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Seminars 2008-2009 Academic Year
Use the selection list below to find more information about our seminar programs.
This page shows the Program in Molecular Medicine seminars database for the full
academic year 2008-2009. For a listing of upcoming
Molecular Medicine seminars, please select an appropriate link in the select list below.
For the complete UMass Medical School Seminar list, see
the Institution wide list.
Please bookmark this page and check back frequently, especially
just before the events you wish to attend, as schedules often shift.
Monthly Navigation Aides
August 2008 |
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 |
September 2008 |
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 |
October 2008 |
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 |
Thursday, October 16,
2008
"The piRNA Pathway: An RNA Based Genome
Immune-System"
Julius F. Brennecke, Ph.D.
Cold Spring Harbor Laboratories |
November 2008 |
Monday, November 3,
2008
"The Insulator Binding Protein CTCF Positions Nucleosomes and Promotes Transcription"
Zhiping Weng, Ph.D.
Program in Bioinformatics
And Integrative Biology |
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 |
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 |
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 |
January 2009 |
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 |
February 2009 |
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 |
Thursday, February 26,
2009
"RNA folding: Discovery, Implementation, and
Application to microRNA folding of Nucleotide Cyclic
Motifs"
Francois Majaor, Ph.D.
University of Montreal |
March 2009 |
Thursday, March 5,
2009
"Islet inflammation in type 2 diabetes: from compensation to beta-cell dysfunction"
Jan Ehses, Ph.D.
University Hospital Zurich |
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 |
Monday, March 16,
2009
"Mechanism and Regulation of Homologous Recombination"
Patrick Sung, Ph.D.
Professor, Molecular Biophysics & Biochemistry
Yale University School of Medicine |
April 2009 |
Monday, April 13,
2009
"Role of Inflammation in Insulin Resistance and Diabetic Heart"
Jason Kim, Ph.D.
Professor and Director
UMass Mouse Phenotyping Center |
Thursday, April 16,
2009
"Function of Diverse Transcriptional Coactivators in Animal Cells"
Robert G. Roeder, Ph.D.
Rockefeller University |
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 |
Thursday, April 30,
2009
"Genes for Development and Disease in Zebrafish"
Nancy Hopkins, Ph.D.
Amgen Professor of Biology
Massachusetts Institute of Technology |
May 2009 |
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 |
Monday, May 11,
2009
"C. Elegans Transcriptional Networks"
Marian Walhout, Ph.D.
Associate Professor
Program in Gene Function and Expression |
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
"Lipotoxic actions on muscle cells and macrophages leading to insulin resistance"
Amira Klip, Ph.D.
Professor of Biochemistry
University of Toronto |
June 2009 |
Monday, June 1,
2009
"Insights from Functional Genomics Study of TGF-beta/BMP Signaling"
Lan Xu, Ph.D.
Associate Professor
Program in Molecular Medicine |
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 |
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