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MCBP Past Seminars
This is a collection of past seminars held by the MCBP Program.
Thursday External Seminar Series Calendar
Room 125 - Gazes Conference Room - 4:00 pm
Gazes Cardiac Research Institute/Strom Thurmond Building
DATE
SPEAKER
SPONSOR
Sep. 14, 2000 James Cook, Ph.D.
Professor of Physiology and Neuroscience
Medical University of South Carolina
Charleston, South Carolina
Endotoxin Signal Transduction Pathways and Their Alterations in Endotoxin Tolerance
 
Sep. 21, 2000 Joseph S. Janicke, Ph.D.
Professor, Department of Anatomy, Physiology and Pharmacology
Auburn University
Auburn, Alabama
Myocardial Collagen Matrix Regulation During Ventricular Remodeling: The Role of the Cardiac Mast Cell
MCBP Program
Dr. Michael R. Zile
Sep. 28, 2000 Neil Osheroff, Ph.D.
Professor , Department of Biochemistry
Vanderbilt University School of Medicine
Nashville, Tennessee
The DNA Cleavage Reaction of Topoisomerase II, Dr. Jekyll or Mr. Hyde?
MCBP Program
Dr. Dan Fernandes
Oct. 5, 2000 Jacqueline F McGinty, Ph.D.
Professor of Physiology and Neuroscience
Medical University of South Carolina
Charleston, South Carolina
Brain Mechanisms Underlying Drug Abuse
 
Oct. 12, 2000 Denise Montell, Ph.D.
Associate Professor
Department of Biological Chemistry
Johns Hopkins School of Medicine
Baltimore, Maryland
Changes in Gene Expression, Cell Adhesion and Actin Organization in the Developmental Control of Cell Migration
MCBP Program
Dr. Tien Hsu
Oct. 19, 2000 Rudolph Juliano, Ph.D.
Professor and Chair
Department of Pharmacology
University of North Carolina
Chapel Hill, North Carolina
Integrins and Signal Transduction
MCBP Program
Dr. Donald Menick
Oct. 26, 2000 Donald R. Menick, Ph.D.
Associate Professor of Medicine, and Biochemistry and Molecular Biology
Medical University of South Carolina
Charleston, South Carolina
Regulation of Gene Expression in Cardiac Hypertrophy and Failure
 
Nov. 2, 2000 Lynn M. Matrisian, Ph.D.
Professor and Chair
Department of Cancer Biology
Vanderbilt University
Nashville, Tennessee
Matrix Metalloproteinases in Normal and Neoplastic Processes
MCBP Program
Dr. Frank Spinale
Nov. 9, 2000 Sergey Krupenko, Ph.D.
Assistant Professor of Biochemistry and Molecular Biology
Medical University of South Carolina
Charleston, South Carolina
Structure/Function Studies of a Major Folate Enzyme
 
Nov. 16, 2000 Peter Nelson, Ph.D.
Assistant Member
Division of Human Biology
Department of Molecular Biotechnology
Fred Hitchinson Cancer Research Center
University of Washington
Seattle, Washington
Genome and Proteome Approaches for Charachterizing the Prostate Androgen-Response Program
MCBP Program
Dr. Dennis Watson
Nov. 30, 2000 Charles N. Serhan, Ph.D.
Director, Center for Experimental Therapeutics and Reperfusion Injury
Professor of Anaesthesia (Biochemistry and Molecular Pharmacology)
Brigham and Women's Hospital/Harvard Medical School
Boston, Massachusetts
Novel Arrays of Lipid Signals in Anti-inflammation
MCBP Program
Dr. Yusuf A. Hannun
Dec. 7, 2000 Walter J. Koch, Ph.D.
Associate Professor
Department of Surgery and Pharmacology
Duke University Medical Center
Durham, North Carolina
G Protein-coupled Receptor Kinases in the Cardiovascular System: Lessons Learned from Transgenic Mice
MCBP Program
Ashley Smithwick
Jan. 18, 2001 Leslie Leinwand, Ph.D.
Professor of Molecular and Cell Developmental Biology
University of Colorado
Boulder, Colorado
Molecular Mechanisms of Hypertrophy and Failure
MCBP Program
The Adult Cardiology Division
Dr. George Cooper
Jan. 25, 2001 Masashi Yanagisawa, M.D., Ph.D.
Investigator & Professor
Department of Molecular Genetics
Howard Hughes Medical Institute
University of Texas Southwestern Medical Institute
Dallas, Texas
TBA
Dr. Shailesh Patel
Feb. 1, 2001 James T. McLaughlin, Ph.D.
Assistant Professor of Physiology and Neuroscience
Medical University of South Carolina
Charleston, South Carolina
Exploring Specificity of Calcium Channel Signaling in Neuroendocrine Cells
 
