DEPARTMENTAL SEMINAR SCHEDULE

The Department of Cell Biology and Anatomy holds a weekly seminar every Tuesday at noon in the 4th floor auditorium of the Rosenstiel Medical Science Building. Speakers include faculty members from the Department of Cell Biology and Anatomy and invited guest speakers from reseach departments at the medical school and other prestigious research institutions. A broad range of subjects are covered, including topics in developemental biology, neurobiology, molecular cell biology, cell physiology, and cellular pharmacology.

Location: 4th Floor Auditorium, RMSB
Time: 12:00 noon
Date: Tuesdays (unless otherwise noted)

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Cell Biology & Anatomy Seminar Series (September 2007-May 2008)


Tuesday, September 11, 2007
12:00 noon, 4th Floor Auditorium, RMSB

Dr. Matthias A. Salathe , Professor of Medicine
Department of Pulmonary and Critical Care Medicine
University of Miami Miller School of Medicine, Miami, Florida

"Beating to the Pace of cAMP Production-Regulation of Cilia During Airway Inflammation " 

Tuesday, September 18, 2007 
12:00 noon, 4th Floor Auditorium, RMSB

Sponsored by the Departments of Cell Biology and Anatomy, Biology, and the Neuroscience Program.

Dr. Michael Ehlers, Associate Professor of Neurobiology and
Wakeman Scholar Investigator, Howard Hughes Medical Institute
Duke University Medical Center
Durham North Carolina

"Spine Trafficking Machinery and Genetic Control of Neural Activity in Mice"


Tuesday, September 25, 2007
12:00 noon, 4th Floor Auditorium, RMSB

Dr. Malgorzata Kloc-Stepkowska, Associate Professor
of Biochemistry and Molecular Biology
M.D. Anderson Cancer Center, University of Texas
Houston, Texas

"Structual Role of RNAs in the Organization of Cytoskeleton" 

Tuesday, October 9, 2007
12:00 noon, 4th Floor Auditorium, RMSB

Sponsored by the Department of Cell Biology and Anatomy and UM/Sylvester Comprehensive Cancer Center

Dr. Dorraya El-Ashry, Pd.D., Assistant Professor
Division of Hematology/Oncology
University of Michigan Medical School
Ann Arbor, Michigan

"ER-Negative Breast Cancer: New Thoughts on Its Etiology and Therapy" 


Tuesday, October 16, 2007
12:00 noon, 4th Floor Auditorium, RMSB

Dr. Jeffery M. Vance, Professor and Chair,
Division of Human Genetics, Department of Medicine
Director, Center for Genomic Medicine
Miami Institute for Human Genomics
University of Miami Miller School of Medicine
Miami, Florida

“Charcot-Marie-Tooth Disease: Genes, Mitochondria and More”


Tuesday, October 23, 2007
12:00 noon, 4th Floor Auditorium, RMSB

Dr. Gregory V. Plano, Associate Professor of Microbiology and Immunology
University of Miami Miller School of Medicine
Miami, Florida

"Calcium- and Cell Contact-Regulated Injection of Virulence
Proteins by Yersinia pestis, the Causative Agent of Plague"


Tuesday, October 30, 2007
12:00 noon, 4th Floor Auditorium, RMSB

Dr. Mark A. Lehrman, Professor
Department of Pharmacology
University of Texas Southwestern Medical Center
Dallas, Texas

"How the ER Stress Response Regulates N-Glycosylation"


Tuesday, November 6, 2007
12:00 noon, 4th Floor Auditorium, RMSB

Dr. Alan P. Fields, Professor of Pharmacology
Chair, Department of Cancer Biology, and
Director of Cancer Basic Research
Mayo Clinic Jacksonville
Jacksonville, Florida


"Oncogenic Protein Kinase C Signaling in Lung Cancer:
From Prognosis to Therapy "
 



Tuesday, November 13, 2007

LECTURE IS RESCHEDULED FOR FEBRUARY 5TH.

