Please bookmark this page and check back frequently, especially
just before the events you wish to attend, as schedules often shift.
August 2008 |
Friday, August 1,
2008
"All Faculty Meeting on Compensation Plan Guidelines"
Dr. Walter Ettinger and Dr. Judith Ockene
|
Sunday, August 3,
2008
"T-Cell Non-Hodgkin's Lymphoma: Novel Treatment Approaches"
Nam Hoang Dang, MD, PhD
Chief, Dept of Hematologic Malignancies
Nevada Cancer Institute
Las Vegas, NV |
Tuesday, August 5,
2008
"Bisphosphonate Holidays: Improving patient care...or helping physicians feel better?"
Seth Arum, M.D., F.A.C.E.
Department of Medicine, Division of Endocrinology, UMMS |
Wednesday, August 6,
2008
"All Faculty Meeting on Compensation Plan Guidelines"
Dr. Walter Ettinger
|
Friday, August 8,
2008
"Toll-Like Receptors: Target of Hepatitis C Virus Manipulation"
Serena Chang
Program In Immunology and Virology |
Friday, August 8,
2008
"“T-Cell Non-Hodgkin's Lymphoma: Novel Treatment Approaches."
Nam Hoang Dang, MD, PhD
Chief, Department of Hematologic Malignancies
Nevada Cancer Institute
Las Vegas, NV |
Wednesday, August 13,
2008
"A Chemical-Biological Investigation of KCNQ1/KCNE K+ Channel Complexes"
Trevor J. Morin
Biochemistry And Molecular Pharmacology |
Wednesday, August 13,
2008
"Primary role of chromatin acetylation in genome expression and maintenance"
Jacques Côté
Laval University Cancer Research Center
Hotel-Dieu de Quebec |
Wednesday, August 13,
2008
"Primary role of chromatin acetylation in genome expression and maintenance"
Jacques Cote, Ph.D.
Centre de Recherche De L'Hotel-Dieu Quebec |
Thursday, August 14,
2008
"Roles for Histone H4 Serine 1 Phosphorylation in DNA Double Strand Break Repair and Chromatin Compaction"
Melissa Foley
Interdisciplinary Graduat Program |
Friday, August 15,
2008
"Tumor Escape from Immune surveillance, camouflage or sabotage?"
Dr. Rolf Kiessling
Professor in Experimental Oncology
Department of Oncology/Pathology
Karolinska Institute
Stockholm, Sweden
|
Tuesday, August 19,
2008
"Radiation Safety Orientation"
Allison Rapa
Radiation Safety |
Thursday, August 21,
2008
"Evolution of Protein Interfaces after Gene Duplication"
Daniel Caffrey, Ph.D.
Pfizer |
Thursday, August 21,
2008
"HIV Disease Pathogenesis: Immune Activation, Microbes and a Leaky Gut"
Dr. Daniel Douek
Chief, Human Immunology Section
Vaccine Research Center
NIAID, NIH
Bethesda, MD |
Tuesday, August 26,
2008
"Radiation Safety Orientation"
Allison Rapa
Radiation Safety |
September 2008 |
Tuesday, September 2,
2008
"Radiation Safety Orientation"
Allison Rapa
Radiation Safety |
Wednesday, September 3,
2008
"Aggregation, Dynamics and Interactions of the Amyolid ß-peptide"
Chunyu Wang, PhD
Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute |
Wednesday, September 3,
2008
"“Neighborhood environment, physical activity and health among older adults” presented by Wenjun Li, PhD and “Dietary Quality of Persons with Heart Failure” presented by Stephenie Lemon, PhD"
Wenjun Li, PhD and Stephenie Lemon, PhD
Wenjun Li, PhD
Assistant Professor
Preventive & Behavioral Medicine, and Orthopedics
Stephenie Lemon, PhD
Assistant Professor
Preventive & Behavioral Medicine
|
Wednesday, September 3,
2008
"Deconstructing the Hematopoietic Stem Cell Niche"
David Scadden, MD
Co-Director Harvard Stem Cell Institute
Co-Chair Department of Stem Cell & Regenerative Biology, Harvard University
Director, Center for Regenerative Medicine - Mass General Hospital |
Thursday, September 4,
2008
"In vivo transgenic approaches to cellular biophysics and pharmacology"
Michael N. Nitabach, Ph.D.
Assistant Professor
Department of Cellular & Molecular Physiology Interdepartmental Neuroscience Program
Yale University School of Medicine |
Thursday, September 4,
2008
"Faculty Council Meeting"
Abraham N. Morse, MD - Chair
|
Friday, September 5,
2008
"Checkpoint Regulation of S-Phase Transcription"
Chaitali Dutta
INTERDISCIPLINARY GRADUATE PROGRAM |
Friday, September 5,
2008
"To BENEFIT the Walk to Cure Cancer. 3rd Annual “Dancing with Friends” Afternoon Event: 2:00 - 6:00 p.m."
|
Friday, September 5,
2008
"To BENEFIT the Walk to Cure Cancer. 3rd Annual “Dancing with Friends” Ballroom Dance - Evening Event: 7:15 - 11:00 p.m."
|
Monday, September 8,
2008
"Faculty Luncheon"
|
Monday, September 8,
2008
"BK Channels: Function, Structure and Diseases"
Jianmin Cui, Ph.D.
Associate Prof. on the Spencer T. Olin Endowment
Department of Biomedical Engineering
Washington University in St. Louis
St. Louis, MO
|
Tuesday, September 9,
2008
"Radiation Safety Orientation"
Allison Rapa
Radiation Safety |
Tuesday, September 9,
2008
"Structural and Functional Studies of the KCNQ1-KCNE K+ Channel Complex"
Steven D. Gage
Biochemistry and Molecular Pharmacology |
Tuesday, September 9,
2008
"Mitochondrial p53 runs a cell death program"
Ute Moll, M.D., M.S.
Professor, Department of Pathology,
Stony Brook University |
Tuesday, September 9,
2008
"CD4 T cell attrition during viral infection"
Jenny Che
2nd Year Graduate Student
Immunology and Virology Program
University of Massachusetts Medical School |
Tuesday, September 9,
2008
"Inflammasome activation by Candida albicans"
Sandhya Ganesan
2nd Year Graduate Student
Immunology and Virology Program
University of Massachusetts Medical School |
Tuesday, September 9,
2008
"Gene expression analysis of T cells during early viral infection"
Varun Kapoor
2nd Year Graduate Student
Immunology and Virology Progam
University of Massachusetts Medical School |
Wednesday, September 10,
2008
"Discovery of an Ubiquitin-like Protein Involved in the Proteasome Pathway of Mycobacterium tuberculosis"
K. Heran Darwin, Ph.D.
Assistant Professor
Department of Microbiology
NYU School of Medicine
|
Wednesday, September 10,
2008
"A network of nuclear envelope membrane proteins linking centromeres to microtubules"
Dan McCollum
McCollum lab |
Wednesday, September 10,
2008
"New family values in the immune system: NLR, semaphorins and plexins"
Jenny Ting, PhD
University of North Carolina |
Thursday, September 11,
2008
"Subtype specific and subtype cross-reactive immune response to influenza A viruses"
Jenny Babon
5th Year Graduate Student
Immunology and Virology Program
University of Massachusetts Medical School |
Thursday, September 11,
2008
"Lamar Soutter Library's Artist in Residence Series.
Watercolors: People, Places, Etc."
Christina Giza
Christina is the Executive Administrative Assistant for the Department of Hematology/Oncology. Her watercolors reflect the various locations where she has traveled and the people she has met. |
Friday, September 12,
2008
"Why Should I Care About Quality
Improvement, Anyway? A QUICC Orientation
"
Christopher Stille, MD, MPH; Katie Walsh, MD
Associate Professor of Pediatrics, UMMS
Division of General Pediatrics/Primary Care, UMMHC
Assistant Professor of Pediatrics, UMMS
Division of General Pediatrics/Primary Care, UMMHC
|
Friday, September 12,
2008
"Structure and function of the myosin-binding protein, MyBPC"
Roger Craig
Craig lab |
Tuesday, September 16,
2008
"Radiation Safety Orientation"
Allison Rapa
Radiation Safety |
Tuesday, September 16,
2008
"Characterization of allergic responses in CFTR -/- mice"
Allison Keeler
2nd Year Graduate Student
Immunology and Virology Program
University of Massachusetts Medical School |
Tuesday, September 16,
2008
"Cross-Reactive T Cells and Deranged Immunity"
Laurie Kenney
2nd Year Graduate Student
Immunology and Virology Program
University of Massachusetts Medical School |
Tuesday, September 16,
2008
"Examining Effector Mechanisms of TNF-Induced Programmed Necrosis"
David Moquin
2nd Year Graduate Student
Immunology and Virology Program
University of Massachusetts Medical School |
Wednesday, September 17,
2008
"Disruption of Human Phagocyte Function by Francisella tularensis"
Lee-Ann Allen, Ph.D.
Associate Professor of Medicine and Microbiology, University of Iowa |
Wednesday, September 17,
2008
"Clustering of yeast tRNA genes is mediated by specific association of condensin with tRNA gene transcription complexes
&
Identification of cis-acting sites for condensin loading onto budding yeast chromosomes"
James Carey
Hagstrom lab |
Wednesday, September 17,
2008
"How T cells “see” antigen"
Arup Chakraborty
Maasachusetts Institute of Technology |
Wednesday, September 17,
2008
"Senescense regulation by Smurf2"
Hong Zhang, Ph.D.
Department of Cell Biology |
Wednesday, September 17,
2008
"The oncofetal protein, IMP3, predicts tumor metastasis and progression"
Zhong Jiang, MD
Department of Pathology, UMass Medical School |
Wednesday, September 17,
2008
"John Harley Warner, Ph.D. will be speaking about the Image of Modern Medicine: Professional Identity and Visual Culture in America at the Turn of the 20th Century."
John Harley Warner, Ph.D.
He is the Avalon Professor and Chair of History of Medicine at the Yale University School of Medicine. His books include the Therapeutic Perspective: Medical Practice, Knowledge, and Identity in America and Against the Spirit of System. |
Thursday, September 18,
2008
"Protein Tyrosine Phosphatases:
Their Roles in Health and Disease"
Jack Dixon, Ph.D.
University of California, San Diego
Howard Huges Medical Institute |
Thursday, September 18,
2008
"Pneumococcal Disease in the Era of Conjugate Vaccines"
Rick Malley, MD
Children's Hospital, Boston
Associate Professor of Pediatrics and Infectious Diseases, Harvard Medical School |
Thursday, September 18,
2008
"Dog genetics: a fetching model for exploring natural variation"
Mark Neff, Ph.D.
Associate Director
Veterinary Genetics Laboratory
UC Davis School of Veterinary Medicine |
Thursday, September 18,
2008
"Content Manager Training: Layout and Formatting of Web Pages"
Christine Worden
Educational Computing, IS |
Thursday, September 18,
2008
"Digital and analog Stat5 signaling in distinct erythroid progenitors"
Ermelinda Porpiglia
5th Year Graduate Student
Immunology and Virology Program
University of Massachusetts Medical School |
Friday, September 19,
2008
"Constipation Therapy: Past, Present and Future"
Dinesh Pashankar, MD
Associate Professor of Pediatrics
Fellowship Director, Division of Pediatric Gastroenterology
Yale University School of Medicine
|
Friday, September 19,
2008
"Combating Drug Resistance: Lessons from HIV-1 Protease"
Celia Schiffer, Ph.D.
Professor
Biochemistry and Molecular Pharmacology
UMass Medical School
|
Monday, September 22,
2008
"Topics in Endothelial Cell Biology"
John F. Keaney, Jr.
Prof. of Medicine & Chief of Cardiovascular Medicine
UMass Memorial Healthcare
Univ. of Mass. Med. Sch.
Worcester, MA
|
Monday, September 22,
2008
"MassAHEC Network 30th Anniversary Celebration"
Admiral Joxel Garcia
Assistant Secretary U.S. Public Health Service, U.S. Department of Health and Human Services |
Tuesday, September 23,
2008
"Executive Council Meeting"
Gary Stein, PhD - Chair
|
Tuesday, September 23,
2008
"Radiation Safety Orientation"
Allison Rapa
Radiation Safety |
Tuesday, September 23,
2008
"Testosterone 2008: the metabolic syndrome, mortality, and prostate cancer"
Michael S. Irwig, M.D.
Assistant Professor of Medicine
Director, Center for Andrology
George Washington University
School of Medicine |
Tuesday, September 23,
2008
"The role of Bone marrow derived stem cells in epithelial cancer"
JeanMarie Houghton, MD, PhD
Associate Professor of Medicine,
University of Massachusetts Medical School |
Tuesday, September 23,
2008
"Variation of HIV-1 R5 tropism for macrophages and monocyte derived dendritic cells"
Thomas Musich
2nd Year Graduate Student
Immunology and Virology Program
University of Massachusetts Medical School |
Tuesday, September 23,
2008
"Long-Term Humoral Immunity ina Polyoma Virus Mouse Model"
Forum Raval
2nd Year Graduate Student
Immunology and Virology Program
University of Massachusetts Medical School |
Wednesday, September 24,
2008
"Solid-State NMR and Spin-label EPR Studies of Membrane Proteins"
Gary Lorigan, PhD
Miami University |
Wednesday, September 24,
2008
"Signaling mechanisms in innate immune system"
Baoxue Ge, Ph.D.
Laboratory of Signal Transduction Institute of Health Sciences
Shanghai Institute of Biological Sciences, Chinese Academy of Sciences & Shanghai Jiaotong University School of Medicine |
Wednesday, September 24,
2008
"T-reg and Th17 cells inthe induction and regulation of autoimmunity"
Vijay Kuchroo
Harvard Medical School |
Wednesday, September 24,
2008
"Genetic Regulation of Autophagy & Cell Death"
Dr. Eric Baehrecke
Associate Professor
Department of Cancer Biology
UMASS Medical School |
Thursday, September 25,
2008
"Treatment of Diabetes in the Hospital: A Missed Opportunity?"
Enrico Cagliero, MD
Massachusetts General Hospital, Boston |
Thursday, September 25,
2008
"Wiring the brain: maps and models for the serotonergic system"
Barry Condron, Ph.D.
Associate Professor
Department of Biology
University of Virginia |
Thursday, September 25,
2008
"Dengue virus infection: What would CD8+ T cells do?"
Heather Friberg
4th Year Graduate Student
Immunology and Virology Program
University of Massachusetts Medical School |
Friday, September 26,
2008
"Abusive Abdominal Injuries:
The Case for Routine Screening
"
Dan Lindberg MD
Instructor in Medicine, Brigham and Women's Hospital
Adjunct Instructor in Pediatrics, UMMS
Department of Emergency Medicine - Brigham & Women's Hospital
Division of Child Protection, UMMHC
|
Friday, September 26,
2008
"Quorum sensing in Vibrio cholerae pathogenesis"
Jun (Jay) Zhu, Ph.D.
Assistant Professor
Department of Microbiology
University of Pennsylvania School of Medicine
|
Friday, September 26,
2008
"ParA family ATPases for partitioning of low copy number plasmids"
Toshiyuki Hatano
Sluder lab |
Sunday, September 28,
2008
"Tenth Annual Walk to Cure Cancer"
|
Tuesday, September 30,
2008
"Radiation Safety Orientation"
Allison Rapa
Radiation Safety |
Tuesday, September 30,
2008
"What's New in Microsoft Outlook 2007 "
Beth Thompson
Guest Instructor, IS Training |
October 2008 |
Wednesday, October 1,
2008
" "Regulated membrane localization in signal transduction: mechanisms and implications"
Peter Pryciak, PhD
UMass Medical School |
Wednesday, October 1,
2008
"Regulated membrane localization in signal transduction: mechanisms and implications"
Peter Pryciak, PhD
University of Mass Medical School |
Wednesday, October 1,
2008
"Both daughter cells traffic and exocytose membrane at the cleavage furrow during mammalian cytokinesis"
Desiree Baron
Doxsey lab |
Wednesday, October 1,
2008
"Altered Antigen Presenting Cell Function During Proxvirus Infection"
Janice Blum, PhD
Indiana University School of Medicine |
Wednesday, October 1,
2008
"Runx2 and Cell Cycle Control"
Andre van Wijnen
UMASS Medical School |
Thursday, October 2,
2008
"THINK QuIC!
Teaching quality, practicing quality"
Chris Stille, MD, David Hatem, MD,
Elizabeth Murphy, MD and Melissa Fischer, MD -
UMMS Faculty
(Pediatrics and GIM) |
Thursday, October 2,
2008
"Assembly and function of Drosophila visual circuits"
Chi-Hon Lee, M.D., Ph.D.
Laboratory of Gene Regulation and Development
National Institutes of Health/National Institute of Child Health and Human Development |
Thursday, October 2,
2008
"Faculty Council Meeting"
Abraham N. Morse, MD - Chair
|
Friday, October 3,
2008
"Children and Stressful Life Events: A Developmental Perspective"
Maria Trozzi, M.Ed.
Assistant Professor of Pediatrics, Boston University School of Medicine
Director, Good Grief Program, Boston Medical Center
|
Monday, October 6,
2008
"mRNAs with a complex: the long-term consequences of a nuclear upbringing"
Melissa J. Moore, Ph.D.
Biochemistry & Molecular Pharmacology
Howard Hughes Medical Instiute |
Tuesday, October 7,
2008
"Radiation Safety Orientation"
Allison Rapa
Radiation Safety |
Tuesday, October 7,
2008
"Functional analysis of ERBB receptors in colorectal cancer identifies a central role for ERBB3"
David Threadgill, Ph.D.
Professor and Head of Genetics,
North Carolina State University |
Tuesday, October 7,
2008
"Differential recruitment of proteases determines MHC class I cross-presentation pathways
"
Qi Wu
5th Year Graduate Student
Immunology and Virology Program
University of Massachusetts Medical School |
Tuesday, October 7,
2008
"TBA"
Mary Lee, M.D.
Professor of Pediatrics, UMMS and Chief, Division of Pediatric Endocrinology, UMMHC |
Wednesday, October 8,
2008
"UMMCC Breast Cancer Research Conference. Charlotte Harwood Moriarty, will present her talk entitled, "MicroRNAs and Breast Cancer"
Charlotte Harwood Moriarty
M.D. / Ph.D. Student in the Department of Cancer Biology |
Wednesday, October 8,
2008
"Understanding and Manipulating the CD8 Immune Response to Tumors" "
Victor Engelhard, Ph.D.
Professor of Microbiology, University of Virginia |
Wednesday, October 8,
2008
"Quality control by the ribosome following peptide bond formation"
Rachel Green, PhD
Professor
Johns Hopkins University/HHMI |
Wednesday, October 8,
2008
"Cancelled -- Join us next week."
Cell Dynamics Journal Club
|
Wednesday, October 8,
2008
"Multiple Mechanisms of Immune Evasion by Francisella"
Jeff Frelinger
University of North Carolina |
Wednesday, October 8,
2008
"YPEL3, a novel p53-regulated gene with growth suppressive activity"
Dr. Steven Berberich
Professor and Chair
Department of Biochemistry and Molecular Biology
Boonshoft School of Medicine
Wright State University |
Thursday, October 9,
2008
"Molecular systems analyses of plastic brains engaged in social behavior"
Hans A. Hofmann, Ph.D.
Assistant Professor
Department of Integrative Biology
The University of Texas at Austin |
Thursday, October 9,
2008
"Molecular Mechanism of RNA-Mediated Gene Silencing in Human Cells"
Chia-Ying Chu
Biochemistry & Molecular Pharmacology |
Friday, October 10,
2008
"Children at the Tipping Point - Make it Happen" "
Jackie Noyes, MA
Associate Executive Director
Department of Federal Affairs, American Academy of Pediatrics
|
Friday, October 10,
2008
"Cholesterol: Steroid for M tuberculosis"
Amit Pandey
Sassetti Lab, MGM |
Friday, October 10,
2008
"Discovery of an Ubiquitin-like Protein Involved in the Proteasome Pathway of Mycobacterium tuberculosis"
K. Heran Darwin, PhD
Assistant Professor, Department of Microbiology, NYU School of Medicine |
Tuesday, October 14,
2008
"Radiation Safety Orientation"
Allison Rapa
Radiation Safety |
Tuesday, October 14,
2008
"Impact of anorexia nervosa on bone health in adolescents"
Madhusmita Misra, M.D., M.P.H.
