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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.

  

2012/2013

9/6/12
No Seminar - New Student Orientation

9/13/12
Shan Gao, PhD

Research Fellow

Department of Pathology
University of Michigan Medical School
Deletion of a H3K27 mono-methylation specific histone methyltransferase leads to severe replication stress in Tetrahymena

 

9/20/12 - Note room change to 5330 Med Sci I
Ronald W. Davis, PhD

Professor

Biochemistry and Genetics
Stanford School of Medicine

Member of the Stanford Cancer Institute and Bio-X
New technologies for medical diagnosis

9/27/12

No seminar scheduled

10/4/12
Andrew Muntean, PhD

Assistant Professor

Department of Pathology
University of Michigan Medical School
The role of the epigenetic regulator PAFc in MLL associated leukemia

 

10/11/12
No Seminar - 11th Annual Pathology Research Symposium

 

10/18/12
Aaron Burberry

Doctoral Candidate (Mentor Gabriel Nunez, MD)

Molecular and Cellular Pathology Program
University of Michigan Medical School
Probing HSC activity during infection

10/25/12

Jingya Wang
Doctoral Candidate (Mentor Jay Hess, MD, PhD)

Molecular and Cellular Pathology Program
University of Michigan Medical School
The role of the MLL-HOXA9 axis in normal and malignant hematopoiesis

11/1/12

David Lombard, MD, PhD

Assistant Professor

Department of Pathology
University of Michigan Medical School

New (and old) functions of sirtuin deacetylases

11/8/12

Lee Grimes, PhD

Associate Professor & Director of the Cancer Pathology Program

UC Department of Pediatrics
Cincinnati Children's Hospital Medical Center

RNA Therapeutics for Leukemia

11/15/12 - Note room change to 5330 Med Sci I
Wei Gu, PhD

Professor, Institute of Cancer Geriatrics

Columbia University

What do we really know about p53?

11/22/12

No Seminar - Thanksgiving Holiday

 

11/29/12

Anuska V. Andjelkovic-Zochowska, MD, PhD

Associate Professor

Department of Pathology and Neurosurgery
University of Michigan Medical School

Dynamics and functions of brain endothelial tight junctional barrier in disease

 

12/6/12

Charles W.M. Roberts, MD, PhD

Assistant Professor

Department of Pediatrics, Pediatric Oncology
Harvard Medical School, Dana-Farber Cancer Institute

SWI/SNF complexes are frequently mutated in cancer: epigenetic mechanisms and therapeutic targeting

12/13/12

Robert W. Sobol, PhD

Associate Professor

Department of Pharmacology & Chemical Biology

University of Pittsburgh

PARP1 – A mediator of genotoxin response pathway crosstalk

1/10/13 - SPEAKER RESCHEDULED FOR 3/21/13

1/17/13

Andrzej Wierzbicki, PhD

Assistant Professor

Department of Molecular, Cellular & Developmental Biology

University of Michigan Medical School

The role of long non-coding RNA in transcriptional silencing

1/24/13
Garrett Gibbons

Doctoral Candidate (Mentor Zaneta Nikolovska-Coleska, PhD)

Molecular and Cellular Pathology Program
University of Michigan Medical School
The histone methyltransferase DOT1L and cancer

 

1/31/13

No seminar

 

2/7/13

Joshua Regal

Doctoral Candidate (Mentor David Ferguson, MD, PhD)

Molecular and Cellular Pathology and Medical Scientist Training Program
University of Michigan Medical School
Characterization of MRE11 mutants

 

2/14/13

Sunita Shankar

Doctoral Candidate (Mentor Arul Chinnaiyan, MD, PhD)

Molecular and Cellular Pathology Program
University of Michigan Medical School
Outlier kinases in cancer transcriptomes

 

2/21/13 - Note room change to BSRB Seminar Rooms A-C
Cheryl Arrowsmith, PhD

Professor

Department of Medical Biophysics
University of Toronto

Chemical biology approaches to understand epigenetic signaling in health and disease

 

2/28/13

Hang (Hubert) Yin, PhD

Assistant Professor

Department of Chemistry and Biochemistry

University of Colorado at Boulder

Drugging the undruggable

 

3/7/13

No Seminar - Winter Break

 

3/14/13 - Note room change to BSRB Seminar Rooms A-C

James Douglas Engel, PhD

Professor and Chair

Department of Cell & Developmental Biology

University of Michigan Medical School

Development of molecular therapeutics for the most prevalent inherited human disease

 

3/21/13

George Lund

Doctoral Candidate (Mentor Tomasz Cierpicki, PhD)

Molecular and Cellular Pathology Program
University of Michigan Medical School
Development of small molecule inhibitors targeting the cdc25B-CDK2/CycA interaction

 

3/28/13

Cailin Collins

Doctoral Candidate (Mentor Jay 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

 

4/4/13   Note room and time change to M5330 Med Sci I at 12 noon

Paul Kubes, PhD *co-hosted with Microbiology and Immunology
Professor

Department of Physiology and Biophysics
University of Calgary

Neutrophils in sterile inflammation and infection

 

4/11/13 Note room change to M3330 Med Sci I

Michael Gilmore, PhD  *co-hosted with Microbiology and Immunology
Sir William Osker Professor of Ophthalmology

Department of Ophthalmology
Harvard Medical School, Massachusetts Eye and Ear Infirmary

Multidrug resistant Enterococcus: understanding its emergence by knowing its roots

 

4/18/13

No seminar scheduled

 

4/25/13

Bernadette Zwaans

Doctoral Candidate (Mentor David Lombard, MD, PhD)

Molecular and Cellular Pathology Program
University of Michigan Medical School
SIRT6 silences pericentromeric major satellite repeats to promote euploidy

   

 

5/2/13
Antonio Iavarone, MD

Professor, Departments of Neurology and Pathology

Member, Herbert Irving Comprehensive Cancer Center
Columbia University

The master regulators of stem cells and drivers of oncogenesis in the brain

 

5/9/13 - Note room change to BSRB Seminar Rooms A-C

Utpal P. Davé, MD

*Co-sponsored by Cell & Developmental Biology

Assistant Professor of Medicine and Cancer Biology

Division of Hematology and Oncology

Vanderbilt University Medical Center

LIM domain Only 2 (LMO2) and cooperating factors in T-cell leukemia

 

5/16/13

No seminar scheduled

5/23/13

No seminar scheduled

5/30/13
Neil L. Kelleher, PhD

Professor

Department of Molecular Biosciences, Chemistry and Medicine
Northwestern University

Understanding aberrant methylation patterns on histones in B-cell cancers

                

Past Seminar Series