April 2001
Research Lectures and Seminars
University of Connecticut School of Medicine
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April 2001 Research Lectures and Seminars University of Connecticut School of Medicine
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| Date | Time | Department/ Center | Location | Title | Speaker | Contact Person |
| Tuesday, April 3, 2001 | 3:00 P.M. | Endocrine Scholars Lecture | ARB Conference Room (EG052) | "Novel Approaches to Osteoporosis Therapy." | Maxine Gowen, Ph.D., Vice President and Director, Musculoskeletal Diseases and Drug Discovery, GlaxoSmithKline | Lynn Limeburner, (860) 679-2129 |
| Tuesday, April 3, 2001 | 4:00 P.M. - 5:00 | Department of Neuroscience | ARB Conference Room (EG013) | "Doctor, I can't see my granddaughter's face anymore but I don't bump into things. Why? What can green-eyed frogs tell us about the answer to this question?" | David Papermaster, Ph.D./UCHC, Professor, Department of Neuroscience | Marianne Hebenstreit (860) 679-8001 |
| Wednesday, April 4, 2001 | 12:00 Noon | General Clinical Research Center | Faculty/Staff Conference Room | "Hearing Loss in Biotinidase Deficiency" | Barry Wolf, M.D., Ph.D., Director of Research, Connecticut Children's Medical Center | Lisa Godin, (860) 679-4145 |
| Wednesday, April 4, 2001 | 4:00 P.M. - 5:00 | Molecular Medicine and Genetics & Developmental Biology Joint Seminar | ARB Conference Room (EG013) | "Semaphorins and Tumor Suppression" | Susan L. Naylor, Ph.D., Professor, Department of Cellular & Structural Biology, The University of Texas Health Science Center at San Antonio | Anita Marren, (860) 679-7640 |
| Thursday, April 5, 2001 | 12:00 - 1:30 P.M. | Department of Community Medicine | ARB Conference Room (EG052) | "Patient Treatment Matching Research: Methodological Challenges and Statistical Solutions - Project Match as a Case in Point." | Robert Stout, Ph.D., Adjunct Professor of Psychiatry and Human Behavior, Director, Decision Sciences Institute, Brown University | Theo Ungewitter (860) 679-5495 |
| Thursday, April 5, 2001 | 12:00 Noon | Center for Immunotherapy of Cancer and Infectious Diseases | Immunotherapy Conference Room (E6036) | "Dendritic cells: Surviving the activation" | Stefania Galluci, Ph.D., Laboratory of Cellular & Molecular Immunology, Bethesda | Tracy Dieli (860) 679-4444 |
| Tuesday, April 10, 2001 | 12:00 Noon | Center for Immunotherapy of Cancer and Infectious Diseases | Immunotherapy Conference Room (E6036) | "Autoimmune diseases in IEX-1 transgenic and Gai2-knock out mice." | Dr. Mei Wu, Baylor College of Medicine | Tracy Dieli, (860) 679-4444 |
| Tuesday, April 10, 2001 | 3:00 P.M. | Endocrine Scholars Lecture | ARB Conference Room (EG052) | "SH2-B and SIRP: JAK2 Binding Proteins that Modulate the Actions of Growth Hormone" | Christin Carter-Su, Ph.D., Professor of Physiology, Associate Director, Michigan Diabetes Research and Training Center, University of Michigan Medical School | Lynn Limeburner, (860) 679-2129 |
| Tuesday, April 10, 2001 | 4:00 P.M. - 5:00 | Department of Neuroscience | ARB Conference Room (EG013) | "Seizure Resistance in Response to Calorie Restriction and the Ketogenic Diet." | Jacob Harney, Ph.D., Univesity of Hartford, Department of Biology | Marianne Hebenstreit (860) 679-8001 |
