Friday - November /20/2009
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Friday, Nov/20/2009 Detail Contact Phone Number
12:15 PM Health Sciences Informatics Grand Rounds "Information Technologies for Smarter Healthcare"
Dr. Joseph M. Jasinski
IBM Distinguished Engineer, Program Director, Healthcare and Lifesciences Institute, IBM Research
School of Public Health, Wolfe St., Sheldon Hall
Sponsored by: Presented by The Johns Hopkins University School of Medicine in conjunction with The Johns Hopkins Bloomberg School of Public Health
443-287-6083, kthornt5@jhmi.edu
Monday, Nov/23/2009 Detail Contact Phone Number
8:30 AM Eyes on Prevention: The Overlooked Potential of Pathology in Breast Cancer Research
Mark E. Sherman, M.D.
Senior Clinician, National Cancer Institute
Hurd Hall
Sponsored by: Pathology Grand Rounds
Jean Lavelle
12:00 PM "Leptin Secretion: Exocrine-Endocrine Axis along the Gastro-Intestinal System"
Moise Bendayan, Ph.D.
Professor,University of Montreal
W1020
Sponsored by: BMB
Nicole Favaro nfavaro@jhsph.edu 410-955-3671
1:30 PM BME Seminar Series: Sturctural basis of voltage sensor function and pharmacology in ion channels
Kenton J. Swartz, PhD
Senior Investigator, Molecular Physiology and Biophysics Section, NIH/NINDS
709 Traylor, Talbot Room
Sponsored by: Biomedical Engineering
410-955-3132, joyce.bankert@jhu.edu
Tuesday, Nov/24/2009 Detail Contact Phone Number
12:00 PM "Molecular mechanisms of retinal cell fate specification: the role of unconventional transcriptional regulators."
Dr. Seth Blackshaw
JHUSOM, Department of Neuroscience
612 Physiology Bldg.
Sponsored by: Department of Biological Chemistry
5-3453
Wednesday, Dec/02/2009 Detail Contact Phone Number
12:00 PM Translational Research Conference "Abnormal DNA Damage and Repair"
Feyruz Rassool, Ph.D.
Associate Professor, Radiation Oncology
Albert H. Owens Jr. Auditorium
Sponsored by: Sidney Kimmel Comprehensive Cancer Center
slee225@jhmi.edu
3:00 PM Glucose deprivation selects for KRAS and BRAF mutations in colorectal cancer
Jihye Yun
PhD candidate/JHUSOM
Owens Auditorium CRBI/CRBII
Sponsored by: Cellular and Molecular Medicine Graduate Program
410-614-3640
4:00 PM Sensing Centromere Tension: Mechanical Forces and Chromsome Segregation
Michael Lampson, PhD
Asst Professor of Biology
West Lecture Hall, Ground Floor, WBSB
Sponsored by: Pharmacology & Molecular Sciences
4-8849
4:30 PM 'One Hundred Years of Retroviruses'
Karen Beemon, Ph.D.
Professor, Department of Biology, Johns Hopkins University
Mudd Hall Auditorium, Room 26
Sponsored by: Department of Biology Colloquia Series
410-516-4693
Thursday, Dec/03/2009 Detail Contact Phone Number
1:00 PM "Optical approaches to probing the cerebellum in action"
Samuel Wang, PhD
Neuroscience Institute & Dept of Molecular Biology, Princeton University
West Lecture Hall, Ground Floor, WBSB
Sponsored by: Neuroscience Department
410-614-4046
Friday, Dec/04/2009 Detail Contact Phone Number
12:15 PM Health Sciences Informatics Grand Rounds "Providing Information Prescriptions (IRx) in Two Clinical Populations: Two Randomized Controlled Trials"
Nancy K. Roderer, MLS & Kathleen O. Oliver, MLS
Professor and Director, Division of Health Sciences Informatics Johns Hopkins University; Associate
School of Public Health, Wolfe St., Sheldon Hall
Sponsored by: Presented by The Johns Hopkins University School of Medicine in conjunction with The Johns Hopkins Bloomberg School of Public Health
443-287-6083, kthornt5@jhmi.edu
Tuesday, Dec/08/2009 Detail Contact Phone Number
12:00 PM "A new look at Notch Signaling in embryonic neural stem cells and neurons"
