2010-2011 Seminars

September 22, 2010
Title: Telomeres, Telomere Maintenance Genes and Cancer
Speaker: Lisa Boardman, M.D., Associate Professor of Medicine, Mayo Clinic, Rochester, MN

October 6, 2010
Title: MMSET a Histone Methyl Transferase Implicated in Multiple Myeloma
Speaker: Jonathan Licht, M.D., Professor, Division Chief, Hematology/Oncology, Northwestern University Feinberg School of Medicine, Chicago, IL

November 17, 2010
Title: What’s New in Colorectal Cancer Genetic
Speaker: Steven Lipkin M.D., Ph.D., Associate Professor of Medicine, Weill Cornell College of Medicine, New York, NY

December 1, 2010
Title: EGF Receptor Regulation of Mesenchymal Transformation in Ovarian Cancer
Speaker: Laurie Hudson, Ph.D., Regents Professor, University of New Mexico, Albuquerque, NM

March 9, 2011
Title: Rb/E2F Mediated Developmental Regulation of Stem Cell and Differentiated Fates
Speaker: Valerie Reinke, Ph.D., Associate Professor, Department of Genetics, Yale University School of Medicine, New Haven, CT

May 4, 2011
Title: “Integrin Signaling in Cancer Progression”
Speaker: Lucia Languino, Ph.D., Professor of Cancer Biology, Cell Biology and Radiation Oncology, University of Massachusetts Medical School, Worcester, MA

May 11, 2011
Title: “Drivers of DNA Double Strand Breaks in vivo – from Environment to Disease”
Speaker: Bevin Engelward, Sc.D., Associate Professor of Biological Engineering, Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Cambridge, MA