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11th Annual Pathology Research Symposium

11:50 PM, Thursday, October, 11, 2012

Departmental talks, a poster session and reception will be held in the BSRB Seminar Rooms A-C and Upper Atrium.

Keynote Speaker:

Jeffery W. Kelly, Ph.D.
Lita Annenberg Hazen Professor of Chemistry,
Department of Chemistry and the Skaggs Institute for Chemical Biology and

Chairman,Department of Molecular and Experimental Medicine,

The Scripps Research Institute.
"Altering Cellular Protein Homeostasis to Ameliorate Misfolding Pathology"

Dr. Kelly’s Keynote Presentation will be held at 4:00 PM in the BSRB Auditorium.

  

Departmental Speakers include:
  

11:50 a.m.

Introduction in BSRB Seminar Rooms A-C


11:55 a.m.

Eric Fearon, M.D., Ph.D.

Professor of Pathology, Emanuel N. Maisel Professor of Oncology,Professor of Internal Medicine and Human Genetics

"The use of mouse models to explore the molecular pathogenesis of colorectal cancer."

12:20 p.m.

George Lund, B.S.

Doctoral Candidate, Molecular & Cellular Pathology

Mentor: Tomascz Cierpicki, Ph.D.

"Development of small molecule inhibitors targeting the cdc25B-CDK2/CycA interaction."

12:35 p.m.

Celina Kleer, M.D.

Professor of Pathology, Harold A. Oberman Collegiate Professor of Pathology, Director, Breast Pathology Section and Breast Pathology Fellowship Program

"New role of the polycomb group protein EZH2 in breast cancer development."

 

1:00 p.m.

Ania Owczarczyk, B.S.

Doctoral Candidate, Molecular & Cellular Pathology & Medical Scientist Training Program

Mentor: Nicholas Lukacs, Ph.D.

"Sirtuin 1 and the innate immune response to RSV infection."

 

1:15 p.m.

Poster Session and Reception in BSRB Upper Atrium

2:25 p.m.

Scott Tomlins, M.D., Ph.D.

Assistant Professor of Pathology

"Translating the prostate cancer genome to the clinic."

 

2:50 p.m.

Cailin Collins, B.S.

Doctoral Candidate, Molecular & Cellular Pathology & Medical Scientist Training Program

Mentor: Jay Hess, M.D., Ph.D.

"Role of collaborator proteins in Hoxa9-mediated leukemogenesis."

 

3:05 p.m.

Michael Bachman, M.D., Ph.D.

Assistant Professor of Pathology

"The immune response to microbial iron metabolism."

 

3:30 p.m.

Sunita Shankar, M.A.

Doctoral Candidate, Molecular & Cellular Pathology

Mentor: Arul Chinnaiyan, M.D., Ph.D.

"Oncogenicity of rare gene rearrangements in cancer."

  


Past Symposiums (Programs and photos):

1st Annual Pathology Research Symposium, January 2003

 

2nd Annual Pathology Research Symposium, November 2003

 

3rd Annual Pathology Research Symposium, November 2004


4th Annual Pathology Research Symposium, November 2005


5th Annual Pathology Research Symposium, November 2006


6th Annual Pathology Research Symposium, November 2007

7th Annual Pathology Research Symposium, November 2008

8th Annual Pathology Research Symposium, November 2009

9th Annual Pathology Research Symposium, November 2010

10th Annual Pathology Research Symposium, November 2011