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Seminar Listing

All seminars are held in the Evans 4th Floor Conference Room, E-434.

List of 2008 Tuesday Seminars

January 22, 2008                              
William W Cruikshank, Ph.D.
Professor, Pulmonary Center, Department of Medicine, Boston University School of Medicine
“Interleukin-16’s effect on T cell proliferation:  potential implication for T cell cancers”

January 29, 2008                              
Barbara A Gilchrest, M.D.
Professor and Chair, Department of Dermatology, Boston University School of Medicine
“Telomere-based protective responses in skin and …oral mucosa?”

February 19, 2008                           
Shelley J. Russek, Ph.D.
Professor, Department of Pharmacology and Experimental Therapeutics, Boston University School of Medicine
“A Flip in the Molecular Switch: Alteration of GABA-A Receptor Function in Epilepsy via Transcription Factors”

February 26, 2008                           
Richard Szmola, M.D.
Postdoctoral Fellow, Department of Molecular and Cell Biology, Boston University Goldman School of Dental Medicine
“Regulation of Trypsin Activity in the Pathomechanism of Chronic Pancreatitis”

April 29, 2008                    
Gail E. Sonenshein, Ph.D.
Professor of Biochemistry, Director, Women’s Health Interdisciplinary Research Center, Boston University School of Medicine
“NF-κB and Control of Epithelial to Mesenchymal Transition of Cancer Cells”

May 06, 2008
Mihai Nita-Lazar, Ph.D.
Molecular and Cell Biology Department, Boston University Goldman School of Dental Medicine
“N-Glycosylation Status of E-Cadherin Regulates Intercellular Adhesion”

List of 2008 Thursday Seminars
Distinguished Lecturer Series

January 10, 2008                              
Stephen M Trent, Ph.D.
Associate Professor, Dept. of Biochemistry and Molecular Biology, Medical College of Georgia, Augusta, Georgia
“Remodeling of the bacterial cell surface: Modifications of Lipopolysaccharides”

January 17, 2008                              
Mary F Roberts, Ph.D.
Professor of Chemistry, Boston College
“Regulation of PI-specific Phospholipase C Enzymes by Interfaces (or kinky kinetics, murky membranes, dynamic dimmers and shuttling samples…)”

February 28, 2008                           
Pamela G Robey, Ph.D.
Chief, Craniofacial and Skeletal Diseases Branch, National Institute of Dental and Craniofacial Research, NIH, Bethesda, Maryland
“Post-Natal Skeletal Stem Cells: What we know about them and how can we use them”

March 20, 2008                 
David Ann, Ph.D.
Professor & Associate Director, Clinical and Molecular Pharmacology Department, City of Hope Medical Center, Duarte, California
“Regulation of Genomic Instability by KAP1 SUMOylation and HMGA2”

April 10, 2008                    
James K. Wahl III, Ph. D.
Assistant Professor, Department of Oral Biology, UNMC College of Dentistry
“Plakophilin-1 in desmosome assembly and signaling”

April 24, 2008                    
Kathleen Kinnally, Ph.D.
Professor, New York University, N.Y.
“Mitochondrial Apoptosis-Induced Channel and BCL-2 Family Proteins are Co-Conspirators in a Deadly Plot”

May 15, 2008                     
Ashok K. Saluja, Ph.D.
Professor and Vice Chair, Department of Surgery, University of Minnesota, Minneapolis
““Love it or Hate it” The dual role of HSP70 in pancreatitis and pancreatic cancer”

June 23, 2008                    
Patricia Berninsone, Ph.D.
Assistant Professor, Department of Biology, University of Nevada, Reno
 “Sweet Worms: Metabolic Glycoprotein Tagging in C. elegans Embryonic Cells”