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December 2007

	Friday December 14 at 12:30 PM
Sponsor:	Biochemistry Graduate Student Seminar Series
Speaker:	Irina Ianculescu
	Graduate Student, Genetic, Molecular and Cellular Biology
Title:	The Role of Nuclear Receptor Coactivators in Gene Expression and Their Significance in Cancer
Location:	Hastings Auditorium (1st floor), Elaine Stevely Hoffman Medical Research Building (HMR)
	Health Sciences Campus (HSC)
Contact:	Anne Rice (323) 442-1145 anne.rice@keck.usc.edu
Website:	www.usc.edu/medicine/biochemistry/
	Mentor: Dr. Michael Stallcup; Host: Jody Chuang

	Friday December 14 at 12:00 Noon
Sponsor:	Biochemistry Graduate Student Seminar Series
Speaker:	Jody Chuang
	Graduate Student, Biochemistry & Molecular Biology
Title:	Epigenetic Regulation of MicroRNAs
Location:	Hastings Auditorium (1st floor), Elaine Stevely Hoffman Medical Research Building (HMR)
	Health Sciences Campus (HSC)
Contact:	Anne Rice (323) 442-1145 anne.rice@keck.usc.edu
Website:	www.usc.edu/medicine/biochemistry/
	Mentor: Dr. Peter Jones; Host: Janice Galler

	Friday December 14 at 10:30 AM
	10:30-11:30 Presentation 11:30-12:00 Networking Lunch
Sponsor:	USC Childhood Obesity Research Center - TREC TEAM Seminar
Speaker:	Richard N. Bergman, PhD
	Keck Professor of Medicine and Chair, Physiology and Biophysics, Keck School of Medicine, USC, Los Angeles CA
Title:	The Nighttime is the Right Time
Location:	2250 Alcazar Street, CSC 250 (Harkness Conference Room in IGM)
	Health Sciences Campus (HSC)
Contact:	Kami McClure, 323.442.4101 mmcclure@usc.edu
Website:	ctrec.usc.edu/
	Go in the main door of IGM on Alcazar. Go Right to the elevator. Go to the 2nd floor. Exit toward your Left. Enter Suite 240 (small sign on the left wall) Double Doors. Ask for directions to Harkness from the front desk receptionist on your right or Wind around through the hallway (go to the left) until you come to room 250. *Please be sure to wind around through the hallway to your left to Harkness instead of going to your right so we do not disturb faculty in their offices. Please RSVP to Kami McClure at mmcclure@usc.edu or 323.442.4101 and indicate if you will attend the lunch and seminar or just the seminar.

	Thursday December 13 at 12:00 Noon
Sponsor:	USC Research Center for Liver Diseases
Speaker:	Frank A. Anania, MD, FACP, AGAF
	Associate Professor of Medicine and Director, Division of Digestive Diseases and Hepatology, Emory University School of Medicine
Title:	Biological Consequences of Adipocytokine Signaling in the Liver.
Location:	Hoffman Medical Research Bldg, Hastings Auditorium, 2011 Zonal Avenue, Los Angeles, CA, HSC campus
	Health Sciences Campus (HSC)
Contact:	Dolores Mendoza 323) 442-1283 dmmendoz@usc.edu
	Dr. Anania's research includes several aspects of hepatic physiology and pathophysiology. His studies include the role of oxidative stress in altering the transcriptional regulation of genes in hepatic stellate cells. Another area of research is the investigation of the molecular role of the adipocytokine leptin, the weight-controlling hormone, in liver scar formation. Pizza will be served.

	Tuesday December 11 at 12:00 Noon
Sponsor:	The Institute for Genetic Medicine - DISTINGUISHED SPEAKERS SEMINAR SERIES
Speaker:	Jerome I. Rotter, M.D.
	Director of Research and Co-Director, Medical Genetics Institute, Cedars-Sinai - Board of Governors' Chair in Medical Genetics, Cedars-Sinai, Director, Division of Medical Genetics, Department of Medicine, Cedars-Sinai, Professor of Medicine, Pediatrics, and Human Genetics, UCLA, Cedars-Sinai Medical Center, Los Angeles, CA
Title:	Proceeding from Genome Wide Association to Biologic Pathways, the Crohn's Disease Example
Location:	IGM Harkness Assembly, 2250 Alcazar Street, CSC-250
	Health Sciences Campus (HSC)
Contact:	Gracie (323) 442-1144 graciela.mercado@usc.edu
Website:	www.usc.edu/igm/face.php?C=dist_seminar
	Admission: Free Refreshments will be served Hosted by: Larry Kedes, M.D.

	Tuesday December 11 at 12:00 Noon
Sponsor:	The Saban Research Institute Seminars
Speaker:	Vesa Kaartinen, PhD
	Assistant Professor, Pathology and Surgery/Chair IACUC, Keck School of Medicine, University of Southern California/Childrens Hospital LA, 90027
Title:	Animal Care and Ethics in Animal Research
Location:	Auditorium, Saban Research building
	Childrens Hospital Los Angeles (CHLA)
Contact:	Denise 323-361-4110 ddillon@chla.usc.edu

	Tuesday December 11 at 08:00 AM
Sponsor:	Pathology & Laboratory Medicine Special Grand Rounds
Speaker:	Henry D. Appleman, M.D.
	MR Abell Professor of Surgical Pathology, University Hospitals, Ann Arbor, MI 48109-0054
Title:	Polyps of the gut with no names or which have obscure names
Location:	Norris Topping Tower, Conf Rm 7409, Norris Cancer Hospital
	Health Sciences Campus (HSC)
Contact:	Leslie Wauke, (323) 442-2978 lwauke@keck.usc.edu
	Refreshments will be served.

New Week

	Friday December 07 at 1:30 PM
Sponsor:	Center for Craniofacial Molecular Biology, School of Dentistry
Speaker:	Masaki Honda
	Ph.D., Division of Stem Cell, Institute of Medical Science, The University of Tokyo, Tokyo, Japan
Title:	Tooth Regeneration by Postnatal Tooth Bud Cells; Potential, Limination and Future Direction
Location:	Large Conference Room, CSC 120A
	Health Sciences Campus (HSC)
Contact:	Magdalena Morales, (323) 442-3170 magdaljm@usc.edu
Website:	www.usc.edu/hsc/dental/ccmb

	Friday December 07 at 12:00 Noon
Sponsor:	Department of Medicine and the USC Will Rogers Institute Pulmonary Research Center
Speaker:	Francis S. Collins, MD/PhD
	Director, National Human Genome Research Institute; Inaugural Awardee, Will Rogers Institute Prize for Lung Research
Title:	Genomics, Medicine and Society
Location:	Aresty Conference Center, Harlyne J. Norris Cancer Research Tower
	Health Sciences Campus (HSC)
Contact:	Sandra Mosteller, (323) 442-1763 smostell@usc.edu

	Thursday December 06 at 12:00 Noon
Sponsor:	USC SCHOOL OF PHARMACY Department of Pharmacology and Pharmaceutical Sciences Seminar Series
Speaker:	Richard W. Roberts, Ph.D.
	Associate Professor of Chemistry, Chemical Engineering and Biology, University of Southern California, Los Angeles, CA
Title:	New Approaches to Target G Protein? Signaling via mRNA Display
Location:	John Stauffer Pharmaceutical Sciences Center, PSC Rm. 104, USC School of Pharmacy, 1985 Zonal Avenue, Los Angeles, CA 90089-9121
	Health Sciences Campus (HSC)
Contact:	Josefina Morales (323)442-1451 josefina@usc.edu
	Faculty Host contact info: Sarah Hamm-Alvarez, Chair and Professor (Voice: 323-442-1445; eMail: shalvar@usc.edu) Refreshments will be provided!

	Thursday December 06 at 12:00 Noon
Sponsor:	USC Research Center for Liver Diseases
Speaker:	Kusum Kharbanda, Ph.D.
	Assistant Professor, Internal Medicine GI and Liver, University of Nebraska Medical Center
Title:	Protective Effects of Betaine in Liver Injury.
Location:	Hoffman Medical Research Bldg, Hastings Auditorium, 2011 Zonal Avenue, Los Angeles, CA, HSC campus
	Health Sciences Campus (HSC)
Contact:	Dolores Mendoza 323) 442-1283 dmmendoz@usc.edu
	Dr. Kharbanda's research focuses on alcoholic liver injury. In particular the effects of betaine and S-adenosyl methionine on ethanol mediated changes of hepatic metabolism and steatosis. Pizza will be served.

	Wednesday December 05 at 12:00 Noon
Sponsor:	Zilkha Neurogenetic Institute
Speaker:	Zuoshi Josh Huang, Ph.D.
	Associate Professor, Neuroscience, Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory, Cold Spring Habor, NY 11724
Title:	Development of Gaba Inhibitory Circuts in Neocortex and Cerebellum
Location:	Zilkha Neurogenetic Institute, Herklotz Seminar Room, Room 112
	Health Sciences Campus (HSC)
Contact:	Deshon Vaughn, 323-442-3219 vaughnca@usc.edu
Website:	www.usc.edu/zni

	Wednesday December 05 at 12:00 Noon
Sponsor:	Division V - CCMB Seminar
Speaker:	David E. Clouthier
	Ph.D., University of Colorado at Denver and Health Sciences Center, School of Dentistry, Aurora, Colorado
Title:	Patterning and Development of the Lower Jaw Requires the bHLH factor Hand2
Location:	Large Conference Room, CSC 120A
	Health Sciences Campus (HSC)
Contact:	Magdalena Morales, (323) 442-3170 magdaljm@usc.edu
Website:	www.usc.edu/hsc/dental/ccmb
	1 Unit of Continuing Education Credit will be awarded

	Wednesday December 05 at 12:00 Noon
Sponsor:	The Institute for Genetic Medicine - DISTINGUISHED SPEAKERS SEMINAR SERIES
Speaker:	Jing Xuan Kang, M.D., Ph.D.
	Associate Professor, Department of Medicine, Massachusetts General Hospital and Harvard Medical School, Charlestown, MA
Title:	A Tale of Omega-3: From C. elegans to Humans
Location:	IGM Harkness Assembly, 2250 Alcazar Street, CSC-250
	Health Sciences Campus (HSC)
Contact:	Gracie (323) 442-1144 graciela.mercado@usc.edu
Website:	www.usc.edu/igm/face.php?C=dist_seminar
	Admission: Free Refreshments will be served Hosted by: Hooman Allayee, Ph.D.

	Tuesday December 04 at 12:00 Noon
Sponsor:	The Saban Research Institute Seminars
Speaker:	Tishya Wren, PhD
	Assistant Professor, Orthopaedics, Radiology, and Biomedical Engineering, Keck School of Medicine, University of Southern California/Childrens Hospital LA, Los Angeles, CA 90027
Title:	Assessing bone in children and adolescents
Location:	Auditorium, Saban Research building
	Childrens Hospital Los Angeles (CHLA)
Contact:	Denise 323-361-4110 ddillon@chla.usc.edu

	Tuesday December 04 at 12:00 Noon
	12:00 - 1:00 p.m.
Sponsor:	USC/Norris Cancer Center Grand Rounds
Speaker:	Ravi Bhatia, M.D.
	Director, Department of Hematopoietic Stem Cell & Leukemia Research, Professor, Division of Hematology & HCT, City of Hope National Medical Center
Title:	Stem Cell Transformation & Targeting in Chronic Myeloid Leukemia
Location:	Norris Topping Tower, Conference Room 7409
	Health Sciences Campus (HSC)
Contact:	Jona Cura (323) 865-0801 cura_j@ccnt.usc.edu
Website:	uscnorriscancer.usc.edu/Core/Calendar/OccurDetail.aspx?OID=16553
	Refreshments Provided

November 2007

	Friday November 30 at 12:00 Noon
Sponsor:	Center for Craniofacial Molecular Biology, School of Dentistry
Speaker:	Yong-Ouk You
	Ph.D., Center for Craniofacial Molecular Biology/School of Dentistry, 2250 Alcazar Street CSC 120 A, HSC, Los Angeles, CA 90033
Title:	Isolation of New Inhibitor of NF-KB Pathway form Natural Product
Location:	Large Conference Room, CSC 120A
	Health Sciences Campus (HSC)
Contact:	Magdalena Morales, (323) 442-3170 magdaljm@usc.edu
Website:	www.usc.edu/hsc/dental/ccmb

	Friday November 30 at 12:00 Noon
Sponsor:	Biochemistry Graduate Student Seminar Series
Speaker:	Janice Galler
	Graduate Student, Biochemistry & Molecular Biology
Title:	Identification of molecular markers for the early detection and diagnosis of malignant pleural mesothelioma
Location:	Hastings Auditorium (1st floor), Elaine Stevely Hoffman Medical Research Building (HMR)
	Health Sciences Campus (HSC)
Contact:	Anne Rice (323) 442-1145 anne.rice@keck.usc.edu
Website:	www.usc.edu/medicine/biochemistry/
	Mentor: Dr. Ite Laird-Offringa; Host: Andrew Gray

	Friday November 30 at 10:30 AM
	10:30-11:30 Presentation 11:30-12:00 Networking Lunch
Sponsor:	USC Center for Obesity & Metabolic Health - TREC TEAM Seminar
Speaker:	Lenore Arab, MSc, PhD
	Professor & Director Energetics Study, David Geffen School of Medicine, Univeristy of California Los Angeles
Title:	The Validation of DietDay: A Novel Approach to Dietary Assessment for Large Population Studies
Location:	2250 Alcazar Street, CSC 250 (Harkness Conference Room in IGM)
	Health Sciences Campus (HSC)
Contact:	Kami McClure, 323.442.4101 mmcclure@usc.edu
Website:	ctrec.usc.edu/
	Go in the main door of IGM on Alcazar. Go Right to the elevator. Go to the 2nd floor. Exit toward your Left. Enter Suite 240 (small sign on the left wall) Double Doors. Ask for directions to Harkness from the front desk receptionist on your right or Wind around through the hallway (go to the right) until you come to room 250. *Please be sure to wind around through the hallway to your left to Harkness instead of going to your right so we do not disturb faculty in their offices. Please RSVP to Kami McClure at mmcclure@usc.edu or 323.442.4101 and indicate if you will attend the lunch and seminar or just the seminar.

	Friday November 30 at 08:00 AM
Sponsor:	Pathology & Laboratory Medicine Grand Rounds
Speaker:	Ellen Jo Baron, Ph.D.
	Director, Clinical Microbiology Laboratory Professor of Pathology and Medicine, Stanford University Medical Center SUMC Laboratories at Hillview
Title:	Catheter-Related Bloodstream Infections: Detection Dilemma
Location:	Norris Topping Tower, Conf Rm 7409, Norris Cancer Hospital
	Health Sciences Campus (HSC)
Contact:	Linda Huynh, (323) 442-3320 lhuynh@keck.usc.edu
	Refreshments will be served.

	Thursday November 29 at 12:00 Noon
Sponsor:	USC Ethel Percy Andrus Gerontology Center - Multidisciplinary Research Colloquium Series in Aging
Speaker:	I-Fen Lin, Ph.D.
	Associate Professor, Sociology, Bowling Green State University and Visiting, UCLA
Title:	Consequences of Parental Divorce for Adult Children and Support of Their Frail Parents
Location:	GER 224, Andrus Gerontology Center, 3715 McClintock Avenue, UPC
	University Park Campus (UPC)
Contact:	213.740.8242 linda.hall@usc.edu
Website:	www.usc.edu/dept/gero/colloquium/

	Thursday November 29 at 12:00 Noon
Sponsor:	USC Research Center for Liver Diseases
Speaker:	Douglas Wallace, PhD
	Donald Bren and University Professor, Molecular Genetics and Biological Sciences, UC Irvine
Title:	A Mitochondrial Paradigm for Metabolic and Degenerative Diseases, Cancer and Aging.
Location:	Hoffman Medical Research Bldg, Hastings Auditorium, 2011 Zonal Avenue, Los Angeles, CA, HSC campus
	Health Sciences Campus (HSC)
Contact:	Dolores Mendoza 323) 442-1283 dmmendoz@usc.edu
	Dr. Wallace was the first to show that mitochondrial DNA mutates over time and that it is passed down exclusively through the female lineage. Dr. Wallace's group is exploring the premise that the degenerating effects of aging may result by accumulated mutations in the mitochondria and the resulting malfunction of organs throughout the body. Dr. Wallace's lab is developing medications: catalytic antioxidants that should mitigate the damage resulting from mitochondrial DNA mutations. Pizza will be served.

	Wednesday November 28 at 12:00 Noon
Sponsor:	Zilkha Neurogenetic Institute
Speaker:	Herwig Baier, Ph.D.,
	Professor, Department of Physiology, University of California, San Francisco, San Francisco, California 94158-2722
Title:	Genetic Architecture of Visual Perception & Behavior in Zebrafish
Location:	Zilkha Neurogenetic Institute, Herklotz Seminar Room, Room 112
	Health Sciences Campus (HSC)
Contact:	Deshon Vaughn, 323-442-3219 vaughnca@usc.edu
Website:	www.usc.edu/zni

	Tuesday November 27 at 12:00 Noon
	12:00 - 1:00 p.m.
Sponsor:	USC/Norris Cancer Center Grand Rounds
Speaker:	Celeste Leigh Pearce, Ph.D., M.P.H.
	Assistant Professor, Department of Preventive Medicine, Keck School of Medicine, USC, Los Angeles, CA 90089
Title:	An Update on Menopausal Hormone Therapy
Location:	Norris Topping Tower, Conference Room 7409
	Health Sciences Campus (HSC)
Contact:	Jona Cura (323) 865-0801 cura_j@ccnt.usc.edu
Website:	uscnorriscancer.usc.edu/Core/Calendar/OccurDetail.aspx?OID=16283
	Refreshments Provided

New Week

	Wednesday November 21 at 10:00 AM
Sponsor:	Department of Physiology & Biophysics - DISSERTATION DEFENSE
Speaker:	Robert Ahlstrom
	Ph.D. Candidate, Physiology and Biophysics, Keck School of Medicine, Los Angeles, CA
Title:	Kinase activity of the pseudohypoaldosteronism Type II gene product, WNK4
Location:	MMR 608
	Health Sciences Campus (HSC)
Contact:	Elena Camarena, (323) 442-1039 ecamaren@usc.edu
	Mentor: Alan Yu, (323) 442-1331

	Monday November 19 at 12:00 Noon
Sponsor:	USC SCHOOL OF PHARMACY Department of Pharmacology and Pharmaceutical Sciences Seminar Series
Speaker:	Jie Zheng, Ph.D.
	Associate Member, Department of Structural Biology, St. Jude Children's Research Hospital, Memphis, TN
Title:	Structure-based Investigation of Wnt Signaling Inhibitors
Location:	John Stauffer Pharmaceutical Sciences Center, PSC Rm. 104, USC School of Pharmacy, 1985 Zonal Avenue, Los Angeles, CA 90089-9121
	Health Sciences Campus (HSC)
Contact:	Josefina Morales (323)442-1451 josefina@usc.edu
	Faculty Host contact info: Nouri Neamati, Ph.D. (Voice: 323-442-2341; eMail: neamati@usc.edu) Refreshments will be provided!

New Week

	Friday November 16 at 12:00 Noon
Sponsor:	Biochemistry Graduate Student Seminar Series
Speaker:	Andrew Gray
	Graduate Student, Genetic, Molecular and Cellular Biology
Title:	Induction of long term protection against prostate cancer by PSCA vaccination
Location:	Hastings Auditorium (1st floor), Elaine Stevely Hoffman Medical Research Building (HMR)
	Health Sciences Campus (HSC)
Contact:	Anne Rice (323) 442-1145 anne.rice@keck.usc.edu
Website:	www.usc.edu/medicine/biochemistry/
	Mentor: Dr. Martin Kast; Host: Beth Palian

	Friday November 16 at 11:45 AM
	11:45 a.m. to 1:00 p.m.
Sponsor:	Southern California Environmental Health Sciences Center
Speaker:	Thomas J. Smith, Ph.D.
	Professor, Department of Environmental Health, Harvard School of Public Health, Baltimore, MD
Title:	Why peak exposures matter: Linking discrete responses, e.g. asthma, to exposure distributions – a new dose metric
Location:	ZNI 112
	Health Sciences Campus (HSC)
Contact:	Helen Dosta, 323-442-1096 tol@usc.edu
	Lunch will be provided.

	Friday November 16 at 10:30 AM
	10:30-11:30 Presentation 11:30-12:00 Networking Lunch
Sponsor:	USC Childhood Obesity Research Center - TREC TEAM Seminar
Speaker:	Anna H. Wu, Ph.D.
	Professor, Preventive Medicine
Title:	Soy, Tea and Breast Cancer
Location:	2250 Alcazar Street, CSC 250 (Harkness Conference Room in IGM)
	Health Sciences Campus (HSC)
Contact:	Kami McClure, 323.442.4101 mmcclure@usc.edu
Website:	ctrec.usc.edu/
	Go in the main door of IGM on Alcazar. Go Right to the elevator. Go to the 2nd floor. Exit toward your Left. Enter Suite 240 (small sign on the left wall) Double Doors. Ask for directions to Harkness from the front desk receptionist on your right or Wind around through the hallway (go to the left) until you come to room 250. *Please be sure to wind around through the hallway to your left to Harkness instead of going to your right so we do not disturb faculty in their offices. Please RSVP to Kami McClure at mmcclure@usc.edu or 323.442.4101 and indicate if you will attend the lunch and seminar or just the seminar.

	Thursday November 15 at 12:00 Noon
Sponsor:	USC Research Center for Liver Diseases
Speaker:	Steven Weinman, MD, PhD
	Professor and Distinguished University Chair, Neuroscience and Cell Biology, University of Texas Medical Branch, Galveston, Texas
Title:	Mitochondria and Hepatitits C: Role in Pathogenesis, Replication and Innate Immunity.
Location:	Hoffman Medical Research Bldg, Hastings Auditorium, 2011 Zonal Avenue, Los Angeles, CA, HSC campus
	Health Sciences Campus (HSC)
Contact:	Dolores Mendoza 323) 442-1283 dmmendoz@usc.edu
	Dr. Weinman's lab is interested in determining the basic mechanisms of tissue injury in hepatitis C. The lab has two major areas of research: exploring the role of HCV mitochondrial interactions in modulating innate immunity and determining the role of viral- and alcohol-induced redox events in promoting viral replication. Pizza will be served.

	Wednesday November 14 at 12:00 Noon
Sponsor:	The Institute for Genetic Medicine - DISTINGUISHED SPEAKERS SEMINAR SERIES
Speaker:	Eric Green, M.D., Ph.D.
	Director, Division of Intramural Research, Chief, Genome Technology Branch, Director, NIH Intramural Sequencing Center, National Institutes of Health - Bethesda, MD
Title:	Inter- and Intra-Species Sequence Comparisons: Deducing Genome Function in Health and Disease
Location:	IGM Harkness Assembly, 2250 Alcazar Street, CSC-250
	Health Sciences Campus (HSC)
Contact:	Gracie (323) 442-1144 graciela.mercado@usc.edu
Website:	www.usc.edu/igm/face.php?C=dist_seminar
	Admission: Free Refreshments will be served Hosted by: Joseph Hacia, Ph.D.

