John H. Blaffer Lecture Series
Each week from September through May, an internationally recognized scientist is invited to speak and present his or her 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 Spring 2012 Flyer (pdf)
Onstead Auditorium, BSRB Room S3.8012, 4:00 p.m.
Onstead Auditorium is accessible from the Main MD Anderson Bldg, via the 3rd/4th floor Tan Zone skybridges and the front entrance to the BSRB at 6767 Bertner.
Spring 2012
January 10
Speaker: Jeremy Reiter, M.D., Ph.D., University of California, San Francisco, San Francisco, CA
Title: “Cilia, Wounding and Hedgehog – Three Bad Actors Collaborate to Cause Skin Cancer”
Host: Yas Furuta (BMB)
January 24
Speaker: Kathleen Green, Ph.D., Northwestern University Feinberg School of Medicine, Chicago, IL
Title: “Building Intercellular Junctions and their Signaling Scaffolds”
Host: Pierre McCrea (BMB)
January 31
Speaker: Francois Spitz, Ph.D., European Molecular Biology Laboratory, Heidelberg, Germany
Title: “Genome Architecture and Gene Regulation in Development and Disease”
Host: Richard Behringer (GEN)
February 7
Speaker: Nabeel M. Bardeesy, Ph.D., Harvard Medical School, Boston, MA
Title: “Transcription Programs in Pancreatic Cancer”
Host: Randy Johnson (BMB)
February 14
Speaker: Judith Campisi, Ph.D., Buck Institute, Novato, CA
Title: “Cancer and Aging: Rival Demons?”
Host: Sharra Hammond, Tyler Lab (BMB)
February 21
Speaker: Karen Oegema, Ph.D., University of California, San Diego, CA
Title: “Using C. elegans to Dissect Mitotic Mechanisms”
Host: Jason Ford (G&D Students)
February 28
Speaker: Timothy R. Hughes, Ph.D., University of Toronto, Toronto, ON
Title: “Exploring the Eukaryotic Protein-Nucleic Acid Interactome”
Host: Nicholas Navin (GEN)
March 6
Speaker: Ashok Venkitaraman, M.D., Ph.D., University of Cambridge School of Clinical Medicine (Academy of Medical Sciences), Cambridge, UK
Title: “Chromosome Repair and Segregation Mechanisms – from Cancer Biology to Cancer Therapy”
Host: Guillermina Lozano (GEN)
March 27
Speaker: M. Celeste Simon, Ph.D., University of Pennsylvania School of Medicine, Novato, CA
Title: “HIFs, Hypoxia, and Tumor Progression”
Host: Elsa Flores (BMB)
April 3
Speaker: Joaquin Espinosa, Ph.D., University of Colorado at Boulder, Boulder, CO
Title: “Functional Genomics Studies of the p53 Network”
Host: Michelle Barton (BMB)
April 10
Speaker: Cornelis Murre, Ph.D., University of California, San Diego, La Jolla, CA
Title: “The 3D-folding of the Eukaryotic Chromatin Fiber: Implications for Long-range Genomic Interactions”
Host: Lalitha Nagarajan (GEN)
April 17
Speaker: Cynthia Bradham, Ph.D., Boston University College Arts & Sciences, Boston, MA
Title: “Patterning in Sea Urchin Embryos”
Host: Bill Klein (BMB)
April 24
Speaker: Thomas Westbrook, Ph.D., Baylor College of Medicine, Houston, TX
Title: “Tackling Breast Cancer: From Genetic Screens to New Therapeutic Strategies”
Host: Michelle Barton (BMB)
For further information contact Salbi Kassardjian (Genetics) at 713-834-6337 or Doris Green (BMB) at 713-834-6267.