Department of Biological Sciences

Department of Biological Sciences

Wednesday Seminar Series –Fall 2010

Date/UD Host

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Guest Speaker / Affiliation

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Seminar Title

September 8, 2010
U. Naik / Michael Holinstat, Ph.D.
Division of Hematology, Dept. of Medicine
Thomas Jefferson University / “12-Lipoxygenase regulation of platelet
reactivity: A new paradigm for anti-platelet therapy”
September 15, 2010
C. Cooper / Charles J. Dimitroff, Ph.D.
Department of Dermatology
Brigham and Women’s Hospital, Harvard Medical School / “Glycobiology and its impact on prostate
cancer dissemination”
September 22, 2010
K. Sarker / Shirin Bonni, Ph.D.
Department of Biochemistry and Molecular Biology
Southern Alberta Cancer Research Institute
University of Calgary / "Regulation of TGF-mediated signaling
and responses"
September 29, 2010
D. Simmons / Tom Rutkowski, Ph.D
Dept. of Anatomy and Cell Biology
University of Iowa, Carver College of Medicine / “ER stress and lipid metabolism: Strange bedfellows in the body’s homeostatic repertoire”
October 6, 2010
R. L. Duncan
Special Seminar / Xinqiao Jia, Ph.D.
Department of Materials Science
University of Delaware
Candidate for Joint Appointment / “Interfacing Biology with Synthetic Materials”
October 13, 2010
R. L. Duncan / Everett L. Smith, Ph.D.
University of Wisconsin
School of Medicine and Public Health / TBA
October 14, 2010
U. Naik
Special Seminar
Thursday / Jung-Youn Lee, Ph.D.
Department of Plant & Soil Sciences
University of Delaware
Candidate for Joint Appointment / “Plasmodesmata and Programmed Cell Death: PDLP5 as a Mediator
October 20, 2010
P. DeLeon / Ralph G. Meyer, Ph.D.
University of Pennsylvania
School of Veterinary Medicine
Center for Animal Transgenesis and Germ Cell Research / “PARPs and PARG Prevent Poor Packaging
of the Sperm Nucleus”
October 27, 2010
A. Nohe / Rik Derynck, Ph.D.
Co-Director, The Eli and Deythe Broad Center of Regeneration Medicine and Stem Cell Research
University of California at San Francisco / “Role of Akt-TOR in TGF-beta induced epithelial-mesenchymal transition”
November 3, 2010
D. Galileo / Panagiotis Z. Anastasiadis, Ph.D.
Department of Cancer Biology
Mayo Clinic Comprehensive Cancer Center
Jacksonville, Florida / “Crosstalk between polarity complexes, adhesion receptors, and Rho GTPases”
November 10, 2010
U. Naik / Dr. Jose Lopez
Puget Sound Blood Center
Professor of Medicine, Division of Hematology
University of Washington School of Medicine / TBA
November 17, 2010
E. Selva / Toni Ip, Ph.D.
Program in Molecular Medicine
University of Massachusetts Medical School / “Intestinal stem cells and tissue
regeneration in Drosophila”
November 24, 2010
/ Thanksgiving
Break /
December 1, 2010
Sara Greenwood
R. Hodson / Carl H. June, M.D.
Professor of Pathology and Laboratory Medicine
University of Pennsylvania / “Immunotherapy with personalized T cells”
December 8, 2010
M. Lucey / Christine A. Iacobuzio-Donahue, M.D., Ph.D.
Johns Hopkins Medical Institutions
Department of Pathology / “Molecular Features of Pancreatic Cancer Progression”

Seminars will be held in 318 Wolf Hall on Wednesdays at 4:00 P.M. unless otherwise stated.

Refreshments will be available 30 minutes before each seminar.