SOM Series
School of Medicine Seminar Series
Speaker List for 2011 - 2012
August 23, 2011
James P. Kushner, M.D.
Maxwell M Wintrobe Professor Emeritus
Hal and Edna Benning Professor Emeritus
Department of Internal Medicine
University of Utah
“Heme Biosynthesis and the Porphyrias.”
Host: Jerry Kaplan, Pathology
September 13, 2011
David B. Roth, M.D., Ph.D.
Professor and Chair
Department of Pathology and Laboratory Medicine
University of Pennsylvania Perelman
“The V(D)J Recombinase as a Genome Guardian: Lessons Learned from New Mouse Lymphoma Models.”
Host: Dana Carroll, Biochemistry
September 27, 2011
Bioscience Symposium and
Don Summers Memorial Lecture
7:00pm, Marriott University Park Hotel
Jonathan Weissman, Ph.D.
Professor of Cellular and Molecular Pharmacology and Biochemistry and Biophysics
HHMI
University of California, San Francisco
“Globally Monitering Translation One Codon at a Time Through Ribosome Profiling.”
Host: Adam Frost, Biochemistry
October 11, 2011
Dr. Robert Tijian, Ph.D.
President of HHMI
Professor of Biochemistry and Molecular Biology
University of California, Berkeley
“Transcription Factors, Embryonic Stem Cells and Differentiation.”
Hosts: Suzanne Mansour & Carl Thummel, Human Genetics
October 25, 2011
Judith Kimble, Ph.D.
Villas Professor, HHMI Investigator
Department of Biochemistry
Stem Cell and Regenerative Medicine Center
University of Wisconsin, Madison
“TBA”
Host: Gillian Stanfield, Human Genetics
November 8, 2011
Dean Y. Li, M.D., Ph.D.
HA and Edna Benning Professor
Department of Medicine and Cardiology
University of Utah
“Vascular Stability Pathways”
Host: Janet Shaw, Biochemistry
November 22, 2011
Randy Schekman, Ph.D.
Professor of Molecular and Cell Biology
HHMI
University of California, Berkeley
“Regulation of Membrane Traffic in Early Development.”
Host: Wes Sundquist, Biochemistry
December 13, 2011
David E. Levin, Ph.D.
Professor and Chair
Department of Molecular and Cell Biology
Goldman School of Dental Medicine
Boston University
“Regulation of Stress-Induced Gene Expression in Yeast by Control of Transcriptional Attenuation.”
Host: David Stillman, Pathology
January 10, 2012
M. Celeste Simon, Ph.D.
Scientific Investigator and Director
Abramson Family Cancer Research Institute
Professor of Cell and Developmental Biology
HHMI
University of Pennsylvania
“HIFs, Hypoxia, and Tumor Progression.”
Host: Don Ayer, Oncological Sciences
January 24, 2012
Randolph Nesse, M.D.
Professor of Psychiatry, Professor of Psychology
Research Professor and Director of Evolution and Human Adaption Program
University of Michigan
“Medicine Without Evolution is Like Engineering Without Physics.”
Host: Josh Schiffman, Pediatrics
February 14, 2012
Elaine Fuchs, Ph.D.
Rebecca C. Lancefield Professor
HHMI
Rockefeller University
“Stem Cells in Action During Homeostasis, Wound-Repair and Cancer.”
Host: Alana Welm, Oncological Sciences
February 28, 2012
Jonathan Epstein, M.D.
William Wikoff Smith Professor of Cardiovascular Research
Chair of Cell and Developmental Biology
University of Pennsylvania
“TBA”
Host: Dean Y. Li, Molecular Medicine
March 13, 2012
Thomas D. Pollard, M.D.
Sterling Professor of Molecular, Cellular & Developmental Biology
Dean of Graduate School of Arts and Sciences
Yale University
“Quantitative analysis of actin dynamics in cytokinesis, motility and endocytosis”
Host: Jody Rosenblatt & Janet Shaw, Oncological Sciences & Biochemistry
March 27, 2012
Randal J. Kaufman, Ph.D.
Center for Neuroscience, Aging and
Stem Cell Research
Sanford Burnham Medical Research Institute
“Protein Misfolding in the Endoplasmic Reticulum Causes Oxidative Stress-Dependent Apoptosis.”
Hosts: Julie Hollien and Janet Shaw, Biology and Biochemistry
April 3, 2012
David Ron, M.D.
Professor of Cellular Pathophysiology and Clinical Biochemistry
University of Cambridge
“Physiological Significance of the Endoplasmic Reticulum Unfolded Protein Response.”
Host: Dale Abel, Medicine
April 10, 2012
2:00 pm
Kathryn Anderson, Ph.D.
Chair, Developmental Biology Program
Sloan-Kettering Institute for Cancer Research
“Genetics and Cell Biology of Mammalian Hedgehog Signaling.”
Hosts: Mark Metzstein & Anthea Letsou, Human Genetics
4:00 pm
Phillip D. Zamore, Ph.D.
Gretchen Stone Cook Professor of Biomedical Sciences
HHMI
Department of Biochemistry & Molecular Pharmacology
University of Massachusetts Medical School
‘What Fruit Flies Teach Us About RNA Silencing.”
Host: Michael Kay, Biochemistry
April 24, 2012
Sandra Schmid, Ph.D.
Professor and Chair
Department of Cell Biology
The Scripps Research Institute
“Dynamin: A Dynamic GTPase.”
Hosts: Ila Singh & Janet Shaw, Pathology & Biochemistry
May 8, 2012
Thijn R. Brummelkamp, Ph.D.
Group Leader
Netherland Cancer Institute
“Haploid Genetic Screens in Human Cells.”
Host: Dean Y. Li, Molecular Medicine
May 22, 2012
Michael Levine, Ph.D.
Professor of Genetics, Genomics and Development
University of California, Berkeley
“Mechanisms of Transcriptional Precision in the Drosophila Embryo.”
Host: Mark Metzstein, Human Genetics