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December 2008 Welcome to Bio-Log, an
online publication of the Stowers Institute for Medical Research. We list scientific seminars and symposia
in the Bio-Log is posted on the Stowers Institute Web site (www.stowers-institute.org) monthly, and then an e-mail message announcing that Bio-Log has been posted is sent to interested individuals. If you would like to have your name added to our e-mail database, please go to the Stowers home page, click on News Center then click on mailing list and follow the instructions to register. If you have presentations or seminars to announce, please send the information to the editor of Bio-Log: kad@stowers-institute.org. A new version of Bio-Log is posted at the beginning of each month. Announcements for the next issue should be sent to the editor by December 31. Stowers Institute for Medical Research(816) 926-4000 http://www.stowers-institute.org/public/DrivingDirections.asp Tuesday, December 2, 4:00 p.m. Auditorium “Dying Young as Late as Possible: Planarians, Regeneration, and Stem
Cells” Alejandro Sánchez
Alvarado, University of Utah, Howard
Hughes Medical Institute Tuesday, December 9, Noon Classroom “Phenotypic Drug Discovery: An Old Dog With New Tricks” Lou
Stancato, Eli Lilly Tuesday, December 9, 4:00 p.m. Classroom “Cell-cell Interactions by Slit-Robo
Signaling in Forming the Chick Cranial Ganglia” Celia
Shiau, California Institute of
Technology Wednesday, December 10, 4:00 p.m. Auditorium “Self-renewal and Differentiation in the Drosophila Nervous System” Andrea
Brand, Wellcome Trust, Cancer
Research Friday, December 12, 10:30 a.m. Classroom Mary
Woolley, Research! Thursday, December 18, 1:00 p.m. Classroom Altaf
Mohd Bhat, Wednesday, January 7, Noon Auditorium “Developing and Utilizing Forward Genetic Approaches
to Decipher Biology and Disease in Flies and Mice” Tian Xu, Yale University, Howard Hughes Medical
Institute Wednesday, January 14, Noon Auditorium “HMMER: A New Generation of Homology Search
Software” Sean
Eddy, Howard Hughes Medical
Institute Wednesday, January 21, Noon Auditorium William
Kaelin, Dana-Farber Cancer
Institute, Howard Hughes Medical Institute Thursday, January 22, 4:00 p.m. Classroom “Where Regulatory Biochemistry and Cytomechanics
Meet: Dynamics of Cell Polarization
and Morphogenesis in the Early Embryo” Ed
Munro, Wednesday, January 28, Noon Auditorium “Interactome Networks and Human
Disease” Marc
Vidal, Dana-Farber Cancer
Institute
(785) 864-4311 http://www.ku.edu/visit/directions.shtml Department of Molecular
Biosciences Monday,
December 1, 3:30 p.m. 1005
Haworth Hall Philip Gao, Monday,
December 8, 3:30 p.m. 1005
Haworth Hall Dawn Cornelison, University of (913)
588-5000 http://www.kumc.edu/Pulse/map.html Department of Anatomy and Cell Biology Thursday, December 4, 3:30 p.m. Lied
Auditorium “Mechanisms
of Antioxidant Response Element Gene Expression in Renal Epithelial
Cells” Robin Maser, University of Thursday,
December 11, 3:30 p.m. Lied
Auditorium “Post-transcriptional
Regulation of Uterine Mmp9” Warren Nothnick, University of Thursday,
January 15, 3:30 p.m. Lied
Auditorium Steve Benedict, Department of Biochemistry & Molecular
Biology Friday,
December 5, 11:00 a.m. 1001
“Why
a Urea Cycle Enzyme Regulates Vascular Endothelial Nitric Oxide
Production” Duane C. Eichler, Department of Molecular & Integrative
Physiology Monday, December 1, 3:30 p.m. 1001
– 1003 “Home-grown
Translational Medicine: From the
Kitchen Floor, to the Bench, to the Bedside” Jared J. Grantham, University of Monday,
December 8, 3:30 p.m. 1001
– 1003 “Ins
and Outs of Three-dimensional Nuclear Organization: The SUN Proteins” Sue Jaspersen, Stowers Institute for
Medical Research Monday,
December 15, 3:30 p.m. 1001
– 1003 Katherine F. Roby, University of Department of Pathology and Laboratory Medicine Thursday,
December 4, 8:30 a.m. Lied
Auditorium “The
Cellular Senescence Program as a Modifier of Cancer Development and Therapy
Outcome” Peter S. Nelson, Thursday,
December 11, 8:30 a.m. Lied
Auditorium “DNA
Damage Response and DNA Repair” Junjie Chen, Thursday,
December 18, 8:30 a.m. Lied
Auditorium “Human
Embryonic Stem Cells as Models for Trophoblast Differentiation” R. Michael Roberts, Department of Pharmacology, Toxicology and
Therapeutics Tuesday, December 2, 4:00 p.m. 1001
– 1003 “The
Ikk-NF-kB System: From Signaling to
Cancer” Michael Karin, Thursday,
December 4, 4:00 p.m. 1001
– 1003 “The
Biology of Liver Fibrosis: Beyond
the Stellate Cell” University
of Missouri-Kansas City http://sbs.umkc.edu/about/directions.html Thursday,
December 4, 3:45 p.m. Room
213 “Proteomics
of Mycobacterium avium subsp
paratuberculosis” John P. Bannantine, Thursday,
January 15, 3:45 p.m. Room
213 Paul Hardin, Thursday, January 22, 3:45 p.m. Room
213 Marco Brotto, 650 E. 25th,
http://dentistry.umkc.edu/about/mapview.htm Wednesday, December 3, Noon Room
217B “Chromatin
Remodeling Complexes and Transcription Control” Joan Conaway, Stowers Institute for
Medical Research Wednesday,
December 10, Noon Room
217B “Characterization
of Bone Properties Using Advanced Imaging Modalities for Presurgical Radiographic
Assessment of Dental Implant Sites:
An ex vivo Study on Human
Cadaver Maxillas and Mandibles” Vania Castro, Wednesday,
December 17, Noon Room
217B Donna Paccia, 2411
http://research.med.umkc.edu/about/default.html Tuesday, December 9, 6:00 p.m. Theater C Bone and Tooth Series RSVP to Mary McCamy (816-235-6017 or mccamym@umkc.edu) “Cancer Metastasis to Bone” Rajib Bhattacharya, University of |
