Upcoming Seminars
| DATE & TIME | SPEAKER | TITLE | AFFILIATION |
|---|---|---|---|
| Monday, May 12, 11:00 am | Vesco Mutskov, Ph.D. (faculty recruit) | Regulation of human insulin gene expression by epigenetic mechanisms in human islets and islet-derived mesenchymal stem cells Departmental Seminar Series | NIH, NIDDKD Bethesda, MD |
| Friday, May 16, 11:00 am | Anna Sablina, Ph.D. (faculty candidate) | Mechanisms of tumor suppression by PP2A Departmental Seminar Series | Dana Farber Cancer Institute Boston, MA |
| Friday, May 16, 4:00 pm | Mikiro Takaishi, PhD, DVM | Plaasmacytoid dendritic cells (PDCs) contribute to development of psoriatic lesions in K5.Stat3C transgenic mice | UTMDACC, Science Park - Research Division |
| Friday, May 23, 11:00 am | Allan R. Brasier, M.D. | Mechanisms of STAT3-dependent transcription Departmental Seminar Series | Univ. of TX Medical Branch Galveston, TX |
| Wednesday, May 28, 3:30 pm | Kaoru Kiguchi, MD, PhD | Targeting erbB2: Overcoming oncogene addition Faculty Seminar Series | UT MD Anderson Science Park - Research Division |
| Friday, May 30, 11:00 am | Vladimir S. Spiegelman, Ph.D. (faculty candidate) | On the crossroads of mRNA and protein stability in cancer Departmental Seminar Series | Univ. of Wisconsin School of Medicine and Public Health Madison, WI |
| Tuesday, June 3, 11:00 am | Yoshinori Murakami, MD, PhD | Involvement of a cell adhesion molecule, CADM1/TSLC1, in oncogenesis Departmental Seminar Series | Institute of Medical Science, The University of Tokyo, Japan |
| Monday, June 9, 11:00 am | Andrew Xiao, PhD (faculty candidate) | WSTF is a novel regulator of the H2A.X DNA damage response Departmental Seminar Series | The Rockefeller Univ., New York, NY |
| Friday, June 20, 11:00 am-12:00 pm | Dr. Bharat Aggarwal | Inflammation as a Link Between Carcinogenesis and Chemoprevention:Two sides of the same coin CRED Seminar Series | UT M.D. Anderson Cancer Center |
| Wednesday, July 9, 11:00 am-12:00 pm | Dr. Jia-Sheng Wang | Modulation of Human Liver Cancer Risks by Natural Dietary Components CRED Seminar Series | Texas Tech University |
Recent Seminars
| DATE & TIME | SPEAKER | TITLE | AFFILIATION |
|---|---|---|---|
| Friday, May 9, 2:00 pm | Jing Huang, Ph.D. (faculty candidate) | Roles of p53 methylation and demethylation in cancer Departmental Seminar Series | The Wistar Institute Philadelphia, PA |
| Thursday, May 1, 11:00 am-12:00 pm  | John Robertson | Mechanisms of Receptor and Mitochondria-mediated Apoptosis in Type 2 Jurkat T-cells UT Austin Toxicology Seminar Series | University of Kansas Medical Center |
| Monday, April 28, 11:00 am | Julie Secombe, Ph.D. (faculty candidate) | Regulation of Myc-induced cell growth by the histone demethylase Lid Departmental Seminar Series | Fred Hutchinson Cancer Research Center Seattle, WA |
| Thursday, April 24, 11:00 am-12:00 pm | Donald Cooper, Ph.D. | "Psychostimulant-induced plasticity in the brain reward circuitry: From measurement to manipulation" UT Austin Toxicology Seminar Series | University of Texas Southwestern Medical Center |
| Thursday, April 24, 11:00 am | Chengkai Dai, Ph.D. (faculty candidate) | Heat shock factor 1 (HSF1) is a powerful multifaceted modifier of tumorigenesis. Implications of the HSF1-mediated stress response in tumor evolution Departmental Seminar Series | Whitehead Inst. for Biomedical Research Cambridge, MA |
| Wednesday, April 23, 11:00 am | Bert W. O'Malley, M.D. | Life and death of the SRC-3 coactivator Hogg Seminar Series | Baylor College of Medicine |
| Monday, April 21, 11:00 am | Mary Donohoe, Ph.D. (faculty candidate) | Characterization of CTCF function and interacting proteiins during X-chromosome inactivation Departmental Seminar Series | Harvard Medical School Boston, MA |
| Friday, April 18, 4:00-5:00 pm | Dr. Erika Abel | Characterization of Gsta4 as a Mouse Skin Tumor Promotion Susceptibility Modifier Gene Faculty Seminar Series | Dr. DiGiovanni's Lab |
| Tuesday, April 15, 11:30 am-12:30 pm | Dr. Patricia Opresko | Roles for RecQ helicases in telomere preservation DNA Repair Group Series | University of Pittsburgh |
