

**Canceled**

 

Sally Radovick, MD
Johns Hopkins Childrens Center

 

Lawrence Layman, MD
ext. 1-7591
Dec 21

Winter Holidays

Dec 28

Winter Holidays

Jan 4 Beata Lecka-Czernik, PhD
Research Assistant Professor
Reynolds Institute on Aging
Dept. of Geriatrics
Univ. of Arkansas for Medical Sciences 

"PPARg nuclear receptor as a key component of bone loss due to aging and anti-diabetic TZD therapy"

Xingming Shi, PhD
ext. 1-1097
Jan 11 Xu Feng
Associate Professor
University of Alabama-Birmingham

"Biology and therapeutic potential of the RANKL/RANK/OPG axis in bone and cancer"
 

Wen-Cheng Xiong, PhD
ext. 1-5148
Jan 18

**Canceled**

L. Niklason
Dept. of Anesthesiology, Yale University School of Medicine
New Haven, CT

"Stem Cell for Vascular Engineering?"

Ying Song
ext. 1-9461
Jan 25 Verne S. Caviness, Jr., M.D., D.Phil.
Professor Neuroscience Center at Massachusetts General Hospital
Charlestown, MA
"Regulation of neurogenesis in the proliferative epithelium" Huanshun Li MD
ext 1-8747
Feb 1

*Canceled*

Zelana Goldberg, MD
Assistant Professor of Radiation Oncology
University of California, Davis School of Medicine
Davis, CA

 

William Dynan, PhD
ext. 1-8756 
Feb 8

Elizabeth A. McGee, MD
Associate Professor
Reproductive Endocrinology & Infertility
Department of Obstetrics & Gynecology
Virginia Commonwealth University

"Ovarian Folliculogenesis" Ying Song
1-9641
Feb 15

Peter Stambrook, PhD
Professor
Dept of Cell and Cancer Biology
University of Cincinnati Medical Center
Cincinnati, OH

"Maintaining genomic integrity in somatic cells and embryonic stem cells"

Stephen Hsu, PhD
ext. 1-2317
Feb 22

Stavros Manolaga, MD, PhD
U. Arkansas
Little Rock, AR

 "From Estrogen-centric to Multifactorial: A revisionist view of osteoporosis"

Carlos Isales, MD
ext. 1-0692
Mar 8

**Canceled**

Tae-Wan Kim, PhD
Assistant Professor
Center for Neurobiology & Behavior, Columbia University
New York, NY

"Emerging roles for phosphoinositides and protein trafficking in Alzheimer's Disease"
 

Lin Mei, PhD
ext. 1-8775
Mar 15 Julius Zhu, PhD
Assistant Professor
Department of Pharmacology
University of Virginia School of Medicine
Charlottesville, VA

"Oncogenic Ras Signaling at Synapses"

Quansheng Du, PhD
ext. 1-3730
 
Mar 22

**Canceled**

Charles Stiles
Harvard Med—Dana Farber

"Transcription factors and glial development in the vertebrate central nervous system"

Huanshun Li MD
ext 1-8747
Mar 29

Mary Helen Barcellos-Hoff, PhD
Head, Dept. of Cancer Biology
Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory
Berkeley, CA

"Mechanisms and consequences of TFG-beta activation by radiation"
 

William Dynan, PhD
ext. 1-8756
Apr 5

Spring Break

Apr 12

No Seminar

Apr 19

**Canceled**

Kapil Bhalla, MD
Director, MCG Cancer Center
Georgia Research Alliance
Cecil F. Whitaker Eminent Scholar in Cancer
Medical College of Georgia
Augusta, GA
 

"The role of HDAC6 in modulating Hsp90 and misfolded protein response"
 
William Dynan, PhD
ext. 1-8756 
Apr 26

No Seminar

May 3 David Bentley, PhD
Department of Biochemistry and Molecular Genetics
University of Colorado Health Sciences Center
Aurora, CO

"Co-transcriptional pre-mRNA processing and chromatin modification"
 

William Dynan, PhD
ext 1-8756

 

May 10

*canceled*

Olga Kovalchuk, MD, PhD
Assistant Professor
Dept. of Biological Sciences
University of Lethbridge
Lethbridge, Alberta, Canada

 

"Epigenetic Effectors Hold the Key to Understanding Bystander Effects: Roles of DNA Methylation,
Histone Modifications and MicroRNAs" or "Epigenetic dysregulation in carcinogenesis - an interplay between DNA methylation, histone modifications and microRNAome changes"
William Dynan, PhD
ext 1-8756

 

 

May 17 Jef Boeke, PhD, DSc.
Professor and Director
High Throughput Biology Center

Johns Hopkins School of Medicine
Baltimore, MD
"Retrotransposons - natural and synthetic" Hernan Flores-Rozas, PhD
ext. 1-1371
May 24 Terry Van Dyke, PhD
Professor,
Department of Biochemistry and Biophysics
University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, Chapel Hill, NC

"Deciphering the complexities of cancer in mouse models"

Andrew Phillips, PhD
Jun 14 Kuan Wang, PhD
Lab Chief, Laboratory of Muscle Biology
Section Head, Muscle Proteomics and Nanotechnology Section Laboratory of Muscle Biology
NIAMS/NIH
Bethesda, MD

"Extreme muscle biology: from A to Z"

Carlos Isales, MD
ext. 1-0692

Jun 28 Kangpu Xu, PhD, DVM
Associate Professor
Clinical Reproductive Medicine
Weill Medical College of Cornell University
New York, NY

"Preimplantation genetic diagnosis: Where are we?"

Ying Song, PhD
ext. 1-9461

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