Monday - October /13/2008
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Monday, Oct/13/2008 Detail Contact Phone Number
8:30 AM Urothelial Carcinoma of Urinary Bladder Clinicopathologic Prognosticators, Molecular Pathways and Targets of Therapy
George J. Netto, M.D.
Associate Professor, Departments of Pathology, Oncology & Urology, JHMI
Hurd Hall
Sponsored by: Pathology Grand Rounds
410-502-6131, dband@jhmi.edu
12:00 PM Hematology Grand Rounds - Functional Analysis of a Novel Ribosomal Pathway Causing Diamond-Blackfan Anemia: New Paradigms for Bone Marrow Failure and Cancer Predisposition
Dr. Robert Arceci, M.D., Ph.D.
Professor of Oncology & Pediatrics, JHUSOM
Weinberg Auditorium
Sponsored by: Departments of Medicine & Pediatrics, Divisions of Hematology
ljthomas@jhmi.edu
12:00 PM Hematology Grand Rounds: Functional Analysis of a Novel Ribosomal Pathway Causing Diamond-Blackfan Anemia: New Paradigms for Bone Marrow Failure and Cancer Predisposition
Dr. Robert Arceci, M.D., Ph.D.
Professor of Oncology & Pediatrics, JHUSOM
Weinberg Auditorium
Sponsored by: Departments of Medicine & Pediatrics, Divisions of Hematology
ljthomas@jhmi.edu
12:00 PM Wall of Wonder Presentation: Important Contributions to Science and Medicine by Hispanic-Americans
School of Public Health, 1st Floor
Sponsored by: Bienestar Baltimore
lbernste@jhsph.edu
12:15 PM Rethinking the ethics and science of clinical trials: the case of Alzheimers disease drug development
Jason Karlawish, MD
Associate Professor, Department of Medicine, Division of Geriatrics, Fellow of the Center for Bioeth
615 N Wolfe St., W4030
Sponsored by: Sponsored by the Berman Institute of Bioethics. Co-sponsored by the Memory and Alzheimer's Treatment Center and the Center on Aging and Health
elmcdona@jhsph.edu, (443) 287 7339
1:00 PM Decoding Ca2+ at a Ca2+ cocktail party--How calmodulin listens as it regulates Ca2+ channels
David T. Yue, MD, PhD
Professor, Dept. of Biomedical Engineering, JHU
G007 Ross (Darner Conference Room)
Sponsored by: Biomedical Engineering
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4:00 PM 18th Annual Ewing Lecture "Cholesterol Transport in Steroidogenic Cells: Mechanisms and Function in Health and Disease"
Vassilios Papadopoulos, DPharm, PhD
Director, The Research Institute of the McGill University Health Centre
W1214, JHSPH
Sponsored by: The Department of Biochemistry and Molecular Biology
410-955-3671, smaniece@jhsph.edu
Tuesday, Oct/14/2008 Detail Contact Phone Number
12:00 PM GI Research Conference, "Creation and Regulation of the Intestine's Tight Junction Barrier"
James Anderson, MD, Ph.D.
Chairman, Department of Physiology, University of North Carolina School of Medicine
903 Ross Research
Sponsored by: GI/Medicine
5-9675; mdonowit@jhmi.edu
12:00 PM Unveiling the Mechanisms of Myoblast Fusion
Dr. Elizabeth Chenn
JHUSOM, Department of Molecular Biology and Genetics
612 Physiology Building
Sponsored by: JHU School of Medicine, Department of Biological Chemistry
5-3453
3:00 PM Center for Hearing and Balance Seminar Series: "Vestibular prosthesis tested in a vestibulopathic model"
Richard Lewis, M.D.
Associate Professor, Otolaryngology & Neurology, Mass. Eye & Ear Infirmary, Harvard Medical School
Traylor 709, Talbot Library
Sponsored by: Biomedical Engineering
fmackal1@jhmi.edu
Wednesday, Oct/15/2008 Detail Contact Phone Number
4:00 PM Use of pre-clinical in vitro and in vivo stroke models to address the efficacy and the mechanisms of action of neuroprotective agents
Sylvain Dore, PhD
Associate Professor, ACCM Department, Neuro Division, Johns Hopkins School of Medicine
West Lecture Hall, Ground Floor, WBSB
Sponsored by: Pharmacology & Molecular Sciences
4-8849
Thursday, Oct/16/2008 Detail Contact Phone Number
12:00 PM The War on Drugs - Time to End?