Assistant Professor of Pediatrics, Harvard Medical School and Massachusetts General Hospital for Children, Boston MA |
Tuesday, October 14,
2008
"The Mechanisms Underlying the Polarized Distribution of Drosophila Dscam in Neurons"
Shun-Jen Yang
Program in Neuroscience |
Tuesday, October 14,
2008
"What's New in Powerpoint 2007"
Beth Thompson, Trainer
Information Services, IS Training |
Tuesday, October 14,
2008
"Microsoft Office 2007 Overview "
Beth Thompson, Trainer
Information Services, IS Training |
Tuesday, October 14,
2008
"Early events of naive T cell activation"
Bhavana Priyadharshini
5th Year Graduate Student
Immunology and Virology Program
University of Massachusetts Medical School |
Wednesday, October 15,
2008
"Selection and Activation of Eukaryotic Origins of Replication"
Stephen Bell, PhD
Mass Institute of Technology |
Wednesday, October 15,
2008
"Positive feedback of G1 cyclins ensures coherent cell cycle entry"
Patricia Pope
Pryciak lab |
Wednesday, October 15,
2008
"“Transcriptional control of NKT cell development”"
Albert Bendelac, Ph.D.
University of Chicago |
Wednesday, October 15,
2008
"Use of Visual Reporters to Assess Progression of the Skeletal Lineage"
David W. Rowe, M.D.
Director for Regenerative Medicine & Skeletal Development
Department of Reconstructive Sciences
School of Dental Medicine
University of Connecticut Health Center |
Wednesday, October 15,
2008
"Memories like Burrs, reading and film screening by Worcester Poet Laureate, Gertrude Halstead"
Gertrude Halstead, Poet Laureate of Worcester
Poet Laureate of Worcester |
Thursday, October 16,
2008
"The piRNA Pathway: An RNA Based Genome
Immune-System"
Julius F. Brennecke, Ph.D.
Cold Spring Harbor Laboratories |
Thursday, October 16,
2008
"“Morbidity and Mortality Conference: A 55 year-old woman with a headache” "
Richard Glew, MD
University of Massachusetts Medical School/UMassMemorial Medical Center
Department of Medicine
Infectious Disease and Immunology Division |
Thursday, October 16,
2008
"The role of TLR2 in RSV recognition and pathogenesis"
Matthew Murawski
5th Year Graduate Student
Immunology and Virology Program
University of Massachusetts Medical School |
Friday, October 17,
2008
"Suah: UMass Pediatrics Experiences in Liberia "
Richard Moriarty, MD, FAAP; Laura Lewandowski, MD
Professor of Clinical Pediatrics, UMMS
Division of Pediatric Immunology, Infectious Disease and Rheumatology, UMMHC
PGY-2 Pediatrics, UMMHC |
Friday, October 17,
2008
"New insights into mechanisms of bacterial pathogenesis through functional genomic studies in yeast"
Cammie F. Lesser. M.D., Ph.D.
Assistant Professor of Medicine, Department of Microbiology and Molecular Genetics, Harvard University
|
Friday, October 17,
2008
"The role of RNA in centromeres -- a lesson from marsupials"
Dawn Carone
Genetics & Genomics, Department of Molecular and Cell Biology, University of Connecticut, Storrs |
Tuesday, October 21,
2008
"Radiation Safety Orientation"
Allison Rapa
Radiation Safety |
Tuesday, October 21,
2008
"Faculty Luncheon"
|
Tuesday, October 21,
2008
"Novel effectors of ARF tumor suppressor signaling and chromosomal stability"
Dawn E. Quelle, Ph.D.
Associate Professor of Pharmacology,
Carver College of Medicine and
Holden Comprehensive Cancer Center
The University of Iowa |
Wednesday, October 22,
2008
"Dynamic Mechanisms of Ubiquitin Conjugation"
Brenda Schulman, PhD
HHMI Investigator, Associate Member
St. Jude Children's Research Hospital |
Wednesday, October 22,
2008
"Integrin trafficking regulated by Rab21 is necessary for cytokinesis"
Zhiyou Fang
Luna lab |
Wednesday, October 22,
2008
"Homeostatic regulation of mature T cell subsets”"
Dr. Charlie Surh
The Scripps Research Institute |
Wednesday, October 22,
2008
"DNA Damage-Induced Apoptosis in the Presence and Absence of the Tumor Supressor p53"
Laura (Lemoine) McNamee
Interdisciplinary Graduate Program |
Thursday, October 23,
2008
"Medical Grand Rounds - “Thoughts on the Origin of Microbial Virulence” "
Arturo Casadevall, MD, PhD
Chair, Dept. of Microbiology & Immunology |
Thursday, October 23,
2008
"The TRP channel superfamily: rom sensory signaling to health and disease"
Craig Montell, Ph.D.
Professor of Biological Chemistry
Johns Hopkins University |
Thursday, October 23,
2008
"Study of Actin and Myosin Dynamics in Cytokinesis"
Mian Zhou
Interdisciplinary Graduate Program |
Thursday, October 23,
2008
"An immune response to Epstein-Barr virus in mouse and man"
Levi Watkin
5th Year Graduate Student
Immunology and Virology Program
University of Massachusetts Medical School |
Friday, October 24,
2008
"nhl-2 and cgh-1 encode miRISC-associated proteins that modulate let-7 microRNA activity in C. elegans"
Christopher Hammell
Ambros Lab, PMM |
Friday, October 24,
2008
"Mechanisms of damage recognition and dual incision in human nucleotide excision repair"
Orlando Scharer, PhD
Departments of Pharmacological Sciences and Chemistry, Stony Brook University
|
Friday, October 24,
2008
"Ciliary assembly: enough to make you arf"
John Follit
Pazour lab |
Monday, October 27,
2008
"JAK3-Dependent Signals Induce Chromatin Remodeling at the Ifng Locus During TH1 Cell Differentiation"
Min Shi
Program In Immunology & Virology |
Monday, October 27,
2008
"JAK3-DEPENDENT SIGNALS INDUCE CHROMATIN REMODELING AT THE Ifng LOCUS DURING TH1 CELL DIFFERENTIATION"
Min Shi
7th Year Graduate Student
Immunology and Virology Program
University of Massachusetts Medical School |
Monday, October 27,
2008
"Novel Products of the Thyroid Receptor Alpha Gene Mediate the Actions of Thyroid Hormone in the Brain"
Jack Leonard, Ph.D.
Professor
University of Massachusetts Medical School
Department of Physiology
Worcester, MA |
Monday, October 27,
2008
"Private specificity of HBV- and HCV-specific CD8 T cell responses: Importance for vaccine development for viral hepatitis"
Dr. Marcus Cornberg
Department of Gastroenterology, Hepatology and Endocrinology
Hannover Medical School, Germany |
Tuesday, October 28,
2008
"Tuesday Oct 28th from 8:30-12@South Street HR Training Room ; “Situational Management” from Core Management Certificate Program; Facilitator: Paul Thornton (External Consultant) "
Paul Thornton
, |
Tuesday, October 28,
2008
"Executive Council Meeting"
Gary Stein, PhD - Chair
|
Tuesday, October 28,
2008
"Radiation Safety Orientation"
Allison Rapa
Radiation Safety |
Tuesday, October 28,
2008
"Things That Raise Your Blood Glucose"
Mark N. Feinglos, M.D., C.M.
Chief, Division of Endocrinology, Metabolism & Nutrition
Duke University Medical Center |
Tuesday, October 28,
2008
"What's New in Microsoft Word 2007"
Beth Thompson, Guest Instructor
Educational Computing |
Tuesday, October 28,
2008
"Microsoft Office 2007 Overview "
Beth Thompson
Guest Instructor, IS Training |
Tuesday, October 28,
2008
"Modelling Cancer Using the Zebrafish"
Dr. Leonard Zon
Children's Hospital
Boston |
Tuesday, October 28,
2008
"The roles of Attractin and MGRN1 in HIV egress"
Patrick Younan
5th Year Graduate Student
Immunology and Virology Program
University of Massachusetts Medical School |
Wednesday, October 29,
2008
"Wed Oct 29th from 11:45 to 12:45 @South Street HR Training Room; “Maximizing Telecommunication Services” from Administrative Support Certificate Program; Facilitator: Christine Pimentel
"
Christine Pimentel
, |
Wednesday, October 29,
2008
"Resistance is futile: the evolution and ecology of antibiotic resistance"
Margaret Riley, PhD
President, Massachusetts Academy of Sciences
Professor, University of Massachusetts Amherst |
Wednesday, October 29,
2008
"ACF7 regulates cytoskeletal-focal adhesion dynamics and migration and has ATPase activity"
Seemin Ahmed
Doxsey lab |
Wednesday, October 29,
2008
"Reward-related Processing and the Human Striatum"
Mauricio Delgado, PhD
Assistant Professor
Department of Psychology
Rutgers University |
Wednesday, October 29,
2008
"Does That Work? Treatment of a Chronic Viral Infection with Immunosuppressive Drugs That Manipulate Lymphocyte Trafficking"
Dr. John Altman
Emory University |
Wednesday, October 29,
2008
"Single Molecule Analysis and the Myosin Family of Molecular Motors as Paradigms of Enzyme Structure and Function"
James A. Spudich, Ph.D.
Douglass M. and Nola Leishman Professor of Cardiovascular Disease and Professor, Department of Biochemistry & Department of Developmental Biology
Stanford University School of Medicine
Stanford, CA
|
Wednesday, October 29,
2008
"The Selective Eye: Finding order in a chaotic world"
David Drachman, M.D.
Chairman Emeritus, Department of Neurology |
Thursday, October 30,
2008
"Thursday Oct 30th from 8:30-12 @South street HR Training room; “Business Writing Skills” ; Facilitator: Charles Sides
http://inside.umassmed.edu/hr/signup/index.cfm?se=987
"
Charles Sides
, |
Thursday, October 30,
2008
"Medical Grand Rounds: Constrictive Pericarditis:
New Diagnostic Features and Treatment"
Jae Oh, MD
Professor of Medicine
College of Medicine, Mayo Clinic |
Thursday, October 30,
2008
"Social behavior: does sex matter?"
Jun Xu, Ph.D.
Assistant Professor
Department of Biomedical Sciences
Tufts University Cummings School of Veterinary Medicine |
Thursday, October 30,
2008
"Introduction to Confocal Microscopy"
Adam Brady-Myerov
Confocal & Multiphoton Specialist
Optical Analysis Corporation
Nashua, NH |
Thursday, October 30,
2008
"Molecular and biologic properties of transmitted HIV-1 variants in a mother-child cohort"
Michael Kishko
4th Year Graduate Student
Immunology and Virology Program
University of Massachusetts Medical School |
Friday, October 31,
2008
"What's New in Newborn Screening"
R. Eaton, PhD ; A. Comeau, PhD; I. Sahai, MD
Associate Professor of Pediatrics, UMMS
Director, NENSP
Associate Professor of Pediatrics, UMMS
Deputy Director, NENSP
Assistant Professor of Pediatrics, UMMS
Staff Physician, NENSP |
Friday, October 31,
2008
"Friday Oct 31st from 12-1pm@Amphitheater I University campus; Administrative Support Network “Communicate Effectively with Supervisor” will be held. Facilitator: Star Dargin. RSVP to wpl@umassmed.edu"
Star Dargin
, |
Friday, October 31,
2008
"Hematopoietic stem cell regulation: The role of latexin in health and malignancy"
Gary Van Zant, PhD.
Professor of Medicine and Lucille P. Markey Chair in Oncology Research, Markey Cancer Center, University of Kentucky
|
November 2008 |
Monday, November 3,
2008
"The non-coding DNA strikes back: DNA motifs, microRNA genes and regulatory networks."
Takis Benos, Ph. D.
University of Pittsburg |
Monday, November 3,
2008
"The Insulator Binding Protein CTCF Positions Nucleosomes and Promotes Transcription"
Zhiping Weng, Ph.D.
Program in Bioinformatics
And Integrative Biology |
Tuesday, November 4,
2008
"Radiation Safety Orientation"
Allison Rapa
Radiation Safety |
Tuesday, November 4,
2008
"A role for Dicer in mammalian anti-viral immunity"
Ryan Nistler
4th Year Graduate Student
Immunology and Virology Program
University of Massachusetts Medical School |
Wednesday, November 5,
2008
"First Class Service” from Administrative Support Certificate Program scheduled for Wed Nov 5th from 11:45-12:45pm in the Hoagland Pincus Conference Center,222 Maple Ave, Shrewsbury; Facilitator: Sharon Shad "
Sharon Shad
. |
Wednesday, November 5,
2008
"“Adoption 101” from Work-life Programs scheduled for Wed Nov 5th from 12-1pm in the Room# SWE-S3-402 University Campus; Facilitator: Martha Henry "
Martha Henry
' |
Wednesday, November 5,
2008
"Futile cycle of transcription initiation and termination modulates the response to nucleotide shortage in S. cerevisiae"
Samyabrata Bhaduri
Pryciak lab |
Wednesday, November 5,
2008
"Modulation of Thymopoiesis Across the Lifespan"
Dr. Greg Sempowski
Duke University
Human Vaccine Institute |
Wednesday, November 5,
2008
"Cutaneous Epithelial Stem Cells and Skin Regeneration"
George Cotsarelis, M.D.
Albert M. Kligman Associate Professor of Dermatology
Director, Program on Epithelial Regeneration and Stem Cells,
University of Pennsylvania Institute for Regenerative Medicine |
Wednesday, November 5,
2008
"A Walk to Beautiful, a NOVA documentary, Capturing Hard Truths in Ethiopia."
A Movie and Discussion
Family Medicine and Community Health
And the Humanities in Medicine Committee of the Lamar Soutter Library |
Thursday, November 6,
2008
""Behavioral & Team Interviewing" from Core Management Certificate Program; Facilitator: Robin Pollier "
Robin Pollier
' |
Thursday, November 6,
2008
"“Manager Training for Job Flexibility” from Work Life programs; Facilitator: Janet Hirsch"
Janet Hirsch
' |
Thursday, November 6,
2008
"Medical Grand Rounds: Sarcoidosis"
Robert Baughman, MD
Professor of Medicine
University of Cincinnati Medical Center |
Thursday, November 6,
2008
"The self-tuning neuron: synaptic scaling in developing cortical networks"
Gina Turrigiano, Ph.D.
Professor of Biology
Brandeis University |
Thursday, November 6,
2008
"Faculty Council Meeting"
Abraham N. Morse, MD - Chair
|
Thursday, November 6,
2008
"Defining the role of cellular miRNAs during HCMV infection"
Alex Lagadinos
4th Year Graduate Student
Immunology and Virology Program
University of Massachusetts Medical School |
Friday, November 7,
2008
"Getting Some Things Off a Chest Doctor’s Chest:
Use and Abuse of Technology
"
Robert Zwerdling, MD
Professor of Pediatrics, UMMS
Chief, Pediatric Pulmonology, UMMHC
|
Friday, November 7,
2008
"An Omega-Based Bacterial One-Hybrid System for the Determination of Transcripton Factor Specificity"
Marcus Noyes
Biochemistry And Molecular Pharmacology |
Friday, November 7,
2008
"How do bacteria clean up our mess? Outer membrane transport of hydrophobic compounds"
Bert Van den Berg
Assistant Professor, Program in Molecular Medicine, UMass Medical School |
Tuesday, November 11,
2008
"Radiation Safety Orientation"
Allison Rapa
Radiation Safety |
Wednesday, November 12,
2008
"Faculty Luncheon"
|
Wednesday, November 12,
2008
"Small RNAs and the Bacterial Response to Stress"
Susan Gottesman, PhD
NIH Distinguished Investigator |
Wednesday, November 12,
2008
"Cancelled due to Research Retreat
Join us next week"
Cell Dynamics Journal Club
|
Friday, November 14,
2008
"“Bone Marrow Transplant and Sickle Cell Disease –
A Good Match?"
"
Leslie Lehmann, M.D.
Assistant Professor of Pediatrics, Harvard Medical School
Pediatric Oncology, Boston Children’s Hospital
|
Friday, November 14,
2008
"“Your Customer is upset” from ASCP Wed Nov 19th from 11:45 to 12:45pm."
Sharon Shad
' |
Friday, November 14,
2008
"A New Guardian of the Genome: F-Box protein 31"
Manas Kumar Santra
Green Lab, PGFE |
Friday, November 14,
2008
"Attachment of Vibrio cholerae to Multiple Surfaces: Multiple Modes of Colonization and Mechanisms of Regulation"
Ronald K. Taylor, PhD
Professor of Microbiology and Immunology, Microbiology and Immunology, Dartmouth College
|
Friday, November 14,
2008
"Regulatin of Reactive Nitrogen Species (RNS) Metabolism and Resistance in Haemophilus Influenzae"
Jane Colleen Harrington
Molecular Genetics and Microbiology |
Monday, November 17,
2008
"Control of Stem Cell Self-Renewal and Viability by Chromatin Regulators"
Thomas Fazzio, Ph.D.
University of California, San Francisco |
Monday, November 17,
2008
"“Personnel Action Training” Monday Nov 17th 3-4:30pm in the HR Training Room@South Street; "
Suzanne Paul
, |
Tuesday, November 18,
2008
"Genitourinary Oncology Research Retreat"
Multiple
UMass Medical School |
Tuesday, November 18,
2008
"Radiation Safety Orientation"
Allison Rapa
Radiation Safety |
Tuesday, November 18,
2008
"“The Corrective Action Process” from Core Management Certificate Program; Tuesday Nov 18th from 1-3pm in the HR Training Room@South Street."
Karin Fitch
' |
Tuesday, November 18,
2008
"Neutralizing activity and specificity of antibody responses elicited by HIV vaccines"
Michael Vaine
4th Year Graduate Student
Immunology and Virology Program
University of Massachusetts Medical School |
Tuesday, November 18,
2008
"Neutralizing activity and specificity of antibody responses elicited by HIV vaccines"
Michael Vaine
4th Year Graduate Student
Immunology and Virology Program
University of Massachusetts Medical School |
Wednesday, November 19,
2008
"Medicine Research Lecture Series: Survival Strategies of Mycobacterium tuberculosis during Disease and Dormancy"
Christopher Sassetti, Ph.D.
Assistant Professor
Molecular Genetics & Microbiology
University of Massachusetts Medical School
|
Wednesday, November 19,
2008
"A Surprising Role for Protein Conformational Entropy in the Energetics of Molecular Recognition by Proteins"
Josh Wand, PhD
Benjamin Rush Professor Biochemistry & Chair
University of Pennsylvania |
Wednesday, November 19,
2008
"CP110 suppresses primary cilia formation through its interaction with CEP290, a protein deficient in human ciliary disease"
Alison Bright
Doxsey lab |
Wednesday, November 19,
2008
"Modulation of Peptide Loading by HLA-DO: A Mechanism to Prevent Autoimmunity"
Dr. Lisa Denzin
Sloan-Kettering Institute |
Thursday, November 20,
2008
"Medical Grand Rounds: “EUS: Role in GI Cancer Management” "
Wahid Wassef, MD
Associate Professor of Medicine
Director of Endoscopy
University of Massachusetts Medical School |
Thursday, November 20,
2008
"Healing Happy Holidays: How to keep the peace and Joy in and Stress Out” from work-life seminars; Thursday Nov 20th from 12 to 1pm at Amp III in the University Campus"
Phil Milgrom
' |
Thursday, November 20,
2008
"Spatiotemporal neural codes for odors in Drosophila"
Mark Stopfer, Ph.D.
