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REU Seminar Series Winter-Spring 2007-2008

 

Tuesdays, 2:00 - 3:30 p.m. (unless otherwise noted)

Fall 2007 - Spring 2008

Sept. 25, 2007 Margaret Wierman, M.D., Chief of Endocrinology, VAMC, Professor of Medicine, Physiology and Biophysics Endocrine Grand Rounds, Ether Dome, 12 noon-1pm
University of Colorado, Denver
TOPIC: GnRH neuronal develoment role of thoe Axi family of tyrosine kinases
Oct. 2, 2007 Stuart Tobet, Ph.D. Bartlett Hall Extension, 5th floor, conference room
Colorado State University, College of Veterinary Medicine, Biomedical Science
TOPIC: Migrations and Motions in the Hypothalamic Pituitary Gonadal Axis
Oct. 16, 2007 Jean Hebert, Assistant Professor Bartlett Hall Extension, 5th floor, conference room
Department of Neuroscience, Molecular Genetics, Albert Einstein College of Medicine, Bronx, NY
TOPIC: Making up your mind: The Genetics of Telencephalon patterning
Nov. 13, 2007 Y. Geno Shi, PH.D., Assistant Professor of Medicine Bartlett Hall Extension, 5th floor, conference room
Harvard Medical School (and Associate Biochemist, Brigham and Women's Endocrinology Division), Boston
TOPIC: Epigenetics in Reproductive Endocrinology
Nov. 27, 2007 Serdar E. Bulun, M.D. Bartlett Hall Extension, 5th floor, conference room
George H. Gardner Professor of Clinical Gynecology; Chief, Division of Obstetrics and Gynecology, Feinberg School of Medicine at Northwestern University, Chicago
TOPIC: Genetic Basis of Estrogen Excess in Humans
Dec. 11, 2007 Nicholas Katsanis, Ph.D., Associate Professor Bartlett Hall Extension, 5th floor, conference room
McKusick-Nathans Institute of Genetic Medicine, Depts of Opthalmology, Molecular Biology and Genetics; Johns Hopkins University School of Medicine, Baltimore, MD
TOPIC: The Ciliopathies: From genetics to function and back
Jan. 29, 2008 Cynthia Casson Morton, Ph.D. Bartlett Hall Extension, 5th floor, conference room
Harvard Medical School, Boston
TOPIC: The developmental genome anatomy project: A Cytogenetic approach to gene discovery in the genome era
April 1 , 2008 Leo Dunkel, M.D., Ph.D. Bartlett Hall Extension, 5th floor, conference room
Department of Pediatrics, Univ. of Kuopio
Kuopop, Finland
TOPIC: TBA
April 15, 2008 Susan Slaugenhaupt, Ph.D. Bartlett Hall Extension, 5th floor, conference room
Associate Professor of Neurology, Center for Genetic Research, Boston
TOPIC: TBA
April 29, 2008 Hannes E. Buelow, Ph.D., Asst. Professor Bartlett Hall Extension, 5th floor, conference room

Albert Einstein College of Medicine, Molecular Genetics and Neuroscience, Bronx, NY

TOPIC: TBA
May 13, 2008 James F. Gusella, Ph.D. Endocrine Grand Rounds, Ether Dome, noon - 1pm
Department of Neurobiology, University of Massachusetts Medical Center, Worcester, MA
TOPIC: TBA
June 10, 2008 Mehul Dattani Endocrine Grand Rounds, Ether Dome, noon - 1pm
Professor of Pediatric Endocrinology, Developmental Endocrinology Research Group, Institute of Child Health, London, UK
TOPIC: TBA
June 24, 2008 Steven Reppert, Ph.D. Bartlett Hall Extension, 5th floor, conference room
Department of Neurobiology, University of Massachusetts Medical Center
TOPIC: TBA

Fall 2006 - Spring 2007

Date
Speaker
Location
November 21, 2006

Jeannie T. Lee, Ph.D.

Bartlett Hall Extension, 5th floor conference room

Professor of Genetics and Pathology

Howard Hughes Medical Institute, Department of Molecular Biology, Massachusetts General Hospital

TOPIC: X-Chromosome inactivation: Not just for women
March 6 , 2007 Emilie Rissman, Ph.D. Bartlett Hall Extension, 5th Floor Conference Room
Professor of Biology
University of Virginia, Charlottesville

TOPIC: TBA

March 13, 2007 T. Joseph McKenna, M.D. Bartlett Hall Extension, 5th Floor Conference Room
Department of Endocrinology, St. Vincents Hospital, Dublin, Ireland

TOPIC: Hyperprolactinemia and Macroprolactin

March 20, 2007 Robert Steiner, Ph.D. Bartlett Hall Extension, 5th Floor Conference Room
Department of Physiology and Biophysics, University of Washington, Seattle, WA

TOPIC: A Kiss to Remember

May 29, 2007 Doug Melton, Ph.D. Endocrine Grand Rounds, Ether Dome, 12 noon-1pm
Cabot Professor of the Natural Sciences, Investigator, Howard Hughes Medical Institute, Dept. of Molecular and Cellular Biology, Harvard University, Cambridge, MA
TOPIC: TBA
June 6, 2007 Gloria Hoffman, Ph.D. Bartlett Hall Extension, 5th Floor Conference Room
Professor, Department of Anatomy and Neurobiology, University of Maryland
TOPIC: Understanding the CNS Control of Reproductive Cycles: It's in a Kiss

Spring 2006

Date/Time
Speaker
Location
Feb. 7 , 2006 -- Tuesday, 12 - 1:00 pm Stan McKnight, Ph.D., Professor Endocrine Grand Rounds
Department of Pharmacology, University of Washington, Seattle

TOPIC: Dynamic Anchoring of PKA is essential during Oocyte Maturation

March 2, 2006-- Thursday, 1:30-3:00 pm Richard Santen, M.D., Professor of Medicine

Reproductive Endocrine Science Seminar, Bartlett Hall Extension, 5th Floor Conference Room

 

Division of Endocrinology, University of Virginia Health Science Center

TOPIC: How does estrogen cause cells to grow?

March 9 , 2006 -- Thursday 1:30-3:00 pm Pei-San Tsai, Assistant Professor Reproductive Endocrine Science Seminar, Bartlett Hall Extension, 5th Floor Conference Room
Department of Integrative Physiology, University of Colorado, Boulder
TOPIC: Regulation of GnRH neuron development by FGF signaling
May 4, 2006 -- Thursday 1:30-3:00 pm Mary Ann Handel, Ph.D. Reproductive Endocrine Science Seminar, Bartlett Hall Extension, 5th Floor Conference Room
The Jackson Laboratory, Bar Harbor, Maine
TOPIC: To be announced
May 11, 2006 -- Thursday 1:30-3:00 pm Kelly Mayo, Ph.D. Reproductive Endocrine Science Seminar, Bartlett Hall Extension, 5th Floor Conference Room
Department of BIoehcmistry--Molecular Biology and Cell Biology, Center for Reproductive Science, Northwestern University
TOPIC: To be announced