March 2003
Research Lectures and Seminars
University of Connecticut School of Medicine
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March 2003 Research Lectures and Seminars University of Connecticut School of Medicine
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| Date | Time | Department/ Center | Location | Title | Speaker | Contact Person |
| Monday, March 3, 2003 | 12:00 P.M. | Department of Biochemistry | Lecture Room A (LM036) | "Transactivating proteins remodel DNA and RNA polymerase to impose promoter choice on the enzyme" | Milton H. Werner, Ph.D., Assistant Professor, Head, Laboratory of Molecular Biophysics, The Rockefeller University | Stephanie Smail, (860) 679-2513 |
| Tuesday, March 4, 2003 | 4:00 P.M. | Department of Neuroscience | Academic Research Building (EG013) | "Regulation of Oligodenfrocyte Terminal Differentiation: Analysis of Genetically Modified Mice" | Rashmi Bansal, Ph.D., Assistant Professor, Department of Neuroscience, University of Connecticut School of Medicine | Penny Skenderian, (860) 679-4343 |
| Thursday, March 6, 2003 | 11:00 A.M. | Department of Biochemistry | Lecture Room A (LM036) | "Biochemical and NMR Studies of the HIV Env and Tat Proteins" | Michael S. Caffrey, Ph.D., Assistant Professor, Department of Biochemistry and Molecular Biology, University of Illinois at Chicago | Stephanie Smail, (860) 679-2513 |
| Friday, March 7, 2003 | 5:30 P.M. | Center for Immunotherapy of Cancer and Infectious Diseases | Green Auditorium (Patterson Room) | "The Extended Mind: Recent Experimental Evidence" | Rupert Sheldrake, Ph.D., Institute of Noetic Sciences, San Francisco | Susan Wasik, (860) 679-4444 |
| Tuesday, March 11, 2003 | 4:00 P.M. | Department of Neuroscience | Academic Research Building (EG013) | "Control of Synapse Number and Strength in Developing Cortical Networks" | Gina Turrigiano, Ph.D., Brandeis University | Penny Skenderian, (860) 679-4343 |
| Wednesday, March 12, 2003 | 11:00 A.M. | Department of Genetics and Developmental Biology | Lecture Room A (LM036) | "Circadian and homeostatic mechanisms of rest/sleep behavior in Drosophila melanogaster" | Julie Williams, Ph.D., Department of Neuroscience, University of Pennsylvania School of Medicine | Isolde Bates, (860) 679-8350 |
| Wednesday, March 12, 2003 | 12:00 P.M. | Center for Molecular Medicine | Academic Research Building (EG052) | "In situ Gene Expression Profiling of Human Breast Cancer Progression" | Dennis C. Sgroi, M.D., Assistant Professor of Pathology, Harvard Medical School, Director, Breast Pathology, Massachusetts General Hospital | Anita Marren, (860) 679-7640 |
| Wednesday, March 12, 2003 | 12:00 P.M. | Center for Vascular Biology | Vascular Biology Conference Room (E5036) | "Pharmacogenomics of Nucleoside Transporters: Implications for Heart and Vascular Diseases" | Bruce T. Liang, M.D., Neag Distinguished Professor of Vascular Biology and Cardiology, Chair, Cardiovascular Signature Program, and Chief, Cardiology, University of Connecticut Health Center | Annarita Erwin, (860) 679-3746 |
| Thursday, March 13, 2003 | 12:00 P.M. | Center for Immunotherapy of Cancer and Infectious Diseases | Immunotherapy Conference Room (E6036) | "NFκB: a pleiotropic mediator of immune and inflammatory responses" | Sankar Ghosh, Ph.D., Professor, Section of Immunobiology, Yale University | Tracy Dieli, (860) 679-4444 |
| Friday, March 14, 2003 | 12:00 P.M. | Center for Microbial Pathogenesis | Microbial Pathogenesis Conference Room (E7036) | "Targets for Antimalarial Drugs in the Genomic Era" | Akhil Vaidya, Ph.D., Professor and Interim Chair, Department of Microbiology and Immunology, Director, Division of Molecular Parasitology, Drexel University | Virginia Hahn, (860) 679-8129 |
| Tuesday, March 18, 2003 | 10:00 A.M. | Centers for Molecular Medicine and Vascular Biology | Molecular Medicine Conference Room (EM036) | "Molecular Diversity and Functional Properties of Secreted Phospholipases" | Gerard Lambeau, Ph.D., Director of Research, French National Center for Scientific Research, Valbonne, France | Anita Marren, (860) 679-7640 |
| Tuesday, March 18, 2003 | 4:00 P.M. | Department of Neuroscience | Academic Research Building (EG013) | "Ion Channel Trafficking and Localization" | James Trimmer, Ph.D., State University of New York | Penny Skenderian, (860) 679-4343 |
| Monday, March 24, 2003 | 12:00 P.M. | General Clinical Research Center | Faculty/Staff Dining Room | "Clinical Investigations of Schizophrenia Endophenotye Markers" | Jonathan Covault, M.D., Ph.D., Assistant Professor, Department of Psychiatry, University of Connecticut Health Center | Lisa Godin, (860) 679-4145 |
| Tuesday, March 25, 2003 | 11:00 A.M. | Department of Genetics and Developmental Biology | Lecture Room A (LM036) | "Understanding the Molecular Genetics of Bardet-Biedl Syndrome" | Kirk Mykytyn, Ph.D., Howard Hughes Medical Institute, University of Iowa, College of Medicine | Isolde Bates, (860) 679-8350 |
| Tuesday, March 25, 2003 | 4:00 P.M. | Department of Neuroscience | Academic Research Building (EG013) | "Reconstructing Smell: the Olfactory System as a Neurodevelopmental Model" | Gabriele Ronnett, M.D., Ph.D., Johns Hopkins School of Medicine | Penny Skenderian, (860) 679-4343 |
| Wednesday,
March 26, 2003
Registration is required by March 21, 2003 |
5:30 P.M. | UConn Cancer Center | Academic Research Building (EG013) | "The Regulation and Targeting of Somatic Hypermutation of Antibody Genes" | Matthew D. Scharff, M.D., Professor, Department of Cell Biology, Albert Einstein College of Medicine | Christine Kaminski, (860) 679-7692 or 1-800-535-6232 |
| Thursday, March 27, 2003 | 12:00 P.M. | Center for Immunotherapy of Cancer and Infectious Diseases | Immunotherapy Conference Room (E6036) | "Immunological Destruction of Solid Tumors" | Hans Schreiber, M.D., Ph.D., Professor of Pathology, Chairman of the Committee on Immunology, University of Chicago | Tracy Dieli, (860) 679-4444 |
| Monday, March 31, 2003 | 12:00 P.M. | Center for Molecular Medicine | Molecular Medicine Conference Room (E1036) | "Molecular Genetics of Autosomal Dominant Hypophosphatemic Rickets and Implications for Tumor Induced Osteomalacia" | Kenneth E. White, Ph.D., Indiana University School of Medicine | Anita Marren, (860) 679-7640 |