PIBBS - Graduate Programs in Biomedical & Biological Sciences

June 2008

	Friday June 27 at 12:00 Noon
Sponsor:	Center for Craniofacial Molecular Biology, School of Dentistry
Speaker:	Zhan Huang, Ph.D.
Title:	Proliferation and Differentiation of Dental Epithelial Cells Instructed by Bioactive Nanofibers during Enamel Regeneration
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

	Monday June 16 at 12:00 Noon
Sponsor:	Eli and Edythe Broad Center for Regenerative Medicine and Stem Cell Research at USC
Speaker:	Andrew Elefanty, Ph.D. and Ed Stanley, Ph.D.
	Joint Laboratory Heads, Embryonic Stem Cell Differentiation Laboratory, Monash University, Australia
Title:	Directed differentiation of human embryonic stem cells/Genetic modification of human embryonic stem cells
Location:	Aresty Auditorium, Lower ground HNRT, 1450 Biggy St, Los Angeles
	Health Sciences Campus (HSC)
Contact:	Julie Kelly 323-442-4363 julie.kelly@keck.usc.edu
Website:	stemcell.usc.edu/

New Week

	Thursday June 12 at 12:00 Noon
Sponsor:	USC SCHOOL OF PHARMACY Department of Pharmacology and Pharmaceutical Sciences Seminar Series
Speaker:	Pere Puigserver, Ph.D.
	Assistant Professor of Cell Biology, Harvard Medical School, Dana-Farber Cancer Institute, Boston, MA
Title:	Nutrient Dependent Metabolic Control Through the PGC-1 Pathway: Implications for Metabolic 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: Dr. Bangyan Stiles, Ph.D. (Voice: 323-442-2184 eMail: bstiles@usc.edu) Refreshments will be served at 11:45 a.m.!

	Thursday June 12 at 12:00 Noon
Sponsor:	USC Research Center for Liver Diseases and Department of Pharmacology and Pharmaceutical Sciences
Speaker:	Pere Puigserver, PhD
	Assistant Professor, Cell Biology, Harvard Medical School, Boston, MA
Title:	Nutrient Dependent Metabolic Control through the PGC-1 Pathway: Implications for Metabolic Diseases.
Location:	PSC Room 104
	Health Sciences Campus (HSC)
Contact:	Dolores Mendoza 323) 442-1283 dmmendoz@usc.edu
	Dr. Puigserver's earlier work in Bruce Speiglemen's lab established PPARg coactivator PGC-1 as the key molecule for mitochondrial genesis induced during thermoadaptation. His own research continues on the role of PGC-1 and a new factor that he will discuss with us on metabolic controls including mitochondrial regulation. If you are interested in meeting Dr. Puigserver please contact Dr. Bangyan Stiles 323) 442-2184 bstiles@pharmacy.usc.edu Refreshments will be served.

	Tuesday June 10 at 2:00 PM
	2:00 - 3:00 pm Seminar; 3:00 - 3:30 p.m. Discussion with graduate students
Sponsor:	USC SCHOOL OF PHARMACY Department of Pharmacology and Pharmaceutical Sciences Seminar Series
Speaker:	Joe Grimsby, Ph.D.
	Senior Research Leader, Department of Metabolic Diseases, ROCHE, Nutley, NJ
Title:	Antidiabetic Effects of Glucokinase Activators: from benchside to bedside
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 C. Shih, Ph.D. (Voice: 323-442-1441 eMail: jcshih@usc.edu Refreshments will be served at 11:45 a.m.!

	Tuesday June 10 at 12:00 Noon
Sponsor:	The Saban Research Institute Research Seminars
Speaker:	Judith Horvath, PhD
	Wayne State University and St. Joseph Mercy Hospital, Ann Arbor, MI
Title:	Disorganized Attachment and ADHD: Are they Overlapping Conditions?
Location:	CHLA, The Saban Research Institute Building, 4661 Sunset Boulevard, Auditorium, Los Angeles, CA 90027
	Childrens Hospital Los Angeles (CHLA)
Contact:	Denise, (323) 361-4110 ddillon@chla.usc.edu
Website:	www.childrenshospitalla.org/body.cfm?id=8
	No registration needed. Call for parking information.

