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Cancer Epidemiology Interest Group Seminar

Held on the 3rd Friday of each month, 11:30 a.m.-1 p.m.
(Location varies — please check below.)

Lunch is provided. To reserve a lunch, please RSVP to Logan Spector at spector@epi.umn.edu by 4 p.m. on Wednesday the week of the meeting.

DATE TOPIC SPEAKER
08/18/06 Why are we seeing the rising incidence of liver cancer in the United States?

Jian-Min Yuan, M.D., Ph.D.
Associate Professor
Division of Epidemiology and Community Health

09/15/06 SNP Chip Design and application to therapeutic responses Brian Van Ness, Ph.D.
Professor
Department of Genetics, Cell Biology, and Development
10/20/06 BioMedical Genomics Center Vivek Kapur, Ph.D.
Director of the BioMedical Genomics Center
11/17/06 Canceled  
12/15/06 Overview of bioinformatics resources applicable to epidemiology Anne-Françoise Lamblin, Ph.D. Bioinformatics Lead
Kevin Silverstein, Ph.D.
Bioinformatics Scientist
University of Minnesota Cancer Center Informatics Shared Resource Bioinformatics Group
01/19/07 Genetic epidemiology of CLL and the GEC Consortium Susan L. Slager, Ph.D.,
Assistant Professor of Biostatistics
Mayo Clinic College of Medicine
02/16/07 Apiaceae and biotransformation: implications for cancer prevention Sabrina Peterson, Ph.D, R.D.
Assistant Professor of Foods and Health
Department of Food Science and Nutrition
University of Minnesota
03/15/07
Note date change due to University holiday 		Glycemic load, insulin resistance, and colorectal cancer Andrew Flood, Ph.D.
Assistant Professor
Division of Epidemiology and Community Health
04/20/07 Osteosarcoma: Cancer at the crossroads of life Logan G. Spector, Ph.D., Assistant Professor, Division of Epidemiology/Clinical Research, Department of Pediatrics
05/18/07
16th Annual Mark E. Nesbit Lectureship in Pediatric Oncology-450 CCRB 		Genomics and risk-based therapy for acute lymphoblastic leukemia William L. Carroll, M.D.
New York University Medical Center
06/15/07 Linkage disequilibrium-based assessment of ovarian and breast cancer candidate genes Ellen L. Goode, Ph.D., M.P.H.
Department of Health Sciences Research
Mayo Clinic College of Medicine
07/20/07 Possibilities for cancer research in ARIC

Aaron R. Folsom, M.D., M.P.H.
Professor
Division of Epidemiology and Community Health
University of Minnesota

08/17/07 Childhood cancer in Minnesota, 1988-2004 Kim Johnson, A.B.D
Division of Epidemiology and Community Health
Susan Puumala, Ph.D. student, Division of Epidemiology and Community Health
Logan Spector, Ph.D.
Assistant Professor
Department of Pediatrics

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