	Tuesday November 13 at 12:00 Noon
Sponsor:	The Saban Research Institute Seminars
Speaker:	Jessica Rousset and Dr. Nora Heisterkamp
Title:	Record Keeping and Documentation
Location:	Auditorium, Saban Research building
	Childrens Hospital Los Angeles (CHLA)
Contact:	Denise 323-361-4110 ddillon@chla.usc.edu
	Topic of Intellectual Property presented by Jessica Rousset, Director of Technology Transfer at The Saban Research Institute. Topic of Data Management presented by Dr. Nora Heisterkamp, Professor of Hematology/Oncology

	Tuesday November 13 at 12:00 Noon
	12:00 - 1:00 p.m.
Sponsor:	USC/Norris Cancer Center Grand Rounds
Speaker:	Agnieszka Kobielak, Ph.D.
	Assistant Professor, Department of Otolaryngology, Department of Biochemistry & Molecular Biology, Keck School of Medicine, USC, Los Angeles, CA 90089
Title:	Interplay Between Cadherin & Integrin Signaling in Squamous Cell Carcinoma
Location:	Norris Topping Tower, Conference Room 7409
	Health Sciences Campus (HSC)
Contact:	Jona Cura (323) 865-0801 cura_j@ccnt.usc.edu
	Refreshments Provided

	Monday November 12 at 12:00 Noon
Sponsor:	Center for Craniofacial Molecular Biology, School of Dentistry
Speaker:	Paul Zaslansky
	DMD., Ph.D., Department of Biomaterials, Max Planck Institute of colloids and Interfaces, Potsdam, Germany
Title:	Structure and Mechanical Function of Micron Sized Features in Human Tooth Dentin
Location:	Large Conference Room, CSC 120A
	Health Sciences Campus (HSC)
Contact:	Magdalena Morales, (323) 442-3170 magdaljm@usc.edu
Website:	www.usc.edu/hsc/dental/ccmb
	1 Unit of Continuing Education Credit will be awarded

	Monday November 12 at 12:00 Noon
Sponsor:	Basic Science Seminar Series
Speaker:	Barry Polisky, Ph.D
	Research Vice President, Sirna Therapeutics, Merck Research Laboratories, Boulder, CO
Title:	Development of RNA Therapeutics
Location:	USC/Norris Topping Tower 7409
	Health Sciences Campus (HSC)
Contact:	Graciela Mercado (323) 442-1144 gracielm@usc.edu
	Host: Michael Stallcup Pizza lunch will be served

New Week

	Friday November 09 at 12:00 Noon
Sponsor:	Division V - CCMB Seminar
Speaker:	Xin-Hua Feng, PhD
	Associate Professor, Department of Molecular and Cellular Biology, Baylor College of Medicine, Houston, Texas
Title:	Nuts, Bolts and Axes in TGF Beta Signaling
Location:	Large Conference Room, CSC 120A
	Health Sciences Campus (HSC)
Contact:	Magdalena Morales, (323) 442-3170 magdaljm@usc.edu
Website:	www.usc.edu/hsc/dental/ccmb
	1 Unit of Continuing Education Credit will be awarded

	Friday November 09 at 12:00 Noon
Sponsor:	Biochemistry Graduate Student Seminar Series
Speaker:	Sahar Hooshdaran
	Graduate Student, Biochemistry & Molecular Biology
Title:	Biomarker Discovery for Early Detection of Ovarian Cancer
Location:	Hastings Auditorium (1st floor), Elaine Stevely Hoffman Medical Research Building (HMR)
	Health Sciences Campus (HSC)
Contact:	Anne Rice (323) 442-1145 anne.rice@keck.usc.edu
Website:	www.usc.edu/medicine/biochemistry/
	Mentor: Dr. Peter Laird; Host: Meleeneh Kazarian

	Thursday November 08 at 12:00 Noon
Sponsor:	The Institute for Genetic Medicine - 2007 Massry Prize Recipient
Speaker:	Michael E. Phelps, Ph.D.
	Norton Simon Professor, Chair, Department of Molecular and Medical Pharmacology / Director, Institute for Molecular Medicine,, Director, Crump Institute for Molecular Imaging / David Geffen School of Medicine, UCLA, Los Angeles, Ca
Title:	PET: Molecular Imaging Biomarkers for Molecular Diagnostics
Location:	IGM Harkness Assembly, 2250 Alcazar Street, CSC-250
	Health Sciences Campus (HSC)
Contact:	Gracie (323) 442-1144 graciela.mercado@usc.edu
Website:	www.usc.edu/igm/face.php?C=dist_seminar
	Admission: Free Hosted by: Shaul Massry, M.D. Lunch will be provided

	Thursday November 08 at 12:00 Noon
Sponsor:	USC Research Center for Liver Diseases
Speaker:	Mark Kay, MD, PhD
	Professor, Pediatrics and Genetics, Stanford University School of Medicine
Title:	Combining Gene Therapy and RNAi to Combat Viral Hepatitis Infection.
Location:	Hoffman Medical Research Bldg, Hastings Auditorium, 2011 Zonal Avenue, Los Angeles, CA, HSC campus
	Health Sciences Campus (HSC)
Contact:	Dolores Mendoza 323) 442-1283 dmmendoz@usc.edu
	Dr. Kay's research focuses on the development of strategies for achieving persistent and therapeutic levels of gene expression in vivo through viral vectors and stem cell technology. Recently Dr. Kay's group has developed RNAi approaches for the treatment of Hepatitis B and C infections. Pizza will be served.

New Week

	Friday November 02 at 12:00 Noon
Sponsor:	Biochemistry Graduate Student Seminar Series
Speaker:	Meleeneh Kazarian
	Graduate Student, Genetic, Molecular and Cellular Biology
Title:	Hu proteins: Immuno-responsiveness in small-cell lung cancer-related autoimmune disease
Location:	Hastings Auditorium (1st floor), Elaine Stevely Hoffman Medical Research Building (HMR)
	Health Sciences Campus (HSC)
Contact:	Anne Rice (323) 442-1145 anne.rice@keck.usc.edu
Website:	www.usc.edu/medicine/biochemistry/
	Mentor: Dr. Ite Laird-Offringa; Host: Dan Purcell

	Thursday November 01 at 12:00 Noon
Sponsor:	USC Ethel Percy Andrus Gerontology Center - Multidisciplinary Research Colloquium Series in Aging
Speaker:	Rita Effros, Ph.D.
	Professor of Pathology and Laboratory Medicine, David Geffen School of Medicine, UCLA, Los Angeles
Title:	Role of the Immune System in Health, Aging, and Lifespan
Location:	GER 224, Andrus Gerontology Center, 3715 McClintock Avenue, UPC
	University Park Campus (UPC)
Contact:	213.740.8242 linda.hall@usc.edu
Website:	www.usc.edu/dept/gero/colloquium/

October 2007

	Tuesday October 30 at 12:00 Noon
Sponsor:	The Saban Research Institute Seminars
Speaker:	Sebastien G. Bouret, PhD
	Assistant Professor, Pediatrics, Keck School of Medicine, University of Southern California/Childrens Hospital LA, Los Angeles, CA 90027
Title:	Developmental Programming of Brain Feeding Circuits
Location:	Auditorium, Saban Research building
	Childrens Hospital Los Angeles (CHLA)
Contact:	Denise 323-361-4110 ddillon@chla.usc.edu

	Tuesday October 30 at 12:00 Noon
	12:00 - 1:00 p.m.
Sponsor:	USC/Norris Cancer Center Grand Rounds
Speaker:	Valter Longo, Ph.D.
	Associate Professor, Andrus Gerontology Center & Dept. of Molecular & Computational Biology, School of Gerontology & Dept. of Biological Sciences, USC
Title:	Regulation of Age-Dependent DNA Damage: From Yeast to Humans
Location:	Norris Topping Tower, Conference Room 7409
	Health Sciences Campus (HSC)
Contact:	Jona Cura (323) 865-0801 cura_j@ccnt.usc.edu
Website:	uscnorriscancer.usc.edu/core/calendar/OccurDetail.aspx?OID=2800
	Refreshments Provided

	Monday October 29 at 1:00 PM
Sponsor:	Center for Craniofacial Molecular Biology, School of Dentistry
Speaker:	Elaine DiMasi
	Ph.D., Center for Craniofacial Molecular Biology/School of Dentistry and The Institute for Genetic Medicine, 2250 Alcazar Street CSC 120 A, HSC, Los Angeles, CA 90033
Title:	Biomineralization of Extracellular Matrix Proteins in Vivo and in Culture: Observations by AFM-Based Modulus Measurements and Synchrotron X-ray Scattering
Location:	Large Conference Room, CSC 120A
	Health Sciences Campus (HSC)
Contact:	Magdalena Morales, (323) 442-3170 magdaljm@usc.edu
Website:	www.usc.edu/hsc/dental/ccmb

New Week

	Friday October 26 at 12:00 Noon
Sponsor:	USC SCHOOL OF PHARMACY Department of Pharmacology and Pharmaceutical Sciences Seminar Series
Speaker:	Harry Ischiropoulos, Ph. D.
	Professor of Pediatrics and Pharmacology, Pediatrics, University of Pennsylvania, Philadelphia, PA
Title:	Functional and structural proteomics of nitric oxide signaling pathways
Location:	John Stauffer Pharmaceutical Sciences Center, PSC Rm. 104, USC School of Pharmacy, 1985 Zonal Avenue, Los Angeles, CA 90089-9121
	Health Sciences Campus (HSC)
Contact:	Josefina Morales (323)442-1451 josefina@usc.edu
	Faculty Host contact info: Dikran Toroser,Ph.D. (Voice: 323-442-1401; eMail: dtoroser@usc.edu) Refreshments will be provided!

	Friday October 26 at 12:00 Noon
Sponsor:	Biochemistry Graduate Student Seminar Series
Speaker:	Daniel Purcell
	Graduate Student, Genetic, Molecular and Cellular Biology
Title:	The Role of Histone H3 Lysine Methyltransferase G9a in Nuclear Receptor Mediated Transcription Activation
Location:	Hastings Auditorium (1st floor), Elaine Stevely Hoffman Medical Research Building (HMR)
	Health Sciences Campus (HSC)
Contact:	Anne Rice (323) 442-1145 anne.rice@keck.usc.edu
Website:	www.usc.edu/medicine/biochemistry/
	Mentor: Dr. Michael Stallcup; Host: Paul Chang

	Friday October 26 at 08:00 AM
Sponsor:	Pathology & Laboratory Medicine Grand Rounds
Speaker:	Roscoe D. Atkinson, M.D.
	Associate Professor of Clinical Pathology & Neurology, USC Keck School of Medicine
Title:	Pathology Informatics and Microscopic Image Analysis
Location:	Norris Topping Tower, Conf Rm 7409, Norris Cancer Hospital
	Health Sciences Campus (HSC)
Contact:	Linda Huynh, (323) 442-3320 lhuynh@keck.usc.edu
	Refreshments will be served.

	Thursday October 25 at 12:00 Noon
Sponsor:	USC Research Center for Liver Diseases
Speaker:	Shi Huang, Ph.D.
	Associate Professor, The Burnham Institute for Medical Research, La Jolla
Title:	RIZ1 Methyltransferase: the Target for Healthy Diet in Cancer Prevention.
Location:	Hoffman Medical Research Bldg, Hastings Auditorium, 2011 Zonal Avenue, Los Angeles, CA, HSC campus
	Health Sciences Campus (HSC)
Contact:	Dolores Mendoza 323) 442-1283 dmmendoz@usc.edu
	Dr. Huang's research focuses on the role of histone methyltansferases in tumor suppression. These enzymes require methyl intake for activity. Dr. Huang's group is examining the hypothesis that diets rich in meat and low in vegetables and fruit can cause cancer through the inhibition of methyl transferases. Pizza will be served.

	Tuesday October 23 at 12:00 Noon
	12:00 - 1:00 p.m.
Sponsor:	USC/Norris Cancer Center Grand Rounds
Speaker:	Michael Kahn, Ph.D.
	Provost's Professor of Medicine & Pharmacy, Center for Stem Cell & Regenerative Medicine, Broad Institute for Integrative Biology & Stem Cell Research, USC
Title:	Wnt/â-catenin Signaling: Colon Cancer and a Whole Lot More
Location:	Norris Topping Tower, Conference Room 7409
	Health Sciences Campus (HSC)
Contact:	Jona Cura (323) 865-0801 cura_j@ccnt.usc.edu
Website:	uscnorriscancer.usc.edu/core/calendar/OccurDetail.aspx?OID=2800
	Refreshments Provided

	Tuesday October 23 at 11:30 AM
	11:30am - 1:30pm
Sponsor:	The Saban Research Institute Seminars
Speaker:	Thomas E. Ogden, MD, PhD
	Emeritus Professor, Physiology and Biophysics, USC Keck School of Medicine, Los Angeles, CA 90033
Title:	Grantsmanship to the Rescue GRANT WRITING WORKSHOP
Location:	Auditorium, Saban Research building
	Childrens Hospital Los Angeles (CHLA)
Contact:	Denise 323-361-4110 ddillon@chla.usc.edu

	Monday October 22 at 12:00 Noon
Sponsor:	Basic Science Seminar Series
Speaker:	Michael Caplan, M.D.,Ph.D.
	Professor, Cellular and Molecular Physiology and Cell Biology, Yale University School of Medicine, New Haven, CT
Title:	Playing in Traffic: Membrane Protein Transport in Health and Disease
Location:	USC/Norris Topping Tower 7409
	Health Sciences Campus (HSC)
Contact:	Graciela Mercado (323) 442-1144 gracielm@usc.edu
	Host: Alan Yu, M.D. Pizza Lunch will be served

New Week

	Friday October 19 at 12:00 Noon
Sponsor:	USC SCHOOL OF PHARMACY Department of Pharmacology and Pharmaceutical Sciences Seminar Series
Speaker:	Aiwu Cheng, Ph.D.
	Visiting Fellow, Lab of Neuroscience, National Institute on Aging, Baltimore, MD
Title:	Mitochondria: Working toward the regeneration
Location:	John Stauffer Pharmaceutical Sciences Center, PSC Rm. 104, USC School of Pharmacy, 1985 Zonal Avenue, Los Angeles, CA 90089-9121
	Health Sciences Campus (HSC)
Contact:	Josefina Morales (323)442-1451 josefina@usc.edu
	Faculty Host contact info: Jean Shih,Ph.D. (Voice: 323-442-1441; eMail: jcshih@usc.edu) Refreshments will be provided!

	Friday October 19 at 12:00 Noon
Sponsor:	Biochemistry Graduate Student Seminar Series
Speaker:	Paul Chang, Graduate student
Title:	Crystal structure of the GINS complex and functional insights into its role in DNA replication
Location:	Hastings Auditorium (1st floor), Elaine Stevely Hoffman Medical Research Building (HMR)
	Health Sciences Campus (HSC)
Contact:	Anne Rice (323) 442-1145 anne.rice@keck.usc.edu
Website:	www.usc.edu/medicine/biochemistry/
	Mentor: Dr. Dr. Xiaojiang Chen; Host: Christopher Schafer

	Friday October 19 at 10:30 AM
	10:30-11:30 Presentation 11:30-12:00 Networking Lunch
Sponsor:	USC Childhood Obesity Research Center - TREC TEAM Seminar
Speaker:	Simin Liu, MD, ScD, MPH
	Professor of Epidemiology, Director, Program on Genomics and Nutrition & Professor of Medicine, School of Public Health & The David Geffen School of Medicine, UCLA, Los Angeles, CA
Title:	From Sick Population to Sick Molecules - Understanding the Modern Epidemics of Metabolic Diseases for Prevention
Location:	2250 Alcazar Street, CSC 250 (Harkness Conference Room in IGM)
	Health Sciences Campus (HSC)
Contact:	Kami McClure, 323.442.4101 mmcclure@usc.edu
Website:	ctrec.usc.edu/
	Go in the main door of IGM on Alcazar. Go Right to the elevator. Go to the 2nd floor. Exit toward your Left. Enter Suite 240 (small sign on the left wall) Double Doors. Ask for directions to Harkness from the front desk receptionist on your right or Wind around through the hallway (go to the left) until you come to room 250. *Please be sure to wind around through the hallway to your left to Harkness instead of going to your right so we do not disturb faculty in their offices. Please RSVP to Kami McClure at mmcclure@usc.edu or 323.442.4101 and indicate if you will attend the lunch and seminar or just the seminar.

	Thursday October 18 at 12:00 Noon
Sponsor:	USC Research Center for Liver Diseases
Speaker:	Chuck Samuel, Ph.D.
	Charles A. Storke II Professor fo Molecular Biology, University of California, Santa Barbara
Title:	Interferon Action and the Regulation of Gene Expression through Double-Stranded RNA.
Location:	Hoffman Medical Research Bldg, Hastings Auditorium, 2011 Zonal Avenue, Los Angeles, CA, HSC campus
	Health Sciences Campus (HSC)
Contact:	Dolores Mendoza 323) 442-1283 dmmendoz@usc.edu
	The overall objective of Dr. Samuel's research is to elucidate the molecular mechanisms by which interferons exert their antiviral and cell growth control actions in mammalian cells. Current studies describe the effects of interferon-inducible enzymes such as PKR and ADAR on apoptosis and viral replication. Pizza will be served.

	Thursday October 18 at 10:00 AM
Sponsor:	USC SCHOOL OF PHARMACY Department of Pharmacology and Pharmaceutical Sciences Special Seminar
Speaker:	Garth Ehrlich, Ph.D.
	Exec. Dir., Ctr. for Genom. Scie., Scientif., Governmental and Regional Affairs Liaison Officer, Allegheny Singer Res. Institute; Prof. of Microbiol and Immunol, Prof. of Otolaryngology, Vice Chair and Prof. of Human Genet., Drexel Univ. Col of Med, College of Medicine, Allegheny Singer Research Institute/Drexel University College of Medicine, Philadelphia, PA
Title:	Bacteria as Multicellular Organisms: Population-Level Virulence Factors
Location:	John Stauffer Pharmaceutical Sciences Center, PSC Rm. 104, USC School of Pharmacy, 1985 Zonal Avenue, Los Angeles, CA 90089-9121
	Health Sciences Campus (HSC)
Contact:	Josefina Morales (323)442-1451 josefina@usc.edu
	Faculty Host contact info: Dr. Sarah Hamm-Alvarez,Ph.D.(Voice: 323-442-1445; eMail: shalvar@usc.edu) Refreshments will be provided!

	Wednesday October 17 at 2:00 PM
Sponsor:	Division of Biokinesiology & Physical Therapy at the School of Dentistry
Speaker:	Douglas Stuart, PhD
	Regents' Professor Emeritus, Physiology, University of Arizona, Tucson, Az 85724
Title:	Reflections on Integrative and Comparative Neuroscience
Location:	Zilka Auditorium
	Health Sciences Campus (HSC)
Contact:	Nina Bradley, 323-442-2910 nbradley@usc.edu
Website:	www.physiology.arizona.edu/index.php/articles/12
	Reception to follow, faculty contact: Nina Bradley, PhD, nbradley@usc.edu, 323-442-2910

	Wednesday October 17 at 12:00 Noon
Sponsor:	Zilkha Neurogenetic Institute
Speaker:	Florian Engert, Ph.D.
	Associate Professor, Molecular and Cellular Biology, Harvard University, Cambridge, MA 02138
Title:	Visual processing in the developing zebrafish
Location:	Zilkha Neurogenetic Institute, Herklotz Seminar Room, Room 112
	Health Sciences Campus (HSC)
Contact:	Deshon Vaughn, 323-442-3219 vaughnca@usc.edu
Website:	www.usc.edu/zni

	Tuesday October 16 at 12:00 Noon
	12:00 - 1:00 p.m.
Sponsor:	USC/Norris Cancer Center Grand Rounds
Speaker:	Ravi Bhatia, M.D.
	Director, Department of Hematopoietic Stem Cell & Leukemia Research / Professor, Division of Hematology & HCT, City of Hope National Medical Center
Title:	Stem Cell Transformation & Targeting in Chronic Myeloid Leukemia
Location:	Norris Topping Tower, Conference Room 7409
	Health Sciences Campus (HSC)
Contact:	Jona Cura (323) 865-0801 cura_j@ccnt.usc.edu
	Refreshments Provided

New Week

	Friday October 12 at 12:00 Noon
Sponsor:	Center for Craniofacial Molecular Biology, School of Dentistry
Speaker:	Xun Xu., M.S.
	Ph.D., Candidate, Center for Craniofacial Molecular Biology/School of Dentistry, 2250 Alcazar Street CSC 120 A, Los Angeles, CA 90033
Title:	An Alternative Mediator for TGF-β/BMP Signaling during Tooth and Palate Development
Location:	Large Conference Room, CSC 120A
	Health Sciences Campus (HSC)
Contact:	Magdalena Morales, (323) 442-3170 magdaljm@usc.edu
Website:	www.usc.edu/hsc/dental/ccmb

	Thursday October 11 at 12:00 Noon
Sponsor:	USC Research Center for Liver Diseases
Speaker:	Frances M. Sladek, Ph.D.
	Professor of Cell Biology & Toxicologist, Cell Biology & Neuroscience, University of California, Riverside
Title:	HNF4alpha: New Views of an Old Orphan Nuclear Receptor.
Location:	Hoffman Medical Research Bldg, Hastings Auditorium, 2011 Zonal Avenue, Los Angeles, CA, HSC campus
	Health Sciences Campus (HSC)
Contact:	Dolores Mendoza 323) 442-1283 dmmendoz@usc.edu
	Dr. Sladek investigates the mechanism by which the liver enriched transcription factor 4 (HNF4) controls the expression of gene including those involved in glucose, fatty acid and cholesterol metabolism. HNF4 has been directly linked to several human diseases including diabetes and hepatitis infections. Pizza will be served.

	Wednesday October 10 at 12:00 Noon
Sponsor:	Zilkha Neurogenetic Institute
Speaker:	William Mobley, M.D., Ph.D.
	Professor & Chair, Neurology & Neurological Sciences, Director, Neuroscience Institute, Stanford University School of Medicine
Title:	NGF Signaling from Endosomes for Neuronal Survival and Maintenance: A Moving Experience
Location:	Zilkha Neurogenetic Institute, Herklotz Seminar Room, Room 112
	Health Sciences Campus (HSC)
Contact:	Deshon Vaughn, 323-442-3219 vaughnca@usc.edu
Website:	www.usc.edu/zni
	lunch

	Wednesday October 10 at 12:00 Noon
Sponsor:	The Institute for Genetic Medicine - DISTINGUISHED SPEAKERS SEMINAR SERIES
Speaker:	John Quackenbush, Ph.D.
	Professor, Biostatistics and Computational Biology - Dana-Farber Cancer Institute, Department of Biostatistics - Harvard School of Public Health, Boston, MA
Title:	Extracting Biological Meaning from High-Dimensional Datasets
Location:	IGM Harkness Assembly, 2250 Alcazar Street, CSC-250
	Health Sciences Campus (HSC)
Contact:	Gracie (323) 442-1144 graciela.mercado@usc.edu
Website:	www.usc.edu/igm/face.php?C=dist_seminar
	Admission: Free Refreshments will be served

	Tuesday October 09 at 12:00 Noon
	12:00 - 1:00 p.m.
Sponsor:	USC/Norris Cancer Center Grand Rounds
Speaker:	Kathleen Danenberg
	President & CEO, Response Genetics, Inc., Los Angeles
Title:	Gene Expression Profiling of Tumors by Microarray Analysis Using RNA from Formalin-Fixed Paraffin-Embedded (FFPE) Tissue Samples
Location:	Norris Topping Tower, Conference Room 7409
	Health Sciences Campus (HSC)
Contact:	Jona Cura (323) 865-0801 cura_j@ccnt.usc.edu
Website:	uscnorriscancer.usc.edu/core/calendar/OccurDetail.aspx?OID=2800
	Refreshments Provided

Monday October 08 at 09:00 AM

9:00 AM - 5:00 PM

Sponsor:

10th Annual IGM Symposium: Urchins, Muscles and Genes - Honoring Larry Kedes

Location:

IGM Harkness Assembly, 2250 Alcazar Street, CSC-250

Health Sciences Campus (HSC)

Contact:

Gracie (323) 442-1144 graciela.mercado@usc.edu

Website:

www.usc.edu/igm/face.php?C=dist_seminar

This is an all-day symposium honoring the 15 anniversary of the USC Institute for Genetic Medicine and its founding director Larry Kedes. Presentations will be by former students, postdoctorals and collaborators of Dr. Kedes. Organizing committee: Professors Richard Bergman, Baruch Frenkel, Robert Maxson and Coralie Poizat. Everyone is welcome to attend.


