Distinguished Lecture Series

Thursday Series Lectures

12:15 PM to 1:15 PM
Reimann Auditorium
Fox Chase Cancer Center
333 Cottman Avenue
Philadelphia, PA 19111-2497

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Distinguished Lecture Series 2007-2008

June 5
Dr. Spyros Artavanis-Tsakonas
Harvard Medical School
Topic: The notch signaling pathway:from invertebrate development to human disease.

Distinguished Lecture Series 2008-2009

September 4
Dr. Kenneth Chien
Harvard Medical School
Topic: Molecular pathways of cardiac development and disease.

September 18
Dr. Margaret Fuller
Stanford Cancer Center
Topic: Mechanisms that regulate germ line stem cell behavior.

September 25
Dr. Harinder Singh
University of Chicago
Topic: Analyzing transcription factor networks that control gene activity and development of the immune system.

October 2
Dr. Keith Burridge
University of North Carolina
Topic: Understanding how the extracellular environment influences cell shape and motility.

October 9
Dr. Ann McDermott
Columbia University
Topic: Relationships between protein structure, dynamics and function using novel NMR methods.

October 16
Dr. Mary Ann Osley
University of New Mexico
Topic: Regulation of chromatin structure and its function in DNA repair.

November 20
Dr. John Hiscott
McGill University
Topic: Mechanisms of innate immunity to viral infections and neoplastic transformation for the development of vaccines against HIV, HCV and cancer.

December 4
Dr. Alan M. Weiner
University of Washington
Topic: Maintenance of genome integrity and the cause of Cockayne syndrome, a premature aging syndrome.
Note: 10 AM to 11 AM

December 11
Dr. Richard Morimoto
Northwestern University
Topic: Principles that underlie cellular quality control - the integration of processes by which the cell senses, responds and adapts to environmental and physiological challenges.

January 8
Dr. Carlo Croce
Ohio State University Medical
Topic: Investigation of the genes and the genetic mechanisms involved in the pathogenesis of human cancer.

January 22
Dr. Jerard Hurwitz
Memorial Sloan Kettering
Topic: Molecular mechanism of DNA replication in higher eukaryote cells.

February 12
Dr. Michael Malin
Kings College London School of Medicine
Topic: Virus-host interactions in HIV infection.

March 19
Dr. Judith Kimble
University of Wisconsin, Madison
Topic: Germ line stem cells and signaling with somatic cells during organogenesis.

March 26
Dr. Jonathan Pines
Gurdon Institute, UK
Topic: Understanding how cell division is controlled by destroying the right protein at the right time, and how this contributes to maintaining genomic stability.

April 2
Dr. Erika Matunis
Johns Hopkins University School of Medicine
Topic: Molecular mechanisms that regulate stem cell renewal.

April 16
Dr. Jennifer Lippincott-Schwartz
NICHD, NIH
Topic: Visualization of the intracellular dynamics of proteins and membranes.

April 30
Dr. Wayne Yokoyama
Washington University Medical Center
Topic: Mechanisms by which developing natural killer cells achieve tolerance toward normal cells in the body.

May 7
Dr. Sarah Elgin
Washington University, St. Louis
Topic: The role that chromatin structure plays in gene regulation.

May 14
Dr. Pamela Geyer
University of Iowa
Topic: The role of nuclear envelope proteins in gene expression and the role of insulator elements in defining chromosomal domains.

June 4
Dr. Vishva Dixit
Genentech, Inc.
Topic: Elucidating apoptosis pathways, NK-kappa B signaling, and regulation of inflammatory and innate immune responses.