Investigator, NICHD
National Institutes of Health |
Thursday, November 20,
2008
"A novel role for Tec family kinases as negative regulators"
John Evans
4th Year Graduate Student
Immunology and Virology Program
University of Massachusetts Medical School |
Thursday, November 20,
2008
"A novel role for Tec family kinases as negative regulators"
John Evans
4th Year Graduate Student
Immunology and Virology Program
University of Massachusetts Medical School |
Thursday, November 20,
2008
"Medical Students: Financial Literacy Is Now More Important Than Ever"
Tasha McDaniel
Great Lakes Educational Loan Services |
Friday, November 21,
2008
"Medical-Legal Partnerships For Children:
Advocating for Families in Central Massachusetts
"
Valerie Zolezzi-Wyndham, Esq.; David Keller, MD
Dir of Training and Prof Develoment
Legal Dir of Family Advocates of Central MA
Legal Assist Corp. of Central MA
Assoc Prof of Clinical Pediatrics, UMMS
Medical Co-Director, Family Advocates of Central MA
General Pediatrics, UMMHC |
Friday, November 21,
2008
"Ser/Thr phosphosignaling in TB"
Thomas Alber, Ph.D.
Professor of Biochemistry and Molecular Biology, University of California, Berkley |
Monday, November 24,
2008
"Persistence of Rapid Ethanol Tolerance in Striatal BK Channels"
Patricia Wynne
Program In Neuroscience |
Tuesday, November 25,
2008
"Executive Council Meeting"
Gary Stein, PhD - Chair
|
Tuesday, November 25,
2008
"Radiation Safety Orientation"
Allison Rapa
Radiation Safety |
Tuesday, November 25,
2008
"Absolute Fracture Risk: The new paradigm in patient selection for osteoporosis therapy"
John L. Stock, M.D.
Medical Fellow II, Eli Lilly and Company
Professor of Medicine, University of Massachusetts Medical School |
Tuesday, November 25,
2008
"A role for survival kinases in the humoral immune response"
Kristen Willems
5th Year Graduate Student
Immunology and Virology Program
University of Massachusetts Medical School |
Wednesday, November 26,
2008
"Cancelled due to holiday.
Join us next week."
Cell Dynamics Journal Club
|
December 2008 |
Monday, December 1,
2008
"Eating On The Fly:
Function And Regulation Of Autophagy
In Cell Survival And Death"
Eric Baehrecke, Ph.D.
Department of Cancer Biology |
Monday, December 1,
2008
"Airway Smooth Muscle: More than a Contraction?"
Reynold A. Panettieri, Jr., M.D.
Robert L. Mayock & David A. Cooper Prof. of Med.
Adjunct Professor of Medicine Wistar University
University of Pennsylvania School of Medicine
Philadelphia, PA |
Tuesday, December 2,
2008
"Radiation Safety Orientation"
Allison Rapa
Radiation Safety |
Tuesday, December 2,
2008
"The regulation and execution of cell death during Drosophila nervous system development"
Special Seminar: Kristin White, Ph.D.
Harvard Medical School |
Tuesday, December 2,
2008
"Role of Autophagy in Cancer and Therapy"
Eileen White, PhD
Professor, Molecular Biology and Biochemistry,
Rutgers University
Associate Director for Basic Science,
The Cancer Institute of New Jersey |
Tuesday, December 2,
2008
"The Effect of KCNE1 and KCNE3 Accessory Subunits on KCNQ1 Potassium Channel Function"
Jessica Rocheleau
Biochemistry And Molecular Pharmacology |
Tuesday, December 2,
2008
"Telomere dynamics in memory human T cells in response to latent and acute viruses"
Joel O'Bryan
5th Year Graduate Student
Immunology and Virology Program
University of Massachusetts Medical School |
Tuesday, December 2,
2008
"Writing that changes lives: the importance of sharing health stories
Reflections and book signing by Kris Holloway, author of Monique and the Mango Rains
"
Kris Holloway
Director of Institutional Relations, Center for International Studies |
Wednesday, December 3,
2008
"Biomedical Image Processing with MATLAB "
Brett Shoelson, Ph.D.
Principal Application Engineer
Mathworks |
Wednesday, December 3,
2008
"Bioengineering Changes in Stem Cell Fate"
Helen M. Blau PhD
Donald E. and Delia B. Baxter Professor
Director, Baxter Laboratory in Genetic Pharmacology
Stanford University Medical School |
Wednesday, December 3,
2008
"How the bladder works: A discussion of distinct apical and basolateral membrane requirements for stretch-induced membrane traffic at the apical surface of bladder umbrella cells"
Beth Luna
|
Wednesday, December 3,
2008
"Transmembrane adaptor proteins in T cell activation and control of autoimmunity"
Dr. Weiguo Zhang
Duke University |
Wednesday, December 3,
2008
"Inter-molecular Base Pairing and Self Association of mRNA Localization Sequences in vivo"
James Deshler, PhD
Assistant Professor, Department of Biology, Boston University |
Thursday, December 4,
2008
"What can we Learn About the Origin of Life from Efforts to Design an Artificial Cell?"
Jack W. Szostak, Ph.D.
Harvard Medical School
Howard Hughes Medical Institute
Alan A. Rich Distinguished Investigator |
Thursday, December 4,
2008
"Medical Grand ROunds: “Maximizing the Effectiveness of Weight Loss Interventions” "
Rena Wing, MD
Professor of Psychiatry & Human Behavior
Brown Medical School |
Thursday, December 4,
2008
"Faculty Council Meeting"
Abraham N. Morse, MD - Chair
|
Thursday, December 4,
2008
"Itk in ?d T cells regulates IgE production in vivo"
Catherine Yin
4th Year Graduate Student
Immunology and Virology Student
University of Massachusetts Medical School |
Friday, December 5,
2008
"Promoter sequence features that define transcriptional levels and how they evolve"
Boris Shakhnovich, Ph.D.
Harvard University |
Friday, December 5,
2008
"Structural and Functional insights into Rho GTPase signaling mimicry by a family of Bacterial Type III effectors"
Neal Alto, Ph.D.
Assistant Professor, Microbiology Department, University of Texas Southwestern Medical Center |
Monday, December 8,
2008
"Transitioning to Management: Date & Time: Dec 8th from 8:30-12; Location: HR Training Room; Facilitator: Paul Thornton. Here is the link to register: http://inside.umassmed.edu/hr/signup/schedule.cfm"
Paul Thornton
' |
Monday, December 8,
2008
"Disparities in the Adoption of Innovative Medication Therapy for Older Adults"
Jennifer Tjia, MD, MSCE
Assistant Professor of Medicine
Division of Geriatric Medicine |
Monday, December 8,
2008
"“Packaging proteins with precision: how cells ensure quality control in the secretory pathway”"
Elizabeth Miller, Ph.D.
Columbia University |
Tuesday, December 9,
2008
"Manager’s Toolbox From Core Management Cert Program: Date & Time: Dec 9th from 8:30-2:30pm; Location: HR Training Room@ South Street; "
HR/EAP/Finance/Purchasing & IS Facilitators
' |
Tuesday, December 9,
2008
"Radiation Safety Orientation"
Allison Rapa
Radiation Safety |
Tuesday, December 9,
2008
"VPS45P as a Model System for Elucidation of SEC1/MUNC18 Protein Function"
Melonnie Furgason
Biochemistry And Molecular Pharmacology |
Tuesday, December 9,
2008
"Faculty Luncheon"
|
Tuesday, December 9,
2008
" Retirement Planning from Work-Life Program: Date & Time: Dec 9th from 12-1p.m.; Location: Goff S1-608 (Hiatt Auditorium),University campus; Facilitator: Mark Woods. Here is the link to register: http://inside.umassmed.edu/hr/signup/schedule.cfm"
Mark Woods
' |
Tuesday, December 9,
2008
"Results of the Lawrence Latino Diabetes Prevention Program"
Ira Ockene, M.D.
Professor of Cardiovascular Medicine
University of Massachusetts Medical School |
Tuesday, December 9,
2008
"Sleep in Drosophila: a molecular and evolutionary perspective"
Faculty Candidate Seminar: Ralph Greenspan, Ph.D.
The Neurosciences Institute |
Tuesday, December 9,
2008
"The long and short of p53"
Heidi Scrable
Associate Professor, Department of Neuroscience,
University of Virginia |
Wednesday, December 10,
2008
"Managing your Time from ASCP: Date & Time: Dec 10th from 11:45-12:45pm; Location: HR Training Room; Facilitator: Sharon Shad. Here is the link to register: http://inside.umassmed.edu/hr/signup/schedule.cfm
"
Sharon Shad
' |
Wednesday, December 10,
2008
"Structure and Activation of Picornaviral RNA Polymerases"
Olve Peersen, PhD
Associate Professor
Colorado State University |
Wednesday, December 10,
2008
"Linking cell cycle to asymmetric division: Aurora-A phosphorylates the par complex to regulate numb localization"
Chun-Ti Chen
McCollum lab |
Wednesday, December 10,
2008
"Developmental Exposures to Estrogenic Compounds: Epigenetic Basis for Increased Prostate Cancer Susceptibility"
Gail Prins, Ph.D.
University of Illinois at Chicago |
Wednesday, December 10,
2008
"Beyond apoptosis -- Bcl-2 proteins in mitochondrial dynamics energetics and a yeast “tumorigenesis” model
"
Dr. Marie Hardwick
John Hopkins University |
Wednesday, December 10,
2008
"With Love From Me to You: Cross-Talk Between Male Molecules and Female Environment Regulates Reproductive Events in Drosophila"
Mariana Wolfner
Professor of Developmental Biology
Department of Molecular Biology and Genetics
Cornell University |
Wednesday, December 10,
2008
"Abstract Views--acrylics by Jean-Pierre Etchegaray"
Jean-Pierre Etchegaray
Post Doctoral Associate in the Department of Neurobiology. |
Thursday, December 11,
2008
"Functional genomic analysis of aging in C. elegans"
Dr. Gary Ruvkun
Massachusetts General Hospital
Harvard Medical School |
Thursday, December 11,
2008
" Regulation of thymocyte lineage decisions by Runx and ThPOK"
Takeshi Egawa
New York University School of Medicine |
Thursday, December 11,
2008
"Medical Grand Rounds: Pneumonia in the Immunocompromised Host"
Henry Koziel, MD
Pulmonary Medicine
Beth Israel Deaconess Medical Center |
Thursday, December 11,
2008
"Spatial regulation of synapse formation in C. elegans"
Kang Shen, M.D., Ph.D.
Assistant Professor
Department of Biology
Stanford University |
Friday, December 12,
2008
"The Atypical Antipsychotic Controversy: What the Literature is Telling Us"
Jean A. Frazier, M.D.
Robert M. and Shirley S. Siff Chair in Family Health Research
Professor of Psychiatry and Pediatrics, UMMS
Vice Chair, Division of Child and Adolescent Psychiatry
|
Friday, December 12,
2008
"Use of Glucan Particles for DNA Delivery"
Ernesto Soto
Program in Molecular Medicine |
Friday, December 12,
2008
"Bone Health and Coronary Heart Disease in Postmenopausal Women With Breast Cancer Treated With Tamoxifen" "
Hongliu Ding
Clinical And Population Health Research |
Monday, December 15,
2008
"Quantifying the rate, strength and targets of recurrent positive selection using DNA polymorphism data"
Jeffrey Jensen, Ph.D.
University of California, San Diego |
Tuesday, December 16,
2008
"RNA Club"
Allan Jacobson, Hervé Seitz and Molly Hammell
Allan Jacobson (Molecular Genetics and Microbiology)
Hervé Seitz (Zamore Lab)
Molly Hammell (Ambros Lab) |
Tuesday, December 16,
2008
"Radiation Safety Orientation"
Allison Rapa
Radiation Safety |
Tuesday, December 16,
2008
"Serotonergic Transcription of Human FEV Reveals Direct GATA Factor Interactions and FATE of Pet1-Deficient Serotonin Neuron Precursors"
Katherine Krueger, Ph.D.
Postdoctoral Fellow
Department of Neuroscience
Case Western Reserve University School of Medicine
Cleveland, OH |
Tuesday, December 16,
2008
"Non-Canonical Assembly-line Biosynthesis: The Story of Coronatine Biogenesis."
Eric Strieter, Ph.D.
Harvard Medical School |
Tuesday, December 16,
2008
"Fas/FasL and Bcl-xL - two distinct regulatory pathways of erythropoiesis"
Miroslav Koulnis
4th Year Graduate Student
Immunology and Virology Program
University of Massachusetts Medical School |
Wednesday, December 17,
2008
"New Signals Regulating Glucose Transport in
Skeletal Muscle"
Laurie J. Goodyear, Ph.D.
Joslin Diabetes Center |
Wednesday, December 17,
2008
"New Signals Regulating Glucose Transport in Skeletal Muscle"
Laurie J. Goodyear, Ph.D.
Joslin Diabetes Center |
Wednesday, December 17,
2008
"Cancelled due to ASCB meeting"
Cell Dynamics Journal Club
|
Wednesday, December 17,
2008
"Deconstructing the TCR/CD3 trigger"
Michael Kuhns
Stanford University |
Wednesday, December 17,
2008
"Adipocyte Insulin-Mediated Glucose Transport: The Role of Myosin 1C, and a Method for In Vivo Investigation"
Nana Hagan
Interdisciplinary Graduate Program |
Thursday, December 18,
2008
"Medical Grand Rounds: “The Use of Ultrafiltration Techniques in Acute Congestive Heart Failure: Effective or Merely Delaying the Inevitable” "
Dr Emil Paganini
ICU Nephrology Consultant
The Cleveland Clinic Foundation |
Thursday, December 18,
2008
"Chromatin Remodeling and Transcriptional Memory"
Sharmistha Kundu
Interdisciplinary Graduate Program |
Thursday, December 18,
2008
"Internalized anitbody trafficking: therapeutic implications"
Christine St. Pierre
4th Year Graduate Student
Immunology and Virology Program
Unversity of Massachusetts Medical School |
Friday, December 19,
2008
"Brain Cooling for Newborn Encephalopathy"
Abbot Laptook, MD
Professor of Pediatrics, The Warren Alpert Medical School of Brown University
Medical Director, Neonatal Intensive Care Unit
Women & Infants Hospital of Rhode Island
|
Friday, December 19,
2008
"Development of the www.EcoliHub.org Information Resource and New Ways to Study the E. coli Model Cell"
Barry L. Wanner, PhD
Professor, Department of Biological Sciences, Purdue University
|
Tuesday, December 23,
2008
"Executive Council Meeting"
Gary Stein, PhD - Chair
|
Tuesday, December 23,
2008
"Radiation Safety Orientation"
Allison Rapa
Radiation Safety |
Thursday, December 25,
2008
"No Medical Grand Rounds due to holiday"
-
- |
Thursday, December 25,
2008
"Trudy Morrison: •The Construction and Testing of a Virus-Like Particle (VLP) Vaccine Candidate for Respiratory Syncytial Virus
Brian Akerley: "Tactics used by Haemophilus to evade and resist immune clearance mechanisms"
Trudy Morrison/Brian Akerley
Molecular Genetics and Microbiology |
Tuesday, December 30,
2008
"Radiation Safety Orientation"
Allison Rapa
Radiation Safety |
January 2009 |
Thursday, January 1,
2009
"No Medical Grand Rounds due to holiday"
-
- |
Monday, January 5,
2009
"The Importance of Scale in Drosophila Evolutionary Genomics"
Nadia Singh, Pd.D.
Cornell University |
Monday, January 5,
2009
"Faculty Luncheon"
|
Monday, January 5,
2009
"Evolution You Can Believe In: Structural and Mechanistic Insight Into Rab GTPase-regulated Membrane Trafficking And Pathogen Subversion"
David Lambright, Ph.D.
Program in Molecular Medicine |
Monday, January 5,
2009
"A Stochastic View of Spliceosome Assembly in the Nucleus"
Prof. Maria Carmo-Fonseca
Institute of Molecular Medicine, University of Lisbon Medical School, Portugal |
Monday, January 5,
2009
"Structural biology of splicing regulation by U2AF65/Py tract RNA recognition and UHM/ULM interactions"
Prof. Dr. Michael Sattler
Institute of Structural Biology, Helmholtz Zentrum Munchen, Germany |
Tuesday, January 6,
2009
"Radiation Safety Orientation"
Allison Rapa
Radiation Safety |
Tuesday, January 6,
2009
"Unexpected Tumor-Suppressing Role for Ral GTPases in Ras Mediated Squamous Cell Carcinoma"
Larry A. Feig
Professor, Department of Biochemistry,
Tufts University School of Medicine,
Boston MA |
Wednesday, January 7,
2009
"Small Molecule-mediated Signaling Between Organisms"
Rebecca Butcher, PH.D.
Harvard Medical School |
Wednesday, January 7,
2009
"Centrosome misorientation reduces stem cell division during ageing"
Sung Hung Choi
McCollum lab |
Wednesday, January 7,
2009
"Therapeutic Repopulation of the Liver"
Markus Grompe, M.D.
Director of the Pape' Family Pediatric Research Institute
Ray Hickey Chair
Director, Oregon Stem Cell Center
Professor, Department of Pediatrics
Oregon Health & Science University |
Thursday, January 8,
2009
"Regulation of Cellular Growth and Division by Ubiquitin-Mediated Proteolysis"
Jennifer A. Benanti, Ph.D.
University of California, San Francisco |
Thursday, January 8,
2009
"Department of Medicine Grand Rounds: M & M- Common Pitfalls in Pain Management and End of Life Care"
Suzana Makowski; Marjorie Clay; Scott Kopec; Patty Hughes; Venu Bathini; Nancy Bean
UMASS Medical School |
Thursday, January 8,
2009
"How worms and maggots navigate"
Aravinthan Samuel, Ph.D.
Associate Professor of Physics
Harvard University |
Friday, January 9,
2009
"Epidemiology, Diagnosis, and Management of Pleural Effusions in Children - 2009 Edition
"
M Hirsh, MD; A. DeRoss, MD; P. Nazarey, MD
Prof of Surgery and Pedi, UMMS
Chief, Division of Pedi Surgery, UMMHC
Assist Prof of Surgery and Pedi, UMMS
Division of Pedi Surgery, UMMHC
Instr in Surgery and Pedi (pending), UMMS
Division of Pedi Surgery, UMMHC |
Friday, January 9,
2009
"Facilitating Successful Meetings"
Star Dargin
' |
Friday, January 9,
2009
"P21Cip1 and HIV-1 Infection of Hematopoietic Stem/Immune Cells"
Dr. Jielin Zhang, M.D.
Assistant Professor of Medicine, HMS
Division of Infectious Diseases
Beth Israel Deaconess Medical Center |
Friday, January 9,
2009
"The Wisdom of WIT, an artistic portrayal of life, relationships, and the human spirit"
Megan Cole
a well-known actor who originated the role of Vivian Bearing in the world premier of WIT in 1995. |
Monday, January 12,
2009
"The Role of the MRN Complex in the S-Phase DNA Damage Checkpoint"
Mary Porter-Goff
Biochemistry and Molecular Pharmacology |
Monday, January 12,
2009
"Evolutionary history of modern humans: A genomic perspective"
Dr. Alon Keinan
Harvard Medical School
Broad Institute of MIT and Harvard |
Tuesday, January 13,
2009
"Radiation Safety Orientation"
Allison Rapa
Radiation Safety |
Tuesday, January 13,
2009
"The type III Histone Deacetylase Sirt1 Is A Therapeutic Target for Autoimmune Diseases"
Deyu Fang
University of Missouri School of Medicine |
Tuesday, January 13,
2009
"Presenting with Purpose"
Janelle Winston
' |
Tuesday, January 13,
2009
"Department of Medicine Lecture:
“Update in Diabetes Research”"
Samuel Dagogo-Jack, MD
Division of Endocronology
University of Tennessee College of Medicine
|
Wednesday, January 14,
2009
"Developing Interviewing Skills"
Robin Pollier
' |
Wednesday, January 14,
2009
"Department of Medicine Research Lecture Series: “Hepatic Macrophages and Alcoholic Liver Disease”"
Laura Nagy, Ph.D.