9:00 AM	Peter Jones	Distinguished Professor of Urology, Biochemistry & Molecular Biology, Director, USC/Norris Comprehensive Cancer Center	WELCOME
9:15 AM	Shoshana Levy	Professor of Medicine, Stanford University School of Medicine	Moderator: Urchins in the 70's
9:15 AM	Michael Grunstein	Professor and Chair, Department of Biological Chemistry, University of California Los Angeles	Histone Genes and Proteins
9:45 AM	Richard Lifton	Professor and Chair, Department of Genetics, Yale University School of Medicine	Insights into Cardiovascular, Renal and Bone Disease from Human Genetic Studies
10:15 AM	Robert Maxson	Professor of Biochemistry & Molecular Biology, USC	Trying to Avoid the Road More Taken and Other Lessons From Larry's Lab

10:45 AM	COFFEE BREAK
11:00 AM	Stephen Embury	Professor of Medicine Emeritus, UCSF	Moderator: Gene Families in the 80’s
11:00 AM	Joanne Engel	Professor of Medicine and Microbiology, UCSF	Not Missing in 'acti(o)n'. The Interaction of Pseudomonas with the Host Cell Cytoskeleton
11:30 AM	Karen O'Malley	Professor of Anatomy and Neurobiology, Washington University School of Medicine, St. Louis	Why Do Neurons Die in Parkinson's Disease?
12:00 PM	Peter Gunning	Head, Department of Oncology Research, The Children’s Hospital at Westmead and Professor, University of Sydney, Australia	Spatial Specialisation of the Cytoskeleton in Muscle and Non-muscle Cells

12:30 PM	LUNCH
1:45 PM	Jing Huang	Assistant Professor, Molecular and Medical Pharmacology, UCLA	Moderator: Muscle Gene Regulation in the 90's
1:45 PM	Linda Boxer	Professor and Head, Division of Hematology, Department of Medicine, Stanford University School of Medicine	Activation of bcl-2 by the t(14;18) Translocation
2:15 PM	George Muscat	Professor, University of Queensland, Australia	Investigating Crosstalk Between beta-adrenergic and Nuclear Receptor Signaling in Skeletal Muscle: Insights into Metabolism
2:45 PM	Vittorio Sartorelli	Lab Chief, Laboratory of Muscle Stem Cells and Gene Regulation, National Institute of Arthritis and Musculoskeletal and Skin Diseases, Bethesda, MD	Control of Skeletal Muscle Gene Expression

3:15 PM	COFFEE BREAK
3:30 PM	Coralie Poizat	Assistant Professor of Biochemistry & Molecular Biology, USC	Moderator: Cardiac Genes: from the 90's to the Present
3:30 PM	Masahiko Kurabayashi	Professor, Graduate School of Medicine, Gunma niversity, Japan	Notch and Cardiovascular Disease
4:00PM	Mark Sussman	Professor, San Diego State University	Cardiac Stem Cells: Engineered to Enhance Myocardial Regeneration
4:30 PM	Robert A. Kloner	Professor of Medicine, USC, Director, Heart Institute, Good Samaritan Hospital, Los Angeles	Cell Therapy for Myocardial Infarction
5:00 PM	Larry Kedes	Professor of Biochemistry & Molecular Biology, Founding Director of the Institute for Genetic Medicine	Concluding remarks

	Monday October 08 at 3:00 PM
Sponsor:	USC Research Center for Liver Diseases
Speaker:	David Le Couteur, M.D., FRCP, Ph.D.
	Professor of Geriatric Medicine, Director, Centre for Education and Research on Ageing (CERA), The University of Sydney, Australia
Title:	Aging and Pseudocapillarization of the Liver.
Location:	Hoffman Medical Research Bldg, Hastings Auditorium, 2011 Zonal Avenue, Los Angeles, CA, HSC campus
	Health Sciences Campus (HSC)
Contact:	Dolores Mendoza 323) 442-1283 dmmendoz@usc.edu
	Capillarization of the liver is a change in the sinusoidal endothelial cells of the liver microcirculation that leads to decreased uptake of oxygen and other substances by hepatocytes. In recent years Le Couteur's group has discovered a forme fruste of capillarization called pseudocapillarization that occurs with aging (humans over age 40 and older experimental animals). This has implications for atherosclerosis (his group and others have demonstrated that capillarization impairs chylomicron remnant clearance), drug metabolism, regulation of endothelial cell phenotype, and hepatocyte function. Pizza will be served.

Monday October 08 at 09:00 AM

9:00 AM - 5:00 PM

Sponsor:

10th Annual IGM Symposium: Urchins, Muscles and Genes - Honoring Larry Kedes

Location:

IGM Harkness Assembly, 2250 Alcazar Street, CSC-250

Health Sciences Campus (HSC)

Contact:

Gracie (323) 442-1144 graciela.mercado@usc.edu

Website:

www.usc.edu/igm/face.php?C=dist_seminar


9:00 AM	Peter Jones	Distinguished Professor of Urology, Biochemistry & Molecular Biology, Director, USC/Norris Comprehensive Cancer Center	WELCOME
9:15 AM	Shoshana Levy	Professor of Medicine, Stanford University School of Medicine	Moderator: Urchins in the 70's
9:15 AM	Michael Grunstein	Professor and Chair, Department of Biological Chemistry, University of California Los Angeles	Histone Genes and Proteins
9:45 AM	Richard Lifton	Professor and Chair, Department of Genetics, Yale University School of Medicine	Insights into Cardiovascular, Renal and Bone Disease from Human Genetic Studies
10:15 AM	Robert Maxson	Professor of Biochemistry & Molecular Biology, USC	Trying to Avoid the Road More Taken and Other Lessons From Larry's Lab

10:45 AM	COFFEE BREAK
11:00 AM	Stephen Embury	Professor of Medicine Emeritus, UCSF	Moderator: Gene Families in the 80’s
11:00 AM	Joanne Engel	Professor of Medicine and Microbiology, UCSF	Not Missing in 'acti(o)n'. The Interaction of Pseudomonas with the Host Cell Cytoskeleton
11:30 AM	Karen O'Malley	Professor of Anatomy and Neurobiology, Washington University School of Medicine, St. Louis	Why Do Neurons Die in Parkinson's Disease?
12:00 PM	Peter Gunning	Head, Department of Oncology Research, The Children’s Hospital at Westmead and Professor, University of Sydney, Australia	Spatial Specialisation of the Cytoskeleton in Muscle and Non-muscle Cells

12:30 PM	LUNCH
1:45 PM	Jing Huang	Assistant Professor, Molecular and Medical Pharmacology, UCLA	Moderator: Muscle Gene Regulation in the 90's
1:45 PM	Linda Boxer	Professor and Head, Division of Hematology, Department of Medicine, Stanford University School of Medicine	Activation of bcl-2 by the t(14;18) Translocation
2:15 PM	George Muscat	Professor, University of Queensland, Australia	Investigating Crosstalk Between beta-adrenergic and Nuclear Receptor Signaling in Skeletal Muscle: Insights into Metabolism
2:45 PM	Vittorio Sartorelli	Lab Chief, Laboratory of Muscle Stem Cells and Gene Regulation, National Institute of Arthritis and Musculoskeletal and Skin Diseases, Bethesda, MD	Control of Skeletal Muscle Gene Expression

3:15 PM	COFFEE BREAK
3:30 PM	Coralie Poizat	Assistant Professor of Biochemistry & Molecular Biology, USC	Moderator: Cardiac Genes: from the 90's to the Present
3:30 PM	Masahiko Kurabayashi	Professor, Graduate School of Medicine, Gunma niversity, Japan	Notch and Cardiovascular Disease
4:00PM	Mark Sussman	Professor, San Diego State University	Cardiac Stem Cells: Engineered to Enhance Myocardial Regeneration
4:30 PM	Robert A. Kloner	Professor of Medicine, USC, Director, Heart Institute, Good Samaritan Hospital, Los Angeles	Cell Therapy for Myocardial Infarction
5:00 PM	Larry Kedes	Professor of Biochemistry & Molecular Biology, Founding Director of the Institute for Genetic Medicine	Concluding remarks

New Week

	Friday October 05 at 12:00 Noon
Sponsor:	Center for Craniofacial Molecular Biology, School of Dentistry
Speaker:	Chang Du
	Ph.D., Center for Craniofacial Molecular Biology/School of Dentistry, 2250 Alcazar Street CSC 120 A, Los Angeles, CA 90033
Title:	Immunogold Labeling of Amelogenin and Ameloblastin in Developing Porcine Enamel Revealed by High Resolution SEM
Location:	Large Conference Room, CSC 120A
	Health Sciences Campus (HSC)
Contact:	Magdalena Morales, (323) 442-3170 magdaljm@usc.edu
Website:	www.usc.edu/hsc/dental/ccmb

	Thursday October 04 at 12:00 Noon
Sponsor:	USC Research Center for Liver Diseases
Speaker:	Averil Ma, M.D.
	Ranin Distinguished Professor of Medicine, Director, UCSF Colitis and Crohn's Disease Center, University of California, San Francisco
Title:	New Molecular Instights into Inflammation - An Emerging Role for Ubiquitin.
Location:	Hoffman Medical Research Bldg, Hastings Auditorium, 2011 Zonal Avenue, Los Angeles, CA, HSC campus
	Health Sciences Campus (HSC)
Contact:	Dolores Mendoza 323) 442-1283 dmmendoz@usc.edu
	Dr. Ma's research focuses on how innate immunity regulates responses to microbial pathogens His work includes the role of a ubiquitin modifying enzyme A20 in the regulation of immune responses through NFKkB, TNF and toll-like receptor signaling. Pizza will be served.

	Tuesday October 02 at 4:00 PM
Sponsor:	Center for Stem Cell and Regenerative Medicine
Speaker:	Jim Rheinwald, PhD
	Associate Professor, Dermatology, Harvard Medical School and Brigham and Women's Hospital, Boston
Title:	A tumor suppressor mechanism that limits replicative potential in a wide variety of human epithelial cell types
Location:	Herklotz seminar room, Zilkha Blg, 1501 San Pablo St, Room 112
	Health Sciences Campus (HSC)
Contact:	Julie Kelly 323-442-4363 julie.kelly@keck.usc.edu
	Afternoon tea will be provided

	Tuesday October 02 at 12:00 Noon
	12:00 - 1:00 p.m.
Sponsor:	USC/Norris Cancer Center Grand Rounds
Speaker:	Jiing-Dwan Lee, Ph.D.
	Professor of Immunology, The Scripps Research Institute, La Jolla, CA
Title:	Unraveling Cancer Signaling Using ANimal Models & Mass Spectrometry
Location:	Norris Topping Tower, Conference Room 7409
	Health Sciences Campus (HSC)
Contact:	Jona Cura (323) 865-0801 cura_j@ccnt.usc.edu
	Refreshments Provided

September 2007

	Thursday September 27 at 12:00 Noon
Sponsor:	USC Research Center for Liver Diseases
Speaker:	Genhong Cheng, Ph.D.
	Professor, Department of Microbiology and Molecular Genetics, University of California, Los Angeles
Title:	Innate Anti-Bacterial and Anti-Viral Gene Programs and Their Association with Metabolic and Inflammatory Diseases.
Location:	Hoffman Medical Research Bldg, Hastings Auditorium, 2011 Zonal Avenue, Los Angeles, CA, HSC campus
	Health Sciences Campus (HSC)
Contact:	Dolores Mendoza 323) 442-1283 dmmendoz@usc.edu
	The overall aim of Dr. Cheng is to determine the molecular mechanisms in immune responses and cancer therapy. Dr. Cheng's laboratory at UCLA studies the role of signal transduction and gene expression network through the TNF receptor, Toll-like receptor (TLR), and Nod families during the process of innate and adaptive immune responses. The TNF receptor family members are involved in regulating cell survival, adaptive immune and inflammatory responses. Dr. Cheng's group has developed and is using a comprehensive system that combines biochemical and microarray analysis, cell-based assays, as well as animal models to determine the role and the specificity of individual receptors, signaling pathways and their targeting molecules in immune and inflammatory responses to bacterial and viral infections, as well as in cancer therapy. Pizza will be served.

	Wednesday September 26 at 12:00 Noon
Sponsor:	The Institute for Genetic Medicine - DISTINGUISHED SPEAKERS SEMINAR SERIES
Speaker:	Bing Ren, Ph.D.
	Head, Laboratory of Gene Regulation - Ludwig Institute for Cancer Research, Associate Professor - Department of Cellular and Molecular Medicine, University of California - San Diego School of Medicine, La Jolla, CA
Title:	The Promoters, Enhancers and Insulators of the Human Genome
Location:	IGM Harkness Assembly, 2250 Alcazar Street, CSC-250
	Health Sciences Campus (HSC)
Contact:	Gracie (323) 442-1144 graciela.mercado@usc.edu
Website:	www.usc.edu/igm/face.php?C=dist_seminar
	Admission: Free Refreshments will be served

	Wednesday September 26 at 09:30 AM
Sponsor:	Zilkha Neurogenetic Institute
Speaker:	Moses V. Chao, Ph.D.
	Professor, Cell Biology, Physiology, Neuroscience and Psychiatry, New York University School of Medicine, New York, New York 10016
Title:	Neuotrophins: A Window into Brain Function
Location:	Zilkha Neurogenetic Institute, Herklotz Seminar Room, Room 112
	Health Sciences Campus (HSC)
Contact:	Deshon Vaughn 323-442-3219 vaughnca@usc.edu
Website:	www.usc.edu/zni

	Tuesday September 25 at 12:00 Noon
Sponsor:	The Saban Research Institute Seminars
Speaker:	Donald B. Kohn, MD
	Professor, Division of Research Immunology/BMT, University of Southern California, Los Angeles, CA 90027
Title:	Gene Therapy Using Hematopoietic Stem Cells
Location:	Auditorium, Saban Research building
	Childrens Hospital Los Angeles (CHLA)
Contact:	Denise 323-361-4110 ddillon@chla.usc.edu

	Tuesday September 25 at 12:00 Noon
	12:00 - 1:00 p.m.
Sponsor:	USC/Norris Cancer Center Grand Rounds
Speaker:	MIN KANG, Ph.D.
	Assistant Professor of Pediatrics, Childrens Hospital Los Angeles, Los Angeles, California
Title:	Preclinical Evaluation of ABT-737, a BH3-Mimetic in Acute Lymphoblastic Leukemia
Location:	Norris Topping Tower, Conference Room 7409
	Health Sciences Campus (HSC)
Contact:	Jona Cura (323) 865-0801 cura_j@ccnt.usc.edu
	Refreshments Provided

New Week

	Friday September 21 at 09:30 AM
	2 hour event (9:30am to 11:30am)
Sponsor:	IGM & CCMB Mini Symposium
Speaker:	1. - Douglas P. Mortlock, Ph.D. 2. - Yanming Bi, Ph.D.
	1. - Assistant Professor, Vanderbilt University School of Medicine 2. - Staff Scientist, National Institute of Dental and Craniofacial Research
Title:	1. - Mapping Long-Range Regulatory Elements Around BMP Genes 2. - Identification of Tendon Stem/Progenitor Cells and their ECM Rich Niche
Location:	IGM Harkness Assembly, 2250 Alcazar Street, CSC-250
	Health Sciences Campus (HSC)
Contact:	Gracie (323) 442-1144 graciela.mercado@usc.edu
Website:	www.usc.edu/igm/face.php?C=dist_seminar
	Admission: Free Refreshments will be served

	Thursday September 20 at 12:00 Noon
Sponsor:	USC Ethel Percy Andrus Gerontology Center - Multidisciplinary Research Colloquium Series in Aging
Speaker:	Dora Costa, Ph.D.
	Professor, Economics, Massachusetts Institute of Techology and Visiting Professor UCLA
Title:	Do Social Networks Reduce the Negative Health Effects of Stress? (with Matthew E. Kahn)
Location:	GER 224, Andrus Gerontology Center, 3715 McClintock Avenue, UPC
	University Park Campus (UPC)
Contact:	213.740.8242 linda.hall@usc.edu
Website:	www.usc.edu/dept/gero/colloquium/

	Thursday September 20 at 12:00 Noon
Sponsor:	USC Research Center for Liver Diseases
Speaker:	Alexander M. van der Bliek, Ph.D.
	Associate Professor, Department of Biological Chemistry, University of California, Los Angeles
Title:	Mitochondria in Health and Disease.
Location:	Hoffman Medical Research Bldg, Hastings Auditorium, 2011 Zonal Avenue, Los Angeles, CA, HSC campus
	Health Sciences Campus (HSC)
Contact:	Dolores Mendoza 323) 442-1283 dmmendoz@usc.edu
	Mitochondrial division is an essential component of cell function and replication. Dr. Alex van der Bliek was the first to show that a dynamin-related protein (Drp1) was required for mitochondrial division. Since this pivotal finding Dr. van der Bliek's group have discovered additional factors that cooperate with Drp1 in mitochondrial division. The recent finding that Drp1 is also required for apoptosis demonstrates the central role of mitochondria in cell biology. Pizza will be served.

	Tuesday September 18 at 12:00 Noon
	12:00 - 1:00 p.m.
Sponsor:	USC/Norris Cancer Center Grand Rounds
Speaker:	Vivek Mittal, Ph.D. (Faculty Candidate)
	Assistant Professor, Cold Spring Harbor Cancer Genome Research Center, Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory, New York
Title:	Bone Marrow -Derived Microenvironments Regulate Tumore Growth & Progression of Metastasis
Location:	Norris Topping Tower, Conference Room 7409
	Health Sciences Campus (HSC)
Contact:	Jona Cura (323) 865-0801 cura_j@ccnt.usc.edu
Website:	uscnorriscancer.usc.edu/Core/Calendar/OccurDetail.aspx?OID=2674
	Refreshments Provided

	Monday September 17 at 12:00 Noon
Sponsor:	Basic Science Seminar Series
Speaker:	Vivek M. Rangnekar, Ph.D.
	Professor & Alfred Cohen, M.D., Chair in Oncology Research, Department of Radiation Medicine, Associate Director, Markey Cancer Center, University of Kentucky
Title:	A Paradigm for Cancer-Selective Apoptosis
Location:	USC/Norris Topping Tower 7409
	Health Sciences Campus (HSC)
Contact:	Graciela Mercado (323) 442-1144 gracielm@usc.edu
	Host: Pradip Roy-Burman, Ph.D. Pizza Lunch will be served

New Week

	Thursday September 13 at 11:00 AM
Sponsor:	Department of Ophthalmology and Doheny Eye Institute
Speaker:	William W. Hauswirth, Ph.D.
	Rybaczki-Bullard Professor of Ophthalmic Molecular Genetics, Ophthalmology, University of Florida College of Medicine and University of Florida Genetics Institute, Gainesville, FL 32610-0284
Title:	Cone Targeted Gene Therapy
Location:	Herklotz Seminar Room, Room 112, Zilkha Neurogenetic Institute,1501 San Pablo Street, Los Angeles, CA. ,
	Health Sciences Campus (HSC)
Contact:	Cheryl M. Craft, Ph.D. 323-442-6692 or Gerda Goette, 323-442-6694 (goette@usc.edu) ccraft@usc.edu
Website:	www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2007/05/070521134733.htm
	Refreshments Host contact information: Cheryl M. Craft, Ph.D., ccraft@usc.edu

	Wednesday September 12 at 12:00 Noon
Sponsor:	Zilkha Neurogenetic Institute
Speaker:	Donald DeFranco, Ph.D.
	Professor of Neuroscience and Pharmacology; Director, Molecular Pharmacology Graduate Program, Pharmacology & Pittsburgh Institute for Neurodegenerative Diseases, University of Pittsburgh, Pittsburgh, PA. 15260
Title:	Regulation of MAP Kinase Signaling Pathways in Neurodegeneration
Location:	Zilkha Neurogenetic Institute, Herklotz Seminar Room, Room 112
	Health Sciences Campus (HSC)
Contact:	Deshon Vaughn, 323-442-3219 vaughnca@usc.edu
Website:	www.usc.edu/zni

	Tuesday September 11 at 4:00 PM
Sponsor:	Center for Stem Cell and Regenerative Medicine
Speaker:	Phil Newmark
	Associate Professor, Cell and Developmental Biology, University of illinois-Champaign
Title:	Germ cell development and regeneration in planaria
Location:	Herklotz seminar room, Zilkha Blg, 1501 San Pablo St, Room 112
	Health Sciences Campus (HSC)
Contact:	Julie Kelly 323-442-4363 julie.kelly@keck.usc.edu
	Afternoon tea will be provided

	Tuesday September 11 at 12:00 Noon
Sponsor:	USC/Norris Cancer Center Grand Rounds
Speaker:	Wadih Arap, M.D., Ph.D.
	Deputy Chairman & Professor of Medicine, Department of Genitourinary Medical Oncology, Hubert L. & Olive Stringer Professorship for Cancer Treatment & Research, The University of Texas M.D. Anderson Cancer Center
Title:	Ligand-Directed Vascular Targeting & Molecular Imaging
Location:	Norris Topping Tower, Conference Room 7409
	Health Sciences Campus (HSC)
Contact:	Isabel Lora (323) 865-3147 lora_m@ccnt.usc.edu
	Refreshments Provided

	Tuesday September 11 at 12:00 Noon
	12:00 - 1:00 p.m.
Sponsor:	USC/Norris Cancer Center Grand Rounds
Speaker:	Renata Pasqualini, Ph.D.
	Professor of Medicine, Department of Genitourinary Medical Oncology, Helen Buchanan & Stanley Joseph Seeger Research Professorship, The University of Texas M.D. Anderson Cancer Center
Title:	Ligand-Directed Vacular Targeting & Molecular Imaging
Location:	Norris Topping Tower, Conference Room 7409
	Health Sciences Campus (HSC)
Contact:	Jona Cura (323) 865-0801 cura_j@ccnt.usc.edu
	Refreshments Provided

	Tuesday September 11 at 10:00 AM
Sponsor:	USC/Norris Cancer Center
Speaker:	Donald DeFranco, Ph.D.
	Professor of Neuroscience and Pharmacology, Director, Molecular Pharmacology Graduate Program, Pharmacology & Pittsburgh Institute for Neurodegenerative Disease, University of Pittsburgh, Pittsburgh, PA. 15260
Title:	Hic-5, an androgen receptor coactivator involved in bidirectional communication between stromal and epithelial compartments of the prostate
Location:	Norris Topping Tower, Conference Room 7409
	Health Sciences Campus (HSC)
Contact:	Jona Cura (323) 865-0801 cura_j@ccnt.usc.edu
	Host: Michael R. Stallcup, NOR 6316, 323-865-3852/3; stallcup@usc.edu If you would like to meet with Dr. DeFranco or have lunch with him, please contact Mike Stallcup

New Week

	Thursday September 06 at 12:00 Noon
Sponsor:	USC Ethel Percy Andrus Gerontology Center - Multidisciplinary Research Colloquium Series in Aging
Speaker:	Margaret Gatz, Ph.D.
	Professor, Psychology, University
Title:	Using Twin Studies to Address Gerontological Mysteries
Location:	GER 224, Andrus Gerontology Center, 3715 McClintock Avenue, UPC
	University Park Campus (UPC)
Contact:	213.740.8242 linda.hall@usc.edu
Website:	www.usc.edu/dept/gero/colloquium/

	Thursday September 06 at 12:00 Noon
Sponsor:	Custom Microarray Core Facility - Genome Wide Methylation, CGH, CHIP Chip
Speaker:	Luke Dannenburg, Ph.D.
	Assoc. Product Manager, ChIP chip Business Unit, Roche NimbleGen
Title:	Microarray-Based Technologies for Genome-Wide Characterization of Epigenetic Mechanisms and Copy Number Variation
Location:	IGM Harkness Assembly, 2250 Alcazar Street, CSC-250
	Health Sciences Campus (HSC)
Contact:	Nancy (323) 442-1071 hsuy@usc.edu
Website:	www.usc.edu/igm/face.php?C=dist_seminar
	Admission: Free Refreshments will be served

	Wednesday September 05 at 12:00 Noon
Sponsor:	Basic Science Seminar Series
Speaker:	Chi Van Dang, M.D., Ph.D.
	Professor of Medicine, Cell Biology, Oncology and Pathology & The Johns Hopkins Family Professor in Oncology Research, Vice Dean for Research, Johns Hopkins University School of Medicine, Baltimore, MD
Title:	Global Mapping of the MYC Target Gene Network: miRNAs and Tumor Metabolism
Location:	USC/Norris Topping Tower 7409
	Health Sciences Campus (HSC)
Contact:	Graciela Mercado (323) 442-1144 gracielm@usc.edu
	Pizza Lunch will be served

August 2007

	Friday August 31 at 1:30 PM
Sponsor:	Division of Research Immunology/BMT Special Research Seminar
Speaker:	Gislaine A. Martins, Ph.D.
	Post Doctoral Research Scientist, Department of Microbiology, Columbia University College of Physicians and Surgeons, New York, NY
Title:	Regulation of T lymphocyte homeostasis and function by the transcriptional repressor Blimp-1
Location:	Smith Research Tower, Room 200, 4546 Sunset Boulevard, Los Angeles, CA 90027
	Childrens Hospital Los Angeles (CHLA)
Contact:	Maria Paz Grant, 323-361-2546 mgrant@chla.usc.edu
	Smith Research Tower is accessible only with a CHLA ID badge. Please call or e-mail Maria Paz Grant if you plan to attend. Arrangements will be made to have a staff member meet you at the door of the building.

	Monday August 27 at 11:00 AM
Sponsor:	USC SCHOOL OF PHARMACY Department of Pharmacology and Pharmaceutical Sciences
Speaker:	Richard A. Strugnell, Ph.D.
	Professor, Department of Microbiology & Immunology, University of Melbourne, Parkville, AUSTRALIA
Title:	Secretory Antibodies, Beyond Infection Immunity
Location:	John Stauffer Pharmaceutical Sciences Center, PSC Rm. 112, USC School of Pharmacy, 1985 Zonal Avenue, Los Angeles, CA 90089-9121
	Health Sciences Campus (HSC)
Contact:	Josefina Morales (323)442-1451 josefina@usc.edu
	Faculty Host contact info: Sarah F. Hamm-Alvarez,Ph.D. (Voice: 323-442-1445; eMail: shalvar@usc.edu) Refreshments will be provided!

