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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.
2007-08 Seminar Roster
Wednesdays, 4:00 p.m., Parnassus, Room N-225. Beginning March 26 the seminar moves back to 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. Many BMS seminars are also archived at http://saa.ucsf.edu/irts/video/vod_events.htm.
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September 19, 2007
Robert P. Fisher, MD, PhD
Memorial Sloan Kettering Cancer Center
"Chemical genetic control of the cell-division and transcription cycles"
Host: Bill Weiss, MD, PhD
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September 26, 2007
Morris White, PhD
Children's Hospital Boston, Harvard University
"The Irs2-branch of the insulin signaling cascade coordinates nutrient homeostasis and lifespan"
Host: Matthias Hebrok, PhD |
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October 3, 2007
Gideon Dreyfuss, PhD
University of Pennsylvania
"The SMN Complex: A Master Orchestrator of Cellular RNAs"
Host: Louis Ptacek, MD |
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October 10, 2007
Trevor Williams, PhD
University of Colorado Health Sciences Center
"The Importance of the AP-2 Transciption Factors and the Embryonic Ectoderm in Craniofacial Development"
Host: Richard Schneider, PhD |
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October 17, 2007
John Manis, MD
Dana-Farber/Harvard Cancer Center
"DNA Damage Response and Repair to Programmed DNA Breaks of the Immune System"
Host: BMS Students |
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October 24, 2007
Nathaniel Heintz, PhD
The Rockefeller University
"Addressing Brain Complexity"
Host
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October 31, 2007
Vann Bennett , MD, PhD
Duke University
"Better living through ordering the fluid lipid bilayer: ankyrin-based organization of membrane-spanning proteins in specialized domains"
Host
: Louis Ptacek, MD
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November 7, 2007
Sean Morrison, PhD
University of Michigan
"Stem cell self-renewal"
Host: Emmanuelle Passegue, PhD
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November 14, 2007
William Dauer, MD
Columbia University
"LRRK2 and Parkinson's Disease: Clues to a Disease Pathway"
Host: Marc Diamond, MD
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November 21, 2007
Thanksgiving Holiday
No Seminar |
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November 28, 2007
Peggy Cotter, PhD
University of California, Santa Barbera
"Secretion and Function of the Bordetella Two-Partner Secretion Pathway Protein Filamentous Hemagglutinin"
Host: Creg Darby, PhD |
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December 5. 2007
Ron Germain, MD, PhD
National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases, NIH
"Understanding How the Immune System Really Works: From Molecular Studies to Computational Models to Intravital Movies and Back"
Host: Matthew Krummel, PhD
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December 12, 2007
***Cancelled***
Claus Wilke, PhD
***Cancelled***
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December 19, 2007
Winter Holiday
No Seminar |
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December 26, 2006
Winter Holiday
No Seminar |
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January 2, 2008
Winter Holiday
No Seminar |
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January 9, 2008
Haifan Lin, PhD
Yale School of Medicine
"Stem cells, Small RNAs, and Self-Renewal"
Host: Robert Blelloch, MD, PhD
Room: HSW-301 |
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January 16,2008
Jacqueline Lees, PhD
Massachusetts Institute of Technology
"The Rb tumor suppressor - new functions and tumor models"
Host: Gerard Evan, PhD
Room: HSW-301 |
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January 23, 2008
Michael Brenner, MD
Harvard Medical School
"Antigen Presentation by CD1: How It Works"
Host: Art Weiss, MD, PhD
Room: HSW-301
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January 30, 2008
Co-hosted by PSPG Graduate Program
Evan Eichler, PhD
University of Washington
"Structural Variation, Disease and the Evolution of the Human Genome"
Host: Pui-Yan Kwok, MD, PhD
Room: HSW-301 |
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February 6, 2008
Kenneth Dorshkind, PhD
University of California, Los Angeles
"Fetal B Cell Development and the Emergence of B-1 B Cells"
Host: Jason Cyster, PhD
Room: HSW-301 |
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February 13, 2008
Marc Tessier-Lavigne, PhD
Genentech
"Common mechanisms of axon guidance, axon regeneration, and vascular patterning"
Host: Rong Wang, PhD
Room: HSW-301 |
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February 20, 2008
Henry Paulson, MD, PhD
University of Michigan
"Toward Understanding Polyglutamine Neurodegeneration"
Host: Louis Ptacek, MD
Room: HSW-301 |
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February 27, 2008
Tyler Jacks, PhD
Massachusetts Institute of Technology
"Modeling Cancer in the Mouse"
Host: Kevin Shannon, MD
Room: HSW-301 |
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March 5, 2008
***Cancelled***
Gary Gilliland, MD, PhD
***Cancelled*** |
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March 12, 2008
Scott Armstrong , MD, PhD
Harvard Medical School
"Genetic and Epigenetic Programs in Leukemia Stem Cell Development"
Host: Kevin Shannon, MD
Room: HSW-301 |
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March 19, 2008
Xi He, PhD
Harvard Medical School
"Understanding Wnt signaling in development and disease"
Host: David Rowitch, MD, PhD
Room: HSW-301
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March 26, 2008 Beginning March 26 the seminar moves back to room N-225.
Junying Yuan, PhD
Harvard Medical School
"A Quest to Understand the Mechanisms of Neurodegeneration"
Host: Jay Debnath, MD
Room: N-225
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April 2, 2008
Scott Lowe, PhD
Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory
"Probing cancer phenotypes in vivo using RNA interference"
Host: Emmanuelle Passegue, PhD |
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April 9, 2008
***Cancelled***
Huntington Willard, PhD
***Cancelled*** |
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April 16, 2008
Clare Waterman, PhD
National Heart, Lung and Blood Institute, NIH
"Whats' focal adhesion maturation and what's it good for?"
Host: Torsten Wittmann, PhD |
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April 23, 2008
MSTP Trefethen Lecture
Joseph Goldstein, MD
University of Texas Southwestern Medical Center
"The Metabolic Syndrome: A Vicious Cycle Fueled by Genes and Diet"
Host: Shaun Coughlin, MD, PhD
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April 30, 2008
Stephen Warren, PhD
Emory University
""Fragile X syndrome: Molecular mechanisms and therapeutic implications "
Host: Jane Gitschier, PhD |
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May 7, 2008
James Downing, MD
St. Jude Children's Research Hospital
"The Molecular Pathology of Acute Leukemia"
Host: Kevin Shannon, MD |
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May 14, 2008
Eileen White, PhD
Cancer Institute of New Jersey, Rutgers University
"The role of apoptosis and autophagy in cancer progression and therapy"
Host: Jay Debnath, MD |
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May 21, 2008
Timothy Ley, MD
Washington University St. Louis
"Genomic studies of AML"
Host: Kevin Shannon, MD |
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May 28, 2008
2008 K.F. Meyer Lecture
Beth Levine, MD
University of Texas Southwestern
"Autophagy, Innate Immunity, and Microbial Countermeasures"
Host: Joanne Engel, MD, PhD.
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2006-07 Seminar Schedule
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May 14 , 2008
Eileen White, PhD
Cancer Institute of New Jersey, Rutgers University
"The role of apoptosis and autophagy in cancer progression and therapy"
Host: Jay Debnath, MD
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