Professor of Molecular Medicine
Cleveland Clinic Lerner College of
Medicine at Case Western Reserve University |
Wednesday, January 14,
2009
"Benzylsuccinate Synthase (BSS): A Radical Solution to Toluene Metabolism."
Lei Li, Ph.D.
University of Michigan |
Wednesday, January 14,
2009
"Centrosome amplification can initiate tumorigenesis in flies"
Benedicte Delaval
Doxsey lab |
Wednesday, January 14,
2009
"Tissue Damage-Induced Intestinal Stem Cell Division in Drosophila"
Dr. Y. Tony Ip
Program in Molecular Medicine
University of Massachusetts Medical School |
Thursday, January 15,
2009
"The Employment Minefield; what every manager needs to know"
Marian Wilson Ph.D, Marlene Tucker & Karin Fitch
' |
Thursday, January 15,
2009
"Understanding Large-scale Interactome Networks"
Haiyuan Yu, Ph.D.
Dana Farber Cancer Institute & Harvard Medical School |
Thursday, January 15,
2009
"Department of Medicine Grand Rounds: “Skin Cancer in Organ Transplant Recipients”"
David Geist, MD
Associate Professor
Division of Dermatology
UMASS Medical School |
Thursday, January 15,
2009
"Multifaceted Regulation of Peripheral T Cell Tolerance and Autoimmunity by FOXP3+ TReg Cells"
Nitya Jain
Program in Immunology and Virology |
Thursday, January 15,
2009
"Designing Bioengineered Skin Substitutes Containing Microfabricated Basal Lamina Analogs to Enhance Skin"
Katie Bush
Biomedical Engineering and Medical Physics |
Thursday, January 15,
2009
"Segmental Duplication & Copy Number Variation: towards the comprehensive genetic dissection of infectious disease"
Jeffrey Bailey, Ph.D.
Case Western Reserve University & University Hospitals, Cleveland |
Friday, January 16,
2009
"Update on Pediatric Bone Health"
Leslie Soyka, M.D.
Assistant Professor of Pediatrics, UMMS
Division of Pediatric Endocrinology, UMMHC
|
Friday, January 16,
2009
"Mechanism of Induction of Embryonic Liver and Pancreas Progenitors"
Kenneth S. Zaret, Ph.D.
W. W. Smith Chair in Cancer Research
Epigenetics and Progenitor Cells Program
Fox Chase Cancer Center, Philadelphia, PA |
Friday, January 16,
2009
"Analysis of Munc13s in Large Dense Core Vesicle Exocytosis from Neuroendocrine Cells"
Dr. Yong Shin
Max Planck Institute for Experimental Medicine
Gottinge, Germany |
Friday, January 16,
2009
"Exploration of the Ubiquitin Ligase Activity of the RAG1 V(D)J Recombinase"
Jessica M. Jones, PhD
Assistant Professor
Biochemistry and Molecular Biology
Georgetown University Medical Center
|
Friday, January 16,
2009
"Supervillin as a component of a membrane recycling pathway linked to survival signaling"
Zhiyou Fang
Luna lab |
Tuesday, January 20,
2009
"Performance Appraisals (Core Management Certificate Program)"
Karin Fitch
' |
Tuesday, January 20,
2009
"Radiation Safety Orientation"
Allison Rapa
Radiation Safety |
Tuesday, January 20,
2009
"Part 1: Mobile elements shape gene regulatory networks & Part 2: The UCSC Cancer Genomics Browser"
Dr. Ting Wang
University of California at Santa Cruz |
Tuesday, January 20,
2009
"Behavioral strategies in C. elegans feeding"
Neurobiology Special Seminar: Leon Avery, Ph.D.
UT Southwestern Graduate School of Biomedical Sciences |
Tuesday, January 20,
2009
"Mining and translating the cancer genome"
Lynda Chin, MD
Associate Professor, Department of Medical Oncology, Dana-Farber Cancer Institute |
Tuesday, January 20,
2009
"Macrophages, HIV and tuberculosis"
David G. Russell, Ph.D.
Professor and Chair
Department of Molecular Microbiology
Cornell University
|
Tuesday, January 20,
2009
"Generating new zebrafish models of cardiovascular disease and development using zinc finger nucleases"
Nathan D. Lawson, PhD and Scot Wolfe, PhD
UMass Medical School |
Wednesday, January 21,
2009
"Preparing for your Performance Appraisals (Administrative Support Certificate Program)"
Karin Fitch
' |
Wednesday, January 21,
2009
"Medicine Research Lecture: Jumping Ribosomes, Discontinuous Translation, & Novel Antibiotics"
Kenneth Keiler, Ph.D.
Assistant Professor
Department of Biochemistry & Molecular Biology
The Pennsylvania State University |
Wednesday, January 21,
2009
"A tale of two proteins: conformational dynamics in ribonuclease H and type II cadherin 8"
Dr. Auther Palmer
Columbia University |
Wednesday, January 21,
2009
"Mechanisms to suppress multipolar divisions in cancer cells with extra centrosomes"
Anna Krzywicka-Racka
Sluder lab |
Wednesday, January 21,
2009
"Analysis of LPS-induced Hepatic Injury in RIP3-/- Mice"
Milan Patel
1st Year GSBS Student
University of Massachusetts Medical School |
Wednesday, January 21,
2009
"Details of erythropoiesis regulation by Bcl-xL, Fas/FasL and Bim"
Ribhu Nayar
1st Year GSBS Student
University of Massachusetts Medical School |
Wednesday, January 21,
2009
"Poets on Prozac: Mental Illness, Treatment and the Creative Process"
Richard M. Berlin, MD and Gwyneth Lewis
Richard Berlin is associate professor of psychiatry and a published poet. He is author of the award-winning How JFK Killed My Father, a poetry collection about illness and the healing arts. He is the editor of Poets on Prozac. |
Thursday, January 22,
2009
"Developing in Place"
Pam Lassiter
' |
Thursday, January 22,
2009
"Department of Medicine: Medical Grand Rounds: "Improving Transitions of Care: A Panel Discussion"
Alice Bonner, NP; Terry O’Malley, MD
Alice Bonner, NP
UMASS Graduate School of Nursing
Terry O’Malley, MD
Partners Healthcare |
Thursday, January 22,
2009
"Netrin-1 signaling in the pathfinding of neuronal axons and sperms"
Wen-Cheng Xiong, Ph.D.
Weiss Research Professor
Department of Neurology
Medical College of Georgia
|
Thursday, January 22,
2009
"DNA Double Strand Breaks, Translocations and B Cell Lymphoma"
Frederick Alt, PhD
Charles A. Janeway, Professor of Pediatrics and Professor of Genetics
Harvard Medical School |
Friday, January 23,
2009
"The Diagnosis and Management of Childhood Hearing Loss: Auditory Neuropathy Spectrum Disorder
"
Julie Tudrick, Au.D., CCC-A
Clinical Audiologist - UMMHC
Coordinator, Newborn Hearing Screening Program
|
Friday, January 23,
2009
"Innate B cell responses to influenza virus"
Nicole Baumgarth, DVM, Ph.D.
Associate Professor
Department of Pathology, Microbiology and Immunology
Center of Comparative Medicine
School of Veterinary Medicine
University of California, Davis
|
Friday, January 23,
2009
"Tissue damage-induced intestinal stem cell division in Drosophila"
Alla Amcheslavsky
Ip lab |
Monday, January 26,
2009
"Male productive traits in mice: uniting "-omics" data with experimental and evolutionary inference"
Dr. Matthew Dean
University of Arizona |
Tuesday, January 27,
2009
"Damaged RNAs: Do cells care? - Melissa Moore; Specificity enhancement via self-association of the cell fate determinant POS-1 - Brian Farely; Drosophila piRNA pathway is involved in telomere protection in the germline - Jaspreet S Khurana"
RNA Club
Melissa Moore, BMP; Brian Farley, Ryder Lab; Jaspreet S Khurana, Theurkauf Lab |
Tuesday, January 27,
2009
"Radiation Safety Orientation"
Allison Rapa
Radiation Safety |
Tuesday, January 27,
2009
"Regulation and execution of apoptosis in Drosophila development"
Dr. Kristin White
CBRC
MGH/Harvard Medical School |
Tuesday, January 27,
2009
"Maintenance of the virus-specific T cell equilibrium in chronic MCMV infection."
Christopher Snyder
Oregon Health Sciences University |
Tuesday, January 27,
2009
"***NEW TIME*** Stem cells from human prostate cancer: are they a source of new therapeutic targets?"
Norman Maitland, Ph.D.
University of York |
Tuesday, January 27,
2009
"Kenan Murphy: “Chromosomal engineering strategies with Recombineering: gene replacement in Mycobacterium tuberculosis”
Victor Boyartchuk: “Genetics of susceptibility to Listeria monocytognes”"
Kenan Murphy, PhD and Victor Boyartchuk, PhD
UMass Medical School |
Tuesday, January 27,
2009
"Update on Thyroid Cancer"
Marjorie Safran, MD
UMass Med School/UMass Memorial Med Ctr |
Wednesday, January 28,
2009
"Dept of Medicine CANDIDATE LECTURE - Insulin Resistance: New Concepts and New Models"
Morris Birnbaum, MD, PhD
Professor of Medicine
University of Pennsylvania
School of Medicine |
Wednesday, January 28,
2009
"Tracking the Evolutionary Footprints of Retroviral Infection"
Sara Sawyer, PhD
University of Texas at Austin |
Thursday, January 29,
2009
"Department of Medicine MEDICAL GRAND ROUNDS:
"Osteoporosis: Changing the Treatment Paradigm – The Why’s, What’s and How’s of FRAX"
Seth Arum, MD, FACE
Assistant Professor of Medicine
UMASS Medical School |
Thursday, January 29,
2009
"Regulatory pathways controlling spinal neuron fate and connectivity"
Sam Pfaff, Ph.D.
Gene Expression Laboratory
The Salk Institute for Biological Studies |
Thursday, January 29,
2009
"Recognition of microbial components by NLR proteins- members of innate immunity and mediators of inflammatory"
Dr. Koichi Kobayashi
Assistant Professor of Pathology
Department of Cancer Immunology and AIDS
Dana-Farber Cancer Institute
Harvard Medical School |
Friday, January 30,
2009
"“Cardiovascular Genetics: Syndromic and Non Syndromic Causes of Congenital Heart Disease”
"
Amy Roberts, MD
Assistant Professor in Pediatrics, Harvard Medical School
Clinical Associate of Cardiology and Genetics, Children’s Hospital Boston |
Friday, January 30,
2009
"BONE AND JOINT SEMINAR SERIES PRESENTS: "Molecular Imaging of Articular Cartilage."
Martha L. Gray, PhD, J.W. Kiekhefer Professor
Harvard-MIT Health Sciences & Technology |
Friday, January 30,
2009
"Department of Medicine CANDIDATE LECTURE:
“Mechanisms of Hypoglycemia Associated Autonomic Failure” "
Stephen Davis, MD
Professor, Dept of Medicine
Vanderbilt University
School of Medicine
|
Friday, January 30,
2009
"How do we become immune to Streptococcus pneumoniae?"
Marc Lipsitch
Harvard School of Public Health
Professor of Epidemiology
Department of Epidemiology
Department of Immunology and Infectious Diseases
|
February 2009 |
Monday, February 2,
2009
"Understanding Large-scale Interactome Networks
"
Haiyuan Yu, Ph.D.
Dana Farber Cancer Institute & Harvard Medical School |
Monday, February 2,
2009
"Models of Retinal and Macular Degeneration: Understanding Pathogenesis and Developing Rational Therapeutics"
Shalesh Kaushal, M.D. Ph.D.
Department of Ophthalmology |
Monday, February 2,
2009
"TBA"
Edwin Munro, Ph.D.
University of Washington |
Tuesday, February 3,
2009
"Radiation Safety Orientation"
Allison Rapa
Radiation Safety |
Tuesday, February 3,
2009
"A University-Based Center/Institute for Health Services Research and Policy Analysis: Whether, Whither and When?"
Gordon H. DeFriese, PhD
Professor Emeritus of Social Medicine and Epidemiology
Schools of Medicine and Public Health
Public Health Senior Research Fellow
Sheps Center for Health Services Research
University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill |
Tuesday, February 3,
2009
"Novel paradigms to personalized therapy and drug discovery in cancer"
Dan Theodorescu, MD, PhD
Paul Mellon Professor of Urologic Oncology,
Director, Paul Mellon Urologic Cancer Institute |
Wednesday, February 4,
2009
"A New Era of Scholarly Publishing: The NIH Public Access Policy Leading the Way"
Dr. Phil Zamore, Dr. Richard Irwin, Tom Richardson
UMass Medical School
UMass Medical School
New England Journal of Medicine |
Wednesday, February 4,
2009
"Incompatibility of nuclear and mitochondrial genomes causes hybrid sterility between two yeast species"
Jaspreet Khurana
Theurkauf lab |
Wednesday, February 4,
2009
"Heterologous immunity in influenza immune mice challenged with MCMV increases the severity of infection"
Philip Durost
1st Year GSBS Student
University of Massachusetts Medical School |
Wednesday, February 4,
2009
"Tec family kinase expression in NK cells"
Crystal Humphries
1st Year GSBS Student
University of Massachusetts Medical School |
Wednesday, February 4,
2009
"rAAV mediated delivery of gene specific miRNA sponges for study of miRNA function in vitro and in vivo"
Anna Malinkevich
1st Year GSBS Student
Univeristy of Massachusetts Medical School |
Wednesday, February 4,
2009
"In Vivo Imaging and Endothelial Adoptive Transfer"
Dr. Alexei Bogdanov
Professor of Radiology and Cell Biology
Department of Radiology
UMASS Medical School |
Thursday, February 5,
2009
"A neuromodulatory command system for a complex behavior in Drosophila"
Benjamin White, Ph.D.
Laboratory of Molecular Biology
National Institute of Mental Health |
Thursday, February 5,
2009
"The HIV Protein Vpr as a Mediator of Proteasomal Degradation and Other Functions"
Dr. Carlos de Noronha, Sc.D.
Assistant Professor, Center for Immunology & Microbial Disease, Albany Medical College |
Thursday, February 5,
2009
"Department of Medicine Medical Grand Rounds: "Office Care of the Sexually Active Adolescent"
Laura Koenigs, MD
Director of Adolescent Medicine, Baystate Medical Center |
Thursday, February 5,
2009
"Using Stem Cells and Reprogramming To Study Neural Degeneration: Case Studies in ALS and SMA "
Kevin C. Eggan, Ph.D.
Assistant Professor, Department of Stem Cell & Regenerative Biology, Harvard University
Assistant Investigator, Stowers Medical Institute
Principal Investigator, Harvard Stem Cell Institute |
Thursday, February 5,
2009
"The intestinal flora modulates health and disease"
Dennis L. Kasper, MD, PhD
William Ellery Channing Professor of Medicine
Professor of Microbiology and Molecular Genetics
Brigham and Women's Hospital
Harvard Medical School |
Friday, February 6,
2009
"Roll, Stand, Bathe, and Play! A Physical Therapist’s Guide to Adaptive Equipment & Assistive Technology"
Jennifer McLaughlin PT, DPT, ATP
Physical Therapist; Certified Assistive Technology Professional
Clinical Leader at Community Case Management for Commonwealth Medicine
|
Friday, February 6,
2009
"Elucidating the molecular function of LIN-54 in Rb-containing complex"
Tomoko Tabuchi
Hagstrom lab |
Monday, February 9,
2009
"Progress and challenges in protein structure prediction"
Yang Zhang, Ph.D.
University of Kansas |
Monday, February 9,
2009
"Faculty Luncheon"
|
Monday, February 9,
2009
"Stem Cells in Health and Disease"
Ronald D. G. McKay, Ph.D.
Director, Human Stem Cell Facility
Chief, Laboratory of Molecular Biology
National Institute of Neurological Disorders and Stroke,
National Institutes of Health, Bethesda, Maryland |
Tuesday, February 10,
2009
"Radiation Safety Orientation"
Allison Rapa
Radiation Safety |
Tuesday, February 10,
2009
"Defining the complex roles of mTOR signaling in development and cancer:"
David Guertin, Ph.D.
Whitehead Institute |
Tuesday, February 10,
2009
"Vitamin D: A Clinical Update"
Seth Arum, M.D.
UMass Medical School/UMass Memorial Medical Center |
Tuesday, February 10,
2009
"Spinal Muscular Atrophy and Notch signaling in C. elegans"
Faculty Candidate Seminar: Anne Hart, Ph.D.
Massachusetts General Hospital |
Tuesday, February 10,
2009
"Chemical Approaches Toward Understanding Base Excision DNA Repair"
Dr. Seongmin Lee
Harvard Medical School |
Wednesday, February 11,
2009
"Department Medicine Research Lecture Series: A New Lens for Looking at Cryptococcus neoformans: Lessons from the Clinic"
Liise-anne Pirofski, M.D.
Chief, Division of Infectious Diseases
Albert Einstein College of Medicine &
Montefiore Medical Center |
Wednesday, February 11,
2009
"eFluor™ technologies: Making multi-parameter cytometry off the violet laser more robust."
Tony Ward, VP Commercial Operations, eBioscience
eBioscience |
Wednesday, February 11,
2009
" MicroRNPs: Versatile Regulators of Gene Expression in Vertebrate Cells"
DR. JOAN STEITZ, PH.D.
Sterling Professor of Molecular Biophysics and Biochemistry, HHMI Investigator
HMMI/Yale University |
Wednesday, February 11,
2009
"Aneuploidy underlies rapid adaptive evolution of yeast cells deprived of a conserved cytokinesis motor"
Juan Carlos Garcia-Cortes
McColllum lab |
Wednesday, February 11,
2009
"Regulation of viral persistence and immune pathology through NK cell-mediated subversion of CD8 T cell responses"
Dr. Stephen Waggoner
Postdoctoral Fellow
Pathology
University of Massachusetts Medical School |
Wednesday, February 11,
2009
"Integrin Signaling in Cancer Progression"
Lucia Languino, Ph.D.
Department of Cancer Biology and Cell Biology and Cancer Center
|
Wednesday, February 11,
2009
"Roles for a Dynamic Membrane Skeleton during Adhesion, Motility, and Invasion"
Elizabeth Luna, PhD
Department of Cell Biology, University of Massachusetts Medical School |
Thursday, February 12,
2009
"Invadopodia: Interface for cell invasion"
Susette Mueller, Ph.D.
Georgetown University Medical Center |
Thursday, February 12,
2009
"A Century of Black Surgeons"
Nsidinanya Okike, MD
Professor of Surgery, UMMS |
Thursday, February 12,
2009
"Department of Medicine Medical Grand Rounds: “Why is Translational Research so Difficult?: The Lawrence Latino Diabetes Prevention Project” "
Ira Ockene, MD
David & Barbara Milliken Professor of Preventive Cardiology
Director, Preventive Cardiology Program
UMASS Medical School |
Thursday, February 12,
2009
"Rhythms and blues: How circadian genes influence mood"
Colleen McClung, Ph.D.
Assistant Professor
Department of Psychiatry
University of Texas Southwestern Medical Center |
Thursday, February 12,
2009
"The Role of Supervillin, A Membrane Raft Protein, in Cytoskeletal Organization and Invadopodia Function"
Jessica Lynn Crowley
Interdisciplinary Graduate Program |
Thursday, February 12,
2009
"Licensing and Differentiation of NK Cells"
Wayne M. Yokoyama, M.D.
Investigator, Howard Hughes Medical Institute
Washington University
Rheumatology Division |
Friday, February 13,
2009
"Congenital Renal Malformations: UTIs and Beyond "
Ghaleb Daouk, M.D.
