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Home > Education & Events > Professional Education & Training > Cancer Center Seminar Series 2004-2005

Cancer Center Seminar Series 2004-2005

DATE	TOPIC	SPEAKER	HOST
09/14/04	Prostate cancer prevention: Opportunities for nutrition and chemoprevention Seminar co-sponsored by Department of Food Science and Nutrition	Steven K. Clinton, M.D., Ph.D. Associate Professor College of Medicine and Public Health Co-leader of the Molecular Carcinogenesis and Chemoprevention Program Comprehensive Cancer Center Ohio State University	Alice Shapiro
09/21/04	The structural basis for tissue specificity: The role of the microenvironment in breast cancer	Mina J. Bissell, Ph.D. Distinguished Scientist Lawrence Berkely National Laboratory Berkeley, CA	Jim McCarthy
09/28/04	Receptor tyrosine kinase dysregulation in canine spontaneous tumors: A model for human cancer	Cheryl London, DVM, PhD Assistant Professor Department of Surgical and Radiological Sciences College of Veterinary Medicine University of California - Davis	Elizabeth McNiel
10/05/04	The menage-a-trois between tumor cell, dendritic cell and T cell	Drew Pardoll, MD, PhD Professor Johns Hopkins University Sidney Kimmel Cancer Center	Wei Chen
10/12/04	Ras oncogenesis	David A. Tuveson, M.D., Ph.D. Assistant Professor Department of Medicine & Cancer Biology University of Pennsylvania Abramson Family Cancer Research Institute	David Largaespada
10/19/04	Translational control of cancer	Vitaly A Polunovsky, Ph.D. Professor of Medicine University of Minnesota
10/26/04	Variegated expression of class I MHC receptors on NK cells: Some things are best left to chanc	Stephen K. Anderson, Ph.D. Principal Investigator Laboratory of Experimental Immunology National Cancer Institute-Frederick	Jeff Miller
11/02/04	ELECTION DAY SEMINAR CANCELLED
11/09/04	Identification of potential biomarkers for ovarian carcinoma by differential gene microarray analysis	Amy Skubitz, Ph.D. Associate Professor Department of Laboratory Medicine & Pathology University of Minnesota
11/16/04	Head and Neck Carcinogenesis Program at the University of Minnesota	Nelson L. Rhodus, D.M.D, M.P.H. Professor and Director of Oral Medicine Academy of Distinguished Professors Frank Ondrey, M.D., Ph.D. Assistant Professor Department of Otolaryngology University of Minnesota
11/23/04	SEMINAR CANCELLED
11/30/04	Wnt signaling regulation of LEF-1 expression in colon cancer	Marian L. Waterman, Ph.D. Associate Professor Department of Microbiology and Molecular Genetics University of California-Irvine	Jennifer Westendorf
12/07/04	NO SEMINAR DUE TO ASH MEETING
12/14/04	Molecular regulation of c-Fos gene expression by CD28 costimulatory signals in CD4 T cells	Daniel Mueller, M.D. Professor Department of Medicine Director of Rheumatic and Autoimmune Diseases University of Minnesota
12/21/04	Exploiting NQO1, a tumor-selective and stress-inducible oxidoreductase, using ß-lapachone	David A. Boothman, Ph.D. Professor of Radiation Oncology Associate Director for Basic Research Case Comprehensive Cancer Center Case Western Reserve University	Chang Song
12/28/04	SEMINAR CANCELLED DUE TO HOLIDAYS
01/04/05	Immuno-gene therapy for thoracic malignancies: From bench to bedside and back to the bench	Daniel Sterman, M.D. Associate Professor of Medicine Director of Interventional Pulmonology Clinical Director, Thoracic Oncology Gene Therapy Program University of Pennsylvania Medical Center	Robert Kratzke
01/11/05	Immunotherapy of malignant melanoma	Douglas Schwartzentruber, M.D. Medical Director, Surgical Oncologist Center for Cancer Care at Goshen Health System Goshen, Indiana	Arkadiusz Dudek
01/18/05	Active cytosine deamination in carcinogenesis?	Reuben Harris, Ph.D. Assistant Professor Department of Biochemistry, Molecular Biology and Biophysics University of Minnesota
01/25/05	Glycemic load, weight maintenance, insulin resistance, and colorectal c ancer	Andrew Flood, Ph.D. Assistant Professor Department of Epidemiology University of Minnesota
