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 M. D. 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).
2009-2010 Seminar Series
Bone Seminar Series - 2009-2010 Academic Year |
Date | Speaker | Affiliation | Title |
| September 4, 2009 | Jerry Feng, Ph.D. | Professor, Dept of Biomedical Sciences, Texas A&M Health Science Center, Dallas, TX | Critical roles of Osteocytes in Bone Metabolism |
| October 2, 2009 | David Ke, M.D. | Scientific Executive Director, Bone and Mineral Metabolism, Amgen, Inc., Thousand Oaks, CA | Inhibition of Sclerostin as an Anabolic Approach for Low Bone Mass and Fracture Healing |
| November 6, 2009 | Xu Cao, Ph.D. | Professor, Department of Pathology, University of Alabama, Birmingham, AL | TGFb-1 Induced Migration of BMSCs to Couple Bone Resorption and Formation: A Potential Therapeutic Target for Bone Remodeling Disorders |
| December 4, 2009 | Roberto Pacifi, M.D. | Herndon Professor of Medicine, Division of Endocrinology, Emory University, Atlanta, GA | T Cells: Unexpected Players in the Mechanism of Action on PTH and Estrogen Deficiency in Bone |
| January 22, 2010 | Mone Zaidi, MBBS, Ph.D. | Professor, Medicine, Endocrinology, Diabetes and Bone Disease, Mount Sinai Hospital, New York, NY | Expanding the Horizons of Skeletal Physiology and Pathophysiology |
| February 5, 2010 | Michael Econs, M.D. | Professor in Endocrinology and Metabolism, Indiana University, Indianapolis, IN | New Insights to the Pathophysiology of Disorders of Phosphate Homeostasis |
| March 5, 2010 | Cathy Van Poznak, M.D. | Breast Oncologist, University of Michigan, Ann Arbor, MI | Bisphosphonate Therapy in Breast Cancer: Supportive or Therapeutic? |
| April 2, 2010 | Matthew Smith, M.D. | Professor of Medicine, Genitourinary Unit of Oncology, Harvard Medical School, Boston, MA | Recent Advances in Bone-Targeted Therapy for Prostate Cancer |
| May 7, 2010 | Yibbin Kang, Ph.D. | Assistant Professor, Department of Molecular Biology, Princeton University, Princeton NJ | Tumor-stromal interactions in breast cancer bone metastasis |
For more information, contact Berenice Torres at 713-792-7679 or mbtorres@mdanderson.org.