Tuesday June 10 at 12:00 Noon

Sponsor:

2008 Annual Cancer Center Poster Session & Grand Rounds

Location:

Norris Topping Tower, Conference Room 7409

Health Sciences Campus (HSC)

Contact:

Jona Cura, 323-865-0801 cura_j@ccnt.usc.edu

Refreshments Provided


12:00 - 12:20	Albert Tsai – MD/PhD Student	Department: Biochemistry & Molecular Biology, Mentor: Michael Lieber, M.D., Ph.D.	Molecular Mechanism of the bcl-1 and bcl-2 Translocations
12:20 - 12:40	Jeffrey Friedman – MD/PhD Student	Department: Biochemistry & Molecular Biology, Mentor: Peter Jones, Ph.D., D.Sc.	A microRNA Modulates Chromatin Structure by Repressing a Histone Methyltransferase
12:40 - 1:00	Shreya Kanodia, Ph.D. – Postdoctoral Fellow	Department: Molecular Microbiology and Immunology, Mentor: W. Martin Kast, Ph.D.	A Novel Therapy To Induce Functional Tumor-Specific T-cells
	PLUS, 15 Distinguished Merit Awardees Will Be Presented Award & Gift Certificates

New Week

	Thursday June 05 at 12:00 Noon
Sponsor:	Center for Craniofacial Molecular Biology, School of Dentistry
Speaker:	Yufan Shi, D.V.M., Ph.D.
	Professor, Molecular Genetics, Microbiology and Immunology, Robert Wood Johnson Medical, Piscataway, New Jersey
Title:	The Interaction between Mesenchymal Stem Cells and the Immune System
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

May 2008

	Friday May 30 at 08:00 AM
Sponsor:	Dept of Pathology & Laboratory Medicine Grand Rounds
Speaker:	Joshua Levy, M.D.
	National Medical Director, HemaCare Corporation & Coral Blood Services, Inc.
Title:	Clinical Applications of Therapeutic Apheresis
Location:	Norris Topping Tower, Conf Rm 7409, Norris Cancer Hospital
	Health Sciences Campus (HSC)
Contact:	Leslie Wauke, (323) 442-1180 lwauke@keck.usc.edu
	Refreshments will be served.

New Week

	Friday May 23 at 09:30 AM
	9:00-9:30 Breakfast 9:30-10:30 Presentation 10:30-11:00 Networking
Sponsor:	USC Childhood Obesity Research Center - TREC TEAM Seminar
Speaker:	Steven Mittelman, MD, PhD
	Assistant Professor, Fellowship Research Director, Pediatrics and Physiology & Biophysics USC and Endocrinology CHLA, USC/CHLA
Title:	Evaluating the Links Between Obesity and Leukemia Relapse Using Mouse Models
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 May 22 at 4:00 PM
Sponsor:	Center for Stem Cell and Regenerative Medicine
Speaker:	Dr.Rusty Lansford
	Senior Scientist & Lecturer, California Institute of Technology
Title:	Multimodal Imaging and Analysis of Embryogenesis
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
Website:	stemcell.usc.edu/

	Thursday May 22 at 09:30 AM
Sponsor:	Dissertation Defense
Speaker:	Maya Lottati
	Ph.D. Candidate, Physiology & Biophysics, USC Keck School of Medicine, Los Angeles, CA
Title:	Omentectomy in the Canine: A Unique Model to Investigate the Phsyiologic Relationship between Visceral Fat and Insulin Action
Location:	MMR 608
	Health Sciences Campus (HSC)
Contact:	Elena Camarena, (323) 442-1039 ecamaren@usc.edu
	Mentor: Richard N. Bergman, Professor & Chair Department of Physiology & Biophysics

	Wednesday May 21 at 12:00 Noon
Sponsor:	A Lecture by National Genographic Explorer-In Residence and Population Geneticist
Speaker:	Spencer Wells, Ph.D.
	Genographic Project Director, The Genographic Project, National Geographic
Title:	Deep Ancestry: Inside the Genographic Project
Location:	IGM Harkness Assembly, 2250 Alcazar Street, CSC-250
	Health Sciences Campus (HSC)
Contact:	Gracie, (323) 442-1144 graciela.mercado@usc.edu
Website:	www.nationalgeographic.com/genographic.
	For directions and/or more information, please contact Dr. Hooman Allayee (hallayee@usc.edu, 323-442-1736) or Gracie Mercado (gracielm@usc.edu, 323-442-1144) Seating is limited so please register for this event: gracielm@usc.edu