Assistant Professor of Pediatrics, Harvard Medical School
Associate Pediatrician, Consulting Pediatric Nephrologist
Children's Hospital, Boston
|
Friday, February 13,
2009
"Can IFTs be IMTs? A new role for IFT88 (Intraflagellar transport protein 88) in mitosis"
Benedicte Delaval
Doxsey Lab, Progam in Molecular Medicine |
Friday, February 13,
2009
"TLR5-mediated immune responses to enteric microbes"
Andrew Gewirtz, PhD
Emory University
Graduate Division of Biological and and Biomedical Sciences
Immunology & Molecular Pathogenesis |
Tuesday, February 17,
2009
"Radiation Safety Orientation"
Allison Rapa
Radiation Safety |
Tuesday, February 17,
2009
"The Imaging Capture and Interrogation of Invasive Breat Tumor Cells in vivo"
John Condeelis, PhD
Professor & Co-Chair
Department of Anatomy & Structural Biology
Albert Einstein College of Medicine |
Tuesday, February 17,
2009
"Type 1 IFN-Induced Attrition of T Cells During the Early Stages of Viral Infection"
Dr. Kapil Bahl
University of Massachusetts Medical School
Welsh Laboratory |
Tuesday, February 17,
2009
"The syndrome of non-insulinoma pancreatogenous hypoglycemia"
Nina Guseva, M.D.
Fellow in Endocrinology, UMass Medical School |
Wednesday, February 18,
2009
"“The TBP–PP2A mitotic complex bookmarks genes by preventing condensin action”
"
Lucy Fang-I Chao
Hagstrom Lab
|
Wednesday, February 18,
2009
"Two models of sterile inflammation"
Dr. Fernando Ontiveros
Postdoctoral Fellow
Pathology
University of Massachusetts Medical School |
Wednesday, February 18,
2009
"Human Embryonic Stem Cells as Models for Trophoblast Differentiation"
R. Michael Roberts, D. Phil.
University of Missouri
Columbia |
Thursday, February 19,
2009
"Early Events in HIV-1 Infection"
Dr. Joseph G. Sodroski, M.D.
Professor, Department of Pathology, Cancer Immunology & AIDS, Dana-Farber Cancer Institute, Harvard Medical School |
Thursday, February 19,
2009
"Department of Medicine: Medical Grand Rounds"
No MGR this week
School vacation week |
Thursday, February 19,
2009
"Nocturnin: a post-transcriptional regulator of circadian rhythms of metabolism"
Carla B. Green, Ph.D.
Professor of Biology
University of Virginia |
Thursday, February 19,
2009
"Counter-regulation of innate immune signaling"
Christopher Karp, MD
Professor and Director, Divison of Molecular Immunology
Cincinnati Children's Hospital Research Foundation |
Friday, February 20,
2009
"The N-terminal Peptide of the Syntaxin Tlg2p Modulates Binding of its Closed Conformation to Vps45p"
Melonnie Furgason
Munson Lab |
Friday, February 20,
2009
"The Politics of Lead Paint, AIDS Drugs for Poor Countries, Sudden Death in Athletes, and More: The Doctor's Role in Fighting Bad Science"
Darshak Sanghavi, M.D.
Assistant Professor of Pediatrics, UMMS
Chief, Pediatric Cardiology, UMMHC
|
Tuesday, February 24,
2009
"RNA Club with "The problem of specificity" - Sean Ryder, BMP; "Aubergine-bound piRNAs collapse, but Piwi-bound piRNAs persist, in the absence of Argonaute3" - Chengian Li; continued in Affiliation..."
three speakers
"The argonaute CSR-1 interacts with a class of small RNAs targeting germline-expressed genes to promote chromosome segregation in C. elegans" - Julie Claycomb, Mello Lab
|
Tuesday, February 24,
2009
"Radiation Safety Orientation"
Allison Rapa
Radiation Safety |
Tuesday, February 24,
2009
"Stem cells, insulin, and the control of oogenesis by diet in Drosophila"
Daniela Drummond-Barbosa, Ph.D.
Vanderbilt University Medical Center |
Tuesday, February 24,
2009
"The Role of WFS1 in Regulating Endoplasmic Reticulum Stress Signaling"
Sonya Fonseca
Interdisciplinary Graduate Program |
Tuesday, February 24,
2009
"The road to insulin resistance in childhood obesity"
Sonia Caprio, M.D.
Professor of Pediatrics, Yale University School of Medicine |
Tuesday, February 24,
2009
"Molecular and Neuronal Basis of Taste and Pheromone Perception in Drosophila"
Faculty Candidate Seminar: Hubert Amrein, Ph.D.
Duke University Medical Center |
Tuesday, February 24,
2009
"BPV1 E2 and the Papillomarvirus Genome"
Suzanne Marie Melanson
Program In Immunology & Virology |
Wednesday, February 25,
2009
"Department of Medicine Research Lecture Series: “Studies on Human Papillomavirus Replication, Morphogenesis, and Infectivity ” "
Craig Meyers, Ph.D.
Professor of Microbiology & Immunology
Pennsylvania State College of Medicine
Milton S. Hershey Medical Center |
Wednesday, February 25,
2009
"Modulation of adaptive immunity by the innate immune system: Implications for cancer immunotherapy and gene therapy"
Yiping Yang, M.D., Ph.D.
Department of Medicine
Duke University Medical Center |
Wednesday, February 25,
2009
"The CDC14B-Cdh1-plk1 axis controls the G2 DNA-damage-response checkpoint"
Hanhui Ma
McCollum lab |
Wednesday, February 25,
2009
"The Role of miR145 During Human Cytomegalovirus Infection"
Dr. Mariluz Rodriguez
Postdoctoral Fellow
MGM
University of Massachusetts Medical School |
Wednesday, February 25,
2009
"Huntington's Disease: Molecular Pathogenesis and Treatment"
Dr. Neil Aronin
Professor of Medicine |
Thursday, February 26,
2009
"RNA folding: Discovery, Implementation, and
Application to microRNA folding of Nucleotide Cyclic
Motifs"
Francois Majaor, Ph.D.
University of Montreal |
Thursday, February 26,
2009
"Nef-mediated suppression of cholesterol efflux contributes to primary dyslipidemia in SIV-infected macaques"
Dr. Michael Bukrinsky, MD, PhD
Professor and Vice Chair, Microbiology, Immunology and Tropical Medicine, the George Washington University |
Thursday, February 26,
2009
"There will be no Department of Medical Grand Rounds today"
-
- |
Thursday, February 26,
2009
"Dendrites, autophagy, and frontotemporal dementia"
Fen-Biao Gao, Ph.D.
Associate Investigator/Associate Professor
Gladstone Institute of Neurological Disease and Department of Neurology
University of California at San Francisco |
Thursday, February 26,
2009
"Balancing resistance and tolerance to infections in the fly"
David Schneider, Ph.D.
Assistant Professor
Microbiology and Immunology
Stanford University |
Thursday, February 26,
2009
"Nuclear Architecture and Aging"
Dr. Thomas Misteli
Cell Biology of Genomes
National Cancer Institute, NIH |
Thursday, February 26,
2009
"TBA"
Dr. Thomas Misteli
National Cancer Institute, NIH |
Friday, February 27,
2009
"Cerebrovascular Diseases in Pediatric Population –
An Overview and Endovascular Approaches"
"
Ajay Wakhloo, MD, PhD
Professor of Radiology, Neurology and Neurosurgery, UMMS
Director, Division Neuroimaging and Intervention (NII)
Department of Radiology, UMMHC
|
Friday, February 27,
2009
"Orally delivered siRNA targeting macrophage MAP4K4 suppresses systemic inflammation"
Gregory Tesz and Myriam Aouadi
Czech Lab, PMM |
Friday, February 27,
2009
"Site-Directed Spin Labeling Applications of Protein Flexibility"
Gail Fanucci, PhD
University of Florida |
Friday, February 27,
2009
"Site-Directed Spin Labeling Applications of Protein Flexibility"
Gail Fanucci, PhD
University of Florida |
March 2009 |
Tuesday, March 3,
2009
"Radiation Safety Orientation"
Allison Rapa
Radiation Safety |
Tuesday, March 3,
2009
"Creating Access to Care for Migrant Farm Worker Populations: The UConn Experience"
Bruce Gould, M.D., FACP
University of Connecticut School of Medicine Director, CT Area Health Education Center Program Medical Director, Burgdorf Health Center, Hartford, CT |
Tuesday, March 3,
2009
"Src kinases in regulating development of T cell effector lineages"
Paul Stein, Ph.D.
Associate Professor, Dermatology
Northwestern University |
Tuesday, March 3,
2009
"Creating Access to Care for Migrant Farm Worker Populations: The UConn Experience"
Bruce Gould, M.D., FACP
University of Connecticut School of Medicine Director, CT Area Health Education Center Program Medical Director, Burgdorf Health Center, Hartford, CT |
Tuesday, March 3,
2009
"Regulation and function of c-Abl in TCR signaling"
Wenfang Wu, PhD
University of Massachusetts Medical School
Leslie Berg Lag |
Wednesday, March 4,
2009
"Women's History Month: Nineteenth-Century Women Physicians and the Homeopathic Choice"
Anne Taylor Kirschman, PhD
University of Massachusetts Dartmouth
Author: A Vital Force: Women in Homeopathy |
Wednesday, March 4,
2009
" Cleaning up the mess: transport of hydrophobic compounds across the bacterial outer membrane"
Bert van den Berg, PhD
University of Massachusetts Medical School |
Wednesday, March 4,
2009
"Orc1 controls centriole and centrosome copy number in human cells"
Paramasivam Murugan
McCollum lab |
Wednesday, March 4,
2009
"Symptomatic Congenital CMV Infection in Human UNC-93b Deficiency"
Dr. Bradlee Drabant
Neonatology Fellow
Instructor in Pediatrics
University of Massachusetts Medical School |
Wednesday, March 4,
2009
"ES and iPS Cells: A Future Source of Endoderm Progenitors?"
Darrell N. Kotton, M.D.
Boston University School of Medicine |
Thursday, March 5,
2009
"Islet inflammation in type 2 diabetes: from compensation to beta-cell dysfunction"
Jan Ehses, Ph.D.
University Hospital Zurich |
Thursday, March 5,
2009
"Department of Medicine Medical Grand Rounds: Update on Emerging Therapies for Prostate Cancer"
Mary Ellen Taplin, MD
Dana Farber Cancer Institute |
Thursday, March 5,
2009
"Synaptic and circuitry mechanisms of obsessive-compulsive-like behavior in mice"
Guoping Feng, Ph.D.
Associate Professor
Department of Neurobiology
Duke University Medical Center |
Friday, March 6,
2009
"Life After Residency"
Peter J. Sell, D.O.
Assistant Professor of Pediatrics, UMMS
Chief, Pediatric Hospitalist
Milford Regional Medical Center
|
Friday, March 6,
2009
"THE BONE AND JOINT SEMINAR SERIES PRESENTS: "Innovative Physical Activity Measures."
Patty Freedson, PhD
Professor and Chair, Department of Kinesiology, University of Massachusetts, Amherst |
Friday, March 6,
2009
"Towards a Metabolomics Platform for Human Investigation"
Robert E. Gerszten, M.D.
Associate Professor of Medicine
Harvard Medical School
Massachusetts General Hospital |
Friday, March 6,
2009
"“Genetic Approaches to Study Host-Pathogen Interactions in Anthrax” "
Kenneth A. Bradley, PhD
Microbiology, Immunology, & Molecular Genetics
Microbial Physiology & Pathogenesis
UCLA |
Monday, March 9,
2009
"Faculty Luncheon"
|
Monday, March 9,
2009
"The Lamar Soutter Library's Artist in Residence Series presents the Student Art Show: Perspectives"
UMass Worcester Students
UMass Medical Students, GSN students, GSBS students |
Tuesday, March 10,
2009
"Radiation Safety Orientation"
Allison Rapa
Radiation Safety |
Tuesday, March 10,
2009
"Diabetes Candidate Lecture: “Developing New Therapies for Diabetes: Mixing Sutton’s Law with appropriate humility” "
David Harlan, MD
Professor of Medicine
National Institutes of Health
Dept. of Health and Human Services
|
Tuesday, March 10,
2009
"Does controlling hyperglycemia improve cardiovascular outcomes?"
Samir Malkani, MD
Assistant Professor of Medicine
University of Massachusetts Medical School/
UMass Memorial Medical Center |
Tuesday, March 10,
2009
"Skin Stem Cells in Morphogenesis and Cancer"
Elaine Fuchs, Ph.D.
Rebecca C. Lancefield Professor. HHMI Investigator
Laboratory of Mammalian Cell Biology and Development
The Rockefeller University |
Tuesday, March 10,
2009
"Canceled - No Seminar Today - Canceled"
Christian Kraft, PhD
University of Massachusetts Medical School
Raymond Welsh Lab |
Wednesday, March 11,
2009
"Department of Medicine Faculty Meeting: AGENDA: Pain & Palliative Care; Update on Health Information Technology at UMMHC"
Felice, Finberg, Andrieni, Erban, Corbett, Segar, Brenckle
UMMS/UMMHC Department of Medicine |
Wednesday, March 11,
2009
"Department of Medicine Research Lecture Series: “Signaling in Immunity and Inflammation in Drosophila: Genetic and Bioinformatic Approaches ”"
Marc Dionne, Ph.D.
Department of Craniofacial
Development and Microbiology
King's College London, UK |
Wednesday, March 11,
2009
"Structure-based discovery of peptidomimetic inhibitors of HIV replication"
Gabriele Varani, PhD
University of Washington |
Wednesday, March 11,
2009
"Genome stability is ensured by temporal control of kinetochore-microtubule dynamics"
Joshua Nordberg
Sluder lab |
Wednesday, March 11,
2009
"Genetic approaches to dissecting antigen presentation"
Dr. Eleanor Kincaid
Postdoctoral Fellow
Pathology
University of Massachusetts Medical School |
Wednesday, March 11,
2009
"Skin Stem Cells: The Privileged Few"
Elaine Fuchs, PhD
Investigator, Rebecca C. Lancefield Professor
The Rockefeller University |
Thursday, March 12,
2009
"Women's Faculty Committee Meeting"
Co-chairs: Elaine Martin, DA & Mai-Lan Rogoff, MD
|
Thursday, March 12,
2009
"Department of Medicine Medical Grand Rounds: Th17 Cytokines and Mucosal Immunity"
Jay K. Kolls, MD
Chair, Professor of Genetics & Pediatrics
Louisiana State University
|
Thursday, March 12,
2009
"TB Awareness Day: A forum on the TB epidemic and movie screening, On the Lake."
Christopher Sassetti, PhD, Jennifer Furin, MD...
Department of Molecular Genetics and Microbiology |
Thursday, March 12,
2009
"SPECIAL Seminar: “A single immune molecule controls mosquito resistance to P. falciparum”"
Lindsey Garver
John Hopkins School of Public Health |
Thursday, March 12,
2009
"The Audacity of Herpes: New Insights into Regulation of Productive and Latent Infections"
Donald Coen, Ph.D.
Professor
Biological Chemistry and Molecular Pharmacology
Harvard Medical School |
Thursday, March 12,
2009
"Student Nurses' Experiences of Learning with Human Patient Simulation"
Jay Ober
Graduate School of Nursing |
Friday, March 13,
2009
"The Transformative Power of Hope for I'll Children
and their Families
"
Laura Basili, Ph.D.
Clinical Psychologist & Visiting Assistant Professor
Middlebury College, Middlebury, VT
|
Friday, March 13,
2009
"Fission yeast Etd1 regulates the timing of both onset and completion of cytokinesis"
Juan Carlos Garcia-Cortes
McCollum Lab, MGM and Program in Cell Dynamics |
Friday, March 13,
2009
"Nuclear Pore Complex Dynamics During the Partially Open Mitosis of Aspergillus Nidulans"
HUI-LIN LIU
Host: Steve Doxsey
|
Monday, March 16,
2009
"Mechanism and Regulation of Homologous Recombination"
Patrick Sung, Ph.D.
Professor, Molecular Biophysics & Biochemistry
Yale University School of Medicine |
Monday, March 16,
2009
"Recombinational Repair of a Chromosomal DNA Double Strand Break: Role of Chromatin Remodeling Enzymes"
Manisha Sinha
Interdisciplinary Graduate Program |
Tuesday, March 17,
2009
"RNA Club: "Issues related to microRNA function" V Ambros (Mol. Med.) & "The argonaute CSR-1 interacts with a class of small RNAs targeting germline-expressed genes to promote chromosome segregation in C. elegans" J Claycomb (Mello Lab)"
Victor Ambros & Julie Claycomb
RNA Club
Victor Ambros, Program in Molecular Medicine
Julie Claycomb, Mello Lab |
Tuesday, March 17,
2009
"Radiation Safety Orientation"
Allison Rapa
Radiation Safety |
Tuesday, March 17,
2009
"Cross-reactive CD8 T cell responses during Acute Epstein-Barr Virus (EBV) infection"
Nuray Aslan, PhD
University of Massachusetts Medical School
Liisa Selin Lab |
Wednesday, March 18,
2009
"Identifying events and genetic regulators of melanoma formation using the zebrafish"
Craig Ceol, Ph.D.
Children's Hospital, Boston
Harvard Medical School |
Wednesday, March 18,
2009
"Identifying events and genetic regulators of melanoma formation using the zebrafish"
Craig Ceol, Ph.D.
Children's Hospital Boston and
Harvard Medical School |
Wednesday, March 18,
2009
"Dept of Medicine Research Lecture: “Novel Aspects of Neutrophil Effector Functions in Innate & Adaptive Immune Responses”"
Marco Cassatella, M.D.
Professor of General Pathology
University of Verona Medical School
Italy |
Wednesday, March 18,
2009
"Building virus capsids: from design principles to assembly mechanisms"
Charles L. Brooks III
Warner-Lambert/Parke-Davis Professor of Chemistry and Professor of Biophysics
University of Michigan |
Wednesday, March 18,
2009
"Control of daughter centriole formation by the pericentriolar material"
Yumi Uetake
Sluder lab |
Wednesday, March 18,
2009
"Regulation of DNA Replication Origin Timing and Efficiency"
Nicholas Rhind, Ph.D.
UMASS Medical School |
Thursday, March 19,
2009
"Department of Medicine Grand Rounds: “Symptom Management and Palliative Care in the Renal Patient”"
Michael Germain, MD
Medical Director of Transplant
Baystate Medical Center |
Thursday, March 19,
2009
"Perceptual learning and visual plasticity"
Takeo Watanabe, Ph.D.
Professor of Psychology
Center for Neuroscience
Boston University |
Thursday, March 19,
2009
"Regulation of telomerase by human papillomavirus"
Denise A. Galloway, PhD
Head, Cancer Biology Program
Department of Human Biology
Fred Hutchinson Cancer Research Center |
Thursday, March 19,
2009
"The Meaning of Translational Research"
Steven H. Woolf, MD, MPH
Professor of Family Medicine, Epidemiology and Community Health
Virginia Commonwealth University |
Thursday, March 19,
2009
"Worming Our Way Through the
Endosomal System: C. elegans as a
Model for Membrane Traffic"
Dr. Barth Grant
Molecular Biology and Biochemistry
Rutgers University
|
Friday, March 20,
2009
"Anemia in the PICU: Transfuse??"
Scot Bateman, MD
Clinical Associate Professor of Pediatrics, UMMS
Chief, Pediatric Critical Care, UMMHC
|
Friday, March 20,
2009
"Hide and Seek: Surface Receptor Diversity in the host-pathogen interaction"
F. Nina Papavasiliou, PhD
Associate Professor
Laboratory of Lymphocyte Biology
The Rockefeller University |
Friday, March 20,
2009
"Concentration-dependent effects of Sonic hedgehog protein on membrane trafficking and axon guidance"
Zheng-Zheng Bao, Ph.D.