New Week

	Monday August 06 at 11:45 AM
	11:45 a.m. to 1:00 p.m.
Sponsor:	Southern California Environmental Health Sciences Center
Speaker:	John S. Adams, M.D.
	Director, Orthopaedic Hospital Musculoskeletal Institute, Vice Chair for Research in the Department of Orthopaedic Surgery, David Geffen School of Medicine at UCLA, Los Angeles, CA
Title:	Vitamin D as an Immunoregulator
Location:	CHP 101
	Health Sciences Campus (HSC)
Contact:	Helen Tol, 323-442-1096 tol@usc.edu
	Lunch will be provided.

	Monday August 06 at 09:00 AM
Sponsor:	Department of Neurology and the Alfred Mann Institute for Biomedical Engineering
Speaker:	Todd Kuiken, M.D., Ph.D.
	Director of the Neural Engineering Center for Artificial Limbs, Associate Professor of Physical Medicine & Rehabilitation, Rehabilitation Institute of Chicago, Northwestern University, Chicago, Il
Title:	Targeted Reinnervation: a new neural interface for improved artificial arm function
Location:	Conference Rm. 112, Zilkha Neurogenetics Institute
	Health Sciences Campus (HSC)
Contact:	Gerald E. Loeb, MD, , 213-821-1112 gloeb@usc.edu
	The Department of Neurology and the Alfred Mann Institute for Biomedical Engineering are proud to host a lecture about this exciting bidirectional neuroprosthetic interface between advanced mechatronic prosthetic limbs and the nervous system. There will be a live demonstration by the first recipient, who uses prosthetic arms for bilateral shoulder disarticulation amputations. A similar demo will be a featured presentation to Vice President Cheney at the DARPA Tech 2007 meeting in Anaheim the next day.

New Week

	Wednesday August 01 at 09:30 AM
Sponsor:	Department of Physiology & Biophysics - DISSERTATION DEFENSE
Speaker:	Karyn J. Catalano
	Ph.D. Candidate, Physiology & Biophysics, USC, Keck School of Medicine, Los Angeles, CA 90089
Title:	The Aging Rodent: Insulin Resistance, Obesity, and Metabolic Compensation
Location:	Norris Medical Library Conference Room
	Health Sciences Campus (HSC)
Contact:	Elena Camarena, (323) 442-1039 ecamaren@usc.edu
	Mentor: Richard N. Bergman, Ph.D., (323) 442-1040

July 2007

	Tuesday July 31 at 12:00 Noon
Sponsor:	USC SCHOOL OF PHARMACY Department of Pharmacology and Pharmaceutical Sciences
Speaker:	Joanna L. Jankowsky, Ph.D.
	Division of Biology, M.C. 156-29, California Institute of Technology, Pasadena, CA 91125-2900
Title:	Striking back at Alzheimer's disease: using mouse models to understand pathogenesis and test new therapeutic approaches
Location:	John Stauffer Pharmaceutical Sciences Center, PSC Rm. 112, USC School of Pharmacy, 1985 Zonal Avenue, Los Angeles, CA 90089-9121
	Health Sciences Campus (HSC)
Contact:	Josefina Morales (323)442-1451 josefina@usc.edu
	Faculty Host contact info: Sarah F. Hamm-Alvarez,Ph.D. (Voice: 323-442-1445; eMail: shalvar@usc.edu) Refreshments will be provided!

New Week

	Tuesday July 24 at 12:00 Noon
	12:00 - 1:00 p.m.
Sponsor:	USC/Norris Cancer Center Grand Rounds
Speaker:	Debbie Johnson, Ph.D.
	Professor, Department of Biochemistry & Molecular Biology, USC Keck School of Medicine
Title:	Novel Mechanisms for Regulating the Central Transcription Factor TBP, and its Role as an Oncogene
Location:	Norris Topping Tower, Conference Room 7409
	Health Sciences Campus (HSC)
Contact:	Isabel Lora (323) 865-0801 lora_m@ccnt.usc.edu
	Refreshments Provided

	Monday July 23 at 12:00 Noon
Sponsor:	USC SCHOOL OF PHARMACY Department of Pharmacology and Pharmaceutical Sciences
Speaker:	James S. Murday, Ph.D.
	Director of Development, Washington DC Research Advancement Office, Provost
Title:	Funding Opportunities in DOD (with emphasis in life sciences) And Funding Opportunities for the Small (Nano)-Minded
Location:	John Stauffer Pharmaceutical Sciences Center, PSC Rm. 104, USC School of Pharmacy, 1985 Zonal Avenue, Los Angeles, CA 90089-9121
	Health Sciences Campus (HSC)
Contact:	Josefina Morales (323)442-1451 josefina@usc.edu
	Faculty Host contact info: Sarah F. Hamm-Alvarez,Ph.D. (Voice: 323-442-1445; eMail: shalvar@usc.edu) Refreshments will be provided!

New Week

	Tuesday July 17 at 12:00 Noon
	12:00 - 1:00 p.m.
Sponsor:	USC/Norris Cancer Center Grand Rounds
Speaker:	Ian Haworth, Ph.D,
	Associate Professor, Department of Pharmacology & Pharmaceutical Sciences, USC Keck School of Medicine
Title:	Structural Basis of Peptide-MHC Association: Peptide Vaccine Design
Location:	Norris Topping Tower, Conference Room 7409
	Health Sciences Campus (HSC)
Contact:	Isabel Lora (323) 865-0801 lora_m@ccnt.usc.edu
	Refreshments Provided

New Week

	Thursday July 12 at 12:00 Noon
Sponsor:	Women's Cancer Program Noon Breast Conference
Speaker:	Solveig Hofvind, PhD
	Researcher, The Norwegian Cancer Registry & Research Fellow, University of Vermont
Title:	Early breast cancer detection with mammography screening – how effective is it?
Location:	NOR 7409
	Health Sciences Campus (HSC)
Contact:	Ivonne Villalobos / 865-0563 villalob@usc.edu
	TREATS WILL BE SERVED

	Tuesday July 10 at 12:00 Noon
	12:00 - 1:00 p.m.
Sponsor:	USC/Norris Cancer Center Grand Rounds
Speaker:	Markus Muschen, M.D.
	Associate Professor of Pediatrics, Department of Biochemistry and Molecular Biology, USC/Norris Comprehensive Cancer Center
Title:	Genetic Instability in BCR-ABL1-Transformed Leukemia
Location:	Norris Topping Tower, Conference Room 7409
	Health Sciences Campus (HSC)
Contact:	Isabel Lora (323) 865-0801 lora_m@ccnt.usc.edu
	Refreshments Provided

June 2007

	Friday June 29 at 12:00 Noon
Sponsor:	The Institute for Genetic Medicine - DISTINGUISHED SPEAKERS SEMINAR SERIES
Speaker:	Subburaman Mohan, Ph.D
	Research Professor, Departments of Biochemistry and Physiology, Chief, Musculoskeletal Disease Center, Jerry L. Pettis Memorial VA Medical Center, Loma Linda, CA
Title:	Studies on Spontaneous Fracture Mouse Model for Osteoporosis Reveal Evidence for a Novel Nrf1 Molecular Pathway for Vitamin C Action in Bone
Location:	IGM Harkness Assembly, 2250 Alcazar Street, CSC-250
	Health Sciences Campus (HSC)
Contact:	Gracie (323) 442-1144 graciela.mercado@usc.edu
Website:	www.usc.edu/igm/face.php?C=dist_seminar
	Admission: Free Refreshments will be served

	Friday June 29 at 11:00 AM
Sponsor:	Department of Molecular Microbiology & Immunology and the Kast lab
Speaker:	Don J. Diamond
	Professor, Virology, Beckman Institute of the City of Hope, Duarte, CA 91010
Title:	Models of Protective Immunity from Monkeys to Man to Guide Vaccine Development for Congenital and Transplant-Acquired CMV
Location:	ZNI, Herklotz Seminar Room, #112
	Health Sciences Campus (HSC)
Contact:	W. Martin Kast, 323-442-3870 mkast@usc.edu

	Tuesday June 26 at 12:00 Noon
	12:00 - 1:00 p.m.
Sponsor:	USC/Norris Cancer Center Grand Rounds
Speaker:	Karine Chung, M.D., M.S.C.E.
	Assistant Professor of Obstetrics and Gynecology, Division of Reproductive Endocrinology and Infertility
Title:	Options for Fertility Preservation in Female Patients with Cancer: The Current Status
Location:	Norris Topping Tower, Conference Room 7409
	Health Sciences Campus (HSC)
Contact:	Isabel Lora (323) 865-0801 lora_m@ccnt.usc.edu
	Refreshments Provided

	Tuesday June 26 at 12:00 Noon
Sponsor:	The Saban Research Institute Seminars
Speaker:	Zea Borok, PhD
	Co-Chief, Pulmonary, and Critical Care Medicine, University of Southern California
Title:	Extreme cell makeover: The surprising plasticity of alveolar epithelium
Location:	Auditorium, Saban Research building
	Childrens Hospital Los Angeles (CHLA)
Contact:	Denise 323-669-4110 ddillon@chla.usc.edu

New Week

	Friday June 22 at 08:00 AM
Sponsor:	Pathology & Laboratory Medicine Grand Rounds
Speaker:	Allen M. Gown, M.D.
	Medical Director and Chief Pathologist, PhenoPath Laboratories
Title:	Genogenic Immunohistochemistry: Immunohistochemistry as a Window onto the Molecular Biology of Tumors
Location:	Norris Topping Tower, Conf Rm 7409, Norris Cancer Hospital
	Health Sciences Campus (HSC)
Contact:	Nan Norona, 226-7148 norona@usc.edu
	Continuing education credit is available. Refreshments will be served.

	Tuesday June 19 at 12:00 Noon
	12:00 - 1:00 p.m.
Sponsor:	USC/Norris Cancer Center Grand Rounds
Speaker:	Karen E. Knudsen, Ph.D.
	Associate Professor, Department of Cell and Cancer Biology, University of Cincinnati, College of Medicine
Title:	SWI/SNF and the androgen axis: implications for prostate cancer
Location:	Norris Topping Tower, Conference Room 7409
	Health Sciences Campus (HSC)
Contact:	Isabel Lora (323) 865-0801 lora_m@ccnt.usc.edu
	Refreshments Provided

New Week

	Friday June 15 at 12:00 Noon
Sponsor:	Center for Craniofacial Molecular Biology, School of Dentistry
Speaker:	Akira Toyama
	Ph.D. Candidate, Center for Craniofacial Molecular Biology/School of Dentistry, 2250 Alcazar Street CSC 120 A, Los Angeles, CA 90033
Title:	Cytokine Signaling in thymopoiesis
Location:	Large Conference Room, CSC 120A
	Health Sciences Campus (HSC)
Contact:	Magdalena Morales, (323) 442-3170 magdaljm@usc.edu
Website:	www.usc.edu/hsc/dental/ccmb

	Wednesday June 13 at 12:00 Noon
Sponsor:	The Institute for Genetic Medicine - DISTINGUISHED SPEAKERS SEMINAR SERIES
Speaker:	Zhong-Yin Zhang, Ph.D
	Professor and Chairman, Department of Biochemistry and Molecular Biology, Indiana University School of Medicine, Indianapolis, IN
Title:	Chemical Biology and Protein Tyrosine Dephosphorylation
Location:	IGM Harkness Assembly, 2250 Alcazar Street, CSC-250
	Health Sciences Campus (HSC)
Contact:	Gracie (323) 442-1144 graciela.mercado@usc.edu
Website:	www.usc.edu/igm/face.php?C=dist_seminar
	Admission: Free Refreshments will be served

	Tuesday June 12 at 12:00 Noon
	12:00 - 1:00 p.m.
Sponsor:	USC/Norris Cancer Center Grand Rounds
Speaker:	Jennifer Sims - Ph.D. Candidate, Dr. Amy Brockmeyer - Postdoctoral Fellow, Dr. Peter Wilson - Postdoctoral Fellow
Title:	Presentations by the Winners of the Annual Cancer Center Poster Session
Location:	Norris Topping Tower, Conference Room 7409
	Health Sciences Campus (HSC)
Contact:	Isabel Lora (323) 865-0801 lora_m@ccnt.usc.edu
	Light Lunch Provided

	Tuesday June 12 at 12:00 Noon
Sponsor:	The Saban Research Institute Seminars
Speaker:	Sarah Hamm-Alvarez, PhD
	Chair, Department of Pharmacology and Pharmaceutical Sciences, University of Southern California, Los Angeles, CA 90033
Title:	A Novel Fiber-Dependent Internalization Mechanism for Adenovirus in Secretory Epithelial Cells
Location:	Auditorium, Saban Research building
	Childrens Hospital Los Angeles (CHLA)
Contact:	Denise 323-669-4110 ddillon@chla.usc.edu

New Week

	Friday June 08 at 12:00 Noon
Sponsor:	Center for Craniofacial Molecular Biology, School of Dentistry
Speaker:	Keisuke Yamashiro
	D.D.S., Ph.D., Center for Craniofacial Molecular Biology/School of Dentistry, 2250 Alcazar Street CSC 120 A, Los Angeles, CA 90033
Title:	Microarray Analysis of Cyclic tension-responsive Genes in Human Periodontal Ligament Fibroblasts
Location:	Large Conference Room, CSC 120A
	Health Sciences Campus (HSC)
Contact:	Magdalena Morales, (323) 442-3170 magdaljm@usc.edu
Website:	www.usc.edu/hsc/dental/ccmb

	Friday June 08 at 12:00 Noon
Sponsor:	Biochemistry Graduate Student Seminar Series
Speaker:	Chun-Peng Liao
	Graduate Student, Biochemistry & Molecular Biology
Title:	Mouse Models of Prostate Adenocarcinoma with Capacity for Monitoring Spontaneous Carcinogenesis by Bioluminescence or Fluorescence
Location:	McKibben Hall Room 149
	Health Sciences Campus (HSC)
Contact:	Anne Rice (323) 442-1145 annvazqu@usc.edu
Website:	www.usc.edu/medicine/biochemistry/
	Mentor: Dr. Pradip Roy-Burman; Host: Albert Tsai

New Week

	Friday June 01 at 12:30 PM
Sponsor:	Biochemistry Graduate Student Seminar Series
Speaker:	Albert Tsai
	Graduate Student, Biochemistry & Molecular Biology
Title:	Molecular Mechanism of the t(11;14)(q13 MTC;q32) Translocation in Mantle Cell Lymphoma
Location:	McKibben Hall Room 149
	Health Sciences Campus (HSC)
Contact:	Anne Rice (323) 442-1145 annvazqu@usc.edu
Website:	www.usc.edu/medicine/biochemistry/
	Mentor: Dr. Michael Lieber; Host: Tanya Spektor

	Friday June 01 at 12:00 Noon
Sponsor:	Biochemistry Graduate Student Seminar Series
Speaker:	Tanya Spektor
	Graduate Student, Biochemistry & Molecular Biology
Title:	Identification and Characterization of PR-Set7 associated proteins
Location:	McKibben Hall Room 149
	Health Sciences Campus (HSC)
Contact:	Anne Rice (323) 442-1145 annvazqu@usc.edu
Website:	www.usc.edu/medicine/biochemistry/
	Mentor: Dr. Judd Rice; Host: Min Ni

May 2007

	Wednesday May 30 at 12:00 Noon
Sponsor:	Zilkha Neurogenetic Institute
Speaker:	John Markley, Ph.D.
	Steenbock Professor of Biomolecular Structure; Director of the National Magnetic Resonance Facility & BioMagResBank, University of Wisconsin-Madison, Madison, WI
Title:	Lessons from the Worldwide Structural Proteomics Programs
Location:	Zilkha Neurogenetic Institute, Herklotz Seminar Room, Room 112
	Health Sciences Campus (HSC)
Contact:	Barbara Lockley, 323-442-4330 lockley@usc.edu
Website:	www.usc.edu/zni

New Week

	Friday May 25 at 12:30 PM
Sponsor:	Biochemistry Graduate Student Seminar Series
Speaker:	Min Ni
	Graduate Student, Biochemistry & Molecular Biology
Title:	Regulation of the endoplasmic reticulum kinase PERK and phosphorylation of eIF2a by a novel cytoplasmic form of GRP78
Location:	McKibben Hall Room 149
	Health Sciences Campus (HSC)
Contact:	Anne Rice (323) 442-1145 annvazqu@usc.edu
Website:	www.usc.edu/medicine/biochemistry/
	Mentor: Dr. Amy Lee; Host: Swapnika Ramu

	Friday May 25 at 12:00 Noon
Sponsor:	Department of Physiology & Biophysics, Special Seminar
Speaker:	Timothy J. Bartness, Ph.D.
	Professor, Biology, Georgia State University, Atlanta, GA
Title:	Sympathetic and Sensory Innervation of White Fat
Location:	Norris Medical Library Conference Room
	Health Sciences Campus (HSC)
Contact:	Elena Camarena, (323) 442-1039 ecamaren@usc.edu
	Hosted by Alan Watts, Ph.D., Professor Neuroscience Research Center and Department of Physiology of Biophysics

	Friday May 25 at 12:00 Noon
Sponsor:	Biochemistry Graduate Student Seminar Series
Speaker:	Swapnika Ramu
	Graduate Student, Biochemistry & Molecular Biology
Title:	Generation of a lymphatic-specific transgenic mouse model
Location:	McKibben Hall Room 149
	Health Sciences Campus (HSC)
Contact:	Anne Rice (323) 442-1145 annvazqu@usc.edu
Website:	www.usc.edu/medicine/biochemistry/
	Mentor: Dr. Young-Kwon Hong; Host: Paul Roybal

	Thursday May 24 at 1:30 PM
Sponsor:	Center for Stem Cell and Regenerative Medicine Seminar
Speaker:	Yingzi Yang, Ph.D.
	Head of Developmental Genetics Section, Genetic Disease Research Branch, NIH - National Human Genome Research Institute
Title:	Wnt and Hedgehog signaling in skeletal development and homeostasis
Location:	Zilkha Neurogenetic Institute, Herklotz Seminar Roo, Room 112
	Health Sciences Campus (HSC)
Contact:	John Cleary, (323) 442-1520 john.cleary@ksoma.hsc.usc.edu

	Wednesday May 23 at 12:00 Noon
Sponsor:	Zilkha Neurogenetic Institute
Speaker:	Julius Zhu, Ph.D.
	Assistant Professor, Department of Pharmacology, University of Virginia School of Medicine, Charlottesville, VA
Title:	Oncogenic Ras signaling at Synapses
Location:	Zilkha Neurogenetic Institute, Herklotz Seminar Room, Room 112
	Health Sciences Campus (HSC)
Contact:	Dyan Holland 3234423219 dyholla@keck.usc.edu
Website:	www.usc.edu/zni

	Tuesday May 22 at 4:00 PM
Sponsor:	Center for Stem Cell and Regenerative Medicine
Speaker:	Gen-Sheng Feng
	Professor, Burnham Institute for Medical Research and Molecular Pathology Graduate Program, University of California at San Diego, San Diego
Title:	Control of signalling specificity in stem cells and differentiated cells
Location:	Herklotz seminar room, Zilkha Blg, 1501 San Pablo St, Room 112
	Health Sciences Campus (HSC)
Contact:	Julie Kelly 323-442-4363 julie.kelly@keck.usc.edu
	Afternoon tea will be provided

	Tuesday May 22 at 12:00 Noon
	12:00 - 2:30 PM
Sponsor:	USC/Norris Cancer Center Grand Rounds
Speaker:	Annual Cancer Center Poster Session
Title:	Annual USC/Norris Cancer Center Grand Rounds Poster Session for Graduate Students and Postodoctoral Fellow
Location:	Norris Topping Tower, Conference Room 7409
	Health Sciences Campus (HSC)
Contact:	Isabel Lora (323) 865-0801 lora_m@ccnt.usc.edu
	Light Lunch Provided

	Tuesday May 22 at 12:00 Noon
Sponsor:	USC SCHOOL OF PHARMACY Department of Pharmacology and Pharmaceutical Sciences
Speaker:	Ji Hoon Jeong, Ph.D.
	Postdoctoral Research Associate, Center for Controlled Chemical Delivery, Department of Pharmaceutics and Pharmaceutical Chemistry, University of Utah, Salt Lake City, UTAH 84112-5820
Title:	New Delivery Strategies for Therapeutic Antisense Oligonucleotides and Small Interfering RNAs
Location:	John Stauffer Pharmaceutical Sciences Center, PSC Rm. 104, USC School of Pharmacy, 1985 Zonal Avenue, Los Angeles, CA 90089-9121
	Health Sciences Campus (HSC)
Contact:	Josefina Morales (323)442-1451 josefina@usc.edu
	Faculty Host contact info: Curtis Okamoto,Ph.D. (Voice: 323-442-3939; eMail: cokamoto@usc.edu) Refreshments will be provided!

	Tuesday May 22 at 12:00 Noon
Sponsor:	The Saban Research Institute Seminars
Speaker:	Lin Chen, PhD
	Associate Professor, Molecular and Computational Biology, University of Southern California
Title:	The Yin and Yang of T cell transcription programs - T cell activation and tolerance
Location:	Auditorium, Saban Research building
	Childrens Hospital Los Angeles (CHLA)
Contact:	Denise 323-669-4110 ddillon@chla.usc.edu

New Week

	Friday May 18 at 12:00 Noon
Sponsor:	Biochemistry Graduate Student Seminar Series
Speaker:	Paul Roybal
	Graduate Student, Biochemistry & Molecular Biology
Title:	Msx Genes in Skull Vault Development
Location:	McKibben Hall Room 149
	Health Sciences Campus (HSC)
Contact:	Anne Rice (323) 442-1145 annvazqu@usc.edu
Website:	www.usc.edu/medicine/biochemistry/
	Mentor: Dr. Robert Maxson; Host: Yong Fu

	Friday May 18 at 10:30 AM
	10:30-11:30 Presentation 11:30-12:00 Networking Lunch
Sponsor:	USC Center for Obesity & Metabolic Health - TREC TEAM Seminar
Speaker:	MIchele Kipke, PhD & Ellen Iverson, MPH
	Pediatrics, USC and The Saban Researc Institute, CHLA, USC, CHLA
Title:	Obesity and Diabetes Risk and Prevention in High Risk LA Communities: Findings from the Keck Diabetes Prevention Initiative
Location:	2250 Alcazar Street, CSC 250 (Harkness Conference Room in IGM)
	Health Sciences Campus (HSC)
Contact:	Kami McClure, 323.442.4101 mmcclure@usc.edu
Website:	ctrec.usc.edu/
	Go in the main door of IGM on Alcazar. Go Right to the elevator. Go to the 2nd floor. Exit toward your Left. Enter Suite 240 (small sign on the left wall) Double Doors. Ask for directions to Harkness from the front desk receptionist on your right or Wind around through the hallway (go to the right) until you come to room 250. *Please be sure to wind around through the hallway to your right to Harkness instead of going to your left so we do not disturb faculty in their offices. Please RSVP to Kami McClure at mmcclure@usc.edu or 323.442.4101 and indicate if you will attend the lunch and seminar or just the seminar.

