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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.

  

2014/2015

 

9/4/14
No seminar

 

9/11/14
No seminar - new student orientation only

 

9/18/14

No seminar due to time conflict with Cancer Biology Graduate Program Retreat

Scott Lowe, PhD

Chair, Cancer Biology & Genetics Program

Chair, Geoffrey Beene Cancer Research Center

Memorial Sloan Kettering Cancer Center

Tumor suppressor gene networks*

Towsley: Dow Auditorium

   *This is not part of the Pathology Research Seminar Series.

 

9/25/14

Sharon Cantor, PhD

Associate Professor

Department of Cancer Biology
University of Massachusetts Medical School

Novel mechanisms of therapy resistance in BRCA-Fanconi anemia pathway defective cells

 

10/2/14

Mizuho Hasegawa, PhD

Research Lab Specialist, Department of Pathology

University of Michigan

The mechanism of systemic resistance against pathobionts translocated after C.difficile-induced intestinal damage

 

10/9/14

Shohei Koide, PhD

Professor, Biochemistry and Molecular Biology

The University of Chicago

Controlling signaling and epigenetic networks by protein design

 

10/16/14

Yingming Zhao, PhD

Professor, The Ben May Department of Cancer Research

The University of Chicago

Metabolic and epigenetic regulation by a family of new lysine acylation pathways

 

10/22/14   *Note seminar is on Wednesday this week & in a different location (3695 Med Sci II, North Lecture Hall). 

Poul Sorensen, MD, PhD, FRCPC 

   *co-hosted with the Cancer Biology Program

Professor, Department of Pathology & Laboratory Medicine

The Johal Chair in Childhood Cancer Research,

The University of British Columbia

Senior Scientist at the BC Cancer Agency Research Centre

Scientist at the Child & Family Research Institute (CFRI)

mRNA translation and the tumor cell stress response

 

10/30/14

James Mulloy, PhD

Professor, UC Department of Pediatrics

Cincinnati Children's Hospital Medical Center

Humanized mice: A powerful approach to disease modeling, therapy testing, and molecular dissection of leukemia pathogenesis

 

11/6/14

Ania Owczarczyk

Doctoral Candidate (Mentor Nicholas Lukacs, PhD)

Molecular and Cellular Pathology Program and Medical Scientist Training Program

University of Michigan Medical School

Regulation of RSV-induced immune responses by Sirtuin 1

 

11/13/14

No seminar due to 13th Annual Pathology Research Symposium

 

11/20/14

Martin E. Fernandez-Zapico, MD

Associate Professor of Medicine and Pharmacology

Mayo Clinic

The two-faces of GLI proteins in pancreatic carcinogenesis

 

11/27/14

No seminar - Thanksgiving holiday break

 

12/4/14

David Rogawski

Doctoral Candidate (Mentor Jolanta Grembecka, PhD)

Molecular and Cellular Pathology Program and Medical Scientist Training Program

University of Michigan Medical School

The structure and function of the Ash1L histone methyltransferase: biophysical and chemical biology approaches

 

12/11/14

Marcia C. Haigis, PhD

Associate Professor

Department of Cell Biology

Harvard Medical School

New insights in mitochondrial dynamics and aging

 

12/18/14

Shirley Lee

Doctoral Candidate (Mentor Yali Dou, PhD)

Molecular and Cellular Pathology Program

University of Michigan Medical School

Development and characterization of human MLL1 chemical probe

 

12/25/14

No seminar -  Winter holiday break

 

1/1/15

No seminar - Winter holiday break

 

1/8/15

Elisabeth Pedersen

Doctoral Candidate (Mentor Elizabeth Lawlor, MD, PhD)

Molecular and Cellular Pathology Program and Medical Scientist Training Program

University of Michigan Medical School

Investigating cellular heterogeneity and Wnt signaling in Ewing sarcoma

 

1/15/15

Chan Chung

Doctoral Candidate (Mentor Andrew Lieberman, MD, PhD)

Molecular and Cellular Pathology Program

University of Michigan Medical School

Niemann-Pick Type C disease: protective mechanisms from neurodegeneration and targets for therapeutic intervention

 

