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Cancer Center Seminar Series 2006-2007

 

DATE TOPIC SPEAKER HOST
09/12/06 Deregulated tumor suppressor function of FOX01 in prostate cancer Haojie Huang, Ph.D
Assistant Professor
Department of Laboratory Medicine and Pathology
University of Minnesota
 
09/19/06 Forward genetic approaches to prostate cancer gene discovery Paul Marker, Ph.D.
Assistant Professor
Department of Genetics, Cell Biology and Development
University of Minnesota
 
09/26/06 Defining and manipulating the hematopoietic stem cell niche David Scadden, M.D.
Professor of Medicine
Harvard University
Co-Director, Harvard Stem Cell Institute
Director, Center for Regenerative Medicine
Massachusetts General Hospital
Bruce Blazar, M.D.
10/03/06 Choreography of the DNA damage response Rodney Rothstein, Ph.D.
Professor
Genetics and Development
Columbia University Medical School
Judith Berman, Ph.D.
10/10/06 Protein kinase CK2 signal - A key potential target for cancer therapy Khalil Ahmed, Ph.D.
Professor
Department of Laboratory Medicine & Pathology
University of Minnesota Medical School
Senior Research Career Scientist and Chief
Cellular and Molecular Biochemistry Lab
Minneapolis VA Medical Center
 
10/17/06 Nutrition, epigenetics and disease susceptibility Randy Jirtle, Ph.D.
Professor
Department of Radiation Oncology
Duke University
Julie Ross, Ph.D.
10/24/06 Oncogenic retroviruses exploit cell-cell signaling conduits, cytonemes, for the purpose of cell-to-cell spread Walther Mothes, Ph.D.
Assistant Professor
Microbial Pathogenesis
Yale School of Medicine
Reuben Harris, Ph.D.
10/31/06 Slit-Robo signaling in tumor growth and metastasis Jian-Guo Geng, M.D., Ph.D.
Assistant Professor
Department of Medicine Division of Hematology, Oncology & Transplantation
University of Minnesota
 
11/07/06 Targeting transcriptional repression in B-cell lymphomas Ari Melnick, Ph.D.
Assistant Professor
Department of Developmental & Molecular Biology
The Diane and Arthur B. Belfer Faculty Scholar in Cancer Research
Albert Einstein College of Medicine
Vivian Bardwell, Ph.D.
11/14/06 Regulation of breast cancer metastasis by the type I insulin-like growth factor receptor Deepali Sachdev , Ph.D.
Assistant Professor
Department of Medicine
University of Minnesota
 
11/21/06 Molecular basis of cancer and cancer prevention Zigang Dong, M.D., Dr.Ph
Hormel-Knowlton Professor
McKnight Presidential Professor in Cancer Prevention
The Hormel Institute
University of Minnesota
Steve Hecht, Ph.D.
11/28/06 Tumor cell-axon communication in cancer pain Marna Ericson, Ph.D.
Assistant Professor
Department of Dermatology
University of Minnesota
 
12/05/06 Role of transforming growth factor beta in solid tumor metastases to bone Theresa A. Guise, M.D.
Gerald D. Aurbach Professor of Endocrinology
Division of Endocrinology and Metabolism
Professor of Medicine
University of Virginia
Charlottesville
Denis Clohisy, M.D.
12/12/06 No Seminar due to ASH meeting    
12/19/06 GI cancer chemoprevention: Separating the wheat from the chaff Paul J. Limburg, M.D., Ph.D.
Associate Professor of Medicine
Mayo Clinic College of Medicine
Division of Gastroenterology, Hepatology, Internal Medicine
Mayo Clinic Cancer Center
Steve Hecht, Ph.D.
12/26/06 No seminar — holiday    
01/02/07 No seminar — holiday    
01/09/07 Think outside the (homeo)box, the root of ALL Evi1 lies in the stem Ashish Kumar, M.D., Ph.D.
Assistant Professor
Department of Pediatrics
Division of Hematology, Oncology, Blood and Marrow Transplantation
University of Minnesota
 
01/16/07 Cell death signaling and cancer therapeutics M. Saeed Sheikh, M.D., Ph.D.
Professor
Department of Pharmacology
State University of New York
Syracuse
Khalil Ahmed, Ph.D.
01/23/07 Molecular epidemiology of HPV and cervical cancer: The road from etiologic understanding to preventive strategies Allan Hildesheim, Ph.D.
Hormonal and Reproductive Epidemiology Branch
Division of Cancer Epidemiology and Genetics
National Cancer Institute
Mimi Yu, Ph.D.
01/30/07 A new system for studying genome instability and isochromosome formation Judith Berman, Ph.D.
Professor
Department of Genetics, Cell Biology & Development
University of Minnesota
 
