February 2002
Research Lectures and Seminars
University of Connecticut School of Medicine
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February 2002 Research Lectures and Seminars University of Connecticut School of Medicine
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| Date | Time | Department/ Center | Location | Title | Speaker | Contact Person |
| Monday, February 4, 2002 | 10:00 A.M. | Department of Genetics and Developmental Biology | Lecture Room A (LM036) | "The Operation of a Transgenic Facility and the Role of Erythropoietin Receptor During Mouse Development" | Chyuan-Sheng Lin, Ph.D., Herbert Irving Comprehensive Cancer Center, Columbia University | Bob Baird, (860) 679-8350 |
| Tuesday, February 5, 2002 | 4:00 P.M. | Department of Neuroscience | Academic Research Building (EG013) | "Cell Biology of a Copper-Dependent Peptide Processing Enzyme" | Tammy Steveson, Ph.D., Instructor, Department of Neuroscience, University of Connecticut School of Medicine | Marianne Hebenstreit, (860) 679-8001 |
| Wednesday, February 6, 2002 | 12:00 P.M. | General Clinical Research Center | Faculty/Staff Dining Room | "Analysis of Longitudinal Change: An Overview for Clinical Investigators" | Elizabeth M. Ginexi, Ph.D., Research Psychologist, Westat, Substance Abuse Research Group | Lisa Godin, (860) 679-4145 |
| Thursday, February 7, 2002 | 10:00 A.M. | Department of Genetics and Developmental Biology | Friends Lecture Room (LM034) | "Organizing Pattern in Drosophila: of Stripes and Lines." | Victor Hatini, Ph.D., Department of Cell and Developmental Biology, University of Pennsylvania | Bob Baird, (860) 679-8350 |
| Thursday, February 7, 2002 | 11:30 A.M. | Department of Genetics and Developmental Biology | Academic Research Building (EG013) | "Cytoskeletal targets of Src PTKs in signaling and development" | Dr. Sheila Thomas, Assistant Professor, Beth Israel Deaconess Medical Center, Harvard Medical School | Rene Bumbera, (860) 679-7947 |
| Thursday, February 7, 2002 | 12:00 P.M. | Center for Immunotherapy of Cancer and Infectious Disease | Immunotherapy Conference Room (E6036) | "Something Old and Something New (Cyclin B1) for Tumor Immunity and Cancer Prevention" | Olivera J. Finn, Ph.D., Professor and Director of the Immunology Program, University of Pittsburgh Cancer Institute, University of Pittsburgh School of Medicine | Tracy Dieli, (860) 679-4444 |
| Thursday, February 7, 2002 | 4:00 P.M. | Center on Aging | Academic Research Conference Room (EG013) | "Influenza in the Older Adult: Bigger than Anthrax" | Stefan Gravenstein, M.D., Professor of Medicine, Eastern Virginia Medical School | Vivian Bournival, (860) 679-4559 |
| Tuesday, February 12, 2002 | 10:00 A.M. | Department of Genetics and Developmental Biology | Lecture Room A (LM036) | "Connecting Chromosomes During Meiosis" | Neil Hunter, Ph.D., Department of Molecular and Cellular Biology, Harvard University | Bob Baird, (860) 679-8350 |
| Tuesday, February 12, 2002 | 12:00 P.M. | Center for Immunotherapy of Cancer and Infectious Disease | Immunotherapy Conference Room (E6036) | "Tipping the Balance - defining the immunologic outcome of antigen cross-presentation" | Dr. Matthew Albert, Rockefellar University, Laboratory of Neuro-Oncology | Tracy Dieli, (860) 679-4444 |
| Tuesday, February 12, 2002 | 4:00 P.M. | Department of Neuroscience | Academic Research Building (EG013) | "To be announced"" | Gary Bassell, Ph.D., Department of Neuroscience, Albert Einstein College of Medicine | Marianne Hebenstreit, (860) 679-8001 |
| Thursday, February 14, 2002 | 12:00 P.M. | UConn Cancer Center | Immunotherapy Conference Room (E6036) | "Translational Development of Active Immunotherapy for Hematologic Malignancies" | Larry Kwak, M.D., Ph.D., Vaccine Biology Section, National Institute of Health | Christine Kaminski, (860) 679-1173 |
