Distinguished Lecture Series

Thursday Series Lectures

12:15 PM to 1:15 PM

Reimann Auditorium
Fox Chase Cancer Center
333 Cottman Avenue
Philadelphia, PA 19111-2497

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Distinguished Lecture Series 2007-2008

June 14
Dr. Wes Sundquist
University of Utah
Topic: HIV structure and assembly.

June 28
Dr. Sankar Mitra
University of Texas Medical Branch
Topic: Repair of oxidative DNA damage in mammals, its regulation and its impact on apoptosis and drug resistance of tumor cells.
Lecture date changed from April 12 to June 28

September 6
Dr. Charis Eng
Cleveland Clinic Lerner Research Inst.
Topic: Identification and characterization of genes involved in hereditary cancer susceptibility.

September 13
Dr. Guy Salvesen
The Burnham Institute
Topic: Central role of enzymes in the life and death of cells.

September 20
Dr. Rodney Rothstein
Columbia University
Topic: Genetics and biochemistry of DNA repair and recombination.

October 4
Dr. John Cleveland
St. Jude Children's Research Hospital
Topic: MYC oncogene, one of the most common genes overexpressed in human cancer.

October 11
Dr. Alison McBride
NIAID, NIH
Topic: Studying the ways in which the E2 proteins regulate viral gene expression and how the E1 and E2 proteins act in concert to replicate papillomavirus DNA.

November 15
Dr. Alexander Rudensky
University of Washington
Topic: Understanding the molecular mechanisms governing the development and function of CD4 T lymphocytes and their role in T cell mediated immunity.

November 29
Dr. Carlos Bustamante
University of California, Berkeley
Topic: Development of novel methods of single molecule manipulation and detection.

December 6
Dr. David Meltzer
University of Chicago
Topic: Theoretical foundations of medical cost-effectiveness analysis. Effects of managed care and medical specialization on the cost and quality of care.

December 13
Dr. Tom Misteli
NIH
Topic: Cell Biology of genomes.

January 10
Dr. Norbert Perrimon
Harvard Medical School
Topic: Using functional genomic approaches to identify molecular mechanisms that link physiology, cell biology and cell differentiation.

January 17
Dr. Robert Weinberg
Whitehead Institute, MIT
Topic: Molecular mechanisms that control cell proliferation and the formation of tumors.

January 24
Dr. Anna Meadows
Children's Hospital of Philadelphia
Topic: Epidemiology of childhood cancer and the late effects of therapy and clinical trials in pediatric lymphoma, Wilms' tumor and retinoblastoma.

February 7
Dr. Giorgio Trinchieri
NCI
Topic: The roles of Toll-like receptors in innate immune responses.
Lecture date changed from November 8 to February 7

February 21
Dr. Joseph Gall
Carnegie Institution of Washington
Topic: The role of nuclear organelles in the synthesis and processing of RNA.

February 28
Dr. Kenneth Chien
Harvard Medical School
Topic: Molecular pathways of cardiac development and disease.

March 13
Dr. Kevan Shokat
University of California, San Francisco
Topic: Dissection of protein kinase function through combined chemical and genetic approaches.

April 3
Dr. Stephen Goff
Columbia University
Topic: Replication of retroviruses and the cellular gene products that interact with these viruses.

April 10
Dr. Leona Samson
MIT Center for Cancer Research
Topic: The mechanisms by which carcinogenic alkylating agents induce cellular damage that leads to mutations, cell death and ultimately cancer.

April 17
Dr. Anjana Rao
CBR Institute for Biomedical Research
Harvard Medical School
Topic: Transcriptional control of T cell activation and differentiation.

June 5
Dr. Spyros Artavanis-Tsakonas
Harvard Medical School
Topic: The notch signaling pathway:from invertebrate development to human disease.