	Tuesday May 15 at 12:00 Noon
Sponsor:	USC/Norris Cancer Center Grand Rounds
Speaker:	Erik S. Knudsen, Ph.D.
	Associate Professor, Dept. of Cell and Cancer Biology, Scientific Director, Barrett Cancer Center, University of Cincinnati, College of Medicine
Title:	The RB-pathway in cancer :coordinating proliferation, genome stability, and therapeutic response
Location:	Norris Topping Tower, Conference Room 7409
	Health Sciences Campus (HSC)
Contact:	Isabel Lora (323) 865-0801 lora_m@ccnt.usc.edu
	Refreshments provided

New Week

	Friday May 11 at 12:30 PM
Sponsor:	Biochemistry Graduate Student Seminar Series
Speaker:	Yong Fu
	Graduate Student, Biochemistry & Molecular Biology
Title:	The Effect of GRP78 Deletion on Tumor Formation and Progress in a Conditional Mouse Model for Prostate Cancer
Location:	McKibben Hall Room 149
	Health Sciences Campus (HSC)
Contact:	Anne Rice (323) 442-1145 annvazqu@usc.edu
Website:	www.usc.edu/medicine/biochemistry/
	Mentor: Dr. Amy Lee; Host: Peter Baumeister

	Friday May 11 at 12:00 Noon
Sponsor:	Biochemistry Graduate Student Seminar Series
Speaker:	Peter Baumeister
	Graduate Student, Biochemistry & Molecular Biology
Title:	Progress towards an understanding of the mechanism for negative regulation of the Grp78 promoter by histone deacetylases through specific endoplasmic reticulum stress promoter elements
Location:	McKibben Hall Room 149
	Health Sciences Campus (HSC)
Contact:	Anne Rice (323) 442-1145 annvazqu@usc.edu
Website:	www.usc.edu/medicine/biochemistry/
	Mentor: Dr. Amy Lee; Host: Sabrina Houston

	Wednesday May 09 at 12:00 Noon
Sponsor:	Center for Stem Cell and Regenerative Medicine
Speaker:	Dr Barry Paw
	Assistant Professor in Medicine (Hematology), Medicine, Harvard Medical School, Boston
Title:	Mitoferrin, a mitochondrial solute carrier, and its role in vertebrate erythropoiesis
Location:	Herklotz seminar room, Zilkha Blg, 1501 San Pablo St, Room 112
	Health Sciences Campus (HSC)
Contact:	Julie Kelly 323-442-4363 julie.kelly@keck.usc.edu
	Lunch will be provided

	Wednesday May 09 at 12:00 Noon
Sponsor:	The Institute for Genetic Medicine - DISTINGUISHED SPEAKERS SEMINAR SERIES
Speaker:	John Yates, Ph.D
	Professor, Department of Cell Biology, The Scripps Research Institute, LaJolla, CA
Title:	Driving Biological Discovery using Mass Spectrometry
Location:	IGM Harkness Assembly, 2250 Alcazar Street, CSC-250
	Health Sciences Campus (HSC)
Contact:	Gracie, (323) 442-1144 graciela.mercado@usc.edu
Website:	www.usc.edu/igm/face.php?C=dist_seminar
	Admission: Free Refreshments will be served

	Wednesday May 09 at 11:30 AM
Sponsor:	Center for Craniofacial Molecular Biology, School of Dentistry
Speaker:	Dr. Albert Avila
	Center for Craniofacial Molecular Biology/School of Dentistry, 2250 Alcazar Street CSC 120 A, Los Angeles, CA 90033
Title:	Research Training and Career Development
Location:	Large Conference Room, CSC 120A
	Health Sciences Campus (HSC)
Contact:	Magdalena Morales, (323) 442-3170 magdaljm@usc.edu
Website:	www.usc.edu/hsc/dental/ccmb

	Tuesday May 08 at 4:00 PM
Sponsor:	Center for Stem Cell and Regenerative Medicine
Speaker:	Dr Gilles Lajoie
	Professor of Biochemistry, Faculty of Medicine and Dentistry, University of Western Ontario, Canada
Title:	Mass spectrometry approaches for the detection of low abundance proteins and for characterization of post-translational modifications
Location:	Herklotz seminar room, Zilkha Blg, 1501 San Pablo St, Room 112
	Health Sciences Campus (HSC)
Contact:	Julie Kelly 323-442-4363 julie.kelly@keck.usc.edu
	Afternoon tea will be provided

	Tuesday May 08 at 12:00 Noon
Sponsor:	USC/Norris Cancer Center Grand Rounds
Speaker:	Mariana Stern, Ph.D.
	Assistant Professor of Preventive Medicine, USC Keck School of Medicine
Title:	Meat intake and colorectal cancer: from genes to cancer prevention
Location:	Norris Topping Tower, Conference Room 7409
	Health Sciences Campus (HSC)
Contact:	Isabel Lora (323) 865-0801 lora_m@ccnt.usc.edu
	Refreshments provided

	Monday May 07 at 12:00 Noon
	Oral Presentations @ 12 Noon in Mayer Auditorium, Poster Presentations @ 3 PM in Hoyt Gallery
Sponsor:	Medical Student Research Forum & Poster Day
Speaker:	Alexander Jack, Kali Luker, Melissa Lechner , Steven Narvy, Don Phillips, Christopher Thompson
	Year I and II medical students. See below for titles.
Title:	Medical Student Research Presentations
Location:	Mayer Auditorium & Hoyt Gallery, Keith Administration Building
	Health Sciences Campus (HSC)
Contact:	Sandra Mosteller, (323) 442-1763 smostell@usc.edu
	Alexander Jack (Med II) - Identification Of Eba Autoantibody-Sensitive Binding Sites For Type IV Collagen And Fibronectin In The CMP And FnIII Subdomains Of Type VII Collagen. Kali Luker (Med II) - The Use Of A Cognitive Task Analysis Based Multimedia Program To Teach Surgical Decision Making In Flexor Tendon Repair. Melissa Lechner (Med I) - Selective Therapeutics Partially Restore Effector T Cell Expansion In Treg Induced Supression. Steve Narvy (Med I) - Human Knee Synovial Fluid Cytokines Correlated With Grade Of Knee Osteoarthritis. Don Phillips (Med II) - Vicrostatin, A Recombinant Monomeric Disintegrin, Inhibits Glioma Cell Function And Angiogenic Brain Endothelial Cell Function In Vitro. Christopher Thompson (Med II) - Biolistic Transfection Of Glioblastoma Cells: Regulation Of Grp78 Using Sirna Delivered On Gold Microcarriers.

New Week

	Friday May 04 at 12:30 PM
Sponsor:	Biochemistry Graduate Student Seminar Series
Speaker:	Sabrina Houston
	Graduate Student, Biochemistry & Molecular Biology
Title:	Histone H4 Lysine 20 monomethylation is required for normal cell cycle progression
Location:	McKibben Hall Room 149
	Health Sciences Campus (HSC)
Contact:	Anne Rice (323) 442-1145 annvazqu@usc.edu
Website:	www.usc.edu/medicine/biochemistry/
	Mentor: Dr. Judd Rice; Host: Yujin Kim

	Friday May 04 at 12:00 Noon
Sponsor:	Center for Craniofacial Molecular Biology, School of Dentistry
Speaker:	Rungnapa Warotayanont
	D.D.S., Center for Craniofacial Molecular Biology/School of Dentistry, 2250 Alcazar Street CSC 120 A, Los Angeles, CA 90033
Title:	The Function of Leucine-rich Amelogenin Peptide in Osteogenesis of Mouse Ebryonic Stem Cell
Location:	Large Conference Room, CSC 120A
	Health Sciences Campus (HSC)
Contact:	Magdalena Morales, (323) 442-3170 magdaljm@usc.edu
Website:	www.usc.edu/hsc/dental/ccmb

	Friday May 04 at 12:00 Noon
Sponsor:	Biochemistry Graduate Student Seminar Series
Speaker:	Yujin Kim
	Graduate Student, Biochemistry & Molecular Biology
Title:	Study of Alpha-Synuclein Oligomer Structure
Location:	McKibben Hall Room 149
	Health Sciences Campus (HSC)
Contact:	Anne Rice (323) 442-1145 annvazqu@usc.edu
Website:	www.usc.edu/medicine/biochemistry/
	Mentor: Dr. Ralf Langen; Host: Steven Pregizer

	Friday May 04 at 11:00 AM
Sponsor:	Department of Molecular Microbiology & Immunology and the Kast lab
Speaker:	Wendy Cozen, DO, MPH
	Associate Professor of Research, Preventive Medicine, USC, Los Angeles, CA 90033
Title:	Immune-related risk factors for lymphoma
Location:	ZNI, Herklotz Seminar Room, #112
	Health Sciences Campus (HSC)
Contact:	W. Martin Kast, 323-442-3870 mkast@usc.edu

	Thursday May 03 at 12:00 Noon
Sponsor:	Zilkha Neurogenetic Institute
Speaker:	Aaron McGee, Ph.D.
	Postdoctoral Fellow, Department of Neurology and Neurobiology, Yale University School of Medicine, New Haven, CT
Title:	A shared regulation of plasticity in the intact and injured CNS
Location:	Zilkha Neurogenetic Institute, Herklotz Seminar Room, Room 112
	Health Sciences Campus (HSC)
Contact:	Dyan Holland 3234423219 dyholla@keck.usc.edu
Website:	www.usc.edu/zni

	Wednesday May 02 at 12:00 Noon
Sponsor:	Zilkha Neurogenetic Institute
Speaker:	Christoph Schreiner, Ph.D.
	Professor of Residence, Step V, Vice Chair, Department of Otolaryngology, University of California, San Francisco, San Francisco, CA
Title:	Receptive Field Organization and Re-Organization in Auditory Cortex
Location:	Zilkha Neurogenetic Institute, Herklotz Seminar Room, Room 112
	Health Sciences Campus (HSC)
Contact:	Dyan Holland 3234423219 dyholla@keck.usc.edu
Website:	www.usc.edu/zni

	Wednesday May 02 at 08:30 AM
	May 2nd & 3rd, 2007, 8:30am-5:00pm
Sponsor:	Office of the Provost of the University of Southern California & Institute for Health Promotion & Disease Prevention Research (IPR)
Speaker:	TTURC, TREC, CECCR, TPRC, CPHHD
Title:	USC-IPR/NIH Conference on Interdisciplinary Science, Health Promotion & Disease Prevention
Location:	WESTIN PASADENA 191 North Los Robles Avenue, Pasadena, CA 91101
	Health Sciences Alhambra (HSA)
Contact:	Michelle Orsillo orsillo@usc.edu
Website:	ipr1.usc.edu/nci
	Conference will consist of presenters from the following centers: Transdisciplinary Tobacco Use Research Centers (TTURC) Centers of Excellence in Cancer Communication Research (CECCR) Transdisciplinary Research on Energetics and Cancer Centers (TREC) Transdisciplinary Drug Abuse Prevention Research Centers (TPRC) Centers for Population Health and Health Disparities (CPHHD) Registration Cost: $125.00 Register via our website: http://ipr1.usc.edu/nci Registration closes March 6, 2007.

	Tuesday May 01 at 12:00 Noon
Sponsor:	USC/Norris Cancer Center Grand Rounds
Speaker:	Amir Goldkorn, M.D.
	Assistant Professor of Medicine, Section of Genitourinary Cancer, Division of Cancer Medicine & Blood Diseases, USC Keck School of Medicine, Norris Comprehensive Cancer Center
Title:	Telomerase Therapeutics in Genitourinary Malignancies: Exploring the Possibilities
Location:	Norris Topping Tower, Conference Room 7409
	Health Sciences Campus (HSC)
Contact:	Isabel Lora (323) 865-0801 lora_m@ccnt.usc.edu
	Refreshments provided

	Tuesday May 01 at 12:00 Noon
Sponsor:	The Saban Research Institute Seminars
Speaker:	Caleb Finch, PhD
	Director, Gerontology Research Institute, University of Southern California
Title:	Inflammation mechanisms in the evolution of the human lifespan
Location:	Auditorium, Saban Research building
	Childrens Hospital Los Angeles (CHLA)
Contact:	Denise 323-669-4110 ddillon@chla.usc.edu

April 2007

	Friday April 27 at 12:00 Noon
Sponsor:	USC SCHOOL OF PHARMACY Department of Pharmacology and Pharmaceutical Sciences
Speaker:	Maricel G. Kann, Ph.D.
	Postdoctoral Intramural Research Fellow, National Center for Biotechnology Information (NIH), National Institute of Health, Bethesda, MD
Title:	Bioinformatics of Protein Domains
Location:	John Stauffer Pharmaceutical Sciences Center, PSC Rm. 104, USC School of Pharmacy, 1985 Zonal Avenue, Los Angeles, CA 90089-9121
	Health Sciences Campus (HSC)
Contact:	Josefina Morales (323)442-1451 josefina@usc.edu
	Faculty Host contact info: Walter Wolf,Ph.D. (Voice: 323-442-1405; eMail: wwolfw@usc.edu Refreshments will be provided!

	Friday April 27 at 12:00 Noon
Sponsor:	Biochemistry Graduate Student Seminar Series
Speaker:	Steven Pregizer
	Graduate Student, Biochemistry & Molecular Biology
Title:	Identification of Novel Runx2 Targets in Osteoblasts: Cell Type-Specific BMP-Dependent Regulation of Tram2
Location:	McKibben Hall Room 149
	Health Sciences Campus (HSC)
Contact:	Anne Rice (323) 442-1145 annvazqu@usc.edu
Website:	www.usc.edu/medicine/biochemistry/
	Mentor: Dr. Baruch Frenkel; Host: Haihui Lu

	Thursday April 26 at 12:00 Noon
Sponsor:	USC Ethel Percy Andrus Gerontology Center - Multidisciplinary Research Colloquium Series in Aging
Speaker:	Forence Clark, Ph.D.
	Professor and Chair, Occupational Therapy, University of Southern California, Los Angeles, CA 90089
Title:	Lifestyle Redesign®: How to Sculpt a Meaningful Life in Older Adulthood
Location:	GER 224, Andrus Gerontology Center, 3715 McClintock Avenue, UPC
	University Park Campus (UPC)
Contact:	213.740.8242 lindah@usc.edu
Website:	www.usc.edu/dept/gero/colloquium/

	Thursday April 26 at 12:00 Noon
Sponsor:	USC Research Center for Liver Diseases
Speaker:	Martin F. Kagnoff, M.D.
	Professor and Director, Medicine and Pediatrics and Laboratory of Mucosal Immunology, University of California at San Diego, San Diego, CA
Title:	Intestinal Epithelial Cells: Lessons in Communication and Host Defense.
Location:	Hoffman Medical Research Bldg, Hastings Auditorium, 2011 Zonal Avenue, Los Angeles, CA, HSC campus
	Health Sciences Campus (HSC)
Contact:	Dolores Mendoza 323) 442-1283 dmmendoz@usc.edu
	Immune responses play a major role in host defense against microbial pathogens and in the pathogenesis of acute and chronic mucosal inflammatory diseases. The laboratory explores the mechanisms by which these responses contribute to mucosal disease (e.g. Inflammatory bowel disease, celiac disease) and how these responses can be specifically manipulated to arrive at novel modalities of treatment.Refreshments will be served.

	Tuesday April 24 at 12:00 Noon
Sponsor:	USC/Norris Cancer Center Grand Rounds
Speaker:	Leonid Metelitsa, M.D., Ph.D.
	Assistant Professor of Pediatrics, Childrens Hospital Los Angeles
Title:	CD1d - Restricted Natural Killer T Cells and Their Potential for Cancer Immunotherapy
Location:	Norris Topping Tower, Conference Room 7409
	Health Sciences Campus (HSC)
Contact:	Isabel Lora (323) 865-0801 lora_m@ccnt.usc.edu
	Refreshments provided

	Tuesday April 24 at 12:00 Noon
Sponsor:	The Saban Research Institute Seminars
Speaker:	Thomas E. Lane, PhD
	Professor, Molecular Biology & Biochemistry, University of California, Irvine
Title:	Cell replacement strategies for promoting remyelination
Location:	Auditorium, Saban Research building
	Childrens Hospital Los Angeles (CHLA)
Contact:	Denise 323-669-4110 ddillon@chla.usc.edu

New Week

	Friday April 20 at 12:00 Noon
Sponsor:	USC SCHOOL OF PHARMACY DEPARTMENT OF PHARMACOLOGY and PHARMACEUITICAL SCIENCES SEMINAR SERIES
Speaker:	John J. Woodward, Ph.D.
	Professor, Department of Neurosciences and Department of Psychiatry & Behavioral Sciences, Medical University of South Carolina, Charleston, SC
Title:	Alcohol Disruption of Complex Patterns of Activity in the Prefrontal Cortex: Role of NMDA Receptors
Location:	John Stauffer Pharmaceutical Sciences Center, PSC Rm. 104, USC School of Pharmacy, 1985 Zonal Avenue, Los Angeles, CA 90089-9121
	Health Sciences Campus (HSC)
Contact:	Josefina Morales (323)442-1451 josefina@usc.edu
	Faculty Host contact info: Daryl Davies,Ph.D. (Voice: 323-442-1427; eMail: ddavies@usc.edu Refreshments will be provided!

	Friday April 20 at 10:30 AM
	10:30-11:30 Presentation 11:30-12:00 Networking Lunch
Sponsor:	USC Center for Obesity & Metabolic Health - TREC Distinguished Speaker Seminar
Speaker:	James Barnard, PhD
	Distinguished Professor of Physiolgical Science, University of California Los Angeles
Title:	Expansion of the Metabolic Syndrom: Importance of Diet and Exercise
Location:	2250 Alcazar Street, CSC 250 (Harkness Conference Room in IGM)
	Health Sciences Campus (HSC)
Contact:	Kami McClure, 323.442.4101 mmcclure@usc.edu
Website:	ctrec.usc.edu/
	Go in the main door of IGM on Alcazar. Go Right to the elevator. Go to the 2nd floor. Exit toward your Left. Enter Suite 240 (small sign on the left wall) Double Doors. Ask for directions to Harkness from the front desk receptionist on your right or Wind around through the hallway (go to the right) until you come to room 250. *Please be sure to wind around through the hallway to your right to Harkness instead of going to your left so we do not disturb faculty in their offices. Please RSVP to Kami McClure at mmcclure@usc.edu or 323.442.4101 and indicate if you will attend the lunch and seminar or just the seminar.

	Thursday April 19 at 12:00 Noon
Sponsor:	USC Research Center for Liver Diseases
Speaker:	D. Montgomery Bissell, M.D.
	Professor of Medicine and Director, Division of Gastroenterology, UCSF
Title:	Liver Progenitor Cells: a New Look.
Location:	Hoffman Medical Research Bldg, Hastings Auditorium, 2011 Zonal Avenue, Los Angeles, CA, HSC campus
	Health Sciences Campus (HSC)
Contact:	Dolores Mendoza 323) 442-1283 dmmendoz@usc.edu
	Dr. Bissell's work has contributed significantly to the understanding of the role of TGF-beta and other cytokines in wound healing and fibrosis in liver. More recently, Dr. Bissell's work has focused on the mechanisms that control liver progenitor (oval) cell proliferation. He has shown that, following injury, TWEAK (a TNF family member) stimulates cell proliferation of oval cells in liver through its receptor Fn14. The expression of the receptor is increased in chronic hepatitis C indicating a role for the pathway in human disease. TWEAK exclusively targets oval cells and, unlike other growth factors, has no effect on the proliferation of mature hepatocytes. Refreshments will be served.

	Wednesday April 18 at 12:00 Noon
Sponsor:	Zilkha Neurogenetic Institute
Speaker:	Richard Morimoto, Ph.D.
	Professor, Biochemistry, Molecular Biology & Cell Biology, University of Chicago
Title:	Protein Misfolding in Neurodegenerative Disease and Aging
Location:	Zilkha Neurogenetic Institute, Herklotz Seminar Room, Room 112
	Health Sciences Campus (HSC)
Contact:	Dyan Holland 3234423219 dyholla@keck.usc.edu
Website:	www.usc.edu/zni

	Tuesday April 17 at 4:00 PM
Sponsor:	Special Seminar
Speaker:	Costas Koumenis, Ph.D.
	Associate Professor, University of Pennsylvania, School of Medicine
Title:	Induction of the Unfolded Protein Response by Tumor Hypoxia: A Problem and an Opportunity in Cancer Therapy
Location:	Norris Topping Tower, Conference Room 7409
	Health Sciences Campus (HSC)
Contact:	Isabel Lora (323) 865-0801 lora_m@ccnt.usc.edu
	Refreshments provided

	Monday April 16 at 12:00 Noon
Sponsor:	Institute for Prevention Research, Keck School of Medicine Department of Medicine Division of Infectious Diseases, and the USC Fogarty Pacific Rim Global Health Framework
Speaker:	Mohan D. Gupte, MD, DPH
	Director, National Institute of Epidemiology, Chennai, India
Title:	HIV in Tamil Nadu, India
Location:	Zilkha Neurogenetic Institute, Herklotz Seminar Room, Room 112, 1501 San Pablo Street, Los Angeles, CA
	Health Sciences Campus (HSC)
Contact:	Jolanda Lisath, (626)457-4058 lisath@usc.edu
	Lunch will be provided

	Monday April 16 at 12:00 Noon
Sponsor:	Basic Science Seminar Series
Speaker:	Jerry Workman, Ph.D.
	Investigator, Stowers Institute for Medical Research, Kansas City, Missouri
Title:	Protein Complexes that Modify Chromatin for Transcription
Location:	USC/Norris Topping Tower 7409
	Health Sciences Campus (HSC)
Contact:	Graciela Mercado (323) 442-1144 gracielm@usc.edu
	Pizza Lunch will be served

New Week

	Friday April 13 at 12:00 Noon
Sponsor:	Molecular and Computational Biology Seminar Series
Speaker:	Craig Simmons
	Mechanical & Industrial Engineering, Institute of Biomaterials & Biomedical Engineering & Faculty of Dentistry, University of Toronto, Toronto, Canada
Title:	Microsystems For High-Throughput Cell Mechanics & Mechanobiology
Location:	Ray Irani Hall (RIH) 101 - fomerly MCB
	University Park Campus (UPC)
Contact:	Christina Tasulis, (213) 740-5557 tasulis@usc.edu
	Host: Steven Goodman, School of Dentistry - Mol Bio Seminar

	Friday April 13 at 12:00 Noon
Sponsor:	USC SCHOOL OF PHARMACY Department of Pharmacology and Pharmaceutical Sciences
Speaker:	Noboru Hiroi, Ph.d.
	Associate Professor of Psychiatry, Associate Professor of Neuroscience, Department of Psychiatry and Behavioral Sciences, Albert Einstein College of Medicine, Bronx, NY
Title:	Genes, Molecules and Nicotine Dependence
Location:	John Stauffer Pharmaceutical Sciences Center, PSC Rm. 104, USC School of Pharmacy, 1985 Zonal Avenue, Los Angeles, CA 90089-9121
	Health Sciences Campus (HSC)
Contact:	Josefina Morales (323)442-1451 josefina@usc.edu
	Faculty Host contact info: Jean Shih,Ph.D. (Voice: 323-442-1441; eMail: jcshih@usc.edu). Refreshments will be provided!

	Friday April 13 at 12:00 Noon
Sponsor:	Biochemistry Graduate Student Seminar Series
Speaker:	Shirley Oghamian
	Graduate Student, Biochemistry & Molecular Biology
Title:	Pancreatic Cancer Of Mice and Men
Location:	McKibben Hall Room 149
	Health Sciences Campus (HSC)
Contact:	Anne Rice (323) 442-1145 annvazqu@usc.edu
Website:	www.usc.edu/medicine/biochemistry/
	Mentor: Dr. Peter Laird; Host: Paul Anglim

	Friday April 13 at 08:00 AM
Sponsor:	Pathology & Laboratory Medicine Grand Rounds
Speaker:	Susanne M. Gollin, PhD, FFACMG
	Professor of Human Genetics, Univ of Pittsburgh Graduate School of Public Health/Univ of Pittsburgh Cancer Institute
Title:	Mechanisms Leading to Chromosomal Instability in Cancer Cells
Location:	Norris Topping Tower, Conf Rm 7409, Norris Cancer Hospital
	Health Sciences Campus (HSC)
Contact:	Nan Norona, 226-7148 norona@usc.edu
	Continuing education credit is available. Refreshments will be served.

	Thursday April 12 at 12:00 Noon
Sponsor:	Center for Craniofacial Molecular Biology, School of Dentistry
Speaker:	Pierre Del Moral, Ph.D.
	Children's Hospital - Los Angeles
Title:	Involvement of VEGF-A Signaling in Murine Embryonic Lung Organogenesis
Location:	Harkness Auditorium, CSC 250 - IGM
	Health Sciences Campus (HSC)
Contact:	Ronald Mellow, (323) 442-3220 mellow@usc.edu
Website:	www.usc.edu/hsc/dental/ccmb

	Thursday April 12 at 12:00 Noon
Sponsor:	USC Ethel Percy Andrus Gerontology Center - Multidisciplinary Research Colloquium Series in Aging
Speaker:	Caleb Finch, Ph.D.
	ARCO/William F. Kieschnick Chair in the Neurobiology of Aging, Gerontology, University of Southern California, Los Angeles, CA 90089
Title:	Genomics Data Integration and Analysis for Aging Research
Location:	GER 224, Andrus Gerontology Center, 3715 McClintock Avenue, UPC
	University Park Campus (UPC)
Contact:	213.740.8242 lindah@usc.edu
Website:	www.usc.edu/dept/gero/colloquium/
	This lecture is presented jointly by Dr. Finch and Dr. Xianghong Jasmine Zhou

	Thursday April 12 at 12:00 Noon
Sponsor:	USC Ethel Percy Andrus Gerontology Center - Multidisciplinary Research Colloquium Series in Aging
Speaker:	Xianghong Jasmine Zhou, Ph.D.
	Assistant Professor, Molecular and Computational Biology, USC, University of Southern California, Los Angeles, CA 90089
Title:	Genomics Data Integration and Analysis for Aging Research
Location:	GER 224, Andrus Gerontology Center, 3715 McClintock Avenue, UPC
	University Park Campus (UPC)
Contact:	213.740.8242 Linda.Hall@usc.edu
Website:	www.usc.edu/dept/gero/colloquium/
	This lecture is being presented with Dr. Caleb Finch.

