MSTP Weekly Seminar Calendar
Seminars of Interest for the Physician-Scientist
Monday, November 16, 2009
12:00 pm
PULMONARY RESEARCH CONFERENCE:
"Regulation of the Innate Immunity by Bone Marrow Derived Mesenchyma as potential treatment for environmentally induced lung injury"
Luis Ortiz, MD, Director, Occupational Medicine Division, University of Pittsburgh
Damasio Conference Room, S715-Z GH
12:00 pm
MICROBIOLOGY FACULTY CANDIDATE SEMINAR:
"Stem cell gene therapy for HIV using
RNAi and a fusion inhibitor in a
nonhuman primate model"
Grant Trobridge, PhD, Fred Hutchinson Cancer Research Center, Medicine, University of Washington
Beisner Auditorium, Aud 1 BSB
12:30 pm
MSTP GRAND ROUNDS:
"Psychosis:Seeing order within the disorder"
Aislinn Williams, M6G and
Fred Oakley, M5G
Seebohm Conference Room, 283 EMRB
3:30 pm
BIOSTATISTICS SEMINAR:
"An Interactive Web-Based Introduction to Biostatistics: Keeping it Real”
Jacob Oleson, PhD, Biostatistics
1117 MERF
7:30 pm
UNIVERSITY LECTURE:
"Stories of Struggle, Stories of Hope: Art, Politics and Human Rights"
Chris Abani, Author of Graceland and Song for Night
Englert Theatre
Tuesday, November 17, 2009
9:30 am
MOLECULAR PHYSIOLOGY AND BIOPHYSICS SEMINAR:
“Novel regulatory functions of the laminin-binding integrin alpha3 beta1 in tumor cells”
C. Michael DiPersio, PhD, Center for Cell Biology and Cancer Research, Albany Medical College
5-669 BSB
12:00 pm
NEUROLOGY GRAND ROUNDS:
"Clinical Pathologic Correlation"
Shannon Brozak, MD, Pathology
Neurology Conference Room, 2141-2 RCP
12:30 pm
BIOCHEMISTRY WORKSHOP:
"Molecular Insights into DNA Postreplication Repair"
John Pryor, Washington Lab
Seebohm Conference Room, 283 EMRB
3:00 pm
MICROBIOLOGY SEMINAR:
"Rapid Immunity to Influenza Virus Provided
by Lung Resident Cells"
David Topham, MS, PhD, Microbiology and Immunology, University of Rochester
Watzke Auditorium, Aud 3 BSB
4:00 pm
NEUROSCIENCE SEMINAR:
“Dystroglycan in cerebellar development and disease”
Huy Tran Nguyen, Moore Lab
2189 MERF
Wednesday, November 18, 2009
3:00 pm
PAIN RESEARCH PROGRAM SEMINAR:
"Persistent Visceral Pain: A Collision of TRP Channels and Growth Factors"
Brian Davis, PhD, Medicine, Neurobiology, University of Pittsburgh
2-322 BSB
12:00 pm
MOLECULAR PHYSIOLOGY AND BIOPHYSICS WORKSHOP:
“Repression of the Renin Promoter by COUP-TFII”
Eric Weatherford, Sigmund Lab and
“Mechanism of vascular dysfunction in mice expressing a dominant-negative mutant of PPARγ in vascular smooth muscle”
Christopher Pelham, Sigmund Lab
5-669 BSB
12:00 pm
NEUROSCIENCE PHD SEMINAR:
“The Neuroanatomical Basis of Empathy: Is Empathy Impaired Following Damage to the Ventromedial Prefrontal Cortex”
Janelle Beadle, Tranel Lab
Neurology Conference Room, C S-724 GH
4:00 pm
IMMUNOLOGY SEMINAR:
"Immunobiology Of TLR Signaling And Its Regulation: From Obesity To Asthma"
Christopher Karp, MD, Pediatrics, University of Cincinnati
Seebohm Conference Room, 283 EMRB
Thursday, November 19, 2009
10:30 am
BIOCHEMISTRY SEMINAR:
"Specification of fission
yeast actomyosin structures
by tropomyosin"
Matthew Lord, DPhil, Molecular Physiology and Biophysics, University of Vermont
Sahai Seminar Room, 2117 MERF
11:30 am
EPIDEMIOLOGY SEMINAR:
"Physical Activity Levels of Urban and Rural Preschoolers in the Iowa Bone Development Study"
Elaine Cooperstein, Epidemiology MS Student and
"MRSA: Prevalence in Swine and Swine Workers in a sample of Illinois and Iowa Pork Production Systems"
Michael Male, DVM, Epidemiology MD Student
Spivey Auditorium, Aud. 2 BSB
12:00 pm
PATHOLOGY GRAND ROUNDS:
"Genome and Transcriptome Dynamics in Cancer Cells”
Thomas Ried, MD, Chief, Section of Cancer Genetics, National Cancer Institute, NIH
H.P. Smith Conference Room, W256 GH
12:30 pm
BIOMEDICAL ENGINEERING SEMINAR:
"Finite element meshing methods in Orthopaedic biomechanics"
Kiran Shivanna, PhD, Assistant Research Engineer, CCAD
2217 SC
1:00 pm
INTERNAL MEDICINE GRAND ROUNDS:
"CPC"
Scott Vogelgesang, MD, Rheumatology Division and
Melanie Klawiter, MD, Neurology Resident and
Eyglo Thordardottir, MD, Pathology Resident
Med Alumni Auditorium, E331 GH
2:00 pm
ID GRAND ROUNDS:
"ID Case Presentation"
Dan Diekema, MD, Infectious Diseases Division and
Ravindhar Vodela, MD, Infectious Disease Fellow
Bean Conference Room, SE301 GH
4:00 pm
DISTINGUISHED BIOMEDICAL SCHOLARS LECTURE/MICHAEL J. BRODY MEMORIAL LECTURE:
"Molecular Mechanisms of Endocytosis"
Pietro De Camilli, MD, Cell Biology, Neurobiology, Yale University, HHMI
Prem Sahai Auditorium, 1110A MERF
Friday, November 20, 2009
9:00 am
ID RESEARCH CONFERENCE:
"Mechanics of Toll-like receptor 4 activation: Clues from MD-2 and TLR4 structure"
Theresa Gioannini, PhD, Internal Medicine
630 MRC
1:00 pm
PEDIATRIC GRAND ROUNDS:
“The Pros and Cons of Mandatory Influenza Vaccination Policies”
Christine Ziebold, MD, PhD, MPH, Pediatrics and
Cathy Glasson, RN, President, SEIU Iowa
Ziffren Conference Room, 1502 JCP
1:00 pm
THE RALPH H. AND FEDA E. OJEMAN VISITING PROFESSORSHIP LECTURE:
Neurosurgery Conference Room, 1603 JCP
1:00 pm
BIOCHEMISTRY PHD SEMINAR:
"Allosteric propagation within the actin molecule probed by HD exchange and mass spectrometry"
Ema Stokasimov, Rubenstein Lab
Sahai Seminar Room, 2117 MERF
3:00 pm
OJEMAN LECTURESHIP:
"Convection-enhanced drug delivery in the CNS: Implications for Biological Neurosurgery"
Edward Oldfield, MD, FACS,
Neurosurgery, Internal Medicine, University of Virginia
Neurosurgery Conference Room, 1603 JCP
4:00 pm
BIOLOGY SEMINAR:
"Adrenergic receptors"
Qin Wang, PhD, Physiology and Biophysics, University of Alabama
Kollros Auditorium, 101 BBE