College of Medicine Research Seminar ScheduleFall 2004 - Spring 2005 |
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College of Medicine Research Seminar ScheduleFall 2004 - Spring 2005 |
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SPRING 2005 |
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| DATE | SPEAKER | SEMINAR TITLE |
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| January 6 | Richard J. Johnson, M.D., Chief of Nephrology, Hypertension and Renal Transplantation, UF Dept. of Medicine (hosted by Dr. Wayne McCormack) Sponsored by the Office of Graduate Education | The Spirit of Investigation & the Road to Discovery: On the Etiology of Chronic Mountain Sickness & Other Adventures |
| January 13 | Keith L. Parker, M.D., Ph.D., Professor, Internal Medicine, Univ. Texas Southwestern Medical Center (hosted by Himangshu Bose, Ph.D.) Sponsored by the Dept. of Physiology & Functional Genomics | Tissue-Specific Knockouts of SF-1 Reveal Essential Roles in Reproduction and Energy Homeostasis |
| January 20 | Career
Development Seminar Bryan Garey, Manager, Training and Development, UF Division of Human Resources Sponsored by the COM Graduate Student Organization (GSO) |
Life Balance: Is It Possible? |
| January 27 | Ira Daar, Ph.D., Laboratory of Protein Dynamics & Signaling, National Cancer Institute (hosted by James L. Resnick, Ph.D.) Sponsored by the Dept. of Molecular Genetics & Microbiology | When FGF Talks ... EPH Listens: Regulation of Cell Fate by Being in the Right Place at the Right Time |
| February 3 | Sherry Leonard, Ph.D., Professor, Pharmacology and Psychiatry, University of Colorado Health Sciences Center (hosted by William R. Kem, Ph.D.) Sponsored by the Dept. of Pharmacology & Therapeutics | Smoking and Schizophrenia: A Biological Etiology |
| February 10 | Mitchell Kronenberg, Ph.D., President and Scientific Director, La Jolla Institute for Allergy & Immunology (hosted by Michael J. Clare-Salzler, M.D.) Sponsored by the Dept. of Pathology, Immunology & Laboratory Medicine | Innate-Like Immune Responses Carried Out by a Unique Subset of T Lymphocytes |
| February 17 |
Kevin
K.W. Wang, Ph.D., Associate Professor, Psychiatry & Neuroscience, Center
for Traumatic Brain Injury Studies, UF; Chief Scientific
Officer, Founder, Banyan
Biomarkers Sponsored by the COM Graduate Student Organization (GSO) |
Academia, Big Pharmaceutical or Biotech Companies: How Do You Choose? |
| February 24 | Cliff Tabin, Ph.D., Professor, Genetics, Harvard Medical School (hosted by Brian Harfe, Ph.D.) Sponsored by the Center for Mammalian Genetics and the Dept. of Biochemistry & Molecular Biology | Patterning the Vertebrate Limb |
| March 10 | Paula Traktman, Ph.D., Professor & Chair, Microbiology & Molecular Genetics, Medical College of Wisconsin (hosted by Richard Condit, Ph.D.) Sponsored by the Basic Microbiology & Infectious Disease Training Program, Dept. of Molecular Genetics & Microbiology | Insights into the Choreography of Vaccinia Virus Replication |
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4:00, Tues., March 15, C1-11 |
Ralph M. Steinman, M.D., Laboratory of Cellular Physiology & Immunology, Rockefeller University; Editor, Journal of Experimental Medicine (hosted by Michael J. Clare-Salzler, M.D.) Sponsored by the Dept. of Pathology, Immunology & Laboratory Medicine | Antigen-Specific Control of the Immune Response by Dendritic Cells |
| March 17 | Career
Development Seminar Rebecca J. Cheeks, Ph.D., Integrative Biology, University of California, Berkeley, Howard Hughes Medical Institute Sponsored by the COM Graduate Student Organization (GSO) |
Post-doc on the Academic Track and Happy? It's Possible! |
| March 24 | Thomas J. Kelly, M.D., Ph.D., Director, Sloan-Kettering Institute, New York, NY (hosted by Kenneth I. Berns, M.D., Ph.D.) Sponsored by the UF Genetics Institute | Eukaryotic DNA Replication: Origins and Checkpoints |