| Wednesday, April 9, 3:30 pm | David Johnson, Ph.D. | Emerging roles for E2F1 in the DNA damage response Faculty Seminar Series | UTMDACC - Science Park - Research Division |
| Thursday, March 27, 11:00 am-12:00 pm | Dr. Larry Thompson | Extensive interindividual variation in DNA double-strand break repair in human fibroblasts exposed to low doses of ionizing radiation CRED Seminar Series | Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory , Livermore CA |
| Wednesday, March 26, 3:30 pm | Joe M. Angel, Ph.D. | Interited predisposition to cancer development Faculty Seminar Series | UT MD Anderson Cancer Center |
| Tuesday, March 25, 11:00 am | Mohammad Saleem Bhat, Ph.D. (faculty candidate) | Role of S100A4, a calcium binding protein, in prostate cancer Departmental Seminar Series | Univ. of Wisconsin School of Medicine and Public Health Madison, WI |
| Wednesday, March 19, 11:00 am-12:00 pm | Yang Shi, Ph.D. | Histone Demethylases and Dynamic Regulation of Histone Methylation Hogg Seminar Series | Harvard Medical School Boston, MA |
| Tuesday, March 18, 11:30 am-12:30 pm | Dr. David Johnson | Transcription factor E2F1 acts as a chromatin accessibility factor for DNA repair CRED Seminar Series | UT M.D. Anderson Science Park - Research Division |
| Wednesday, March 12, 11:00 am-12:00 pm | John Dick, Ph.D. | Modeling the Leukemogenic Process with Human Cells Hogg Seminar Series | Toronto General Research Institute Toronto, Ontario, Canada |
| Tuesday, March 11, 11:00 am | Tong Chen, MD, PhD (candidate for faculty position) | Chemoprevention of Esophageal Squamous Cell Carcinoma: Bench to Bedside Departmental Seminar Series | The Onio State University Comprehensive Cancer Center |
| Wednesday, March 5, 11:00 am | Robert D. Cardiff, MD, PhD | The genomic revolution implications for pathology Departmental Seminar Series | University of California, Davis |
| Wednesday, February 27, 11:00 am-12:00 pm | Kunliang Guan, Ph.D. | The TSC-mTOR pathway in cell growth regulation Hogg Seminar Series | UCSD Medical School, La Jolla, CA |
| Wednesday, February 13, 11:00 am | Myles Brown, M.D. | Translating epigenetic signatures into lineage-specific transcription Hogg Seminar Series | Harvard Medical School, Dana Farber Cancer Institute, Boston, MA |
| Monday, February 11, 11:00 am | Irina Fernandez, Ph.D. | CD101 surface expression discriminates potency among murine FoxP3+ regulaory T cells Departmental Seminar Series | Stanford Blood Center, Stanford University, Palo Alto, CA |
| Friday, January 25, 11:00 am-12:00 pm | Wenchang Guo, Ph.D. | Benzoquinone ansamycin Hsp90 inhibitors Departmental Seminar Series | University of Colorado Health Sciences Center Denver, CO |
| Wednesday, January 23, 11:00 am-12:00 pm | Raymond DuBois, M.D., Ph.D. | Inflammation and Cancer: COX-2 and Other Targets Hogg Seminar Series | UT MD Anderson Cancer Center Houston, TX |
| Friday, January 18, 11:00 am | Joung Hyuck Joo, Ph.D. | Farnesol-induced apoptosis in human lung carcinoma cells is coupled to the endoplasmic reticulum (ER) stress response Departmental Seminar Series | NIEHS, Division of Intramural Research Research Triangle Park, NC |
| Wednesday, January 16, 12:00-1:00 pm | Robert W. Sobol, Jr., Ph.D. | PARP-1 is a base excision repair checkpoint protein CRED Seminar Series | University of Pittsburgh Cancer Center |
| Tuesday, January 15, 11:00 am | Sarah Dunlap, Ph.D. | Insulin-like Growth Factor Binding Protein 2 (IGFBP2) Promotes Glioma Development and Progression Departmental Seminar Series | UT MD Anderson Cancer Center, Houston TX |
| Wednesday, January 9, 3:30 pm | Irma Gimenez-Conti, DDS, PhD | Chemopreventive effect of clotrimazole on B[a]P-induced hamster cheek pouch carcinogenesis Faculty Seminar Series | UT MD Anderson Cancer Center Science Park - Reesearch Division |
| Wednesday, December 19, 3:30 pm | Yinling Hu, Ph.D. | IKKa in skin cancer Faculty Seminar Series | UT MD Anderson Cancer Center Science Park - Research Division |
| Tuesday, November 20, 11:00 am-12:00 pm | Linda deGraffenried, Ph.D. | Targeting the Akt pathway to reverse hormome therapy resistance Departmental Seminar Series | UT Health Science Center at San Antonio San Antonio, TX |