Bao Lab |
Tuesday, March 24,
2009
"Radiation Safety Orientation"
Allison Rapa
Radiation Safety |
Tuesday, March 24,
2009
"Small fiber neuropathies - autonomic and sensory? Focus on diabetes."
Peter Novak, M.D., Ph.D.
Department of Neurology
Director, Autonomic Neuropathy Clinic
UMass Memorial Medical Center |
Tuesday, March 24,
2009
"Hedgehog pathway-driven tumorigenesis: from bench to bedside"
Andrzej Dlugosz, MD
Poth Professor of Cutaneous Oncology,
Dept. of Dermatology and Comprehensive Cancer Ctr,
University of Michigan |
Wednesday, March 25,
2009
"Department of Medicine Research Lecture Series: "Cell Biological Aspects of Innate Immunity "
Jonathan Kagan, Ph.D.
Assistant Professor of Pediatrics
Harvard Medical School & Staff Scientist Children's Hospital |
Wednesday, March 25,
2009
"Genetic conflict: the usual suspects and beyond"
Harmit Singh Malik, PhD
Fred Hutchinson Cancer Research Center |
Wednesday, March 25,
2009
"Cancelled -- join us next week"
Cell Dynamics Journal Club
|
Wednesday, March 25,
2009
"Transcription Factor Gbx2 Plays Both Cell-autonomous and Cell-nonautonomous Roles in the Development of Mammalian Thalamus"
James Li, Ph.D.
Assistant Professor
Department of Genetics and Developmental Biology
University of Connecticut Health Center |
Thursday, March 26,
2009
"Bringing Cell-based High Dimensional Biology to Clinical Medicine: A New Life for Flow Cytometry"
Jonni S. Moore, Ph.D.
Professor of Pathology and Laboratory Medicine
Director, Cancer Center Flow Cytometry and Cell Sorting Facility
Director, Clinical and Research Flow Cytometry
Hospital of the University of Pennsylvania
|
Thursday, March 26,
2009
"Novel mechanisms of protein inclusion formation and neurodegeneration revealed by forward genetics"
Susan L. Ackerman, Ph.D.
Howard Hughes Medical Institute
The Jackson Laboratory |
Thursday, March 26,
2009
"The Future of Health Care in America: Preparing Physicians for the Silver Tsunami"
Richard W. Besdine, MD
Professor of Medicine
Greer Professor of Geriatric Medicine
Director, Division of Geriatrics
Director, Center for Gerontology and Healthcare Research
The Warren Alpert Medical School of Brown University
|
Thursday, March 26,
2009
"Department of Medicine Grand Rounds: “The Future of Health Care in America: Preparing Physicians for the Silver Tsunami”"
Richard Besdine, MD
Professor of Medicine
Brown University |
Friday, March 27,
2009
"The Fragile Children Who Need a Team Approach:
A Plea for Help
"
Karen Wiss, MD
Professor of Medicine and Pediatrics, UMMS
Chief, Pediatric Dermatology, UMMHC
|
Friday, March 27,
2009
"Effects of HIV-1 replication on the generation and maintenance of memory B cell responses"
Nishaki Mehta, MD
Luzuriaga lab, Dept of Pediatric Immunology and Infectious Diseases |
Friday, March 27,
2009
"Differentially Expressed Micrornas Act as Inhibitors of BDNF in Prefrontal Cortex-Implications for Schizophrenia"
Nikolaos Mellios
Program In Neuroscience |
Friday, March 27,
2009
"Induction of Pluripotency by Defined Factors"
Shinya Yamanaka, MD, PhD
Professor, Department of Stem Cell Biology
Institute for Integrated Cell-Material Sciences
Kyoto University, Japan |
Tuesday, March 31,
2009
"Radiation Safety Orientation"
Allison Rapa
Radiation Safety |
Tuesday, March 31,
2009
"Systemic regulation of microtubule organization and its role in the establishment of cellular coordinates"
Rafael Carazo Salas, Ph.D.
Institute of Biochemistry
ETH Zurich |
Tuesday, March 31,
2009
"Systemic regulation of microtubule organization and its role in the establishment of cellular coordinates"
Rafael Carazo Salas, Ph.D.
Institute of Biochemistry
ETH Zurich |
Tuesday, March 31,
2009
"The stoichiometry of antibody-mediated neutralization of West Nile virus infection: Factors that govern antibody potency"
Steevenson Nelson, PhD
Postdoctoral Researcher (IRTA)
National Institute of Health (NIAID)
|
Tuesday, March 31,
2009
"The RIP1-RIP3 kinase complex regulates caspase-independent progrmmed necrosis"
Youngsik Cho, PhD
University of Massachusetts Medical School
Francis Ka-Ming Chan Lab |
April 2009 |
Wednesday, April 1,
2009
"Dying Young As Late As Possible: Planarians, Stem Cells and Regeneration"
Alejandro Sanchez Alvarado, Ph.D.
Professor of Neurobiology & Anatomy
University of Utah School Of Medicine
Investigator, Howard Hughes Medical Institute |
Wednesday, April 1,
2009
"Department of Medicine Research Lecture Series: “Cytokines, STAT3, Liver Inflammation”"
Bin Gao, MD, PhD
Chief, Section on Liver Biology
Laboratory of Physiologic Studies
National Institute for Alcohol Abuse &
Alcoholism, NIH |
Wednesday, April 1,
2009
"A multi-phenotype map of genetic interactions"
Dr. Daniel Segre
Boston University |
Wednesday, April 1,
2009
"Prions hijack tunnelling nanotubes for intercellular spread"
Samriddha Ray
McCollum lab |
Wednesday, April 1,
2009
"HLA-DO inhibition of HLA-DM peptide loading"
Dr. Sarah Mortimer
Postdoctoral Fellow
Pathology
University of Massachusetts Medical School |
Thursday, April 2,
2009
"Hem/Onc Grand Rounds: 1.7 or 36C?"
Kathryn Edmiston, MD
Associate Professor Medicine
Department of Medicine
Division of Hematology Oncology
|
Thursday, April 2,
2009
"Personnel Action Training- from Workforce Learning
"
Suzanne Paul
' |
Thursday, April 2,
2009
"National Institute of Health (NIH) –A closer look: from the Research Administration Program."
Joyce Barrett & Wendy Miller
' |
Thursday, April 2,
2009
"Wingless signalling and cell competition during patterning and growth"
Eugenia Piddini, Ph.D.
Developmental Neurobiology
National Institute for Medical Research, London, UK |
Thursday, April 2,
2009
"The Evolution of Functional Polymorphism in the Antiretroviral TRIM5 Locus of Old World Primates"
Dr. Welkin Johnson, PhD
Assistant Professor, Department of Microbiology and Molecular Genetics, NEPRC, Harvard Medical School |
Thursday, April 2,
2009
"Building Your Financial Future- a one hour session from Work-Life programs."
'
' |
Thursday, April 2,
2009
"Department of Medicine Medical Grand Rounds: “Can Inhaled CO be a Therapy in Human Disease?”"
Augustine Choi, MD
Chief, Pulmonary & Critical Care Medicine
Brigham & Women’s Hospital |
Thursday, April 2,
2009
"Synapse formation and axon regeneration in C. elegans"
Yishi Jin, Ph.D.
Division of Biological Sciences
Howard Hughes Medical Institute
University of California, San Diego |
Thursday, April 2,
2009
"Toll-like receptor signaling: gene- and signal-specific regulators"
Youhai H. Chen, M.D., Ph.D.
Professor of Pathology and Laboratory Medicine
University of Pennsylvania School of Medicine |
Friday, April 3,
2009
"Should my (young) Patient get Anesthesia?"
J. Lance Lichtor, M.D.
Professor, Departments of Anesthesiology & Pediatrics, UMMS
Chief, Pediatric Anesthesiology, UMMHC
|
Friday, April 3,
2009
"Faculty Luncheon"
|
Monday, April 6,
2009
"GI Lecture Series: "IBS"
David R. Cave, MD, PhD
Gastroenterology
UMMS/UMMHC |
Tuesday, April 7,
2009
"Radiation Safety Orientation"
Allison Rapa
Radiation Safety |
Tuesday, April 7,
2009
"Genetic control of apoptosis during development"
Barbara Conradt, Ph.D.
Dartmouth Medical School
Norris Cotton Cancer Center |
Tuesday, April 7,
2009
"FIV as Animal Pathogen and as a Vector"
Dr. Mauro Pistello
Department of Experimental Pathology, Retrovirus Center and Virology Section, University of Pisa |
Tuesday, April 7,
2009
"Molecular Engineering of a Viral Capsid and Vaccine Development"
Christian Mandl, MD/PhD
Associate Professor, Vienna Medical University
Vice President, Novartis Vaccines and Diagnostics, Inc. |
Tuesday, April 7,
2009
"Genetic Mining of the Cancer Genome"
Stephen J. Elledge, Ph.D.
Gregor Mendel Professor of Genetics,
Harvard Medical School |
Tuesday, April 7,
2009
"Maintenance of long term humoral immunity in subsequent heterologous viral infections."
Christian Kraft, PhD
University of Massachusetts Medical School
Raymond Welsh Lab |
Wednesday, April 8,
2009
"Heterochromatin and the Cohesion of Sister Chromatids"
Marc Gartenberg, Ph.D.
Department of Pharmacology
Robert Wood Johnson Medical School |
Wednesday, April 8,
2009
"Department of Medicine Research Lecture Series: “Antiviral Immunity: Intrinsic Mechanisms at Work”"
Sara R. Cherry, Ph.D.
Assistant Professor of Microbiology
University of Pennsylvania |
Wednesday, April 8,
2009
"Structural and Chemical Biology Approaches to the Understanding and Treatment of Leukemia"
John H. Bushweller, Ph.D.
Professor
University of Virginia |
Wednesday, April 8,
2009
"Gastroenterology: "M&M Conference"
TBD
UMMS/UMMHC |
Wednesday, April 8,
2009
"WHAMM is an Arp2/3 complex activator that binds microtubules and functions in ER to Golgi transport"
Didier Vingadassalom
Leong lab |
Wednesday, April 8,
2009
"T cell responses following live virus vaccination"
Dr. Heidi Smith
Postdoctoral Fellow
CIDVR
University of Massachusetts Medical School |
Wednesday, April 8,
2009
"Development of Gene Therapy for Duchenne Muscular Dystrophy Using Systemic Delivery of AAV Vectors Expressing Truncated Dystrophins"
Jeffrey S. Chamberlain, Ph.D.
McCaw Endowed Chair in Muscular Dystrophy
Professor, Departments of Biochemistry, Neurology and Medicine
University of Washington School of Medicine |
Wednesday, April 8,
2009
"Protein Kinase D1 (PKD1) is a repressor of prostate cancer progression"
Cheng Du, PhD
Assistant Professor, Department of Surgery, University of Massachusetts Medical School |
Thursday, April 9,
2009
"GI Fellows Conference"
Dr. Benjamin Hyatt
UMMHC |
Thursday, April 9,
2009
"Hematology/Oncology Grand Rounds: “Targeting Angiogenesis in Breast Cancer”"
Beth Overmoyer, MD, FACP
Lecturer, Harvard Medical School
Physician, Breast Oncology Section
Dana Farber Cancer Institute |
Thursday, April 9,
2009
"Women's Faculty Committee"
Co-chairs: Elaine Martin, DA & Mai-Lan Rogoff, MD
|
Thursday, April 9,
2009
"Department of Medicine Medical Grand Rounds: M & M - Perioperative Management of Antiplatelet Medications"
Kathy Navid, MD (Primary Care), Joel Gore, MD, Linda Pape, MD, Craig Smith, MD (Cardiology)
UMMS/UMMHC Department of Medicine
General Medicine; Cardiovascular Medicine |
Thursday, April 9,
2009
"Soft animals as new models for biomedical robots"
Barry Trimmer, Ph.D.
Henry Bromfield Pearson Professor of Natural Sciences
Department of Biology and Biomedical Engineering
Tufts University |
Thursday, April 9,
2009
"Cell cycle and apoptosis of developing T cells: the stories of PTEN tumor suppressor and Nur77 nuclear receptor"
Astar Winoto, Ph.D.
Professor
Molecular and Cell Biology
University of California, Berkeley |
Friday, April 10,
2009
"Structural and Functional Characterization of the Exocyst Protein SEC6P"
Mary Munson on Behalf of Jennifer Ann Songer
Biochemistry and Molecular Pharmacology |
Friday, April 10,
2009
"Life history alters the regulation of developmental timing by lin-4 and let-7-family microRNAs in C. elegans"
Xantha Karp
Ambros Lab, Program in Molecular Medicine |
Friday, April 10,
2009
"Ironing out the wrinkles in host defense: interactions between iron homeostasis and innate immunity"
Bobby J. Cherayil, Ph.D.
Associate Professor of Pediatrics
Harvard Medical School |
Friday, April 10,
2009
"Deleneating the C.elegans MicroRNA Reulatory Network"
Natalia J. Martinez
Interdisciplinary Graduate Program |
Friday, April 10,
2009
"The Mitotic DNA Damage Response
What happens when cells enter mitosis with DNA Damage?"
Dr. Hanne Varmark
Theurkauf Lab |
Sunday, April 12,
2009
"Women's Faculty Committee Meeting"
Co-chairs: Elaine Martin, DA & Mai-Lan Rogoff, MD
|
Monday, April 13,
2009
"Analysis of Long-Range Chromosomal Interactions in Saccharomyces Cerevisiae"
Adriana Miele
Interdisciplinary Graduate Program |
Monday, April 13,
2009
"Role of Inflammation in Insulin Resistance and Diabetic Heart"
Jason Kim, Ph.D.
Professor and Director
UMass Mouse Phenotyping Center |
Monday, April 13,
2009
"Horton Hears a Who; The Search for Hibernation Induction Trigger."
Eric W. Dickson, M.D, MHCM, FACEP
Senior Medical Director
UMass Memorial Medical Group
Worcester, MA |
Tuesday, April 14,
2009
"Radiation Safety Orientation"
Allison Rapa
Radiation Safety |
Tuesday, April 14,
2009
"The Brazilian AIDS Epidemic and CD8 Responses in HIV Controllers"
Dr. Esper Kallas, PhD
Professor, Division of Clinical Immunology and Allergy, Univ of Sao Paulo SOM, Sao Paulo, Brazil |
Tuesday, April 14,
2009
"Preventive & Behavioral Medicine: Current Topics in Epidemiology and Biostatistics Seminar: "Interrupted Times-series Analyses"
Becky Briesacher, PhD
Department of Medicine
Division of Geriatric Medicine
University of Massachusetts Medical School |
Tuesday, April 14,
2009
"Psychiatric Co-Morbidities of Obesity and Type 2 Diabetes"
Sherry Pagoto, Ph.D.
University of Massachusetts Medical School |
Tuesday, April 14,
2009
"TBD"
Myriam Wlodarczyk
University of Massachusetts Medical School
Liisa Selin Laboratory |
Wednesday, April 15,
2009
"Department of Medicine Research Lecture Series: “Suppression of Erythropoiesis in Malaria”"
Richard Bucala, MD, PhD
Professor of Medicine, Pathology
Epidemiology and Public Health
Yale University School of Medicine |
Wednesday, April 15,
2009
"ALS: Models and Mechanisms"
Serge Przedborski, M.D., Ph.D.
Columbia University |
Wednesday, April 15,
2009
"Cardiology Grand Rounds: "Salt Sensitivity of Hypertension: Are We Getting To The Bottom of The Shaker?"
Leopoldo Raij, MD
Division of Cardiology, Department of Medicine, University of Miami Miller School of Medicine and Miami Veterans Affairs Medical Center, Miami, Florida |
Wednesday, April 15,
2009
"Drosophila HP1c isoform interacts with the zinc-finger proteins WOC and Relative-of-WOC to regulate gene expression"
Anetta Nowosielska
Theurkauf lab |
Wednesday, April 15,
2009
"TB Susceptibility Differs between High Cholesterol Mouse Models"
Dr. Greg Martens
Postdoctoral Fellow
Medicine
University of Massachusetts Medical School |
Thursday, April 16,
2009
"Function of Diverse Transcriptional Coactivators in Animal Cells"
Robert G. Roeder
Rockefeller University |
Thursday, April 16,
2009
"Function of Diverse Transcriptional Coactivators in Animal Cells"
Robert G. Roeder, Ph.D.
Rockefeller University |
Thursday, April 16,
2009
"Department of Medicine Medical Grand Rounds: “Vitamin D for Health: A D-Lightful Story”"
Michael Holick, PhD, MD
Boston University School of Medicine |
Thursday, April 16,
2009
"Glutamate receptors and their subunits in synaptic transmission"
Susumu Tomita, Ph.D.
Department of Cellular and Molecular Physiology
CCNR Program
Yale University School of Medicine |
Thursday, April 16,
2009
"Roles of IL-12 and IFN-aB CD8 T cell activation"
Matthew F. Mescher, Ph.D.
Professor & Director, Center of Immunology
University of Minnesota |
Friday, April 17,
2009
"The Penis (Part 2) - When a Good Thing Goes Bad"
Louis Wojcik, MD
Assistant Professor of Surgery & Pediatrics, UMMS
Director, Pediatric Urology, UMMHC
|
Friday, April 17,
2009
"2009 MD/PhD Annual Research Retreat Event
MD/PhD Research Poster Session
Students Speaking on Research Posters 3 - 4 pm
"
MD/PhD Students
UMASS Medical School
MD/PhD Program |
Friday, April 17,
2009
"Worming to Complete the Insulin/IGF-1 Signaling Cascade"
Srivatsan Padmanabhan
Interdisciplinary Graduate Program |
Friday, April 17,
2009
"Salmonella: Life in the inflamed intestine"
Andreas J. Baumler, Ph.D.
Professor and Vice Chair
Department of Medical Microbiology and Immunology
University of California at Davis
|
Friday, April 17,
2009
"Dynein LIC1 is Required to Silence the Spindle Assembly Checkpoint"
Sivaram Mylavarapu
Doxsey Lab |
Tuesday, April 21,
2009
"Radiation Safety Orientation"
Allison Rapa
Radiation Safety |
Tuesday, April 21,
2009
"From Bariatric to Diabetes Surgery"
Angela Resterpo, M.D.
Assistant Professor of Medicine (Endocrinology and Diabetes), UMMHC |
Wednesday, April 22,
2009
"4th Annual Earth Day Event! Join us April 22nd in the Medical School lobbies and visit several vendors, organizations, and medical school departments
that are thinking “GREEN”. Hosted by the UMass State Sustainability Committee"
Our Renewable Nation - The McCulloguh Family
"Brown Bag Lunch" in the Faculty Conference Room on April 22nd from 12pm-1pm, featuring the McCullough family, Colin and son Carrick, as they prepare to travel nation-wide in their VW Beetle fueled by vegetable oil, for an eco-video travel project. |
Wednesday, April 22,
2009
"Chromosome alignment and transvection are antagonized by Condensin II"
Kirsten Hagstrom
Hagstrom lab |
Wednesday, April 22,
2009
"RNAi Therapy for Disorders of the Central Nervous System"
Zuoshang Xu, M.D., Ph.D.
Professor of Biochemistry & Molecular Medicine
UMASS Medical School |
Thursday, April 23,
2009
"APRIL VACATION - No Medical Grand Rounds today"
-
Department of Medicine: Medical Grand Rounds |
Thursday, April 23,
2009
"Central control of the heart or vice versa"
Martha I. Davila-Garcia, Ph.D.
Associate Professor of Pharmacology
Howard University College of Medicine |
Thursday, April 23,
2009
"Aging, T cell repertoire and Immunity to Influenza Virus"
Marcia A. Blackman, Ph.D.
Full Member
Trudeau Institute |
Thursday, April 23,
2009
"Emergency Department Nurses' Experiences of Violent Acts in the Workplace"
Paul S. MacKinnon (Thesis Defense)
Graduate School of Nursing |
Friday, April 24,
2009
"Food Selectivity in children with Autism "
Linda G. Bandini, Ph.D.
