H. A. and Edna Benning Presidential Endowment

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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