Previous MCS Seminars
Seminar Committee Chair - Barbara Vertel, Ph.D. Phone: (847) 578-3443
The MCS Seminars bring in a series of distinguished scientists from all biomedical fields, including several Nobel Laureates. All students and faculty in the SGPS participate in these activities.
The MCS Seminar Program is supported in part by Abbott Laboratories Unless otherwise noted, seminars are at 3:30 p.m. in the Faculty Lounge (room 1.120).
Wednesday, September 10, 2008 Dr. Gordon Hager, National Cancer Institute, NIH, "Interaction of Nuclear Receptors with the Chromatin Landscape"
Wednesday, October 22, 2008, Dr. Clemens Scherzer, Co-Director, Harvard NeuroDiscovery Biomarker Program "Parkinson's Disease and the Transcriptional Regulation of Alpha Synuclein" This seminar will be held in the Cellular and Molecular Pharmacology Conference Room, 2.125
Wednesday, December 3, 2008, Dr. Michael D. Ehlers, Professor and Wakeman Scholar, Howard Hughes Medical Institute, Department of Neurobiology, Duke: "Memory and Membrane Dynamics in Dendritic Microdomains"
Wednesday, January 14, 2009, Dr. Carl C. Correll, Associate Professor, Biochemistry and Molecular Biology, Rosalind Franklin University of Medicine and Science, " RNA Chaperone Activity in Ribosome Biogenesis"
Wednesday, February 11, 2009, Dr. Bala Chandran, Professor and Chair, Department of Microbiology and Immunology, Rosalind Franklin University of Medicine and Science, "Kaposi's Sarcoma Associated Herpesvirus Interactions with Integrins - Gateway for Host Signaling for Successful Infection"
Wednesday, April 8, 2009, Dr. Yuri Lazebnik, Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory, GIN, CIN and Cell Promiscuity: Can Viruses Contribute to Cancer by Fusing Cells?
Wednesday, May 13, 2009, Third Annual Werner Straus Memorial Seminar Dr. Benjamin Glick, Professor, Department of Molecular Genetics and Cell Biology, University of Chicago "Where Do Little Golgi Stacks Come From?"
Wednesday, September 12, 2007 Second Werner Straus Memorial Seminar Dr. Tom Misteli, Senior Investigator, Cell Biology of Genomes Group, National Cancer Institute, NIH The surprising link between nuclear architecture and human aging Wednesday, October 10, 2007 Dr. John Schiller, Senior Investigator, National Cancer Institute, NIH Papillomavirus L2: Multifunctional Virion Protein and 2nd Generation Vaccine Target Wednesday, December 12, 2007 Dr. Philip Thomas, Professor of Physiology, University of Texas Southwestern Medical School, Dallas Protein misfolding as a basis of human disease Wednesday, January 9, 2008 Dr. Kevin Foskett, Professor of Physiology, University of Pennsylvania School of Medicine Calcium signaling in apoptosis and Alzheimer's disease: Two sides of the same coin? Wednesday, March 12, 2008 Dr. Joseph Gall, Staff Member, Department of Embryology, Carnegie Institution of Washington The cell biology of snRNP biogenesis Wednesday, April 9, 2008 Dr. Mary Jeanne Kreek, Professor, Rockefeller University, NY Opioids and the Addictions Wednesday, May 14, 2008 Dr. Glen Andrews, Professor, Department of Biochemistry and Molecular Biology, University of Kansas Medical Center
Wednesday, October 11, 2006 First Werner Straus Memorial Seminar Dr. Bernhard Dobberstein, Professor of Molecular Biology, ZMBH, Univ. of Heidelberg Signal sequences: More than just greasy peptides Wednesday, November 8, 2006 Dr. Roberta Brinton, Professor of Pharmacology and Pharmaceutical Sciences, Univ. of Southern California Estrogen action in brain: Translating basic science discovery into therapeutic reality for the brain Wednesday, December 13, 2006 Dr. Petra Arck, Professor, Charité, Campus Virchow Klinikum, Berlin Endocrine-Immune Circuitry Challenging Pregnancy Maintenance and Fetal Health Wednesday, January 10, 2007 Dr. Robert J. Wenthold, Senior Investigator, NIDCD/NIH Trafficking of NMDA Receptors Wednesday, February 28, 2007 Dr. Greg Matera, Professor of Genetics, Case Western Reserve University Drosophila Models of Spinal Muscular Atrophy and Ribonucleoprotein (RNP) Biogenesis Wednesday, May 9, 2007 Dr. Tom Steitz, Sterling Professor of Molecular Biophysics and Biochemistry, Yale University Macromolecular Machines
