Research Seminars

9/3    NEUROSURGERY GRAND ROUNDS: 7:30a – TT1-100  CAMERON MCINTYRE, Ph.D.   Staff, Biomedical Engineering   “Customizing Deep Brain Stimulation to the Patient”

9/4    MOLECULAR GENETICS: 9:30a - NE1-205    IIYA V. FROLOV, Ph.D. Associate Professor, University of Texas Medical Branch at Galveston “Alphaviruses: Their mechanisms of taking control over the cell”

9/4    TAUSSIG CANCER INSTITUTE CORE CURRICULUM SERIES: 12:00p - R3-002   ANJALI ADVANI, M.D.   CCF Cancer Center   “Acute Lymphocytic Leukemia”   [Approved for AMA PRA category 1 credit.]

9/5    TAUSSIG CANCER INSTITUTE GRAND ROUNDS: 8:00a - R3-002/003   MIRA MILAS, M.D.   CCF   “What's New in Thyroid Cancer in 2008: Novel Markers and Associations with Other Malignancies.”  [Approved for AMA PRA category 1 credit.]

9/5    CELL BIOLOGY: 10:00a – NC1-202   GEORGE DUBYAK, Ph.D CWRU   "Regulation of Antigen-Presenting Membrane Release by the P2X7 Receptor for Extracellular ATP- A Link between Innate and Adaptive Immunity"

9/5    BIOMEDICAL ENGINEERING: 11:00a – NA1-142CHRISTINE KERN, Ph.D. University of South Carolina “Extracellular Matrix Remodeling During Cardiac Outflow Tract Morphogenesis”

9/8    NEUROLOGY GRAND ROUNDS : 8:00a – Bunts  ANDREAS ALEXOPOULOS, M.D.   Epilepsy Center   “Status Epilepticus Management”

9/10    NEUROSURGERY GRAND ROUNDS: 7:30a – NA1-142  GORDON BELL , M.D.   Center for Spine Health   “Cervical Radiculopathy and Myelopathy”

9/10    CENTER FOR STEM CELL AND REGENERATIVE MEDICINE : 4:30p – CWRU, Wolsten Research Bldg., Auditorium - Rm. 1413   TIM BRAZELTON, Ph.D.   University of Pennsylvania , School of Medicine  “Stem Cells, Regenerative Medicine and Reprogramming”

9/11    OPHTHALMIC RESEARCH: 7:00a - Storer Rm (Cole 1st Floor)   ARTHUR S. POLANS, Ph.D.   Professor and Associate Director, Dept of Ophthalmology and Visual Sciences & the Univ of Wisconsin Eye Research Institute “An Eye on Cancer”

9/11    TAUSSIG CANCER INSTITUTE CORE CURRICULUM SERIES: 12:00p - R3-002   RONALD SOBECKS, M.D.   CCF Cancer Center   “Overview of Chronic Lymphocytic Leukemia”   [Approved for AMA PRA category 1 credit.]

9/12    TAUSSIG CANCER INSTITUTE GRAND ROUNDS: 8:00a – R3-002/003   DONALD I. ABRAMS, M.D.   San Francisco General Hospital , San Francisco , CA   “HIV Related Malignancies.”  [Approved for AMA PRA category 1 credit.]

9/12    CELL BIOLOGY: 10:00a – NC1-202   RANDY SEELY, Ph.D   University of Cincinnati   “How Obesity went to our Heads”

9/15    NEUROLOGY GRAND ROUNDS : 8:00a – Bunts  LILYANA ANGELOV, M.D.   Brain Tumor and Neuro-Oncology Center    “Primary Central Nervous System Lymphoma: The Disease and Disrupting the Blood Brain Barrier to Treat”

9/16    TAUSSIG CANCER INSTITUTE CORE CURRICULUM SERIES: 12:00p - R3-002  THOMAS BUDD, M.D.   CCF Cancer Center   “Breast Cancer 101, Including Adjuvant Therapy”   [Approved for AMA PRA category 1 credit.]

9/16    PATHOBIOLOGY: 1:00P – NE1-205   GABRIEL NUNEZ, M.D.   University of Michigan , Department of Pathology    Title: tba

9/17    NEUROSURGERY GRAND ROUNDS: 7:30a – TT1-100  MICHAEL VOGELBAUM, M.D., Ph.D   Brain Tumor and Neuro-Oncology Center   “CED for Brain Tumors:  Where is it Going?”

