January 20

Denisa D.Wagner, PhD, Professor of Pathology, Harvard Medical School;
Senior Investigator, The CBR Institute for Biomedical Research *
Interplay of Thrombosis and Inflammation

Student Host: Gus Cho

February 3

Ashley Chi, MD, PhD, Stanford University, Department of Biochemistry
Dr. Chi is a Systems Biology Cluster Hire Candidate
Genomic Analysis of Cellular Responses to Environmental Stresses and its Application in Dissecting the Pathogenesis of Human Diseases

Host: A. Ruoho

Shoukat Dedhar . PhD, Professor, Department of Cancer Genetics and Developmental Biology, British Columbia Cancer Research Center/British Columbia Cancer Agency, Biochemistry and Molecular Biology, University of British Columbia. *
The “Ins” and “Outs” of Signaling via Integrin-Linked Kinase (ILK)

Student Host: D. Beauvais

Laura Kiessling, PhD, Professor, Departments of Chemistry and Biochemistry,
University of Wisconsin-Madison
Seminar Title To Be Announced

Host: P. Keely

Martin Hemler PhD, Professor, Department of Pathology,
Harvard Medical School and Dana-Farber Cancer Institute
Modulation of Integrin-Dependent Functions by Laterally Associated Proteins

Host: P. Keely

Jean Schwarzbauer, PhD, Professor, Department of Molecular Biology, Princeton University
Control of Cell Morphology and Motility by Extracellular Matrix Signals

Host: P. Keely

Mario Capecchi, PhD, Professor of Human Genetics and Investigator, Howard Hughes
Medical Institute, Eccles Institute of Human Genetics, University of Utah School of Medicine *
Seminar Title To Be Announced

Student Host: D. Beauvais

Catherine Verfaillie, MD, Professor of Medicine, Division of Hematology, Oncology and Transplantation; Director of the Stem Cell Institute, University of Minnesota *
Seminar Title To Be Announced

Student Hosts: J. Chu, H. Im, D. Beauvais, B. Burbach

George Yancopoulus, MD, PhD, President of Research Laboratories and Chief Scientific Officer, Regeneron Research Laboratories, Tarrytown, NY **
Seminar Title To Be Announced

Student Host: J. Chu

Michael P. Sheetz. Professor, Department of Biological Sciences, Columbia University
Local Force Transduction Acts Globally through Oncogenes and Cytoskeletal Transport of Signals

Host: P. Keely

April 27

Richad Assoian, PhD, Professor, Department of Pharmacology,
University of Pennsylvania School of Medicine *
ERKs, Rho GTPases, the Actin Cytoskeleton, and G1 Phase Cell Cycle Progression: Trying to Fit the Pieces Together

Student Host: M. Wozniak

Mona Nemer, PhD, Director of Cardiac Growth and Differentiation Laboratory at Institut de Researches Cliniques de Montreal (IRCM), Professor of Pharmacology
University of Montreal, Clinical Research Institute of Montreal *
Transcriptional Regulation of Myocyte Growth and Survival: Implications for Cardioprotection

Student Host. M. Martowicz

Kurt Amann, Assistant Professor, Departments of Zoology and Molecular Biology
University of Wisconsin-Madison
Since When Does a Bacterium Have a Cytoskeleton? (…and Something About Pharmacology, too).

Host: P. Keely

Roel Nusse, PhD, Professor, Department of Developmental Biology, Stanford University School of Medicine, Howard Hughes Medical Institute *
Wnt Signaling and Stem Cell Control

Student Host: L. Kwong

September 14

Xiao-Fan Wang, PhD, Professor, Department of Pharmacology and Cancer Biology,
Duke University Medical Center *
Novel Players in Tumor Metastasis

Student Host: S. Venkataraman

September 21

Robert Benezra, Member, Memorial Sloan-Kettering Cancer Center ***
Modeling Tumor Angiogenesis Inhibition in the Mouse

Host: E. Bresnick

John Nilson, Professor and Director, School of Molecular Biosciences, Washington State University ****
Targeted Overexpression of LH in Transgenic Mice: An endocrine train wreck that signals hypersecretion of several hormones, engineers multiple tumors, and derails expression of a plethora of genes

Host: P. Cook

Kenneth Zaret, PhD, Senior Member and Program Leader, Cell and Developmental Biology Program, W.W. Smith Chair in Cancer Research, Fox Chase Cancer Center, Philadelphia *
Establishing Domains of Developmental Competence in Chromatin

Student Hosts: M. Martowicz

Junjie Chen, PhD, Assistant Professor, Department of Oncology, Mayo Clinic *
DNA Damage Checkpoint Pathways and their Defects in Cancer

Student Host: P. Mukhopadhyay

Jeffrey J. Hayes, PhD, Associate Professor, Department of Biochemistry and Biophysics,
University of Rochester Medical Center *
Histone Tail Interactions in Chromatin and Histone Dynamics during Transcription in vivo

Student Host: H. Im

Kurt Amann, Assistant Professor, Department of Zoology, University of Wisconsin-Madison
Molecular Characterization of the Prokaryotic Actin Cytoskeleton

Host: A. Huttenlocher

Ravi Iyengar, PhD, Professor and Chair, Department of Pharmacology and Biological Chemistry,
Mount Sinai School of Medicine
Analysis of Signaling Network

Host: A. Ruoho

Janet Rossant, Ph.D., Professor, Samuel Lunenfeld Research Institute, Mount Sinai Hospital,
University of Toronto **
This seminar is part of the Vascular Biology Research Colloquium.
Stem Cells from the Mammalian Blastocyst

Student Host: J. Wu

November 29
10:00
Biotech Aud.

Mina Bissell, Distinguished Scientist, Life Sciences Division,
Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory ******
Tissue specificity, or why your nose does not turn into your elbow!
This seminar is sponsored by the Karl Beyer Visiting Professorship.
Note unusual day and time of this seminar.

Host: P. Keely

November 30
Fluno Center
Noon

Mina Bissell, Distinguished Scientist, Life Sciences Division,
Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory *****
The Architectural Basis of Signaling for Tissue Specificity in Normal and Malignant Breast
This seminar is the Symposium Keynote Address of the 4th Annual Signal Transduction Research Training
Symposium and the Karl Beyer Visiting Professorship.

Host: P. Keely

Chris Counter, Assistant Professor, Department of Pharmacology and Cancer Biology,
Duke University *
Human Ras Oncogenesis

Student Host: S. Venkataraman