| Thursday, November 15, 10:00-11:00 am | Miquel Porta, M.D., M.P.H., Ph.D. | "Environmental influences on the occurrence of K-ras mutations in exocrine pancreatic cancer" CRED Seminar Series | Institut Municipal d'Investigacio Medica and Universitat Autonoma de Barcelona, Catlonia, Spain |
| Wednesday, November 14, 3:30-4:30 pm | Robin Fuchs-Young, Ph.D. | Estrogen receptor regulates IGF-1 action in the mammary gland Faculty Seminar Series | UT MD Anderson Cancer Center Science Park - Research Division |
| Wednesday, November 7, 11:00 am-12:00 pm | John Turchi, Ph.D. | Repair of chemotherapy-induced DNA damage; opportunities for modulating drug resistance and sensitivity CRED Seminar Series | Indiana University School of Medicine, Indiana Cancer Research Institute |
| Wednesday, October 31, 11:00 am-12:00 pm | Irving Weissman, M.D. | "Normal and Neoplastic Stem Cells" Hogg Seminar Series | Stanford Cancer Center Stanford, CA |
| Wednesday, October 24, 3:30 pm | Fernando Benavides, D.V.M., Ph.D. | "From phenotype to genotype: Forward genetics using spontaneous mouse mutations" Faculty Seminar Series | UT MD Anderson Cancer Center Science Park - Research Division |
| Monday, October 15, 11:00 am | Xiaodong Cheng, Ph.D. | "Epigenetic link between DNA methylation and histone modifications" Hogg Seminar Series | Emory University School of Medicine Atlanta, GA |
| Wednesday, October 10, 3:30 pm | Mingshan Yan, M.D. | "Role of reactive oxygen species in T cell lymphomagenesis" Faculty Seminar Series | UT MD Anderson Cancer Center Science Park - Research Division |
| Thursday, October 4, 11:00 am | Feng Wang-Johanning, M.D., Ph.D. | "Endogenous retroviral proteins as tumor targets for immunotherapy" Departmental Seminar Series | Department of Veterinary Sciences, Bastrop TX |
| Wednesday, September 26, 11:00 am | Shelley L. Berger, Ph.D. | "The complex language of histone and factor post-translational modifications in transcription and beyond" Hogg Seminar Series | The Wistar Institute Philadelphia, PA |
| Thursday, September 20, 10:00 am | James DeGregori, Ph.D. | "Declining cellular fitness with age promotes adaptive leukemogenesis" Hogg Seminar Series | Director, Program in Molecular Biology, Univ. of CO Health Sciences Center, Aurora, CO |
| Wednesday, September 12, 11:30 am | Douglas Boyd, Ph.D. | "ZNF306 (ZKSCAN3), a novel zinc finger transcription factor coordinating an expressed gene program during colon cancer progression" Departmental Seminar Series | Professor, Dept. of Cancer Biology, UT MD Anderson Cancer Center Houston, TX |
| Friday, August 31, 11:00 am | Wei Zhang, Ph.D. | "Cancer Genomics and Cancer Systems Biology" Departmental Seminar Series | UT MD Anderson Cancer Center, Houston TX |
| Monday, August 20, 11:00 am | Yun Qiu, Ph.D. | "Molecular mechanisms of therapeutic resistance in prostate cancer" Departmental Seminar Series | Univ. of Maryland School of Medicine |
| Thursday, June 28, 11:00 am | Bing Su, Ph.D. | "Control of AGC kinases Akt and PKC through the SIN1/mTORC2 pathway" Departmental Seminar Series | Boyer Center for Molecular Medicine Yale School of Medicine |
| Monday, June 25, 1:00-2:00 pm | Howard Thames, Ph.D. | Efficient endpoints for tumor-promotion studies CRED Seminar Series | Biostatistics, MD Anderson Cancer Center |
| Tuesday, June 19, 11:30 am-12:30 pm | Dr. Samuel Wilson | History of DNA Repair DNA Repair Group Series | NIEHS |
| Thursday, June 14, 10:00 am-12:00 pm | 6 Speakers; includes MB Core Overview and Services Provided | Molecular Biology Facility Core Workshop CRED Seminar Series | Science Park - Research Division |
| Wednesday, May 30, 3:30 pm | David Mitchell, Ph.D. | "Diverse studies in photobiology: Melanoma, novel clinical applications and the environment" Faculty Seminar Series | UT MD Anderson Cancer Center Science Park - Research Division |
| Wednesday, May 16, 11:00 am | Yang Shi, Ph.D. | POSTPONED - NEW DATE TO BE DETERMINED
"Histone demethylases"
Hogg Seminar Series | Harvard Medical School Boston, MA |
| Tuesday, May 15, 11:30 am-12:30 pm | Dr. R. Stephen Lloyd | Crossing the oxidative DNA damage threshold - consequences resulting from the loss of the NEIL1 DNA glycosylase DNA Repair Group Series | OHSU, Portland, OR |
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