Lectures and Seminars
Each week from September through May, an internationally recognized scientist is invited to speak and present their latest results. Students have the opportunity to meet and interact with these distinguished scientists, and each year they are encouraged as a group to select, invite and host a speaker for one of the Blaffer lectures.
Blaffer Lecture Series Fall 2009 Flyer (pdf)
Onstead Auditorium, BSRS Room S3.8012, 4:00 p.m.
Onstead Auditorium is accessible from the Main M. D. Anderson Bldg. via the 3rd/4th floor Tan Zone skybridges and the front entrance to BSRB on 6767 Bertner.
September 15, in GSBS Large Classroom (S3.8371)
Akiko Hata, Ph.D., Tufts University School of Medicine
"Regulation of MicroRNAs by the TGFß Signaling Pathway"
September 22
Thomas P. Zwaka, M.D., Ph.D., Baylor College of Medicine
"Ronin and Caspases in Embryonic Stem Cells: A New Perspective on Regulation of the Pluripotent State"
September 29
Susan M. Rosenberg, Ph.D., Baylor College of Medicine
"What Cancer Biologists Should Know About Genome Instability, Bacteria and Evolution"
October 6
Margaret H. Baron, M.D., Ph.D., Mount Sinai School of Medicine
"Developmental Niches for Embryonic Red Blood Cells in the Mouse"
October 13
Mark A. Lemmon, Ph.D., University of Pennsylvania – School of Medicine
"Regulation of Epidermal Growth Factor Receptor (EGFR) Family Members"
October 20
Nicholas E. Baker, Ph.D., Albert Einstein College of Medicine
"Using Drosophila to Study Neural Development and Growth"
October 27
Nevan J. Krogan, Ph.D., University of California, San Francisco
"Functional Insights from Protein-Protein and Genetic Interaction Maps"
November 3
Lee Zou, Ph.D., Harvard Medical School
"Sensing and Signaling DNA Damage by the ATM and ATR Checkpoint Kinases"
November 10
Phillip A. Sharp, Ph.D., (NAS and Nobel Laureate) Massachusetts Institute of Technology
"RNA in Gene Regulation in Normal and Malignant Cells"
November 17
Angelika Amon, Ph.D. (HHMI), Center for Cancer Research at MIT
"Causes and Consequences of Aneuploidy"
November 24
Xiaodong Wang, Ph.D. (NAS), UT Southwestern Medical Center
"Understanding Cell Death"
December 1
Christopher B. Burge, Ph.D., Massachusetts Institute of Technology
"Global Analysis of RNA Processing in Health and Disease"
December 8
Gerard I. Evan, Ph.D., University of California, School of Medicine
"Targeting Tumor Suppressor Pathways to Treat Cancer"
December 15
Scott W. Lowe, Ph.D. (HHMI), Howard Hughes Medical Institute
"Dissecting Tumor Suppressor Gene Networks in Vivo"
For further information contact Karen Clayton (Genetics) at 713-834-6317 or Patricia Lopez (BMB) at 713-834-6315.