Dr. Nicholas Gaiano
Johns Hopkins University, Dept. of Neurology, Neuroscience and Oncology
612 Physiology Bldg.
Sponsored by: Department of Biological Chemistry
5-3453
Wednesday, Dec/09/2009 Detail Contact Phone Number
12:00 PM Translational Research Conference "Finding and Targeting Ewing's Sarcoma Stem Cells"
David Loeb, M.D., Ph.D.
Assistant Professor of Pediatric Oncology
Albert H. Owens Jr. Auditorium
Sponsored by: Sidney Kimmel Comprehensive Cancer Center
slee225@jhmi.edu
2:00 PM "Critical Components of Proximal and Distant Regulatory Elements in the Human Genome"
Ivan Ovcharenko, Ph.D.
Investigator, National Institutes of Health
Darner Conference Room
Sponsored by: Institute of Genetic Medicine
Contact: andy@jhmi.edu
Thursday, Dec/10/2009 Detail Contact Phone Number
12:00 PM "Phosphoinositide 4-kinases at the crossroad of cellular trafficking and signaling"
Tamas Balla, MD, PhD
NICHD-NIH
1830 East Monument St., Suite 2-200
Sponsored by: Department of Cell Biology
410-502-7827, jmoore53@jhmi.edu
Friday, Dec/11/2009 Detail Contact Phone Number
10:00 AM Rheumatology Rounds: PAD Inhibition: A novel Therapeutic Approach for Rheumatoid Arthritis
Paul R. Thompson, MD
Associate Professor of Medicine, Department of Chemistry & Biochemistry, University of South Carolin
Mason F. Lord Building, Center Tower, 4th Floor Conference Room
Sponsored by: Rheumatology
410-550-2017 or kburgess@jhmi.edu
Tuesday, Dec/15/2009 Detail Contact Phone Number
1:00 PM "Metabolomics Used for Defining Diabetes Mechanisms"
Christopher B. Newgard Ph.D.
Director and Professor Sarah W. Stedman Nutrition and Metabolism Center
Rangos 490
Sponsored by: CMOR
4-6483
Wednesday, Dec/16/2009 Detail Contact Phone Number
12:00 PM Translational Research Conference "Molecular Profiling of Barrett Eophagus and Esophageal Adenocarcinoma"
Anirban Maitra, M.B.B.S
Associate Professor, Gastrointestinal Liver Pathology
Albert H. Owens Jr. Auditorium
Sponsored by: Sidney Kimmel Comprehensive Cancer Center
slee225@jhmi.edu
4:00 PM Isoprenoids: Biosysnthesis and Biomedical Applications
Pinghua Liu, PhD
Asst Professor of Chemistry, Boston University
West Lecture Hall, Ground Floor, WBSB
Sponsored by: Pharmacology and Molecular Sciences
4-8849
Thursday, Dec/17/2009 Detail Contact Phone Number
12:00 PM "A protein chip approach reveals networks and pathways"
Heng Zhu, Ph.D.
Department of Pharmacology -JHU SOM
1830 East Monument St., Suite 2-200
Sponsored by: Department of Cell Biology
410-502-7827, jmoore53@jhmi.edu
1:00 PM "Translational studies of metabotropic glutamate receptor antagonists for the treatment of pain"
Robert Gereau, PhD
Dept of Anesthesiology, Washington University School of Medicine
West Lecture Hall, Ground Floor, WBSB
Sponsored by: Neuroscience Department
410-614-4046
Wednesday, Jan/06/2010 Detail Contact Phone Number
12:00 PM Translational Research Conference
Nickolas Papadopoulos, Ph.D.
