Fall 2012
John H.
Blaffer Lecture Series
presented by the Genes & Development Graduate Program
Frog embryo image courtesy of William Muñoz
September 10 (Monday)
Joint MDA-Rice seminar
Rice Univ., Anderson Biol. Labs, Rm. 131
Speaker:Michael Rosbash, Ph.D.
Brandeis University,
Waltham, MA
Title: “Circadian Rhythms: Molecules,
Neurons and Circuits”
Host: Les Krushel (BMB)/
Kate Beckingham (Rice)
October 23
AT&T Auditorium, B2.4750
Speaker:Or Gozani, M.D., Ph.D.
Stanford University, Stanford, CA
Title: “Protein Methylation Signaling in
Genome Regulation and Disease”
Host: Xiaobing Shi (BMB)
October 30
Speaker:Rong Li, Ph.D.
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September 25
Speaker:Elizabeth Murchison, Ph.D.
Title:
Host:
King’s College, Cambridge, UK
“Clonally Transmissible Cancers
in Dogs and Tasmanian Devils”
Richard Behringer (GEN)
October 9
Speaker:Elaine Mardis, Ph.D.
Title:
Host:
Washington University St. Louis,
St. Louis, MO
“Integrated Cancer Genomics”
Nicholas Navin (GEN)
November 27
Speaker:Davide Ruggero, Ph.D.
Title:
Host:
University of California, San
Francisco, San Francisco, CA
“Decoding the Translational
Landscape of the Cancer
Genome: Functional Insights
and Therapeutic Implications”
Les Krushel (BMB)
Speaker:Frank Pugh, Ph.D.
September 18
Stowers Institute of Medical
Research, Kansas City, MO
“A Numbers Game: The Effect
of Aneuploidy on the Phenome,
Genome and Cellular Stress
Adaptation”
Greg May (LAB Med)
Onstead Auditorium,
BSRB S3.8012
Tuesdays at 4 pm
Penn State University,
University Park, PA
“Genome-wide Inter-relationship
Between Chromatin and the
Transcription Machinery”
Jessica Tyler (BMB)
December 4
Speaker:Freda Miller, Ph.D.
Title:
November 6
Speaker:Maike Sander, M.D.
Title:
Host:
University of California,
San Diego School of Medicine,
San Diego, CA
“Cell Plasticity in the Pancreas
in Development and Disease”
Michelle Barton (BMB)
November 13
Speaker:Scott Hiebert, Ph.D.
Title:
Host:
Vanderbilt University Medical
Center, Nashville, TN
“Histone Deacetylase 3
Regulates Chromatin Structure,
Gene Expression and DNA
Replication, but Is It a Good
Therapeutic Target?”
Michelle Barton (BMB)
Host:
University of Toronto, The
Hospital for Sick Children,
Toronto, Ontario, CA
“Building and Repairing
the Nervous System with
Stem Cells”
Sadhan Majumder (GEN)
December 11
Speaker:Fred Alt, Ph.D.
Title:
Host:
Harvard Medical School,
Boston, MA
“Antibodies, Genome Stability,
and Cancer”
Howard Gutstein (APOM)
Onstead Auditorium is accessible from the Main MDACC Bldg. via the 3rd/4th floor Tan Zone skybridges and the front entrance to BSRB on 6767 Bertner.
For further information contact Salbi Kassardjian (Genetics) at 713-834-6337 or Doris Green (BMB) at 713-834-6267.