Wednesday, October 12, 2005 Dr. Margaret Fahnestock, Dept. of Psychiatry & Behavioral Neurosciences, McMaster University ProNGF and ProBDNF in Neuroprotection and Neurodegeneration Monday, November 7, 2005 Dr. Hideaki Nagase, Imperial College London, United Kingdom Metalloproteinases and Osteoarthritis: Understanding the role of non-catalytic domains in cartilage matrix degradation Monday, November 21, 2005 Werner Straus Memorial Symposium The Cell Biology of Renal Epithelium and Tubules, 1:00 - 3:30 p.m. Wednesday, December 14, 2005 Dr. Robert Campenot, Dept of Cell Biology, University of Alberta Retrograde signaling by NGF without retrograde transport and other insights from work with compartmented cultures of sympathetic neurons Wednesday, January 11, 2006 Dr. David Kaplan, Dept. of Molec. & Medical Genetics, University of Toronto Signal transduction by neurotrophins in neurons and neural tumor cells Wednesday, February 8, 2006 Dr. Brian Wilkinson, Dept. of Microbiology, Illinois State University The Staphylococcus aureus cell wall stress stimulon: implications in antimicrobial action, resistance, and drug discovery Wednesday, March 8, 2006 Dr. Linda Pike, Dept. of Biochemistry & Molecular Biophysics, Washington University Lipid rafts and the regulation of EGF receptor function Wednesday, April 5, 2006 Dr. John F. Marshall, Dept. of Neurobiology & Behavior, UC-Irvine Neural circuits and molecular mechanisms underlying cocaine memories Wednesday, May 10, 2006 Dr. Michael Levine, Dept. of Psychiatry, UCLA Mouse models of Huntington's and Parkinson's diseases: What have we learned from electrophysiology? Wednesday. May 17, 2006 Dr. Ann M. Graybiel, Dept. of Brain and Cognitive Sciences, Massachusetts Institute of Technology The basal ganglia and cognitive pattern generators
Wednesday, September 29, 2004 Dr. Mary Hendrix, President & Scientific Director, Children's Memorial Institute for Educat & Research Professor, Dept of Pediatrics, Northwestern University School of Medicine Plasticity of Aggressive Tumor Cells: Role of the Microenvironment Wednesday, November 17, 2004 Dr. Virginia Sanders, Professor, Molecular Virology, Immunology, & Medical Genetics, Ohio State University It Takes Nerve to Tell a B Cell what to Do Wednesday, December 8, 2004 Dr. Richard Silverman, John Evans Professor of Chemistry, Northwestern University Mechanism and Inhibition of Nitric Oxide Synthase. Potential Treatment for Neurodegeneration Wednesday, January 19, 2005 Dr. J. Paul Bolam, MRC Anatomic Neuropharmacology Unit, Oxford University, England The Functional Organization of the Basal Ganglia Wednesday, February 9, 2005 Dr. John Guzowski, Assistant Professor, Dept. of Neurosciences, University of New Mexico FISHing for Memories: Genes, Cell Networks, & Behavior Wednesday, March 9, 2005 Dr. Deborah Nelson, Neurobiology, Pharmacology & Physiology, University of Chicago Modulation of Hippocampal Synaptic Function by the Chloride Channel ClC-3 Wednesday, April 13, 2005 Dr. Anthony Grace, Professor, Dept of Neuroscience, University of Pittsburgh Interactions between Prefrontal Cortex and Amygdala: Relevance to the Pathophysiology of Schizophrenia
Wednesday, September 10, 2003 Dr. Eric Nestler, University of Texas Southwestern Medical Center Molecular Mechanisms of Drug Addiction Wednesday, October 1, 2003 Dr. Martin Friedlander, Scripps Research Institute & Clinic Stemming Vision Loss with Stem Cells: Adult Bone Marrow Derived Stem Cells have Vasculo- and Neurotrophic Effects in the Eye Wednesday, November 12, 2003 Dr. Anne B. Croy, University of Guelph Contributions of Lymphocytes to Preparation for Pregnancy Wednesday, January 14, 2004 Dr. Jack Kessler, Northwestern University Wednesday, February 11, 2004 Dr. Michael Sarras, FUHS/CMS The Role of Cell-Extracellular Matrix Interactions during Developmental and Regenerative Processes: Analysis of Hydra and Zebrafish as Model Systems. Wednesday, March 10, 2004 Dr. Evelyn Ralston, National Institutes of Health Plasticity of Skeletal Muscle Fibers: Organelles and Cytoskeleton Wednesday, April 14, 2004 Dr. Daniel Goodenough, Harvard Medical School Diverse Functions of Gap Junctions Revealed by Targeted Deletion of Connexin Genes Wednesday, May 12, 2004 Dr. Gopal Thinakaran, University of Chicago Gamma-Secretase Processing of Alzheimer's Disease Amyloid Precursor in Lipid Rafts
Wednesday, September 18, 2002 Dr. Jonathan Leis, Northwestern University Mechanism of Retrovirus Proteolytic Processing and Assembly Wednesday, October 9, 2002 Dr. Robert Vassar, Northwestern University BACE-1: A prime Therapeutic Target for Alzheimer's Disease Wednesday, November 13, 2002 Dr. Carolyn Machamer, Johns Hopkins University Caspase-2 and the Golgi Complex in Apoptosis Wednesday, December 11, 2002 Dr. Véronique Lefebvre, Lerner Research Institute, Cleveland Clinic Critical Determinants of Cell Fate and Differentiation: Sry-Related HMG Box (Sox) Transcription Factors Wednesday, January 8, 2003 Dr. Michael Rudnicki, University of Ottawa Myogenic Specification of Adult Stem Cells in Muscle. Wednesday, February 12, 2003. Dr. Elizabeth Sztul, The University of Alabama at Birmingham Molecular Cross-talk between Secretion and Degradation Wednesday, March 12, 2003 Dr. Ian Duncan, University of Wisconsin Stem cell biology and brain repair: is transplantation feasible in human myelin disorders? Wednesday, April 9, 2003 Dr. Paul Witkovsky, NYU School of Medicine Dopamine and Retinal Function Wednesday, May 14, 2003 Dr. Lakshmi Devi, Mount Sinai School of Medicine, NY. Modulation of Function by G-Protein Coupled Receptor Dimerization/Oligomerization.