IMMAG Seminar Schedule
2006-2007
(All seminars are held on Thursday, 4 PM,
CA-1002
unless otherwise noted.)
(706) 721-0682
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Date |
Speaker/ Affiliation | Title |
Host |
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2006 |
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| Aug 3 |
No Scheduled Seminar |
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| Aug 10 |
No Scheduled Seminar |
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| Aug 17 |
Ulf Wikesjö, DDS, DMD, PhD
Dept. of Periodontics, Oral Biology & Maxillofacial Pathology, Georgia Health Sciences University |
"Periodontal and alveolar bone regeneration" |
Carlos Isales, MD
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| Aug 24 |
No Scheduled Seminar |
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| Aug 31 |
Dean's Reception |
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| Sep 7 |
Joseph K-K. Li
Professor, Dept. of Biology Utah State University Logan, UT |
"Oncolytic bluetongue viruses for potential human cancer therapy" |
Hubert St
öppler
PhD ext. 1-1468 |
| Sep 12
Special Day |
Robert J. Lee, PhD
Associate Professor Division of Pharmaceutics College of Pharmacy The Ohio State Univ. Columbus, OH |
"Folate receptor-targeted drug delivery" |
William Dynan, PhD
ext 1-8756 |
| Sep 14 |
Laura Lillien
University of Pittsburgh |
"Precursor diversity in the central nervous system" |
Huanshun Li MD
ext 1-8747 |
| Sep 21 |
Andrew Engel
Professor of Neurology Mayo Clinic College of Medicine Rochester, MN |
"Congenital myasthenic syndromes" |
Lin Mei, PhD
ext. 1-8775 |
| Sep 28 |
Di Chen, MD, PhD
|
"Ubiquitin-Proteasome Regulation of the
Bone-Specific Transcription Factor Runx2"
|
Xingming Shi, PhD
ext. 1-1097 |
| Sep 29
*Note Special Time* |
Edith Gardiner, PhD
Associate Professor University of Queensland Director, Bone Research Group, Centre for Diabetes and Endocrine Research Brisbane, Australia |
"Control of bone formation by neuropeptide Y and leptin" | Carlos Isales and Mark Hamrick
ext. 1-0692 ext. 1934
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| Oct 5 |
Denise Cooper, PhD
Professor of Biochemistry & Molecular Biology JA Haley Veterans Hospital, Tampa, FL |
"The decision to splice: Akt and SR proteins regulate pre-mRNA alternative splicing via insulin signaling pathways" | Wendy Bollag,
PhD ext. 1-0698 |
| Oct 12 |
Eva Anton
University of North Carolina |
"Mechanisms of neuronal differentiation in the developing cerebral cortex" |
Quansheng Du, PhD
ext. 1-3730 |
| Oct 18
*Note Special Time* *Neuroscience* |
Nancy Ip, PhD
Professor, Director of Biotechnology Research Institute & Co-Director of Molecular Neuroscience Center Hog Kong University of Science & Technology Kowloon, Hong Kong |
"Cdk5: a key regulator of synaptic functions" | Lin Mei, PhD
ext. 1-8775 |
| Oct 19 |
Mimmin Luo, PhD
National Institute of Biological Sciences Beijing, PR China |
"A specialized olfactory pathway for CO2 detection" |
Huanshun Li MD
ext 1-8747 |
| Nov 2 |
Dr. Harry Blair
Professor Univ. of Pittsburgh Pittsburgh, PA |
"Estrogen, FSH and bone loss: New perspectives" | Xingming Shi,
PhD Wendy Bollag, PhD ext. 1-1097 ext. 1-0698 |
| Nov 9 |
Clinton Rubin, PhD
Director, Center for Biotechnology, State Univ. of NY Stony Brook, NY |
"Low-level mechanical signals as the basis for anabolic therapeutics for musculoskeletal disorders" |
Carlos Isales, MD
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Nov 16
*Special Time - 3:00 PM* |
Christian Raetz, MD, PhD
Professor and Chair Dept. of Biochemistry Duke Univ. Med. Ctr. |
"Assembly, secretion and function of lipopolysaccharide endotoxins: potent bacterial activators of innate immunity" | Robert Yu, PhD, Med.Sc.D
ext. 1-0699 |
| Nov 23 |
Thanksgiving Holiday |
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| Nov 30
**Canceled** |
Ulrich Mueller, Associate Professor
Department of Cell Biology, University of Texas, Austin |
"Cell Recognition Molecules in CNS Development and Sensory Perception | Quansheng Du, PhD
ext. 1-3730 |
| Dec 7 |
Scott Herness
Ohio State University
|
"Talking Too Much:
Communication with neurotransmitters and neuropeptides in the
taste bud"
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Lynnette McClusky, PhD
ext. 1-7840 |
| Dec 14
**Canceled**
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Sally Radovick, MD
Johns Hopkins Childrens Center |
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Lawrence Layman, MD
ext. 1-7591 |
| Dec 21-28 |
Winter Holidays |
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2007 |
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| Jan 4 |
Beata Lecka-Czernik, PhD
Research Assistant Professor Reynolds Institute on Aging Dept. of Geriatrics Univ. of Arkansas for Medical Sciences |
"PPARg nuclear receptor as a key component of bone loss due to aging and anti-diabetic TZD therapy" |
Xingming Shi, PhD
ext. 1-1097 |
| Jan 11 |
Xu Feng
Associate Professor University of Alabama-Birmingham |
"Biology and therapeutic potential of the
RANKL/RANK/OPG axis in bone and cancer"
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Wen-Cheng Xiong, PhD
ext. 1-5148 |
| Jan 18
**Canceled** |
L. Niklason
Dept. of Anesthesiology, Yale University Medical College of Georgia New Haven, CT |
"Stem Cell for Vascular Engineering?" |
Ying Song
ext. 1-9461 |
| Jan 25 |
Verne S. Caviness, Jr., M.D., D.Phil.
