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