Scientific Symposium
in honor of
Carole R. Mendelson, Ph.D.
May 8, 2014
Biochemistry Seminar Room, L4.176
Sponsored by the Cecil H and Ida Green Center for Reproductive Biology Sciences
and
The Department of Biochemistry
1:00 – 1:05 PM
Welcome and Opening Remarks
W. Lee Kraus, Ph.D., Director, Green Center for Reproductive Biology Sciences
UT Southwestern Medical Center
1:10 – 1:25 PM
Comments on Carole’s Career and Contributions
Steven Bloom, M.D., Professor & Chairman, Obstetrics and Gynecology
UT Southwestern Medical Center
Steven McKnight, Ph.D., Professor & Chairman, Biochemistry
UT Southwestern Medical Center
1:25 – 1:50 PM
Evan R. Simpson, Ph.D., Professor, Metabolism and Cancer
Prince Henry’s Institute, Melbourne, Australia
“Aromatase - The Good, the Bad, and the Unexpected”
1:50 – 2:15 PM
Bert W. O’Malley, M.D., Professor and Chair, Molecular and Cellular Biology
Baylor College of Medicine
“The First Pictures of an ER-Coactivator Complex on DNA”
2:15 – 2:40 PM
Vijay Boggaram, Ph.D., Professor, Cell and Molecular Biology
University of Texas Health Science Center at Tyler
"A Signaling pathway for Interleukin-8 (IL-8) Induction by Mycobacterium tuberculosis
ESAT-6 Protein in Lung"
2:40 – 3:05 PM
Daniel B. Hardy, Ph.D., Assistant Professor, Physiology and Pharmacology
University of Western Ontario
“Postnatal Catch-up Growth and the Metabolic Syndrome: Elucidating the Underlying
Mechanisms”
3:05 – 3:30 PM
Coffee Break
3:30 – 3:55 PM
Joseph L. Alcorn, Ph.D., Associate Professor, Pediatrics
UT Health Science Center at Houston
“Unexpected Non-Pulmonary Functions of SP-A; Oral Administration of SP-A Reduces
Pathology in an Experimental Model of Necrotizing Enterocolitis”
3:55 – 4:20 PM
Diane (Didi) M. Robins, Ph.D., Professor, Human Genetics
University of Michigan
“The Androgen Receptor in Prostate Cancer: Insights from Mice and Men”
4:20 – 4:45 PM
Pampee P. Young, M.D., Ph.D., Associate Professor, Pathology, Microbiology and
Immunology
Vanderbilt University
“SPRR3: A New Mediator of Atheroprotection”
4:45 – 5:10 PM
David J. Mangelsdorf, Ph.D., Professor & Chairman, Biochemistry, Pharmacology
UT Southwestern Medical Center
“Nuclear Receptors and the Rule of the Infective 3rd-stage”
5:30 – 7:00 PM
Reception will be held at the A.W. Harris Faculty Club