Conferences & Events
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. Nicholas Navin, Ph.D., is the chair and coordinator of the Blaffer Lecture Series. For further information, please contact Elva Lopez at eplopez@mdanderson.org.
RB, Room S3.801Tuesdays, 4-5 p.m.
Onstead Auditorium, Mitchell BS2
Onstead Auditorium is accessible from the main MD Anderson building via the 3rd/4th floor Tan Zone skybridges and the front entrance to the Mitchel Basic Science and Research Building (BSRB) at 6767 Bertner, Houston, TX 77030.
Research Exchange Series
Each week from September through May, this series alternates faculty from across the Texas Medical Center (TMC) with senior trainees from Genetics to discuss their research. This series highlights the breadth and depth of science in the Texas Medical Center and provides an opportunity to establish collaborations across the numerous institutions in the TMC. It is also a forum for senior students and post-doctoral trainees to present their studies. George Eisenhoffer, Ph.D., and Michael Galko, Ph.D., will host this series. For further information, please contact Lisa Watson at LMWatson@mdanderson.org.
Wednesdays, 12 p.m.-1 p.m.
14th Floor Conference Room, Mitchell BSRB, S14.8336
Spring 2017 Blaffer Schedule
January 24, 2017
Speaker: Karlene Cimprich, Ph.D., Stanford Univ. School of Medicine, Stanford, CA
Title: “When RNA Meets DNA: Dangerous Liaisons in the Genome"
Host: Bin Wang, Ph.D.
January 31, 2017
Speaker: Joshua Mendell, M.D., Ph.D., (HHMI) University of Texas Southwestern, Dallas, TX
Title: “Regulation and Function of Noncoding RNAs in Normal Physiology and Cancer”
Host: Li Ma, Ph.D.
February 7, 2017
Cancelled
February 14, 2017
Speaker: Matthew Vander Heiden, M.D., Ph.D., MIT, Cambridge, MA
Title: “Determinants of Tumor Metabolic Dependencies”
Host: Boyi Gan, M.D.
February 21, 2017
Speaker: Clare Waterman, Ph.D., National Heart, Lung, and Blood Institute, NIH, Bethesda, MD
Title: “Integrating Actin Dynamics and Adhesion in Cell Migration”
Host: Andrew Gladden, Ph.D.
February 28, 2017
Speaker: Richard Davis, Ph.D., University of Colorado, Denver, CO
Title: “Programmed DNA Elimination”
Host: Richard Behringer, Ph.D.
March 7, 2017
Speaker: Valentina Greco, Ph.D., Yale University, New Haven, CT
Title: “Capturing Tissue Dynamics and Function by Imaging Live Mice”
Host: Michael Galko, Ph.D.
March 21, 2017
Speaker: Carl Blobel, M.D., Ph.D., Weill Cornell Medical College, New York, NY
Title: “iRhoms: Key Regulators of ADAM17-Dependent EGFR and TNF Alpha Signaling”
Host: Pierre McCrea, Ph.D.
April 11, 2017
Speaker: Diego Castrillon, M.D., Ph.D., University of Texas Southwestern, Dallas, TX
Title: “Uterine Cancer: Models and Translational Studies”
Host: Russell Broaddus, M.D., Ph.D.
April 18, 2017
Speaker: Mark Krasnow, M.D., Ph.D., (HHMI) Stanford Univ. School of Medicine, Stanford, CA
Title: “Elucidating Lung Stem Cells and Cancer at Single Cell Resolution”
Host: Jichao Chen, Ph.D.
April 25, 2017
Speaker: Len Pennacchio, Ph.D., Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory, Berkeley, CA
Title: “Genomic Views of Gene Regulation In Vivo”
Host: Ralf Krahe, Ph.D.
May 2, 2017
Speaker: Tanya Paull, Ph.D., (HHMI) University of Austin, Austin, TX
Title: “ATM Signaling in the DNA Damage Response and Protein Homeostasis”
Host: Lei Li, Ph.D.
May 9, 2017
Speaker: Jing Yang, Ph.D., University of California San Diego, San Diego, CA
Title: “Epithelial-Mesenchymal Plasticity in Carcinoma Metastasis”
Host: Li Ma, Ph.D.
May 16, 2017
Speaker: Navdeep Chandel, Ph.D., Northwestern Univ. Feinberg School of Med., Chicago, IL
Title: “Mitochondria and cancer”
Host: Boyi Gan, M.D.
May 23, 2017
Speaker: David Bilder, Ph.D., University of California, Berkeley, CA
Title: “Cold-Blooded Cancer: Drosophila Models of Malignancy”
Host: George Eisenhoffer, Ph.D.
For further information please contact Nicholas Navin, Ph.D., Blaffer Committee Chair: nnavin@mdanderson.org or Elva Lopez, Program Coordinator: eplopez@mdanderson.org.
Spring 2017 Research Exchange Schedule
January 25, 2017
Joshua D. Wythe, Ph.D., Assistant Professor
Department of Molecular Physiology/CVRI, Baylor College of Medicine
February 1, 2017
Erin Williams, Student (Gladden Lab)
Department of Genetics, MD Anderson
February 8, 2017
Annemieke Kavelaars, Ph.D., Professor & Chair Ad Interim
Department of Symptom Research, MD Anderson
February 15, 2017
Rescheduled to May 10, 2017
February 22, 2017
Joshua Shulman, Ph.D., Assistant Professor
Departments of Neurology, Neuroscience, and Molecular & Human Genetics, Baylor College of Medicine
March 1, 2017
Chang-Ru Tsai, Student (Galko Lab)
Department of Genetics, MD Anderson
March 8, 2017
Natasha Kirienko, Ph.D., Assistant Professor
Department of Biosciences, Rice University
March 15, 2017
Ryan Baumert, Student (McCrea Lab)
Department of Genetics, MD Anderson
March 22, 2017
Taiping Chen, Ph.D., Associate Professor
Department of Epigenet & Mol Carcinogenesis, MD Anderson
March 29, 2017
Kenneth Trimmer, Student (Arur Lab)
Department of Genetics, MD Anderson
April 5, 2017
Anne-Marie Krachler, Ph.D., Associate Professor
Department of Microbiology & Molecular Genetics, UTHealth Science Center
April 12, 2017
Rachel Mullen, Ph.D., Post Doc (Behringer Lab)
Department of Genetics, MD Anderson
April 19, 2017
Ronald Parchem, Ph.D., Assistant Professor
Department of Biosciences, Baylor College of Medicine
April 26, 2017
Nicholas Navin, Ph.D., Associate Professor
Department of Genetics, MD Anderson
May 03, 2017
Daniel Frigo, Ph.D., Assistant Professor
Department of Biology & Biochemistry, University of Houston
May 10, 2017
Yun Zhang, Ph.D., Instructor (Lozano Lab)
Department of Genetics, MD Anderson