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2006-2008 LCRC Seminar Series Schedule

Time & Location:

2nd and 4th Thursday, 12 Noon
Tulane:
JBJ - J. Bennett Johnston Building

(or otherwise noted)
1324 Tulane Avenue - Room 403
Map/DIrections - Contact

1st & 3rd Thursday, 12 Noon
LSU:
CSRB - Clinical Science Research Building

(or otherwise noted)
533 Bolivar St. - Room 563
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Schedule 2008 - 2007 - 2006:

Accreditation/Designation of Credit: Louisiana State University School of Medicine, New Orleans (LSUSOMNO) is accredited by the Accreditation Council for Continuing Medical Education to provide continuing medical education for physicians.

LSUSOMNO designates this educational activity for a maximum of 1 AMA PRA Category 1 Credit(s)TM. Physicians should only claim credit commensurate with the extent of their participation in the activity.

Facilitated by: The Louisiana State University Health Sciences Center – Institute of Professional Education

Faculty Disclosure: It is the policy of the Louisiana State University School of Medicine New Orleans (LSUSOMNO) to ensure balance, independence, objectivity, and scientific rigor in all its sponsored educational activities. All faculty participating in continuing medical education activities sponsored by the LSUSOMNO are required to disclose to participants any real or apparent conflict of interest related to the content of their presentations. Disclosure of faculty commercial relationships will be made known at the activity. Faculty are also expected to openly disclose any discussion of off-label and/or investigational uses of drugs in their presentations.

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

Sep 4	LSU	*Danny R. Welch , PhD* Professor of Pathology, Cell Biology, and Pharmacology University of Alabama at Birmingham

Sep 25	Tulane	*Shuk-Mei Ho, PhD* Chair Department of Environmental Health University of Cincinnati

Oct 2	LSU	Sankar Mitra, PhD Professor and Vice Chair Department of Biochemistry and Molecular Biology University of Texas Medical Branch

Oct 23	Tulane	*Yi Li, PhD, MS* Assistant Professor of Molecular and Cellular Biology, Breast Cancer Baylor College of Medicine

Oct 30	Tulane	*Kenneth Nephew, PhD* Associate Professor, Assistant Director of Basic Science Research Indiana University School of Medicine

Nov 13	Tulane	*Tracy Handel, PhD* Professor, University of California, San Deigo, Skaggs School of Pharmacy and Pharmaceutical Sciences

Dec 11	Tulane	*Marc Vidal, PhD* Associate Professor of Genetics Department of Cancer Biology Dana Farber Cancer Institute

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2007	Location	Speaker		Title
Jan 11	LSU	*Martin J. Cannon, PhD* Professor of Microbiology & Immunology University of Arkansas for Medical Sciences		“Immunotherapy for Ovarian Cancer: Pipedream or Reality?”

Jan 18	LSU	Louis M. Weiner, MD, PhD Vice President, Translational Research Fox Chase Cancer Center		“Cancer Therapy Using Unconjugated Monoclonal Antibodies: Emerging Concepts

Jan 25	LSU	*James, J. Lee, PhD* Associate Professor of Biochemistry/Molecular Biology Mayo Clinic College of Medicine		“Extravasation of Leukocytes from Circulation is Controlled by Gα12 Signaling Events in the Endothelium”

Feb 1	LSU	*Leland W.K. Chung, PhD* Professor & Director Molecular Urology & Therapeutics Department of Urology Emory University School of Medicine		“The Biology and Targeting of Osteomimicry: Relevance to Prostate Cancer Bone Metastasis”

Feb 15	LSU	*Stephen P. Schoenberger, PhD* Associate Member, Laboratory of Cellular Immunology La Jolla Inst. of Allergy & Immunology		“Programming of CD8+ T cell responses”

Mar 1	LSU	Elizabeth M. Jaffee, MD The Dana & Albert Broccoli Professor of Oncology, The Sidney Kimmel Cancer Center at Johns Hopkins		“Genes, Vaccines, and Immune Checkpoints: An All Out Attack on Pancreatic Cancer”

Mar 8	LSU	*Martin A. "Mac" Cheever, MD* Member & Director Solid Tumor Research Fred Hutchinson Cancer Research Center Professor of Medicine/Oncology University of Washington		“Challenges of Cancer Vaccine Development in the Academic and Commercial Sectors”