	Tuesday April 10 at 12:00 Noon
Sponsor:	USC/Norris Cancer Center Grand Rounds
Speaker:	Judd Rice, Ph.D.
	Assistant Professor of Biochemistry and Molecular Biology
Title:	Histone Methylation: New Insights into Epigenetic Gene Regulation
Location:	Norris Topping Tower, Conference Room 7409
	Health Sciences Campus (HSC)
Contact:	Isabel Lora (323) 865-0801 lora_m@ccnt.usc.edu
	Refreshments provided

	Tuesday April 10 at 12:00 Noon
Sponsor:	The Saban Research Institute Seminars
Speaker:	Jonah R. Chan, Ph.D.
	Assistant Professor, Cell and Neurobiology, Keck School of Medicine, University of Southern California, Los Angeles, CA 90033
Title:	The establishment of cell polarity and the initiation of myelination
Location:	Auditorium, Saban Research building
	Childrens Hospital Los Angeles (CHLA)
Contact:	Denise 323-669-4110 ddillon@chla.usc.edu

	Monday April 09 at 12:00 Noon
Sponsor:	Basic Science Seminar Series
Speaker:	Jeffrey S. Kieft, Ph.D.
	Assistant Professor, Department of Biochemistry and Molecular Genetics, University of Colorado School of Medicine, Aurora, CO
Title:	The Structural Basis of Translation Initiation by a Viral Internal Ribosome Entry Site (IRES)
Location:	USC/Norris Topping Tower 7409
	Health Sciences Campus (HSC)
Contact:	Graciela Mercado (323) 442-1144 gracielm@usc.edu
	Pizza Lunch will be served

New Week

	Friday April 06 at 12:00 Noon
Sponsor:	Molecular and Computational Biology Seminar Series
Speaker:	Shelley Sazer, PhD
	Associate Professor, Biochemistry and Molecular Biology, Baylor College of Medicine
Title:	Nuclear Division in Fission Yeast: Ran, Importin and Mechanics
Location:	Ray Irani Hall (RIH) 101 - fomerly MCB
	University Park Campus (UPC)
Contact:	Christina Tasulis, (213) 740-5557 tasulis@usc.edu
	Host: Susan Forsburg (213) 740-7342

	Friday April 06 at 12:00 Noon
Sponsor:	Biochemistry Graduate Student Seminar Series
Speaker:	Shirley Oghamian
	Graduate Student, Biochemistry & Molecular Biology
Title:	Pancreatic Cancer Of Mice and Men
Location:	McKibben Hall Room 149
	Health Sciences Campus (HSC)
Contact:	Anne Rice (323) 442-1145 annvazqu@usc.edu
Website:	www.usc.edu/medicine/biochemistry/
	Mentor: Dr. Peter Laird; Host: Paul Anglim

	Thursday April 05 at 12:00 Noon
Sponsor:	Center for Craniofacial Molecular Biology, School of Dentistry
Speaker:	Yucheng Xu, Ph.D.
	Center for Craniofacial Molecular Biology/School of Dentistry, 2250 Alcazar Street CSC 120 A, Los Angeles, CA 90033
Title:	Regulation of Mouse Amelogenin Transcription in Vivo
Location:	Large Conference Room, CSC 120A
	Health Sciences Campus (HSC)
Contact:	Ronald Mellow, (323) 442-3220 magdaljm@u
Website:	www.usc.edu/hsc/dental/ccmb

	Thursday April 05 at 12:00 Noon
Sponsor:	Multidisciplinary Research Colloquium Series in Aging
Speaker:	John Tower, Ph.D.
	Associate Professor of Molecular and Computational Biology, University of Southern California, Los Angeles, CA 90089
Title:	Sex, Mitochondria and the Evolution of Aging
Location:	GER 224, Andrus Gerontology Center, 3715 McClintock Avenue, UPC
	University Park Campus (UPC)
Contact:	213.740.8242 lindah@usc.edu
Website:	www.usc.edu/gero/

	Wednesday April 04 at 12:00 Noon
Sponsor:	Zilkha Neurogenetic Institute
Speaker:	Darwin K. Berg, PhD
	Distinguished Professor of Biology, University of California, San Diego
Title:	Roles of Nicotinic Signaling in Neural Development
Location:	Zilkha Neurogenetic Institute, Herklotz Seminar Room, Room 112
	Health Sciences Campus (HSC)
Contact:	Barbara Lockley, 323-442-4330 lockley@usc.edu
Website:	www.usc.edu/zni
	Host: ZZ Wang zzwang@usc.edu Dept of Cell and Neurobiology 323-442-4402

	Monday April 02 at 12:00 Noon
Sponsor:	Center for Stem Cell and Regenerative Medicine
Speaker:	Frank Stellabotte, PhD
	Postdoctoral candidate, Center for Stem Cell and Regnerative Medicine
Title:	Dynamic somite cell rearrangements lead to distinct waves of myogenesis
Location:	Herklotz seminar room, Zilkha Blg, 1501 San Pablo St, Room 112
	Health Sciences Campus (HSC)
Contact:	Julie Kelly 323-442-4363 julie.kelly@keck.usc.edu

	Monday April 02 at 12:00 Noon
Sponsor:	Basic Science Seminar Series
Speaker:	Jeffrey Rosen, Ph.D.
	C.C. Bell Professor, Department of Molecular and Cellular Biology, Baylor College of Medicine, Houston, TX
Title:	Stem/progenitor Cells in the Etiology and Treatment of Breast Cancer
Location:	USC/Norris Topping Tower 7409
	Health Sciences Campus (HSC)
Contact:	Graciela Mercado (323) 442-1144 gracielm@usc.edu
	Pizza Lunch will be served

March 2007

	Friday March 30 at 12:00 Noon
Sponsor:	USC SCHOOL OF PHARMACY Department of Pharmacology and Pharmaceutical Sciences
Speaker:	Hamid Ghandehari, Ph.D.
	Associate Professor and Director, Center for Nanomedicine and Cellular Delivery, Department of Pharmaceutical Sciences, Univesity of Maryland, Baltimore, Baltimore, MD
Title:	Engineering Nanoscale Constructs for Targeted Drug Delivery
Location:	John Stauffer Pharmaceutical Sciences Center, PSC Rm. 104, USC School of Pharmacy, 1985 Zonal Avenue, Los Angeles, CA 90089-9121
	Health Sciences Campus (HSC)
Contact:	Josefina Morales (323)442-1451 josefina@usc.edu
	Faculty Host contact info: Sarah Hamm-Alvarez,Ph.D. (Voice: 323-442-1445; eMail: shalvar@usc.edu). Refreshments will be provided!

	Friday March 30 at 12:00 Noon
Sponsor:	Biochemistry Graduate Student Seminar Series
Speaker:	Jennifer Sims
	Graduate Student, Biochemistry & Molecular Biology
Title:	Histone H4 Lysine 20 Monomethylation Regulates Cell Fate Specific Genes
Location:	McKibben Hall Room 149
	Health Sciences Campus (HSC)
Contact:	Anne Rice (323) 442-1145 annvazqu@usc.edu
Website:	www.usc.edu/medicine/biochemistry/
	Mentor: Dr. Ralf Langen; Host: Risheng Ye

	Thursday March 29 at 12:00 Noon
	Lecture is from 12:00 - 1:30 p.m.
Sponsor:	Cellular Homeostasis Lecture Series
Speaker:	Carl P. Blobel, MD, PhD
	Professor, Medicine and of Physiology & Biophysics, Hospital for Special Surgery at Weill Medical College of Cornell University, New York, NY, 10021
Title:	ADAMs: key molecules in EGF-receptor signaling and prostate cancer
Location:	McKibben (MCH) Lecture Hall, Room 149
	Health Sciences Campus (HSC)
Contact:	Rosy Macias or Anna Abgaryan, 323-442-3121 rmacias@usc.edu
Website:	www.usc.edu/alpd
	Sponsored by: The Research Center for Alcoholic Liver and Pancreatic Diseases, Cirrhosis Research Center and the Department of Pathology Refreshments will be provided Seminar open to Faculty and Students

	Tuesday March 27 at 12:00 Noon
Sponsor:	USC/Norris Cancer Center Grand Rounds
Speaker:	Michael Lieber, M.D., Ph.D.
	Professor of Pathology, Biochemistry & Molecular Biology, Microbiology & Immunology, and Biological Sciences
Title:	Physiologic and Pathologic Double-Strand DNA Breaks and the Mechanism of their Repair: Roles in Cancer, Aging and the Immune System
Location:	Norris Topping Tower, Conference Room 7409
	Health Sciences Campus (HSC)
Contact:	Isabel Lora (323) 865-0801 lora_m@ccnt.usc.edu
	Refreshments provided

	Tuesday March 27 at 12:00 Noon
Sponsor:	The Saban Research Institute Seminars
Speaker:	Markus U. Ehrengruber, PhD
	Visiting Researcher, Microbiology & Molecular Genetics, University of California, Irvine, School of Medicine, Irvine, CA
Title:	Semliki Forest virus vectors for rapid and high-level transgene expression in neuronal and non-neuronal cells
Location:	Earl Conference Room, Ground Floor, #G-1
	Childrens Hospital Los Angeles (CHLA)
Contact:	Denise 323-669-4110 ddillon@chla.usc.edu

	Tuesday March 27 at 12:00 Noon
Sponsor:	USC/Norris Cancer Center Grand Rounds
Speaker:	Michael R. Lieber, M.D., Ph.D.
	Professor, Pathology & Biochemistry and Molecular Biology & Molecular Microbiology and Immunology
Title:	Physiologic and pathologic double-strand DNA breaks and the mechanism of their repair: roles in cancer, aging and the immune system
Location:	NOR 7409 Topping Tower
	Health Sciences Campus (HSC)
Contact:	Claudia Alonso, 323-865-0801 calonso@usc.edu
Website:	ccnt.usc.edu/

	Monday March 26 at 4:00 PM
Sponsor:	USC-Caltech MD/PhD Program
Speaker:	Neil Segil, Ph.D.
	Section Chief, Gonda Department of Cell and Molecular Biology, Section on Cell Cycle, Growth and Differentiation, House Ear Institute, Los Angeles, CA 90057
Title:	Hair cell regeneration: cell cycle, differentiation, and homeostatic mechanisms in the development of the inner ear
Location:	Herklotz Seminar Room, First Floor, Zilkha Neurogenetics Institute
	Health Sciences Campus (HSC)
Contact:	Sandra Mosteller, (323) 442-1763 smostell@usc.edu
Website:	www.hei.org/research/cmb/cellgrow/cellgrow.htm
	Refreshments will be served.

New Week

	Friday March 23 at 12:00 Noon
Sponsor:	Biochemistry Graduate Student Seminar Series
Speaker:	Risheng Ye
	Graduate Student, Biochemistry & Molecular Biology
Title:	Intracellular Calcium Stores Contribute to the Glucose-Stimulated Insulin Secretion
Location:	McKibben Hall Room 149
	Health Sciences Campus (HSC)
Contact:	Anne Rice (323) 442-1145 annvazqu@usc.edu
Website:	www.usc.edu/medicine/biochemistry/
	Mentor: Dr. Amy Lee; Host: Melania Apostolidou

	Friday March 23 at 11:45 AM
	11:45am - 1:00pm
Sponsor:	USC Department of Preventive Medicine Faculty Meeting
Speaker:	David Van Den Berg, PhD
	Research Assistant Professor, Department of Urology, USC Keck School of Medicine, Los Angeles, CA
Title:	The SNP is in the Bag: New Software for SNP selection, Tagging and Analysis
Location:	Herklotz Seminar Room (ZNI 112) ZIlkha Neurogenetic Instititute
	Health Sciences Campus (HSC)
Contact:	Sarah Rose House, 323-865-0802 shouse@usc.edu
	Lunch will be provided. Faculty, students, and other interested colleagues are welcome and encouraged to attend.

	Thursday March 22 at 12:00 Noon
	Lecture is from 12:00 - 1:30 p.m.
Sponsor:	Cellular Homeostasis Lecture Series
Speaker:	Soichi Kojima, Ph.D.
	Professor, Molecular Cellular Pathology, Mol Cell Pathol Resch Unit, RIKEN, Saitama 351-0198, Japan
Title:	Detection and prevention of liver diseases by targeting TGF-beta activation reaction and transglutaminase-induced hepatic cell death
Location:	McKibben (MCH) Lecture Hall, Room 149
	Health Sciences Campus (HSC)
Contact:	Rosy Macias or Anna Abgaryan, 323-442-3121 rmacias@usc.edu
Website:	www.usc.edu/alpd
	Sponsored by: The Research Center for Alcoholic Liver and Pancreatic Diseases, Cirrhosis Research Center and the Department of Pathology Refreshments will be provided Seminar open to Faculty and Students

	Tuesday March 20 at 4:00 PM
Sponsor:	Center for Stem Cell and Regenerative Medicine
Speaker:	Tiziano Barberi, PhD
	Assistant Professor, Head of the Laboratory of Stem Cells and Development, Beckman Research Institute of The City of Hope, CA
Title:	Embryonic stem cells got muscle....and more
Location:	Herklotz seminar room, Zilkha Blg, 1501 San Pablo St, Room 112
	Health Sciences Campus (HSC)
Contact:	Julie Kelly 323-442-4363 julie.kelly@keck.usc.edu
	Afternoon tea will be provided

	Tuesday March 20 at 12:00 Noon
Sponsor:	USC/Norris Cancer Center Grand Rounds
Speaker:	Rex Moats, Ph.D.
	Assistant Professor of Research, Department of Pathology & Radiology, Childrens Hospital
Title:	Small animal imaging in cancer models
Location:	NOR 7409 Topping Tower
	Health Sciences Campus (HSC)
Contact:	Claudia Alonso, 323-865-0801 calonso@usc.edu
Website:	ccnt.usc.edu/

New Week

	Friday March 16 at 11:45 AM
	11:45am - 1:00pm
Sponsor:	USC Department of Preventive Medicine WIP/Faculty Meeting
Speaker:	Andrea Hricko, MPH
	Associate Professor of Clinical, Preventive Medicine, Director, Community Outreach and Education for the Southern California Environmental Health Sciences Center & Children’s Environmental Health Center, USC, Los Angeles, CA
Title:	Health Impacts of International Trade: A Community-Based Research and Policy Perspective
Location:	Herklotz Seminar Room (ZNI 112) ZIlkha Neurogenetic Instititute
	Health Sciences Campus (HSC)
Contact:	Sarah Rose House, 323-865-0802 shouse@usc.edu
	Refreshments will be provided. Faculty, students, and other interested colleagues are welcome and encouraged to attend.

	Thursday March 15 at 3:30 PM
	3:30 pm - 5:00 pm
Sponsor:	Biostatistics Seminar, Department of Preventive Medicine
Speaker:	Donald A. Pierce
	Adjunct Professor, Dept of Public Health & Prevevtive Medicine, Oregon Health & Sciences University
Title:	Improving on First-Order Inference for Cox Regression.
Location:	CHP-233A, 1540 Alcazar Street, Los Angeles, CA 90033
	Health Sciences Campus (HSC)
Contact:	Stephanie Cypert-Martinez, 323-442-1209 scypert@usc.edu
	Brown Bag - bring your own lunch

	Thursday March 15 at 12:00 Noon
Sponsor:	Center for Craniofacial Molecular Biology, School of Dentistry
Speaker:	Jennifer Siu and Patrice Barber
	Associate Director USC Recreational Sports and University Registered Dietitian USC Trojan Hospitality
Title:	New Year - New You
Location:	Large Conference Room, CSC 120A
	Health Sciences Campus (HSC)
Contact:	Magdalena Morales, (323) 442-3170 magdaljm@usc.edu
Website:	www.usc.edu/hsc/dental/ccmb

	Tuesday March 13 at 3:15 PM
Sponsor:	Department of Physiology & Biophysics
Speaker:	John N. Lorenz, Ph.D.
	Associate Professor, Department of Molecular and Cellular Physiology, University of Cincinnati
Title:	The Na,K-ATPase Ouabain-Binding Site in the Regulation of Blood Pressure and Hemodynamics
Location:	Herklotz Conference Room, ZNI 112
	Health Sciences Campus (HSC)
Contact:	Elena Camarena, (323) 442-1039 ecamaren@usc.edu
	Hosted by Alicia McDonough

	Tuesday March 13 at 12:00 Noon
Sponsor:	The Institute for Genetic Medicine - DISTINGUISHED SPEAKERS SEMINAR SERIES
Speaker:	Jody Hey, Ph.D
	Professor, Department of Genetics, Rutgers University, Piscataway, NJ
Title:	New Methods in Divergence Population Genetics, with Applications to Chimpanzees and Humans
Location:	IGM Harkness Assembly, 2250 Alcazar Street, CSC-250
	Health Sciences Campus (HSC)
Contact:	Gracie, (323) 442-1144 graciela.mercado@usc.edu
Website:	www.usc.edu/igm/face.php?C=dist_seminar
	Admission: Free Refreshments will be served

	Tuesday March 13 at 12:00 Noon
Sponsor:	The Saban Research Institute Seminars
Speaker:	Florence Hofman, PhD
	Professor, Pathology, Ophthalmology and Neurosurgery, Keck School of Medicine, University of Southern California, Los Angeles, CA 90033
Title:	Tumor-associated blood vessels as targets for anti-vascular therapy
Location:	Saban Research building, 4661 Sunset Blvd., 1st floor auditorium
	Childrens Hospital Los Angeles (CHLA)
Contact:	Denise 323-669-4110 ddillon@chla.usc.edu

	Tuesday March 13 at 12:00 Noon
Sponsor:	USC/Norris Cancer Center Grand Rounds
Speaker:	Dong-Er Zhang, Ph.D.
	Professor, Devision of Oncovirology, Department of Molecular & Experimental Medicine, The Scripps Research Institute, La Jolla
Title:	The 8;21 Translocation in Leukemogenesis
Location:	NOR 7409 Topping Tower
	Health Sciences Campus (HSC)
Contact:	Claudia Alonso, 323-865-0801 calonso@usc.edu
Website:	ccnt.usc.edu/

	Tuesday March 13 at 11:30 AM
Sponsor:	USC SCHOOL OF PHARMACY Department of Pharmacology and Pharmaceutical Sciences
Speaker:	Saeed R. Khan, Ph.D.
	Assistant Professor of Oncology and Radiology, Director, Medicinal Chemistry Center, The Sidney Kimmel Comprehensive Cancer Center, Johns Hopkins University, Baltimore, MD
Title:	Modulating Drug Signatures for Increased Anticancer Activities
Location:	John Stauffer Pharmaceutical Sciences Center, PSC Rm. 104, USC School of Pharmacy, 1985 Zonal Avenue, Los Angeles, CA 90089-9121
	Health Sciences Campus (HSC)
Contact:	Josefina Morales (323)442-1451 josefina@usc.edu
	Faculty Host contact info: Walter Wolf, Ph.D. (Voice: 323-442-1405; eMail: wwolfw@usc.edu). Refreshments will be provided!

	Monday March 12 at 12:00 Noon
Sponsor:	Basic Science Seminar Series
Speaker:	Xi He, Ph.D.
	Associate Professor, Division of Neuroscience, Harvard Medical School, Boston, MA
Title:	Understanding Wnt Signaling in Development and Disease
Location:	USC/Norris Topping Tower 7409
	Health Sciences Campus (HSC)
Contact:	Graciela Mercado (323) 442-1144 gracielm@usc.edu
	Pizza Lunch will be served

New Week

	Friday March 09 at 12:30 PM
Sponsor:	Center for Stem Cell and Regenerative Medicine Seminar
Speaker:	Francesca Mariani, Ph.D.
	Assistant Research Anatomist, University of California San Francisco
Title:	Sculpting Organs in 3-D: FGFs and Cell Death During Limb Development
Location:	Zilkha Neurogenetic Institute, Herklotz Seminar Roo, Room 112
	Health Sciences Campus (HSC)
Contact:	John Cleary, (323) 442-1520 john.cleary@ksoma.hsc.usc.edu
	Lunch will be provided

	Friday March 09 at 12:00 Noon
Sponsor:	Biochemistry Graduate Student Seminar Series
Speaker:	Melania Apostolidou
	Graduate Student, Biochemistry & Molecular Biology
Title:	STRUCTURE OF MEMBRANE-BOUND IAPP STUDIED BY EPR SPECTROSCOPY and NUCLEAR MAGNETIC RESONANCE
Location:	Hastings Auditorium
	Health Sciences Campus (HSC)
Contact:	Anne Rice (323) 442-1145 annvazqu@usc.edu
Website:	www.usc.edu/medicine/biochemistry/
	Mentor: Dr. Ralf Langen; Host: Shengxi Guan

	Friday March 09 at 10:30 AM
	10:30-11:30 Presentation 11:30-12:00 Networking Lunch
Sponsor:	USC Center for Obesity & Metabolic Health - TREC Training Educatin and Mentoring Seminar
Speaker:	Chih-Ping Chou, PhD
	Associate Professor, Preventive Medicine, USC
Title:	The Application of Structural Equation Model in Longitudinal Study
Location:	2250 Alcazar Street, CSC 250 (Harkness Conference Room in IGM)
	Health Sciences Campus (HSC)
Contact:	Kami McClure, 323.442.4101 mmcclure@usc.edu
Website:	ctrec.usc.edu/
	Go in the main door of IGM on Alcazar. Go Right to the elevator. Go to the 2nd floor. Exit toward your Left. Enter Suite 240 (small sign on the left wall) Double Doors. Ask for directions to Harkness from the front desk receptionist on your right or Wind around through the hallway (go to the right) until you come to room 250. *Please be sure to wind around through the hallway to your right to Harkness instead of going to your left so we do not disturb faculty in their offices. Please RSVP to Kami McClure at mmcclure@usc.edu or 323.442.4101 and indicate if you will attend the lunch and seminar or just the seminar.

	Thursday March 08 at 12:00 Noon
	Lecture is from 12:00 - 1:30 p.m.
Sponsor:	Cellular Homeostasis Lecture Series
Speaker:	Michael Kahn, Ph.D.
	Professor, Biochemistry and Molecular Biology, Provost's Professor of Medicine and Pharmacy, University of Southern California, Los Angeles, CA 90033
Title:	''Pharmacologic Dissection of Wnt Signaling''
Location:	McKibben (MCH) Lecture Hall, Room 149
	Health Sciences Campus (HSC)
Contact:	Rosy Macias or Anna Abgaryan, 323-442-3121 rmacias@usc.edu
Website:	www.usc.edu/alpd
	Sponsored by: The Research Center for Alcoholic Liver and Pancreatic Diseases, Cirrhosis Research Center and the Department of Pathology Refreshments will be provided Seminar open to Faculty and Students

	Thursday March 08 at 12:00 Noon
Sponsor:	Center for Craniofacial Molecular Biology, School of Dentistry
Speaker:	Denise Teftt, Ph.D.
	Children's Hospital Los Angeles, Los Angeles, California
Title:	Molecular Mechanism Pulmonary Morphogenesis
Location:	Large Conference Room, CSC 120A
	Health Sciences Campus (HSC)
Contact:	Ronald Mellow, (323) 442-3220 mellow@usc.edu
Website:	www.usc.edu/hsc/dental/ccmb

	Tuesday March 06 at 12:00 Noon
Sponsor:	USC/Norris Cancer Center Grand Rounds
Speaker:	John F. Hancock, MA, MB, BChir, Ph.D., MRCP, FRACP
	Deputy Director, Institute for Molecular Bioscience, University of Queensland, Australia
Title:	Ras signaling: new insights and new therapeutic challenges
Location:	NOR 7409 Topping Tower
	Health Sciences Campus (HSC)
Contact:	Claudia Alonso, 323-865-0801 calonso@usc.edu
Website:	ccnt.usc.edu/

	Tuesday March 06 at 08:00 AM
Sponsor:	Pathology & Laboratory Medicine Grand Rounds
Speaker:	Lakshmanan Sathyavagiswaran, M.D.
	Chief Medical Examiner-Coroner, Keck School of Medicine at USC/Geffen School of Medicine at UCLA
Title:	Medico-Legal Investigation of Death with Appropriate Consultation
Location:	Norris Topping Tower, Conf Rm 7409, Norris Cancer Hospital
	Health Sciences Campus (HSC)
Contact:	Nan Norona, 226-7148 norona@usc.edu
	Continuing education credit is available. Refreshments will be served.