Feb. 8, 2001 L. Courtney Smith, Ph.D.
Assistant Professor of Biology and Genetics
Department of Biological Sciences
Institute of Biomedical Sciences, Programs in Genetics & Immunology
George Washington University
Washington, D.C.
The Ancestral Innate Immune System in Sea Urchins
Matthew Jenny
Dr. Greg War
Feb. 15, 2001 Linda C. McPhail, Ph.D.
Professor, Department of Biochemistry
Wake Forest University School of Medicine
Winston-Salem, North Carolina
TBA
MCBP Program
Dept. of Biochemistry and Molecular Biology
D. Yusuf Hannun
Feb. 22, 2001 James E. Hall, Ph.D.
Professor, Department of Physiology & Biophysics
University of California - Irvine
Irvine, California
TBA
Dr. Kevin Schey
March 1, 2001 John H. Exton, M.D., Ph.D.
Professor, Departments of Molecular Physiology, Biophysics, and Pharmacology
Howard Hughes Medical Institute
Vanderbilt University
Nashville, Tennessee
Structure, Function, and Regulation of MAP Kinase Pathways
MCBP Program
Dept. of Biochemistry and Molecular Biology
Dr. Yusuf Hannun
March 8, 2001 Melanie H. Cobb, Ph.D.
Professor, Department of Pharmacology
University of Texas Southwestern Medical Center
Dallas, Texas
Structure, Function, and Regulation of MAP Kinase Pathways
Dr. Donald R. Menick
March 15, 2001 SPRING BREAK
 
March 22, 2001 Robin Muise-Helmericks, Ph.D.
Assistant Professor of Cell Biology and Anatomy
Hollings Cancer Institute
Medical University of South Carolina
Charleston, South Carolina
Functional Role of Akt and Ets 1 in Angiogenesis
SPONSOR
March 29, 2001 Roger H. Reeves, Ph.D.
Professor, Department of Physiology
The Johns Hopkins University School of Medicine
Baltimore, Maryland
Tales from the MICU (Mouse Intensive Care Unit): QTL Mapping and the inflammatory Response
Dr. Dennis Watson
April 5, 2001 Marsha Rosner, Ph.D.
Director, and Charles B. Huggins Professor
Ben May Institute for Cancer Research
University of Chicago
Chicago, Illinois
Specificity in MAP Kinase Signaling Pathways
Dr. Steve Rosensweig
April 12, 2001 Thoru Pederson, Ph.D.
President and Director
Worcester Foundation for Biomedical Research
Shrewsbury, Massachusetts
TBA
MCBP Program
The Adult Cardiology Division
Dr. Paul McDermott
April 19, 2001 David K. Perry, Ph.D.
Instructor of Biochemistry and Molecular Biology
Medical University of South Carolina
Charleston, South Carolina
Regulation of De Novo Ceramide in Cellular Stress
 
April 26, 2001 FINALS
 
September 13, 2001 Robert W. Thompson, M.D.
Professor of Surgery and Cell Biology
Washington University School of Medicine
St. Louis, Missouri
New Insights into Vascular Aneurysmal Disease: Translating Basic Discoveries into Therapeutic Modalities
Frank Spinale, M.D., Ph.D.
Cardiothoracic Surgery
September 20, 2001 Besim Ogretmen, Ph.D.
Assistant Professor of Biochemistry and Molecular Biology
Medical University of South Carolina
Charleston, South Carolina
Molecular Mechanisms of the Regulation of Telomerase by Ceramide in Human Lung Cancer Cells
 
September 27, 2001 Rick G. Schnellman, Ph.D.
Professor and Chair
Department of Pharmaceutical Sciences
Medical University of South Carolina
Charleston, South Carolina
Calcium and Calpains in the Inititation and Progression of Cell Death
 
October 4, 2001 Jeffrey Molkentin, Ph.D.
Assistant Professor
Children's Hospital Medical Center
Cincinnati, Ohio
Signal Transduction Pathways Controlling Heart Maturation and Hypertrophy
Frank Spinale, M.D., Ph.D.
Cardiothoracic Surgery
October 11, 2001 Cancelled
 
October 18, 2001 Salih J. Wakil, Ph.D.
Professor and Chairman
Department of Biochemistry and Molecular Biology
Baylor College of Medicine
Houston, Texas
The Role of Acetyl-CoA Carboxylase 2 in Fatty Acid Metabolism and Energy Homeostasis
Yusuf Hannun, M.D.
Department of Biochemistry and Molecular Biology
October 25, 2001 Michael B. O'Connor, Ph.D.
Associate Investigator
Department of Genetics, Cell Biology and Development
HHMI, University of Minnesota
Minneapolis, Minnesota
BMP Signaling Regulates Synapse Development and Function at the Neuromuscular Junction in Drosophila
Tien Hsu, Ph.D.
MCBP Program
November 1, 2001 Frank J. Rauscher, III, Ph.D.
Professor and Chairman
The Molecular Genetics Program
Deputy Director
The Wistar Institute Cancer Center
Philadelphia, Pennsylvania
Functions of the KRAB-domain Superfamily of Zinc-Finger Repressors: A Paradigm for Coordinating Histone De-acetylation, Methylation and Heterochromatin Formation
Dennis Watson, Ph.D.
MCBP Program
November 8, 2001 Timothy Hla, Ph.D.
Professor of Physiology, and Genetics and Developmental Biology
Director, Center for Vascular Biology
University of Connecticut School of Medicine
Farmington, Connecticut
Sphingosine 1-phosphate as an Angiogenic Modulator
Lina Obeid, M.D.
November 15, 2001 Myles C. Cabot, Ph.D.
Chief, Breast Cancer Research Program
John Wayne Cancer Institute
Santa Monica, California
Targeting Ceramide Metabolism as an Approach to Cancer Treatment
Yusuf Hannun, M.D.
November 22, 2001 Thanksgiving
 
