FALL 2007

September 20

Lauren Pasquarella Daley, Ph.D., NCC, Senior Assistant Director of Graduate Services, UF Career Resource Center

Career Development Seminar
Sponsored by the COM Graduate Student Organization (GSO)

Resume and CV-Building Workshop

October 11

12:00 noon

LG-101A

Robert Margolskee, M.D, Ph.D., Professor of Neuroscience and Structural & Chemical Biology, Mount Sinai Medical Center

Sponsored by the UF Center for Smell & Taste

hosted by Barry W. Ache, Ph.D.

Tasteful Receptors and Gut Feelings:  What Taste May Tell Us About Gastrointestinal Chemosensation

October 18

Jodi Gentry, Associate Director for Training and Organizational Development, UF Division of Human Resources

Career Development Seminar
Sponsored by the COM Graduate Student Organization (GSO)

A Look at Fundamental HR Skills Often Overlooked in Graduate Programs:  Management & Team-Building

November 1

Sponsored by the Diabetes Research Group, Dept. of Pathology, Immunology & Lab. Med.
hosted by Sally A. Litherland, Ph.D. and Mark Atkinson, Ph.D.

Adult Pancreatic Beta-cell Mass Homeostasis:  Stem Cells or No Stem Cells?

November 8

Ann Dean, Ph.D., Molecular Genetics Section, Chief Laboratory of Cellular and Developmental Biology, National Institute of Diabetes and Digestive & Kidney Diseases, National Institutes of Health

Sponsored by the Center for Mammalian Genetics and Dept. of Biochemistry & Molecular Biology
hosted by Jorg Bungert, Ph.D.

Chromatin Structure and Epigenetic Modification in the Human Beta-Globin Locus

November 15

Bernard Courtney, Director, National Biodefense Analysis and Countermeasures Center, Dept. of Homeland Security

Career Development Seminar
Sponsored by the COM Graduate Student Organization (GSO)

Homeland Security's National Biodefense Analysis and Countermeasures Center:  Tests, Trials and Teams

November 29

Gail Martin, Ph.D., Professor of Anatomy, Director of PIBS Program in Developmental Biology, Univ. California at San Francisco

Sponsored by the Dept. of Molecular Genetics & Microbiology
hosted by Brian Harfe, Ph.D. 

FGF Signaling in Vertebrate Organogenesis:  The Importance of Getting It Right

December 6

Weidong Wang, Ph.D., Senior Investigator Chief, Genome Instability & Chromatin-Remodeling Section Laboratory of Genetics, National Institute on Aging, National Institutes of Health

Sponsored by the Center for Mammalian Genetics and Dept. of Biochemistry & Molecular Biology
hosted by Suming Huang, Ph.D.

Multiprotein Complexes in DNA Damage Response and Chromatin Remodeling

SPRING 2008

January 10

José A. Lasalde Dominicci, Ph.D., Professor of Biology, University of Puerto Rico, San Juan
Sponsored by the Dept. of Pharmacology & Therapeutics

hosted by Roger Papke, Ph.D.

Nicotinic Receptors in Disease:  From Slow Channel Syndromes to HIV-induced Dementia

January 17

Emma Hitt, Ph.D., Freelance Writer and Journalist

Career Development Seminar
Sponsored by the COM Graduate Student Organization (GSO)

Making a Mint at Medical Writing:  Strategies for PhD Students and PostDocs

January 24

Robert B. Darnell, M.D., Ph.D., Professor of Molecular Neuro-Oncology, HHMI Investigator, The Rockefeller University
Sponsored by the Dept. of Molecular Genetics & Microbiology
hosted by Genetics Advanced Concentration Students (Jihae Shin)

Identifying RNA Regulatory Maps

January 31

Arun Sreekumar, Ph.D., Assistant Professor, Center for Translational Pathology, University of Michigan

Sponsored by the Dept. of Pharmacology & Therapeutics

hosted by Kathleen Shiverick Ph.D.

Integrative "Omics" Analysis of Prostate Cancer Progression

February 7

Douglas C. Eaton, Ph.D., Distinguished Professor of Physiology, Emory University School of Medicine, Past President, American Physiological Society

Sponsored by the Hypertension Center

hosted by Charles S. Wingo, M.D. and Christine Baylis, Ph.D.

Regulation of Sodium Transport in the Lung:  Why We Don't Drown Every Day

February 14

February 21

Glenn P. Ladwig, Patent Attorney

Accentia Biopharmaceuticals
Sponsored by the COM Graduate Student Organization (GSO)

Careers in Intellectual Property:  Bridging the Gap Between Science and Law

February 28
4:00 pm
G114 HPNP

Maria Kontaridis, Ph.D., Instructor in Medicine, Beth Israel Deaconess Medical Center, Harvard University Medical School

Sponsored by the Dept. of Pharmacology & Therapeutics

hosted by Nihal Tumer, Ph.D.

Function of the Protein Tyrosine Phosphatase Shp2 in Disease Pathogenesis

March 6

Arlene Sharpe, M.D., Ph.D., Professor of Pathology, Harvard Medical School

Sponsored by the Dept. of Pathology, Immunology & Laboratory Medicine
hosted by Laurence Morel, Ph.D.

Role of Pathways in the B7:CD28 Family in Regulating T Cell Activation and Tolerance

Friday
March 14
4:00 pm

CGR Auditorium

Jerry Workman, Ph.D., Investigator, Stowers Institute for Medical Research

Sponsored by the Program in Cancer, Genetics, Epigenetics & Tumor Virology, Shands Cancer Center
hosted by Kevin Brown, Ph.D.

Protein Complexes That Modify Chromatin for Transcription

March 20

Morris Manolson, Ph.D., Associate Professor of Dentistry, University of Toronto

Sponsored by the Dept. of Biochemistry & Molecular Biology & College of Dentistry
hosted by Brian Cain, Ph.D. and Shannon Holliday, Ph.D.

Proton-Pumping V-ATPases in Osteoclasts:  A Potential Therapeutic Target for Preventing Bone Loss

March 27

Career Development Seminar
Sponsored by the COM Graduate Student Organization (GSO)

Get a Job:  How I Went From Grad Student to CIO in 5 Years

April 3

CANCELED

Manual Ares, Jr., Ph.D., Professor of Molecular Cell & Developmental Biology, University of California at Santa Cruz

Sponsored by the Dept. of Molecular Genetics & Microbiology
hosted by Maurice Swanson, Ph.D. 

Capturing Coordinate Splicing Regulation:  Implications for Mechanisms and Disease

April 10

Sponsored by the Biodefense & Emerging Infectious Diseases Training Grant and the UFRF Professorship
hosted by Richard Condit, Ph.D. and Grant McFadden, Ph.D.

The Pathogenicity of Pandemic Influenza Viruses

April 17

Michaal B. Reiser, Ph.D., Howard Hughes Medical Institute, Janelia Farm Research Campus

Career Development Seminar
Sponsored by the COM Graduate Student Organization (GSO)

Discovery on the Farm:  The Pursuit of Fundamental Problems in Basic Biomedical Research at the Howard Hughes Medical Institute's Janelia Farm Research Campus (and How a UF Engineer Fits Into All of This) 

April 24

CANCELED

Stephen B. Baylin, M.D., Professor of Oncology, Johns Hopkins School of Medicine

Sponsored jointly by the Center for Mammalian Genetics and the Dept. of Biochemistry & Molecular Biology

hosted by Keith Robertson, Ph.D. and Thomas P. Yang, Ph.D.

DNA Methylation in Cancer