	Monday March 05 at 4:00 PM
Sponsor:	USC-Caltech MD/PhD Program
Speaker:	C. Patrick Reynolds, MD/PhD
	Professor of Pediatrics & Pathology; Director, Developmental Therapeutics Program, Departments of Pediatrics & Pathology, Keck School of Medicine, University of Southern California; Children's Hospital of Los Angeles, Los Angeles, California 90089
Title:	Cancer Developmental Therapeutics: Translating Laboratory Discoveries Into Novel Therapies.
Location:	Herklotz Seminar Room, First Floor, Zilkha Neurogenetics Institute
	Health Sciences Campus (HSC)
Contact:	Sandra Mosteller, (323) 442-1763 smostell@usc.edu
	Refreshments will be served.

	Monday March 05 at 12:00 Noon
Sponsor:	Women's Cancer Program
Speaker:	Michael J. Reed,M.Sc., Ph.D.
	Professor, Steroid Biochemistry, St. Mary’s Hospital Medical School, Imperial College London
Title:	Steroid sulfatase inhibitors for breast cancer therapy
Location:	NOR 4444
	Health Sciences Campus (HSC)
Contact:	Ivonne Villalobos / 865-0563 villalob@usc.edu
	TREATS WILL BE SERVED

New Week

	Friday March 02 at 3:00 PM
Sponsor:	USC SCHOOL OF PHARMACY Department of Pharmacology and Pharmaceutical Sciences
Speaker:	Zeger Debyser, M.D., Ph.D.
	Associate Professor, Laboratory for Molecular Virology and Gene Therapy Division of Molecular Medicine, Department of Molecular and Cellular Medicine, IRC KULAK AND KULeuven, Leuven, Flanders BELGIUM
Title:	LEDGF/p75, a new cellular co-factor of HIV integration
Location:	John Stauffer Pharmaceutical Sciences Center, PSC Rm. 104, USC School of Pharmacy, 1985 Zonal Avenue, Los Angeles, CA 90089-9121
	Health Sciences Campus (HSC)
Contact:	Josefina Morales (323)442-1451 josefina@usc.edu
	Faculty Host contact info: Nouri Neamati,Ph.D. (Voice: 323-442-2341; eMail: neamati@usc.edu). Refreshments will be provided!

	Friday March 02 at 12:00 Noon
Sponsor:	Biochemistry Graduate Student Seminar Series
Speaker:	Shengxi Guan
	Graduate Student, Biochemistry & Molecular Biology
Title:	A neuronal specific role for Nck‚ adapter: controlling neuritogenesis 1 by maintaining cellular paxillin level
Location:	McKibben Hall Room 149
	Health Sciences Campus (HSC)
Contact:	Anne Rice (323) 442-1145 annvazqu@usc.edu
Website:	www.usc.edu/medicine/biochemistry/
	Mentor: Dr. Wei Li; Host: Toshi Hinoue

	Thursday March 01 at 3:00 PM
Sponsor:	Center for Stem Cell and Regenerative Medicine
Speaker:	Dr Ian Chambers
	Institute of Stem Cell Research, University of Edinburgh
Title:	Nanog safeguards pluripotency and mediates germ cell development
Location:	Herklotz seminar room, Zilkha Blg, 1501 San Pablo St, Room 112
	Health Sciences Campus (HSC)
Contact:	Julie Kelly 323-442-4363 julie.kelly@keck.usc.edu
	Afternoon tea will be provided

	Thursday March 01 at 12:00 Noon
	Lecture is from 12:00 - 1:30 p.m.
Sponsor:	Cellular Homeostasis Lecture Series
Speaker:	Stephen A. Duncan, D. Phil
	Professor, Department of Cell Biology, Neurobiology and Anatomy, Medical College of Wisconsin, Milwaukee, WI, 53226
Title:	Control of liver and heart development by GATA4 and GATA6
Location:	McKibben (MCH) Lecture Hall, Room 149
	Health Sciences Campus (HSC)
Contact:	Rosy Macias or Anna Abgaryan, 323-442-3121 rmacias@usc.edu
Website:	www.usc.edu/alpd
	Sponsored by: The Research Center for Alcoholic Liver and Pancreatic Diseases, Cirrhosis Research Center and the Department of Pathology Refreshments will be provided Seminar open to Faculty and Students

	Thursday March 01 at 12:00 Noon
Sponsor:	Multidisciplinary Research Colloquium Series in Aging
Speaker:	Carolee Winstein, Ph.D., PT, FAPTA
	Professor of Biokinesiology and Physical Therapy, Uniniversity of Southern California, Los Angeles, CA 90089
Title:	Motor Memory in Aging and Rehabilitation Medicine: A Perspective on Implicit Knowledge and Learning
Location:	GER 224, 3715 McClintock Avenue, UPC
	University Park Campus (UPC)
Contact:	213.740.8242 lindah@usc.edu
Website:	www.usc.edu/dept/gero/colloquium/

February 2007

	Tuesday February 27 at 12:00 Noon
Sponsor:	The Saban Research Institute Seminars
Speaker:	Ellen Lien, Ph.D.
	Assistant Professor of Research, Cardiothoracic Surgery, Keck School of Medicine, University of Southern California, Los Angeles, CA 90033
Title:	Heart Regeneration: Lessons from Zebrafish
Location:	Saban Research building, 4661 Sunset Blvd., 1st floor auditorium
	Childrens Hospital Los Angeles (CHLA)
Contact:	Denise 323-669-4110 ddillon@chla.usc.edu

	Monday February 26 at 12:00 Noon
	12:00-1:00 Presentation with lunch served during
Sponsor:	USC Center for Transdisciplinary Research on Energetics and Cancer Distinguished Speake Seminar
Speaker:	Kathryn H. Schmitz, PhD, MPH
	PhD, MPH, University of Pennsylvania, Philadelphia, PA 19104
Title:	Physical Activity Across the Cancer Continuum
Location:	2250 Alcazar Street, CSC 250 (Harkness Conference Room in IGM)
	Health Sciences Campus (HSC)
Contact:	Kami McClure, 323.442.4101 mmcclure@usc.edu
	Go in the main door of IGM on Alcazar. Go Right to the elevator. Go to the 2nd floor. Exit toward your Left. Enter Suite 240 (small sign on the left wall) Double Doors. Ask for directions to Harkness from the front desk receptionist on your right or Wind around through the hallway (go to the right) until you come to room 250. *Please be sure to wind around through the hallway to your right to Harkness instead of going to your left so we do not disturb faculty in their offices. Please RSVP to Kami McClure at mmcclure@usc.edu or 323.442.4101 and indicate if you will attend the lunch and seminar or just the seminar.

New Week

	Friday February 23 at 12:00 Noon
Sponsor:	USC SCHOOL OF PHARMACY Department of Pharmacology and Pharmaceutical Sciences
Speaker:	Wei Wang, Ph.D.
	Associate Research Fellow, Pfizer Global Biologics, Chesterfield, MO
Title:	Protein Aggregation, Characterization, and Control
Location:	John Stauffer Pharmaceutical Sciences Center, PSC Rm. 104, USC School of Pharmacy, 1985 Zonal Avenue, Los Angeles, CA 90089-9121
	Health Sciences Campus (HSC)
Contact:	Josefina Morales (323)442-1451 josefina@usc.edu
	Faculty Host contact info: Wei-Chiang Shen,Ph.D. (Voice: 323-442-1902; eMail: weishen@usc.edu).

	Friday February 23 at 12:00 Noon
Sponsor:	Biochemistry Graduate Student Seminar Series
Speaker:	Toshinori Hinoue
	Graduate Student, Biochemistry & Molecular Biology
Title:	BRAF mutations and CIMP in colon cancer
Location:	McKibben Hall Room 149
	Health Sciences Campus (HSC)
Contact:	Anne Rice (323) 442-1145 annvazqu@usc.edu
Website:	www.usc.edu/medicine/biochemistry/
	Mentor: Dr. Peter Laird; Host: Deepankar Roy

	Friday February 23 at 11:45 AM
	11:45am - 1:00pm
Sponsor:	USC Department of Preventive Medicine Faculty Meeting
Speaker:	Hooman Allayee, PhD
	Assistant Professor, Preventive Medicine, USC/Keck School of Medicine, Los Angeles, CA
Title:	Role of the 5-Lipoxygenase Pathway in Cardiovascular and Metabolic Phenotypes
Location:	Herklotz Seminar Room (ZNI 112) ZIlkha Neurogenetic Instititute
	Health Sciences Campus (HSC)
Contact:	Sarah Rose House, 323-865-0802 shouse@usc.edu
	Refreshments will be provided. Faculty, students, and other interested colleagues are welcome and encouraged to attend.

	Thursday February 22 at 12:00 Noon
	Lecture is from 12:00 - 1:30 p.m.
Sponsor:	Cellular Homeostasis Lecture Series
Speaker:	Suzanne Pfeffer, Ph.D.
	Professor and Chairman, Biochemistry, Stanford University School of Medicine, Stanford, CA 94305-5307
Title:	Regulation of receptor trafficking by Rab GTPases
Location:	McKibben (MCH) Lecture Hall, Room 149
	Health Sciences Campus (HSC)
Contact:	Rosy Macias or Anna Abgaryan, 323-442-3121 rmacias@usc.edu
Website:	www.usc.edu/alpd
	Sponsored by: The Research Center for Alcoholic Liver and Pancreatic Diseases, Cirrhosis Research Center and the Department of Pathology Refreshments will be provided Seminar open to Faculty and Students

	Wednesday February 21 at 12:00 Noon
Sponsor:	Zilkha Neurogenetic Institute
Speaker:	Ferenc Deak, M.D., Ph.D.
	Assistant Instructor, Center for Basic Neuroscience and Howard Hughes Medical Institute, University of Texas Southwestern Medical Center, Dallas, Texas
Title:	Synaptic Plasticity and the Core Complex - Forms of Exocytosis in Synaptobrevin2 KO Mice
Location:	Zilkha Neurogenetic Institute, Herklotz Seminar Room, Room 112
	Health Sciences Campus (HSC)
Contact:	Barbara Lockley, 323-442-4330 lockley@keck.usc.edu
Website:	www.usc.edu/zni

	Wednesday February 21 at 10:30 AM
	10:30-11:30 Presentation 11:30-12:00 Networking Lunch
Sponsor:	USC Center for Transdisciplinary Research on Energetics and Cancer Distinguished Speaker Seminar
Speaker:	David Berrigan, PhD, MPH
	Applied Research Program, Division of Cancer Control and Population Sciences, National Cancer Institute, Bethesda, MD 20892
Title:	Transdisciplinary Studies of Energy Balance and Carcinogenesis: From the Cage to the Community
Location:	2250 Alcazar Street, CSC 250 (Harkness Conference Room in IGM)
	Health Sciences Campus (HSC)
Contact:	Kami McClure, 323.442.4101 mmcclure@usc.edu
	Go in the main door of IGM on Alcazar. Go Right to the elevator. Go to the 2nd floor. Exit toward your Left. Enter Suite 240 (small sign on the left wall) Double Doors. Ask for directions to Harkness from the front desk receptionist on your right or Wind around through the hallway (go to the right) until you come to room 250. *Please be sure to wind around through the hallway to your right to Harkness instead of going to your left so we do not disturb faculty in their offices. Please RSVP to Kami McClure at mmcclure@usc.edu or 323.442.4101 and indicate if you will attend the lunch and seminar or just the seminar.

	Tuesday February 20 at 12:00 Noon
Sponsor:	USC/Norris Cancer Center Grand Rounds
Speaker:	Mark Levine, M.D.
	Professor, Department of Medicine and Clinical Epidemiology and Biostatistics, Buffett Taylor Chair in Breast Cancer Research, McMaster University
Title:	Breast cancer adjuvant chemotherapy: Optimizing anthracycline and taxane therapy?
Location:	NOR 7409 Topping Tower
	Health Sciences Campus (HSC)
Contact:	Claudia Alonso, 323-865-0801 calonso@usc.edu
Website:	ccnt.usc.edu/

New Week

	Friday February 16 at 12:30 PM
Sponsor:	Biochemistry Graduate Student Seminar Series
Speaker:	Deepankar Roy
	Graduate Student, Biochemistry & Molecular Biology
Title:	Structural and biochemical Characterization of R-loops at the Immunoglobulin class switch sequences
Location:	Hastings Auditorium
	Health Sciences Campus (HSC)
Contact:	Anne Rice (323) 442-1145 annvazqu@usc.edu
Website:	www.usc.edu/medicine/biochemistry/
	Mentor: Dr. Michael Lieber; Host: Feng-Ting Huang

	Friday February 16 at 12:00 Noon
Sponsor:	Biochemistry Graduate Student Seminar Series
Speaker:	Feng-Ting Huang
	Graduate Student, Biochemistry & Molecular Biology
Title:	Sequence-Dependence of Chromosomal R-loops at the Immunoglobulin Heavy Chain Smu Class Switch Region
Location:	Hastings Auditorium
	Health Sciences Campus (HSC)
Contact:	Anne Rice (323) 442-1145 annvazqu@usc.edu
Website:	www.usc.edu/medicine/biochemistry/
	Mentor: Dr. Micharl Lieber; Host: Kwang Ho Lee

	Friday February 16 at 11:45 AM
	11:45am - 1:00pm
Sponsor:	USC Department of Preventive Medicine WIP Meeting
Speaker:	Chih-Ping Chou, PhD
	Associate Professor, Preventive Medicine, USC/Keck School of Medicine, Los Angeles, CA
Title:	The applications of structural equation model in longitudinal study.
Location:	Herklotz Seminar Room - ZIlkha Neurogenetic Instititute - Room 112
	Health Sciences Campus (HSC)
Contact:	Sarah Rose House, 323-865-0802 shouse@usc.edu
	Refreshments will be provided. Faculty, students, and other interested colleagues are welcome and encouraged to attend.

	Friday February 16 at 11:00 AM
Sponsor:	USC/Norris Cancer Center Special Seminar
Speaker:	Bradley Bernstein, M.D., Ph.D.
	Assistant Professor of Pathology Massachusetts General Hospital, Associate Member Broad Institute of Harvard and MIT
Title:	Chromatin Landscapes of Pluripotent and Lineage-Committed Cells
Location:	NOR 7409 Topping Tower
	Health Sciences Campus (HSC)
Contact:	Claudia Alonso, 323-865-0801 calonso@usc.edu
Website:	ccnt.usc.edu/

	Thursday February 15 at 12:30 PM
Sponsor:	Division of Research Immunology/BMT Special Research Seminar
Speaker:	Michele P. Calos, Ph.D.
	Associate Professor of Genetics, Departmenf of Genetics, Stanford University School of Medicine, Stanford, CA
Title:	PhiC31 integrase for gene therapy
Location:	Smith Research Tower, Room 200, 4546 Sunset Boulevard, Los Angeles, CA 90027
	Childrens Hospital Los Angeles (CHLA)
Contact:	Maria Paz Grant, 323-669-2546 mgrant@chla.usc.edu
	Smith Research Tower is accessible only with a CHLA ID badge. Please call or e-mail Maria Paz Grant if you plan to attend. Arrangements will be made to have a staff member meet you at the door of the building.

	Thursday February 15 at 12:00 Noon
	Lecture is from 12:00 - 1:30 p.m.
Sponsor:	Cellular Homeostasis Lecture Series
Speaker:	Michael Gale Jr., Ph.D.
	Professor, Department of Microbiology, University of Texas Southwestern Medical Center, Dallas, Texas 75235-9048
Title:	Triggering and control of innate defenses against hepatitis C virus
Location:	McKibben (MCH) Lecture Hall, Room 149
	Health Sciences Campus (HSC)
Contact:	Rosy Macias or Anna Abgaryan, 323-442-3121 rmacias@usc.edu
Website:	www.usc.edu/alpd
	Sponsored by: The Research Center for Alcoholic Liver and Pancreatic Diseases, Cirrhosis Research Center and the Department of Pathology Refreshments will be provided Seminar open to Faculty and Students

	Tuesday February 13 at 12:00 Noon
Sponsor:	The Saban Research Institute Seminars
Speaker:	Massimo Hilliard, Ph.D.
Title:	Wnt signals and Frizzled activity orient anterior-posterior neuronal polarity and axonal outgrowth in C. elegans
Location:	Saban Research building, 4661 Sunset Blvd., 1st floor auditorium
	Childrens Hospital Los Angeles (CHLA)
Contact:	Denise 323-669-4110 ddillon@chla.usc.edu

	Tuesday February 13 at 12:00 Noon
Sponsor:	USC/Norris Cancer Center Grand Rounds
Speaker:	Sendurai Mani., Ph.D.
	Whitehead Institute for Biomedical Research, Cambridge, MA
Title:	Genetic dissection of metastasis
Location:	NOR 7409 Topping Tower
	Health Sciences Campus (HSC)
Contact:	Claudia Alonso, 323-865-0801 calonso@usc.edu
Website:	ccnt.usc.edu/

	Monday February 12 at 12:00 Noon
Sponsor:	Basic Science Seminar Series
Speaker:	Mark T. Bedford, Ph.D.
	Associate Professor, Department of Carcinogenesis - M.D. Anderson Cancer Center, University of Texas, Smithville, Texas
Title:	Using Proteomic Approaches to Understand Protein Methylation
Location:	USC/Norris Topping Tower 7409
	Health Sciences Campus (HSC)
Contact:	Graciela Mercado (323) 442-1144 gracielm@usc.edu
	Pizza Lunch will be served

New Week

	Friday February 09 at 12:00 Noon
Sponsor:	Biochemistry Graduate Student Seminar Series
Speaker:	Kwang-Ho Lee
	Graduate Student, Biochemistry & Molecular Biology
Title:	Control of Endogenous Dnmt1 Gene Expression by Exogenous Binary Regulatory Systems
Location:	Hastings Auditorium
	Health Sciences Campus (HSC)
Contact:	Anne Rice (323) 442-1145 annvazqu@usc.edu
Website:	www.usc.edu/medicine/biochemistry/
	Mentor: Dr. Peter Laird; Host: Hai-Yun Yen

	Thursday February 08 at 12:00 Noon
	Lecture is from 12:00 - 1:30 p.m.
Sponsor:	Cellular Homeostasis Lecture Series
Speaker:	John F. Engelhardt, Ph.D.
	Professor, Department of Anatomy and Cell Biology, University of Iowa, Iowa City, IA 52242
Title:	Redox-dependent Endosomal Signaling by NADPH Oxidase
Location:	McKibben (MCH) Lecture Hall, Room 149
	Health Sciences Campus (HSC)
Contact:	Rosy Macias or Anna Abgaryan, 323-442-3121 rmacias@usc.edu
Website:	www.usc.edu/alpd
	Sponsored by: The Research Center for Alcoholic Liver and Pancreatic Diseases, Cirrhosis Research Center and the Department of Pathology Refreshments will be provided Seminar open to Faculty and Students

	Wednesday February 07 at 12:00 Noon
Sponsor:	Zilkha Neurogenetic Institute
Speaker:	Simon C. Watkins, Ph.D.
	Professor and Vice Chair, Department of Cell Biology and Physiology, University of Pittsburgh School of Medicine, Pittsburgh, PA
Title:	Functional Cellular Connectivity in the Immune System
Location:	Zilkha Neurogenetic Institute, Herklotz Seminar Room, Room 112
	Health Sciences Campus (HSC)
Contact:	Barbara Lockley, 323-442-4330 lockley@keck.usc.edu
Website:	www.usc.edu/zni

	Tuesday February 06 at 12:00 Noon
Sponsor:	USC/Norris Cancer Center Grand Rounds
Speaker:	Graham Casey, Ph.D.
	Director for Colorectal Cancer Studies Cleveland Clinic, Cancer Biology, Lerner Research Institute, Cleveland, Ohio
Title:	Updates on the genetics of prostate and colorectal cancer
Location:	NOR 7409 Topping Tower
	Health Sciences Campus (HSC)
Contact:	Claudia Alonso, 323-865-0801 calonso@usc.edu
Website:	ccnt.usc.edu/

	Tuesday February 06 at 08:00 AM
Sponsor:	Pathology & Laboratory Medicine Grand Rounds
Speaker:	Stephen Black-Schaffer, M.D.
	Assistant Professor of Pathology, Harvard Medical School/Massachusetts General Hospital
Title:	US Health Care Finance and Pathology Practice - Causes and Effects
Location:	Norris Topping Tower, Conf Rm 7409, Norris Cancer Hospital
	Health Sciences Campus (HSC)
Contact:	Nan Norona, 226-7148 norona@usc.edu
	Continuing education credit is available. Refreshments will be served.

	Monday February 05 at 12:00 Noon
Sponsor:	Basic Science Seminar Series
Speaker:	Michael J. Hendzel, Ph.D.
	Associate Professor, Department of Oncology, University of Alberta, Alberta, Canada
Title:	Nuclear Actin: 30 Years of Controversy Coming to an End?
Location:	USC/Norris Topping Tower 7409
	Health Sciences Campus (HSC)
Contact:	Graciela Mercado (323) 442-1144 gracielm@usc.edu
	Pizza Lunch will be served

	Monday February 05 at 11:45 AM
	11:45 am - 1:00 pm
Sponsor:	Biostatistics Seminar, Department of Preventive Medicine
Speaker:	Max Baur
	Prorektor der Universität Bonn, Inst. f. Med. Biometrie, Informatik und Epidemiologie
Title:	TBA
Location:	Herklotz Conference Room, Zilkha Neurogenetic Institute, 1501 San Pablo Street, Los Angeles, CA 90033
	Health Sciences Campus (HSC)
Contact:	Stephanie Cypert-Martinez, 323-442-1209 scypert@usc.edu
	Brown Bag - bring your own lunch

New Week

	Friday February 02 at 2:00 PM
Sponsor:	Biological Sciences, Molecular and Computational Biology Seminar Series
Speaker:	Pamela Geyer
	Professor of Biochemistry, Programs of Genetics & Molecular Biology, University of Iowa
Title:	The Role of Insulator Elements in Genome Organization and Genome Expression
Location:	MCB 101
	University Park Campus (UPC)
Contact:	Christina Tasulis, (213) 740-5557 tasulis@usc.edu
	Moleculer Biology Seminar Host: John Tower

	Friday February 02 at 12:00 Noon
Sponsor:	USC SCHOOL OF PHARMACY Department of Pharmacology and Pharmaceutical Sciences
Speaker:	Jianmin Gao, Ph.D.
	Post-Doctoral Researcher, Department of Chemistry, The Scripps Research Institute, La Jolla, CA
Title:	A Multidisciplinary Approach to Amyloid Diseases
Location:	John Stauffer Pharmaceutical Sciences Center, PSC Rm. 104, USC School of Pharmacy, 1985 Zonal Avenue, Los Angeles, CA 90089-9121
	Health Sciences Campus (HSC)
Contact:	Josefina Morales (323)442-1451 josefina@usc.edu
	Faculty Host contact info: Walter Wolf Ph.D. (Voice: 323-442-1405; eMail: wwolf@usc.edu).

