College of Medicine Research Seminar Schedule

Fall 2003 - Spring 2004

Thursdays at 4:00 PM
Room G1
01, HPNP Building

FALL 2003
DATE SPEAKER SEMINAR TITLE
September 4 Yue Xiong, Ph.D., Biochemistry & Biophysics, Univ. North Carolina (hosted by Dr. Diaqing Liao)
Sponsored by the Dept. of Anatomy & Cell Biology
Cell Cycle Control and Tumor Suppression
September 25 Hari Koul, Ph.D., Urology & Surgery, Univ. of Colorado School of Medicine (hosted by Dr. Saeed Khan) Oxalate & Calcium-Oxalate Crystal Interactions in the Kidney:  Activation of the MAP Kinase Signal Transduction Pathways
October 2 Colin Wraight, Ph.D., Plant Biology & Biophysics, Univ. Illinois (hosted by Dr. David Silverman)
Sponsored by the Dept. of Pharmacology & Therapeutics
Protons and Protein Control of Quinone Function in Photosynthesis
October 9 Brian Harfe, Ph.D., Molecular Genetics & Microbiology, UF College of Medicine (hosted by Dr. Henry Baker) Patterning of the Vertebrate Limb
October 16 Himangshu Bose, Ph.D., Physiology & Functional Genomics, UF College of Medicine (hosted by Dr. Charles Wood) Steroidogenic Acute Regulatory Protein (StAR)
October 23 Career Development Seminar
(open to all Graduate Students & Postdoctoral Fellows)
Jodi Gentry, Assistant Director for Training & Development, UF Division of Human Resources
Essential HR Management Skills for the Future Principal Investigator
October 30 Rodney Rothstein, Ph.D., Genetics & Development, Columbia Univ. (hosted by Dr. John Aris) DNA Repair Centers in Budding Yeast
November 6 Fazlul Sarkar, Ph.D., Pathology, Wayne State Univ. (hosted by Dr. Kathleen Shiverick & Dr. Satya Narayan)
Sponsored by the Dept. of Pharmacology & Therapeutics & the Shands Cancer Center
Molecular Mechanism of Action of Genistein in Prostate Cancer
November 13 Harriet L. Robinson, Ph.D., Microbiology & Immunology, Emory Univ. (hosted by Dr. Lung-Ji Chang) Working Towards an AIDS Vaccine
November 20 Career Development Seminar
(open to all Graduate Students & Postdoctoral Fellows)
Karen E. Jackson, Ph.D., Chair, Dept. of Biology & Marine Science, Jacksonville University
From Research I to the Liberal Arts:  The Road Less Traveled
December 4 George Brush, Ph.D., Molecular Oncology & Genetics, Wayne State Univ. (hosted by Dr. Richard Snyder) Replication Protein A:  A Regulator of Meiotic Recombination
 