Associate Professor of Pediatrics, UMMS
Director of Nutrition, LEND Program
Eunice Kennedy Shriver Center, UMMHC
|
Friday, April 24,
2009
"The tail binds to the head-neck domain, inhibiting ATPase activity Of myosin VIIA"
Nobuhisa Umeki & Tsuyoshi Sakai, Ph.D.
Ikebe Lab |
Monday, April 27,
2009
"Regulation of Stearoyl-CoA Desaturase
in Metabolism: Implications for Human Diseases"
James M. Ntambi, Ph.D.
University of Wisconsin-Madison |
Monday, April 27,
2009
"Regulation of Stearoyl-CoA Desaturase in Metabolism: Implications for Human Diseases"
James M. Ntambi, Ph.D.
University of Wisconsin-Madison |
Monday, April 27,
2009
"Defining the Importance of Fatty Acid Metabolism in Maintaining Adipocyte Function"
Jennifer Christianson
Interdisciplinary Graduate Program |
Monday, April 27,
2009
"Division of Preventive and Behavioral Medicine Research Seminar: “Geographic and Socioeconomic Disparities in Prevalence of Physical Inactivity, Fruit and Vegetable Consumptions and Obesity in Massachusetts Communities"
Wenjun Li, Ph.D.
UMASS Medical School |
Monday, April 27,
2009
"Geographic and Socioeconomic Disparities in Prevalence of Physical Inactivity, Fruit and Vegetable Consumptions and Obesity in Massachusetts Communities"
Wenjun Li, Ph.D.
UMASS Medical School |
Monday, April 27,
2009
"Cortical actin layers and cell instabilities"
Jean-François Joanny, Ph.D.
Institute Curie, Paris |
Monday, April 27,
2009
"Post-Deployment Health Assessment In United States Service Members after Iraq Deployment"
Sean T. Collins
GSN / Thesis Defense / Sean T. Collins |
Tuesday, April 28,
2009
"Radiation Safety Orientation"
Allison Rapa
Radiation Safety |
Tuesday, April 28,
2009
"Update on "Metabolic" Surgery"
John Kelly, M.D.
Associate Professor of Surgery, University of Massachusetts Medical School
Chief, General and Minimally Invasive Surgery
Surgical Director, Weight Center
Director, Laparoscopic Surgery Fellowship |
Tuesday, April 28,
2009
"Prostate Cancer-Developing a Personalized Medicine Approach"
Philip W. Kantoff, MD
Professor of Medicine ,
Chief, Division of Solid Tumor Oncology,
Director of the Lank Center for Genitourinary Oncology,
Dana Farber Cancer Institute, Harvard Medical School |
Tuesday, April 28,
2009
"Cilia Function and Kidney Morphogenesis in Zebrafish"
Iain A. Drummond, Ph.D.
Associate Professor of Medicine and Genetics
Harvard Medical School and MGH
|
Tuesday, April 28,
2009
"Potential Transcriptional Regulators of Innate-like T cell Development"
Megan Enos, PhD
University of Massachusetts Medical School
Leslie Berg Lab |
Wednesday, April 29,
2009
"GSN / Thesis Defense / Melinda Darrigo
"Clinical Decision Making by Cirtical Care Mid-Level Practitioners Working within an Interdisciplinary Team"
Melinda Darrigo
GSN Thesis Defense / Melinda Darrigo |
Wednesday, April 29,
2009
"Medicine Research Lecture Series: “Selective Pathways to Fungal Recognition and Immunity”"
Bruce S. Klein, M.D.
Gerard B Odell Professor
Director Wisconsin Center of Infectious Diseases
University of Wisconsin Medical School |
Wednesday, April 29,
2009
"The ABC's of Replication Initiation and Repair"
David Jeruzalmi, PhD
Harvard University |
Wednesday, April 29,
2009
"Plk2 regulated centriole duplication is dependent on its localization to the centrioles and a functional polo-box domain"
Kip Sluder
Sluder lab |
Wednesday, April 29,
2009
"Principals of Polychromatic Flow Cytometry"
Richard Konz
Research Assistant Professor, Department of Medicine
Director, Flow Cytometry Core Facility |
Thursday, April 30,
2009
"Hematology/Oncology Grand Rounds
“BrUOG Breast Cancer Trial”"
William Marshall Sikov, MD
Clinical Assistant Professor of Medicine
Department of Medicine
The Miriam Hospital
Providence, RI |
Thursday, April 30,
2009
"Genes for Development and Disease in Zebrafish"
Nancy Hopkins, Ph.D.
Amgen Professor of Biology
Massachusetts Institute of Technology |
Thursday, April 30,
2009
"Department of Medicine Medical Grand Rounds: “Acute Kidney Injury: Concepts and Questions”"
Michael Rauchman, M.D.C.M.
Associate Professor
Biochemistry & Molecular Biology
Saint Louis University School of Medicine
|
Thursday, April 30,
2009
"Sounds in silence: How the ear makes it's own noise during development"
Dwight Bergles, Ph.D.
Associate Professor
The Solomon H. Snyder Department of Neuroscience
Johns Hopkins University |
Thursday, April 30,
2009
"Chemokine Regulation of Immunity to Histoplasma capsulatum"
George S. Deepe, Jr., M.D.
Professor of Internal Medicine/Infectious Diseases
University of Cincinnati College of Medicine |
May 2009 |
Friday, May 1,
2009
"Rheumatoid Arthritis: The Search for Improved Therapies"
Lisa M. Olson, Ph.D.
Senior Director, Immunology
Abbott Bioresearch Center |
Friday, May 1,
2009
"Regulating Signaling by Subcellular Co-localization of Kinases"
Peter Pryciak
Pryciak Lab |
Monday, May 4,
2009
"Modulation of Neuropeptide Release in Neurohypophysial Terminals"
Sonia Ortiz-Miranda, Ph.D.
Instructor
Department of Physiology
University of Massachusetts Medical School
Worcester, MA |
Monday, May 4,
2009
"Plasma membrane microdomains promote cell wall organization, morphogenesis and virulence of the fungal pathogen Candida albicans"
James Konopka, Ph.D.
Professor, Department of Molecular Genetics and Microbiology, State University of New York, Stony Brook
|
Monday, May 4,
2009
"Medication Discrepancies upon Hospital to Skilled Nursing Facility Transitions"
Alice Bonner, PhD, RN
Executive Director
Massachusetts Senior Care Foundation
Assistant Professor
University of Massachusetts
Graduate School of Nursing |
Monday, May 4,
2009
"Reading Between the Lines: Wellness Issues of Older Women"
Robin Klar, DNSc, RN
Assistant Professor
University of Massachusetts Worcester
Graduate School of Nursing
|
Tuesday, May 5,
2009
"Radiation Safety Orientation"
Allison Rapa
Radiation Safety |
Tuesday, May 5,
2009
"Chromatin Remodeling in Transgenic Mouse Brain-Implications for Neurobiology of Depression"
Yan Jiang
Program in Neuroscience |
Tuesday, May 5,
2009
"The Rb-E2F pathway in Cell Cycle Regulation and Lung Cancer: Novel Targets for Drug Discovery"
Srikumar Chellappan, PhD
Professor, Drug Discovery Program
H.Lee Moffitt Cancer Center and Research Institute |
Tuesday, May 5,
2009
"Functional Analysis of Yeast Pheromone Receptors in ER Exit, Ligand-Induced Endocytosis and Oligomerization"
Chien-I Chang
Molecular Genetics and Microbiology |
Tuesday, May 5,
2009
"TBD"
Maria Dorothea Nastke, PhD
University of Massachusetts Medical School
Lawrence Stern Lab |
Wednesday, May 6,
2009
"Department of Medicine Faculty Meeting"
Robert Finberg; Alan Rosmarin; Craig Lilly; John Randolph
Department of Medicine
UMass Medical School |
Wednesday, May 6,
2009
"Maintaining The End: Regulation of Telomerase in Yeast"
Virginia A. Zakian, Ph.D.
Harry C. Wiess Professor in the Life Sciences
Lewis Thomas Labs
Princeton University |
Wednesday, May 6,
2009
"Department of Medicine Research Lecture Series: “A Novel Signal Transduction Cascade Underlying the Exit from Dormancy in Bacteria”"
Jonathan Dworkin, Ph.D.
Assistant Professor of Microbiology
Columbia University |
Wednesday, May 6,
2009
"The remarkable chaperone SecB and its multiple binding partners"
Linda Randall, PhD
University of Missouri - Columbia |
Wednesday, May 6,
2009
"Stem Cell Niches and Cancer Stem Cells"
Linheng Li, PhD
Associate Investigator, Stowers Institute for Medical Research
Affiliate Associate Professor, Kansas University Medical Center |
Wednesday, May 6,
2009
"WHAMM is an Arp2/3 complex activator that binds microtubules and functions in ER to Golgi transport"
Didier Vingadassalom
Leong lab |
Wednesday, May 6,
2009
"Nuclear Dynamics of a Broken Chromosome"
Pranav Oza
Interdisciplinary Graduate Program |
Wednesday, May 6,
2009
"Pluripotent Stem Cells in Development and Disease"
George Q. Daley, MD, PhD
Children's Hospital, Harvard Medical School
Investigator, Howard Hughes Medical Institute |
Thursday, May 7,
2009
"Dissecting functional consequences of membrane protein interactions in chemoreceptor arrays using Nanodiscs and activity assay"
Gerald Hazelbauer, PhD
University of Missouri - Columbia |
Thursday, May 7,
2009
"Department of Medicine Grand Rounds: Update on Women’s Health Initiative: Is Hormone Therapy Allowed Again"
Julia Johnson, MD
Chair, Department of OB/GYN
UMass Memorial Medical Center |
Thursday, May 7,
2009
"Mitochondrial involvement in familial ALS"
Giovanni Manfredi, M.D., Ph.D.
Professor
Departments of Neurology and Neuroscience
Weill Medical College of Cornell University |
Friday, May 8,
2009
"The Saga of Childhood Febrile Seizures - Benign or not so much! A Lesson in the Evolution of Medical Knowledge
"
Paul Marshall, MD
Associate Professor of Pediatrics and Psychiatry, UMMS
Chief, Pediatric Neurology, UMMHC
|
Friday, May 8,
2009
"A small RNA Odyssey: phylogenetic analysis of endogenous small RNAs in C. elegans"
Elaine Youngman
Mello Lab, Program in Molecular Medicine |
Friday, May 8,
2009
"The Circadian Clock in Monarch Butterfly: A Tale of Two CRYs"
Quan Yuan
Program in Neuroscience |
Friday, May 8,
2009
"Estrogens and the Estrogen Receptor: Structure, Function, and In Vivo Imaging"
John A. Katzenellenbogen, PhD
University of Illinois
Urbana-Champaign |
Friday, May 8,
2009
"Development of new therapeutic strategies for the treatment of diabetic retinopathy"
Guotong Xu, MD, PhD
Executive Deputy Dean of Tongji University School of Medicine
Chairman, Department of Regenerative Medicine, TUSM
President, Chinese Society of Stem Cell Biology
Professor of Ophthalmology, Pharmacology, Biochemistry and Cell Biology |
Monday, May 11,
2009
"C. Elegans Transcriptional Networks"
Marian Walhout, Ph.D.
Associate Professor
Program in Gene Function and Expression |
Tuesday, May 12,
2009
"Radiation Safety Orientation"
Allison Rapa
Radiation Safety |
Tuesday, May 12,
2009
"Women's Knowledge of Cardiovascular Risk Factors, Level of Self-Nurturance and Participation in Heart-Health Behaviors"
Annette Jakubisin-Konicki
PhD Thesis Defense Graduate School of Nursing |
Tuesday, May 12,
2009
"Women's Faculty Committee Meeting"
Co-chairs: Elaine Martin, DA & Mai-Lan Rogoff, MD
|
Tuesday, May 12,
2009
"From Progenitor to Product: Development and Repair of the Mammalian Kidney"
Andrew P. McMahon, Ph.D.
Frank B. Baird, Jr. Professor of Science
Department of Molecular and Cellular Biology
Harvard University |
Tuesday, May 12,
2009
"Directed Fatty Acid Partitioning Towards Different Metabolic Pathways"
Rosalind Coleman, M.D.
University of North Carolina |
Tuesday, May 12,
2009
"Directed Fatty Acid Partitioning Towards Different Metabolic Pathways"
Rosalind Coleman, M.D.
Associate Chair, Department of Nutrition, University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill, NC |
Tuesday, May 12,
2009
"Rational targeting of Notch in breast cancer"
Lucio Miele, M.D., Ph.D.
Ergon Professor of Medicine and Pharmacology,
Director, University of Mississippi Cancer Center, Jackson, MS |
Tuesday, May 12,
2009
"The Breast Cancer-Bone Interaction: Mechanisms of Metastasis"
Michael Rosenblatt, MD
Dean, Tufts University School of Medicine |
Wednesday, May 13,
2009
"How Viruses Get Into Cells"
Dr. Stephen Harrison
Professor of Biological Chemistry & Molecular Pharmacology
Howard Hughes Investigator
Harvard Medical School |
Wednesday, May 13,
2009
"Spastin couples microtubule severing to membrane traffic in completion of cytokinesis and secretion"
Cara Weismann
Doxsey lab |
Wednesday, May 13,
2009
"MicroRNA regulated tissue specific transduction by rAAV vector"
Guangping Gao, Ph.D.
Director, Gene Therapy Center and Vector Core
Professor, Molecular Genetics & Microbiology
University of Massachusetts Medical School |
Wednesday, May 13,
2009
"Osteoarthritis: Mechanotransduction, Animal Models and Disease-Modifying OA Drugs"
Paul Fanning, Ph.D.
Assistant Professor of Orthopedics & Cell Biology
UMASS Medical School |
Thursday, May 14,
2009
"The unique cell cycle of human embryonic stem cells"
Klaus A. Becker, PhD
Post-Doc Fellow
Cell Biology
UMMS |
Thursday, May 14,
2009
"Hematology/Oncology Grand Rounds: "Update on Adjuvant Treatment of Breast Cancer"
M. Sheila Donnelly, MD
Instructor in Medicine, Harvard Medical School
Clinical Associate, Dana-Farber Cancer Institute, Gillette Center
Heywood Hospital |
Thursday, May 14,
2009
"Women's Faculty Committee"
Co-chairs: Elaine Martin, DA & Mai-Lan Rogoff, MD
|
Thursday, May 14,
2009
"Department of Medicine Grand Rounds: Cutaneous Lupus: Pathogenesis, Clinical Findings and Therapeutic Advances"
Victoria Werth, MD
Professor of Dermatology & Medicine
University of Pennsylvania School of Medicine |
Friday, May 15,
2009
"Healthcare Reform and the Obama Administration"
James Recht, MD
Clinical Instructor in Psychiatry, HMS
Cambridge Health Alliance
|
Monday, May 18,
2009
"Structural Neurology: Structure-Based Drug Design for Neurodegenerative Diseases"
Dagmar Ringe, PhD & Greg Petsko, PhD
Brandeis University |
Tuesday, May 19,
2009
"Radiation Safety Orientation"
Allison Rapa
Radiation Safety |
Tuesday, May 19,
2009
"Ronin and Caspases in Embryonic Stem Cells: A New Perspective on Regulation of the Pluripotent State"
Thomas P. Zwaka, Ph.D.
Assistant Professor, Center for Cell and Gene Therapy
Department of Molecular Medicine and Cellular Biology
Department of Molecular and Human Genetics
Baylor College of Medicine, Texas |
Tuesday, May 19,
2009
"TBD"
Rabinarayan Mishra
University of Massachusetts Medical School
Eva Szomolanyi-Tsuda Lab |
Wednesday, May 20,
2009
"Division of Geriatric Medicine's collaborative educational initiative with the Department of Obstetrics and Gynecology, "Geriatrics for Specialty Residents" OB/GYN Grand Rounds: "Surgery in the Older Woman: How old is too old?"
Holly E. Richter, PhD, MD
J. Marion Sims Endowed Chair
Women’s Pelvic Medicine and Reconstructive Surgery
Department of Obstetrics and Gynecology
University of Alabama at Birmingham
Birmingham, Alabama
|
Wednesday, May 20,
2009
"Identification of Accrual Barriers to Cancer Clinical Trials in Massachusetts"
Robert H. Houlihan, MBA, FACHE, CCRP
Department of Cancer Biology
University of Massachusetts Medical School
|
Wednesday, May 20,
2009
"Dual role for dynamin in clathrin-mediated endocytosis"
Sandra L. Schmid, PhD
The Scripps Research Institute |
Wednesday, May 20,
2009
"Quality & Patient Safety Grand Rounds: Advancing Medication Safety: Onocology Failure Modes and Effects Analysis"
Lyndsy Pinchevsky, PharmD
UMass Medication Use Safety Resident (PGY2) |
Wednesday, May 20,
2009
"Cancelled -- join us next week"
Cell Dynamics Journal Club
|
Wednesday, May 20,
2009
"Innate immune responses to Coxsackie B virus infection"
Jennifer Wang, M.D.
Assistant Professor
Division of Infectious Disease and Immunology
University of Massachusetts Medical School |
Wednesday, May 20,
2009
"Molecular Regulation of Skeletal Myogenesis in Development, Regeneration and Cancer"
Charles P. Emerson, Jr., Ph.D.
Director and Senior Scientist
Boston Biomedical Research Institute |
Wednesday, May 20,
2009
"H. Brownell Wheeler Lectureship - Transformative Thinking Or A Surgeon Educator Gone Mad"
Richard Reznick, MD
R. S. McLaughlin Professor and Chair, University of Toronto |
Wednesday, May 20,
2009
"Meet the Author, Rita Charon, MD, PhD, of Narrative Medicine: Honoring the Stories of Illness"
Rita Charon, MD, PhD
Professor of Clinical Medicine and Director of the Program in Narrative Medicine at the Columbia University College of Physicians and Surgeons. |
Thursday, May 21,
2009
"Slow Down! Checkpoint Regulation of Replication Forks in Response to DNA Damage"
Nicholas A. Willis
Interdisciplinary Graduate Program |
Thursday, May 21,
2009
"Department of Medicine Grand Rounds: Narrative, Evidence and Effective Health Care"
Rita Charon, MD, PhD
Professor of Clinical Medicine
College of Physicians & Surgeons
Columbia University |
Thursday, May 21,
2009
"Genetic basis of social behavior in Drosophila melanogaster"
Joel Levine, Ph.D.
Assistant Professor
Canada Research Chair in Neurogenetics
Department of Biology
University of Toronto at Mississauga |
Thursday, May 21,
2009
"Taming Cancer Using the Angiogenic Switch: Therapeutic Gains, Scientific Challenge"
Steve Brem, MD
Chair, Department of Neuro-Oncology, H. Lee Moffitt Cancer Center |
Thursday, May 21,
2009
"The role of DNA damage in cancer and in rare brain diseases resulting from defective DNA repair"
Philip J. Brooks, Ph.D.
National Institute on Alcohol Abuse and Alcoholism, NIH |
Friday, May 22,
2009
"Pediatric Burns"
Janice Lalikos, MD
Associate Professor of Plastic Surgery and Pediatrics, UMMS
Chief, Pediatric Plastic Surgery, UMMHC
|
Friday, May 22,
2009
"Systems Level Processing of Memory in the Fly Brain"
Michael Krashes
Program in Neuroscience |
Tuesday, May 26,
2009
"Radiation Safety Orientation"
Allison Rapa
Radiation Safety |
Tuesday, May 26,
2009
"Taste detection and behavior in Drosophila"
Faculty Candidate Seminar: Sunanda Marella, Ph.D.
University of California at Berkeley |
Tuesday, May 26,
2009
"Signaling Phagocytosis: Tracking Receptors, Lipids And Surface Charges"
Sergio Grinstein, Ph.D.