| Thursday, February 14, 2002 | 12:00 P.M. | Department of Pathology | Microbial Pathogenesis Conference Room (E7036) | "Neural Immune Interactions in Health and Disease" | Esther Sternberg, M.D., Director of Integrative Neural Immune Program and Chief of Neuroendocrine Immunology and Behavior, National Institute of Mental Health and National Institutes of Health | Cathy Mitchell, (860) 679-2316 |
| Friday, February 15, 2002 | 12:00 P.M. | Department of Genetics and Developmental Biology | Academic Research Building (EG013) | "Prader-Willi Syndrome: Current Understanding of Cause and Diagnosis" | Merlin Butler, M.D., Ph.D., FACMG, Professor of Pediatrics, Children's Mercy Hospital, University of Missouri-Kansas City School of Medicine | Rene Bumbera, (860) 679-7947 |
| Tuesday, February 19, 2002 | 10:00 A.M. | Department of Genetics and Developmental Biology | Lecture Room A (LM036) | "Transcriptional Silencing in Yeast is Regulated by Set1, a Histone Methyltransferase" | Mary E. Bryk, Ph.D., Department of Genetics, Harvard Medical School | Bob Baird, (860) 679-8350 |
| Tuesday, February 19, 2002 | 4:00 P.M. | Department of Neuroscience | Academic Research Building (EG013) | "Animals Behaving Badly Due to Molecular Mayhem-Messages from the RNA World" | Robert Reenan, Ph.D., Associate Professor, Department of Genetics and Developmental Biology, University of Connecticut School of Medicine | Marianne Hebenstreit, (860) 679-8001 |
| Wednesday, February 20, 2002 | 12:00 P.M. | General Clinical Research Center | Faculty/Staff Dining Room | "Patient Safety in Clinical Research: Barriers & Facilitators to Quality Improvement Efforts" | Thomas J. Van Hoof, M.D., M.A., GCRC Medical Director of Patient Safety; Assistant Professor, Community Medicine and Health Care, University of Connecticut Health Center | Lisa Godin, (860) 679-4145 |
| Thursday, February 21, 2002 | 12:00 P.M. | Center for Immunotherapy of Cancer and Infectious Disease | Immunotherapy Conference Room (E6036) | "Persistence of adenoviruses in human mucosal lymphocytes" | Linda Gooding, Ph.D., Department of Microbiology and Immunology, Emory University School of Medicine | Tracy Dieli, (860) 679-4444 |
| Monday, February 25, 2002 | 11:00 A.M. | Center for Microbial Pathogenesis | Microbial Pathogenesis Conference Room (E7036) | "The dynamics of host pathogen interactions in toxoplasmosis" | Dana Mordue, Ph.D., Research Associate, Department of Molecular Microbiology, Washington University | Virginia Hahn, (860) 679-8129 |
| Tuesday, February 26, 2002 | 10:00 A.M. | Department of Genetics and Developmental Biology | Friends Lecture Room (LM034) | "The Establishment and Inheritance of Epigenetic States in Saccharomyces cerevisiae." | Ann Kirchmaier, Ph.D. Department of Molecular and Cell Biology, University of California, Berkeley | Bob Baird, (860) 679-8350 |
| Tuesday, February 26, 2002 | 4:00 P.M. | Department of Neuroscience | Academic Research Building (EG013) | "Kalirin and Neuronal Development" | Clifton McPherson, Ph.D., Instructor, Department of Neuroscience, University of Connecticut School of Medicine | Marianne Hebenstreit, (860) 679-8001 |
| Wednesday, February 27, 2002 | 12:00 P.M. | Center for Molecular Medicine | Academic Research Building (EG013) | "The Telomere Tumor Suppressor Pathway" | Titia de Lange, Ph.D., Leon Hess Professor, Cell Biology and Genetics, The Rockefeller University | Vicki Dupaul, (860) 679-1478 |
| Thursday, February 28, 2002 | 12:00 P.M. | Center for Microbial Pathogenesis | Microbial Pathogenesis Conference Room (E7036) | "Purine Transport and Metabolism in Protozoan Parasites." | Buddy Ullman, Ph.D., Professor of Biochemistry and Molecular Biology, Oregon Health Sciences | Virginia Hahn, (860) 679-8129 |