IMM Seminar Series 2008 |
Unless otherwise specified, all seminars will be held at 11 AM in Conference Rooms 109-110
on the First Floor of the Sarofim Research Building at 1825 Pressler Street. |
Friday,
January 11 |
Robert A. Davey, Ph.D.
Associate Professor, Department of Microbiology & Immunology
The University of Texas Medical Branch-Galveston |
Elucidation of Respiratory Syncytial Virus and Ebola Virus entry pathways by siRNA screening analysis |
Monday,
January 14 |
Katrina Gwinn, M.D.
Program Director, NINDS/NIH Extramural Research
Neurogenetics Cluster |
I don't want a phenotype, I want a diagnosis |
Friday,
January 18 |
Scott Drouin, Ph.D.
Assistant Professor, Center for Immunology & Autoimmune Diseases
The Brown Foundation Institute of Molecular Medicine
The University of Texas Health Science Center at Houston |
Investigating the mechanisms of complement-mediated airway inflammation and obstruction in rodent models of allergic airway disease |
Friday,
January 25 |
David A. Lewis, M.D.
Endowed Professor in Translational Neuroscience
Departments of Psychiatry and Neuroscience Program
Director, Translational Neuroscience Program
Director, Conte Center for the Neuroscience of Mental Disorders
The University of Pittsburgh Medical Center |
Dissecting the disease process of schizophrenia: Towards the development of pathophysiologically-based treatments |
Friday,
February 1 |
Peter St. George-Hyslop, M.D., F.R.C.P.(C)
University Professor, Department of Medicine, Division of Neurology
Director, Center for Research in Neurodegenerative Disease
University of Toronto |
Insights into the pathogesnesis of Alzheimer's disease |
Friday,
February 15 |
Robert J. Schwartz, Ph.D.
Director, The Institute of Biosciences & Technology
Director, The IBT Center for Molecular Development & Disease
Texas A&M University Health Science Center |
Serum response factor: micromanaging cardiogenesis |
Friday,
February 22 |
Richard D. Ye, M.D., Ph.D.
Professor of Pharmacology
University of Illinois College of Medicine at Chicago |
Acute-phase response and granulopoiesis: Finding new uses for an old trick |
Wednesday,
February 27 |
Li Gan, Ph.D.
Staff Research Investigator
Gladstone Institute of Neurological Disease
Assistant Professor of Neurology
University of California, San Francisco
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Amyloid beta degradation and inflammation: New insights in the pathogenesis of Alzheimer's disease |
Friday,
February 29 |
Eric Boerwinkle, Ph.D.
Professor and Director, Center for Human Genetics
Kozmetsky Family Chair in Human Genetics
The Brown Foundation Institute of Molecular Mediicne
Professor and Director, Division of Epidemiology, School of Public Health, The University of Texas Health Science Center at Houston |
Genetic architecture of coronary artery disease |
Monday,
March 3 |
Ya-Ping Tang, Ph.D.
Assistant Professor, Department of Psychiatry
Committee on Neurobiology, The University of Chicago
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How memory is consolidated in the brain |
Thursday,
March 6 |
Wensheng Lin, M.D., Ph.D.
Research Associate/Assisstant Professor
Department of Neurology, The University of Chicago |
Endoplasmic reticulum stress modulates the response of oligodendrocytes to interferon-gamma |
Tuesday,
March 11 |
Sheng Zhang, Ph.D.
Postdoctoral Fellow, Department of Genetics
Harvard Medical School |
Genetic and genomic approaches to studying neurodegenerative diseases using Drosophila |
Tuesday,
March 18 |
Joonil Jung, Ph.D.
Postdoctoral Fellow/Research Associate
University of Pennsylvania |
Trinucleotide DNA repeat instability in human diseases - novel insights from a Drosophila model of spinocerebellar ataxia type 3 |
Monday,
March 24 |
Ella Englander, Ph.D.
Associate Professor, Departments of Surgery, Biochemistry and Molecular Biology and Neuroscience and Cell Biology
University of Texas Medical Branch
Director, Molecular Biology & Scientific Staff, Shriners Hospitals for Children |
Prevention and repair of oxidative DNA damage in the brain |
Friday,
March 28 |
Paolo Decuzzi, Ph.D.
Associate Professor, School of Health Information Sciences
The University of Texas Health Science Center at Houston |
An integrated framework for the design of personalized nano-sized particulate systems for biomedical applications |
Friday,
April 18 |
Kalpana Mujoo, Ph.D.
Assistant Professor, Center for Cell Signaling
The Brown Foundation Institute of Molecular Medicine
The University of Texas Health Science Center at Houston |
Role of nitric oxide-cGMP signaling in differentiation of stem cells into myocardial cells |
Thursday,
April 24 |
Eva M. Sevick, Ph.D.
Professor of Radiology; Head, Division of Molecular Imaging
Baylor College of Medicine |
Molecular imaging with near-infrared light |
Friday,
May 2 |
Perry Bickel, M.D.
Associate Professor & Director
Program in Diabetes & Obesity Research
The Brown Foundation Institute of Molecular Medicine
The University of Texas Health Science Center at Houston |
The flotillins: Markers for lipid rafts, or more? |
Friday,
May 9 |
Aravinda Chakravarti, Ph.D.
Professor, Departments of Medicine, Pediatrics, and Molecular Biology & Genetics, School of Medicine; Professor, Bloomberg School of Public Health, Department of Biostatistics
The Johns Hopkins University School of Medicine |
Genetic factors in sudden cardiac death |
Friday,
May 16 |
Zhaoxia Sun, Ph.D.
Assistant Professor, Department of Genetics
Yale University School of Medicine |
Zebrafish as a model system for kidney development and disease |
Friday,
May 23 |
Michael J. Galko, Ph.D.
Assistant Professor
Department of Biochemistry & Molecular Biology
The University of Texas M.D. Anderson Cancer Center
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Flying wounded: What drosophila can teach us about tissue repair |
Friday, May 30
(9 AM) |
Thomas Joos, Ph.D.
Head, Biochemistry Department
NMI Natural & Medical Sciences Institute
University of Tubingen, Germany |
Triple X proteomics: A perspective for immunoaffinity mass spectrometry |
Friday,
May 30 |
Carlo M. Croce, M.D.
The John W. Wolfe Chair in Human Cancer Genetics
Chair, Department of Molecular Virology, Immunology and Medical Genetics; Director, Human Cancer Genetics Program
Ohio State University
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Role of microRNA genes in cancer |
Friday,
June 6 |
Jie Shen, Ph.D.
Associate Professor of Neurology
Brigham & Women's Hospital/Harvard Medical School |
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Friday,
June 20 |
Dr. Yong-Jun Liu
Professor & Chair, Department of Immunology
University of Texas M.D. Anderson Cancer Center |
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Friday,
September 12 |
Mikhail Kolonin, Ph.D.
Assistant Professor, Center for Stem Cell Research
The Brown Foundation Institute of Molecular Medicine
The University of Texas Health Science Center at Houston |
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Thursday,
September 25 |
UT Research Day
The Annual Hans J. Muller-Eberhard Memorial Lecture |
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Friday,
October 3 |
Ka Bian, M.D., Ph.D.
Assistant Professor, Center for Cell Signaling
The Brown Foundation Institute of Molecular Medicine
The University of Texas Health Science Center at Houston
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Friday,
November 21 |
Jonathan S. Stamler, M.D.
Professor of Medicine & Biochemistry
George Barth Geller Professor for Research in Cardiovascular Diseases
Associate Researcher, HHMI
Duke University Medical Center |
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