	Monday May 19 at 12:00 Noon
Sponsor:	Basic Science Seminar Series - FACULTY CANDIDATE SEMINAR
Speaker:	Samir Hamdam, Ph.D.
	Postdoctoral Fellow, Biological Chemistry and Molecular Pharmacology, Harvard Medical School, Boston, MA
Title:	Single Molecule View of DNA Replication
Location:	USC/Norris Topping Tower 7409
	Health Sciences Campus (HSC)
Contact:	Graciela Mercado (323) 442-1144 gracielm@usc.edu
	Host: Dr. Michael Lieber - Pizza lunch will be served

	Monday May 19 at 11:00 AM
Sponsor:	Molecular Microbiology and Immunology
Speaker:	Chen Dong, Ph.D.
	Professor, Department of Immulogy, MD Anderson Cancer Center, University of Houston, Houston, TX
Title:	Regulation and Modulation of T cells in Autoimmunity and Cancer Immunity
Location:	Zilkha Neurogenetic Institute, Herklotz Seminar Room, Room 112
	Health Sciences Campus (HSC)
Contact:	Aileen Calimlim, 3234421710 calimlim@usc.edu
	Faculty Guest Seminar Speaker

Monday May 19 at 08:00 AM

Sponsor:

Developmental Biology and Tissue Regeneration Symposium

Location:

2250 Alcazar Street, IGM Harkness Assembly CSC 250, Los Angeles, CA 90033

Health Sciences Campus (HSC)

Contact:

Ronald Mellow, (323) 442-3220 mellow@usc.edu

Website:

www.usc.edu/hsc/dental/ccmb

Registration is free at http://www.usc.edu/hsc/dental/ccmb. This symposium is sponsored by the Center for Craniofacial Molecular Biology, School of Dentistry and co-sponsored by the Institute for Genetic Medicine, School of Medicine.


8:00 AM – 8:30 AM	Continental Breakfast
8:30 AM – 8:40 AM	Yang Chai, D.D.S., Ph.D.	Director, Center for Craniofacial Molecular Biology	Introduction
8:40 AM – 9:00 AM	Harold Slavkin, D.D.S.	Dean, USC School of Dentistry	Welcome and Celebrating Pablo Bringas, Jr.'s 40 Years of Dedication and Service at USC
9:00 AM – 9:50 AM	Paul Sharpe, Ph.D.	King’s College London	Tooth Development and Regeneration
9:50 AM – 10:40 AM	Robb Krumlauf, Ph.D.	Stowers Institute for Medical Research and University of Kansas, Kansas City	Regulation and Patterning of Bone and Craniofacial Development

10:40 AM -11:00 AM	Coffee Break

11:00 AM – 11:50 AM	Matthew Scott, Ph.D.	Stanford University	Communicating with Hedgehogs
11:50 AM – 12:40 PM	Joan Richtsmeier, Ph.D.	The Pennsylvania State University and The Johns Hopkins University School of Medicine	Getting A Head: Lessons from Development, Disease, and Phenogenetics

12:40 PM – 1:40 PM	Lunch Break

1:40 PM – 2:00 PM	Baruch Frenkel, D.M.D., Ph.D.	USC Keck School of Medicine	Introduction
2:00 PM – 2:50 PM	Gerard Karsenty, M.D., Ph.D.	Columbia University Medical Center	J. Harold and Edna L. LaBriola Lecture: Role of Protein Sulfation In Chondrogenesis
2:50 PM – 3:40 PM	Philippe Soriano, Ph.D.	Fred Hutchinson Cancer Research Center	Growth Factor Regulation of Craniofacial Development

3:40 PM – 4:00 PM	Coffee Break

4:00 PM – 4:50 PM	Freda Miller, Ph.D.	The Hospital for Sick Children, University of Toronto	SKPs: From Dermis To Nerve And Back Again
4:50 PM – 5:40 PM	Rusty Lansford, Ph.D.	California Institute of Technology and Montana State University	Dynamic Visualization Of Embryogenesis

5:40 PM – 6:30 PM	Discussion with all speakers (Wine and Cheese reception)

	Organizer: Yang Chai, D.D.S., Ph.D.
	Co-Organizer: Baruch Frenkel, D.M.D., Ph.D.