1/22/15

Zhiguo Zhang, PhD

Professor of Biochemistry/Molecular Biology

Mayo Clinic

Epigenetic inheritance and epigenetic alterations in brain tumors

 

1/29/15

No seminar currently scheduled

 

2/5/15

Anirban Sahu

Doctoral Candidate (Mentor Arul Chinnaiyan, MD, PhD)

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

The role of long noncoding RNA SChLAP1 in aggressive prostate cancer

 

2/12/15

Monica Guzman, PhD

Assistant Professor of Pharmacology in Medicine

Joan and Sanford I. Weill Department of Medicine

Weill Cornell Medical College

Leukemia stem cells: to seek and destroy

 

2/19/15  *Note seminar is has been moved to a different location (5330 Med Sci I).

Justin Serio

Doctoral Candidate (Mentor Andrew Muntean, PhD)

Molecular and Cellular Pathology Program

University of Michigan Medical School

The PafC-Prmt axis: evaluating mechanisms of acute myeloid leukemia

 

2/26/15

Shin-ichiro Imai, MD, PhD

Professor

Departments of Developmental Biology and Internal Medicine

Washington University in St. Louis

School of Medicine

The NAD world reloaded: the importance of the inter-tissue communication mediated by NAMPT/NAD+/SIRT1 in mammalian aging/longevity control

 

3/5/15

No seminar - Spring break

 

3/12/15

Allison Johnson

Doctoral Candidate (Mentor Anuska Andjelkovic-Zochowski, MD, PhD)

Molecular and Cellular Pathology Program

University of Michigan Medical School

Pericytes: a critical cell type in the pathogenesis of Cerebral Cavernous Malformations?

 

3/19/15

Xiaobing Shi, PhD

Assistant Professor

Department of Epigenetics and Molecular Carcinogenesis

The University of Texas MD Anderson Cancer Center

Reading the histone code: discovery of a novel histone acetylation reader

 

3/26/15 - CANCELLED DUE TO FLIGHT ISSUES 

Gerald Shadel, PhD

Professor of Pathology and Genetics

Director, Pathology Research

Yale University

Mitochondrial stress signaling in aging and immunity

 

4/2/15

Emmalee Adelman

Doctoral Candidate (Mentor Ken Figueroa, MD)

Molecular and Cellular Pathology Program

University of Michigan Medical School

The epigenetics of hematopoietic stem cells in aging and myeloid dysplastic syndromes

 

4/9/15

Yuqing Sun

Doctoral Candidate (Mentor Yali Dou, PhD)

Molecular and Cellular Pathology Program

University of Michigan Medical Schoo

Enhancer dynamics in HoxA9/Meis1-mediated leukemic transformation

 

4/16/15

Anna Ting

Doctoral Candidate (Mentor Nick Lukacs, PhD)

Molecular and Cellular Pathology Program

University of Michigan Medical School

The role of Delta-like ligand 4 and its epigenetic mechanism in Foxp3+ regulatory cells

 

4/23/15

Mary Morgan

Doctoral Candidate (Mentor David Ferguson, MD, PhD)

Molecular and Cellular Pathology Program

University of Michigan Medical School

Regulation of kinases by the MRN complex in response to DNA double-strand breaks

 

4/30/15

Randy Seeley, PhD

Professor of Surgery

University of Michigan

Department of Surgery

Bariatric surgery: It's not what you think it is. Molecular mechanisms for surgery effects on obesity and diabetes.

 

5/7/15

Jian Jin, PhD

Professor

Department of Structural and Chemical Biology

Department of Oncological Sciences

Department of Pharmacology and Systems Therapeutics

Icahn School of Medicine at Mount Sinai

Discovery of chemical probes for histone methyltransferases

 

5/14/15  No seminar currently scheduled

 

5/21/15

Shayna Bradford

Doctoral Candidate (Mentor Anuska Andjelkovic-Zochowski, MD, PhD)

Molecular and Cellular Pathology Program

University of Michigan Medical School

Sirtuin-1 and the blood-brain barrier

 

5/28/15

Ulas Ozkurede

Doctoral Candidate (Mentor Richard Miller, MD, PhD)

Molecular and Cellular Pathology Program

University of Michigan Medical School

Mitochondrial stress response in long-lived mice

 

 

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