SOM Seminar Series
School of Medicine Seminar Series
Speaker List for 2009 - 2010
September 22, 2009
Carolyn Bertozzi, Ph.D.
Director, The Molecular Foundry
Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory and T.Z. and Irmgard
Chu Distinguished Professor, Departments of Chemistry and
Molecular and Cell Biology, Howard Hughes Medical Institute
"Imaging the Glycome"
Host: Chris Hill, Biochemistry
October 13, 2009
Mark Ginsberg, M.D.
Distinquished Professor
Department of Medicine, Division of Rheumatology
University of California, San Diego
"Rapping Up Cell Adhesion"
Host: Dean Li, Internal Medicine
October 27, 2009
Jared P. Rutter, Ph.D.
Associate Professor of Biochemistry
University of Utah
"Nutrient Sensing and Signaling and a Foray Into Mitochondrial Disease"
Host: Chris Hill, Biochemistry
November 10, 2009
Richard Palmiter, Ph.D.
Professor of Biochemistry
Howard Hughes Medical Institute
University of Washington
"Role of AgRP Neurons in Feeding Behavior"
Host: Sharif Taha, Physiology
December 8, 2009
Lynn Jorde, Ph.D.
Professor, Department Human Genetics
University of Utah
"Mobile DNA Elements in Health and Disease"
Host: Chris Hill, Biochemistry
January 12, 2010
Timothy J. Ley, M.D.
Apple Professor of Medicine
Professor of Genetics
Washington University Medical School
"The AML Genome"
Host: Anne Moon, Pediatrics
January 26, 2010
Patrick O. Brown, M.D., Ph.D.
Department of Biochemistry
Stanford University
"TBA"
Host: Ila Singh, Pathology
February 9, 2010
Kenneth R. Chien, M.D., Ph.D.
Director of MGH Cardiovascular Research Center
Professor of Medicine
Massachusetts General Hospital
Harvard Medical School
"How to Make a Heart: Towards Regenerative Cardiovascular Medicine"
Host: Anne Moon, Pediatrics
February 23, 2010
Bruce M. Spiegelman, Ph.D.
Stanley J. Korsmeyer Professor
Cell Biology and Medicine
Dana-Farber Cancer Institute
Harvard Medical School
"Transcriptional Control of Adipogenesis and Energy Homeostasis"
Host: Dale Abel, Internal Medicine
March 9, 2010
Anthony Wynshaw-Boris, M.D., Ph.D
Charles J. Epstein Professor
Human Genetics and Pediatrics
Chief of Pediatric Genetics
UCSF School of Medicine
"TBA"
Host: Luca Brunelli, Pediatrics
March 23, 2010
Harmit Singh Malik, Ph.D.
Associate Member
Basic Sciences and Early Career Scientists
HHMI
Fred Hutchinson Cancer Research Center
"Host-Virus Molecular Arms Races in Primate Genomes"
Host: Charlie Murtaugh, Human Genetics
March 30, 2010
Bonnie Bassler, Ph.D
HHMI Investigator
Squibb Professor in Molecular Biology
Princeton University
"Manipulating Quorum Sensing to Control Bacterial Pathogenicity"
Host: Mark Fisher, Pathology
April 6, 2010
30 Years After RFLP Symposium
Speakers: Botstein, White, Skolnick and Davis
Host: Jerry Kaplan, Pathology
HCI Auditorium
April 13, 2010
Paul S. Frenette, M.D.
Fishberg Professor of Medicine
Mount Sinai School of Medicine
"The Hematopoietic Stem Cell Niche"
Host: Joe Prchal, Hematology
April 27, 2010
Adolfo Ferrando, M.D., Ph.D.
Institute for Cancer Genetics
Columbia University Medical Center
"Oncogenic Programs in T-Cell Acute Lymphoblastic Leukemia"
Host: Nikolaus Trede, Pediatrics
May 11, 2010
Leroy Hood, M.D., Ph.D.
President / Professor
Institute for Systems Biology
"Systems Biology, Systems Medicine, Transforming Technologies and the
Emergence of P4 Medicine (Predictive, Personalized, Preventive and Participatory)"
Host: Wayne Potts, Biology
May 25, 2010
Robert Tijian, Ph.D.
President, HHMI
Professor of Molecular & Cellular Biology
U.C. Berkeley
Howard Hughes Medical Institute
"Tracking Transcriptional Mechanisms that Control Differentiation and
Stem Cell Pluripotency"
Host: Carl Thummel & Suzi Mansour, Human Genetics
