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2008 - January 2010 LCRC Seminar Series Schedule

Schedule 2010 - 2009 - 2008:

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2010	Location	Speaker	Title
Jan 14	Tulane	*Charles Sherr, MD, PhD* Member, St. Jude Faculty Department of Genetics and Tumor Cell Biology St. Jude Children's Research Hospital	"Regulation of Cellular Self Renewal by Tumor Suppressor Genes"

Jan 21	LSU	*Terry Van Dyke, PhD* Sara Graham Distinguished Professor Departments of Genetics, Biochemistry and Biophysics Lineberger Comprehensive Cancer Center UNC Chapel Hill School of Medicine	"Mechanistic Discovery in Murine Cancer Models: From Basic Discovery to Clinical Translation"

Jan 28	Tulane	*Phillip Kantoff, MD* Professor of Medicine Department of Medical Oncology Dana Farber Institute Harvard Medical School	"Clinical and Translational Updates in Prostate Cancer"

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2009	Location		Speaker	Title
Jan 22	Tulane	*Paul A. Wade, PhD* Principal Investigator Eukaryotic Transcriptional Regulation Group National Institute of Environmental Health Sciences		"Epigenetic Regulation in Disease and Development"

Jan 29	Tulane	*Jianming Xu, PhD* Associate Professor Dept of Molecular and Cellular Biology Baylor College of Medicine		"Detrimental Contributions and Mechanisms of the p160 SRC Family in Breast & Prostate Tumorigenesis and Metastasis"

Feb 5	LSU	*Danny R. Welch, PhD* Professor of Pathology, Cell Biology, and Pharmacology University of Alabama at Birmingham		"Does the Mechanism of Action of Metastasis Suppressors Identify Targets for Cancer Therapeutics?"

Feb 26	Tulane	*Yiping Chen, PhD* Professor Department of Cell and Molecular Biology Tulane University		"Molecular Regulation of Palate Development & Cleft Palate Formation"

Mar 26	Tulane	*Michelle Barton, PhD* Associate Professor Department of Biochemistry and Molecular Biology MD Anderson Cancer Center		"TAP-ing Into p53 Funcitons in Normal Cells"

Apr 2	Tulane	*Christopher C. Benz, MD* Professor and Program Director Adjunct Professor of Medicine Buck Institute for Age Research		"New Biomarker and Therapeutic Approaches to Breast Cancer"

Apr 2	LSU	*Ching-Hon Pui, MD* Member, St. Jude Faculty Chair, Department of Oncology St. Jude Children's Research Hospital		"Recent Advances in Acute Lymphoblastic Leukemia"

Apr 9	Tulane	*Sendurai Mani, PhD* Principal Investigator Department of Molecular Pathology MD Anderson Cancer Center		"Generation of Stem-Like Cells via EMT; A New Twist on Cancer Initiation and Progression"

Apr 16	LSU	*Thao P. Dang, MD* Assistant Professor of Medicine Division of Hematology and Oncology Vanderbilt-Ingram Cancer Center		"Notch3 in Lung Cancer: From the Bedside to the Bench"

Apr 17	Tulane	*Jos Jonkers, PhD* Principal Investigator Division of Molecular Biology The Netherlands Cancer Institute		"Conditional Mouse Models of Breast Cancer"

Apr 21	Tulane	*Robert Cardiff, MD, PhD* Director, Center for Genomic Pathology Dept. of Pathology and Lab. Medicine UC Davis School of Medicine		"Post-Genomic Oncology and One Medicine: Lessons from the Mouse"

Apr 23	Tulane	*Michael F. Clarke, MD* Associate Director Stanford Institute for Stem Cell and Regenerative Medicine Stanford School of Medicine		"Stem Cell Signaling, Self Renewal and Cancer"

May 7	LSU	*E. Premkumar Reddy, PhD* Director, Fels Institute for Cancer Research and Molecular Biology Temple University School of Medicine		"Chemical Biological Approaches for Cancer Therapy"