02/01/05	RANKL signaling and osteoclast differentiation	Kim Mansky, Ph.D. Assistant Professor Diagnostic Surgical Sciences School of Dentistry University of Minnesota
02/08/05	Initiating DNA Replication: how Mcm10 controls S phase progression	Anja-Katrin Bielinsky Assistant Professor Department of Biochemistry, Molecular Biology and Biophysics University of Minnesota
02/15/05	Mammary Tumorigenesis in Transforming Growth Factor Alpha Transgenic Mice	Teresa Rose-Hellekant, Ph.D. Assistant Professor Department of Physiology University of Minnesota-Duluth
02/22/05	Hepatitis C Infection after Childhood Cancer	Melissa M. Hudson, MD Department of Hematology-Oncology Director, After Completion of Therapy Clinic St. Jude Children's Research Hospital Memphis, TN	Les Robison
03/01/05 CANCELLED	Notch signaling in leukemia: new insights	Jon C. Aster, M.D., Ph.D. Associate Professor Department of Pathology Harvard Medical School Head of Research Hematopathology Training Program Brigham and Women's Hospital Director Hematopathology Core Dana Farber/Harvard Comprehensive Cancer Center	Tucker LeBien
03/08/05	Molecular mechanism of mammalian DNA interstrand crosslink repair	Tadayoshi Bessho, Ph.D. Assistant Professor Eppley Institute University of Nebraska Medical Center	Natalia Tretyakova
03/15/05	The bio-behavioral determinants of adolescent smoking progression	Janet Audrain-McGovern, Ph.D. Department of Psychiatry University of Pennsylvania	Katie Schmitz
03/22/05	Cholesterol as a mediator of cell signaling in prostate cancer	Michael R. Freeman, Ph.D. David E. Retik Director of Basic Urologic Research Children's Hospital Associate Professor of Surgery Harvard Medical School	Carol Lange
03/29/05	Gap junctions, the cell cycle and cancer	Paul Lampe, Ph.D. Associate Research Professor University of Washington School of Public Health and Community Medicine Pathobiology Associate Member Fred Hutchinson Cancer Research Center Cancer Prevention Program	Lee Wattenberg
04/05/05	Studying death and promiscuity in a simplified model of oncogenic transformation	Yuri Lazebnik, Ph.D. Professor Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory	Ameeta Kelekar
04/12/05	Cross-talk between TGF-beta signaling and androgen axis in prostate cancer	Natasha Kyprianou, Ph.D. Professor of Surgery Division of Urology James F. Hardymon Chair of Urological Research Professor of Molecular and Cellular Biochemistry Markey Cancer Center University of Kentucky	Khalil Ahmed
04/19/05	NO SEMINAR DUE TO AACR ANNUAL MEETING
04/26/05	Targeting tumors with genetically enhanced T lymphocytes	Michel Sadelain, M.D., Ph.D. Director Gene Transfer and Somatic Cell Engineering Facility Immunology Program Memorial Sloan Kettering Cancer Center	Bruce Blazar
05/03/05	Chemically assisted screen identifies novel angiogenic mutations in the zebrafish	Joanne Chan, Ph.D. Assistant Professor of Surgery Harvard Medical School Program in Vascular Biology Children's Hospital Karp Family Research Laboratories	Steve Ekker
05/10/05	Notch signaling at the interface of lymphoid development and cancer	Warren Pear, M.D., Ph.D. Associate Professor Department of Pathology and Laboratory Medicine Institute for Medicine and Engineering Abramson Family Cancer Research Institute University of Pennsylvania Philadelphia, PA	Catherine Verfaillie
05/17/05	Brain cancer therapies - why everything has failed so far: Where the future lies	Maria G. Castro, Ph.D. Professor of Medical and Molecular Pharmacology, UCLA Co-Director of the Gene Therapeutics Research Institute Cedars-Sinai Medical Center	David Largaespada/Andrew Freese
5/24/05	Tyrosine kinase inhibitors: Successes, limitations, future directions	Carlos L. Arteaga, M.D. Director, VICC Breast Cancer Program Professor of Medicine and Cancer Biology Vanderbilt University School of Medicine	Doug Yee

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