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Pathology Research Seminars

 

For information regarding upcoming seminars, contact Laura Labut, laszczem@med.umich.edu, (734) 763-6454.
 

Pathology Seminar Series are held on Thursdays from 4:00 PM - 5:00 PM in Pathology Seminar Room, 4234 Medical Science I , unless othewise noted.


2011/2012

 

9/8/11
No Seminar - New Student Orientation

 

9/15/11
Ulysses Balis, MD

Associate Professor of Pathology and
Director, Division of Pathology Informatics
University of Michigan Medical School
Jason Hipp, MD, PhD
Clinical Lecturer in Pathology
Pathology Informatics Fellow
University of Michigan Medical School
Update on Digital Whole Slide Imaging

 

9/22/11
Jason Cheng, MD, PhD

Assistant Professor of Pathology
University of Michigan Medical School
Epigenetic and Genetic Regulation of Myelopoiesis

 

9/29/11
Randy D. Gascoyne, MD
Clinical Professor of Pathology, University of British Columbia
Hematopathologist, British Columbia Cancer Agency
Research Director, Centre for Lymphoid Cancer
Associate Editor - Haematologica
Distinguished Scientist, British Columbia Cancer Research Centre
Department of Pathology & Experimental Therapeutics
British Columbia Cancer Agency and the British Columbia Cancer Research Centre
Next Generation Sequencing of Large B Cell Lymphomas: What have we Really Learned?

 

10/6/11
Ting Yu

PhD Candidate (Mentor Andrew Lieberman, MD, PhD)
Molecular and Cellular Pathology
University of Michigan Medical School
Niemann-Pick Type C disease: molecular mechanisms of neurodegeneration and targets for therapeutic intervention

 

10/13/11
No Seminar Scheduled - see 10/17/11 seminar Special Date & Time!

 

10/17/11
Note Special Day and Time!

Prof. Pascal Meier
The Breakthrough Toby Robins Breast Cancer Research Centre
Institute of Cancer Research
London, UK
IAPs: from caspase inhibitors to modulators of NF-kB, inflammation and cancer
Co-Sponsored by the University of Michigan Comprehensive Cancer Center

 

10/20/11
Gregory R. Dressler, PhD
Collegiate Professor of Pathology Research
Department of Pathology
University of Michigan Medical School
Attenuation of DNA repair by a poly-Q expansion disease protein: a new mechanism for Neuromuscular degeneration?

 

10/27/11
Matthew Smith

PhD Candidate (Mentor Jason Gestwicki, PhD)
Molecular and Cellular Pathology
University of Michigan Medical School
Towards Understanding Protein Quality-Control in Neurodegeneration Using Small Molecules

 

11/3/11
No Seminar Scheduled
Pathology Research Symposium TODAY in BSRB

 

11/10/11
Bruce Vallance, PhD
Division of Gastroenterology
British Columbia Children's Hospital
University of British Columbia
Sticking to Muc2: The novel host defense role of mucus in enteric bacterial infections

 

11/17/11
John Prensner

PhD Candidate (Mentor: Arul Chinnaiyan, MD, PhD)
Molecular and Cellular Pathology and
Medical Scientist Training Program
University of Michigan Medical School
"New visions of the cancer transcriptome: discovery of long noncoding RNAs as novel cancer genes"

 

11/18/11
Note Special Day and Time!
12:00 - 1:00 PM, Room 4234 Med Sci Bldg I

Christopher A. Moskaluk, MD, PhD
David Harrison Distinguished Teaching Professor of Pathology
Department of Pathology
University of Virginia Health System
Tissue procurement and banking: who, how and why

 

11/24/11
No Seminar
Thanksgiving Holiday

 

12/1/11
No seminar scheduled

 

12/8/11
Robb Krumlauf, PhD
Scientific Director
Stowers Institute for Medical Research
Hox genes in development, disease and evolution: A complex question or a question of complexes

 

12/15/11
Peng Zhang

PhD Candidate (Mentor Greg Dressler, PhD)
Molecular and Cellular Pathology
University of Michigan Medical School
Cross-talking of TGF-beta and Wnt signaling pathway in epithelial-mesenchymal transition

 

12/22/11
No Meeting
Winter Break

 

12/29/11


No Meeting
Winter Break

 

1/5/12
 

1/12/12
Jingya Wang

PhD Candidate (Mentor Jay L. Hess, MD, PhD)
Molecular and Cellular Pathology
University of Michigan Medical School
ECSASB2 mediates MLL degradation during hematopoietic differentiation

 