May 14	Tulane	*Jonathan Melamed, MD* Associate Professor Department of Pathology MYU Langone Medical Center		"Prostate Cancer Biospecimen Banking: The Experience of the CPCTR (Cooperative Prostate Cancer Tissue Resource)"

May 28	LSU	*Jan K. Kitajewski, PhD* Associate Professor of Clinical Pathology Department of Pharmacology ACNC - Audobon		"Notch Functions in Angiogenesis by Diverse Mechanisms"

Jun 4	LSU	*Lily Wu, MD, PhD* Associate Professor Department of Molecular and Medical Pharmacology David Geffen School of Medicine at UCLA		"Functional Molecular Imaging of Cancer Nodal Metastasis"

Jun 11	Tulane	*Scott Hiebert, PhD* Professor of Biochemistry and Medicine Department of Biochemsitry Vanderbilt University		"Role of Histone Deacetylase 3 in Genomic Stability, Transcriptional Control & Cancer Therapy"

Jul 9	Tulane	*Shiuan Chen, PhD* Director, Tumor Cell Biology Department of Surgical Research Beckman Research Institute		"Mechanisms of Endocrine Resistance"

Jul 23	Tulane	*Marcus Peter, PhD* Professor Ben May Dept. for Cancer Research University of Chicago		"The Role of miRNAs in Tumor Progression"

Jul 30	Tulane	*Jin Yang, PhD* Assistant Professor Department of Pharmacology University of California, San Diego		"Exploring a New Twist on Tumor Metastasis"

Aug 13	Tulane	*Wayne Backes, PhD* Associate Dean for Research Professor, Department of Pharmacology LSU Health Sciences Center		"Does the Crowding of Multiple P450's into Membranes Affect Their Functions?"

Sept 10	Tulane	*Ann Nardulli, PhD* Professor Department of Molecular and Integrative Physiology University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign		"Regulation of Estrogen Responsive Genes"

Oct 8	Tulane	Margaret A. Shupnik, PhD Professor Endocrinology, Molecular Physiology and BIological Physics University of Virginia Health System		"Estrogen Receptor Signaling in Breast Cancer - Sculpting Responses to ER-Targeted Therapies"

Oct 22	Tulane	*Bryan R. Cullen, PhD* James B. Duke Professor Dept of Molecular Genetics and Microbiology Duke University Medical Center		"Viruses, microRNAs and RNA Interference"

Oct 29	Tulane	Wei Xu, PhD Assistant Professor of Oncology McArdle Laboratory for Cancer Research University of Wisconsin-Madison		"Regulation of ERα Transcriptional Network by ERβ and CARM1"

Nov 5	LSU	*Hua Yu, PhD* Professor Cancer Immunotherapeutics & Tumor Immunology City of Hope Comprehensive Cancer Center		"Role of Stat3 in Cancer Inflammation and Tumor Immunity"

Nov 12	Tulane	*Suzanne Fuqua, PhD* Professor Department of Medicine and Molecular and Cellular Biology Baylor College of Medicine		"Mechanisms of Endocrine Resistance in Breast Cancer"

Dec 4	LSU	*Filipe Samaniego, MD* Associate Professor Department of Lymphoma/Melanoma M.D. Anderson Cancer Center University of Texas		"Regulation of Fas in Cancer"

Dec 17	LSU	*George C. Prendergast, PhD* Professor Department of Pathology, Anatomy, and Cell Biology Thomas Jefferson University		"Genetic Regulation and Therapeutic Inhibition of IDO in Immune Escape in Cancer"

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2008	Location		Speaker	Title
Jan 10	Tulane	*Michael Mancini, PhD* Associate Professor, Director Integrated Microscopy Core Department of Molecular and Celluar Biology Baylor College of Medicine		"Systems Level Analysis of Nuclear Receptor Function by High Throughput Imaging"

Jan 24	Tulane	*Charles E. Wood, DVM, PhD* Assistant Professor of Pathology Comparative Medicine Wake Forest University		"Estrogens, Progestogens, and Breast Cancer Risk"

