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Week of May 21 - 25, 2012:

 

MONDAY, MAY 21:

12:00 - 1:00 PM, CVC Danto Auditorium (Rm 2314)
Frontiers in Cardiovascular Science Seminar Series
Bin Zhang, Ph.D., Assistant Staff, Lerner Research Institute, Genomic Medicine Institute
“ER-to-Golgi Transport in Hemostasis and Carcinogenesis”

 

TUESDAY, MAY 22:

3:00 - 4:00 PM, West Lecture Hall, Medical Science II
2012 Biological Chemistry Distinguished Graduate Lecture
Martin E. Hemler, Ph.D., Professor, Department of Pathology, Harvard Medical School; Professor, Cancer Immunology/AIDS, Dana Farber Cancer Institute
"Roles of Palmitoylation, Diffusion, and Tetraspanin Association During Integrin-Dependent Carcinogenesis"

 

WEDNESDAY, MAY 23:

10:00 AM - 12:00 PM, Forum Hall, Palmer Commons
NIH Update and Tips on Working with NIH
Rebecca Claycamp, Chief Grants Management Officer, NIH's National Institute of Mental Health
With her 19 years of experience working with University Research Administration, she has a unique perspective and will give us some "mythbusters."


10:00 AM - 1:00 PM, Biomedical Science Research Building (BSRB)
The 9th Annual Gilman and Barbour Lecture: “Maps of the RNA World”
10:00 AM – Kahn Auditorium, BSRB – Neurology Training Grant Symposium
11:00 AM – Kahn Auditorium, BSRB – Lecture, Robert B. Darnell, M.D., Ph.D.
12:00 AM – BSRB Seminar Rooms A-C – Lunch
Robert B. Darnell, M.D., Ph.D., Robert and Harriet Heilbrunn Professor of Cancer Biology at Rockefeller University; Director for Science Programs at the Center for Clinical and Translational Research at Rockefeller University; Senior Physician at Rockefeller University; Attending Neurologist at the Memorial Sloan-Kettering Cancer Center; Investigator with the Howard Hughes Medical Institute


12:00 - 1:00 PM, 5330 Medical Science I Bldg (John Jacob Abel Lecture Hall)
Graduate Program in Immunology Seminar Series,
James R. Baker, Jr., M.D., Ruth Dow Doan Professor; Chief, Division of Allergy and Immunology, Department of Internal Medicine; Director, Michigan Nanotechnology Institute for Medicine and Biological Sciences, University of Michigan
"Unique Adjuvants and Mechanisms of Action"
http://www.med.umich.edu/immprog/seminars/


5:00 - 6:00 PM, 6th Floor KEC Conference Room, Kellogg Eye Center
Department of Ophthalmology and Visual Sciences Vision Seminar Research Series
Dongli Yang, M.D., Ph.D., Research Investigator, Ophthalmology and Visual Sciences, Kellogg Eye Center, University of Michigan
"P2X7 Receptor-Mediated Apoptosis in Human RPE Cells: Implications for AMD"
http://www.kellogg.umich.edu/bios/yang.html

 

WEDNESDAY, MAY 23 - THURSDAY, MAY 24:

Wednesday, May 23:  4:00 - 6:30 PM – Pre-Conference Reception & Poster Session
Thursday, May 24: 8:00 AM - 3:30 PM – Full-Day Conference
North Campus Research Complex (NCRC), Building 18, Dining Hall
MICHR’s Implementation Science Conference – “Implementation Science: Moving Forward”
Speakers include:
Jeremy Grimshaw, MBChB, PhD, FRCGP, Senior Scientist, Clinical Epidemiology Program, Ottawa Hospital Research Institute; Professor, Department of Medicine, University of Ottawa; Director, Cochrane Canada; and Canada Research Chair in Health Knowledge Transfer and Uptake
Keynote Address: “Issues in Implementation Science”
Carolyn Clancy, MD, Director of Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality (AHRQ); Clinical Associate Professor, George Washington University School of Medicine; Senior Associate Editor, Health Sciences Research Journal; and Member of the Institute of Medicine (IOM)
“Training the Next Generation of Implementation Scientists”
Register for this conference.

 

THURSDAY, MAY 24:

8:45 AM - 5:00 PM, Kahn Auditorium, Biomedical Science Research Building, 109 Zina Pitcher Place
11th Annual LSI Symposium – Diseases and Development of the Nervous System
Sponsored by the UM Life Sciences Institute
This event is free and open to the public.
View complete information at:
http://www.lsi.umich.edu/newsevents/events


12:00 - 1:00 PM, the John Jacob Abel Lecture Hall, Room 5330, Med Sci I
Department of Microbiology and Immunology Seminar Series
Ramesh Akkina, D.V.M., Ph.D., Professor, Department of Microbiology, Immunology and Pathology, College of Veterinary Medicine & Biomedical Sciences, Colorado State University
"Modeling Novel Therapeutic and Prevention Strategies for HIV/AIDS in Humanized Mice"


12:00 - 1:00 PM, 6th Floor KEC Conference Room, Kellogg Eye Center
Department of Ophthalmology and Visual Sciences Vision Seminar Research Series
Michael S. Berlin, M.D., Professor of Ophthalmology, Jules Stein Eye Institute, UCLA, Director, Glaucoma Institute-Beverly Hills
"Lasers in Glaucoma: Evolution and Revolution"
http://www.glaucoma-institute.com/about_us.asp

 

FRIDAY, MAY 25:

3:00 - 4:00 PM, Brehm Tower, 5th Floor, The Cure Room, Room #5050, 1000 Wall Street
Department of Internal Medicine/Metabolism, Endocrinology & Diabetes (MEND) Research Conference
Rohit N. Kulkarni, M.D., Ph.D., Associate Professor of Medicine, Harvard Medical School; Investigator, Joslin Diabetes Center
“Growth Factor Signaling in the Pancreatic Islets”

 

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