Seminar Series
The Rolanette and Berdon Lawrence Bone Disease Program of Texas presents monthly seminars given by internationally recognized scientists working in the field of skeletal biology.
Unless otherwise noted, lectures are held on the first Friday of each month, 1:30 - 2:30 p.m, at MD Anderson Cancer Center in the AT&T Telehealth Center, room FC1.2002 of the Faculty Center Building, 1400 Holcombe Blvd., Houston, Texas. Directions and Map (pdf).
2011-2012 Seminar Series
| Bone Seminar Series - 2011-2012 Academic Year | |||
|---|---|---|---|
| Date | Speaker | Title | |
August 5, 2011 | Xiang (Shawn) Zhang, Ph.D., Assistant Professor, Lester and Sue Smith Breast Center & Dept of Molecular and Cellular Biology, Baylor College of Medicine, Houston, TX | "A see pre-selection hypothesis of breast cancer metastatis - when and why to bone" | |
Sept. 23, 2011 (1:45-2:45pm) | Rene St-Arnaud, Ph.D., Senior Investigator, Shriners Hospital for Children, Montreal, Quebec | 24-hydroxylated vitamin D metabolites and fracture repair: towards a new vitamin D signaling pathway | |
| Oct. 14, 2011 | James R. Berenson, M.D., President, Institute for Myeloma and Bone Cancer Research, West Hollywood, CA | Clinical management of vertebral fractures in patients with cancer | |
| Nov. 4, 2011 | Bess Dawson-Hughes. M.D., Senior Scientist and Director, Bone Metabolism Laboratory, Tufts University, Boston, MA | Vitamin D-Musculoskeletal effects and beyond | |
| Dec. 2, 2011 | Bart Williams, Ph.D., Associate Professor and Director, Center for Skeletal Disease Research, Van Andel Institute, Grand Rapids, MI | Mouse Models to Assess the Role of Altered Wnt Signaling in Human Disease | |
| Jan. 6, 2012 | Yingzi Yang, Ph.D., Senior Investigator, National Human Genome Research Institute, NIH, Bethesda, MD | Wnt signaling in skeletal development and diseases | |
| Feb. 3, 2012 | Beate Lanske, Ph.D., Associate Professor, Howard School of Dental Medicine, Boston, MA | The Interactions of FGF23, PTH, and OSTEOPONTIN | |
| Mar. 2, 2012 | Nancy E. Lane, M.D., Endowed Professor of Medicine and Rheumatology, University of California at Davis Medical Center, Sacramento, CA | New insights to the biology of glucocorticoid-induced osteoporosis. | |
| April 6, 2011 | Harald Jueppner, M.D., Professor of Pediatrics, Massachusetts General Hospital, Boston, MA | Regulation of phosphate homeostatsis: insights from rare genetic disorders | |
For more information, contact Berenice Torres at 713-792-7679 or mbtorres@mdanderson.org.