Jan 31	LSU	*Honnavara N. Anathaswamy, PhD* Deputy Department Chair Ashbel Smith Professor MD Anderson Cancer Center		"Role of p53 in UV-induced Apoptosis and Skin Carcinogenesis"

Feb 7	LSU	*Ross Kedl, PhD* Assistant Professor Department of Immunology University of Colorado		"Virtual Memory: A Novel Phenotype and Function for Antigen Specific T Cells in a Naive Host"

Feb 14	LSU	Mona Fouad, MD. MPH Professor of Medicine Director, Minority Health and Research Center University of Alabama School of Medicine Birmingham, Alabama		"Engaging Communities in Recruitment and Retention of Clinical Trials: It's All About Communication"

Feb 14	Tulane	Yong-Yu Liu, MD, PhD Assistant Professor of Pharmacology Department of Basic Pharmaceutical Sciences University of Louisiana College of Pharmacy		"Targeting Ceramide Glycosylation to Overcome Cancer Drug Resistance"

Feb 28	Tulane	*Frank Porreca, PhD* Proessor of Pharmacology University of Arizona		“Opioid Analgesia in the Setting of Bone Cancer Pain”

Mar 6	LSU	*Thomas F. Gajewski, MD, PhD* Associate Professor Department of Pathology and Medicine University of Chicago		"Overcoming Negative Regulation of T Cell Responses in the Tumor Microenvironment"

Mar 13	Tulane	*Dean Edwards, PhD* Professor, Department of Molecular and Cellular Biology and Pathology Baylor College of Medicine		"Bidirectional Cross-Talk Between Progesterone Receptors and Growth Factor Signaling Pathways: Role in Normal Mammary Gland Development and Breast Cancer"

Mar 20	LSU	*Srikumar Chellappan, PhD* Professor, Drug Discovery Program Department of Interdisciplinary Oncology H. Lee Moffitt Cancer Center and Research Institute, USF		"Rb-E2F Pathway in Cell Cycle Regulatioin and Lung Cancer"

Mar 27	LSU	Daniel W. Rosenberg, PhD Professor of Medicine Center for Molecular Medicine University of Connecticut Health Center		"Do Benign Colon Lesions Provide Insights Into the Early Stages of Cancer?"

Apr 3	LSU	*Michael Freeman, PhD* Associate Professor, Department of Surgery Harvard Medical School		"Cholesterol and Aggresive Prostate Cancer: Insights From Cell Signaling"

Apr 10	Tulane	Rachel Schiff, PhD Assistant Professor of Medicine Breast Center, Baylor College of Medicine		"Endocrine and antiHER2 Resistance: Mechanisms and New Therapeutic Strategies"

May 1	LSU	Prof. David Naor The Hebrew University - Hadassah Medical School, Israel		“The Involvement of CD44, a Molecule with Thousand Faces, in Cancer and Inflammation”

May 8	Tulane	*Billy Day, PhD* Professor, Department of Pharmaceutical Studies and Chemistry University of Pittsburgh		"Proteomics Analyses of Breast Cancer Models"

May 15	LSU	*Anjali Karande, PhD* Professor, Department of Biochemistry Indian Institute of Science Bangalore, India		"Glycodelin A: A Novel Human Galactose Specific Lectin with Immunoregulatory Activity"

May 22	Tulane	*Brian Schaefer, PhD* Assistant Professor, Department of Microbiology and Immunology Uniformed Services University of the Health Sciences		"Differential T Cell Receptor Signaling to NF-kB in the CD4+ and CD8+ T Cell Subsets"

May 29	Tulane	*Jiandong Chen, PhD* Professor, Molecular Oncology Program H. Lee Moffitt Cancer Center Tampa Florida		"MDM2 in Stress Signaling to p53"

Jun 5	LSU	*M. Ram Sairam, PhD* Director and Professor Molecular Reproduction Research Lab Clinical Research Institute of Montreal		"Chronology of Ovarian Tumorigenesis and Search for Novel Tumor Associated Genes-OTAGs"

