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 2007 and Winter 2008

All seminars are held in room BSRB Seminar Room and begin at 3:30pm
unless otherwise noted.

Date & Host	Speaker's Name/Affiliation	Seminar Title
09/13/07 Barald	Larry S. Sherman, Ph.D. Senior Scientist, Division of Neuroscience, Oregon National Primate Research Center, Associate Professor of Cell & Developmental Biology, Oregon Health and Science University, Beaverton, OR	“Hyaluronan Inhibits Neural Stem/Progenitor Cell Differentiation: A Novel Target for the Treatment of Neurodegeneration”
09/27/07 Hammer	David Crews, Ph.D. Ashbel Smith Professor of Zoology and Psychology, Section of Integrative Biology, University of Texas @ Austin Austin, TX	“Temperature-Dependent Sex Determination”
10/25/07 Krull	Lorene Lanier, Ph.D. Assistant Professor, Department of Neuroscience, University of Minnesota, Minneapolis, MN	"The Arp2/3 Actin Binding Complex Regulates Actin Dynamics from Neurite Initiation to Spinogenesis"
11/08/07 Wellik	Doris Herzlinger, Ph.D., Associate Professor and Graduate Program Director, Department of Physiology, Biophysics and Systems Biology, Weill Medical College of Cornell University, New York, NY	“Signaling Pathways Mediating Urinary Tract Segmentation”
11/29/07	Laurie McCauley, Professor and Chair, Perio	“Mechanisms of Parathyroid Hormone Action in Skeletal Regenerative Biology”
12/06/07 Krull	Bruce Appel, Ph.D., Associate Professor Biological Sciences, Vanderbilt University	“Glial Development and Myelination in Zebrafish”
01/10/08 Dempsey	Matthias Hebrok, Ph.D., Associate Professor, Hurlbut-Johnson Endowed Chair in Diabetes Research, Department of Medicine, University of California @ San Francisco	“Hedgehog & Wnt Signaling in Pancreas Development and Cancer”
01/24/08 K. Guan	Yue Xiong, Ph.D., Professor, Department of Biochemistry and Biophysics, Lineberger Cancer Center, University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill	“Control of Stem and Progenitor Cell Cycle”
02/07/08 Dressler	Iain Drummond, Ph.D., Associate Professor, Department of Medicine, Harvard Medical School and Nephrology Division, Massachusetts General Hospital	“The Odd Skipped Related1 Transcription Factor Acts as a Switch Between Kidney and Vascular Cell Fates”
02/21/08 Zhu	Richard J. Gilbertson, MD, Ph.D., Associate Member, St. Jude Faculty, Director, Molecular Clinical Trials, Core Co-Leader, Neurobiology & Brain Tumor Program, Departments of Developmental Neurobiology and Oncology, St. Jude Children’s Research Hospital, Memphis, TN	“Where Do Brain Tumors Come From?”
03/06/08 Robins	Nathaniel Heintz, Ph.D., James & Marilyn Simons Professor and Investigator, HHMI, The Rockefeller University	“Addressing Brain Complexity”
03/20/08 Wellik	Raphael Kopan, Ph.D., Professor, Department of Molecular Biology and Pharmacology and Department of Medicine (Division of Dermatology), Washington University, St. Louis, MO	“Neighborhood Matters: How Context Impact Notch Deficient Cells and Other Stories”
04/03/08 Dressler	Louis Reichardt, Ph.D., Jack D. and DeLoris Lange Professor of Cell Physiology, Comprehensive Cancer Center, University of California @ San Francisco	"Studies on Roles of Integrins and Integrin-Associated Proteins in Organogenesis"
04/17/08 Robins	Donald B. DeFranco, Professor & Program Director, Department of Pharmacology	“Hic-5, A Stromal Specific Transcriptional Coactivator that Functions in Androgen and TGF-Beta Signaling in Prostate”
05/01/08 Krull	Zena Werb, Ph.D., Professor and Vice-Chair, Department of Anatomy, University of California @ San Francisco	“Tube or not Tube: Molecular Regulation Mammary Epithelial Morphogenesis in vivo and in Organotypic Culture”

 

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