School of Medicine
Seminar Series 2004-2005

September 28
Jeffrey S. Chamberlain, Ph.D.
Professor of Neurology
University of Washington School of Medicine
“Approaches for Gene Therapy of Muscular Dystrophy”
Host: Kevin Flanigan, Human Genetics

October 5
Norbert Perrimon, Ph.D.
Professor of Genetics
Harvard Medical School, Howard Hughes Medical Institute
“Interrogating Signaling Mechanisms Using Genome-Based Technologies”
Host: Kang Zhang, Human Molecular Biology and Genetics/Ophthalmology and Visual Sciences
         Guy Zimmerman, Human Molecular Biology and Genetics

October 12
Kai Zinn, Ph.D.
Professor
California Institute of Technology
“Axon Guidance and Synaptogenesis in Drosophila”
Host: Aloisia (Alice) Schmid, Human Genetics

October 26
Christine Seidman, M.D.
Professor of Medicine and Genetics
Harvard Medical School and Brigham and Women’s Hospital
“Gene Mutations That Remodel the Human Heart”
Host: Guy Zimmerman, Human Molecular Biology and Genetics
         Kang Zhang, Human Molecular Biology and Genetics/Ophthalmology and Visual Sciences

November 9
Lucy Shapiro, Ph.D.
Professor, Developmental Biology (Donald Summers Endowed Memorial Lectureship)
Stanford University School of Medicine
“The Cell Cycle: Spatial and Temporal Control of a Multicomponent Genetic Network”
Host: Jerry Kaplan, Pathology, Associate Dean for Research, School of Medicine

December 14
Oliver Hobert, Ph.D.
Assistant Professor
Columbia University
“MicroRNA’s in Neuronal Development”
Host: Joseph Yost, Oncological Sciences

January 25
Deepak Srivastava, M.D.
Associate Professor, Department of Pediatrics, Division of Cardiology
Joel B. Steinberg Chair in Pediatrics & Department of Molecular Biology
University of Texas Southwestern Medical Center
“Building Blocks of the Heart: Implications for Human Disease”
Host: David M. Virshup, Huntsman Cancer Institute

February 8
Randal J. Kaufman, Ph.D.
Investigator, Howard Hughes Medical Institute, Professor, University of Michigan Medical School
Department of Biological Chemistry
Howard Hughes Medical Institute/University of Michigan
“The Unfolded Protein Response: From B Cells to Beta Cells”
Host: Don McClain, M.D., Ph.D, Department of Medicine

February 22
Xi He, Ph.D.
Associate Professor
Children’s Hospital and Harvard Medical School
“Understanding Wnt Signaling in Development and Disease”
Host: Kang Zhang, Human Molecular Biology and Genetics/Ophthalmology and Visual Sciences

March 8
Maggie So, Ph.D.
Professor and Chair
Molecular Microbiology and Immunology
Oregon Health Sciences University
“Retraction of Type IV pili by N. Gonorrhoeae Activates Mechanical Stress Cascades That Enhance Host Cell Cytoprotection”
Host: Matt Mulvey, Pathology

March 22
Steve Smale, Ph.D.
Professor, Microbiology and Immunology
University of California at Los Angeles
“Regulation of Inflammatory Cytokine Gene Expression by Chromatin and NF-kB Proteins”
Host: John Weis, Pathology

March 29
Tom A. Rapoport, Ph.D.
Professor of Cell Biology
Harvard Medical School and HHMI
“Protein Transport In and Out of the ER”
Host: Chris Hill, Biochemistry

April 12
Phyllis Hanson, M.D., Ph.D.
Assistant Professor, Department of Cell Biology and Physiology
Washington University School of Medicine
“Unraveling the Role of AAA ATPases in Normal Cell Function and Disease States”
Host: Katharine Ullman, Oncological Sciences

April 26
Christopher Walsh, M.D., Ph.D.
Bullard Professor of Neurology
Director, Harvard-MIT MD-Ph.D Program
Howard Hughes Medical Institute, Beth Israel Deaconess Medical Center, Harvard Medical School
“Disorders of Human Cerebral Cortical Development”
Host: Kang Zhang, Department of Neurobiology and Anatomy/Ophthalmology and Visual Sciences

May 10
Howard D. Lipshitz, Ph.D.
Senior Scientist & Head, Program in Development Biology, Hospital for Sick Children Research Institute Professor of Molecular & Medical Genetics and Canada Research Chair in Developmental Biology
University of Toronto
“Genetic Control of Morphogenesis”
Host: Carl S. Thummel, Human Genetics

May 24
Marisa Bartolomei, Ph.D.
Associate Professor, Department of Cell and Developmental Biology
University of Pennsylvania School of Medicine
“Regulation of Genomic Imprinting”
Host: Anthea Letsou, Human Genetics