Jun 19	LSU	*William Stratford May, MD , PhD* Harry F. Innes Professor of Medicine Director, Shands Cancer Center University of Florida		"Bcl2, Apoptosis, P53, and all that Jaz(z)"

July 10	Tulane	*Carolyn L. Smith, PhD* Associate Professor Department of Molecular and Cellular Biology Baylor College of Medicine		"Things are Looking Up for the SMRT Co-Repressor"

July 17	LSU	*Timothy Thompson, PhD* Professor Genitourinary Medical Oncology MD Anderson Cancer Center		"GLIPR1 - A Tumor Suppressor Protein and Potential Therapeutic Agent"

July 31	Tulane	*Judith Campisi, PhD* Professor Cell and Molecular Biology Buck Institute for Age Research		"Cancer and Aging: Rival Demons?"

Aug 14	Tulane	*Ann Richmond, PhD* Ingram Professor and Vice Chair Department of Cancer Biology Vanderbilt Ingram Cancer Center Vanderbilt Univ School of Medicine		"Defining the Chemosynapse"

Sep 11	Tulane	*Alea Mills, PhD* Associate Professor Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory Cold Spring Harbor, New York		"The Chromatin Remodeler CHD5 is a Tumor Suppressor for Mapping to1p36?"

Sep 25	Tulane	*Shuk-Mei Ho, PhD* Chair Department of Environmental Health University of Cincinnati		"Early Origins of Disease: Resurfacing of Dormant Epigenetic Memories Later-Life"

Oct 1	LSU	Bal Lokeshwar, PhD Associate Professor Department of Urology University of Miami School of Medicine		"Pro-Inflammatory Factors in Prostate Cancer Progression: From Smoldering to Blaze"

Oct 2	LSU	Sankar Mitra, PhD Professor and Vice Chair Department of Biochemistry and Molecular Biology University of Texas Medical Branch		"Cellular Responses to Genotoxicity of Reactive Oxygen Species"

Oct 16	Tulane	William Anderson MD, MPH Principal Investigator National Institute of Health Division of Cancer Epidemiology and Genetics		"Descriptive Epidemiology of Cancer Heterogenity"

Oct 16	LSU	Vinata Lokeshwar, PhD Professor of Urology Co-Director, Divison of Urology Research University of Miami Miller School of Medicine		"Hyaluronic Acid & Hyaluronidase: Tumor Marker to Therapeutics and DNA Methylation"

Oct 23	Tulane	*Yi Li, PhD, MS* Assistant Professor of Molecular and Cellular Biology, Breast Cancer Baylor College of Medicine		"Breast Cancer Initiations: Insights from Mouse Models"

Oct 30	Tulane	*Kenneth Nephew, PhD* Associate Professor, Assistant Director of Basic Science Research Indiana University School of Medicine		"Aberrant Estrogen Receptor Signaling & Epigenomic Alternations in Antiestrogen Resistant Breast Cancer"

Nov 6	LSU	Scott Durum, PhD Head, Immunological Cytokine Group Deputy Laboratory Chief NCI-Frederick		"IL-7 in the Life and Death of Lymphocytes"

Nov 13	Tulane	*Tracy Handel, PhD* Professor, University of California, San Deigo, Skaggs School of Pharmacy and Pharmaceutical Sciences		"Chemokine-Receptor & Function: Opportunities for Novel Therapeutic Strategies"

Nov 20	LSU	Krzysztof Reiss, PhD Associate Professor Dept. of Neuroscience and Neurovirology Temple University School of Medicine		"IGF-I Receptor and Human Polyomavirus JC Large T-Antigen in Malignant Transformation"

Dec 4	LSU	*Edward Trapido, ScD* Associate Director Epidemiology and Genetics Research Program National Cancer Institute		"Establishing National Comprehensive Cancer Control Programs in Developing Countries: International Agencies and the PACT Programme"

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