12:00 noon, 4th Floor Conference Room 4139, RMSB

(PLEASE NOTE CHANGE OF LOCATION)

Dr. John L. Bixby, Professor of Molecular & Cellular Pharmacology,
and Associate Dean for Graduate Studies
University of Miami Miller School of Medicine
Miami, Florida

Title: "Receptor tyrosine phosphatases & axon guidance regulation"


Tuesday, November 20, 2007
12:00 noon, 4th Floor Auditorium, RMSB

Sponsored by the Department of Cell Biology and Anatomy
and the Division of Pulmonary and Critical Care Medicine


Dr. Kwang Chul Kim
, Senior Scientist
Respiratory Immunology and Asthma Program
Lovelace Respiratory Research Institute
Albuquerque, New Mexico

"The Anti-Inflammatory Role of MUC1 Mucin
During Airway Bacterial Infection "
 

Tuesday, November 27, 2007
12:00 noon, 4th Floor Auditorium, RMSB

Dr. Lin Mei , Professor of Neurology
Georgia Research Alliance Eminent Scholar in Neuroscience, &
Chief, Program of Developmental Neurobiology
Institute of Molecular Medicine and Genetics,
Medical College of Gergia
Augusta, Georgia

"Uncanonical Roles of Wnt Signaling Molecules
in Synapse Formation
"
 


Tuesday, December 4th, 2007
12:00 noon, 4th Floor Auditorium, RMSB

No seminar scheduled due to the
ASCB Conference in Washington, D.C.


SEMINAR RESCHEDULED TO MARCH 4TH, 2008

Tuesday, December 11, 2007

12:00 noon, 4th Floor Auditorium, RMSB

Dr. Eckhard R. Podack, Sylvester Distinguished Professor
and Chairman of Microbiology and Immunology
University of Miami Miller School of Medicine
Miami, Florida

"TL1A/TNFRSF25 in Asthma and Inflammatory Bowel Disease" 


Tuesday, January 8, 2008
12:00 noon, 4th Floor Auditorium, RMSB

Traci Hall, Ph.D., Laboratory of Structural Biology
National Institute of Environmental Health Sciences
National Institutes of Health
Research Triangle Park, North Carolina 

Lecture is sponsored by the Departments of Cell Biology and Anatomy and Biochemistry and Molecular Biology.

"Designing and Probing RNA Sequence Specificity of PUF Proteins"


Tuesday, January 15, 2008 
12:00 noon, 4th Floor Auditorium, RMSB

Dr. Leopold Raij , Professor
Vascular Biology Institute, Department of Medicine
University of Miami Miller School of Medicine
Miami, Florida

"
Interaction between Angiotensin II and
Nitric Oxide: Notes from a Biology Watcher
"


Tuesday, January 22nd, 2008 
12:00 noon, 4th Floor Auditorium, RMSB

Dr. Dafna Bar-Sagi, Professor and Chair of Biochemistry
New York University School of Medicine
New York, New York

"Ras Signaling: Experimental Challenges and Therapeutic
Opportunities"


Tuesday, January 29th, 2008
12:00 noon, 4th Floor Auditorium, RMSB

Dr. Keith D. Mostov, Professor of Anatomy
Biochemistry and Biophysics, and Cell Biology Program
University of California School of Medicine
San Francisco, California

"Morphogenesis of Multicellular Epithelial Structures" 

Tuesday, February 5th, 2008
12:00 noon, 4th Floor Auditorium, RMSB

Dr. John L. Bixby, Professor of Molecular & Cellular Pharmacology,
and Associate Dean for Graduate Studies
University of Miami Miller School of Medicine
Miami, Florida

"Receptor tyrosine phosphatases & axon guidance regulation"



Tuesday, Febuary 12th, 2008
12:00 noon, 4th Floor Auditorium, RMSB

Dr. Lawrence Ostrowski, Associate Professor of Medicine
Pulmonary and Critical Care Medicine
The University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill
Chapel Hill, North Carolina

"Conditional Deletion of Dnaic1: A Mouse Model for
Primary Ciliary Dyskinesia "


Tuesday, Febuary 19th, 2008
12:00 noon, 4th Floor Auditorium, RMSB

Dr. Jie Li,
Associate Professor 
Dermatology and Cutaneous Surgery
&
Cell Biology and Anatomy
University of Miami Miller School of Medicine
Miami, Florida

