School of Medicine
Seminar Series 2000-01

September 26
Peter A. Jones, Ph.D.
Distinguished Professor of Medicine
Director, USC/Norris Comprehensive Cancer Center Los Angeles
"DNA methylation and human cancer"
Host: Art Brothman, Pediatrics and Human Genetics

October 10
Mark Kay, M.D., Ph.D.
Director, Program in Human Gene Therapy
Associate Professor of Pediatrics and Genetics
Stanford University
"Gene therapy for hemophilia: bench to bedside"
Host: Ed Clark, Charles Keller, and David Virshup, Pediatrics

October 24
Jody Puglisi, Ph.D.
Associate Professor of Structural Biology
Director, Stanford Magnetic Resonance Laboratory
Stanford University School of Medicine
Host: John Atkins and Ray Gesteland, Human Genetics

November 2 (Thursday)
Bruce Alberts, Ph.D.
President, National Academy of Sciences
Chairman, National Research Council
Host: Ray Gesteland, Human Genetics

November 7
John Roth, Ph.D.
Distinguished Professor of Biology
University of Utah
"Adaptive mutation: three labs, three models, all true?"
Host: Ray Gesteland, Human Genetics

November 14
Richard D. Palmiter, Ph.D.
Investigator, Howard Hughes Medical Institute
Professor of Biochemistry
University of Washington
"Dopamine and the motivation to eat"
Host: Martin Rechsteiner, Biochemistry

December 5
Paul Polakis, Ph.D.
Staff Scientist
Department of Molecular Oncology
Genentech Inc., South San Francisco
"Cancer and the WNT signaling pathway"
Host: David Virshup, Oncological Sciences

December 12
John Reed, M.D., Ph.D.
Scientific Director
Burnham Institute
"Regulation of apoptosis in health and disease"
Host: Ray White, Oncological Sciences

January 16
Graeme I. Bell, Ph.D.
Investigator, Howard Hughes Medical Institute
Louis Block Professor of Biochemistry & Molecular Biology, Medicine, and Human Genetics
University of Chicago
"Diabetes mellitus as a model for genetic studies of common disease"
Host: Guy Zimmerman, Human Molecular Biology and Genetics

January 30
Cornelius Murre, Ph.D.
Professor of Biology
University of California at San Diego
"Helix-loop-helix proteins in lymphocyte development and malignancies"
Host: John Weis, Pathology

February 13
Wayne Frankel, Ph.D.
Staff Scientist
The Jackson Laboratory
"Mutation screens for epilepsy and other neurological disorders in mice"
Host: Louis Ptacek, Human Genetics

February 27
M. Charles Liberman, Ph.D.
Director, Eaton-Peabody Laboratory, Massachusetts Eye and Ear Infirmary
Professor of Otology and Laryngology
Harvard Medical School
"Noise-induced hearing loss: protective role of cochlear efferent neurons and alpha-9 cholinergic receptors"
Host: Tom Parks, Neurobiology and Anatomy

March 27
Alexander Schier, Ph.D.
Associate Professor of Cell Biology
Skirball Institute of Biomolecular Medicine
New York University School of Medicine
"Gastrulation and nodal signaling in zebrafish"
Host: David Grunwald, Human Genetics and Chi-bin Chien, Neurobiology and Anatomy

April 10
Harry T. Orr, Ph.D.
Professor, Department of Laboratory Medicine and Pathology
University of Minnesota
"Pathogenesis of spinocerebellar ataxia type 1"
Host: Louis Ptacek, Human Genetics

April 17
Jouni Uitto, M.D.
Chairman and Professor of Dermatology
Thomas Jefferson University
"Clinical implications of basic research on heritable skin diseases: the paradigm of Epidermolysis Bullosa"
Host: John Zone, Dermatology

April 24
Wylie Burke, M.D., Ph.D.
Chairman, Department of Medical History and Genetics
Associate Professor of Medicine, Division of Medical Genetics
University of Washington
"Population screening for hemachromatosis"
Host: Jeff Botkin, Human Genetics

May 8
Hank Greely, JD
Director of the Program in Law, Science and Technology
Professor of Law and, by courtesy, of Genetics
Stanford University
"New social issues in human genetics research: of Iceland and elsewhere"
Host: Jeff Botkin, Human Genetics