2004-2005 Seminar Series Speakers Date Speaker Joint Sponsor Title/Field of Study 08/31/04 Michael Bates, M.D., Ph.D., University of Cincinnati Dept. of Pediatrics Digestive system development and human disease 09/09/04 William Tremaine, M.D. Mayo Clinic Rochester, MN Dept. of Medicine Microscopic colitis 11/23/04 P.J. Utz, M.D. Stanford University Dept. of Microbiology and Immunology Proteomic assays to study blood cells and their secreted products 12/09/04 Andrew Neish, M.D. Emory University Bacterial effects on epithelial signaling pathways 01/06/05 Jonathan P. Katz, M.D. University of Pennsylvania School of Medicine Regulation of GI epithelial cells by the Krüppel-like factors 01/13/05 John Rawls, M.D. Washington University School of Medicine Dept. of Pediatrics and Cell and Developmental Biology A gnotobiotic Zebrafish model for analysis of host-microbial interactions in the vertebrate digestive tract 02/03/05 Gary Mawe, M.D. University of Vermont Dept. of Neurosciences and Molecular Physiology and Biophysics Serotonin signaling and neuronal excitability in the inflamed colon: too much of a good thing 04/05/05 Kathy Goss, M.D. University of Cincinnati Dept. of Cancer Biology APC, beta-catenin and cancer: looking beyond the Wnt pathway and transcriptional regulation 05/05/05 Lopa Mishra, M.D. Georgetown University Dept. of Cancer Biology Critical interactions between TGFbeta signaling and E-cadherin/Beta catenin epithelial cell-cell adhesion and tumor suppression