May 2008

Welcome to Bio-Log, an online publication of the Stowers Institute for Medical Research.  We list scientific seminars and symposia in the Kansas City metropolitan area, including Lawrence, for scientists, physicians, and associates whose research focuses on genetics, cell biology, molecular biology, immunology, pharmacology, biophysics, biochemistry, and technologies such as bioinformatics, genomics, proteomics, and imaging.

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 May 30.

 

 

Stowers Institute for Medical Research

1000 East 50^th St., Kansas City, Missouri

(816) 926-4000

http://www.stowers-institute.org/public/DrivingDirections.asp

                       

Tuesday, May 6, Noon

Classroom

“Mitosis in Transition:  Molecular Mechanisms for Mitotic Entry, Progression, and Exit”

Guowei Fang, Stanford University

 

Wednesday, May 7, 4:00 p.m.

Auditorium

“Synaptic Signaling in C. elegans:  MicroRNAs and Seizures”

Josh Kaplan, Harvard Medical School

 

Thursday, May 8, 4:00 p.m.

Classroom

“A Convergence of Splicing Connections in Apoptosis and Cancer”

Benoit Chabot, Universite de Sherbrooke

 

Tuesday, May 12, Noon

Videoconference Room

“Regulation of Protein-DNA Interactions at the Mitochondrial DNA Replication Origin in Trypanosomatides”

Dotan Sela, Hebrew University

 

Wednesday, May 14, 4:00 p.m.

Auditorium

“The Cell Biology of snRNP Biogenesis”

Joe Gall, Carnegie Institution

 

Thursday, May 15, Noon

Classroom

“Detecting Gene Regulation in Time-course Experiments”

Andrzej Kudlicki, University of Texas Southwestern Medical Center

 

Monday, May 19, Noon

Videoconference Room

Eldad Tzahor, Weizmann Institute of Science

 

Tuesday, May 20, Noon

Classroom

“Cleavage-stage Specializations of Cytokinesis and Pregastrular Morphogenesis in Xenopus”

Michael Danilchik, Oregon Health Sciences University

 

Wednesday, May 21, 4:00 p.m.

Auditorium

“Evolving Therapeutic Targets for Lysosomal Storage Diseases”

William Sly, Saint Louis University

 

Tuesday, May 27, Noon

Videoconference Room

“The Fly Vagina Monologues:  Evolution of Reproductive Tract Interactions in Cactophilic Drosophila”

Erin Kelleher, University of Arizona

 

Thursday, May 29, Noon

Videoconference Room

Ray Trievel, University of Michigan

 

 

University of Kansas

Lawrence, Kansas

(785) 864-4311

Http://www.ku.edu/visit/directions.shtml

 

Department of Pharmaceutical Chemistry

 

                        Thursday, May 1, 9:30 a.m.

                        130 Budig Hall

                        “Genomics:  From Humans to the Environment”

                        J. Craig Venter, J. Craig Venter Institute

 

 

University of Kansas Medical Center

3901 Rainbow Boulevard, Kansas City, Kansas

(913) 588-5000

http://www.kumc.edu/Pulse/map.html

 

Department of Anatomy and Cell Biology

           

Thursday, May 8, 4:00 p.m.

Lied Auditorium

Amy Bauer, Los Alamos National Labs

 

Thursday, May 15, 4:00 p.m.

Lied Auditorium

“Molecular Recognition Events Between Pre- and Postsynaptic Nerve Cells During Synapse Formation”

Steve Carlson, University of Washington

 

Thursday, May 22, 4:00 p.m.

Lied Auditorium

“Biological Physics, with an Emphasis on Modeling Fluctuations and Collective Phenomena:  Computer Modeling of Developmental Processes”

Tim Newman, Arizona State University

 

Thursday, June 5, 4:00 p.m.

Lied Auditorium

“CCR7 Trafficking and Signaling in Human T Cells”

Charlotte M. Vines, University of Kansas Medical Center

 

Department of Biochemistry and Molecular Biology

 

Friday, May 2, 11:00 a.m.

1023 Orr Major

“Advancing Selective in vivo Pak1 Protein Kinase Inhibitors as Translational Therapeutics”

Alexander Beeser, Kansas State University

 

Department of Pathology and Laboratory Medicine

 

Thursday, May 1, 8:30 a.m.

Lied Auditorium

“Chromatin Remodeling Complexes and Mammalian Development”

Terry R. Magnuson, University of North Carolina – Chapel Hill

 

Thursday, May 22, 8:30 a.m.

Lied Auditorium

“Gene Regulation and Signaling in Endothelial Development and Angiogenesis”

Cam Patterson, University of North Carolina – Chapel Hill

 

Kansas Masonic Cancer Research Institute

 

                   Friday, May 9, Noon

                        Lied Auditorium

                        “Cancer Drug Development in Academia”

                        David Scheinberg, Memorial Sloan-Kettering Cancer Center

 

 

University of Missouri-Kansas City

 

School of Dentistry

650 E. 25^th, Kansas City, Missouri

http://dentistry.umkc.edu/about/mapview.htm

 

Wednesday, May 21, Noon

Room 250

“Dentin Bonding Under Positive Pressure”

John Purk, University of Missouri – Kansas City

 

Wednesday, May 28, Noon

Room 250

“Genetic Risks for Periodontal Disease”

Keerthana Satheesh, University of Missouri – Kansas City

 

School of Medicine

2411 Holmes, Kansas City, Missouri

http://research.med.umkc.edu/about/default.html

 

Thursday, May 8, 4:00 p.m.

Eye Foundation Auditorium, 23^rd & Holmes St.

Bone and Tooth Series

RSVP to Mary McCamy (816-235-6017 or mccamym@umkc.edu)

“Oculodentodigital Dysplasia (ODDD)”

Marybeth Ezaki, Southwestern Medical School

 

 

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