1/19/12
Andrew Lieberman, MD, PhD

Associate Professor of Pathology
University of Michigan Medical School
Deconstructing Neurodegeneration in Niemann-Pick C Disease

 

1/26/12
Richard A. Miller, MD, PhD

Professor of Pathology
University of Michigan Medical School
Anti-Aging Drugs in Mice: Two New Ones and An Olde Favorite

 

2/2/12
Aaron Burberry

PhD Candidate (Mentor Gabriel Nunez, MD)
Molecular and Cellular Pathology
University of Michigan Medical School
Hematopoietic stem and progenitors accumulate in spleen in response to infectious stimuli

 

2/9/12
No Meeting

 

2/16/12
Elizabeth Spehalski

PhD Candidate (Mentor David Ferguson, MD, PhD
Molecular and Cellular Pathology
University of Michigan Medical School
Recombination and repair of DNA during B lymphocyte development and lymphomagenesis

 

2/23/12
George Lund

PhD Candidate (Mentor Tomasz Cierpicki, PhD)
Molecular and Cellular Pathology
University of Michigan Medical School
Development of small molecule inhibitors of the phosphatase cdc25B

 

3/1/12
No Seminar
Winter Break

 

3/8/12
Peter Murray, PhD

Associate Member
Departments of Infectious Diseases and Immunology
St. Jude Children's Research Hospital
Mysteries and conundrums in STAT3-dependent cytokine receptor signaling

 

3/15/12
Garrett Gibbons

PhD Candidate (Mentor Zaneta Nikolovska-Coleska, PhD)
Molecular and Cellular Pathology
University of Michigan Medical School
Targeting the Histone Methyltransferase DOT1L in Mixed Lineage Leukemia

 

3/22/12
Bernadette Zwaans

PhD Candidate (Mentor David Lombard, MD, PhD)
Molecular and Cellular Pathology
University of Michigan Medical School
Novel mouse models to elucidate functions of the histone deacetylase Sirt6

 

3/29/12
Cailin Collins

PhD Candidate (Mentor Jay L. Hess, MD, PhD)
Molecular and Cellular Pathology
and Medical Scientist Training Program
University of Michigan Medical School
Role of Collaborator Proteins in Hoxa9-mediated Leukemogenesis

 

4/5/12
Joshua Regal

PhD Candidate (Mentor David Ferguson, MD, PhD)
Molecular and Cellular Pathology
and Medical Scientist Training Program
University of Michigan Medical School
Characterization of MRE11 mutants

 

4/12/12
Scott McDonnell

PhD Candidate (Mentor Megan S. Lim, MD,PhD)
Molecular and Cellular Pathology
University of Michigan Medical School
The Hungry Cancer Cell: How NPM-ALK drives a Warburg Metabolism

 

4/19/12
Canceled - Will be Re-scheduled

Sunita Shankar
PhD Candidate (Mentor Arul M. Chinnaiyan, MD, PhD)
Molecular and Cellular Pathology
University of Michigan Medical School
TBA

 

4/26/12
Shanker Kalyana-Sundaram, M.S.

Data Architect Senior/ Research Bioinformatics Analyst Senior

Faculty Mentor: Arul Chinnaiyan, M.D., Ph.D.
Michigan Center for Translational Pathology, University of Michigan

"Expression of pseudogenes in the transcriptomic landscape of cancer"
 

5/3/12
Stephen C. Blacklow, MD, PhD

Professor, Department of Pathology, Harvard Medical School
Professor of Pathology, Brigham and Women's Hospital
Professor of Biological Chemistry and Molecular Pharmacology, Department of Cancer Biology
Dana Farber Cancer Institute
Director for the Basic Sciences M.D. Ph.D. Program

“Unraveling the Mechanism of Notch Signal Transduction”

 

5/4/12
Ruud Delwel, PhD
Professor, Molecular Leukemogenesis

Department of Hematology

Erasmus Medical Center

The Role of EVI1 in High Risk Acute Myeloid Leukemia

 

5/10/12
Michael A. Matthay, M.D.
Professor, Cardiovascular Research Institute

Departments of Medicine and Anesthesia

University of California, San Francisco

Allogeneic human mesenchymal stem cells: Potential therapy for acute lung injury
 

5/17/12
Paul Harms, MD

Clinical Lecturer
Department of Pathology
University of Michigan Medical School
Genetic and epigenetic loss of MicroRNA-31 in melanoma

 

5/24/12
Ethan Lee, MD, PhD
Cell and Devlopmental Biology

Vanderbilt University Medical Center

A biochemical approach to study WNT signaling
 
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