Seminar Schedule
A seminar series entitled "Topics in Organogenesis" offers lectures by University of Michigan faculty and invited speakers from outside of the University. All lectures are held on Thursdays at 3:30pm in BSRB seminar room unless otherwise noted. All outside speakers are guests of the Center for Organogenesis. The Center is also actively involved in co-sponsoring invited speakers with various departments within the University.
Fellowship awardees are required to attend this series. Attendance of other students and trainees is strongly encouraged because these seminars expose them to new directions of thought and, new research opportunities that they might not otherwise have encountered within the confines of their own training programs.
CFO Seminar Series - Fall 2008 and Winter 2009
All seminars are held in room BSRB Seminar Room and begin at 4:00pm unless otherwise noted.
| Date & Host | Speaker's Name/Affiliation | Seminar Title |
|---|---|---|
| 10/30/08 Robins |
Gail S. Prins, Ph.D. Professor of Physiology Department of Urology and Physiology & Biophysics University of IL @ Chicago | "Molecular Signaling Pathways that Regulate Prostate Gland Development " |
| 11/06/08 Hitchcock |
Michael A. Dyer, Ph.D. Assistant Member Dept. of Developmental Neurobiology St. Jude Children’s Research Hospital Affiliated Assistant Professor, Dept. of Anatomy & Neurobiology University of TN College of Medicine | “The Role of the Rb Family in Retinal Development and Retinoblastoma ” |
12/04/08 |
Lothar Hennighausen, Ph.D. Chief, Biology of the Mammary Gland Section, Chief, Laboratory of Genetics and Physiology NIDDK, National Institutes of Health Bethesda, MD | "The Cytokine-STAT Communication Network: From Mammary Development to Hematopoiesis" |
| 12/11/08 Alex Kim |
Aaron M. Zorn, Ph.D. Assistant Professor Division of Developmental Biology Cincinnati Children’s Hospital Medical Center Cincinnati, OH | "Regulation of Wnt/beta-catenin signaling by Sox proteins" |
| 1/15/09 |
Yuji Mishina, Ph.D., Associate Professor of Biologic and Materials Sciences, School of Dentistry | "Functional Analyses of Bone Morphogenetic Protein (BMP) Signaling During Bone Development and Remodeling" |
| 01/29/09 Padmanabhan |
Blanche Capel, Ph.D. Associate Professor Department of Cell Biology Duke University Medical Center Durham, NC | "The Battle of the Sexes: Patterning the Gonad" |
| 2/5/09 | Brian Pierchala, Ph.D., Biologic & Materials Sciences, UM School of Dentistry | To Be Announced |
| 02/19/09 O'Shea |
Radwan Abu-Issa, Ph.D. Assistant Professor University of Michigan-Dearborn Department of Natural Sciences | "Heart Tube Morphogenesis in Amniotes" |
| 03/19/09 Dressler |
To Be Announced | |
| 3/26/09 | Vesa M. Kaartinen, Ph.D., Biologic & Materials Sciences, UM School of Dentistry | To Be Announced |
| 04/16/09 Wellik |
Karen Lyons, Dept. of Molecular, Cell and Developmental Biology UCLA | |
| 04/23/09 Robins |
Simon W. Hayward, Ph.D. Associate Professor of Urologic Surgery and Cancer Biology Vanderbilt University Medical Center Nashville, TN |