New Week

	Friday May 16 at 12:30 PM
Sponsor:	Biochemistry Graduate Student Seminar Series
Speaker:	Albert Tsai
	Graduate Student, Biochemistry & Molecular Biology
Title:	Molecular Mechanism of the bcl-1 and bcl-2 Translocations
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 Lieber; Host: Hyungjung Kim

	Friday May 16 at 12:00 Noon
Sponsor:	Biochemistry Graduate Student Seminar Series
Speaker:	Hyunjung Kim
	Graduate Student, Genetic, Molecular and Cellular Biology
Title:	Characterizing High Mobility Group containing Chromatin binding protein (HMGB1) interacting protein, SMYD3
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. Woojin An; Host: Melania Apostolidou

	Friday May 16 at 11:00 AM
Sponsor:	Department of Physiology and Biophysics, Special Seminar
Speaker:	Michael Fromm, M.D.
	University Professor, Chairman, Institute of Clinical Physiology, Charité Campus Benjamin Franklin, Berlin
Title:	Tricellulin and claudin-2, analyzed by Ussing chamber-based techniques
Location:	Norris Medical Library Conference Room
	Health Sciences Campus (HSC)
Contact:	Elena Camarena, (323) 442-1039 ecamaren@usc.edu
	Hosted by: Dr. Alan Yu, (323) 442-1331

	Thursday May 15 at 12:00 Noon
Sponsor:	USC SCHOOL OF PHARMACY Department of Pharmacology and Pharmaceutical Sciences Seminar Series
Speaker:	Dr. Wei Wang
	Associate Research Fellow, Global Research & Development, Pfizer St. Louis Laboratories, St. Louis, MO
Title:	Stabilization of Peptides in Organic Solvents - a Case Study
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. Wei-Chiang Shen, Ph.D. (Voice: 323-442-1902 eMail: weishen@usc.edu) Refreshments will be served at 11:45 a.m.!

	Wednesday May 14 at 12:00 Noon
Sponsor:	Zilkha Neurogenetic Institute
Speaker:	Shihab Shamma, Ph.D.
	Professor, Electrical & Computer Engineering, University of Maryland, College Park, MD 20742
Title:	Encoding Task Performance, Rules, and Objectives in Auditory and (Pre)frontal Cortex
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

New Week

	Friday May 09 at 12:30 PM
Sponsor:	Biochemistry Graduate Student Seminar Series
Speaker:	Swapnika Ramu
	Graduate Student, Biochemistry & Molecular Biology
Title:	Dysregulation of Prox1 may contribute to tumor progression in papillary thyroid carcinoma
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. Young-Kwon Hong; Host: Peter Baumeister

	Friday May 09 at 12:00 Noon
Sponsor:	Biochemistry Graduate Student Seminar Series
Speaker:	Melania Apostolidou
	Graduate Student, Biochemistry & Molecular Biology
Title:	Structure of α-Helical Membrane-bound IAPP and its Implications for Membrane-mediated Misfolding
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. Ralf Langen; Host: Tanya Spektor

	Friday May 09 at 09:30 AM
	9:00-9:30 Breakfast 9:30-10:30 Presentation 10:30-11:00 Networking
Sponsor:	USC Childhood Obesity Research Center - TREC TEAM Seminar
Speaker:	Kevin Patrick, MD, MS
	Professor of Family and Preventive Medicine, University of California, San Diego
Title:	New Technologies for Physical Activity and Diet Behavior Assessment and Intervention
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 May 08 at 12:00 Noon
Sponsor:	Luminex xMAP Technology Seminar
Speaker:	Dominic Andrada, Luminex Corp.
Title:	Bridging Genomic and Protein Assays for Proteomic Discovery
Location:	IGM Harkness Assembly, 2250 Alcazar Street, CSC-250
	Health Sciences Campus (HSC)
Contact:	Gracie, (323) 442-1144 graciela.mercado@usc.edu
	Admission: Free - Lunch will be provided. Bead-based multiplexing on the Luminex System allows analysis for both nucleic acid-based and protein assays. These applications include gene expression, microRNA profiling, ELISA and Western blot performed on the same platform. For more information, please contact: Dominic Andrada, Life Science Business Manager, 206-349-9987, dandrada@Luminexcorp.com

Wednesday May 07 at 1:15 PM

1:15 p.m. - 5:00 p.m.

