2008 Seminars

3/6/2008
Carla Bender Kim
Children's Hospital, Boston, MA

Examining Stem Cell Biology in Normal Lung and Lung Cancer

3/13/2008
Samuel Poloyac
University of Pittsbugh School of Pharmacy, Pittsburgh, PA

Too Cool for a Breakdown? How Therapeutic Hypothermia Effects Drug Metabolism

3/20/2008
Anette Duensing
University of Pittsburgh Cancer Institute, Pittsburgh, PA

Learning From Gastrointestinal Stromal Tumors: Getting the GIST of KIT and Targeted Therapy

4/10/2008
Sandra McAllister
Whitehead Institute, Cambridge, MA

Systemic Instigation of Indolent Tumor Outgrowth

5/8/2008
Elizabeth Luna
University of Massachusetts Medical School, Worcester, MA

Roles for a Dynamic Membrane Skeleton during Adhesion, Motiilty, & Invasion

5/22/2008
Mary Jo Mulligan-Kehoe
Norris Cotton Cancer Center, Lebanon, NH

The Anti-Angiogenic Functions of a Truncated Plasminogen Activator Inhibitor-1 Protein

5/28/2008
Helen Heslop
Baylor College of Medicine, Houston, TX

Immunotherapy of Viral Infections and Cancer with Antigen Specific T Cells

5/29/2008
C.H. William Wu
Henry Ford Hospital, Detroit, MI

Collagen Degradation Fragments as Matrikines in Cartilage and Bone Turnover

6/26/2008
Mikhail Maslov
Johns Hopkins Hospital and University School of Medicine, Baltimore, Maryland

Role of Creatine Kinase System in Energetics and Function in Failing Mouse Heart

7/14/2008
Linheng Li
Stowers Institute for Medical Research, Kansas City, MO

Stem Cell Niche and Cancer Stem Cells

7/17/2008

Timothy Hla
University of Connecticut Health Center, Farmington, CT

Sphingosine 1-Phosphate Signaling in the Vasculature

7/24/2008
David Scadden
Harvard Medical School and Massachusetts General Hospital, Boston, MA

Deconstructing the Hematopoietic Stem Cell Niche

8/20/2008
Henry Querfurth
Caritas St Elizabeth"s Medical Center and Tufts University School of Medicine, Boston, MA

Insulin Signaling in Alzheimer's Disease

9/18/2008
S. Paul Oh
University of Florida, Gainesville, FL

Pathogenetic Mechanisms for Hereditary Hemorrhagic Telangiectasia (HHT): Lessons from Animal Models

10/2/2008
George Brewer
University of Michigan, Ann Arbor, MI

Tetrathiomolybdate for Treatment of Fibrotic, Inflammatory, and Auto- Immune Disease Processes

10/9/2008
Joanne Ingwall
Brigham and Women's Hospital, Boston, MA

FHC-Associated R92 Missense Mutations in Cardiac Troponin - What a Difference an Amino Acid Can Make!

10/16/2008
Tarik Haydar
Children's National Medical Center Washington, DC

The Role of Neural Stem Cells in Forebrain Development in Down Syndrome - a Molecular/Cellular Approach to Mental Retardation

10/30/2008
David Clemmons
University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill, NC

IGF Signaling in Diabetic Vascular Smooth Muscle

11/4/2008
Thomas Gridley
Jackson Laboratory, Bar Harbor, ME

Using Mouse Genetics to Understand Birth Defects and Disease

11/6/2008
Margaret Baron
Mount Sinai School of Medicine, New York, NY

Developmental Niches for Embryonic Red Blood Cells in the Mouse

11/20/2008
Joseph Nadeau
Case Western Reserve University, Cleveland, OH

Diet-Induced Metabolic Diseases and Liver Cancer

11/25/2008
Christopher O'Donnell
Massachusetts General Hospital, Boston, MA

Cardiovascular Genomics in the Era of Genome-Wide Association Studies and Beyond

12/10/2008
John Wolfe
University of Pennsylvania School of Medicine, Philadelphia, PA

Experimental Gene and Stem Cell Therapies for Disseminated Lesions in the Brain

12/18/2008
Donald St. Germain
Dartmouth Medical School, Hanover, NH

Life without T4 to T3 Conversion and Other Lessons Learned from Deiodinase Knockout Mice