October 2003
Research Lectures and Seminars
University of Connecticut School of Medicine
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October 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, October 7, 2003 | 4:00 P.M. | Department of Neuroscience | Academic Research Building (EG013) | "Chemokines and chemokine receptors along the brain microvasculature" | Joel Pachter, Ph.D., Professor, Department of Pharmacology, University of Connecticut School of Medicine | Penny Skenderian, (860) 679-4343 |
| Thursday, October 9, 2003 | 12:00 P.M. | Center for Immunotherapy of Cancer and Infectious Diseases | Immunotherapy Conference Room (E6036) | "The Three E's of Cancer Immunoediting: Elimination, Equilibrium and Escape" | Robert D. Schreiber, Ph.D., Alumni Endowed Professor, Department of Pathology and Immunology, Washington University School of Medicine | Tracy Dieli, (860) 679-4444 |
| Tuesday, October 14, 2003 | 4:00 P.M. | Department of Neuroscience | Academic Research Building (EG013) | "Computing sound source location (and what textbooks don't tell you)." | Barbara Shinn-Cunningham, Ph.D., Departments of Cognitive and Neural Systems and Biomedical Engineering, Brown University | Kathy Borthwick, (860) 679-8787 |
| Wednesday,
October 15, 2003
Registration is required by October 10, as space is limited (Dinner will be provided) |
5:30 P.M. | UConn Cancer Center | Academic Research Building (EG013) | "The Molecular Pathogenesis of Lung Cancer" | John D. Minna, M.D., Professor and Director, Hamon Center for Therapeutic Oncology Research, University of Texas Southwestern Medical Center | Christine Kaminski, (860) 679-7692 or 1-800-535-6232 |
| Thursday, October 16, 2003 | 12:00 P.M. | Division of Immunology | Academic Research Building (EG052) | "Anti-CD137 Induced Peripheral Tolerance During Acute Viral Infection in Mice" | Robert S. Mittler, Ph.D., Associate Professor, Emory University School of Medicine, Emory Vaccine Center | Susan Roman, (860) 679-1496 |
| Tuesday, October 21, 2003 | 4:00 P.M. | Department of Neuroscience | Academic Research Building (EG013) | "Functions of electrical synapses in the mammalian brain." | Barry W. Connors, Ph.D., Department of Neuroscience, Brown University | Kathy Borthwick, (860) 679-8787 |
| Thursday, October 23, 2003 | 12:00 P.M. | Center for Immunotherapy of Cancer and Infectious Diseases | Immunotherapy Conference Room (E6036) | "MHC Class I-Restricted Antigen Processing: An Adaptation of ER Quality Control" | Peter Cresswell, Ph.D., Professor and Investigator, Department of Immunobiology, Howard Hughes Medical Institute, Yale University School of Medicine | Tracy Dieli, (860) 679-4444 |
| Thursday, October 23, 2003 | 12:00 P.M. | Division of Immunology | Academic Research Building (EG052) | "Could Nature Really Be This Inefficient?: Protein Synthesis and the Generation of MHC Class I-Peptide Complexes" | Jonathan W. Yewdell, Ph.D., Chief, Cellular Biology Section, Laboratory of Viral Diseases, National Institutes of Health, NIAID | Susan Roman, (860) 679-1496 |
| Tuesday, October 28, 2003 | 9:30 A.M. | Center for Biomedical Imaging Technology | Center for Biomedical Imaging Technology Conference Room (L5095) | "Functions and organization of the endoplasmic reticulum" | Jennifer Lippincott-Schwartz, Ph.D., Cell Biology and Metabolism Branch, National Institute of Health | Karen Zucker, (860) 679-1452 |
| Tuesday, October 28, 2003 | 12:00 P.M. | General Clinical Research Center | Academic Research Building (EG013) | "Use of Isotopes in Clinical Studies of Calcium Metabolism" | Connie M. Weaver, Ph.D., Professor and Department Head, Department of Foods and Nutrition, Purdue University | Lisa Godin, (860) 679-4145 |
| Thursday, October 30, 2003 | 12:00 P.M. | Center for Microbial Pathogenesis/Department of Genetics and Developmental Biology | Academic Research Building (EG013) | "RNA interference in African trypanosomes" | Elisabetta Ullu, Ph.D., Professor of Internal Medicine and Cell Biology, Yale University | Virginia Hahn, (860) 679-8129 |
| Thursday, October 30, 2003 | 12:00 P.M. | Department of Community Medicine and Health Care | Academic Research Building (EG052) | "Nutritional Recommendations for Prevention of Cardiovascular Disease: Double Twisting the Pyramid" | Dr. Jose M. Ordovas, Professor of Nutrition and Director, Nutrition and Genomics Laboratory, Jean Mayer USDA HNRCA, Tufts University | Wendy Walsh, (860) 679-5472 |
| Thursday, October 30, 2003 | 12:00 P.M. | Department of Community Medicine and Health Care | Link Room (CG076A) | "Renegotiating the social contract between doctors and everyone else" | Joe Wright, NPR Commentator, Harvard Medical Student | Matthew Cook, (860) 679-5401 |