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2007 |
Presenter Name
Title of Presentation |
Affiliation / Department |
Sponsor |
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Sept. 11* |
Harold L. Moses, M.D. |
Vanderbilt University
Medical Center
Nashville, TN |
Applied
Biosystems |
|
Levin Hall South |
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"TGF-beta Regulation of the Tumor Microenvironment" |
Director Emeritus,
Vanderbilt-Ingram Comprehensive Cancer Center; Hortense B. Ingram Professor of Molecular
Oncology; Professor of Cancer Biology, Medicine and Pathology |
Duff Dean |
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Sept. 18 |
Xudong Xiao
"Fiber-based multiphoton imaging of vivo
mucosal tissue in the hamster buccal pouch"
|
UTMB
Galveston, TX |
Roche Applied Science |
|
Jung-hoon Yoon
"Roles of translesion synthesis (TLS) polymerases in the bypass of UV induced DNA lesions, CPD
and (6-4)PP, in human cells" |
UTMB
Galveston, TX |
Leeanne Watson |
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Wednesday
Sept. 19* |
UTMB
Cancer Center Day
Levin Hall |
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John E.
Niederhuber, M.D.
Levin Hall North Auditorium |
Director, National Cancer Institute |
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“Frontiers in Cancer
Research”
A surgeon, researcher,
professor, and now director of the National Cancer Institute, Dr. Niederhuber will discuss the
promise of cancer research, as investigators come to ever-greater understandings of this
complex disease. |
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Sept. 25 |
Paul Evans
"KLF4-mediated regulation of transcription and histone acetylation" |
UTMB
Galveston, TX |
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Tové Goldson
"The
e\identification of L-selectin ligands responsible for low shear dependent interactions between
lymphocytes and head and neck squamous carcinoma cells"
|
UTMB
Galveston, TX |
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Oct. 2 |
Kathleen O'Connor, Ph.D. |
UTMB
Galveston, TX |
EMD |
| |
"SSeCKS, drugs and Rac and
Rho" |
Associate Professor, Dept. of Biochemistry & Molecular Biology;
Department of Surgery; Sealy Center for Cancer Cell Biology; Physiology and Biophysics |
Donna Fogt |
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Oct. 9 |
Jingwu Xie, Ph.D. |
UTMB
Galveston, TX |
Millipore |
| |
"Hedgehog
signaling through SIPping-SMOothies" |
Associate Professor, Dept. of Pharmacology & Toxicology; Sealy
Center for Cancer Cell Biology |
Celia Landers |
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Oct. 16* |
Robert C. Bast, Jr., M.D. |
MD Anderson Cancer Center
Houston, TX |
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Clinical Science Auditorium 362 |
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"ARHI (DIRAS3), an Imprinted Tumor Suppressor Gene that
Induces Autophagy and Tumor Dormancy in Ovarian Cancer" |
Vice President, Translational Research
Professor, Department of Experimental Therapeutics
Harry Carothers Wiess Distinguished University Chair for Cancer Research |
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Oct. 23 |
Nikki Cheng, Ph.D. |
Vanderbilt
Nashville, TN |
Promega |
| |
"Role of CCL2
chemokine signaling
In mammary carcinoma progression enhanced by Tgfbr2 deficient
fibroblasts" |
Research Assistant Professor, Vanderbilt University
FACULTY CANDIDATE |
Rebecca Tarlton-Hoelscher |
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Oct. 30 |
Zhou
(Sunny) Songyang, Ph.D. |
Baylor College of Medicine
Houston, TX |
Sigma-Aldrich
|
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“Telomere
Interactome and Telomere End Protection” |
Associate Professor, Depts of Biochemistry and
Molecular and Cellular Biology
|
Chris Marino |
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Nov. 6* |
W. James Nelson, Ph.D. |
Stanford University School of Medicine
Stanford Cancer Center
Stanford, CA |
Roche Applied Science |
|
Levin Hall North Auditorium |
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"Cell-Cell
Adhesion and Development of Epithelial Cell Polarity" |
Professor, Biological Sciences (in Humanities and
Sciences); Molecular & Cellular Physiology |
Leeanne Watson |
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Nov. 13* |
Stuart A. Aaronson, M.D. |
Mount Sinai School of Medicine
New York, NY |
USA Scientific |
|
Levin Hall North Auditorium |
|
"Autocrine Wnt
Signaling in Human Cancer Cells" |
Professor & Chair, Oncological Sciences
Professor, Medicine |
Seble Waubshet |
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Nov. 20 |
Janet Price, D.Phil. |
MD Anderson Cancer Center
Houston, TX |
Perkin Elmer |
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"Tumor-stromal interactions
in breast cancer metastasis" |
Associate Professor of Cancer Biology |
Dawn Woods |
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MONDAY
Nov. 26* |
Cheryl L. Walker, Ph.D.
Levin Hall South Auditorium |
The Virginia Harris Cockrell Cancer Research
Center at UT-MD Anderson Cancer Center; Science Park Research Division
Smithville, TX |
Applied
Biosystems |
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"ATM Engagement
of the AMPK Energy-sensing Pathway to Regulate TSC2 and mTOR Signaling" |
Ruth and Walter Sterling Professor of
Carcinogenesis
Department of Carcinogenesis
Director, Molecular Genetics and Environmental Carcinogenesis Research Core
NIEHS Center for Research on Environmental Disease |
Duff Dean |
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Dec. 4 |
Amarnath Natarajan, Ph.D. |
UTMB
Galveston, TX |
Millipore |
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“Protein-protein
interactions as potential drug targets” |
Assistant Professor
Department of Pharmacology & Toxicology
|
Celia Landers |
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Dec. 11 |
Jian Kuang, Ph.D. |
MD Anderson Cancer Center
Houston, TX |
Promega |
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"Regulation of
Cdc25C by ERK-MAP kinases during the G2/M transition"
|
Associate Professor,
Department of Experimental Therapeutics |
Rebecca Tarlton-Hoelscher |
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Dec. 18 |
Adriana A. Paulucci, Ph.D. |
UTMB
Galveston, TX |
Fisher
Scientific |
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"Generation
of PKA Activity Gradients by A Kinase Anchoring Protein(AKAP) Scaffolds" |
Post Doc Fellow
Sealy Center for Cancer Cell Biology |
Steve Magrogen |
