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Seminars in Biomedical Sciences  

Funding for the Seminars in Biomedical Sciences is generously provided
by the J. David Gladstone Institutes

The BMS Program sponsors a weekly seminar series: the Seminars in Biomedical Sciences. These seminars attract renowned faculty from all over the world to present cutting-edge research related to human health and disease, and are open to the entire community.

2005-06 Seminar Roster
Wednesdays, 4:00 p.m., Parnassus, Room N-225
Broadcast to: Mission Bay, Genentech Hall, room S202; SFGH, Lung Biology Conference Room, Bldg 1, enter thru room 150, VAMC, Pathology Conference Room, Bldg. 2, room 344.

Date
                    Speaker
Host
9/21/2005
Tom Rando, MD, PhD
Stanford Medical Center
"Molecular mechanisms of muscle stem cell activation and aging"
9/28/2005

Michael Edidin, PhD
Johns Hopkins University
"Imaging and tracking of class I MHC molecules - from the ER to the cell surface"

10/5/2005

Steve Baylin, MD
Johns Hopkins University
"Aberrant Gene Silencing the Epigenetic Face of Tumor Progression"

10/12/2005
Diabetes Center Co-Sponsored Lecture
Gerard Karsenty, MD, PhD
Baylor College of Medicine
"Leptin: What you see and what you get "
10/19/2005
Hong Wu, MD, PhD
UCLA
"Modeling Human cancers Using Animal Models"
10/26/2005

Yves DeClerk, MD
University of Southern California
"Tumor Microenvironment and Bone Metastasis: A dialogue between tumor cells and bone marrow mesenchymal stem cells"

11/2/2005
CANCELLED
Terry Van Dyke, PhD

University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill
"Deciphering Cancer Complexities in Genetically Engineered Mice"
11/9/2005
Christine Field, PhD
Harvard Medical School
"Septins: architecture is search of function "
Tuesday
11/15/2005
C. Ronald Kahn, MD
Joslin Diabetes Center, Harvard Medical School
"Insulin Signaling, Insulin Resistance, and ARNT: New Insights into the Beta Cell Dysfunction in Type 2 Diabetes "
11/16/2005

CANCELLED
Joseph Gleeson, MD
University of California San Diego

"Mechanisms of Neuronal Development Mediated by the Doublecortin Gene Family"

11/23/2005
No seminar - Thanksgiving
11/30/2005
Alexandra Joyner, PhD
New York University School of Medicine
"Constructing a neural circuit: genetic blue print of the cerebellum"
12/7/2005
Benjamin Neel, MD, PhD
Harvard Medical School
"SHP2 and its binding proteins in health and disease"
12/14/2005
Ian Macara, PhD
University of Virginia
"Parsing the Polarity Code - Mechanisms of Polarization in Epithelial Cells and Neurons"
12/21/2005
No seminar - Holiday
12/28/2005
No seminar - Holiday
1/4/2006
Eric Green, MD, PhD
National Human Genome Research Institute, NIH
"Comparative Genome Sequencing: Using Evolution to Decode the Human Genome"
1/11/2006
co-sponsored with the UCSF Institute for Neurodegenerative Diseases
Robert Darnell, MD, PhD

The Rockefeller University
"RNA regulation in the brain: insights from paraneoplastic neurologic degeneration and fragile-X mental retardation"
1/18/2006

Rudolph Jaenisch, MD
Whitehead Institute
"Nulear Cloning and Transplantation Therapy: Promise, Problems, Reality"
MIT

1/25/2006
Robert Miller, PhD
Case Western Reserve University
"Regulation of CNS neural cell fate in development and disease"

2/1/2006
Tak Mak, Ph.D
University of Toronto
"Apoptosis: Tis Death That Makes Life Live"
2/8/2006
Bruce Gelb , MD
Mount Sinai School of Medicine
"Noonan syndrome: The heart and the blood that runs through it"
2/15/2006
Douglas Wallace, PhD
University of California Irvine
"The mitrochondrial role in human migrations, degenerative diseases, cancer and aging"
2/22/2006
Roel Nusse, PhD
Stanford University
"Wnt signaling in animal development"
3/1/2006
Tamara Doering, MD, PhD
Washington University Medical School
"A yeast under cover: capsule synthesis in Cryptococcus neoformans"
3/8/2006
Frances E. Jensen, MD
Harvard Medical School
3/15/2006
Randall Moon, PhD
University of Washington
"Wnt Signaling as Therapy and Therapeutic Target"
3/22/2006
Karla Kirkegaard, PhD
Stanford University
"The genetics and biochemistry of RNA viruses: choosing drug targets "
3/29/2006
Jeff Esko, PhD
University of California San Diego
"Proteoglycan-Driven Clearance of Lipoproteins in the Liver"
4/5/2006
Evan Snyder, MD, PhD
The Burnham Institute
"Stem Cells: Cross-Talk and Developmental Programs"
4/12/2006
Nina Salama, PhD
Fred Hutchinson Cancer Research Center
"Genetics and Genomics of Helicobacter pylori, the ulcer bug"
4/19/2006
Olivia Pereira-Smith, PhD
University of Texas Health Sciences Center at San Antonio
"The MORF/MRG family of transcription factors in development, tumorigenesis and aging"
4/26/2006
MSTP Co-sponsored lecture
Thomas Insel, MD
National Institute of Mental Health
NIH

"Navigating the Decade of Discovery "
5/3/2006
Tatyana Svitkina, PhD
University of Pennsylvania
"Dynamics of actin filament arrays in protrusive organelles of motile cells"
5/10/2006
Mark Krasnow, MD, PhD
Stanford University
"Branching morphogenesis of the lung"
5/17/2006
2006 K.F. Meyer Lecture
Charles M. Rice, PhD
The Rockefeller University
"Hepatitis C: efforts to unravel virus replication and prevent disease"

Previous BMS Seminars
2004-05 BMS Seminar Roster
2003-04 BMS Seminar Roster

This Week

May 10, 2006

Mark Krasnow, MD, PhD
Stanford University


"Branching morphogenesis of the lung"

Host: Doug Hanahan

Next Week

May 17, 2006
2006 K.F. Meyer Lecture

Charles M. Rice, PhD
The Rockefeller University

"Hepatitis C: efforts to unravel virus replication and prevent disease"

Host:
Don Ganem



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