Mar 15	LSU	*Dmitry I. Gabrilovich, MD, PhD* Professor, Oncology and Molecular Medicine; Member, H. Lee Moffitt Cancer Center, University of South Florida		“Myeloid-derived Suppressor Cells and Tumor-associated T-cell Tolerance”

Mar 22	Tulane	*William Redd, PhD* Professor and Vice Chair Dept of Oncological Sciences Mount Sinai School of Medicine		“Behavioral Strategies in Cancer Prevention and Symptom Control: Research and Practice”

Apr 5	LSU	*Larry R. Pease, PhD* Professor and Chair Department of Immunology Mayo Clinic College of Medicine		“Mechanisms of a Potent Immune Modulator: B7-DC Cross-Linking Antibody”

Apr 12	Tulane	*Xiao-Fan Wang, PhD* Professor of Pharmacology and Cancer Biology Duke University Medical Center		“Extracellular Proteins and Tumor Metastasis”

May 10	LSU	*Judah Folkman, MD* Professor, Pediatric Surgery and Cell Biology Harvard Medical School		“Principles of Anti-Angiogenic Therapy for Neoplastic and Non-neoplastic Diseases”

May 17	Tulane	*Tso Pang Yao, PhD* Associate Professor, Dept of Pharmacology & Cancer Biology Duke University		“HDAC and Protein Acetylation in Signaling and Disease”

May 24	LSU	*Cornelia M Weyand, MD, PhD* Professor of Medicine Emory University		“T-Cell Senescence in Rheumatoid Arthritis”

May 31	Tulane	*Priscilla Furth, MD* Professor Lombardi Cancer Center Georgetown University		“Interactions Between ERα, Cyclin D1 and Stat5a in Mammary Gland Development and Neoplasia”

Jun 7	LSU	*Emmanuel T. Akporiaye, PhD* Professor and Chair Microbiology/Immunology University of Arizona		“Pro-Apoptotic Vitamin E Derivatives as Immune Modulators for Enhancing Anti-Tumor Responses”

Jun 21	Tulane	*Mien Chie Hung, PhD* Professor and Chair Molecular and Cellular Oncology UT MD Anderson Cancer Center		“Novel Signaling Pathways in Cancer Cell and Targeted Cancer Therapy”

Jul 19	LSU	*Robert H. Wiltrout, PhD* Dir Center for Cancer Research Associate Director NCI, NIH		“Immunotherapy of Cancer by IL 12 based Cytokine Combinations”

Jul 26	LSU	*Prof. A Jagannadha Rao* FASc, FNA, FNASc Rajaramanna Fellow; DST, Department of Biochemistry Indian Institute of Science		“Insights Into the Differential Action of Hormones: Implications for Progression of Cancers”

Aug 2	Tulane	*Marc Hurlbert, PhD* Senior Consultant, Grants and Partnerships Avon Foundation Breast Cancer Crusade		“Cancer Screening Initiatives and National Data from the AVON Foundation Program”

Sep 6	LSU	*Don E. Detmer, MD, MA* President and Chief Executive Officer American Medical Informatics Association		“Error Reduction and Patient Safety through Electronic Health Records: Fact and Fiction”

Sep 20	Tulane	*Ari Melnick, MD* Assistant Professor Department of Developmental and Molecular Biology Albert Einstein Cancer Center		“Targeting Transcriptional Repression for the Therapy of B-cell Lymphomas”

Sep 27	Tulane	Helmut Zarbl, PhD Department of Environmental and Occupational Medicine Robert Wood Johnson Medical School Environmental and Occupational Health Sciences Institute		“Application of Toxicogenetics and Toxicogenomics to Breast Cancer Research”

Oct 11	Tulane	*Maura Gillison, MD, PhD* Asst Professor of Oncology, The Johns Hopkins University School of Medicine		“HPV and an Epidemic(?) of Oropharyngeal Cancer”

Oct 18	LSU	*Steven M. Dubinett, MD* Professor of Medicine Director, Lung Cancer Research Prog. University of CA, Los Angeles		“Lung Cancer: The Intersection of Stem Cells, EMT, and Inflammation”

Nov 1	LSU	*Philippa Marrack, PhD* Professor, Howard Hughes Medical Institute University of Colorado Health Sciences Center		“The Function of the Adjuvant Alum”

Nov 7	LSU	*Valerie Marie Weaver, PhD* Associate Professor Center for Bioengineering and Tissue Regeneration Department of Surgery University of California San Francisco		"Forcing Tumor Metastasis"