Jack Cole
Law Enforcement Against Prohibition (LEAP)
Hampton House B14
Sponsored by: Health Policy and Management, JHSPH
pdavis@jhsph.edu
12:00 PM "Role of the AP-4 adaptor complex in trafficking of the amyloid precursor protein"
Juan S. Bonifacino, Ph.D.
Head, Cell Biology and Metabolism Program-NICHD-NIH
1830 East Monument St., Suite 2-200
Sponsored by: Department of Cell Biology
410-502-7827, jmoore53@jhmi.edu
1:00 PM "Neural Substrates of Spectral Discrimination in Drosophila"
Chi-Hon Lee, MD, PhD
Laboratory of Gene Regulation and Development, NICHD, NIH
West Lecture Hall, Ground Floor, WBSB
Sponsored by: Neuroscience Department
410-614-4046
Friday, Oct/17/2008 Detail Contact Phone Number
1:00 PM "The Role of Matrix Metalloproteinases in Anaplasma Phagocytophilum and Borrelia Burgdorferi Infections" and "Whats Happening in the Mouse House that Could Affect my Research?"
Dr. Diana Scorpio and Dr. Julie Watson
Assistant Professors, Department of Molecular and Comparative Pathobiology
BRB 181
Sponsored by: Department of Molecular and Comparative Pathobiology
7-2953, welza1@jhmi.edu
3:00 PM Human Genetics Thesis Seminar: Genetic modifiers of inflammation in pulmonary disease
Kathryn McDougal
517 PCTB
Sponsored by: Institute of Genetic Medicine/Human Genetics Graduate Program
410-955-4260, muscelli@jhmi.edu
Monday, Oct/20/2008 Detail Contact Phone Number
12:00 PM Hematology Grand Rounds: Clinical Experience with Intravenous Iron
Dr. Michael Auerbach
Clinical Professor of Medicine, Georgetown University School of Medicine
Weinberg Auditorium
Sponsored by: Departments of Medicine & Pediatrics, Divisions of Hematology
ljthomas@jhmi.edu
Tuesday, Oct/21/2008 Detail Contact Phone Number
1:00 AM Chromatin boundaries, Chromatin Structure, and the Epigenetic Regulation of Gene Expression
Gary Felsenfeld, Ph.D.
NIH Distinguished Investigator, NIDDK, National Institutes of Health
490 Rangos
Sponsored by: Center for Epigenetics
nstocker@jhmi.edu
12:00 PM The Regulation of Proteasome Activity
Dr. Daniel Finley
Harvard Medical School, Department of Cell Biology
612 Physiology Building
Sponsored by: JHU School of Medicine Department of Biological Chemistry
5-3453
1:00 PM Chromatin boundaries, Chromatin Structure, and the Epigenetic Regulation of Gene Expression
Gary Felsenfeld, Ph.D
NIH Distinguished Investigator
Rangos 490
Wednesday, Oct/22/2008 Detail Contact Phone Number
4:00 PM Small Molecule Transcriptional Switches
Anna Mapp, PhD
Associate Professor, Department of Chemistry, University of Michigan
West Lecture Hall, Ground Floor, WBSB
Sponsored by: Pharmacology & Molecular Sciences
4-8849
Thursday, Oct/23/2008 Detail Contact Phone Number
10:30 AM Gi Core Center Seminar, "Detecting Polymorphism and Sequence Divergence in Proteins"
J. Andrew Keightley, Ph.D.
Director, Biological MS and Proteomics Facility, UMKC School of Biological Sciences, Kansas City, Mi
Physiology 203
Sponsored by: DDBRDCC
5-9675; mdonowit@jhmi.edu
12:00 PM How Howard County Provides Health Care for All
Ken Ulman
Howard County Executive
Hampton House B14
Sponsored by: Health Policy and Management, JHSPH
pdavis@jhsph.edu
12:00 PM "Documenting Cell Biology and Anatomy at Johns Hopkins"
Nancy McCall, M.L.A.
Research Associate in History of Medicine-JHMI
1830 East Monument St., Suite 2-200
Sponsored by: Department of Cell Biology
410-502-7827, jmoore53@jhmi.edu
1:00 PM "Imaging circuit assembly in the bertebrate retina"
Rachel Wong, PhD
Dept of Biological Structure, University of Washington
West Lecture Hall, Ground Floor, WBSB
Sponsored by: Neuroscience Department
410-614-4046
4:00 PM Orienting stem cells: asymmetric stem cell division during tissue homeostaasis and aging
Yukiko Yamashita, Ph.D.