Professor of Biochemistry
University of Toronto |
Tuesday, May 26,
2009
"Spill the Wine: Cancer Prevention and the Molecular Consequences of What You Eat"
Randall F. Holcombe, MD
Professor of Medicine, Associate Vice Chancellor for Research, Chief of the Division of Hematology/Oncology, University of California at Irvine |
Tuesday, May 26,
2009
"Lipotoxic actions on muscle cells and macrophages leading to insulin resistance"
Amira Klip, Ph.D.
Professor of Biochemistry
University of Toronto |
Tuesday, May 26,
2009
"TBD"
Hajime Kono, PhD
University of Massachusetts Medical School
Kenneth Rock Lab |
Tuesday, May 26,
2009
"BONE AND JOINT SEMINAR SERIES PRESENTS: "Translational Research Using Animal Models Of Human Disease."
Regis J. O'Keefe, MD, PhD
Chair, Department of Orthopaedics and Rehabilitation
Director, Center for Musculoskeletal Research, Department of Orthopaedics
University of Rochester Medical Center, Rochester, NY |
Wednesday, May 27,
2009
"Noncoding genes and noncoding RNA"
Dr. Geir Skogerbø, PhD & Run-Sheng Chen, PhD
Biophysics Institute
National Academy of Sciences, China
|
Thursday, May 28,
2009
"Hematology/Oncology Grand Rounds: "Diagnosis and Management of patients with More than One Malignancy of the Lung"
Geoffrey M. Graeber, MD
UMass Memorial Medical Center
Professor and Chief of the Section of Thoracic Surgery |
Thursday, May 28,
2009
"Department of Medicine Grand Rounds: The Genetics of Human Herpes Labialis"
John Kriesel, MD
Associate Professor of Medicine & Infectious Diseases
University of Utah School of Medicine |
Thursday, May 28,
2009
"The neuronal control of circadian locomotor rhythms in Drosophila"
Paul Taghert, Ph.D.
Professor of Neurobiology
Departments of Anatomy and Neurobiology
Washington University, St. Louis |
Thursday, May 28,
2009
"Emergency Nurses' Experiences with Critical Incidents"
Cynthia Francis Bechtel / PhD Defense
Graduate School of Nursing
PhD Program |
Thursday, May 28,
2009
"Poxvirus Tropism is Linked to Immune Evasion"
Grant McFadden, Ph.D.
Professor
Molecular Genetics & Microbiology
University of Florida |
Friday, May 29,
2009
"
Caring for the Gay, Lesbian, Bisexual, and
Transgendered Population in our Community
"
Diane Blake, MD; Mark Vining, MD
Associate Professor of Pediatrics, UMMS
Adolescent Medicine, UMMHC
Assistant Professor of Pediatrics, UMMS
Pediatric Primary Care, UMMHC
|
Friday, May 29,
2009
"Brush model of the airway surface layer of lungs"
Michael Rubinstein, Ph.D.
University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill |
Friday, May 29,
2009
"Faculty Luncheon"
|
Friday, May 29,
2009
"“Control of Lymphocyte Homeostasis and Lymphomagenesis by the Pim Kinases”"
Casey J. Fox, Ph.D.
Assistant Professor
The Jackson Laboratory
Bar Harbor, ME |
Friday, May 29,
2009
"A Role of Dynamic Cdk1 Phosphorylation
in Chromosome Segregation"
Sung Hugh Choi
McCollum Lab |
June 2009 |
Monday, June 1,
2009
"Modeling Co-Occuring Depression and Anxiety in Patients with an Acute Coronary Syndrome"
Mayra Tisminetzky
Clinical & Population Health Research |
Monday, June 1,
2009
"Insights from Functional Genomics Study of TGF-beta/BMP Signaling"
Lan Xu, Ph.D.
Associate Professor
Program in Molecular Medicine |
Tuesday, June 2,
2009
"Radiation Safety Orientation"
Allison Rapa
Radiation Safety |
Tuesday, June 2,
2009
"Current Topics in Epidemiology & Biostatistics
Seminar Series: “Propensity Scores in Pharmacoepidemiologic Research”
"
Dr. Til Stürmer, MD, MPH
Associate Professor of Epidemiology,
Head, Pharmacoepidemiology Program, and
Director, UNC-GSK Center of Excellence in Pharmacoepidemiology and Public Health, University of North Carolina Gillings School of Public Health |
Tuesday, June 2,
2009
"A Biochemist's view of Host Pathogen Interactions"
Dr. Hidde Ploegh
Member, Whitehead Institute for Biomedical Research |
Tuesday, June 2,
2009
"PI 3-Kinase and Cancer Metabolism"
Lewis Cantley, Ph.D.
Director, Beth Israel Deaconess Cancer Center
Professor, Dept of Systems Biology, Harvard Medical School
Chief, Div of Signal Transduction, Beth Israel Deaconess Medical Center |
Tuesday, June 2,
2009
"TBD"
Maire Quigley, PhD
University of Massachusetts Medical School and
Cardiff University
Liisa Selin Lab |
Wednesday, June 3,
2009
"Department of Medicine Lecture Series: “The B Cell Response to Hepatitis C Virus Infection – Lessons for Vaccine Immunotherapeutic Development”"
Steven K.H. Foung, M.D.
Professor of Pathology
Stanford University |
Wednesday, June 3,
2009
"Age-dependent deterioration of nuclear pore complexes causes a loss of nuclear integrity in postmitotic cells"
Fan Zhang
Theurkauf lab |
Thursday, June 4,
2009
"Hematology/Oncology Grand Rounds: Developing techniques for high dose radiation therapy for lung cancer"
RICHARD S. PIETERS, M.D., F.A.C.R.
Radiation Oncologist
Department of Medicine |
Thursday, June 4,
2009
"Department of Medicine Grand Rounds: Evidence and Decision Making in Apheresis Medicine"
Robert Weinstein, MD
Professor of Medicine & Pathology
Chief, Division of Transfusion Medicine
UMASS Memorial Medical Center |
Thursday, June 4,
2009
"Seminars in Nephrology: "Making the Case for Peritoneal Dialysis"
J Kevin Tucker, MD
Brigham and Women’s Hospital |
Friday, June 5,
2009
"An Imaging Approach to the Ill Child Suspected of Having Intussusception"
"
E. Christine Wallace, MD
Assistant Professor of Pediatrics, UMMS
Chief, Pediatric Radiology, UMMHC
|
Friday, June 5,
2009
"Faculty Luncheon"
|
Friday, June 5,
2009
"Ghosts of the Genome: Genes Responsible for Severe Mental Illness"
Mary-Claire King, Ph.D.
American Cancer Society Professor
University of Washington, Seattles |
Friday, June 5,
2009
"Insulin Receptor Tyrosine Kinase Substrate IRTKS,
a host adaptor/effector of actin assembly, promotes actin pedestal formation by EHEC O157:H7"
Didier Vingadassalom
Leong Lab |
Tuesday, June 9,
2009
"Radiation Safety Orientation"
Allison Rapa
Radiation Safety |
Tuesday, June 9,
2009
"Do "Desperate" Patients Enroll In Research With False Hopes?"
Scott Y. H. Kim, MD, PhD
Associate Professor of Psychiatry, Bioethics Program
Investigator, Center for Behavioral & Decision Sciences in Medicine
University of Michigan Medical School |
Tuesday, June 9,
2009
"Endocrinology Grand Rounds: “Small Molecule Therapeutics for Diabetes”"
Shalesh Kaushal, M.D., Ph.D.
Professor and Chair of Ophthalmology
University of Massachusetts Medical School |
Tuesday, June 9,
2009
"Small Molecule Therapeutics for Diabetes"
Shalesh Kaushal, M.D., Ph.D.
Professor and Chair of Ophthalmology,
University of Massachusetts Medical School |
Tuesday, June 9,
2009
"Preliminary Characterization of CD4+ T Cell Epitopes in Human Herpes Virus 6"
Maria-Dorothea Nastke, PhD
University of Massachusetts Medical School
Lawrence Stern Lab |
Wednesday, June 10,
2009
"Genetic control of programmed cell death during animal development"
Barbara Conradt, PhD.
Associate Professor, Department of Genetics,
Dartmouth Medical School
|
Wednesday, June 10,
2009
"Cardiology Grand Rounds: Clopidogrel Pharmacogenetics
"
Marc S. Sabatine, MD, MPH
Brigham and Women's Hospital |
Wednesday, June 10,
2009
"Recruitment of SMC by ParB-parS organizes the origin region and promotes efficient chromosome segregation"
Tomoko Tabuchi
Hagstrom lab |
Wednesday, June 10,
2009
"Electron-tomographic Analysis of Intraflagellar Transport Particles in Situ"
Pietro Lupetti, Ph.D.
Associate Professor
Laboratory of Electron Microscopy & Cryotechniques
Department of Evolutionary Biology
University of Siena, Italy |
Wednesday, June 10,
2009
"Flights of Fancy, A Photographic Journey"
Felicia Kuo, MD
Resident in Psychiatry |
Thursday, June 11,
2009
"Defining the Role of CTBP2 in P53-Independent Tumor Suppressor Function of ARF"
Ramesh C. Kovi
Cancer Biology Program |
Thursday, June 11,
2009
"Women's Faculty Committee Meeting"
Co-chairs: Elaine Martin, DA & Mai-Lan Rogoff, MD
|
Thursday, June 11,
2009
"Department of Medicine Medical Grand Rounds: "Medical Ethics"
Panel
UMMS/UMMHC |
Friday, June 12,
2009
"Human Monoclonal Antibodies to Treat Clostridium difficile Infection"
"Using the Medical Home Model to Engage Parents
as Partners in Co-Management
"
Deborah Molrine, MD & Christopher Stille, MD, MPH
Associate Professor of Pediatrics, UMMS
Deputy Director, Clinical and Regulatory Affairs, MassBiologics, UMMS
Associate Professor of Pediatrics, UMMS
General Pediatrics, UMMHC
|
Monday, June 15,
2009
"Preventive and Behavioral Medicine Research Seminar Series: “The Sun Less Study: A Randomized Trial of a Skin Cancer Prevention Intervention Featuring Sunless Tanning”"
Sherry Pagoto, Ph.D.
UMASS Medical School |
Tuesday, June 16,
2009
"Radiation Safety Orientation"
Allison Rapa
Radiation Safety |
Tuesday, June 16,
2009
"Isolation and Analysis of Hematopoeitic Stem cells; Pluripotent Stem cells and their Neuronal Derivitives."
Susan E Reynolds; Senior Scientist, Cell Analysis
BD Biosciences
San Diego, California |
Tuesday, June 16,
2009
"The role of translational control in learning, memory and disease"
Charles A. Hoeffer, Ph.D.
Associate Research Scientist, Center for Neural Science, New York University
|
Tuesday, June 16,
2009
"RIP3 Dependent Programmed Necrotic Cell Death and Its Biological Implications"
Rupa Challa, PhD
University of Massachusetts Medical School
Francis Ka-Ming Chan Lab |
Tuesday, June 16,
2009
"Cardiovascular Working Group: “Mitochondrial modulation of endothelial phenotype”"
John F. Keaney, Jr., M.D.
Division Chief, Cardiovascular Medicine
UMASSMED |
Wednesday, June 17,
2009
"25th Annual Public Sector Psychiatry Conference—Health & Wellness for Persons with Serious Mental Illness: Challenges & Opportunities "
Suzanne Vogel-Scibilia, MD, and many others
Aliquippa Hospital, Aliquippa, PA |
Wednesday, June 17,
2009
"Department of Medicine Research Lecture Series: “In Vivo Imaging of Leishmania-Host Cell Interactions in the Skin”"
David Sacks, Ph.D.
Senior Investigator
Laboratory of Parasitic Diseases
National Institutes of Health |
Wednesday, June 17,
2009
"Cardiology Grand Rounds"
Dr. James Udelson
Tufts Medical Center |
Wednesday, June 17,
2009
"Schedule completed for spring semester -- join us in the fall"
Cell & Developmental Dynamics Journal Club
|
Wednesday, June 17,
2009
"Student Presentations:
Mdm2-p53 Signaling Regulates Epidermal Homeostasis in Mice
and
Repair of Critical Femoral Defects by an Elastomeric Osteoconductive Bone Graft
"
Hugh Gannon & Tera Filion
Fourth Year Students
UMASS Medical School |
Thursday, June 18,
2009
"CMHSR-specific Data Security Training"
CMHSR Data Security Committee
Members of the CMHSR Data Security Committee include: Valerie Williams, M.A., M.S., Albert Grudzinskas, J.D., Lorna Simon, M.A., and Lisa Smith, B.A.. |
Thursday, June 18,
2009
"Department of Medicine: RESIDENCY GRADUATION GRAND ROUNDS"
Richard Forster, MD
Internal Medicine Residency Program Director
UMMS/UMMHC |
Friday, June 19,
2009
"Residency Training: Past, Present, and Future"
Jennifer Bram, MD & Neil Tyrrell, MD
Assistant Professor of Pediatrics (pending), UMMS
Co-Chief, Pediatric Resident, UMMHC
Assistant Professor of Pediatrics (pending), UMMS
Co-Chief, Pediatric Resident, UMMHC
|
Monday, June 22,
2009
"UMMS RNA Club"
Kirsten Hagstrom, Stefania Nicoli & Aaron Hoskins
"Chromosome structural proteins and RNAi"-Hagstrom, Mol. Med.; "microRNA control of flow-stimulated angiogenesis"-Nicoli, Lawson Lab; "Illuminating Pre-mRNA Splicing with Single Molecule Fluorescence Microscopy"-Hoskins, Moore Lab |
Monday, June 22,
2009
"A Novel Therapy for AIDS-Related Plasmablastic Lymphoma"
HOWARD OZER, M.D., Ph.D.
Eason Chair and Chief,
Division of Hematology/Oncology
Professor of Medicine
University of Oklahoma, Oklahoma City |
Tuesday, June 23,
2009
"Radiation Safety Orientation"
Allison Rapa
Radiation Safety |
Tuesday, June 23,
2009
"IAP Regulation of Tumor Metastasis"
Swarna Mehrotra
Cancer Biology Program |
Tuesday, June 23,
2009
"Epigenetic Reprogramming and Induced Pluripotency"
Konrad Hochedlinger, PhD
Assistant Professor, Department of Medicine
Assistant Professor, Department of Stem Cell and Regenerative Biology
Harvard University and Harvard Medical School |
Tuesday, June 23,
2009
"Department of Medicine SPECIAL SEMINAR: “Regulation of Neoplastic Progression
& Desmonsome Formation of Plakophilin3”"
Sorab Dalal, PH.D.
Principal Investigator
Advanced Centre for Treatment, Research & Education in Cancer
Mumbai, India |
Wednesday, June 24,
2009
"Department of Medicine Research Lecture Series: “Why Bad Things Happen to Good Antibodies”"
Ronald P. Taylor, Ph.D.
Professor of Biochemistry and
Molecular Genetics
University of Virginia |
Wednesday, June 24,
2009
"“Gene Therapy for Duchenne Muscular Dystrophy: Overcoming Vector Production Limitations”"
Robert M. Kotin, Ph.D.
Senior Investigator
National Heart, Lung and Blood Institute
National Institutes of Health
|
Wednesday, June 24,
2009
"Student Presentations:
Connecting the Dots: Smurf2, Aging and Tumor Suppression
and
Regulation of RUNX2 Activity by the PI3 Kinase/Akt Pathway"
Charusheila Ramkumar & Sandhya Pande
Fourth Year Students
UMASS Medical School |
Thursday, June 25,
2009
"Department of Medicine Grand Rounds: “Morbidity & Mortality: Management Issues with Community Acquired - MRSA”"
Richard T. Ellison III, MD; Michael Mitchell, MD, FCAP
Richard T. Ellison III, MD
Professor of Medicine
Microbiology & Molecular Genetics
Michael Mitchell, MD, FCAP
Director, Microbiology Services
Clinical Associate Professor
Department of Pathology |
Thursday, June 25,
2009
"Novel Small Molecule Inhibitors of the Pim Protein Kinase as Cancer Treatments"
Andrew Kraft, M.D.
Director, Hollings Cancer Center
Associate Dean for Oncology Affairs
Chair in Experimental Oncology
Professor of Medicine
Medical University of South Carolina |
Tuesday, June 30,
2009
"Radiation Safety Orientation"
Allison Rapa
Radiation Safety |
July 2009 |
Tuesday, July 7,
2009
9:00 AM, S9-700
Radiation Safety Office
in the Hospital Building
on the University Campus
Classroom fits up to 6 people
Radiation Safety
Host:
Allison Rapa
(508) 856-2673 |
"Radiation Safety Orientation"
Allison Rapa
Radiation Safety |
Friday, July 10,
2009
10:00 AM, LRB-416
4th Floor Conference Room
in the Aaron Lazare Medical Research Building
on the University Campus
4th Floor
Graduate School of Biomedical Sciences
Contact:
Dr. Dario C. Altieri
(508) 856-4405 |
"Regulation of Cancer Cell Survival Mediated by Endogenous Tumor Suppression"
Minakshi Guha
Cancer Biology Program |
Friday, July 10,
2009
12:00 PM, S2-102
Amphitheater I
in the Medical School Building
on the University Campus
Medicine
/ Hematology and Oncology
Host:
Alan Rosmarin, MD
(508) 334-7433 |
"The Kenneth B. Schwartz Center Rounds®: “Words that live forever- The privilege and responsibility of delivering bad news”"
Mariann Manno, MD; Alan Rosmarin, MD
Mariann Manno, MD
Assoc Prof of Clinical Pediatrics & Emergency Medicine, UMassMed
UMMMC Children’s Medical Center
Alan Rosmarin, MD
Professor of Medicine, UMMS
Chief, Hematology/Oncology
Dep Dir, Cancer Center, UMMMC |
Tuesday, July 14,
2009
9:00 AM, S9-700
Radiation Safety Office
in the Hospital Building
on the University Campus
Classroom fits up to 6 people
Radiation Safety
Host:
Allison Rapa
(508) 856-2673 |
"Radiation Safety Orientation"
Allison Rapa
Radiation Safety |
Wednesday, July 15,
2009
12:00 PM, B4 - 3rd floor
Conference Room B4 - 3rd floor
in the Biotech 4 Building
on the University Campus
377 Plantation St.
Worcester, MA 01605
Molecular Medicine
/ Molecular Genetics & Microbiology
Host:
Dr. Dannel McCollum
(508) 856-8767 |
"Function and Control of a Key Regulator of Yeast Cell Fusion"
Casey Ydenberg
Princeton University |
Monday, July 20,
2009
1:30 PM, LRB-816
8th Floor Seminar/Conference Room
in the Aaron Lazare Medical Research Building
on the University Campus
8th Floor
Graduate School of Biomedical Sciences
Contact:
C.Robert Matthews
(508) 856-2251 |
"Long -Range Side Chain-Main Chain Hydrogen Bonds: A Molecular Signature of TIM Barrel Architecture"
Xiaoyan Yang
Biochemistry And Molecular Pharmacology |
Tuesday, July 21,
2009
9:00 AM, S9-700
Radiation Safety Office
in the Hospital Building
on the University Campus
Classroom fits up to 6 people
Radiation Safety
Host:
Allison Rapa
(508) 856-2673 |
"Radiation Safety Orientation"
Allison Rapa
Radiation Safety |
Wednesday, July 22,
2009
9:30 AM, LRB-203
Worcester Foundation Board Room, Second Floor
in the Aaron Lazare Medical Research Building
on the University Campus
Second Floor
Graduate School of Biomedical Sciences
Contact:
Robert W Finberg, MD
(508) 856-1886 |
"Respiratory Syncytial Virus (RSV) Induces Innate Immunity Through Toll-like Receptors and Acquired Immunity via the RSV G Protein"
Matthew Murawski
Immunology & Virology Program |
Tuesday, July 28,
2009
9:00 AM, S9-700
Radiation Safety Office
in the Hospital Building
on the University Campus
Classroom fits up to 6 people
Radiation Safety
Host:
Allison Rapa
(508) 856-2673 |
"Radiation Safety Orientation"
Allison Rapa
Radiation Safety |