Nov 8	Tulane	*Joseph Rosenblatt, MD* Chief, Hematology/Oncology Associate Director for Clinical and Translational Research University of Miami		“Antibody Fusion Proteins for Breast Cancer and Other Solid Tumors”

Nov 15	LSU	*Mary Bedell, PhD* Associate Professor of Genetics University of Georgia		“The Roles of Kit Ligand/Stem Cell Factor in Development of Multiple Cell Types: The Legacy of Spotted Mice”

Dec 6	LSU	*Filippo G. Giancotti, MD, PhD* Professor, Cell Biology Sloan-Kettering Institute for Cancer		“Cancer Cell Addiction to Integrin Signaling”

Dec 13	Tulane	*Susan B. Horwitz, PhD* Distinguished University Professor Albert Einstein College of Medicine Department of Molecular Pharmacology		"Taxol, Tubulin, and Tumors: Challenges in the New Era of Cancer Therapies”

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2006	Location	Speaker		Title
Apr 20	Tulane	*Nancy Zeleznik-Le, PhD* Associate Professor, Department of Medicine Loyola University, Chicago		“MLL: An Epigenetic Regulator Involved in Leukemogenesis”

Jul 1	LSU	*Olivera J. Finn, PhD* Professor and Chair, Department of Immunology University of Pittsburgh School of Medicine		“Successful Tumor Immunosurveillance: Support for Prophylactic Cancer Vaccines”

Jul 6	LSU	*Flora A.M. Ukoli, MBBS,* DPH, MPH Associate Professor, Department of Surgery Meharry Medical College		“Dietary Fatty-acid Risk Factors of Prostate Cancer Among African-Americans and Africans”

Aug 3	LSU	*Scott M. Williams, PhD* Associate Professor, Department of Medicine Vanderbilt University		“Linking Genetic Polymorphism to Complex Disease”

Aug 17	LSU	*Robert G. Bast, MD* Vice President of Translational Research, MD Anderson Cancer Center, University of Texas		“Translational Research at MD Anderson Cancer Center”

Sep 7	LSU	*Cornelia Bargmann, PhD* Professor Rockefeller University		“Unconventional Signaling: Networks in the Nervous System”

Sep 21	LSU	*James H. Finke, PhD* Staff, Department of Immunology The Cleveland Clinic		“The Role of Gangliosides, B7-H1/B7-H2 and T-Regulatory Cells in Promoting Immune Dysfunction in Patients with Renal Cell Carcinoma”

Oct 5	LSU	*Jeffrey Schlom, PhD* Chief, Laboratory of Tumor Immunology & Biology National Cancer Institute-NIH		“The Development of Vaccines for Cancer Therapy”

Oct 19	Tulane	*Dominique Broccoli, PhD* Member, Medical Science Division Fox Chase Cancer Center		“Telomere Maintenance, Genome Instability and Drug Resistance in Human Cancer”

Nov 2	LSU	*Jeffrey L. Benovic, PhD* Professor and Chairman, Biochemistry & Molecular Biology Thomas Jefferson University		“Arresting Development in Receptor Signaling”

Nov 16	LSU	*Lucio Miele, MD, PhD* Professor, Pathology, Pharmacology & Experimental Therapeutics Loyola University Medical Center		“Targeting Notch Signaling in Cancer”

Dec 7	LSU	*Judith Campisi, PhD* Professor, Cell and Molecular Biology Buck Institute for Age Research		"Cancer and Aging: Rival Demons?"

Dec 8	LSU	*Meenhard Herlyn, DVM, DSc* Professor and Program Leader, Wistar Institute University of Pennsylvania Medical School		“Understanding the Biology of Melanoma for the Development of New Therapies”

Dec 14	Tulane	*Maureen Shuh, PhD* Associate Professor, Department of Biological Sciences Loyola University, New Orleans		"The Deregulation of MAPKs Activities by Human T-Cell Leukemia Virus Type 1 (HTLV-1)"

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For more information please contact:

LSU:
BJ Lovell
Phone: 504-568-2727
email: blovel@lsuhsc.edu

Tulane:
Robin Alexander-Kodim
Phone: 504-988-6061
email: rjalex@tulane.edu

Academic Coordinators for the Invited Speaker Series:

John Estrada, MD
email: jestra@lsuhsc.edu

Matthew E. Burow, Ph.D.
email: mburow@tulane.edu

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