"Laminin-10 Extracellular Matrix in Normal Skin and in Wound"


Tuesday, February 26th, 2008
12:00 noon, 4th Floor Auditorium, RMSB

Dr. Eli Gilboa, Dodson Professor of Microbiology and Immunology
Director, Dodson Interdisciplinary Immunotherapy Institute
University of Miami Miller School of Medicine
Miami, Florida

"Cancer Vaccines: Where are we going from here"


Tuesday, March 4th, 2008
12:00 noon, 4th Floor Auditorium, RMSB

Dr. Eckhard R. Podack, Sylvester Distinguished Professor
and Chairman of Microbiology and Immunology
University of Miami Miller School of Medicine
Miami, Florida

"TL1A/TNFRSF25 in Asthma and Inflammatory Bowel Disease" 


Tuesday, March 11th, 2008

No seminar scheduled due to Spring Break


Tuesday, March 18th, 2008   RESCHEDULED FOR 5/20/08  
12:00 noon, 4th Floor Auditorium, RMSB


Dr. David Helfman, Professor
Department of Cell Biology & Anatomy
University of Miami Miller School of Medicine
Miami, Florida


Tuesday, March 25th, 2008
12:00 noon, 4th Floor Auditorium, RMSB

Dr. Carrie Rinker Schaeffer,
Associate Professor
of Urology and Director of Urologic Research,
Section of Urology; Department of Surgery. 
The Unversity of Chicago School of Medicine
Chicago, Illinois   

"Defining Mechanisms that Regulate Metastatic Colonization:
The Devil is in the Details"


Tuesday, April 1st, 2008
12:00 noon, 4th Floor Auditorium, RMSB

Dr. Wei Li,
Assistant Professor
Bascom Palmer Eye Institute
University of Miami Miller School of Medicine

"Phagocytosis is essential to prevent retinal degeneration" 
 


Tuesday, April 8th, 2008
12:00 noon, 4th Floor Auditorium, RMSB

Dr. Joy Lincoln,
Assistant Professor
Molecular and Cellular Pharmacology
University of Miami Miller School of Medicine

"Transcriptional Regulation of Heart Valve Development" 

Tuesday, April 15st, 2008
12:00 noon, 4th Floor Auditorium, RMSB

Dr. Nagi G. Ayad 
Assistant Professor
Department of Cancer Biology,  The Scripps
Research Institute, Scripps Florida,
Jupiter, Florida

"Mitotic Entry, Exit, and Neuronal Precursors" 


Tuesday, April 22nd, 2008
12:00 noon, 4th Floor Auditorium, RMSB

Dr. Se-Jin Lee, Professor
Department of Molecular Biology and Genetics

Johns Hopkins University School of Medicine
Baltimore, Maryland

"Regulation of Muscle Growth by Myostatin"

 

Tuesday, April 29nd, 2008
12:00 noon, 4th Floor Auditorium, RMSB

Dr. Ian K. McNiece, Professor
Director Experimental and Clinical Therapies
Stem Cell Institute
University of Miami Miller School of Medicine

"Stem Cells and Regenerative Medicine"


Tuesday, May 6th, 2008
12:00 noon, 4th Floor Auditorium, RMSB

Dr. Yair Argon, Chief Division of Cell Pathology
Department of Pathology and Lab Medicine
The Children's Hospital of Philadelphia and
The University of Pennsylvania

"Regulation of Differentiation and Stress Responses
by the Chaperone GRP94
" 


Tuesday, May 13th, 2008            
12:00 noon, 4th Floor Auditorium, RMSB     

Dr. Brigid L. Hogan, Professor & Chair
Department of Cell Biology
Duke University Medical Center
Durham, North Carolina 

"Progenitor cells in lung development and repair:
facts, controversies and new tools"


Tuesday, May 20th, 2008            
12:00 noon, 4th Floor Auditorium, RMSB     

Dr. David Helfman, Professor
Department of Cell Biology and Anatomy
University of Miami Miller School of Medicine

"The Cytoskeleton in Physiological and 
Oncogenic Signaling"


 







 

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