November 29, 2001 Simon Conway, Ph.D.
Associate Professor
Institute of Molecular Medicine and Genetics
Medical College of Georgia
Augusta, Georgia
Molecular Analysis of Embryonic Heart Development
Donald R. Menick, Ph.D.
MCBP Program
December 6, 2001 Arturo Casadevall, M.D, Ph.D.
Professor, Department of Microbiology And Immunology
Albert Einstein College of Medicine
Yashiva University
Bronx, New York
Cryptococcus Neoformans: A Pathogen in Black and White
Maurizio Del Poeta, M.D.
Department of Biochemistry and Molecular Biology
January 10, 2002 Robert W. Thompson, M.D.
Professor of Surgery and Cell Biology
Washington University School of Medicine
St. Louis, Missouri
Matrix Metalloproteinases and Vascular Remodeling
Dr. Frank Spinale
Cardiothoracic Surgery
January 17, 2002 Hiroko Hama, Ph.D.
Assistant Professor of Biochemistry and Molecular Biology
Medical University of South Carolina
Charleston, South Carolina
Phosphoinositide Regulation of Membrane Trafficking in Saccharomyces Cerevisiae
 
January 24, 2002 CANCELLED  
January 31, 2002 Fernando R. Cabral, Ph.D.
Associate Professor
Department of Integrative Biology and Pharmacology
University of Texas Medical School
Houston, Texas
The Role of Microtubule Assembly in Resistance to Cancer Drugs
Dr. George Cooper
Cardiothoracic Surgery
February 7, 2002 Deepak Bastia, Ph.D.
Professor
Department of Biochemistry and Molecular Biology
Medical University of South Carolina
Charleston, South Carolina
Mechanism of Initiation and Termination of DNA Replication in Bacteria and Yeast
 
February 14, 2002 Steven A Rosenzweig, Ph.D.
Professor
Department of Cell and Molecular Pharmacology
Medical University of South Carolina
Charleston, South Carolina
Targeting the Insulin-like Growth Factor System for the Development of Novel Therapeutics
 
February 21, 2002 Joyce J. Repa, Ph.D.
Assistant Professor
Departments of Physiology and Internal Medicine
Touchstone Center for Diabetes Research
University of Texas Southwestern Medical Center
Dallas, Texas
Nuclear Orphan Receptor Regulation of Cholesterol and Bile Acid Metabolism
Dr. Shailesh Patel
Department of Medicine and MCBP Program
February 28, 2002 John M. Arthur, M.D., Ph.D.
Associate Professor of Medicine (Nephrology)
Medical University of South Carolina
Charleston, South Carolina
Proteomics: Principles and Applications
 
March 7, 2002 Frank J. Rauscher, III, Ph.D.
Professor and Chairman
The Molecular Genetics Program
Deputy Director
The Wistar Institute Cancer Center
Philadelphia, Pennsylvania
Functions of the KRAB Domain Superfamily of Zinc-Finger Repressors: A Paradigm for Coordinating Histone De-acetylation, Methylation and Heterochromatin Formation?
Dr. Dennis Watson
MCBP Program
March 14, 2002 Basilia Zingarelli, M.D., Ph.D.
Assistant Professor
Division of Critical Care Medicine
University of Cincinnati Children's Hospital
Cincinnati, Ohio
Nuclear Control of Inflammation: A Role of Poly (ADP-ribosyl)ation
Jim Cook
Department of Physiology and MCBP Program
March 21, 2002 Gerardo R. Vasta, Ph.D.
Professor
Center of Marine Biotechnology
University of Maryland Biotechnology Institute
Innate Immunity in Invertebrates: Self/Non-Self Recognition by the Host, and Parasite Adaptations for Entry and Survival
 
March 28, 2002 Jon Y. Takemoto, Ph.D.
Professor of Biology
Utah State University
Logan, Utah
Novel Antifungal Action by Pseudomonad Cyclic Lipodepsipeptides
Dr. Hiroko Hama
MCBP Program and Department of Biochemistry
April 4, 2002 Gregory W. Warr, Ph.D.
Professor
Department of Biochemistry and Molecular Biology
Medical University of South Carolina
Charleston, South Carolina
Transcriptional Enhancers and the Evolution of Immunoglobulin Genes
 