Assistant Professor, Center for Stem Cell Biology, Life Sciences Institute, University of Michigan
Homewood Campus, Mudd Auditorium Room 26
Sponsored by: Johns Hopkins University - Department of Biology Seminar Series
410-516-7330
4:30 PM Director's Visiting Professor Lecture Series: "Genome-Wide Phenotypic Profiling In Yeast To Identify Genes Affecting Response To Cancer Therapy."
J. Martin Brown, Ph.D.
Professor of Radiation Oncology, Stanford University
Owens Auditorium (Between CRB I and II)
Sponsored by: The Sidney Kimmel Comprehensive Cancer Center at Johns Hopkins
410-955-9702, voelkga@jhmi.edu
Friday, Oct/24/2008 Detail Contact Phone Number
1:00 PM Lead Neurotoxicity: Behavioral Effects and Therapeutic Strategies
Jennifer Dziedzic, MS
Research Associate, JH Bloomberg School of Public Health, Div of Toxicological Sciences
BRB 181
Sponsored by: Department of Molecular and Comparative Pathobiology
7-2953, welza1@jhmi.edu
Monday, Oct/27/2008 Detail Contact Phone Number
12:15 PM Allocating ventilators during an influenza pandemic: public health ethics during an emergency
Bernard Lo, MD
Professor of Medicine, Director, Program in Medical Ethics, University of California San Francisco
615 N Wolfe Street, W4030
Sponsored by: Berman Institute of Bioethics. Co-sponsored by the Johns Hopkins Center for Public Health Preparedness
elmcdona@jhsph.edu, 443-287-7339
Wednesday, Oct/29/2008 Detail Contact Phone Number
1:30 PM Exploring New Roles for Elongation Factor Tu Inside and Outside Translation
Michael Ibba, Ph.D.
Associate Professor, Dept. of Microbiology, Ohio State University
Rm. 517 PCTB, SoM
Sponsored by: Biophysicis and Biophysical Chemistry
410-955-8712; kkolish@jhmi.edu
Thursday, Oct/30/2008 Detail Contact Phone Number
9:30 AM ICE Fall Symposium 2008 from 9:30AM to 4:00PM. Dr. Stuart Orkin-Harvard Medical School Dr. Freda Miller-University of Toronto Dr. Bruno Peault-University of Pittsburgh & UPMC Dr. Li-Huei Tsai-Massachusetts of Technology
TBD
TBD
Turner Auditorium
Sponsored by: Institute for Cell Engineering
msulliv9@jhmi.edu
10:45 AM Lipid transport in the retina and its relationship to the pathogenesis of age-related macular degeneration
Ignacio Rodriguez, Ph.D.
Section Chief, National Eye Institute, NIH
Maumenee 501
Sponsored by: Wilmer Eye Institute and the Visual Neuroscience Training Program
410-955-7589, jcione@jhmi.edu
12:00 PM Insurance Companies: Their Role and Responsiblities
Chet Burrell
President and CEO of CareFirst
Hampton House B14
Sponsored by: Health Policy and Management, JHSPH
pdavis
12:00 PM "Protein Folding in Cell Biology, Development, and Disease"
Aaron D. Gitler, Ph.D.