Professor Neuroscience Center at Massachusetts General Hospital Charlestown, MA |
"Regulation of neurogenesis in the proliferative epithelium" | Huanshun Li MD
ext 1-8747 |
| Feb 1
*Canceled* |
Zelana Goldberg, MD
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William Dynan, PhD
ext. 1-8756 |
| Feb 8 |
Elizabeth A. McGee, MD
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"Ovarian Folliculogenesis" | Ying Song
1-9641 |
| Feb 15 |
Peter Stambrook, PhD
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"Maintaining genomic integrity in somatic cells and embryonic stem cells" |
Stephen Hsu, PhD
ext. 1-2317 |
| Feb 22 |
Stavros Manolaga, MD, PhD
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"From Estrogen-centric to Multifactorial: A revisionist view of osteoporosis" |
Carlos Isales, MD
ext. 1-0692 |
| Mar 8
**Canceled** |
Tae-Wan Kim, PhD
Assistant Professor Center for Neurobiology & Behavior, Columbia University New York, NY |
"Emerging roles for phosphoinositides and
protein trafficking in Alzheimer's Disease"
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Lin Mei, PhD
ext. 1-8775 |
| Mar 15 |
Julius Zhu, PhD
Assistant Professor Department of Pharmacology University of Virginia Medical College of Georgia Charlottesville, VA |
"Oncogenic Ras Signaling at Synapses" |
Quansheng Du, PhD
ext. 1-3730 |
| Mar 22
**Canceled** |
Charles Stiles
Harvard Med—Dana Farber |
"Transcription factors and glial development in the vertebrate central nervous system" |
Huanshun Li MD
ext 1-8747 |
| Mar 29 |
Mary Helen Barcellos-Hoff, PhD
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"Mechanisms and consequences of TFG-beta
activation by radiation"
|
William Dynan, PhD
ext. 1-8756 |
| Apr 5 |
Spring Break |
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| Apr 19
**Canceled** |
Kapil Bhalla, MD
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"The role of HDAC6 in
modulating Hsp90 and misfolded protein response"
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William Dynan, PhD
ext. 1-8756 |
| May 3 |
David Bentley, PhD
Department of Biochemistry and Molecular Genetics University of Colorado Health Sciences Center Aurora, CO |
"Co-transcriptional pre-mRNA processing and
chromatin modification"
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William Dynan, PhD
ext 1-8756
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| May 10
*canceled* |
Olga Kovalchuk, MD, PhD
Assistant Professor Dept. of Biological Sciences University of Lethbridge Lethbridge, Alberta, Canada
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"Epigenetic Effectors
Hold the Key to Understanding Bystander Effects: Roles of DNA
Methylation,
Histone Modifications and MicroRNAs" or "Epigenetic dysregulation in carcinogenesis - an interplay between DNA methylation, histone modifications and microRNAome changes" |
William Dynan, PhD
ext 1-8756
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| May 17 |
Jef Boeke, PhD, DSc.
Professor and Director High Throughput Biology Center Johns Hopkins Medical College of Georgia Baltimore, MD |
"Retrotransposons - natural and synthetic" | Hernan Flores-Rozas, PhD
ext. 1-1371 |
| May 24 | Terry Van Dyke, PhD
Professor, Department of Biochemistry and Biophysics University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, Chapel Hill, NC |
"Deciphering the complexities of cancer in mouse models" |
Andrew Phillips, PhD |
| Jun 14 |
Kuan Wang, PhD
Lab Chief, Laboratory of Muscle Biology Section Head, Muscle Proteomics and Nanotechnology Section Laboratory of Muscle Biology NIAMS/NIH Bethesda, MD |
"Extreme muscle biology: from A to Z" |
Carlos Isales, MD
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| Jun 28 |
Kangpu Xu, PhD, DVM
Associate Professor Clinical Reproductive Medicine Weill Medical College of Cornell University New York, NY |
"Preimplantation genetic diagnosis: Where are we?" |
Ying Song, PhD
ext. 1-9461 |
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CA-2002
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