02/06/07 Function of a novel histone acetyltransferase in the regulation of genome stability Zhiguo Zhang, Ph.D.
Assistant Professor of Biochemistry/Molecular Biology
Mayo Clinic College of Medicine
Anja-Katrin Bielinsky, Ph.D.
02/13/07 FGFR-mediated changes in the microenvironment are critical for preneoplastic progression in the mammary gland Kathryn (Kaylee) L. Schwertfeger, Ph.D.
Assistant Professor, Department of Laboratory Medicine & Pathology
University of Minnesota
 
02/20/07 Licensed to cause chaos: Mcm4 and breast cancer Naoko Shima, Ph.D.
Assistant Professor
Department of Genetics, Cell Biology and Development
University of Minnesota
 
02/27/07 Oncogenes and tumor supressors — the good, the bad and the downright ugly Gerard Evan, Ph.D., FRS
Gerson and Barbara Bass Bakar Distinguished Professor of Cancer Research
Cancer Research Institute and Department of Cellular and Molecular Pharmacology
UCSF Comprehensive Cancer Center
Perry Hackett, Ph.D.
03/06/07 Signaling networks of telomere and stress-induced cellular aging John M. Sedivy, Ph.D. Herman
C. Bumpus Professor of Biology
Professor of Medical Science
Chair, Departments of Moledular Bioliogy, Cell Biology and Biochemistry
Division of Biology and Medicine
Brown University
Eric Hendrickson, Ph.D.
03/13/07 Dysregulation of BLyS in B-cell malignancies: Tipping the scales towards survival Anne Novak, Ph.D.
Assistant Professor
Department of Medicine
Division of Hematology
Mayo Clinic
Yoji Shimizu, Ph.D.
03/20/07 Investigation of the cytokine-cancer connection Michael A. Caligiuri, M.D.
The J.L. Marakas Nationwide Insurance Professor and Director
The Comprehensive Cancer Center & The Division of Hematology/Oncology
Ohio State University
Bruce Blazar, M.D.
03/27/07 New approaches to Sleeping Beauty models of cancer Adam Dupuy, Ph.D.
Assistant Professor
Roy J. and Lucille A. Carver College of Medicine
Department of Anatomy and Cell Biology
University of Iowa

 

David Largaespada, Ph.D.
04/03/07 Deciphering the complexities of cancer in mouse models Terry VanDyke, Ph.D.
Professor
Department of Genetics
University of North Carolina-Chapel Hill
Paul Marker, Ph.D.
04/10/07 Inflammation, humoral immunty and epithelial cancer development Lisa Coussens, Ph.D.
Associate Professor
Cancer Research Institute and Anatomic Pathology
University of California-San Francisco
Co-Director
Mouse Pathology Core Facility
UCSF Comprehensive Cancer Center
Jim McCarthy, Ph.D.
04/17/07 No seminar due to AACR Annual Meeting    
04/24/07 Targeting the plasticity of metastatic tumor cells Mary J.C. Hendrix, Ph.D.
President and Scientific Director
Medical Research Institute Council
Professor
Children's Memorial Research Center
Northwestern University Feinberg School of Medicine
Jim McCarthy, Ph.D.
05/01/07 Regulation of estrogen responsive genes Ann M. Nardulli, Ph.D.
Professor
Molecular and Integrative Physiology
University of Illinois
Carol Lange, Ph.D.
05/08/07 Molecular heterogeneity and rational treatment targets in large B-cell lymphomas Margaert A. Shipp, M.D.
Director, Lymphoma Program
Dana Farber/Harvard Cancer Center
Tucker LeBien, Ph.D.
05/15/07 Dendritic cells as vectors and targets for immunotherapy Karolina Palucka, M.D., Ph.D.,
Investigator
Baylor Institute for Immunology Research
Dallas, Texas
Wei Chen, M.D., Ph.D.
05/22/07 An infectious retrovirus susceptible to an interferon antiviral pathway from human prostate tumors Robert H. Silverman, Ph.D.
Professor
Department of Cancer Biology
Lerner Research Institute Cleveland Clinic
Robert Fleischmann, Ph.D.

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