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 |
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| 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 |
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| 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 |
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| 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 |
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| 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 |
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| 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 |
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| 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
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| Division of Endocrinology, University of Virginia Health Science Center | ||
| TOPIC: How does estrogen cause cells to grow? |
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| 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 |