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Seminars 2007-2008 Academic Year

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This page shows the UMass Cancer Biology and Cancer Center seminars database for the full academic year 2007-2008. For a listing of upcoming seminars and past speakers, please select an appropriate link from the list below.

For the complete UMass Medical School Seminar list, see the Institution wide list.

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August 2007
Tuesday, August 21, 2007
"What does control of ribosomal biogenesis and the circadian clock have in common with cell cycle regulation?"
Michele Pagano, M.D.

May Ellen and Gerald Jay Ritter, Professor of Oncology
NYU Medical Center
Wednesday, August 22, 2007
"Mapping Rb Tumor Suppressor Networks In Vivo"
Lili Yamasaki, Ph.D.

Associate Professor,
New York University, NYU Cancer Institute
September 2007
Tuesday, September 4, 2007
"Insights into the Editorial Process at Molecular Cell"
Feng Chen, PhD

Acting Editor, Molecular Cell
Tuesday, September 11, 2007
"Stem cells and cancer in the breast"
Kornelia Polyak, M.D., Ph.D.

Associate Professor of Medicine,
Dept of Medical Oncology
Dana-Faber Cancer Institute
Tuesday, September 18, 2007
"The Role of Nuclear Tomography in Pre-Clinical Molecular Imaging"
Jack Hoppin, PhD and Raffi Kayayan, PhD

Vice President, Imaging Systems Bioscan Inc. and
Director Pre-Clincal Sales & Marketing, Philips Medical Systems
Tuesday, September 25, 2007
"Cellular Origins of Leukemia Stem Cells"
Scott Armstrong, M.D., Ph.D.

Assistant Professor of Medicine,
Children's Hospital Boston/Dana-Farber Cancer Institute
October 2007
Tuesday, October 2, 2007
"Targeting transcriptional repression in B-cell lymphomas"
Ari Melnick, M.D.

Assistant Professor, Department of Medicine/Oncology,
Albert Einstein College of Medicine
Tuesday, October 16, 2007
"Checkpoints in Myc-Mediated Lymphomagenesis"
John L. Cleveland, Ph.D.

Chairman and Professor,
Department of Cancer Biology, Scripps Research Institute- Florida
Tuesday, October 23, 2007
"Prostate Carcinogenesis: Investigating the 'How' and the 'Why'"
Angelo M. De Marzo, MD, PhD

Associate Professor of Pathology,
Oncology and Urology,
The Johns Hopkins University School of Medicine
Wednesday, October 31, 2007
"Novel Approaches to Bone Metastatic Disease"
A. Oliver Sartor, M.D.

Associate Professor of Medicine,
Harvard Medical School and
Director of Clinical Trials-GU with Dana Farber Cancer Institute
November 2007
Tuesday, November 6, 2007
"DNA Damage Responses: Molecular Mechanisms and Implications for Human Disease"
Michael B. Kastan, M.D., Ph.D.

Cancer Center Director
St. Jude Children's Research Hospital
Tuesday, November 13, 2007
"Cell death and cell division: overlapping pathways in normal development and cancer"
Rachel Altura, MD

Assistant Professor of Pediatrics, Bio Med Pediatrics
The Warren Albert Medical School at Brown University
December 2007
Tuesday, December 11, 2007
"Androgen Regulation Gene Expression in Prostate Cancer Cells"
Donald Tindall, Ph.D.

Professor, Director and Vice Chair of Urologic Research
Mayo Clinic College of Medicine
Departments of Urology, Biochemistry and Molecular Biology
Tuesday, December 18, 2007
"Signature-based Approaches to Cancer Discovery"
Kimberly Stegmaier, M.D.

Assistant Professor, Dept. of Pediatric Oncology
Dana-Farber Cancer Institute
January 2008
Tuesday, January 15, 2008
"Dissecting Oncogene-Directed Regulatory Pathways through Genome-Wide RNA Interference Screens"
Michael Green, MD, PhD

Professor and Director, Program in Gene Function and Expression
University of Massachusetts Medical School
Tuesday, January 22, 2008
"Quality of Cancer Care on Clinical Trials "
Brian Denton, Oncology

Pfizer Global Pharmaceuticals
February 2008
Tuesday, February 12, 2008
"Membrane organization in tissue morphogenesis and tumorigenesis"
Andrea McClatchey

Associate Professor, Dept. of Medicine,
Harvard Medical School and MGH Cancer Center
Tuesday, February 26, 2008
"Homeostatic regulation of p53 signaling by an oncogenic phosphatase"
Lawrence Donehower, PhD

Professor, Dept of Molecular Virology and Microbiology
Baylor College of Medicine
March 2008
Tuesday, March 4, 2008
"Transcription regulatory networks: studying differential gene expression at a systems level"
Marian Walhout, PhD

Associate Professor,
Program in Gene Function and Expression
The University of Massachusetts Medical School
Tuesday, March 11, 2008
"PAKs in Cancer Cells"
Rakesh Kumar, Ph.D.

Professor and Deputy Chairman,
Dept. of Molecular and Cellular Oncology
University of Texas M.D. Anderson Cancer Center
April 2008
Tuesday, April 1, 2008
"Crafting an outstanding NIH grant application"
Martin Padarathsingh, Ph.D.

SRA/SRO,
Former NIH Pathology B/TPM Study Section
Wednesday, April 9, 2008
"“Quinazoline-Induced Anoikis: Mechanistic Significance, Pharmacological Exploitation and Therapeutic Implications in Prostate Cancer”
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Natasha Kyprianou, Ph.D.

University of Kentucky
Tuesday, April 15, 2008
"Colon Cancer Stem Cells"
Jan Paul Medema, Ph.D.

Professor in Experimental Oncology and Radiobiology,
Academic Medical Center in Amsterdam
Tuesday, April 29, 2008
"JNKing with new rules"
Ze'ev Ronai, Ph.D.

Associate Director, Cancer Center
Professor and Director, Signal Transduction Program
Burnham Institute for Medical Research
May 2008
Wednesday, May 14, 2008
"Cholangiocarcinoma: In search of a Precursor"
Dhanpat Jain, M.D.

Associate Professor of Pathology and Medicine, Department of Pathology
Yale University School of Medicine
Tuesday, May 20, 2008
"The PI 3-K and Akt Pathway in Cancer Cell Signaling"
Alex Toker, PhD

Associate Professor of Pathology,
Beth Israel Deaconess Medical Center and
Harvard Medical School
June 2008
Tuesday, June 3, 2008
"Modeling and Mining Cancer Genomes"
Ron DePinho, MD

American Cancer Society Research Professor,
Professor of Medicine and Genetics,
Director, Center for Applied Cancer Science
Dana-Farber Cancer Institute, Harvard Medical School
Tuesday, June 24, 2008
"Adult pancreatic progenitor cells as 'cells of origin' of pancreatic cancer"
Catherine Carriere, Ph.D.

Research Assistant Professor, Department of Medicine
Dartmouth Medical School
July 2008
Wednesday, July 9, 2008
"Characterization of prostate inflammation in a mouse model"
Dr. Timothy Ratliff, Ph.D.

Director, Purdue Center

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