| Wednesday, April 11, 2001 | 12:00-1:30 P.M. | Department of Community Medicine | Keller Auditorium | "America's Health Care System at the Crossroads: The 107th Congress and the Prospects for Change."" | Congresswoman Nancy Johnson | Theo Ungewitter (860) 679-5495 |
| Wednesday, April 11, 2001 | 12:00 Noon | Center for Molecular Medicine | ARB Conference Room (EG052) | "New Transgenic Mouse Models for Studying erbB2 Signaling in Epithelial Neoplasia" | John DiGiovanni, Ph.D., Director, Science Park - Research Division, Chairman, Department of Carcinogenesis,The University of Texas, MD Anderson Cancer Center | Vicki Dupaul, (860) 679-1478 |
| Thursday, April 12, 2001 | 12:00 Noon | Endocrinology Intercity Grand Rounds | Link Room (CG076) | "Primary Aldosteronism: Mayo Clinic Experience" | Dr. William F. Young, Professor of Medicine, Mayo Medical School | |
| Tuesday, April 17, 2001 | 12:00 Noon | Center for Immunotherapy of Cancer and Infectious Diseases | Immunotherapy Conference Room (E6036) | "To be announced" | Dr. Benjamen, University of Texas Southwestern | Tracy Dieli (860) 679-4444 |
| Tuesday, April 17, 2001 | 4:00 P.M. - 5:00 | Department of Neuroscience | ARB Conference Room (EG013) | "Neural Processing of Sound Viewed from Inside and Outside the Brain" | Shigeyuki Kuwada, Ph.D./UCHC, Professor, Department of Neuroscience | Marianne Hebenstreit (860) 679-8001 |
| Wednesday, April 18, 2001 | 4:00 P.M. | Department of Microbiology | ARB Conference Room (EG013) | "Protein Export in E. coli: Regulation of SecA ATPase Translation by SecM Protein Secretion" | Dr. Don Oliver, Department of Molecular Biology and Biochemistry, Wesleyan University | Dr. Stephen Harris, (860) 679-2774 |
| Thursday, April 19, 2001 | 12:00 Noon | Center for Immunotherapy of Cancer and Infectious Diseases | Immunotherapy Conference Room (E6036) | "Pharmacological assessment of an autogous, hapten-modified melanoma vaccines." | Dr. David Berd, Professor of Medicine, Jefferson Cancer Institute, Jefferson Medical College | Tracy Dieli (860) 679-4444 |
| Friday, April 20, 2001 | 11:00 A.M. - 12:00 | Center for Immunotherapy of Cancer and Infectious Diseases | Immunotherapy Conference Room (E6036) | "Tissue-level cytoprotection." | Dr. Lawrence Hightower, UConn, Storrs | Tracy Dieli, (860) 679-4444 |
| Tuesday, April 24, 2001 | 4:00 P.M. - 5:00 | Department of Neuroscience | ARB Conference Room (EG013) | "Regulation of gene expression in neurons and glial by action potentials" | Douglas Fields, Ph.D., Professor, Neurocytology and Physiology Unit, National Institute of Health | Marianne Hebenstreit (860) 679-8001 |
| Wednesday, April 25, 2001 | 12:00 Noon | Center for Molecular Medicine | ARB Conference Room (EG052) | "Novel Tyrosine Kinase Oncoproteins: Molecular Mechanisms and Rational Therapies" | John Fletcher, M.D., Department of Pathology, Brigham and Women's Hospital | Vicki Dupaul, (860) 679-1478 |
| Thursday, April 26, 2001 | 12:00 Noon | Division of Immunology | ARB Conference Room (EG052) | "T Cell Survival" | Stephen Jameson, Ph.D., Department of Lab Medicine and Pathology, University of Minnesota Health Center | Sue Roman, (860) 679-1496 |
| Thursday, April 26, 2001 | 2:00 P.M. | Center for Immunotherapy of Cancer and Infectious Diseases | Immunotherapy Conference Room (E6036) | "New Directions in Healing Research" | William F. Bengston, Ph.D., Professor of Sociology, St. Joseph's College, New York | Susan Wasik, (860) 679-4444 |