Seminars/Speakers

UPCOMING SEMINARS

Mariusz Ratajczak, M.D., Ph.D.
University of Louisville
James Graham Brown Cancer Center
January 27, 2010

Amy Wagers, Ph.D.
Joslin Diabetes Center
Department of Pathology
March 3, 2010

Katya Ravid, Ph.D.
Boston University
Departments of Biochemistry and Medicine
May 5, 2010

Ruslan Medzhitov, Ph.D.
Yale University
Department of Immunobiology
May 26, 2010

 

PAST SEMINARS

October 14
How are platelets produced and how do they regulate angiogenesis?
Joseph E. Italiano, Jr., Ph.D.
Assistant Professor, Division of Translational Medicine, Brigham and Women’s Hospital Department of Vascular Biology, Children's Hospital, Boston


October 7
Thrombopoietin: From Molecule to Medicine
David J. Kuter, M.D., Ph.D.
Harvard Medical School Associate Professor, Department of Medicine
Massachusetts General Hospital Director, Clinical Hematology

May 13

Evidence for organ-specific stem cell niches.
Anna Rita Migliaccio, Ph.D.
Mount Sinai School of Medicine, Professor, Department of Medicine
Tisch Cancer Institute

May 6
Chromosome 3q26 abnormalities in AML--towards the development of targeted therapies.
Archibald S. Perkins, M.D., Ph.D.
University of Rochester, Professor, Departments of Pathology and Laboratory Medicine

March 25
Self-renewal and differentiation pathways governed by homeodomains containing transcription factors
Michael Kyba, Ph.D
University of Minnesota, Assistant Professor, Department of Pediatrics.
Lillehei Endowed Scholar, Lillehei Heart Institute

February 17
Hypoxia, Stem Cells, and Tumor Progression
M. Celeste Simon, Ph.D.
University of Pennsylvania, Professor, Departments of Cell and Developmental Biology
Investigator, Howard Hughes Medical Institute, Abramson Family Cancer Research Institute



PAST SEMINARS (2008)

November 17
YCEMH Mini-Symposium

Targeted correction of the human beta globin gene

Joanna Chin, M.D./Ph.D. student, Therapeutic Radiology

Molecular cytogenetic approach and clone-based genomic analysis for hematologic
disorders

Peining Li, Ph.D. Genetics

Liver injury and repair by transplanted bone marrow cells
Scott Swenson, M.D., Ph.D., Internal Medicine - Digestive Disease

November 12
Using RNA-binding Proteins and microRNA Targeting to study the mRNP Code
Scott A. Tenenbaum, Ph.D.
Assistant Professor, University at Albany-State University of New York, Department of Biomedical Sciences

October 29
Further refinement of circulating EPC phenotype/function
Mervin C. Yoder, Jr., M.D.
Professor, Indiana University, Departments of Pediatrics and Biochemistry and Molecular Biology

October 8
Adventures of the Myeloid Cell Nucleus: A Mouse Model of Pelger-Huet Anomaly Identifies Unique Functions for the Lamin B Receptor
Peter Gaines, Ph.D.
Assistant Professor, University of Massachusetts-Lowell, Department of Biological Sciences

June 25
Human embryonic stem cells and blood cell development
Andrew D. Leavitt, M.D.
Associate Professor, Departments of Laboratory Medicine and Internal Medicine University of California, San Francisco Helen Diller Family Comprehensive Cancer Center

June 6
Normal and Leukemic stem cells: What's new?
Dominique Bonnet, Ph.D.
London Research Institute

May 21
Functional interactions between HSC and endothelium
W. Harv Fleming M.D., Ph.D.
Associate Professor of Medicine
Oregon Health and Science University Center for Hematologic Malignancies

May 14
Insights into the molecular pathophysiology of myelodysplastic syndrome
Benjamin Ebert, M.D. Ph.D.
Assistant Professor of Medicine
Brigham and Women's Hospital Division of Hematology

April 2
Ronald Hoffman, M.D.
Mount Sinai School of Medicine

 

PAST SEMINARS (2007)

November 27
Connecticut Stem Cell Research Retreat at Yale University
Differentiation of human embryonic stem cells to the hematopoietic lineage
Mickie Bhatia, Ph.D., Director
McMaster University Stem Cell and Cancer Research Institute


Human embryonic stem cells as a research model for human cell biology and disease
Linzhao Cheng, Ph.D., Associate Professor and Co-Director
Johns Hopkins Institute for Cell Engineering Stem Cell Program
Baltimore, Maryland