May 2005
Research Lectures and Seminars
University of Connecticut School of Medicine
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May 2005 Research Lectures and Seminars University of Connecticut School of Medicine
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| Date | Time | Department/ Center | Location | Title | Speaker | Contact Person |
| Tuesday, May 3, 2005 | 4:00 P.M. | Department of Neuroscience | Academic Research Building (EG013) | "Combinatorial Regulation by FGF Signaling System." | Rashmi Bansal, Ph.D., Associate Professor, Department of Neuroscience, University of Connecticut School of Medicine | Kathy Borthwick, (860) 679-8787 |
| Wednesday, May 4, 2005 | 12:00 P.M. | Center for Molecular Medicine | Academic Research Building (EG052) | "Somatic Loss of Heterozygosity and Recombination" | Jay A. Tischfild, Ph.D., FACMG, Professor and Chair, Department of Genetics, Rutgers University | Anita Marren, (860) 679-7640 |
| Thursday, May 5, 2005 | 12:00 P.M. | Department of Genetics and Developmental Biology | Academic Research Building (EG013) | "Constructing a nervous system: Genetic blueprint of the cerebellum" | Alexandra Joyner, Ph.D., Skirball Institute of Biomolecular Medicine, New York University School of Medicine | Gail D'Amico, (860) 679-3410 |
| Tuesday, May 10, 2005 | 12:00 P.M. | General Clinical Research Center | Academic Research Building (EG013) | "To be announced" | Saeid Shahraz, M.D. | Lisa Godin, (860) 679-4145 |
| Tuesday, May 10, 2005 | 4:00 P.M. | Department of Neuroscience | Academic Research Building (EG013) | "Cytosolic Phospholipase A2 and Cyclooxgenase-2 in Excitotoxic Neuronal Degeneration" | Sandra Hewett, Ph.D., Associate Professor, Department of Neuroscience, University of Connecticut School of Medicine | Kathy Borthwick, (860) 679-8787 |
| Wednesday, May 11, 2005 | 12:00 P.M. | Center for Molecular Medicine | Academic Research Building (EG052) | "Loss of DNA Mismatch Repair Function and Cancer Predisposition in the Mouse: Animal Models for Human Hereditary Non-polyposis Colorectal Cancer" | Winfried Edelmann, Ph.D., Associate Professor, Department of Cell Biology, Albert Einstein College of Medicine | Anita Marren, (860) 679-7640 |
| Friday, May 13, 2005 | 3:00 P.M. | Center for Microbial Pathogenesis | Microbial Pathogenesis Conference Room (E7036) | "Gene expression and RNA interference in Trypanosoma brucei" | Christian Tschudi, Ph.D., Associate Professor in Epidemiology and Public Health and Medicine, Yale University | Virginia Hahn, (860) 679-8129 |
| Tuesday, May 17, 2005 | 12:00 P.M. | General Clinical Research Center | Academic Research Building (EG013) | "An Introduction to Pharmacogenetics" | Henry Kranzler, M.D., Professor, Department of Psychiatry, Assistant Dean for Clinical Research, University of Connecticut School of Medicine | Lisa Godin, (860) 679-4145 |
| Tuesday, May 17, 2005 | 4:00 P.M. | Department of Neuroscience | Academic Research Building (EG013) | "Intrinsic and extrinsic mechanisms of ion channel localization in neurons." | Matthew Rasband, Ph.D., Assistant Professor, Department of Neuroscience, University of Connecticut School of Medicine | Kathy Borthwick, (860) 679-8787 |
| Wednesday,
May 18, 2005
Registration required by May 13 - light dinner will be served |
5:30 P.M. | The Carole and Ray Neag Comprehensive Cancer Center | Academic Research Building (EG013) | "Patient-Specific Immunotherapy for T Cell Lymphoma" | Richard L. Edelson, M.D., Director, Yale Cancer Center, Professor and Chairman, Department of Dermatology, Yale University School of Medicine | Shelly Lombardo, (860) 679-7692 or 1-800-535-6232 |
| Thursday, May 19, 2005 | 12:00 P.M. | Department of Genetics and Developmental Biology | Academic Research Building (EG013) | "Molecular and Genetic Study of Tumor-Suppressor Genes" | Hong Wu, Ph.D., Department of Molecular and Medical Pharmacology, UCLA Medical School | Gail D'Amico, (860) 679-3410 |
| Monday, May 23, 2005 | 1:30 P.M. | Center for Microbial Pathogenesis and the Department of Neuroscience | Microbial Pathogenesis Conference Room (E7036) | "Discovery and potential of fatty acid synthesis pathway in malaria parasite for anti-malarial therapy" | Avadhesha Surolia, Ph.D., Professor of Biophysics & Chairman, Molecular Biophysics Unit, Indian Institute of Science, Bangalore, India | Virginia Hahn, (860) 679-8129 or Kathy Borthwick, (860) 679-8787 |
| Tuesday, May 24, 2005 | 12:00 P.M. | Center for Vascular Biology | Academic Research Building (EG013) | "How VEGF Signaling Modulates Vascular Morphogenesis" | Victoria L. Bautch, Ph.D., Professor of Biology, University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill | Annarita Erwin, (860) 679-3746 |
| Tuesday, May 24, 2005 | 4:00 P.M. | Department of Neuroscience | Academic Research Building (EG013) | "Polyglutamine expansion disease: 'A delivery conundrum.'" | Gustavo F. Pigino, Ph.D., Research Assistant Professor, Department of Anatomy and Cell Biology, College of Medicine at Chicago | Kathy Borthwick, (860) 679-8787 |
| Wednesday, May 25, 2005 | 12:00 P.M. | Center for Molecular Medicine | Academic Research Building (EG052) | "Somatic Mosaicism and Cancer: A Micro-genetic Examination in the Role of the Androgen Receptor Gene in Prostate Cancer" | Bruce Gottlieb, Ph.D., Project Director, Lady Davis Institute for Medical Research, Sir Mortimer B. Davis-Jewish General Hospital, Montreal, Quebec | Anita Marren, (860) 679-7640 |
| Thursday, May 26, 2005 | 10:30 A.M. | Center for Immunotherapy of Cancer and Infectious Diseases | Immunotherapy Conference Room (E6036) | "Imaging Immune Cell Function In Situ: Visualizing Chemokine-Guided Recruitment of Naive CD8+ T Cells to Sites of Antigen-Dependent CD4+ T Cell - Dendritic Cell Interaction" | Alex Huang, M.D., Ph.D., Postdoctoral Fellow, Lymphocyte Biology Section, Laboratory of Immunology, National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases, National Institutes of Health | Susan Wasik, (860) 679-4444 |
| Tuesday, May 31, 2005 | 4:00 P.M. | Department of Neuroscience | Academic Research Building (EG013) | "Role of T and B cells in autoimmunity of the CNS." | Vijay K. Kuchroo, DVM, Ph.D., Brigham and Women's Hospital | Penny Skenderian, (860) 679-4343 |