BMS Seminar Series 2011-12

The weekly Seminars in Biomedical Sciences attract renowned faculty from all over the world to present cutting-edge research related to human health and disease, and are open to the entire community.  

2011-12 Seminar Roster

Day/Time: Wednesdays, 4:00 p.m.
Location: N-225, Parnassus, except as noted
Presentations will be simulcast to Room GEN-S271, Mission Bay
Some (but not all) presentations may be available via livestream and on-demand (UCSF MyAccess login required):
Spring 2012
Winter 2012
Fall 2011


9/21/2011    
Thomas Clemens    
Johns Hopkins
Integration of Glucose Metabolism by the Osteoblast
Host: Wenhan Chang, PhD

10/5/2011    
Laura van't Veer  
UCSF
Breast Cancer Biology Trumps Stage
Host: Cliff Lowell, MD, PhD

10/19/2011  
Co-sponsored by DSCB  
Jennifer Zallen    
Sloan-Kettering Institute
Shaping the embryo:  Cellular dynamics in development
Host: Diana Laird, PhD

10/26/2011    
Maria Jasin    
Sloan-Kettering Institute
Protecting the genome through homologous recombination
Host: David Toczyski, PhD

11/2/2011    
Joel Hirschhorn
Broad Institute
Genetics of human height, obesity and other polygenic traits
Host: Walter Miller, MD    

11/9/2011    
Aravinda Chakravarti    
Johns Hopkins
Hirschsprung Disease: Genetic Defects of the "Second Brain"
Host: Robert Nussbaum, MD

11/16/2011    
Peter Sarnow
Stanford
Subversion of a liver-specific microRNA by hepatitis C virus
Host: Michael McManus, PhD

11/30/2011    
Bruce Conklin
UCSF
Regulation of Cellular Signaling in Engineered Tissues
Host: Deepak Srivastava, MD


12/7/2011    
Joe Bass  
Northwestern University
Molecular Clocks in Behavior and Cell Metabolism
Host: Ajay Chawla, MD, PhD

12/14/2011
Co-sponsored by DSCB      
Leonard Zon 
Harvard University
Pathways that regulate stem cell self renewal
Host: Emmanuelle Passegue, PhD

1/4/2012    
Jeff Lichtman  
Harvard University
Imaging the Connectome
Host: BMS Students

1/11/2012    
No Seminar

1/18/2012    
Elizabeth Blackburn
UCSF
Telomeres and Telomerase in Human Health and Disease
Host: J. Michael Bishop, MD

1/25/2012    
Abul Abbas
UCSF
Controlling Autoimmunity: The Regulatory/Effector T Cell Balance
Host: Art Weiss, MD, PhD

2/1/2012    
Co-sponsored by DSCB  
William Kelly
Emory University   
Host: Miguel Ramalho-Santos, PhD, MSc


2/8/2012    
Arnold Kriegstein
UCSF
Building a bigger brain: Neural stem and progenitor cells in human cortical development
Host: Rik Derynck, PhD


2/15/2012    
No seminar

2/22/2012    
Co-sponsored by DSCB  
Paul Frenette   
Einstein College of Medicine
Hematopoietic Stem Cell Microenvironment
Host: Steven Rosen, PhD

2/29/2012    
Laurent Coscoy    
UC Berkeley
[Talk Title] 
Host: Anna Bakardjiev, MD

3/7/2012    
Owen Witte   
UCLA
Imaging Cancer and the Immune Response with Positron Emission Tomography
Host: Zena Werb, PhD

3/14/2012    
No seminar


3/21/2012    
No seminar

3/28/2012    
Carlo Croce    
Ohio State University
Causes and consequences of microRNA dysregulation in cancer
Host: Michael McManus, PhD

4/4/2012    
Tim Mosmann    
University of Rochester
Committed and flexible cytokine phenotypes of human T cells
Host: Tony DeFranco, PhD

4/11/2012    
No seminar (this seminar is being rescheduled)

4/18/2012    
Jean-Laurent Casanova    
Rockefeller University
Life-threatening infectious diseases of childhood: single-gene inborn errors of immunity?
Host: Mark Seielstad, PhD

4/25/2012    
Co-sponsored by DSCB  
Nancy Speck    
University of Pennsylvania
Runx1-CBFb function in hematopoiesis
Host: Ann Zovein, MD

5/1/2012    
Charles Sawyers
Sloan-Kettering Institute
Overcoming Resistance to Targeted Cancer Therapies
Host: Kevin Shannon, MD


5/2/2012 **CANCELLED**
Jeff Friedman    
The Rockefeller University
Host: Louis Ptacek, MD

5/9/2012    
Alexander Chervonsky
University of Chicago
Host: Mark Anderson, MD, PhD

5/16/2012
Bruce Walker    
Harvard University
Immunogenetics of HIV Control
Host: Joanne Engel, MD, PhD