SPRING 2004
DATE SPEAKER SEMINAR TITLE
January 8 Pat Levitt, Ph.D., Pharmacology, Vanderbilt Univ. (hosted by Dr. Dena Howland)
Sponsored by the McKnight Brain Institute
Molecular and Functional Analysis of Cortical Interneuron Development
January 15 Sally H. Zigmond, Ph.D., Biology, Univ. Pennsylvania (hosted by Dr. Michael Bubb) Beginning and Ending an Actin Filament
January 22 Career Development Seminar
(open to all Graduate Students & Postdoctoral Fellows)
Bruce A. Goldberger, Ph.D., Director, William R. Maples Center for Forensic Medicine, UF Department of Pathology, Immunology and Laboratory Medicine
Pursuing a Career in the Forensic Sciences
January 29 Paul Gollnick, Ph.D., Biological Sciences, SUNY Buffalo (hosted by Dr. Rich Condit) Regulation of Tryptophan Genes in B. subtilis by TRAP, the trp RNA-Binding Attenuation Protein
February 5 Epigenetics Seminar
Marisa Bartolomei, Ph.D., Cell & Developmental Biology, HHMI, Univ. Pennsylvania (hosted by Dr. Jim Resnick)
Sponsored by the Center for Mammalian Genetics
Regulation of Imprinting at the H19/Igf2 Locus
February 12 Epigenetics Seminar
David M. Gilbert, Ph.D., Biochemistry & Molecular Biology, Univ. SUNY Upstate Medical Univ. (hosted by Dr. Jorg Bungert)
Sponsored by the ICBR
Spatial and Temporal Control of Mammalian Chromosome Replication
February 19 Epigenetics Seminar
Rodolfo Aramayo, Ph.D., Biology, Texas A&M Univ.
Sponsored by the ICBR
Meiotic RNA Silencing in Fungi
February 26 Paul Sternberg, Ph.D., HHMI, Biology, Calif. Inst. Technology. (hosted by Dr. Art Edison) C. elegans Vulva Development
March 4 Epigenetics Seminar
Barbara Panning, Ph.D., Biophysics & Biochemistry, Univ. California San Francisco (hosted by Dr. Tom Yang)
Sponsored by the Center for Mammalian Genetics
Xist RNA and X Chromosome Inactivation
March 11 Epigenetics Seminar
Brian Strahl, Ph.D., Biochemistry & Biophysics, Univ. North Carolina, Chapel Hill (hosted by Dr. Jorg Bungert)
Sponsored by the Center for Mammalian Genetics
Histone-Modifying Enzymes That Hitch a Ride With RNA Polymerase II
March 18 No seminar
March 25 Career Development Seminar
(open to all Graduate Students & Postdoctoral Fellows)
Mark Challberg, Ph.D., Laboratory of Viral Diseases, Div. of Intramural Research, NIAID, NIH (hosted by Dr. Richard Moyer, Sr. Assoc. Dean for Research Development)
Career Opportunities at the National Institutes of Health  
April 1 Se-Jin Lee, M.D., Ph.D., Molecular Biology & Genetics, Johns Hopkins Univ. (hosted by Dr. Paul Oh) Regulation of muscle growth by myostatin
April 8
3:00 pm
LG-101A

Cami Brannan Memorial Lectures
Neal Copeland, Ph.D., Associate Director, Mouse Cancer Genetics Program, National Cancer Institute
Nancy Jenkins, Ph.D., Head of Molecular Genetics of Development Section, MCGP
(hosted by Dr. Jim Resnick)

Retroviral Insertional Mutagenesis Provides a Road Map for Navigating the Cancer Genome
 
Mouse Models of Human Vesicle Transport Diseases
  
April 15 Career Development Seminar
(open to all Graduate Students & Postdoctoral Fellows)
Robert Mino, M.S., M.B.A., Account Manager, Life Science Specialist, Roche Laboratories
If a Journey of 1,000 Miles Begins With the First Step, When Did I Start Jogging?  The Career of Being Your Sales Representative
April 22
3:00 pm
Krzysztof Palczewski, Ph.D., Chemistry & Ophthalmology, Univ. Washington (hosted by Dr. Paul Hargrave) Non-invasive Two-Photon Imaging Reveals "Retinosomes" - Vitamin A Storage Structures in the Eye
Tuesday, April 27 (HPNP Auditorium):  COM Research Day - Medical Guild Research Competition
8:30-11:00 Karen Vieira, Biochemistry & Molecular Biology Recruitment of Transcription Factors and RNA Polymerase II to the Beta-Globin Locus
  Rahul Kanadia, Genetics Mouse Model for Myotonic Dystrophy
  Mary Ann Checkley, Immunology & Microbiology A Candida albicans Gene Expressed During Oropharyngeal Candidiasis is Important for Pathogenesis
  Alaric Falcon, Molecular Cell Biology Building an Episomal Model of Aging in Saccharomyces cerevisiae
  Edgar Rodriguez, Neuroscience Post-transcriptional Repression of Striatal Mutant Huntingtin in a Model of Huntington's Disease
  Eric Sandberg, Physiology & Pharmacology Jak2 Tyrosine Kinase Mediates Oxidative Stress-Induced Apoptosis in Vascular Smooth Muscle Cells
11:00-12:00 Medical Student Research Day Winners  
12:00-2:30 Poster Displays (Atrium)  
2:30-3:30 Peter W. Stacpoole, M.D., COM Faculty Clinical Science 2003 Awardee
  Maria Grant, M.D., COM Basic Science 2003 Awardee
3:30-4:30 Keynote Speaker - Tamas Bartfai, Ph.D.
Director of the Harold L. Dorris Neurological Research Center, The Scripps Research Institute
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