December 2003
Research Lectures and Seminars
University of Connecticut School of Medicine
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December 2003 Research Lectures and Seminars University of Connecticut School of Medicine
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| Date | Time | Department/ Center | Location | Title | Speaker | Contact Person |
| Tuesday, December 2, 2003 | 12:00 P.M. | General Clinical Research Center | Faculty/Staff Dining Room | "Development and Validation of the Self-Esteem and Relationship (SEAR) Questionnaire in Erectile Dysfunction" | Joseph Cappelleri, Ph.D., M.P.H., Senior Associate Director, Clinical Biostatistics, Pfizer Inc., Global Research and Development | Lisa Godin, (860) 679-4145 |
| Tuesday, December 2, 2003 | 12:00 P.M. | Department of Neuroscience | Neuroscience Conference Room (E4036) | "Circadian regulation of cGMP-gated cation channels in vertebrate cone photoreceptors" | Gladys Y. Ko, Ph.D., Department of Biology and Biochemistry, University of Houston | Kathy Borthwick, (860) 679-8787 |
| Wednesday, December 3, 2003 | 12:00 P.M. | Center for Molecular Medicine | Academic Research Building (EG052) | "Revisiting the Mechanism of Mismatch Repair and its Role in Cancer" | Richard A. Fishel, Ph.D., Professor, Head of Genetics and Molecular Biology Program, Kimmel Cancer Center | Anita Marren, (860) 679-7640 |
| Thursday, December 4, 2003 | 12:00 P.M. | Center for Immunotherapy of Cancer and Infectious Diseases | Immunotherapy Conference Room (E6036) | "Secreted gp96-Ig and the CD8 response" | Eckhard R. Podack, M.D., Ph.D., Professor and Chairman, Department of Microbiology and Immunology, University of Miami School of Medicine | Tracy Dieli, (860) 679-4444 |
| Thursday, December 4, 2003 | 12:00 P.M. | Department of Genetics and Developmental Biology | Academic Research Building (EG013) | "A Dicer2-Dependent ~80S Complex Mediates mRNA Target Cleavage During RNAi in Drosophila" | Erik Sontheimer, Ph.D., Department of Biochemistry, Molecular Biology and Cell Biology, Northwestern University | Isolde Bates, (860) 679-8350 |
| Monday, December 8, 2003 | 4:00 P.M. | Department of Pharmacology | Academic Research Building (EG013) | "Ubiquitin-dependent regulation of cell differentiation" | Dr. Mark Hochstrasser, Professor, Department of Molecular Biophysics and Biochemistry, Yale University | Judith Conrad, (860) 679-2120 |
| Tuesday,
December 9, 2003
CANCELLED |
12:00 P.M. | Center for Vascular Biology | Academic Research Building (EG013) | "How tumors make bad blood vessels and stroma" | Harold F. Dvorak, M.D., Chief, Department of Pathology, Beth Israel Deaconess Medical Center, Mallinckrodt Professor of Pathology, Harvard Medical School | Annarita Erwin, (860) 679-3746 |
| Tuesday, December 9, 2003 | 4:00 P.M. | Department of Neuroscience | Academic Research Building (EG013) | "Control of axon branch dynamics by correlated activity in vivo." | Edward S. Ruthazer, Ph.D., Cold Spring Harbor Lab | Kathy Borthwick, (860) 679-8787 |
| Wednesday, December 10, 2003 | 12:00 P.M. | Center for Molecular Medicine | Academic Research Building (EG052) | "The Regulation of Mammary Development and Physiology by Parathyroid Hormone-Related Protein" | John J. Wysolmerski, M.D., Associate Professor of Medicine, Yale University School of Medicine | Anita Marren, (860) 679-7640 |
| Thursday, December 11, 2003 | 12:00 P.M. | Division of Immunology | Academic Research Building (EG052) | "Motivating and Stopping T Cell Migration In Vivo" | Michael L. Dustin, Ph.D., Irene Diamond Associate Professor of Immunology, NYU School of Medicine, Skirball Institute of Biomolecular Medicine | Susan Roman, (860) 679-1496 |
| Friday, December 12, 2003 | 12:00 P.M. | Center for Microbial Pathogenesis | Microbial Pathogenesis Conference Room (E7036) | "Regulation of meiotic arrest in vertebrate oocytes" | Laurinda Jaffe, Ph.D., Professor of Cell Biology, University of Connecticut Health Center | Virginia Hahn, (860) 679-8129 |
| Friday, December 12, 2003 | 12:00 P.M. | UConn Cancer Center | Medicine Conference Room (L2094) | "Understanding the Biochemistry of Colorectal Tumorigenesis" | Christopher D. Heinen, Ph.D., Postdoctoral Fellow, Kimmel Cancer Center, Thomas Jefferson University | Christine Kaminski, (860) 679-1173 |
| Monday,
December 15, 2003
CANCELLED |
2:00 P.M. | Center for Molecular Medicine | Molecular Medicine Conference Room (EM029) | "Pathway Pathology of Genetically Engineered Mouse Mammary Cancer: Structure and Function Merge" | Robert D. Cardiff, M.D., Ph.D., Professor of Pathology, Center for Comparative Medicine, University of California | Anita Marren, (860) 679-7640 |
| Tuesday, December 16, 2003 | 12:00 P.M. | Center for Vascular Biology | Academic Research Building (EG013) | "Inflammatory Mechanisms in Atherogenesis - From Bench to Bedside" | Peter Libby, M.D., Chief, Cardiovascular Medicine, Brigham and Women's Hospital, Mallincfrodt Professor of Medicine, Harvard Medical School | Annarita Erwin, (860) 679-3746 |
| Tuesday, December 16, 2003 | 4:00 P.M. | Department of Neuroscience | Academic Research Building (EG013) | "Estrogen and Synapses in the Hippocampus." | Catherine S. Woolley, Ph.D., Assistant Professor, Department of Neurobiology and Physiology, Northwestern University | Kathy Borthwick, (860) 679-8787 |
| Wednesday,
December 17, 2003
Registration is required by December 15. |
5:30 P.M. | UConn Cancer Center | Academic Research Building (EG013) | "Lipid Signaling in Inflammation and Cancer" | Stephen Prescott, M.D., Executive Director, Huntsman Cancer Institute, University of Utah | Christine Kaminski, (860) 679-7692 |
| Thursday, December 18, 2003 | 12:00 P.M. | Center for Immunotherapy of Cancer and Infectious Diseases | Immunotherapy Conference Room (E6036) | "Recognition of MHC molecules by NK and T cell receptors: signals that govern effector function, differentiation, and autoimmunity" | David Marguiles, M.D., Ph.D., Chief, Molecular Biology Section, Laboratory of Immunology, NIAID, National Institutes of Health | Tracy Dieli, (860) 679-4444 |
| Thursday, December 18, 2003 | 12:00 P.M. | Department of Genetics and Developmental Biology | Academic Research Building (EG013) | "Developmental Genomic Networks in Drosophila" | Kevin White, Ph.D., Department of Genetics, Yale University School of Medicine | Dr. Stephen Helfand, (860) 679-4200 |