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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.

2006-07 Seminar Roster
Wednesdays, 4:00 p.m., Parnassus, Room N-225
Broadcast to: Mission Bay, Genentech Hall, room S271. Those with access to UCSF networks may view the seminar live via web stream at 169.230.2.27/presentations/live. BMS seminars are also archived at http://saawww.ucsf.edu/irts/video/vod_home.htm.

Date
                    Speaker
Host
9/27/2006
Harry Orr, PhD
University of Minnesotta
"Depletion of ROR-a by Mutant Ataxin-1 Mediates a Developmental Feature to Severity of Neurodegeneration in SCA1"
10/4/2006

David Cheresh, PhD
University of California, San Diego
" Cell survival, a critical determinant in metastatic disease and angiogenesis"

10/11/2006

Jeff Miller, PhD
University of California Los Angeles
" Reverse Transcriptase-Dependent Protein Variability by Diversity-Generating Retroelements in Bacterial and Bacteriophage Genomes"

10/18/2006
Victor Nizet, MD
University of California San Diego
" New Therapeutic Strategies from Molecular Analysis of Bacterial Virulence Factors and Host Innate Defenses"
10/25/2006
Didier Stainier, PhD
University of California San Francisco
"Developmental plasticity and regeneration during vertebrate organogenesis"
11/1/2006

Marie Wooten, PhD
Auburn University
"Role of Ubiquitin in Neurotrophin Receptor Signaling and Sorting"

11/8/2006
Joseph Gleeson, PhD
University of California San Diego
"Human brain development requires a diverse set of cellular regulators of the cytoskeleton"
11/15/2006
Michael Lovett, PhD
Washington University School of Medicine
"Towards a systems biology of regenerating inner ear hair cells "
11/22/2006
No seminar - Thanksgiving

11/29/2006
Alexander Rudensky, PhD
University of Washington
"Cell extrinsic mechanisms restraining deleterious immunity"
Special Day and Time!
Thursday, 11/30/2006
12:00 Noon

Bruce Conklin
The Gladstone Institute
"Functional Genomics, Stem Cells and Pharmacology"

Host: Robert Nussbaum
Division of Medical Genetics

12/6/2006

Blanche Capel, PhD
Duke University
"The Battle of the Sexes: Opposing Signals Regulating Sex Determination "

12/13/2006
David Baltimore, PhD
California Institute of Technology
"Controlling NF-kB"

Sponsored by the Sigma RNAi Series: microRNAs and siRNAs: mechanisms and functions
12/20/2006
No seminar - Holiday
12/27/2006
No seminar - Holiday
1/10/2007
Mark Ginsberg, MD
University of California San Diego
" Integrin Signaling: A two way street that controls, inflammation, thrombosis, vascular development, and tumorigenesis"
1/17/2007
Jeff Lichtman, MD, PhD
Harvard University
"Connectomics in Brainbow Mice"
1/24/2007

Kenneth Mann, PhD
University of Vermont
"How blood clots; the tissue factor pathway"

1/31/2007
Michael Gale, PhD
University of Texas Southwestern Medical Center
"Control of innate defenses and viral persistence of hepatitis C virus infection"
2/7/2007
Marco Conti, MD
Stanford University
"Microdomains of cAMP signaling: role of cyclic nucleotide phosphodiesterases"
2/14/2007
Rona Giffard, PhD, MD
Stanford University
"astrocyte-neuronal interaction in ischemia: role in selective neuronal loss in hippocampus"
2/21/2007
Kenneth Kosik, MD
University of California Santa Barbara
"Neuronal MicroRNAs"

Sponsored by the Sigma RNAi Series: microRNAs and siRNAs: mechanisms and functions
2/28/2007
Andrea McClatchey, PhD
Harvard University
"Membrane organization in tissue morphogenesis and tumorigenesis "

Special Day and Time!
Thursday
3/1/2007
10:00 a.m.

Co-sponsored with the UCSF Diabetes Center
Markus Stoffel, MD, PhD
The Rockefeller University
" Approaches to study microRNA function in vivo: Implications for therapeutic strategies using the microRNA Pathway"

Sponsored by the Sigma RNAi Series: microRNAs and siRNAs: mechanisms and functions
3/7/2007
Joshua Mendell, MD, PhD
Johns Hopkins University
"Dynamic microRNA regulation during the cell cycle and in cancer "

Sponsored by the Sigma RNAi Series: microRNAs and siRNAs: mechanisms and functions
3/14/2007

Nancy Cox, PhD
University of Chicago
"New Methods and Insights in Genetic Studies of Diabetes"

3/21/2007
A. Jake Lusis, PhD
University of California Los Angeles
" Combined Genomic and Genetic Approaches to Complex Traits: Cardiovascular and Metabolic Disorders"
3/28/2007
Daniel Davis, PhD
Imperial College London
"Nanotubes and Synapses in Immune Cell Communication "
4/4/2007
Philipp Scherer, PhD
UT Southwestern
" Adipokines: Chief culprits or innocent bystanders in metabolic dysregulation"
4/11/2007
Gordon Fishell, PhD
Skirball Institute, NYU
" Nurturing your mind: The multiple requirements for Hedgehog signaling in adult neural stem cells"
4/18/2007
C. Erec Stebbins, PhD
The Rockefeller University
" Bacterial Reprogramming of Eukaryotic Cell Biochemistry"
4/25/2007
MSTP Trefethen Lecture
Hong Wu, MD, PhD

University of California Los Angeles
" Role of PTEN in Stem Cells and Tumorigenesis"
5/2/2007
Raphael Kopan, PhD
Washington University
" Theme and variation in Notch signaling"
5/9/2007

2007 K.F. Meyer Lecture
Stanley Falkow, PhD
Stanford University
"Some Reflections on Persistent Bacterial Infections"

5/16/2007
Herbert Virgin, MD, PhD
Washington University School of Medicine
"Herpesvirus resistance and symbiosis: lessons from in vivo genetics"
5/23/2007
Co-sponsored with UCSF Cancer Center
Titia De Lange , PhD
The Rockefeller University
" How telomeres deal with the DNA damage response"

Previous BMS Seminars
2005-06 BMS Seminar Roster
2004-05 BMS Seminar Roster
2003-04 BMS Seminar Roster
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The BMS Seminar Series has concluded for the 2006-07 academic year.
The 2007-08 series begins
September 19, 2007.

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