April 11, 2002 CANCELLED  
April 18, 2002 David C. Gadsby
Director
Lab Cardiac and Membrane Physiology
Rockefeller University
New York, New York
Control of CFTR channel opening and closing by ATP binding and hydrolysis
Dr. Don Menick
MCBP Program
April 25, 2002 No Seminar  
May 2, 2002 M. Elizabeth Fini
New England Eye Center
Tufts University
Boston, Massachusetts
New Roles for Matrix Metalloproteinase Gelatinase B.
Dr. Frank Spinale
Cardiothoracic Surgery
September 26, 2002 Daria Mochly-Rosen, Ph.D.
Professor and Chief
Department of Molecular Pharmacology
Stanford University School of Medicine
Stanford, California
PKC and Cardiac Function: A Tale of Protein-Protein Interactions
Dr. Frank Spinale
Cardiothoracic Surgery
October 3, 2002 H. Leighton Grimes, Ph.D.
Assistant Professor
Institute of Cell Therapeutics
University of Louisville
Louisville, Kentucky
GFI1 Oncoprotein: Cell Fate Determination in Lymphopoiesis and Epithelial Malignancy
Robin Muise-Helmericks, PhD
MCBP Program
October 17, 2002 Robert G. Gourdie, Ph.D.
Associate Professor
Department of Cell Biology and Anatomy
Medical University of South Carolina
Charleston, South Carolina
Conducting the Heart Beat: Orchestrating Development of Specialized Pathways for Propagation of Cardiac Action Potential
 
October 24, 2002 Donald M. Bers, Ph.D.
Professor and Chair
Department of Physiology
Loyola University, Stritch School of Medicine
Chicago, Illinois
Sodium and Calcium in Cardiac Myocytes: Involvement in Contractile Function and Arrhythmogenesis in Heart Failure
Dr. Donald Menick
MCBP Program
October 31, 2002 David L. Williams, Ph.D.
Professor of Surgery
James H. Quillen College of Medicine
East Tennessee State University
Johnson City, Tennessee
Potential Role of the Phosphoinositide 3-Kinase Signaling Pathway in the Response to Polymicrobial Sepsis and Septic Shock
Dr. James A. Cook
MCBP Program
November 7, 2002 CANCELLED TO BE RESCHEDULED Dr. Frank Spinale
Dr. Rupak D. Mukherjee
Cardiothoracic Surgery
November 14, 2002 John D. Hildebrandt, Ph.D.
Professor and Chair
Department of Cell and Molecular Pharmacology
Medical University of South Carolina
Charleston, South Carolina
Generation and Function of G Protein Subunit Diversity

Dr. Shailesh Patel
Department of Medicine and MCBP Program

November 21, 2002 Lei Yu, Ph.D.
Professor
Department of Cell Biology, Neurobiology, and Anatomy
University of Cincinnati College of Medicine
Cincinnati, Ohio
The Opioid System and Its Role in Physiological Modulation
Dr. Donald Menick
MCBP Program
November 28, 2002

Thanksgiving
NO SEMINAR
 
December 5, 2002

William M. Chilian, Ph.D.




TBA
Dr. George Cooper
Cardiology Division/Department of Medicine
MCBP Program
December 12, 2002 David R. Clemmons, M.D.
Professor of Medicine
Sarah Graham Kenan
Professor of Medicine
Chief, Division of Endocrinology and Metabolism
University of North Carolina
Chapel Hill, North Carolina
Cooperative Interactions Among Three Integral Membrane Proteins in Controlling IGF-1 Receptor Activation
Dr. Steven A Rosenzweig
MCBP Program
January 16, 2003 Jay A. Tischfield
Duncan and Nancy MacMillan Professor of Genetics
Chair Department of Genetics
Nelson Biological Labs
Rutgers University
Piscataway, New Jersey
Mechanisms of Loss of Heterozygosity in Somatic Cells of Mice and Humans
Dr. Donald R. Menick
MCBP Program
January 23, 2003 Cancelled

January 30, 2003 Barry T. Hinton, Ph.D.
Professor of Cell Biology
University of Virginia School of Medicine
Charlottesville, Virginia
Testicular Luminal Growth Factors as Regulators of Epididymal Gene Expression
Dr. Demetri Spyropoulos
MCBP Program
February 6, 2003 Kuo-Chen Chou, D.Sc., Ph.D.
Senior Research Advisor
Computer-Aided Drug Discovery
Research and Development
Pharmacia Corporation
Protein Attribute Prediction - A New Branch in Proteomics
Dr. Perry V. Halushka
MCBP Program
February 13, 2003 Mark S. Kindy, Ph.D.
Admiral Pihl Chair and Professor
Department of Physiology and Neuroscience
Director of the Stroke Program of MUSC
Associate Director, Center on Aging
Associate Director of the South Carolina Spinal Cord Center
Medical University of South Carolina
Stroke: Molecular Mechanisms of Disease
 
