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TUESDAY, OCTOBER 14 and WEDNESDAY, OCTOBER 15:
Michigan Metabolomics and Obesity Symposium
Sponsored by the Michigan Metabolomics and Obesity Center (MMOC)
Tuesday, October 14: 4:00 - 5:00 PM, Forum Hall, Palmer Commons
Keynote Speaker: Eric E. Schadt, Ph.D., Executive Scientific Director, Genetics @ Rosetta Inpharmatics LLC
“Gene Networks Reflecting Tissue-Tissue Interactions Highlight Novel Causal Patterns of Association with Disease”
Wednesday, October 15: 8:00 AM - 4:00 PM, Forum Hall, Palmer Commons
(Continental Breakfast at 7:30 AM)
This event will feature speakers from the University of Michigan community as well as others who will address research on metabolism, metabolomics and obesity. Sessions include: short presentations, poster session, and Q & A session.
For more information, visit (http://www.med.umich.edu/mmoc/events).
THURSDAY, OCTOBER 16 and FRIDAY, OCTOBER 17:
2:00-5:30 PM, Alumni Center Founders Room, 200 Fletcher Street
Sex, Gender, and Drug Abuse
with a round table discussion on Friday October 17, 9:00 AM - 12:00 PM
Speakers:
Jill Becker, Ph.D., University of Michigan
Wendy Bostwick, Ph.D., Adler School of Professional Psychology
Tonda Hughes, PhD, MSN, FAAN, University of Illinois at Chicago
Rajita Sinha, Ph.D., Yale University
Sharon C. Wilsnack, Ph.D., University of North Dakota
Co-sponsored by the UM Substance Abuse Research Center (UMSARC) and the Institute for Research on Women and Gender (IRWG). Please contact Jacqui Hinchey at 734-998-6500 or (jhinchey@umich.edu) for more information.
FRIDAY, OCTOBER 17:
8:00 AM-5:00 PM Forum Hall, Palmer Commons
Department of Pediatrics and Communicable Diseases
Developmental Origins of Health and Disease Symposium
Speakers:
Keith Latham, Ph.D., Temple University
"Genetic and Epigenetic Control of Oocyte Quality and Early Development"
Shuk-Mei Ho, University of Cincinnati
"Epigenetic Programming of Disease Outcome- a Two-Step Model."
Claudine Junien, Hôpital Necker - Enfants Malades, France
"Nutritional Epigenetic Programming of Metabolic Syndrome in the Placenta"
Atul Singhal, MRC-Childhood Nutrition Research Centre, UK
"Early Nutrition and Long-term Cardiovascular Health"
Douglas M. Ruden, Wayne State University
"The EDGE Hypothesis: Epigenetic Directed Genetic Errors in Evolution are Induced by Neuroendocrine Signaling and Obesity"
Stephen J. Suomi, NICHD
"Risk, Resilience and Gene X Environment Interactions in Primates"
Michael Meaney, McGill University, Canada
"Maternal Programming of Life History Strategies of Female Offspring"
http://sitemaker.umich.edu/pediatric.endo/program_schedule
12:00-5:00 PM, BSRB Auditorium
The Molecular and Cellular Pathology Ph.D. Program presents the 7th Annual Pathology Research Symposium. Talks begin at noon in the BSRB Auditorium. A poster session and reception with light refreshments will be held in the BSRB seminar rooms from 1:30-2:30 PM. Talks will resume following the poster session.
4:00 PM in the BSRB Auditorium: Keynote Speaker William L. Farrar, Ph.D., Head, Cancer Stem Cell Section, Senior Investigator, Laboratory of Cancer Prevention, Center for Cancer Research, NCI-Frederick
“The Role of Interleukin 6 in Cancer and Epigenetic Gene Silencing”
Department of Pathology, University of Michigan Speakers include:
Ulysses G. J. Balis, M.D., Associate Professor and Director, Clinical Informatics and Co-Director, Division of Pathology Informatics
Stephen W. Chensue, M.D., Ph.D., Professor of Pathology
Arul M. Chinnaiyan, M.D., Ph.D., S.P. Hicks Professor of Pathology and Professor of Pathology and Urology, Director, Research Informatics
David A. Ferguson, M.D., Ph.D., Assistant Professor of Pathology
Stephanie Jo, Doctoral Candidate in Molecular and Cellular Pathology / MSTP
David B. Lombard, M.D., Ph.D., Assistant Professor of Pathology
Elizabeth Townsend, Doctoral Candidate in Molecular and Cellular Pathology
For more information, contact (lauralh@umich.edu) or visit (http://www.pathology.med.umich.edu/gradprogram/events.html).
THURSDAY, NOVEMBER 6:
1:00-4:00 PM, TBA
Center for Integrative Approaches to Health Disparities
Genetics Symposium: Genetics and Health Disparities - Opportunities and Challenges
The symposium will bring together three leading researchers in the field to discuss genetics and genetics research as they apply to the study and elimination of health disparities.
Speakers:
Dr. Eric Boerwinkle, University of Texas Health Sciences Center
Dr. Lundy Braun, Brown University
Dr. Vivian Ota Wang, NIH
Please RSVP to (ciahdadmin@umich.edu).
Website
For questions, please contact Amanda Dudley at 734-763-5974.
TUESDAY, NOVEMBER 11:
12:00-1:00 PM, North Lecture Hall (NLH), Med. Sci. II
William E.M. Lands Lectureship
Sponsored by the Department of Biological Chemistry
The William E.M. Lands Lecturer is Christopher J. Frederickson, Ph.D. Adjunct Professor, Department of Preventive Medicine and Community Health, the University of Texas Medical Branch, Galveston, TX and co-founder of NeuroBioTex, a company devoted to basic research and to the development of research, diagnostic and therapeutic products pertaining to zinc.
"Zinc Secreting Cells: What Cells Are Listening To These Zinc Signals?"
WEDNESDAY, NOVEMBER 12:
8:30 AM-6:00 PM, Biomedical Science Research Building (BSRB) Auditorium
Fifth Annual Biomedical Research Symposium - "Image-Guided Therapy"
Sponsored by the Medical School Office of Research and Biomedical Engineering at the University of Michigan.
Abstract Deadline: October 17, 2008 (Extended from October 9, 2008)
Registration Deadline: October 22, 2008
To register and submit an abstract, visit the website.
Contact Kathryn Ridner at (kridner@umich.edu) or 734-763-4086 with questions.
WEDNESDAY, NOVEMBER 19:
9:00 AM-5:00 PM, BSRB Seminar Rooms A,B,C
Microbiology and Immunology Special Symposium
"Microbial Interactions at Mucosal Surfaces"
Speakers:
Lora Hooper, Ph.D., Southwestern University
"Innate Immune Defense of the Gut Epithelial Surface"
Nicholas Mantis, Ph.D., Wadsworth Center, New York Department of Health
"Disarming Microbial Pathogens and Toxins at Mucosal Surfaces"
Linda Saif, Ph.D., Ohio State University
Title TBA
Kim Barrett, Ph.D., University of California, San Diego
"The GI Epithelium: Peacekeeper Between Opposing Forces, Collaborator with Friendly Commensals"
Cathryn Nagler Ph.D., Harvard University
"The Enterohepatic Microenvironment Modulates Immune Responses to Vaccination"
Hank Seifert, Ph.D., Northwestern University
"Dancing with the Devil: Neisseria Gonorrhoeae Controls Interactions with Human PMNs"
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