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BMT Conferences

Held every Monday
1:15-2:15 p.m.
Room 450, Cancer Center Research Building

Next meeting: May 19, 2008

Meeting canceled

DATE TOPIC SPEAKER
09/03/07 No conference due to Labor Day holiday  

09/10/07

NOTE ROOM CHANGE: This conference will be held in Eustis Amphitheatre-D230 Mayo

Genes, diet, drugs and BMT: a tale of two nutrients (folate and vitamin D) Kim Robien, Ph.D., R.D., FADA, CNSD
Assistant Professor
Division of Epidemiology and Community Health
School of Public Health
University of Minnesota
09/17/07 Potential consequences of immunotherapeutic regimens on T cell-mediated anti-tumor responses: loss of memory

William Murphy, Ph.D. Professor
Department of Microbiology & Immunology
University of Nevada School of Medicine

Hosted by Bruce Blazar, M.D.
Sponsored by an educational grant from Amgen Medical Educational Services

09/24/07 Attending meeting  
10/01/07 Attending meeting  
10/08/07 Brain tumor vaccines: generating tumor-reactive brain-infiltrating lymphocytes in vivo John Ohlfest, Ph.D.
Director,
Neurosurgery Gene Therapy Program
Departments of Pediatrics and Neurosurgery
10/15/07 BMT Program Meeting  
10/22/07
Note room change: 2-520 MT
Immunomodulators and the risk of fungal infection Jo-Anne H. Young, M.D.
Associate Professor
Department of Medicine, Division of Infectious Disease
University of Minnesota
10/29/07 Post-HSCT lung injury: Spectrum of a disease or diseases of a dpectrum? Angela Panoskaltsis-Mortari, Ph.D.
Associate Professor
Pediatric BMT
Department of Pediatrics
11/05/07

3 is the charm

 

 

IPS after stem cell transplant

Claudio Brunstein, M.D.
Assistant Professor
Department of Medicine, HOT

Brian BcClune, M.D.
Assistant Professor
Department of Medicine, HOT

11/12/07 Attending meeting  
11/19/07 Diagnosis and management of chronic graft-versus-host disease Paul J. Martin, M.D.
Professor
Fred Hutchinson Cancer Research Center C
Clinical Research Division
University of Washington

Hosted by Dr. Bruce Blazar

11/26/07
Research Updates - ASH oral presentations
Activating KIR (B haplotype) in unrelated donors improves disease-free survival after HLA-matched and mismatched allogeneic transplantation for acute myeloid leukemia: Implications for donor selection using KIR genotyping

STAT5A overexpression enhances killer immunoglobulin receptor (KIR) expression in developing NK cells and is associated with a loss of reverse transcription from the proximal KIR promoter

Indoleamine 2,3-dioxygenase is a critical regulator of acute GVHD

Sarah Cooley, M.D.
Hematology, Oncology and Transplantation

 


Frank Cichocki, Miller lab

 

 

 

Lisa Jasperson, Blazar lab

12/03/07
Research Updates: ASH oral presentations
Umbilical cord blood T cells express the natural cytotoxicity receptors, NKp30, NKp44 and Nkp46 after IL-15 stimulation, but only NKp30 is functional

Induction of skin repair mechanism by bone marrow derived SLAM family receptor enriched cells in murine epidermolysis bullosa

Toll-like receptor agonists induce immunogeneicity and apoptosis of acute myeloid leukemia cells

Classification of HLA-natching for retrospective analysis of unrelated donor transplantation: revised definitions to predict survival

Michael Verneris, M.D.
Assistant Professor
Pediatric H/O/BMT

 

Jakub Tolar, M.D., Ph.D.
Assistant Professor
Pediatric H/O/BMT


Maki Shindo, M.D., Ph.D.
Chen Lab


Daniel Weisdorf, M.D.
Professor
HOT

12/10/07 No conference due to ASH meeting  

12/17/07

ASH BMT Highlights  
12/24/07 No conference due to holidays  
12/31/07 No conference due to holidays  
01/0708 Clinical case presentations K. Scott Baker, M.D.,M.S.
Associate Professor
Department of Pediatrics
Pediatric H/O/BMT
—and—
Claudio Brunstein, M.D.
Assistant Professor, Department of Medicine, HOT
01/14/08 Adult BMT late effect studies Navneet S Majhail, M.D., M.S.
Assistant Professor
Division of Hematology, Oncology and Transplantation
01/21/08 No conference due to Martin Luther King holiday  
01/28/08 BMT program meeting Leslie Parran
02/04/08 Attending meeting  
02/11/08 No conference due to BMT tandem meetings  
02/18/08 No conference due to BMT tandem meetings  
02/25/08 Attending meeting  
03/03/08 Umbilical cord blood transplantation: State of the science John E. Wagner, M.D.
Professor of Pediatrics
Director, Pediatric Hematology/Oncology and Blood and Marrow Transplant Program
Scientific Director of Clinical Research, University of Minnesota Blood and Marrow Transplant Program and Stem Cell Institute

03//10/08 Stem cell biology and therapies: New, newer, newest Dan Kaufman, M.D., Ph.D.
Stem Cell Institute and Department of Medicine
Division of HOT
University of Minnesota
03/17/08 Impact of race and ethnicity on the outcomes of hematopoietic cell transplantation Scott Baker, M.D., M.S.
Associate Professor
Pediatric H/O/BMT
Department of Pediatrics
University of Minnesota

03/24/08
NOTE: Room change - 2-520 Moos Tower

Chronic viral infections (HIV,HBV, HCV) in the setting of HCT Marcie Tomblyn, M.D., M.S.
Assistant Professor
HOT
Department of Medicine
University of Minnesota
03/31/08 Infectious disease update Jo-Anne H. Young, M.D.
Associate Professor
Department of Medicine
Division of Infectious Disease
University of Minnesota
04/07/08
*in 750 CCRB
Attending meeting  
04/14/08

Activating KIR (B Haplotype) in Unrelated Donors Improves Disease-Free Survival After Allogeneic Transplantation for Acute Myeloid Leukemia

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Timeline for BMT CPOE conversion: Changes to practice and what this means for YOU on the ward, in clinic, and in your research.

Sarah Cooley, M.D.
Assistant Professor, HOT
Department of Medicine
04/21/08 Transcending the limits of GVL A. John Barrett, M.D., FRCP
Chief, Stem Cell Allotransplantation Section, Hematology Branch
NHLBI/NIH Hosted by Dr. Bruce Blazar
04/28/08 Updates on cord blood transplantation Claudio Brunstein, M.D.
Assistant Professor
Department of Medicine/HOT
05/05/08
Room Change: 2-520MT
Adoptive transfer of haplo NK cells for lymphoma and CLL

Veronika Bachanova, M.D.
Assistant Professor
Department of Medicine/Division of Hematology

05/12/08 Sleeping Beauty-mediated T-Cell therapy for CD19+ lymphoid malignancies

Xianzheng Zhou, M.D., Ph.D.
Assistant Professor
Department of Pediatrics/Division of Bone Marrow Transplantation

05/19/08
Canceled  
05/26/08 No conference due to holiday  
06/02/08 Guidelines for dasatinib prophylaxis after hematopoietic-cell transplantation for Ph+ ALL and CML Michael Burke, M.D.
Assistant Professor
Department of Pediatrics/H/O/BMT
06/09/08 To be announced

Bryon Johnson, Ph.D. Department of Pediatrics
Medical College of Wisconsin

Hosted by Bruce Blazar, M.D.

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