February 20, 2003 Developing Scholars Seminar
Sergey A. Krupenko, Ph.D.
Assistant Professor of Biochemistry and Molecular Biology
Medical University of South Carolina
Charleston, South Carolina 10-Formyltetrahydrofolate Dehydrogenase: Structure, Function and its Role in Cellular Proliferation

February 27, 2003 Peter W. Kalivas, Ph.D.
Professor and Chair
Department of Physiology and Neuroscience
Medical University of South Carolina
Charleston, South Carolina
Addiction: A Pathology in Molecular Mechanisms of Memory
 
 
March 6, 2003 Amy Bradshaw, Ph.D.
Assistant Professor of Medicine (Cardiology)
Medical University of South Carolina
Charleston, South Carolina
Cell Design of the Extracellular Matrix: Alterations in Collagen Structure and Composition Influence Cell Behavior

March 13, 2003 Spring Break

March 20, 2003 William L. Smith, Ph.D.
Professor of Biochemistry
Michigan State University
East Lansing Michigan
Fatty Acid Cyclooxygenase: Structure and Function
Dr. Perry V. Halushka
MCBP Program
March 27, 2003 TBA





April 3, 2003 Merry Lindsey, Ph.D.

Assistant Professor
Department of Surgery
Medical University of South Carolina
Charleston, South Carolina Identifying MMP-9 Roles Following MI: Elucidating Mechanisms of MMP Function in the Remodeling Myocardium
Dr. Frank Spinale
Division of Cardiothoracic Surgery
April 10, 2003 Sherman Weissman, Ph.D.
Sterling Professor of Human Genetics
Director of Molecular Oncology and Development
Boyer Center for Molecular Medicine
Yale University New Haven, Connecticut
Mammalian Molecular Biology on a Genomic Scale. Three Billion Bases Are Easy and 700 Are Hard
Dr. Depak Bastia
April 17, 2003 Gary Nabel, M.D., Ph.D.

Director, VRC
National Institutes of Health
Bethesda, Maryland How Do Viruses Kill Cells?
Dr. Jim Norris
MCBP Program
April 24, 2003 TBA





May 1, 2003 Armen Manoukian, Ph.D.
Associate Professor
Department of Medical Biophysics
Ontario Cancer Institute
University of Toronto
Toronto, Canada
TBA
Dr. Tien Hsu
MCBP Program
May 8, 2003

William Dowhan, Ph.D.
Professor and John S. Dunn Chair
Department of Biochemistry and Molecular Biology, and Microbiology
University of Texas-Houston Medical Center
Houston, Texas
Role of Cardiolipin and Phosphatidylglycerol in Mitochondrial Function
Dr. Yusuf Hannun
Biochemistry and Molecular Biology
May 22, 2003 Richard L Proia, Ph.D.
Chief, Genetics of Development and Disease Branch
NIDDK, National Institutes of Health
Bethesda, Maryland
Role of Sphingolipids in Signaling by Tyrosine Kinase and G-protein Coupled Receptors
Dr. Yusuf Hannun
Biochemistry and Molecular Biology
September 25, 2003 Paul A Marks, M.D.
Professor of Medicine
Memorial Sloan Kettering Cancer Center
New York, New York
Histone Deacetylase Inhibitors
Dr. Gary Gilkeson
MCBP Program
October 2, 2003 Christopher Davies, Ph.D.
Assistant Professor of Biochemistry and Molecular Biology
Medical University of South Carolina
Charleston, South Carolina
Developmental Scholar Award
Glycolysis Under Extreme Conditions: A Novel Enzyme in Pyrococcus Furiosus
 
October 9, 2003 Amar J.S. Klar, Ph.D.
Developmental Genetics Section
Gene Regulation and Chromosome Biology Laboratory
NCI Center fro Cancer Research
Frederick, Maryland
Two Independent Epigenetic Events Regulate Fission Yeast Mating-type Switching and Silencing
Dr. Deepak Bastia
MCBP Program
October 16, 2003 Robert S. Kass, Ph.D.
David Hosack Professor of Pharmacology
Chair, Department of Pharmacology
Center for Neurobiology and Behavior
Columbia University
New York, New York
Clinical and Basic Studies of Inherited Cardiac Arrhythmias: Novel Insight into the Molecular Physiology Pharmacology of Ion Channels in the Heart
Dr. Steve Kubalak
MCBP Program
October 23, 2003 Swapan K. Ray, Ph.D.
Assistant Professor
Department of Neurology
Medical University of South Carolina
Charleston, South Carolina
Experimental Therapeutics for Activation of Apoptosis in Glioblastoma
 
October 30, 2003 Meenakshi A. Chellaiah, Ph.D.
Assistant Professor
Oral Cranio Biological Sciences
University of Maryland
Baltimore, Maryland
Molecular Basis of Cytoskeletal Reorganization in Osteoclasts in Response to Integrin avb3 Activation
Dr. Dhan Kuppuswamy
MCBP Program
November 6, 2003 TBA