9/17    IMMUNOLOGY: 12:00p - NC1-202   JAY KOLLS, M.D. Children's Hospital of Pittsburgh “Th17 Cytokines and Mucosal Immunity”

9/17    LEARNER RESEARCH INSTITUTE SHOWCASE SEMINAR : 4:30p – NE1-205   RIQIANG YAN, Ph.D.   Staff, Neurosciences   “BACE1 and its regulator Nogo/RTN protein in neuronal functions ”

9/18    TAUSSIG CANCER INSTITUTE CORE CURRICULUM SERIES: 12:00p - R3-002 EDWARD COPELAN, M.D.   CCF Cancer Center   “Management of AML”   [Approved for AMA PRA category 1 credit.]

9/19    TAUSSIG CANCER INSTITUTE GRAND ROUNDS: 8:00a - R3-002/003   WENDY STOCK, M.D.   University of Chicago , Chicago , IL   “Management of Adults with ALL: A Case-Based Discussion.”  [Approved for AMA PRA category 1 credit.]

9/19    CELL BIOLOGY: 10:00a – NC1-202   DAVID BADER, Ph.D   Vanderbilt University   “Making Blood Vessels to Organs”

9/19    BIOMEDICAL ENGINEERING: 11:00a - NA1-142RADHIKA ATIT, Ph.D. CWRU, Dept. of Molecular Developmental Biology “Signaling Requirements for Dermal Development”

9/19    INTERGRATIVE AND TRANSLATIONAL GENOMIC MEDICINE SEMINAR SERIES: 2:00p – NE1-205   ROBERT SCHWARTZ, M.D.  Deputy Editor, New England Journal of Medicine   Title: tba

9/22    NEUROSCIENCES: 10:00a – NE1-205   SHASTA SABO, Ph.D.   Assistant Professor, Department of Pharmacology and Neuroscience, CWRU   “Stop and Go Traffic: Mechanisms of Synapse Formation in the Cerebral Cortex”

9/23    MOLECULAR GENETICS: 9:30a - NE1-205    EAIN A. MURPHY, Ph.D.    Molecular Biology, Princeton University“The role of miRNAs on Human Cytomegalovirus”

9/23    TAUSSIG CANCER INSTITUTE CORE CURRICULUM SERIES: 12:00p - R3-002  MIKKAEL SEKERES, M.D.   CCF Cancer Center   “Overview of Myelodysplastic Syndromes”   [Approved for AMA PRA category 1 credit.]

9/23    PATHOBIOLOGY: 1:00p – NE1-205   AICHA SAADANE, Ph.D.   CWRU, Rainbow Babies and Children's Hospital, Department of Pediatrics Title: tba

9/24    IMMUNOLOGY: 12:00p - NC1-202   XIN XIAO ZHENG, Ph.D.   University of Pittsburgh Medical Center “Aging Helper T Cells Gain New Life as Regulatory Agents”

9/24    RESEARCH EDUCATION: 4:00p – ND1-205 Career Development Seminar   PAUL FOX, Ph.D.   Staff, Cell Biology  “Graphics for Presentation”

9/25    MOLECULAR GENETICS: 9:30a - NE1-205 ASHISH LAL, Ph.D. Immune Disease Institute, Harvard Medical School “Control of cellular proliferation and DNA repair by microRNAs”

9/25    TAUSSIG CANCER INSTITUTE CORE CURRICULUM SERIES: 12:00p - R3-002  HALLE MOORE, M.D.   CCF Cancer Center   “Metastatic Breast Cancer”   [Approved for AMA PRA category 1 credit.]

9/26    TAUSSIG CANCER INSTITUTE GRAND ROUNDS: 8:00a - R3-002/003   DAVID STEENSMA, M.D.   Mayo Clinic, Rochester , MN   “Rings of Fire: New Insights into Sideroblastic Anemias.”  [Approved for AMA PRA category 1 credit.]

9/26    CELL BIOLOGY: 10:00a – NC1-202    CRAIG MORRELL, D.V.M., Ph.D.   John Hopkins University School of Medicine   “Mechanisms of Platelet Activation and Platelet Mediated Vascular Inflammation”

9/26    BIOMEDICAL ENGINEERING: 11:00a - NA1-142  QUENTIN PANKHURST, Ph.D.Davy Faraday Research Laboratory, University College London“Health Biomagnetics:  in vivo and in vitro sensing, moving and heating of magnetic nanoparticles”

9/29    NEUROLOGY GRAND ROUNDS: “ TBA”   NEIL CHERIAN, M.D.   Center for Headache and Pain   Title: tba

9/30    TAUSSIG CANCER INSTITUTE CORE CURRICULUM SERIES: 12:00p - R3-002   DAVID ADELSTEIN, M.D.   CCF Cancer Center   “Head and Neck Cancer”   [Approved for AMA PRA category 1 credit.]

9/30    PATHOBIOLOGY: 1:00p – NE1-205   JAMES FINIGAN, M.D.   University Hospitals , Case School of Medicine, Pulmonary and Critical Care Medicine   Title: tba