School of Medicine
Seminar Series 2003-200

September 23
Junjie Chen, Ph.D.
Assistant Professor, Oncology Mayo Clinic "Regulation of DNA damage pathways: What can we learn from BRCA1?"
Host: Vicente Planelles, Pathology

September 30
Thomas Tuschl, Ph.D.
Associate Professor Rockefeller University "Gene Regulation by siRNAs and miRNAs"
Host: Dana Carroll, Biochemistry

October 14
Walter Schaffner, Ph.D.
Professor and Director, Institute of Molecular Biology University of Zurich, Switzerland "Heavy Metal Stress Response from Insects to Mammals"
Host: Dennis Winge, Biochemistry

October 28
Kathleen Collins, Ph.D.
Associate Professor University of California at Berkeley "Assembly and Activity of Telomerase Ribonucleoproteins"
Host: Miles Pufall, Molecular Biology/Biological Chemistry Programs

November 25
Robert D. Goldman, Ph.D.
Stephen Walter Ranson Professor Chair, Cell and Molecular Biology Northwestern University School of Medicine "Understanding Nuclear and Cytoplasmic Intermediate Filaments: A Common Thread in Human Disease"
Host: Katie Ullman, Oncological Sciences

December 9
Michael Levine, Ph.D.
Professor of Genetics and Development University of California at Berkeley "Whole-genome Analysis of Gastrulation in Drosophila"
Host: Susan Mango, Oncological Sciences

December 16
Theodore G. Wensel, Ph.D.
Professor Department of Biochemistry and Molecular Biology Baylor College of Medicine "GTPase Regulation in Phototransduction"
Host: Ching-Kang Jason Chen, Ophthalmology and Visual Sciences/Human Genetics

January 13
Bruce Spiegelman, Ph.D.
Professor of Cell Biology Dana-Farber Cancer Institute "The Transcriptional Basis of Glucose and Energy Homeostasis"
Host: Don McClain, Medicine

January 27
Jeffrey Whitsett, M.D.
Professor and Director Divisions of Neonatology and Pulmonary Biology Cincinnati Children's Hospital Medical Center "Conditional Gene Targeting and Genomics for Study of Lung Morphogenesis and Disease"
Host: David Virshup, Pediatrics

February 3
Gerald Hart, Ph.D.
DeLamar Professor and Director Department of Biological Chemistry Johns Hopkins University "Dynamic Interplay Between Phosphorylation and O-GlcNAc: Roles in Diabetes, Oncogenesis, Stress Responses, and Transcription"
Host: Don McClain, Medicine

February 10
David M. Bedwell, Ph.D.
Professor University of Alabama at Birmingham "Translation Termination as a Therapeutic Target: Suppression of Premature Stop Mutations that Cause Human Genetic Diseases"
Host: Michael Howard, Human Genetics

March 9
Kevin Shannon, M.D.
Professor of Pediatrics Roma and Marvin Auerback Distinguished Professor of Pediatric Molecular Oncology University of California at San Francisco UCSF Comprehensive Cancer Center "Hyperactive Ras Signaling and Myeloid Leukemogenesis"
Host: David Virshup, Pediatrics

March 23
Angelika Amon, Ph.D.
Associate Professor Center for Cancer Research Howard Hughes Medical Institute, MIT "Regulation of Chromosome Segregation during Mitosis and Meiosis"
Host: David Stillman, Pathology

April 6
Helen H. Hobbs, M.D.
Professor, University of Texas Southwestern Medical Center Investigator, Howard Hughes Medical Institute "Genetic Defenses against Sterol Accumulation and Atherosclerosis"
Host: Guy Zimmerman, Program in Human Molecular Biology and Genetics

April 13
Scott Hultgren, Ph.D.
Helen L. Stoever Professor of Molecular Microbiology Washington University "Intracellular Biofilms in Bacterial Disease"
Host: Matt Mulvey, Pathology

May 11
Hal Dietz, M.D.
Professor, Institute of Genetic Medicine Investigator, Howard Hughes Medical Institute Johns Hopkins University "Physiologic Substrates for Nonsense RNA Surveillance: Mechanistic Insights and Pathogenic Implications"
Host: David Virshup, Pediatrics