Time: Tuesdays, 12-1 p.m.*
Location: CRB Austrian Auditorium
*unless otherwise noted; locations may change from week to week

January 8, 2007
Meenhard Herlyn, D.V.M., D.Sc.
The Wistar Institute
“Melanocyte and Melanoma Stem Cells”

January 15, 2008
Kun-Liang Guan, Ph.D.
University of California, San Diego
“The TSC-MTOR Pathway in Cellular Regulation”

January 22, 2008
Craig B. Thompson, M.D.
Abramson Cancer Center, University of Pennsylvania
University of Pennsylvania Health System and School of Medicine
“Beyond Warburg: Transformed Cells Can Engage in Glutamine Metabolism That Exceeds the Requirement for Protein and Nucleotide Synthesis”

January 29, 2008
No seminar is scheduled.

February 5, 2008
No seminar is scheduled.

February 12, 2008
No seminar is scheduled.

February 19, 2008
John M. Maris, M.D.
Abramson Family Cancer Research Institute and Children’s Hospital of Philadelphia
“Genome-wide Association Approaches to Understanding the Etiology of Childhood Cancers”

February 26, 2008
Steven D. Leach, M.D.
Johns Hopkins University
“Learning About Pancreatic Cancer from Mouse and Zebrafish Embryos”

March 4, 2008
Anil Rustgi, M.D.
University of Pennsylvania, School of Medicine
“Epithelial-stromal interactions and the tumor microenvironment”

March 11, 2008
Robert H. Singer, Ph.D.
Albert Einstein College of Medicine of Yeshiva University
“Spatial and temporal regulation of mRNA and its role in cell migration and metastasis”

March 18, 2008
Ann Dean, Ph.D.
National Institutes of Health, NIDDK
“Chromatin Architecture and Long Range Gene Activation”

March 25, 2008
No seminar is scheduled.

April 1, 2008
Mitchell Schnall, M.D., Ph.D.
University of Pennsylvania, School of Medicine
“The Role of Imaging in Predicting and Monitoring Cancer Treatment Response”

April 8, 2008
Michael Teitell, M.D., Ph.D.
University of California, Los Angeles
TBA.

April 15, 2008
No seminar is scheduled.

April 22, 2008
Robert Eisenman, Ph.D.
Fred Hutchinson Cancer Research Center
“Myc and the Epigenetics of Stem Cells”

April 29, 2008
Eduardo M. Sotomayor, M.D.
H. Lee Moffitt Cancer Center
“Novel Molecularly-based Immunotherpeutic Approaches for B-cell Lymphomas”

May 6, 2008
Michael R. Lieber, M.D., Ph.D.
University of Southern California, Norris Comprehensive Cancer Center
“Physiologic and Pathologic Double-Strand DNA Breaks and the Mechanism of Their Repair”

May 13, 2008
Sankar Ghosh, Ph.D.
Yale University, School of Medicine
TBA

May 20, 2008
Robert Rottapel, M.D.
University of Toronto and St. Michael’s Hospital
“Inflammation and Osteogenesis: the Role of the Adapter Protein 3BP2”

May 27, 2008
No seminar is scheduled.

June 3, 2008
Zena Werb, Ph.D.
University of California, San Francisco
TBA

June 10, 2008
George Coukos
Abramson Family Cancer Research Institute and University of Pennsylvania School of Medicine
"Solid tumor immunotherapy: Lessons learned from ovarian cancer"

June 17, 2008
Hematology-Oncology Trainee Talk

June 24, 2008
Hematology-Oncology Trainee Talk