Aaron McGee, Postdoctoral Fellow, Department of Neurology and Neurobiology, Yale University School of Medicine
                       
A Shared Regulation of Plasticity by Myelin and NgR1 in the Injured and Intact CNS
Dr. McGee is a Neuroplasticity/Neuropharmacology Cluster Hire Candidate

Kristen Lynch, PhD, Associate Professor, Department of Biochemistry, University of Texas Southwestern

Signal-Induced Alternative Splicing in the Immune System

Student Host: M. Marengo

February 12
12:15-1:15

David McLean, Postdoctoral Research Fellow, Department of Neurobiology and Behavior, Cornell University
                       
Using Zebrafish to Reveal Principles of Neural Circuit Function
Dr. McLean is a Neuroplasticity/Neuropharmacology Cluster Hire Candidate

February 19

Jean Y. J. Wang, PhD, Associate Director of Basic Research, Moores-UCSD Cancer Center, UCSD School of Medicine

Death Beyond p53:  Post-Initiation Regulation of Gene Expression by DNA Damage

Student Host: N. Shanware

February 26
11:45-12:45

Avtar Roopra, Assistant Professor, Department of Neurology, University of Wisconsin

Metabolic Regulation of Gene Expression in Disease: Teaching Old Drugs New Tricks

February 28
(Thursday)
10:30-11:30

Nathaniel Sawtell, Senior Research Associate, Neurological Sciences Institute, Oregon Health and Science University

Mechanisms of Sensory Prediction in a Cerebellum-like Structure
Dr. Sawtell is a Neuroplasticity/Neuropharmacology Cluster Hire Candidate

Sam Gellman, Professor, Department of Chemistry, University of Wisconsin-Madison

Structure and Biological Function in Biomimetic Oligomers

William Hahn, MD, PhD, Associate Professor of Medicine, Harvard Medical School, Department of Medical Oncology, Dana-Farber Cancer Institute

Functional Genomics, Experimental Models and Cancer

Student Host: N. Shanware

March 25
11:45-12:45

Kathleen Sakamoto, MD, PhD, Vice Chair, Translational Research, Professor and Chief, Division of Hematology-Oncology, Mattel Children’s Hospital, Department of Pediatrics; Dept. of Pathology and Laboratory Medicine, David Geffen School of Medicine, UCLA

Mechanisms of Leukemogenesis and Targeted Therapies for Acute Leukemia                    

Marvin Caruthers, PhD, Professor of Chemistry and Biochemistry, University of Colorado

My Adventures in Nucleic Acid Chemistry (Past, Present, Future) and Biotechnology

Student Host: D. Mellman

John Condeelis, PhD, Professor and Co-Chair, Department of Anatomy & Structural Biology; Director, Program in Motility and Invasion AECC Scientific Director,  Analytical Imaging Facility at Albert Einstein College of Medicine

Seminar Title to be Determined         

Host:  P. Keely

Archibald Perkins, MD, PhD, Department of Pathology, Yale University School of Medicine; Associate Professor of Pathology and Molecular, Cellular and Developmental Biology and Professor of Pathology and Laboratory Medicine, University of Rochester

Role of the Zinc Finger Protein EVI1 in Acute Myeloid Leukemia

Lawrence Brass, MD, PhD, Professor of Medicine and Pharmacology, Department of Medicine, University of Pennsylvania School of Medicine

Regulating Thrombus Growth and Stability to Achieve Hemostasis while Avoiding Strokes and Heart Attacks                                               
Student Host: L. Maurer

Mariano Garcia-Blanco, MD, PhD, Professor of Molecular Genetics and Microbiology
and Professor of Medicine, Duke University Medical Center.

Alternative Splicing in Sickness and in Health             

Student Host:  M. Marengo

THIS SEMINAR IS CANCELLED
Michael B. Sporn, MD,  Professor of Pharmacology and Medicine, Department of Pharmacology and Toxicology, Dartmouth Medical School
                       
New Synthetic Triterpenoids and Rexinoids for Cancer Prevention and Treatment

Jo Handelsman, PhD, Professor, Departments of Bacteriology and Plant Pathology,
University of Wisconsin-Madison
                       
Conversations Among the Unseen: Molecular Signaling in Microbial Communities

Johan Stenflo, Professor, Clinical Chemistry, University of Lund, Sweden
                       
Mechanisms and Functions of Vitamin K-Dependent Gamma Carboxylation