Sponsor:

Wnt Mini-Symposium

Location:

Aresty Auditorium, Harlyne Norris Research Tower, Lower Ground

Health Sciences Campus (HSC)

Contact:

Isabel Lora (323) 865-3147 lora_m@ccnt.usc.edu

Hosted by: Michael R. Stallcup, Ph.D., Professor and Chair, Dept. of Biochemistry and Molecular Biology, USC/Norris Comprehensive Cancer Center. Refreshments provided


1:15 p.m.	Michael R. Stallcup, Ph.D. and Michael Kahn, Ph.D.	Introduction
1:30 p.m.	Cheng-Ming Chuong, M.D., Ph.D.	Wnt signaling in the patterning of ectodermal organ stem cells
1:55 p.m.	Wange Lu, Ph.D.	Ryk-mediated Wnt signaling in neural stem cells
2:20 p.m.	Parkash Gill, M.D.	Wnt targets - EphB2 and EphB4 - differential regulation in normal vs colon tumor
2:45 p.m.	Break
3:05 p.m.	Zea Borok, M.D.	Epithelial-mesenchymal transition in pulmonary fibrosis: role of Wnt signaling
3:30 p.m.	Markus Müschen, M.D.	FZD7 contributes to self-renewal signaling in human embryonic stem cells
3:55 p.m.	Daniel Wai, Ph.D. Student (Triche Lab)	De-regulated Wnt signaling during osteoblastogenesis contributes to osteosarcoma pathogenesis
4:20 p.m.	Discussion

	Tuesday May 06 at 12:00 Noon
Sponsor:	The Saban Research Institute Research Seminars
Speaker:	Mary Kearns-Jonker, PhD
	Assistant Professor, Cardiothoracic Surgery, USC Keck School of Medicine, Los Angeles, CA 90027
Title:	Alternative Sources of Organs for Transplantation: Genetically-Modified Porcine Xenografts
Location:	CHLA, The Saban Research Institute Building, 4661 Sunset Boulevard, Auditorium, Los Angeles, CA 90027
	Childrens Hospital Los Angeles (CHLA)
Contact:	Denise, (323) 669-4110 ddillon@chla.usc.edu
Website:	www.childrenshospitalla.org/body.cfm?id=8
	No registration needed. Call for parking information.

	Tuesday May 06 at 12:00 Noon
	12:00 - 1:00 PM
Sponsor:	USC/Norris Cancer Center Grand Rounds
Speaker:	Martin Widschwendter, M.D.
	Consultant Gynaecological Oncologist, University College London Hospital, UCL Reader in Women’s Cancer, Dept. of Gynaecological Oncology and, Group Leader, Epigenetic Research Group, Institute for Women’s Health, University College London
Title:	DNA Methylation & Women's Cancer
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=20247
	Refreshments Provided

	Monday May 05 at 12:00 Noon
	Oral Presentations are at 12 Noon in Mayer Auditorium; Poster Presentations are at 3 PM in Hoyt Gallery, KAM Basement
Sponsor:	Keck School of Medicine, Department of Educational Affairs
Speaker:	Medical Student Research Oral and Poster Presentations
	Keck School of Medicine, Year I - IV Medical Students
Title:	Medical Student Research Forum & Poster Day
Location:	Mayer Auditorium & Hoyt Gallery
	Health Sciences Campus (HSC)
Contact:	Sandra Mosteller, (323) 442-1763 smostell@usc.edu
Website:	curriculum.usc.edu/Medical_Student_Research_Forum&Poster_Day.pdf
	Speakers Matthew Blitz, Association of maternal and fetal polymorphismims of vascular endothelial growth factor in the development of pre-eclampsia and HELLP syndrome. Adam Brooks, Clinical follow-up of throwers undergoing ulnar collateral ligament reconstruction using the Kerlan-Jobe Orthopaedic Clinical Overhead Athlete Shoulder and Elbow Score. Ivan Harnden and Kathleen Kiernan IGVH genes encoding xenoantibodies directed at Galt-KO xenoantigens in Rhesus monkeys. Adel Kardosh, Identification of the targets required for anti-tumor effect of Celecoxib and its non-cox-2 inhibitory derivative. Felicia Katz, The role of TH17 cells in the pathogenesis of multiple sclerosis. Nicole Mau, Surgery outcomes in patients receiving anti-tumor necrosis factor therapy for psoriasis.