Assistant Professor-Cell and Developmental Biology-University of Pennsylvania
1830 East Monument St., Suite 2-200
Sponsored by: Department of Cell Biology
410-502-7827, jmoore53@jhmi.edu
1:00 PM "The mechanotransducer channels of auditory hair cells"
Robert Fettiplace, PhD
Dept of Physiology, University of Wisconsin-Madison
West Lecture Hall, Ground Floor, WBSB
Sponsored by: Neuroscience Department
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Tuesday, Nov/04/2008 Detail Contact Phone Number
4:15 PM "Innate immunity, TNF and the consequences of TNF blockade"
Sergei Nedospasov, Ph.D., DSci
Professor, Head of Laboratory
Tilghman Auditorium (Ground Fl. Turner Concourse)
Sponsored by: Immunology Council/Immunology Training Program
(410) 502-7752 or vlevits1@jhmi.edu
Thursday, Nov/06/2008 Detail Contact Phone Number
12:00 PM The Lobbyist Panel
Barbara Brocato, Frank Boston, Don Murphy, Robin Shaivitz and Pegeen Townsend
Hampton House B14
Sponsored by: Health Policy and Management, JHSPH
pdavis@jhsph.edu
1:00 PM "Insight into stroke damage and recovery from imaging individual synapses and circuits in mice in vivo"
Tim Murphy, PhD
Psychiatry/Brain Research Centre, University of British Columbia
West Lecture Hall, Ground Floor, WBSB
Sponsored by: Neuroscience Department
410-614-4046
Monday, Nov/10/2008 Detail Contact Phone Number
12:15 PM HIV TESTING: A PHYSICIANS PERSPECTIVE & COSTS AND CONSEQUNCES OF THE US CENTERS FOR DISEASE CONTROL AND PREVENTIONS RECOMMENDATIONS FOR OPT-OUT HIV TESTING
Emily Erbelding, MD and David Holtgrave, PhD
Johns Hopkins University
615 N. Wolfe Street, Room W4030
Sponsored by: Berman Institute of Bioethics. Co-sponsored by the Department of Health, Behavior and Society & the Urban Health Institute
443-287-7339, elmcdona@jhsph.edu
Tuesday, Nov/11/2008 Detail Contact Phone Number
12:00 PM "The role of redox chemistry in protein import in the mitochondrial intermembrane space"
Carla Koehler, Ph.D.
Associate Professor, Department of Chemistry & Biochemistry, UCLA
Physiology Research Conference Room 203, School of Medicine
Sponsored by: The Department of Physiology, Host: Steven Claypool, Ph.D.
5-4581, lheath2@jhmi.edu
4:00 PM Dean's Lecture Series 2008-09 Global Sensitivity Analysis: A Paradigm for Reporting Honest Inferences about Treatment Effects from Observational Data
Daniel Scharfstein, ScD
Professor, Bloomberg School of Public Health
School of Public Health - Sheldon Hall
Sponsored by: Dean's Office-SPH
410-955-3541; dsims@jhsph.edu
4:15 PM " The AID enzyme in antibody diversification: Mutational mechanisms and lymphomagenesis"
Alberto Martin, Ph.D.
Assistant Professsor, Immunology, University of Toronto
Tilghman Auditorium (Turner Concourse)
Sponsored by: Immunology Council Seminar Series
(410) 558-8561, gearhartp@grc.nia.nih.gov
Tuesday, Nov/18/2008 Detail Contact Phone Number
4:15 PM "Signaling in the immunological synapse: Where does it start and stop?"
Rajat Varma, Ph.D.
Tenure Track Investigator, Laboratory of Cellular and Molecular Immunology, NIAID/NIH
Tilghman Auditorium (Turner Concourse
Sponsored by: Immunology Council/Immunology Training Program
(410) 614-4589 or email: jschnec1@jhmi.edu
Wednesday, Nov/19/2008 Detail Contact Phone Number
5:00 PM Policy, politics and Ph.D.'s: How science and policy intersect
Ed Ramos, Ph.D.
Science Policy Analyst, National Institutes of Health
Mt Castle Auditorium
Sponsored by: JHMI Professional Development Office
jhmipdo@jhmi.edu
Friday, Nov/21/2008 Detail Contact Phone Number
2:00 PM Human Genetics Thesis Seminar: HEYL, a novel negative regulator of TGF-beta pathway in breast cancer
Liangfeng Han
517 PCTB
Sponsored by: Institute of Genetic Medicine/Human Genetics Graduate Program
955-4260, muscelli@jhmi.edu
Monday, Nov/24/2008 Detail Contact Phone Number
9:00 AM Grantcraft
Donna Vogel, M.D., Ph.D.
