September 13, 2005
Stephen Hughes, Ph.D.
Professor
National Cancer Institute-Frederick
“HIV-1 Reverse Transcriptase: Nucleoside Analog Resistance”
Don Summers Memorial Lecture
Hosted by: Jerry Kaplan, Pathology
September 27, 2005
James J. Lee, Ph.D.
Associate Professor
Mayo Clinic College of Medicine
“Eosinophil activities in health and disease: regulators of inflammatory responses and physiologic homeostasis.”
Hosted by: Gerald Gleich, Dermatology
October 11, 2005
Jeffery F. Miller, Ph.D.
Professor and Chair, Department of Microbiology and Immunology
David Geffen School of Medicine at UCLA
“Diversity-generating retroelements: genetics and structural biology.”
Hosted by: Wai Mun Huang, Pathology
October 25, 2005
Charles Lee, Ph.D.
Assistant Professor, Harvard Medical School. Assistant Director Cytogenetics, Dana Farber / Harvard Cancer Center
Harvard Medical School, Brigham and Women’s Hospital
“Structural Variations in the Human Genome”
Hosted by: Art Brothman, Pediatrics and Human Genetics
November 8, 2005
Paul Fox, Ph.D.
Cleveland Clinic
“Post-transcriptional control in macrophage inflammation.”
Hosted by: Jerry Kaplan, Pathology
November 22, 2005
Didier Y.R. Stainier, Ph.D.
Professor
University of California, San Francisco
“Cardiovascular development and function in Zebrafish.”
Hosted by: David Grunwald, Human Genetics and Ivor Benjamin, Cardiology
January 10, 2006
Daniel P. Kelley, M.D.
Alumni Endowed Professor in Cardiovascular Disease, and Director
Center for Cardiovascular Research, Washington University School of Medicine
“The PGC-1 Regulatory Cascade: A Critical Link Between Physiologic Stimuli and Mitochondrial Function.”
Hosted by: Donald A. McClain, M.D., Ph.D. and E. Dale Abel, M.D., Ph.D.; Internal Medicine and Biochemistry
January 24, 2006
Ellie Ehrenfeld, Ph.D.
Head, Picornavirus Replication Section, Laboratory of Infectious Diseases (LID), NIAID, NIH
NIH/Laboratory of Infectious Disease
“Re-routing cellular membrane traffic by Poliovirus: a BIG story.”
Hosted by: Barbara Graves, Oncological Sciences
January 31, 2006
Gerald Krystal, Ph.D.
Senior Scientist
British Columbia Cancer Research Centre and the University of British Columbia
“The role of SH2-domain containing inositol 5’-phosphatase (SHIP) in innate immunity.”
Hosted by: Raymond A. Daynes, Pathology
February 14, 2006
George Thomas, Ph.D.
Professor and Deputy Director
University of Cincinnati Genome Research Institute
Lecture title to be announced
Hosted by: Jared Rutter, Biochemistry
February 28, 2006
Maximilian Muenke, M.D.
Chief, Medical Genetics Branch
National Human Genome Research Institute, National Institutes of Health
“Gene-environment interactions in human brain development.”
Hosted by: Chi-Bin Chien, Neurobiology and Anatomy
March 14, 2006
Leslie G. Biesecker, M.D.
Senior Investigator. Head of the Physician Scientist Development Program
National Human Genome Research institute, National Institutes of Health
“Etiologic and clinical diagnoses: Molecular genetics tips the apple cart.”
Hosted by: David M. Virshup, Pediatrics and Huntsman Cancer Institute
March 28, 2006
David A. Cheresh, Ph.D.
Professor of Pathology
University of California at San Diego
“Therapeutic Targeting of the Tumor Vasculature.”
Hosted by: Dean Li, Oncological Sciences
April 11, 2006
Johnathan Gitlan, M.D.
Department of Pediatrics
Washington University School of Medicine
“Utilizing Zebrafish to Elucidate Nutrient-Gene Interaction in Human Development.”
Hosted by: Jerry Kaplan, Pathology
April 25, 2006
David Kingsley, Ph.D.
Professor of Developmental Biology
HHMI and Stanford University
“The genetics and genomics of vertebrate evolution.”
Hosted by: Mario Capecchi, Human Genetics
May 9, 2006
David Low, Ph.D.
Professor & Vice-Chair Molecular, Cellular & Developmental Biology
University of California at Santa Barbara
“Epigenetic regulation and contact-dependent growth inhibition in bacteria.”
Hosted by: Raymond A. Daynes, Pathology
May 23, 2006
Dan Johnston, Ph.D.
Karl S. Folkers Chair in Interdisciplinary Biomedical Research, Professor of Neurobiology, Director of the Center for Learning and Memory and the Institute for Neuroscience.
University of Texas at Austin
“Plasticity of dendritic ion channels in health and disease.”
Hosted by: Ed Dudek, Physiology
May 30, 2006
Philipp E. Scherer, Ph.D.
Associate Professor for Cell Biology and Medicine
Albert Einstein College of Medicine
“Adipocyte-Derived Secretory Factors: Impact on Metabolism, Inflammation and Cancer.”
Hosted by: E. Dale Abel, M.D., Ph.D., Biochemistry and HMBG