Associate Professor, Cancer Biology
Albert H. Owens Jr. Auditorium
Sponsored by: Sidney Kimmel Comprehensive Cancer Center
slee225@jhmi.edu
Wednesday, Jan/13/2010 Detail Contact Phone Number
12:00 PM Translational Research Conference "Contrasting Cellular Invasion Strategies in Normal and Neoplastic Epithelial Invasion"
Andrew Ewald, Ph.D.
Assistant Professor, Cell Biology
Albert H. Owens Jr. Auditorium
Sponsored by: Sidney Kimmel Comprehensive Cancer Center
slee225@jhmi.edu
Wednesday, Jan/20/2010 Detail Contact Phone Number
12:00 PM Translational Research Conference "Small Molecule Targeting of EWS-FLI1 to Modulate Transcription and Create New Therapies for Ewing's Sarcoma"
Jeffrey Toretsky, M.D.
Associate Professor, Lombardi Comprehensive Cancer Center
Albert H. Owens Jr. Auditorium
Sponsored by: Sidney Kimmel Comprehensive Cancer Center
slee225@jhmi.edu
Thursday, Jan/21/2010 Detail Contact Phone Number
1:00 PM "Synaptic specificity in the visual system"
Joshua Sanes, PhD
Center for Brain Research, Harvard University
West Lecture Hall, Ground Floor, WBSB
Sponsored by: Neuroscience Department
410-614-4046
Thursday, Jan/28/2010 Detail Contact Phone Number
4:30 PM Director's Visiting Professor Lecture Series 2009-2010
Joseph V. Simone, M.D.
Director and Clinical Professor of Pediatrics
Albert H. Owens Jr. Auditorium
Sponsored by: Sidney Kimmel Comprehensive Cancer Center
slee225@jhmi.edu
Wednesday, Feb/10/2010 Detail Contact Phone Number
12:00 PM Translational Research Conference "Management of Metastatic Lung Cancer"
Rosalyn Juergens, M.D.
Assistant Professor, Upper Aerodigestive Cancer
Albert H. Owens Jr. Auditorium
Sponsored by: Sidney Kimmel Comprehensive Cancer Center
slee225@jhmi.edu
Wednesday, Feb/24/2010 Detail Contact Phone Number
12:00 PM Translational Research Conference "Detecting Human Retrotransposon Insertions"
Jef Boeke, Ph.D., SC.D.
Professor, Molecular Biology and Genetics
Albert H. Owens Jr. Auditorium
Sponsored by: Sidney Kimmel Comprehensive Cancer Center
slee225@jhmi.edu
Wednesday, Mar/03/2010 Detail Contact Phone Number
12:00 PM Translational Research Conference "Epigenetic Therapy in Patients with AML and ALL"
Hetty Carraway, M.D.
Assistant Professor, Hematologic Malignancies
Albert H. Owens Jr. Auditorium
Sponsored by: Sidney Kimmel Comprehensive Cancer Center
slee225@jhmi.edu
Wednesday, Mar/10/2010 Detail Contact Phone Number
12:00 PM Translational Research Conference
Craig Peacock, Ph.D.
Assistant Professor, Cancer Biology
Albert H. Owens Jr. Auditorium
Sponsored by: Sidney Kimmel Comprehensive Cancer Center
slee225@jhmi.edu
Thursday, Mar/11/2010 Detail Contact Phone Number
4:30 PM Director's Visiting Professor Lecture Series 2009-2010
David Flockhart, M.D., Ph.D.
Professor, Indiana University School of Medicine, Division of Clinical Pharmacology
Albert H. Owens Jr. Auditorium
Sponsored by: Sidney Kimmel Comprehensive Cancer Center
slee225@jhmi.edu
Thursday, Apr/22/2010 Detail Contact Phone Number
4:00 PM 10th Daniel Nathans Lecture in Molecular Genetics MORE DETAILS TBA
Hamilton Smith, Ph.D.
Woof Basic Science Auditorium, WBSB
Sponsored by: Molecular Biology and Genetics
410-955-0397, crogers@jhmi.edu