Professional Development Office Director, JHMI
Tilghman Auditorium, Turner Concourse
Sponsored by: JHMI Professional Development Office
mdiffen2@jhmi.edu
Tuesday, Nov/25/2008 Detail Contact Phone Number
12:00 PM Regulation of Glucose and Energy Metabolism by Hypoxia-Inducible Factor 1
Dr. Gregg L. Semenza
JHU Vascular Program, Institute for Cell Engineering; Departments of Pediatrics, Medicine, Oncology
612 Physiology Building
Sponsored by: JHU School of Medicine Department of Biological Chemistry
Tuesday, Dec/02/2008 Detail Contact Phone Number
12:00 PM Mechanisms of Chromosome Segregation and Aneuploidy
Dr. Duane Compton
Dartmouth Harvard Medical School, Department of Biochemistry
612 Physiology Building
Sponsored by: JHU School of Medicine Department of Biological Chemistry
5-3453
Friday, Dec/05/2008 Detail Contact Phone Number
2:00 AM Mammalian Diacylglycerol Kinases and their Interaction with Membranes
Dr. Richard Epand
McMaster University Health Sciences Center, Dept. of Biochemistry and Biomedical Sciences
612 Physiology
Sponsored by: JHU School of Medicine, Department of Biological Chemistry
5-3453
1:00 PM How Tadpoles Turn into Frogs
Donald Brown, MD
Staff Member Emeritus, Carnegie Institution
BRB 181
Sponsored by: Department of Molecular and Comparative Pathobiology
7-2953, welza1@jhmi.edu
Tuesday, Dec/09/2008 Detail Contact Phone Number
12:00 PM cellular therapy for diabetes mellitus
Dr. Mehboob Hussian
JHU, Department of Pediatrics
612 Physiology Building
Sponsored by: JHU School of Medicine, Department of Biological Chemistry
5-3453
Friday, Dec/12/2008 Detail Contact Phone Number
1:00 PM Frizzled Receptors in Development and Disease
Jeremy Nathans, MD, PhD
Professor, Molecular Biology and Genetics
BRB 181
Sponsored by: Department of Molecular and Comparative Pathobiology
7-2953, welza1@jhmi.edu
Friday, Jan/23/2009 Detail Contact Phone Number
1:00 PM "Effective Presentation Skills"
Donna Vogel, MD, PhD
Director of the Professional Development Office at Johns Hopkins Medical Institutions
BRB 181
Sponsored by: Department of Molecular and Comparative Pathobiology
7-2953, welza1@jhmi.edu
Wednesday, Jan/28/2009 Detail Contact Phone Number
4:00 PM Dean's Lecture Series 2008-09 The Role of Statistics in the Genomic Revolution: Rescuing Signal from a Sea of Noise
Rafael Irizarry, PhD
Professor, Bloomberg School of Public Health
School of Public Health - Sheldon Hall
Sponsored by: Dean's Office-SPH
410-955-3541; dsims@jhsph.edu
Wednesday, Feb/11/2009 Detail Contact Phone Number
4:00 PM Dean's Lecture Series 2008-09 The Public Health Consequences of Depression in Families
Anne Riley, PhD
Professor, Bloomberg School of Public Health
School of Public Health - Sheldon Hall
Sponsored by: Dean's Office-SPH
410-955-3541; dsims@jhsph.edu
Wednesday, Mar/11/2009 Detail Contact Phone Number
4:00 PM Dean's Lecture Series 2008-09 "Aquaporin Water Channels: From Atomic Structure to Malaria"
Peter Agre, MD
Professor, Bloomberg School of Public Health
School of Public Health - Sheldon Hall
Sponsored by: Dean's Office-SPH
410-955-3541; dsims@jhsph.edu
Saturday, Mar/14/2009 Detail Contact Phone Number
9:00 AM 2nd International Online Medical Conference (IOMC 2009)
Online Conference
Sponsored by: IOKSP
http://iomc.ioksp.com/ - iomc@ioksp.com
Wednesday, Apr/22/2009 Detail Contact Phone Number
4:00 PM Dean's Lecture Series 2008-09 "Internalizing Symptoms and Alcohol Disorders: What are the Comorbid Relationships?"
Rosa Crum, MD MHS
Professor, Bloomberg School of Public Health
School of Public Health - Sheldon Hall
Sponsored by: Dean's Office-SPH
410-955-3541; dsims@jhsph.edu
4:00 PM Dean's Lecture Series "Internalizing Symptoms and Alcohol Disorders: What are the Comorbid Relationships?"
Rosa Crum, MD MHS
Professor, Bloomberg School of Public Health
School of Public Health - Sheldon Hall
Sponsored by: Dean's Office-SPH
410-955-3541; dsims@jhsph.edu
Thursday, Apr/23/2009 Detail Contact Phone Number
4:00 PM 9th Annual Daniel Nathans, M.D. Lecture in Molecular Genetics
Judith Kimble, Ph.D.
Vilas Professor of Biochemistry, Molecular Biology, and Medical Genetics, University of WisconsinMa
Wood Basic Science Auditorium, JHU School of Medicine
Sponsored by: Department of Molecular Biology & Genetics
Cindy Rogers, ext. 5-0397, crogers@jhmi.edu