November 13, 2003 M. Rita Young, Ph.D.
Professor of Medicine
Division of Hematology/Oncology
Medical University of South Carolina
AOCS, Ralph H. Johnson VA Medical Center Charleston, South Carolina
The Role of CD34+ Progenitor Cells in Tumor Progression
 
November 20, 2003 Howard A. Rockman, M.D.
Professor of Medicine
Department of Cell Biology and Genetics
Duke University Medical Center
Durham, North Carolina
Novel Insights into Heptahelical Receptor Signaling in the Heart
Dr. Steve Kubalak
Cardiovascular Training Grant
November 27, 2003 Thanksgiving
 
December 4, 2003 TBA
 
December 11, 2003 Hamid Band, M.D., Ph.D.
Professor of Medicine
Feinberg School of Medicine
Northwestern University
Director, Division of Molecular Oncology
Evanston Northwestern Healthcare Research Institute
Evanston, Illinois
Negative Regulation of Tyrosine Kinases by Cb1 Family of Ubiquitin Ligases
Dr. Dennis Watson
MCBP Program

Monday Noon Seminar Series Calendar
502 - Basic Science Building
Fall 2001

August

27

Eric Grund
Yair Adereth
Amanda LaRue

September

10

Stephen Gee
Matthew Jenny
Andrew Whitlock

 

17

Christiana Kappler
Ravinder Pannu
Jeannette Weiner

 

24

Xingjun Wu
Mark Slomiany
Megan Kibbey

October

1

Robert Bowers
Michael Janech

 

8

Kerin McCormack
Beth Neilsen

 

15

Alan Frey (Kroc Lecture; hosted by Steve Tomlinson)

 

22

Sean Norman
Ashley Smithwick

 

29

Robert Smith
Brian Giles

November

5

Christopher Crosby
 

 

12

Jeannie Chapman

 

19

Frank Bartel

 

26

Elizabeth Chesterman

December

3

Kevin Orwig

Monday Noon Seminar Series Calendar
502 - Basic Science Building
Spring 2002

January

14

Mark Pilgrim

 

21

Jeff Jones

 

28

Melissa Fraser

February

4

Ron Feldman

 

11

Benjamin Pettus

 

18

Michelle Crosby

 

25

Kevin Becker

March

4

Laura Columbo

 

11

Spring Break

 

18

Paula Acierno

 

25

Vijay Rao

April

1

David McLean

 

8

Nicole Redmond

 

15

Christopher Willey

 

22

Josh Hubbard

 

29

 
DATE
SPEAKER
SPONSOR
February 5, 2004 Eleanor K. Spicer, Ph.D.
Associate Professor
Department of Biochemistry and Molecular Biology
Medical University of South Carolina
Charleston, South Carolina
Post-transcriptional Regulation of the bcl-2 Oncogene

February 12, 2004 Craig C. Beeson, Ph.D.
Associate Professor Department of Pharmaceutical Sciences
Medical University of South Carolina
Charleston, South Carolina
Mechanisms for the Coupling of Respiration and Glycolysis
 
February 19, 2004 Ron Peterson, Ph.D.
Fellow, Laboratory Head
Integrated Expression Profiling
Novartis Institute of Biomedical Research

Pharmacogenomic Analysis of rhIL-11 Effects
Dr. Alexander Awgulewitsch
MCBP Program
February 26, 2004 Jason D. Morrow, M.D.
Profesor of Medicine and Pharmacology
Chair, Department of Pharmacology
Vanderbilt University School of Medicine
Nashville, Tennessee
The Isoprostanes - Their Role as Mediators and Markers of Lipid Peroxidation: New Insights and Current Controversies
Dr. Lina Obeid
MCBP Program
March 4, 2004 Michael F. Summers, Ph.D.
Professor
Department of Chemistry and Biochemistry
Howard Hughes Medical Institute Scholar
University of Maryland Baltimore County
Baltimore, Maryland
NMR Studies of Retroviral Genome Recognition and Assembly
Dr. Perry Halushka
MCBP Program
March 11, 2004 Jerry Hurwitz, Ph.D.
Vice Chairman, Sloan-Kettering Institute
Memorial Sloan-Kettering Cancer Center
New York, New York
Studies on Eukaryotic DNA Replication
Dr. Deepak Bastia
Biochemistry
March 18, 2004 Richard J. Youle, Ph.D.
Section Chief of Biochemistry
Surgical Neurology Branch
NINDS, NIH
Bethesda, Maryland
Role of Bcl-2 Family Proteins and Mitochondria Morphology in Apoptosis
Dr. Yi-Te Hsu
Biochemistry
March 25, 2004 Ian A. Blair, Ph.D.
A.N. Richards Professor of Pharmacology
Professor of Chemistry
Director, Center for Cancer Pharmacology
Scientific Director, Genomics Institute Proteomics Facility University of Pennsylvania School of Medicine
Philadelphia, Pennsylvania
Cyclooxygenase-Mediated DNA Damage
Dr. Perry Halushka
MCBP Program
April 1, 2004 Kenneth D. Philipson, Ph.D.
Professor
Department of Physiology and Medicine
Cardiovascular Research Lab
UCLA
Los Angeles, California
Cardiac Sodium-Calcium Exchange: From Molecule to Mouse
Dr. Don Menick
MCBP Program
April 8, 2004 Michael Zasloff, Ph.D.
Dean, Research and Translational Science
Georgetown University Medical Center
Washington, D.C.
Antimicrobial Peptides of Animals in Health and Diseases
Dr. Paul Gross
Biochemistry
April 15, 2004 NO SEMINAR
 
