2011 Seminars
Time: 11:00am - 12:00pm unless othewise noted
Place: Maine Medical Center Research Institute - Scarborough
Contact: Betsy Crocker crockb1@mmc.org (207) 396-8219
January 6
Mark Horowitz, Yale School of Medicine, New Haven, CT
Skin and Bones
February 3
David Clemmons, University of North Carolina School of Medicine, Chapel Hill, NC
The Role of the IGF Regulatory System in Vascular Reactivity
February 17
Lei Lei, University of New England, Biddeford, ME
Function of the Transcription Factor Sox11 in Cortical Development
March 24
Philip Thorpe, University of Texas Southwestern Medical School, Dallas, TX
Preclinical and Clinical Studies with Bavituximab: A Therapeutic Monoclonal Antibody that Recognizes Phosphatidylserine on Cancer Blood Vessels and Viruse
April 6 @ 3:00pm (Wed)
Philippe Soriano, Mount Sinai Medical Center, New York, NY
PDGF Signaling in Mouse Development and Homeostasis
April 28
Catherine Kuo, Tufts University, Medford, MA
An Engineer's Approach to Developmental Biology
May 19
Karen Lyons, Brain Research Institute, University of California, Los Angeles, CA
Canonical and Non-Canonical BMP Signaling in the Growth Plate
May 24
Philip Ashton-Rickardt, Imperial College London, England
Reverse and Forward Genetics of Memory T Lymphocyte Development
June 2
Stavros Manolagas, University of Arkansas Medical Sciences, Little Rock, AR
Of Termites, Archeozoans, and Osteoporosis
June 9
Robert Koza, Pennington Biomedical Research Center, Baton Rouge, LA
Identification of Epigenetic Determinants of Obesity
July 7
Vyacheslav Adarichev, Albert Einstein College of Medicine, Bronx, NY
Gender-affected Biomarkers for Inflammatory Arthritis: What Can We Learn from Animal Models?
August 2 @ 12noon
Thomas Lisse, University of California Los Angeles, CA
Integrating Local and Systemic Regulators Toward a Better Understanding of Bone Biology
August 18
Francesco Ramirez, Mount Sinai School of Medicine, New York, NY
Extracellular Microfibrils; Structural Regulator of Growth Factor Signaling
Friday, August 26
David Kaplan, Tufts University, Boston, MA
In vitro Tissue Models for the Study of Diseases
September 8
Jianyi (Jay) Zhang, University of Minnesota, Minneapolis, MN
Cell Transplantation and Cardiac Recovery: Myocardial Regeneration from Endogenous Cardiac Progenitor Cells
September 14
Qi-Long Ying, University of Southern California, Los Angeles
Embryonic and epiblast stem cell self-renewal
October 6
Guido Marcucci, Ohio State University, Columbus, OH
MicroRNAs in Acute Myeloid Leukemia: From the Bench to the Clinic
Friday, October 21
Jean Schaffer, Washington Univeristy in St Louis, School of Medicine, St. Louis, MO
Unexpected Regulators of Metabolic Stress
Friday, October 28
John T. Potts, Jr., Massachusetts General Hospital, Boston, MA
50 Years of PTH Research
October 31, 2011 - WEBINAR
Alain Arneodo, Ecole Normale Superieure de Lyon, France
Time: 2:10-3:25pm
Place: MMCRI Conference Room #5
DNA in Chromatin: How to Extract Structural, Dynamical And Functional Information from the Analysis of Genomic Sequences Using Space-Scale Wavelet Techniques
November 2, 2011 - WEBINAR
Alain Arneodo, Ecole Normale Superieure de Lyon, France
Time: 2:10-3:25pm
Place: MMCRI Conference Room #5
From DNA Sequence Analysis to the Modeling of the Eukaryotic Chromatin Fiber: Deciphering the Role of Nucleosome Organization in Transcription Regulation
November 4, 2011 - WEBINAR
Alain Arneodo, Ecole Normale Superieure de Lyon, France
Time: 2:10-3:25pm
Place: MMCRI Conference Room #5
Large Scale Analysis of the Human Genome: From DNA Sequence Analysis to the Modeling of Replication in Higher Eukaryotes