PDC Seminar Series 2003 - 2004

September
Speaker
Title
9/9/03
Morris J. Birnbaum, MD, PhD
Professor of Medicine and Cell and Developmental Biology
"Achieving Specificity in the AKT-dependent Control of Growth and Metabolism".

9/16/03

Klaus Kaestner, Ph.D.
Assistant Professor, Genetics



"Development of New Tools for the Analysis of the Endocrine Pancreas: Foxa2 is Required for the Differentiation of Pancreatic Alpha Cells".
9/23/03 Stephen Davis, M.D.
Chief, Diabetes, Endocrinology and Metabolism
Vanderbilt University.
"Mechanisms of Hypoglycemia Associated Autonomic Dysfunction".
9/30/03 Albert Stunkard, MD, Ph.D.
Professor Emeritus, Psychiatry
"The Night Eating Syndrome".
October
Speaker
Title
10/7/03 Se-Jin Lee, MD
Johns Hopkins University
"Regulation of muscle growth by myostatin".
10/14/03 CANCELLED CANCELLED
10/21/03

Tracy Bale, PhD
Assistant Professor
VET School

"Role of CRF family members in homeostasis following dietary and temperature challenges".
10/28/03 Lewis Chodosh, M.D., Ph.D
Associate Professor of Medicine, Cancer Biology, Cell & Developmental Biology
"Microarray & Transgenic Approaches to mammary Development and Carcinogenesis".
November
Speaker
Title
11/4/03 Debu Chakravarti, Ph.D.
Assistant Professor, Pharmacology
"Transcritional regulation and translating the histone code".
11/11/03 Eric Rulifson, Ph.D.
Assistant Professor, Department of Cell & Developmental Biology
"Blood Sugar control in Drosphila and the search for the fly's pancreas".
11/18/03 Terry Maratos-Flier, MD
Associate Professor, Medicine
Joslin Diabetes Center
Harvard Medical School
"Melanin concentrating Hormone is a critical regulator of energy balance".
11/25/03

Franz Matchinsky, MD
Professor, Biochemistry & Biophysics

"Mechanisms and Significance of Physiological Regulation, Genetic Modification and Parmacological Activation of Glucokinase".
 
December
Speaker
Title
12/2/02 Shiriki Kumanyika, Ph.D
Professor of Epidemiology
"Insights for Reducing Obesity-Related Cormorbidities in African-American Women".
12/9/02 David Wasserman, Ph.D
Professor and Director, Mouse Metabolic
Phenotying Center
Vanderbilt University
"Distributed Control of Muscle Glucose Uptake In Vivo".
12/16/02

Dr. Hubert Chen, M.D. University of California,
San Francisco

TBA
12/23/02
NO
SEMINAR
12/30/02
NO
SEMINAR
January
Speaker
Title
1/6/04 Mitchell Lazar, MD, PhD
Sylvan H. Eisman Professor of Medicine and Genetics
Chief, Div. of Endocrinology,
Diabetes & Metabolism
"Obesity, Diabetes, and PPAR Gamma"
1/13/04 Gokhan Hotamisligil, Ph.D.
Associate Professor of Nutrition
Harvard Sch. of Public Health
"Fatty Acid Binding Proteins and Metabolic Syndrome".
1/20/04 Garret FitzGerald, MD
Robinet Professor of Cardiovascular Medicine
TBA
1/27/04

Daniel Lane, PhD
Distinguished Service Professor
Biological Chemistry
John Hopkins University

"Control of food intake and obesity: A novel hypothalamic mechanism".
February
Speaker
Title
2/3/04 Jiemen Wong, Ph.D.
Assistant Professor
Deptartment of Molecular & Cellular Biology
Baylor College of Medicine
"SMRT and N-Corcorepressor complexes and their roles in transcription".
2/10/04 Jacqueline Stevens, Ph.D.
Associate Professor
Cell Biology
Louisiana State University
"Cross talk between STATs & PPARgamma proteins in adipocytes".
2/17/04 Mehboob Hussain, MD
Assistant Professor of
Medicine and Pharmacology
New York University
TBA
2/24/04 Matthias Hebrok, Ph.D.
Assistant Professor
Diabetes Center, University of California, San Francisco
TBA
 
March
Speaker
Title
3/2/04

Jonathan Backer, M.D.
Professor, Department of Molecular Pharmacology
Einstein Medical College

"Signaling by PI 3 - Kinases".
3/11/04 Alvin Powers, MD
Associate Professor, Medicine
Vanderbilt University
TBA

3/16/04

KROC LECTURE

 
3/23/04

Sheila Collins, Ph.D.
Associate Professor
Duke University Medical Ctr.

"Signaling networks controlling fat cell metabolism and obesity".
3/30/04

Mark Friedman, Ph.D.
Associate Director
Monell Chemical Senses

"Control of Food Intake by Hepatic Energy Metabolism".
April    
4/6/04 Bryan Wolf, MD, PhD
Associate Professor Pathology & Laboratory Medicine
TBA
4/13/04 Kathryn B. Horwitz, Ph.D.
Professor of Medicine and Pathology
University of Colorado
Health Sciences Center
"Progesterone Receptors in Breast Cancer: The Naked Truth"
4/20/04 Dominico Accili, M.D.
Professor of Medicine
Columbia University
"Forkhead proteins and insulin action".

4/27/04

Shaoping Deng, M.D., Ph.D. TBA
May    
5/4/04 Frederick Wondisford, M.D.
Chief, Endocrinology Section
University of Chicago

"Insulin Regulation of Gene Expression by CREB Binding Protein (CBP)".

5/11/04 Arlen Price, Ph.D.
Professor, Department of Psychiatry
TBA
5/18/04 Rudolph Liebel
Columbia
TBA
5/25/04 Daniel Rader, M.D.
Director, Preventive Cardiology and Lipid Clinic
Associate Professor of Medicine
TBA
 

SUMMER BREAK