February 2001
Research Lectures and Seminars
University of Connecticut School of Medicine
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February 2001 Research Lectures and Seminars University of Connecticut School of Medicine
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| Date | Time | Department/ Center | Location | Title | Speaker | Contact Person |
| Thursday, February 1, 2001 | 12:00 Noon | Department of Pathology | Pathology Conference Room, L-1034 | "New strategies to study interactions between bone remodeling and hematopoiesis." | H. Leonardo Aguila, Ph.D., Center for Immunotherapy of Cancer and Infectious Diseases, University of Connecticut School of Medicine | Cathy Mitchell, (860) 679-2316 |
| Thursday, February 1, 2001 | 12:00 Noon | Department of Physiology | Vascular Biology Conference Room, E5036 | "Finding a home - lipid rafts and G-protein signaling." | Dr. Teresa L. Z. Jones, Metabolic Diseases Branch, NIDDK/NIH | Deborah Woodbury, (860) 679-2653 |
| Tuesday, February 6, 2001 | 3:00 P.M. | Endocrine Scholars Lecture | ARB Conference Room (EG052) | "Defective G Protein Signaling: From Barnyard to Bedside!" | Michael A. Levine, M.D., Professor of Pediatrics, Medicine and Pathology, Director, Division of Pediatric Endocrinology, The Johns Hopkins University School of Medicine | Lynn Limeburner, (860) 679-2129 |
| Tuesday, February 6, 2001 | 4:00 P.M. - 5:00 | Department of Neuroscience | ARB Conference Room (EG013) | "Development of Layer I neurons in primate cerebral cortex." | Nada Zecevic, Ph. D./UCHC, Assistant Professor, Department of Neuroscience | Marianne Hebenstreit (860) 679-8001 |
| Thursday, February 8, 2001 | 12:00 Noon | Center for Immunotherapy | Immunotherapy Conference Room, E6036 | "Antigen-specific regulatory T cells in vitro and in vivo" | Li Zhang, M.D., Ph.D., Assistant Professor and Staff Scientist for Department of Laboratory Medicine and Pathobiology, University of Toronto, Toronto General Hospital Research Institute | Tracy
Dieli, (860) 679-4444
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| Tuesday, February 13, 2001 | 4:00 P.M. - 5:00 | Department of Neuroscience | ARB Conference Room (EG013) | "Linear and non-linear signal processing in the dorsal cochlear nucleus" | Eric Young, Ph.D./Johns Hopkins University, School of Medicine, Department of Biomedical Engineering | Marianne Hebenstreit (860) 679-8001 |
| Wednesday, February 14, 2001 | 12:00 Noon | Center for Molecular Medicine | Green Auditorium | "Leptin and the Regulation of Body Weight" | Jeffrey M. Friedman, M.D., Ph.D., Professor, The Rockefeller University, Investigator, Howard Hughes Medical Institute | Anita Marren, (860) 679-7640 |
| Wednesday, February 14, 2001 | 4:00 P.M. - 5:00 | Center for Microbial Pathogenesis | ARB Conference Room (EG-013) | "Novel pharmacologically active compounds from the salivary glands of blood sucking insects and ticks." | Jose Ribeiro, M.D, Ph.D. | Lucille Videtto, (860) 69-8129 |
| Thursday, February 15, 2001 | 12:00 Noon | Immunology Seminar Series | Pathology Conference Room (L1034) | "Targeting Immune Escape Mechanisms of Solid Tumors Using Immuno/Gene Therapy." | Edmund C. Lattime, Ph.D., Professor of Surgery, Molecular Genetics and Microbiology, The Cancer Institute of New Jersey, UMDNJ-Robert Wood Johnson Medical School | Catherine Mitchell, (860) 679-2316 |
| Tuesday, February 20, 2001 | 4:00 P.M. - 5:00 | Department of Neuroscience | ARB Conference Room (EG013) | "Spectral and temporal factors in binaural hearing." | Constantine Trahiotis, M.D., Professor, Department of Neuroscience | Marianne Hebenstreit (860) 679-8001 |
| Wednesday, February 21, 2001 | 4:00 P.M. | Department of Genetics and Developmental Biology | ARB Conference Room (EG-013) | "Functions of the Drosophila morgue gene in programmed cell death." | John Nambu, Ph.D., Biology Department, Morrill Science Center | Rene Bumbera (860) 679-7947 |
| Thursday, February 22, 2001 | 12:00 Noon | Immunotherapy Seminar Series | Immunotherapy Conference Room (E6036) | "Cancer-induced defective Cytotoxic T Lymphocyte effector function: another mechanism how antigenic tumors escape immune-mediated killing." | Alan Frey, Ph.D., Assistant Professor and Staff Scientist, Department of Cell Biology, New York University School of Medicine | Tracy Dieli (860) 679-4444 |
| Tuesday, February 27, 2001 | 12:00 Noon | Division of Immunology | ARB Conference Room (EG052) | "Life and Death of Antigen Specific CD8+ T Cells." | Jason Grayson, Ph.D., Division of Immunology, Emory University | Sue Roman (860) 679-1496 |
| Tuesday, February 27, 2001 | 3:00 P.M. | Center for Molecular Medicine | ARB Conference Room (EG052) | "Transcriptional Regulation of Adipogenesis and Insulin Sensitivity." | Evan D. Rosen, M.D., Ph.D., Postdoctoral Research Fellow, Laboratory of Bruce Spiegelman, Dana-Farber Cancer Institute | Anita Marren (860) 679-7640 |
| Tuesday, February 27, 2001 | 4:00
P.M. - 5:00
CANCELLED |
Department of Neuroscience | ARB Conference Room (EG013) | "To be announced" | Joseph Loturco, Ph.D./UCONN, Assistant Professor, Departments of Physiology and Neurobiology | Marianne Hebenstreit (860) 679-8001 |
| Wednesday, February 28, 2001 | 12:00 Noon | Center for Molecular Medicine | ARB Conference Room (EG052) | "Investigation of a Novel Genetic Modifier of Mammary Tumor Susceptibility Associated with the ROSA26 Insertion." | Amy R. Moser, Ph.D., Assistant Professor, Department of Human Oncology, University of Wisconsin | Anita Marren, (860) 679-7640 |
| Wednesday, February 28, 2001 | 4:00 P.M. | Department of Biochemistry | ARB Conference Room (EG052) | "Structural Mechanisms of Transport Vesicle Budding from the Golgi Complex." | Dr. Jonathan Goldberg, HHMI, Memorial Sloan-Kettering Cancer Center | Dr. John Carson (860) 679-2130 |