April 22, 2004 Christian R. Raetz, M.D., Ph.D.
Professor and Chairman
Department of Biochemistry
Duke University Medical Center
Durham, North Carolina
Assembly, Secretion and Function of Gram-negative Endotoxin: A Potent Lipid Activator of Innate Immunity
Dr. Yusuf Hannun
MCBP Program
April 29, 2004 NO SEMINAR
 
May 6, 2004 Alfonso Bellacosa, M.D.
Human Genetics Program
Population Science Division
Fox Chase Cancer Center
Philadelphia, Pennsylvania
Role of the MED1 (MBD4) Gene in DNA Repair and Human Cancer
or
DNA Repair and Cancer Susceptibility
Dr. Robin Muise-Helmericks
MCBP Program

Fall – 2004
Thursday, 4:00 pm
Room 125 – Gazes Conference Room
(some exceptions due to Board of Trustees needing room)
Gazes Cardiac Research Institute/Strom Thurmond Building


Date Speaker Host / Sponsor
September 16, 2004 Robert K. Yu, PhD, MedScD Host: Dr. Yusuf Hannun
Director and Professor Sponsor:   Biochemistry
Institute of Molecular Medicine and Genetics
Medical College of Georgia School of Medicine
Augusta, Georgia
Title:   "Developmental Regulation of Ganglioside Metabolism in the Nervous System”
 
September 23, 2004 Joseph Heitman, MD, PhD Host:   Dr. Maurizio Del Poeta  
Associate Investigator HHMI Sponsor:   Biochemistry
Professor
Duke University Medical Center
Durham, North Carolina
Title:   “Evolution of the Model Human Fungal Pathogen Cryptococcus neoformans”
 
September 30, 2004 Bryan P. Toole, Ph.D.
Professor of Cell Biology and Anatomy
Medical University of South Carolina
Title:   “Hyaluronan and Emmprin:   Pericellular Regulators of ErbB2 Signaling, Multidrug Resistance and Malignant Cell Behavior”
 
October 7, 2004 Morris F. White, PhD Host:   Dr. Maria Buse
Room 502 BSB Associate Professor of Pediatrics Sponsor:   MCBP Program
Department of Chemistry and Molecular Pharmacology
Howard Hughes Medical Institute
Harvard Medical School
Boston, Massachusetts
Title:  “The Role of Irs2 Signaling in Obesity and Diabetes”
     
October 14, 2004 J. Marie Hardwick, Ph.D. Host:   Yi-Te Hsu
Professor Sponsor:   Biochemistry
Department of Molecular Microbiology
and Immunology
Johns Hopkins Bloomberg School of Public Health
Title:   TBA
     
October 21, 2004 John W. Baynes, PhD Host:   Dr. Hiroko Hama  
Room 502 BSB Carolina Distinguished Professor Sponsor:   Biochemistry
Department of Chemistry and Biochemsitry
University of South Carolina
Columbia, South Carolina
Title:   “Chemical Modification of Proteins in Aging,  
Diabetes and Cardiovascular Disease:   The Relationship Between Metabolism and Chemistry in Disease”  
 
October 28, 2004 Richard P. Visconti, Ph.D.
Assistant Professor of Cell Biology and Anatomy
Medical University of South Carolina
Title:   “Adult Bone Marrow Stem Cells in Cardiac Homeostasis and Pathology”
     
November 4, 2004 Rowena G. Matthews, PhD Host:   Dr. Sergey Krupenko
G. Robert Greenberg Professor Sponsor:   Biochemistry
and Senior Research Scientist
Life Sciences Institute
University of Michigan
Ann Arbor, Michigan
Title:   “ Regulation of One-carbon Metabolism in Mammals"
     
November 11, 2004 Robert A. Nicholas, PhD   Host:   Dr. Chris Davies  
Professor, Department of Pharmacology Sponsor:   Biochemistry
University of North Carolina
Chapel Hills, North Carolina
Title:   “Antibiotic Resistance in Neisseria gonorrhoeae: Cumulative Effect of Multiple Resistance Genes”
 