| March 31 | Michael Caparon, Ph.D., Professor, Molecular Microbiology, Washington University School of Medicine (hosted by Robert Burne, Ph.D.) Sponsored by the Dept. of Oral Biology | Specialized Secretion Pathways in Gram-Positive Pathogens |
| April 7 | Harold L. Moses, M.D., Director, Vanderbilt-Ingram Cancer Center, Vanderbilt University (hosted by Brian Law, Ph.D.) Sponsored by the Dept. of Pharmacology & Therapeutics | TGF-beta: From a Transforming Growth Factor to a Tumor Suppressor |
| April 14 | Andrew S. Belmont, Ph.D., Professor, Cell & Structural Biology, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign (hosted by Jorg Bungert, Ph.D.) Sponsored by the Center for Mammalian Genetics and the Dept. of Biochemistry & Molecular Biology | Large-Scale Chromatin Structure and Dynamics: Effects of Transcriptional Activators on Chromatin Condensation and Intranuclear Chromosome Position |
| April 21 | Career
Development Seminar Laura Helmuth, Ph.D., Science Editor, Smithsonian Magazine Sponsored by the COM Graduate Student Organization (GSO) |
How To Become a Science Writer |
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FALL 2004 |
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| DATE | SPEAKER | SEMINAR TITLE |
| September 9 | John C. Lucchesi, Ph.D., Professor & Chair, Biology, Emory University (hosted by Thomas P. Yang, Ph.D.) Sponsored by the Center for Mammalian Genetics and the Dept. of Biochemistry & Molecular Biology | Dosage Compensation in Drosophila: A Model for the Study of Transcription Regulation through Chromatin Remodeling |
| September 16 | Career
Development Seminar Alison L. Bawden, Ph.D., Senior Research Scientist, Ricin Vaccine Project Manager, DOR Biopharma Inc. Sponsored by the COM Graduate Student Organization (GSO) |
Biotech Start-ups: The Good, The Bad, and the Ugly |
| September 23 | William G. Robertson, Ph.D., D.Sc., Professor, Institute of Urology and Nephrology, University College London (hosted by Dr. Saeed Khan) Sponsored by Center for the Study of Lithiasis and Biomineralization Research, Dept. of Pathology, Immunology & Laboratory Medicine, and Ixion Biotech | Life-time Reflections on the Causes of Urolithiasis |
| October 7 | William G. Kelly, Ph.D., Assistant Professor, Biology, Emory University (hosted by Brian Harfe, Ph.D.) Sponsored by the Center for Mammalian Genetics and the Dept. of Biochemistry & Molecular Biology | Germline Maintenance and Genome Silencing in C. elegans |
| October 21 | Z. Hugh Fan, Ph.D., Associate Professor, Mechanical & Aerospace Engineering and Biomedical Engineering, UF (hosted by Dr. Wayne McCormack) Sponsored by the Office of Graduate Education | "Lab on a Chip" Applications in Biomedical Research |
| October 28 | Career
Development Seminar Carol Henderson, J.D., Visiting Professor, Stetson University College of Law (hosted by Bruce Goldberger, Ph.D.) Sponsored by the William R. Maples Center for Forensic Medicine and the COM Graduate Student Organization (GSO) |
Science and the Law |
| November 11 | Veteran's Day Holiday | |
| 4:00, Mon., Nov. 15, C1-7 |
Career
Development Seminar Lyle L. Moldawer Ph.D., Vice Chairman of Surgery, Laboratory of Inflammation Biology & Surgical Science, UF College of Medicine Sponsored by the COM Graduate Student Organization (GSO) |
Basic Scientists in a Clinical Department: A Career on the Dark Side |
| November 25 | Thanksgiving Holiday | |
| 12:00, Fri., Dec. 3, LG-101A | Mary Bartlett Bunge, Ph.D., Professor, Anatomy & Cell Biology, The Miami Project to Cure Paralysis, Univ. Miami (hosted by Douglas K. Anderson, Ph.D.) Sponsored by the Dept. of Neuroscience | Novel Strategies to Repair the Injured Spinal Cord |
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