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.
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 2013
January 8
AT&T Auditorium, B2.4750
Speaker: Tarun Kapoor, Ph.D., Rockefeller University, New York, NY
Title: “Identifying and validating chemical inhibitors as probes of cellular mechanism and new drugs”
Host: Jill Schumacher (GEN)
January 22
Speaker: John Schimenti, Ph.D., College of Veterinary Medicine, Cornell University, Ithaca, NY
Title: “DNA replication and the genetics of mammary cancer in mice”
Host: Angabin Matin (GEN)
January 29
Speaker: Ramon Parsons, M.D., Ph.D., Columbia University, New York, NY
Title: “Suppressing Cancer with PTEN”
Host: Guillermina Lozano & Genetics (GEN)
February 5
Speaker: Amato Giaccia, Ph.D., Stanford University School of Medicine, Stanford, CA
Title: “Targeting the PHD/HIF Pathway to Enhance the Efficacy of Chemotherapy and Radiotherapy”
Host: Guillermina Lozano & Thomas Buchholz (GEN)
February 12
Speaker: Evan Eichler, Ph.D., University of Washington, Seattle, WA
Title: “Human Genome Structural Variation, Disease and Evolution”
Host: Nicholas Navin (GEN)
February 19
Speaker: Mitzi Kuroda, Ph.D., Harvard Medical School, Boston, MA
Title: “Interaction of epigenetic regulatory factors within their chromatin context”
Host: Bill Mattox (GEN)
February 26
Speaker: Ruth Lehman, Ph.D., NYU Langone Medical Center, New York, NY
Title: “Protecting the Germline for Future Generations”
Host: Richard Behringer (GEN)
March 5
Speaker: Jerry Crabtree, M.D., Stanford University, Stanford, CA
Title: “Chromatin Regulation: New Concepts and Methods”
Host: Xiaobing Shi (BMB)
March 26
Speaker: Davide Ruggero, Ph.D., University of California, San Francisco, San Francisco, CA
Title: “Decoding the Translational Landscape of the Cancer Genome: Functional Insights and Therapeutic Implications”
Host: Les Krushel (BMB)
April 2
Speaker: Jennifer Doudna, Ph.D., UC Berkeley, Berkeley, CA
Title: “RNA-mediated genome defense in bacteria”
Host: Les Krushel (BMB)
April 16
Speaker: Aaron Straight, Ph.D., Stanford School of Medicine, Stanford, CA
Title: “Chromosome Segregation: Mechanisms of Vertebrate Centromere and Kinetochore Formation”
Host: Jill Schumacher (GEN)
April 23
Speaker: Andrew Dillin, Ph.D., Salk Institute for Biological Studies, La Jolla, CA
Title: “Aging: Pushing the limits of cellular homeostasis”
Host: Swathi Arur (GEN)
April 30
Speaker: Thea Tisty, Ph.D., University of California, San Francisco, San Francisco, CA
Title: “Cellular Conversations that Control Malignancy”
Host: Nicholas Navin (GEN)
May 7
Speaker: Bill McGinnis, Ph.D., University of California, San Diego, La Jolla, CA
Title: “The Development, Regeneration, and Evolution of Animal Epithelial Barriers”
Host: Michael Galko (BMB)
May 14
Speaker: Luis Parada, Ph.D., University of Texas Southwestern, Dallas, TX
Title: “Modeling Malignant Glioma: Cancer Stem Cells and Drug Discovery”
Host: Sadhan Majumder (GEN)
For further information contact Salbi Kassardjian (Genetics) at 713-834-6337 or Doris Green (BMB) at 713-834-6267.
Blaffer Journal Club
The weekly Blaffer Journal Club features the presentation and discussion of a paper from each Blaffer speaker’s lab, on the Thursday prior to their lecture. Everyone in G&D and the Depts. of Genetics and Biochemistry & Molecular Biology is invited to participate.
BSRB 14th Floor Conference Room S14.8136, Noon-1:00 p.m.
No Blaffer Journal Club this week