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REU Seminar Series 2004-2005

Tuesdays, 9:30-11:00 a.m. (unless otherwise noted)

Date
Speaker
Location
November 23, 2004

Naomi Rance, M.D.

Bartlett Hall Extension, 5th floor conference room

Professor, Department of Pathology
University of Arizona, College of Medicine, Tucson
TOPIC: Reproductive Aging and the Human Hypothalamus
December 7, 2004 Francois Pralong Bartlett Hall Extension, 5th Floor Conference Room
Associate Professor
Service d'Endocrinologie Diabetologie et Metabolisme, Department de Medecine, Centre Hospitalier, Universitaire Vaudois

TOPIC: Role of Metabolic Factors to Modulate the Activity of GnRH Neurons

December 13, 2004 David deKretser, Professor, Associate Dean Bartlett Hall Extension, 5th Floor Conference Room
Biotechnology Development, University of Melbourne, Australia

TOPIC: Activin and Follistatin New Developments

December 14, 2004 Moosa Mohammadi, Ph.D., Associate Professor Bartlett Hall Extension, 5th Floor Conference Room
Department of Pharmacology, New York University School of Medicine

TOPIC: Structural Basis for FGF Receptor Activation

January 25, 2004 Howard J. Jacob, Ph.D., Director, Human & Molecular Genetics Center Endocrine Grand Rounds, Ether Dome, 12 noon-1pm
Medical College of Wisconsin, Milwaukee
TOPIC: Improving Animal Models via Comparative Genomics
February 8, 2004 Murat Bastepe/Harald Jueppner Bartlett Hall Extension, 5th Floor Conference Room
Endocrine Unit, Massachusetts General Hospital
TOPIC: Imprinting of GNAS and Hormone Resistance
February 15, 2004 Martin Matzuk, M.D., Ph.D., Professor, Department of Pathology Bartlett Hall Extension, 5th Floor Conference Room
Baylor College of Medicine, Houston, TX
TOPIC: The Role of Autocrine/Paracrine Factors in Ovarian Function
March 8, 2005 Kelly Mayo, Ph.D. Bartlett Hall Extension, 5th Floor Conference Room

Dept of Biochemistry, Molecular Biology, and Cell Biology

Center for Reproductive Endocrinology, Northwestern University, Evanston, IL
TOPIC: The Role of Inhibin in Follicle Development
March 22, 2005

David Ornitz, M.D., Ph.D., Alumni Endowed Professor

Endocrine Grand Rounds, Ether Dome, 12 noon-1pm
Washington University Medical School, St. Louis, MO
TOPIC: The Study of FGF Receptor
April 5, 2005 Susan Slaughenhaupt, Ph.D., Assistant Professor of Neurology Endocrine Grand Rounds, Ether Dome, 12 noon-1pm
Harvard Partners Center for Genetics and Genomics
TOPIC: Splicing Efficiency in Human Genetic Disease
April 12 , 2005 Cecil Richard Edmund Lyttle, Nuvios, Inc., Cambridge, MA Bartlett Hall Extension, 5th Floor Conference Room
TOPIC: TBA
May 3, 2005 Jeff Flier, M.D., George C. Reisman Professor of Medicine, Harvard Faculty Dean Endocrine Grand Rounds, Ether Dome, 12 noon-1pm
Beth Israel Deaconess Medical Center
Topic: The Hormones Controlling Weight
May 17, 2005 Olli A. Janne, M.D., Ph.D., Director, Professor Bartlett Hall Extension, 5th Floor Conference Room
Biomedicum Helsinki, University of Helsinki, Finland
Tentative Topic: Small Nuclear RING Finger Protein Expression During Gonad Development