November 18, 2004 Emily Wilson, PhD Host:   Dr. Don   Menick
Assistant Professor Sponsor:   MCBP Program
Department of Medical Physiology
Texas A & M Health Science Center
College Station, Texas
Title:   “Modulation of Integrin Expression
and Function During Vascular Remodeling”
   
November 25, 2004 Thanksgiving
     
December 2, 2004 John P. Sundberg, DVM, PhD    Host:   Dr. Alexander Awgulewitsch
Senior Staff Scientist Sponsor:   MCBP Program
The Jackson Laboratory
Bar Harbor, Maine
Title:   “Mouse Models for Dermatological Research”

MCBP Noon Seminar Series

Monday 12:00 Noon
Room 502 BSB

Autumn 2004
Spring 2005

Aug 30

No seminar
Sign-up only

Jan 10

Peko Tsuji
Tracey Schock

       

Sep 6

LABOR DAY

Jan 17 (MLK)

We will use this day only
if we are running out of slots

 

 

Sept 13

 

Jan 24

Chris Johnson
Megan Kibbey

 

 

Sept 20

Millie Embree

Feb 7

Peter Wieckowski
Ramandeep Rattan

 

 

Sept 27

 

Feb 14

Laura Spruill
Lena Heung

 

 

Oct 4

MUSC- Townhall meeting
In BSB 100

Feb 21

Frank Bartel
Christy Kappler

 

 

Oct 11

 

Mar 7

Gregor Krings
Shantae Jenkins

 

 

Oct 18

 

Mar 14

SPRING
BREAK

 

 

Oct 25

Jessica Petersen
Tarek Taha

Mar 21

David Arrington
Erin Egan

 

 

Nov 1

Jessica Shockey
Leslie Wooten

Mar 28

Anne Deschamps
Kevin Orwig

 

 

Nov 8
(Mon after SRD)

Jason Guichard
Adrian Grimes

April 4

Shawn Polson
Kristie Lidie

 

 

Nov 15
(thnxgiv wk)

Mara Lennard
Matt Jenny

April 11

Sara Polson
John Svensen

 

 

Nov 22

Amanda Galloway
Juan C. Varela

April 18

Jonathan Mitchell
Richard Peterson (?)

 

 

Nov 29

Michelle Hsia
Joy Van Nostrand

April 25

Javier Robalino
Arun Palanisamy

 

 

Dec 6

           

Eric Sribnick
Ratna Prasad

 

 

 

 

Winter/Spring 2005
Thursday, 4:00 pm
Room 125 Gazes Conference Room*
Gazes Cardiac Research Institute/Strom Thurmond Building
(*Please note room changes due to Board of Trustees needing room 125)

 

January 27, 2005       Stanley H. Appel, M.D.                                       Host:  Dr. William R. Tyor
                                 Professor, Department of Neurology                    Sponsor:  MCBP
                                 Baylor College of Medicine
                                 Houston, Texas

                                 Title:  Inflammation:  The Good, The Bad and The Ugly: Lessons from ALS” 


 February 3, 2005      Ronald H. Kaback, M.D.                                    Host:  Dr. Donald Menick
                                 HHMI Investigator and Professor                        Sponsor:  MCBP
                                 UCLA
                                 Los Angeles, California 

Title:  “The Passion of the Permease: from Membrane to Molecule to a Mechanism of Active Transport” 


February 10, 2005    John A. McDonald, M.D., Ph.D.                         Host:  Dr. George Cooper
Room 302 BSB       Dean, School of Medicine and                             Sponsor:  MCBP
                                 Vice President for Health Sciences
                                 Reno School of Medicine
                                 University of Nevada
                                Reno, Nevada                         

                                 Title:  “A Link Between Integrins, Calreticulin and Systolic Dysfunction Revealed by Conditional Transgene Expression in the Adult Mouse Heart”


                              

March 3, 2005          Kenneth R. Chien, M.D., Ph.D.                           Host:  Dr. Steve Kubalak
                                 Director, Institute of Molecular Medicine              Host:  MCBP

                                 UCSD School of Medicine

                                 San Diego, California 

                                 Title:  “Islet-1 Cardiac Progenitors in Development and Disease” 


                              

March 10, 2005        Kenneth D. Tew, Ph.D., DSci       
                                 Professor and Chair, Department of Cell and Molecular Pharmacology and Experimental Therapeutics
                                 Medical University of South Carolina

                                 Title:  “Islet-1 Cardiac Progenitors in Development and Disease” 


                              

March 24, 2005        Besim Ogretmen, Ph.D.                        
                                 Assistant Professor of Biochemistry and Molecular Biology
                                 Medical University of South Carolina

                        
Title: “ The Role Ceramide in the Regulation of Cancer Growth and Therapy”


March 31, 2005        Fuad Ziyadeh, M.D.                                           Host:  Dr. Ayad Jaffa
                                 Professor of Medicine                                          Sponsor:  MCBP
                                 University of Pennsylvania School of Medicine
                                 Philadelphia, Pennsylvania 

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