	Friday February 02 at 12:00 Noon
Sponsor:	Biochemistry Graduate Student Seminar Series
Speaker:	Hai-Yun Yen
	Graduate Student, Biochemistry & Molecular Biology
Title:	Jagged-1 as a Genetic Modifier of Twist Haplo-Insufficiency in Craniosynostosis
Location:	McKibben Hall Room 149
	Health Sciences Campus (HSC)
Contact:	Anne Rice (323) 442-1145 annvazqu@usc.edu
Website:	www.usc.edu/medicine/biochemistry/
	Mentor: Dr. Robert Maxson; Host: Erika Wolff

	Friday February 02 at 11:00 AM
Sponsor:	Joint Immunology Conference Seminar Series, Sponsored by the Dept. of Molecular Microbiology & Immunology and the Kast lab
Speaker:	Michael P. Cancro, PhD
	Professor of Pathology and Laboratory Medicine, University of Pennsylvania, Philadelphia, PA
Title:	Sending the right signals: Pathways to survival via the BLys family of receptors and ligands
Location:	ZNI 112
	Health Sciences Campus (HSC)
Contact:	Billy Stohl, 323 442 1959 stohl@usc.edu

	Thursday February 01 at 2:00 PM
Sponsor:	Biological Sciences, Molecular and Computational Biology Seminar Series
Speaker:	Fengzhu Sun
	Professor, Computational Biology, USC, Los Angeles, Ca
Title:	Integrated Approaches for Protein Function Prediction and Pathway Inference
Location:	MCB 101
	University Park Campus (UPC)
Contact:	Christina Tasulis, (213) 740-5557 tasulis@usc.edu
	Computational Biology Colloquium

	Thursday February 01 at 12:00 Noon
	Lecture is from 12:00 - 1:30 p.m.
Sponsor:	Cellular Homeostasis Lecture Series
Speaker:	Randal J. Kaufman, Ph.D.
	Professor, Department of Internal Medicine, Department of Biological Chemistry, Howard Hughes Medical Institute, University of Michigan Medical School, Ann Arbor, MI 48109-0650
Title:	The Unfolded Protein Response: A decision of life vs. death.
Location:	McKibben (MCH) Lecture Hall, Room 149
	Health Sciences Campus (HSC)
Contact:	Rosy Macias or Anna Abgaryan, 323-442-3121 rmacias@usc.edu
Website:	www.usc.edu/alpd
	Sponsored by: The Research Center for Alcoholic Liver and Pancreatic Diseases, Cirrhosis Research Center and the Department of Pathology Refreshments will be provided Seminar open to Faculty and Students

	Thursday February 01 at 10:00 AM
Sponsor:	USC SCHOOL OF PHARMACY Department of Pharmacology and Pharmaceutical Sciences
Speaker:	Jianmin Gao, Ph.D.
	Post-doctoral Researcher, Department of Chemistry, the Scripps Research Institute, La Jolla, CA
Title:	Understanding Biomolecular Folds: From Designed Genetic Helix to Protein Folding Energetics
Location:	John Stauffer Pharmaceutical Sciences Center, PSC Rm. 104, USC School of Pharmacy, 1985 Zonal Avenue, Los Angeles, CA 90089-9121
	Health Sciences Campus (HSC)
Contact:	Josefina Morales (323)442-1451 josefina@usc.edu
	Faculty Host contact info: Walter Wolf Ph.D. (Voice: 323-442-1405; eMail: wwolf@usc.edu).

January 2007

	Wednesday January 31 at 12:00 Noon
Sponsor:	Zilkha Neurogenetic Institute
Speaker:	Erin M. Schuman, Ph.D.
	Professor, California Institute of Technology, Pasadena, CA 91125
Title:	Protein Synthesis and Degradation at Synapses
Location:	Zilkha Neurogenetic Institute, Herklotz Seminar Room, Room 112
	Health Sciences Campus (HSC)
Contact:	Barbara Lockley, 323-442-4330 lockley@keck.usc.edu
Website:	www.usc.edu/zni

	Wednesday January 31 at 09:00 AM
Sponsor:	Center for Stem Cell and Regenerative Medicine Seminar
Speaker:	Simona Neumann, Ph.D.
	Assistant Researcher, University of California San Francisco, San Francisco, CA
Title:	Plasticity of Primary Sensory Neurons: A Model System for the Study of CNS Regeneration
Location:	Zilkha Neurogenetic Institute, Herklotz Seminar Roo, Room 112
	Health Sciences Campus (HSC)
Contact:	John Cleary, (323) 442-1520 john.cleary@ksoma.hsc.usc.edu
	Continental breakfast will be provided

	Tuesday January 30 at 12:00 Noon
Sponsor:	USC/Norris Cancer Center Grand Rounds
Speaker:	Victor E. Marquez, Ph.D.
	Chief, Laboratory of Medicinal Chemistry Center for Cancer Research, NCI
Title:	The landscape of DNA methylase inhibitors: from single nucleosides to modified oligodeoxynucleotides
Location:	NOR 7409 Topping Tower
	Health Sciences Campus (HSC)
Contact:	Claudia Alonso, 323-865-0801 calonso@usc.edu
Website:	ccnt.usc.edu/

	Monday January 29 at 4:00 PM
Sponsor:	USC-Caltech MD/PhD Program
Speaker:	Krishna Nayak, PhD
	Assistant Professor, Signal & Image Processing (Electrical Engineering); Cardiovascular Medicine (Medicine), Viterbi School of Engineering & Keck School of Medicine, University of Southern California, Los Angeles, CA 90089
Title:	The Development of New Cardiovascular Magnetic Resonance Imaging Techniques
Location:	Herklotz Seminar Room, First Floor, Zilkha Neurogenetics Institute
	Health Sciences Campus (HSC)
Contact:	Sandra Mosteller, (323) 442-1763 smostell@usc.edu
	Refreshments will be served.

	Monday January 29 at 12:00 Noon
Sponsor:	Basic Science Seminar Series
Speaker:	Michael M. Merzenich, Ph.D.
	Francis A. Sooy Professor, Otolaryngology, UCSF, San Francisco, CA
Title:	Brain Plasticity Principles Relevant for Brain Plasticity-based Neuro-rehabilitation
Location:	USC/Norris Topping Tower 7409
	Health Sciences Campus (HSC)
Contact:	Graciela Mercado (323) 442-1144 gracielm@usc.edu
	Pizza Lunch will be served

New Week

	Friday January 26 at 12:30 PM
Sponsor:	Biochemistry Graduate Student Seminar Series
Speaker:	Erika Wolff
	Graduate Student, Biochemistry & Molecular Biology
Title:	Hypomethylation of a Specific LINE-1 Activates an Alternate Transcript of the MET Oncogene Across Large Portions of the Bladder
Location:	McKibben Hall Room 149
	Health Sciences Campus (HSC)
Contact:	Anne Rice (323) 442-1145 annvazqu@usc.edu
Website:	www.usc.edu/medicine/biochemistry/
	Mentor: Dr. Peter Jones; Host: Joy Lin

	Friday January 26 at 12:00 Noon
Sponsor:	USC SCHOOL OF PHARMACY Department of Pharmacology and Pharmaceutical Sciences
Speaker:	Maureen A. Gannon, Ph.D.
	Assistant Professor of Medicine and Molecular Physiology & Biophysics, Diabetes, Endocrinology, & Metab Division, Vanderbilt Univesity, Nashville, TN 37232
Title:	Regulation of Embryonic and Postnatal Beta Cell mass
Location:	John Stauffer Pharmaceutical Sciences Center, PSC Rm. 104, USC School of Pharmacy, 1985 Zonal Avenue, Los Angeles, CA 90089-9121
	Health Sciences Campus (HSC)
Contact:	Josefina Morales (323)442-1451 josefina@usc.edu
	Faculty Host contact info: Bangyan Stiles, Ph.D. (Voice: 323-442-2184; eMail: bstiles@usc.edu).

	Friday January 26 at 12:00 Noon
Sponsor:	Biochemistry Graduate Student Seminar Series
Speaker:	Joy Lin
	Graduate Student, Biochemistry & Molecular Biology
Title:	Role of Nucleosomal Occupancy in the Epigenetic Silencing of the MLH1 CpG Island
Location:	McKibben Hall Room 149
	Health Sciences Campus (HSC)
Contact:	Anne Rice (323) 442-1145 annvazqu@usc.edu
Website:	www.usc.edu/medicine/biochemistry/
	Mentor: Dr. Peter Jones; Host: Unnati Jariwala

	Friday January 26 at 10:30 AM
	10:30-11:30 Presentation 11:30-12:00 Networking Lunch
Sponsor:	USC Center for Transdisciplinary Research on Energetics and Cancer TREC TEAM Meeting
Speaker:	Richard Simerly, Ph.D.
	Director, Neuroscience Program, Professor, Saban Research Institute, Department of Pediatrics, Keck School of Medicine, University of Southern California, Los Angeles, CA 90033
Title:	Programming Central Circuits Controlling Feeding & Metabolism
Location:	2250 Alcazar Street, CSC 250 (Harkness Conference Room in IGM)
	Health Sciences Campus (HSC)
Contact:	Kami McClure, 323.442.4101 mmcclure@usc.edu
	Go in the main door of IGM on Alcazar. Go Right to the elevator. Go to the 2nd floor. Exit toward your Left. Enter Suite 240 (small sign on the left wall) Double Doors. Ask for directions to Harkness from the front desk receptionist on your right or Wind around through the hallway (go to the right) until you come to room 250. *Please be sure to wind around through the hallway to your right to Harkness instead of going to your left so we do not disturb faculty in their offices. Please RSVP to Kami McClure at mmcclure@usc.edu or 323.442.4101 and indicate if you will attend the lunch and seminar or just the seminar.

	Thursday January 25 at 12:00 Noon
Sponsor:	2006-2007 Distinguished Researcher Lecture
Speaker:	Regina Sullivan, Ph.D.
	Professor, Dept. of Zoology, University of Oklahoma, Norman, OK
Title:	The Unique Neurobiology of Infant Attachment: Locus Coeruleus and Amygdala
Location:	IGM Harkness Assembly, 2250 Alcazar Street, CSC-250
	Health Sciences Campus (HSC)
Contact:	Jack Turman, Jr., Ph.D. - 323-442-2947 turman@usc.edu
Website:	www.usc.edu/igm/face.php?C=dist_seminar
	Admission: Free Dr. Sullivan is the President of the International Society for Developmental Psychobiology and was recently appointed to the NIH Roadmap Panel for Developmental Neuroscience. Dr. Sullivan’s research has provided tremendous insight into the development of maternal-infant attachment Formation, and the underlying neural circuits for this behavior and infant learning. For More Information About Dr. Sullivan’s Work Please visit: http://faculty-staff.ou.edu/S/Regina.M.Sullivan-1/

	Thursday January 25 at 12:00 Noon
	Lecture is from 12:00 - 1:30 p.m.
Sponsor:	Cellular Homeostasis Lecture Series
Speaker:	Mani Pashmforoush, M.D., Ph.D.
	Assistant Professor, Cardiovascular Medicine, Keck School of Medicine of USC, Los Angeles, CA 90033
Title:	Transcriptional pathways for cardiac arrhythmias
Location:	McKibben (MCH) Lecture Hall, Room 149
	Health Sciences Campus (HSC)
Contact:	Rosy Macias or Anna Abgaryan, 323-442-3121 rmacias@usc.edu
Website:	www.usc.edu/alpd
	Sponsored by: The Research Center for Alcoholic Liver and Pancreatic Diseases, Cirrhosis Research Center and the Department of Pathology Refreshments will be provided Seminar open to Faculty and Students

	Wednesday January 24 at 12:00 Noon
Sponsor:	Zilkha Neurogenetic Institute
Speaker:	Roberto Malinow, M.D., Ph.D.
	Professor, Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory, Cold Spring Harbor, NY 11724
Title:	Receptor Trafficking in Synaptic Function and Dysfunction
Location:	Zilkha Neurogenetic Institute, Herklotz Seminar Room, Room 112
	Health Sciences Campus (HSC)
Contact:	Barbara Lockley, 323-442-4330 lockley@keck.usc.edu
Website:	www.usc.edu/zni

	Tuesday January 23 at 12:00 Noon
Sponsor:	USC/Norris Cancer Center Grand Rounds
Speaker:	Bangyan Stiles, Ph.D.
	Assistant Professor of Molecular Pharmacology and Pharmaceutical Sciences
Title:	Genetic Analysis of PTEN: It’s Role in Liver Carcinogenesis and Pancreatic Regeneration
Location:	NOR 7409 Topping Tower
	Health Sciences Campus (HSC)
Contact:	Claudia Alonso, 323-865-0801 calonso@usc.edu
Website:	ccnt.usc.edu/

	Monday January 22 at 12:00 Noon
Sponsor:	Basic Science Seminar Series
Speaker:	Christopher H. Contag, Ph.D.
	Associate Professor - Departments of Pediatrics, Microbiology & Immunology, and Radiology - Co-director, Program in Molecular Imaging at Stanford (MIPS), Stanford University School of Medicine, Stanford, California
Title:	The Use of Imaging to Advance Immune Cell Therapies for Cancer
Location:	USC/Norris Topping Tower 7409
	Health Sciences Campus (HSC)
Contact:	Graciela Mercado (323) 442-1144 gracielm@usc.edu
	Pizza Lunch will be served

New Week

	Friday January 19 at 3:00 PM
Sponsor:	USC SCHOOL OF PHARMACY Department of Pharmacology and Pharmaceutical Sciences
Speaker:	Ya-Qiu Long, Ph.D.
	Professor of Organic Chemistry, Shanghai Institute of Materia Medica, Shanghai Institutes for Biological Sciences, Chinese Academy of Sciences, Shanghai 201203, CHINA
Title:	Discovery of a New Class of Potent Peptidomimetic Antagonists of the Grb2-SH2 Domain by the Simutaneous Utilization of 3'-Substituted Tyrosine and a,a-Disubstituted Amino Acids
Location:	John Stauffer Pharmaceutical Sciences Center, PSC Rm. 104, USC School of Pharmacy, 1985 Zonal Avenue, Los Angeles, CA 90089-9121
	Health Sciences Campus (HSC)
Contact:	Josefina Morales (323)442-1451 josefina@usc.edu
	Faculty Host contact info: Nouri Neamati, Ph.D. (Voice: 323-442-2341; eMail: neamati@usc.edu).

	Friday January 19 at 12:00 Noon
Sponsor:	Biochemistry Graduate Student Seminar Series
Speaker:	Unnati Jariwala
	Graduate Student, Biochemistry & Molecular Biology
Title:	Identification of Novel and Clinically Relevant Androgen Receptor Target Genes in Prostate Cancer
Location:	McKibben Hall Room 149
	Health Sciences Campus (HSC)
Contact:	Anne Rice (323) 442-1145 annvazqu@usc.edu
Website:	www.usc.edu/medicine/biochemistry/
	Mentor: Dr. Baruch Frenkel; Host: Connie Cortez

	Friday January 19 at 11:45 AM
	11:45am - 1:00pm
Sponsor:	USC Department of Preventive Medicine WIP Meeting
Speaker:	Robert W. Haile, Dr.P.H
	Professor, Preventive Medicine, USC Keck School of Medicine, Los Angeles, CA
Title:	Update on the Colon CFR (one model for collaborative research) and progress on the MMR-related etiological pathway
Location:	ZIlkha Neurogenetic Instititute
	Health Sciences Campus (HSC)
Contact:	Sarah Rose House, 323-865-0802 shouse@usc.edu
	Refreshments will be provided.

	Thursday January 18 at 1:00 PM
	Please note location and time change.
Sponsor:	Division of Research Immunology/BMT Special Research Seminar
Speaker:	Toska J. Zomorodian, M.D.
	Pediatric Hematology/Oncology Fellow, Yale University, Department of Pediatric Hematology/Oncology, Yale New Haven Medical Center, Yale University, New Haven, Connecticut
Title:	The Stem Cell Continuum: Differentiation and the Cell Cycle
Location:	Weingart Auditorium, 4650 Sunset Boulevard, Los Angeles, CA 90027
	Childrens Hospital Los Angeles (CHLA)
Contact:	Maria Paz Grant, 323-669-2546 mgrant@chla.usc.edu

	Thursday January 18 at 12:45 PM
Sponsor:	Division 5 Seminar Series, USC School of Dentistry
Speaker:	Arnold I. Caplan, PhD
	Professor and Director, Skeletal Research Center, Case Western Reserve University, Cleveland, OH
Title:	Adult Mesenchymal Stem Cells in Cell-Based Therapeutics
Location:	CSC 120A, CCMB
	Health Sciences Campus (HSC)
Contact:	Donna Castillo, 213-821-5554 dvcastil@usc.edu
	HOsted by Dr. Songtao Shi, Assistant Professor, songtaos@usc.edu

	Thursday January 18 at 12:00 Noon
	Lecture is from 12:00 - 1:30 p.m.
Sponsor:	Cellular Homeostasis Lecture Series
Speaker:	Kenneth S. Zaret, Ph.D.
	Adjunct Professor, Department of Genetics, University of Pennsylvania School of Medicine
Title:	Signals that initiate liver and pancreas development
Location:	McKibben (MCH) Lecture Hall, Room 149
	Health Sciences Campus (HSC)
Contact:	Rosy Macias or Anna Abgaryan, 323-442-3121 rmacias@usc.edu
Website:	www.usc.edu/alpd
	Sponsored by: The Research Center for Alcoholic Liver and Pancreatic Diseases, Cirrhosis Research Center and the Department of Pathology Refreshments will be provided Seminar open to Faculty and Students

	Tuesday January 16 at 12:00 Noon
Sponsor:	USC/Norris Cancer Center Grand Rounds
Speaker:	Cancelled
Title:	January 16, 2007 - Cancelled
Location:	NOR 7409 Topping Tower
	Health Sciences Campus (HSC)
Contact:	Claudia Alonso, 323-865-0801 calonso@usc.edu
Website:	ccnt.usc.edu/

New Week

	Friday January 12 at 1:00 PM
Sponsor:	Pathology Seminar
Speaker:	Jeffrey A. Golden, M.D.
	Evelyn Willing Bromley Chair of Pathology, Associate Professor of Pathology, University of Pennsylvania School of Medicine, Philadelphia, PA 19104
Title:	Cerebral Cortical Development: Implications for Epilepsy, Mental Retardation, and Autism
Location:	Doheny Eye Institute, 3rd Floor Multipurpose Room (Room 3200)
	Health Sciences Campus (HSC)
Contact:	John Cleary, (323) 442-1520 john.cleary@ksoma.hsc.usc.edu
	Lunch will be provided

	Friday January 12 at 12:00 Noon
Sponsor:	USC SCHOOL OF PHARMACY Department of Pharmacology and Pharmaceutical Sciences
Speaker:	Igor Spigelman, Ph.D.
	Professor, Division of Oral Biology & Medicine, UCLA School of Dentistry, Los Angeles, CA
Title:	Functional consequences of GABA-A receptor subunit plasticity after ethanol intoxication
Location:	John Stauffer Pharmaceutical Sciences Center, PSC Rm. 104, USC School of Pharmacy, 1985 Zonal Avenue, Los Angeles, CA 90089-9121
	Health Sciences Campus (HSC)
Contact:	Josefina Morales (323)442-1451 josefina@usc.edu
	Faculty Host contact info: Daryl L. Davies (Voice: 323-442-1427; or eMail:ddavies@usc.edu).

	Friday January 12 at 12:00 Noon
Sponsor:	Biochemistry Graduate Student Seminar Series
Speaker:	Connie Cortez
	Graduate Student, Biochemistry & Molecular Biology
Title:	Lineage Specific Methylation of LAMB3 and its Hypomethylation in Bladder Cancer
Location:	McKibben Hall Room 149
	Health Sciences Campus (HSC)
Contact:	Anne Rice (323) 442-1145 annvazqu@usc.edu
Website:	www.usc.edu/medicine/biochemistry/
	Mentor: Dr. Peter Jones; Host: Christine Jao

	Thursday January 11 at 12:00 Noon
Sponsor:	Center for Craniofacial Molecular Biology, School of Dentistry
Speaker:	Parish P. Sedghizadeh, D.D.S., M.S.
	Diplomate, American Board of Oral and Maxillofacial Pathology, Center for Craniofacial Molecular Biology, School of Dentistry
Title:	Clinico-Pathologic Features and Bony Changes in Osteomyelitis and Osteonecrosis of the Jaws
Location:	Large Conference Room, CSC 120A
	Health Sciences Campus (HSC)
Contact:	Ronald Mellow, (323) 442-3220 mellow@usc.edu
Website:	www.usc.edu/hsc/dental/ccmb

	Wednesday January 10 at 1:00 PM
Sponsor:	Pathology Seminar
Speaker:	Harvey B. Pollard, M.D., Ph.D.
	Professor and Chair, Department of Anatomy, Physiology and Genetics. Director, Institute for Molecular Medicine, Uniformed Services University School of Medicine, Bethesda, MD 20814
Title:	Amyloid Ion Channel Hypothesis for Alzheimer's Disease: A Mechanistic Pathway to Drug Discovery
Location:	Doheny Eye Institute, 3rd Floor Multipurpose Room (Room 3200)
	Health Sciences Campus (HSC)
Contact:	John Cleary, (323) 442-1520 john.cleary@ksoma.hsc.usc.edu
	Lunch will be provided

	Wednesday January 10 at 12:00 Noon
Sponsor:	Zilkha Neurogenetic Institute
Speaker:	Mitchell L. Sutter, Ph.D.
	Associate Professor, Associate Professor, Department of Neurobiolofy, Physiology and Behavior, Center for Neuroscience at University of California, Davis, Davis, California
Title:	Figuring Out What Was Missing in a Sound: Neural Correlates of Auditory Fill-in
Location:	Zilkha Neurogenetic Institute, Herklotz Seminar Room, Room 112
	Health Sciences Campus (HSC)
Contact:	Barbara Lockley, 323-442-4330 lockley@keck.usc.edu
Website:	www.usc.edu/zni

	Tuesday January 09 at 12:00 Noon
Sponsor:	The Saban Research Institute Seminars
Speaker:	Grace Aldrovandi, MD
	Associate Professor, Pediatrics/Infectious Diseases, Keck School of Medicine, Los Angeles, CA 90027
Title:	HIV: Anatomy of Transmission
Location:	4661 Sunset Blvd.
	Childrens Hospital Los Angeles (CHLA)
Contact:	Denise 323-669-4110 ddillon@chla.usc.edu

	Tuesday January 09 at 12:00 Noon
Sponsor:	USC/Norris Cancer Center Grand Rounds
Speaker:	Louis Dubeau, M.D., Ph.D.
	Professor of Pathology
Title:	Role of menstrual cycle abnormalities in ovarian cancer predisposition
Location:	NOR 7409 Topping Tower
	Health Sciences Campus (HSC)
Contact:	Claudia Alonso, 323-865-0801 calonso@usc.edu
Website:	ccnt.usc.edu/

	Tuesday January 09 at 08:00 AM
Sponsor:	Pathology & Laboratory Medicine Grand Rounds
Speaker:	Para Chandrasoma, M.D.
	Professor of Pathology, Chief of Anatomic & Surgical Pathology, Keck School of Medicine at USC
Title:	Genetic Control of Esophageal Epithelium in Fetus, Normal Adult and Reflux-Induced Injury
Location:	Norris Topping Tower, Conf Rm 7409, Norris Cancer Hospital
	Health Sciences Campus (HSC)
Contact:	Nan Norona, 226-7148 norona@usc.edu
	Please note: Due to the Holidays, January 2nd Path Grand Rounds rescheduled to January 9th. Continuing education credit is available. Refreshments will be served.

New Week

	Friday January 05 at 12:30 PM
Sponsor:	Biochemistry Graduate Student Seminar Series
Speaker:	Christine Jao
	Graduate Student, Biochemistry & Molecular Biology
Title:	Membrane Curvature Sensors and Inducers Studied by Site-Directed Spin Labeling
Location:	McKibben Hall Room 149
	Health Sciences Campus (HSC)
Contact:	Anne Rice (323) 442-1145 annvazqu@usc.edu
Website:	www.usc.edu/medicine/biochemistry/
	Mentor: Dr. Ralf Langen; Host: Jingjing Sun

	Friday January 05 at 12:00 Noon
Sponsor:	Biochemistry Graduate Student Seminar Series
Speaker:	Jingjing Sun
	Gradutate Student, Biochemistry & Molecular Biology
Title:	Msx Genes Function in the Production and Migration of the Primordial Germ Cells
Location:	McKibben Hall Room 149
	Health Sciences Campus (HSC)
Contact:	Anne Rice (323) 442-1145 annvazqu@usc.edu
Website:	www.usc.edu/medicine/biochemistry/
	Mentor: Dr. Robert Maxson; Host: Sahar Bedrood

	Thursday January 04 at 12:00 Noon
Sponsor:	CSCRM Seminar
Speaker:	Chay T. Kuo, M.D., Ph.D.
	Postdoctoral Fellow, Howard Hughes Medical Institute, University of California San Francisco, San Francisco, CA
Title:	How Does the Nervous System Repair Itself: Stem Cells and Caspases
Location:	Zilkha Neurogenetic Institute, Herklotz Seminar Room, Room 112
	Health Sciences Campus (HSC)
Contact:	John Cleary, (323) 442-1520 john.cleary@ksoma.hsc.usc.edu
	Lunch will be provided

	Tuesday January 02 at 12:00 Noon
Sponsor:	USC/Norris Cancer Center Grand Rounds
Speaker:	cancelled
Title:	January 2, 2007 - Cancelled
Location:	NOR 7409 Topping Tower
	Health Sciences Campus (HSC)
Contact:	Claudia Alonso, 323-865-0801 calonso@usc.edu
Website:	ccnt.usc.edu/

	Monday January 01 at 12:00 Noon
Sponsor:	Center for Craniofacial Molecular Biology, School of Dentistry
Speaker:	Pau
Title:	Structure and Mechanical Function of Micron Sized Features in Human Tooth Dentin
Location:	Large Conference Room, CSC 120A
	Health Sciences Campus (HSC)
Contact:	Magdalena Morales, (323) 442-3170 magdaljm@usc.edu
Website:	www.usc.edu/hsc/dental/ccmb
	1 Unit of Continuing Education Credit will be awarded

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