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The Wistar Institute 2009 Lecture Series
Supported by the Wistar Institute's NCI-sponsored training program in Basic Cancer Research.
All Lectures are at 4:00 pm in the Grossman Auditorium at The Wistar Institute (36th and Spruce Streets).
Lectures are FREE and OPEN to the public.
Call 215-495-6902 for more information.

  JANUARY
 
01/21/2009
Ubiquitin Recognition & Turnover in BRCA 1 Dependent DNA Repair & Tumor Supression
Roger Greenberg, M.D., Ph.D.
Assistant Investigator, Abramson Family Cancer Research Institute
Assistant Professor, Department of Cancer Biology, University of Pennsylvania
 
01/28/2009
MYC & Chromatin:  A Paradigm for the Deregulation of Transcription Networks in Cancer
Steven B. McMahon, Ph.D.        
Associate Professor, Department of Cancer Biology
Kimmel Cancer Center
Thomas Jefferson University Hospital
 
  FEBRUARY
 
02/11/2009
Creation and Function of Neighborhoods in Eukaryotic Chromosomes
Michael Kobor, Ph.D.
Assistant Professor, Department of Medical Genetics,
University of British Columbia
Centre for Molecular Medicine & Therapeutics
 
02/18/2009
Ovarian Cancer:  A Platform for Translational Research
Michael V. Seiden, M.D., Ph.D.
President & Chief Executive Officer
Fox Chase Cancer Center
 
02/25/2009
Genome-Wide shRNA Screens Reveal New Insights into Melanoma Development & its Potential Treatment
Michael Green, M.D., Ph.D.
Professor, Program in Gene Function & Expression & Molecular Medicine
University of Massachusetts Medical Center
 
  MARCH
 
03/4/2009
Plasmacytoid Dendritic Cells:  Rare Cells With a Big Bite
Patricia Fitzgerald-Bocarsly, Ph.D.
Professor, Pathology & Lab. Medicine
UMDNJ-NJ Medical School
 
03/11/2009
Epigenetic Control of Antiviral Immunity
Alexander Tarakhovsky, M.D., Ph.D.
Professor, Laboratory of Lymphocyte Signaling
Rockefeller University, New York
 
03/25/2009
PI3 Kinase in Tumors of the Nervous System
William A. Weiss, M.D., Ph.D.
Associate Professor of Neurology, Pediatrics and Neurological Surgery
University of California – San Francisco
 
  APRIL
 

04/01/2009             
Molecular Mechanisms for Initiating DNA Replication
James Berger, Ph.D.
Professor of Biochemistry & Molecular Biology
University of California-Berkley

 

04/15/2009          
The Boundaries of Silenced Chromatin
Rohinton Kamakaka, Ph.D.
Associate Professor of MCD Biology
University of California – Santa Cruz

 

04/29/2009          
Of Mice & Children: Modeling Pediatric Brain Tumors
Tom Curran, Ph.D., FRS.
Deputy Scientific Director
Children’s Hospital of Philadelphia

 
  MAY
 

05/06/2009             
Mechanisms of Immune Dysfunction in Cancer
Peter P. Lee, M.D.
Associate Professor of Medicine
Stanford University Medical Center

 

05/13/2009          
Regulation of Chromatin Structure by Small and Large Non-Coding RNA’s
Danesh Moazed, M.D.
Department of Cell Biology, Harvard Medical School

 
  JUNE
 

Jonathan Lax Memorial Lecture  
06/17/2009
Deconstructing the immune response to HIV: the good, the bad, and the ugly
Guido Silvestri, M.D.
Associate Professor of Pathology and Laboratory Medicine
Director of Clinical Virology
University of Pennsylvania School of Medicine

 
 
 
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