The Benning Medical Society Lectures
The endowment also establishes the prestigious H. A. and Edna Benning Medical Society. The group includes each of the Benning chair holders and sponsors a lecture or symposium series held at the university focusing on leading-edge medicine. The lectures are currently held on Tuesdays at 4:00 p.m. at the Eccles Institute of Human Genetics Auditorium, 15 North 2030 East, 1st Floor.
2013 Symposium
TBA
Benning Society Lecture Series 2012-2013
All lectures are held in the Eccles Institute of Human Genetics Auditorium unless otherwise noted.
School of Medicine Seminar Series 2012-2013
September 25, 2012
Bioscience Symposium
Don Summers Memorial Lecture
7:00 pm, Marriott University Park Hotel
Hopi E. Hoekstra, PhD
Alexander Agassiz Professor, Zoology
Department of Organismic and Evolutionary Biology
Harvard University
"The Genetics of Adaptation: From Mice to Molecules to Mutations"
Host: Nels Elde, Human Genetics
October 9, 2012
Kevin Struhl, PhD
David Wesley Gaiser Professor
Department of Biological Chemistry and Molecular Pharmacology
Harvard Medical School
"Transcriptional Mechanisms and an Epigenetic Switch Linking Inflammation and Cancer"
Host: Charles Murtaugh, Human Genetics
October 23, 2012
Hugh Rosen, MB, ChB, D.Phil
Professor, Chemical Physiology and Immunology
The Scripps Research Institute
"From R01 to Phase II: Academic Adventures in Sphingosine 1-phosphate Receptor Therapeutics"
Host: Dean Li, Molecular Medicine
November 13, 2012
Michael S. Kay, MD PhD
Associate Professor, Biochemistry
School of Medicine
University of Utah
"D-peptide Inhibitors of HIV-1 Entry"
Host: Janet Shaw, Biochemistry
November 27, 2012
Andrea Ballabio, MD
Professor of Medical Genetics
Director Tigem
Telethon Institute of Genetics and Medicine
"Signals from Lysosomes"
Host: Diane McVey Ward, Pathology
December 18, 2012
Gigi Lozano, PhD
Professor and Chair
Department of Genetics
University of Texas
MD Anderson Cancer Center
"The p53 Pathway in Development and Tumorigenesis"
Host: Trudy Oliver, Oncological Sciences
January 8, 2013
Melissa Moore, PhD
Eleanor Eustis Farrington Chair of Cancer Research
Co-Director, RNA and Neuro Therapeutics Institute
HHMI Investigator Professor, Department of Biochemistry and Molecular Pharmacology
University of Massachusetts Medical School
"The Spliceosome and Beyond: Adventures in megaRNP Land"
Host: Mark Metzstein, Human Genetics
January 22, 2013
Titia de Langem, PhD
Leon Hess Professor
ACS Professor, Director
Anderson Center for Cancer Research
Head, Laboratory of Cell Biology and Genetics
The Rockerfeller University
"How Telomeres Solve the End Protection Problem."
Host: Dana Carroll, Biochemistry
February 12, 2013
Jeffrey Noebels. MD, PhD
Professor of Neuorolgy, Neuroscience, Molecular and Human Genetics
Baylor College of Medicine
"The Expanding Epilepsy Genome"
Host: Ed Dudek, Physiology
February 26, 2013
David Scadden, MD
Professor of Medicine
Harvard University
"TBA"
Host: Ryan O'Connell, Pathology
March 12, 2013
Frank McCormick, PhD, FRS
David A. Wood Distinguished Professorship
Tumor Biology and Cancer Research
University of California San Francisco
"TBA"
Host: Sheri Holmen, Surgery
March 26, 2013
Eric Shoubridge, PhD
Professor, Department of Molecular Neurogenetics
McGill University
"TBA"
Host: Dennis Winge, Biochemistry
April 9, 2013
Gerard Karsenty, MD, PhD
Professor and Chairman
Columbia University Medical Center
"The Novel Endocrinology of Bone"
Host: Dale Able, Medicine
April 16, 2013
2:00 PM
F. Ulrich Hartl, MD
Professor, Doctor
Max Planck Institute for Biochemistry
"Molecular Chaperone Functions in Protein Folding and Proteostasis"
Host: Janet Shaw, Biochemistry
April 23, 2013
Didier Y.R. Stainier, PhD
Professor, Department of Biochemistry and Biophysics
Max Plank Institute for Heart and Lung Research
Department of Developmental Genetics
University of California San Francisco
"Curing Diabetes One Fish at a Time: The Long Road of Translational Research"
Host: Ammon Schlegel, Internal Medicine
May 14, 2013
Gary Ruvkun, PhD
Professor, Department of Genetics
Harvard Medical School
"The Tiny RNA Pathways of C. Elegans"
Host: Gillian Stanfield, Human Genetics
May 28, 2013
David Sabatini, PhD
Member, Whitehead Institute
Associate Professor of Biology, MIT
HHMI Investigator
Senoir Associate Member, Broad Institute
Member, David H. Koch Institute for Integrative Cancer Research
"Regulation of Growth and Metabolism"
Host: Jared Rutter, Biochemistry
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