	Monday May 05 at 12:00 Noon
Sponsor:	Basic Science Seminar Series
Speaker:	Satchidananda Panda, Ph.D.
	Assistant Professor, Regulatory Biology Laboratory, Salk Institute for Biological Studies, La Jolla, CA
Title:	Genetic and Genomic Analysis of the Mammalian Circadian Oscillator
Location:	USC/Norris Topping Tower 7409
	Health Sciences Campus (HSC)
Contact:	Graciela Mercado (323) 442-1144 gracielm@usc.edu
	Host: Dr. Cheng Ming Chuong - Pizza lunch will be served

New Week

	Friday May 02 at 12:30 PM
Sponsor:	Biochemistry Graduate Student Seminar Series
Speaker:	Tanya M. Spektor
	Graduate Student, Biochemistry & Molecular Biology
Title:	Mammalian Tethered Catalysis (MTeC): A Novel Approach to Identify Post-Translational Modification- Specific Binding Proteins in vivo
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. Judd Rice; Host: Yujin Kim

	Friday May 02 at 12:00 Noon
Sponsor:	Biochemistry Graduate Student Seminar Series
Speaker:	Yujin Kim
	Graduate Student, Biochemistry & Molecular Biology
Title:	Structural studies of α-synuclein oligomers by EPR and site-directed spin labeling
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. Ralf Langen; Host: Chun-Peng Liao

	Thursday May 01 at 12:00 Noon
Sponsor:	USC Ethel Percy Andrus Gerontology Center - Multidisciplinary Research Colloquium Series in Aging
Speaker:	George Martin, M.D.
	Professor of Pathology Emeritus, School of Medicine, University of Washington, Seattle, WA
Title:	Clues on How We Age from the Evolutionary Biological Theory of Why We Age
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/

April 2008

	Tuesday April 29 at 12:00 Noon
Sponsor:	USC Marine Environmental Biology Seminar Series
Speaker:	Carmelo Tomas, Ph,D
	Associate Professor, Biology and Marine Biology, University of North Carolina, Wilmington, Wilmington NC
Title:	Physiological Ecology of Marine Phytoplankton
Location:	AHF Torrey Webb Room, 3616 Trousdale Pkwy., Los Angeles, CA
	University Park Campus (UPC)
Contact:	Don (213) 740-5779 dbingham@usc.edu
Website:	www.usc.edu/dept/LAS/biosci/meb/
	Free. Open to the public.

	Tuesday April 29 at 12:00 Noon
	12:00 - 1:00 PM
Sponsor:	USC/Norris Cancer Center Grand Rounds
Speaker:	Nicos Petasis, Ph.D.
	Harold E. and Lillian M. Moulton Professor of Chemistry, Dept. of Chemistry & Loker Hydrocarbon Research Institute, University of Southern California
Title:	From New Molecules to New Therapies for Inflammation and Cancer
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=20171
	Refreshments Provided

New Week

	Friday April 25 at 12:00 Noon
Sponsor:	Center for Craniofacial Molecular Biology, School of Dentistry
Speaker:	Hu Zhao, Ph.D.
Title:	Knockout of Alk5 in the Neural Crest Tissue Results in a Defective Dental Epithelium Stem Cell Compartment and Alters the labial-lingual Asymmetry
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 April 24 at 12:00 Noon
Sponsor:	USC Ethel Percy Andrus Gerontology Center - Multidisciplinary Research Colloquium Series in Aging
Speaker:	Roberta Diaz Brinton, Ph.D.
	R. Pete Vanderveen Endowed Chair in Therapeutic Discover and Development and Professor, Molecular Pharmacology and Toxicology, University of Southern California, Los Angeles
Title:	Translating Basic Science Understanding of Estrogen and Progesterone Hormone Action in the Brain into Therapeutics to Prevent Alzheimer's Disease
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/

	Wednesday April 23 at 12:00 Noon
Sponsor:	Zilkha Neurogenetic Institute
Speaker:	Dario Ringach, Ph.D.
	Professor, Neurobiology and Psychology, University of California, Los Angeles, Los Angeles, CA 90095
Title:	Neuronal Selectivity and Local Map Structure in Visual Cortex
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 April 23 at 12:00 Noon
Sponsor:	The Institute for Genetic Medicine - DISTINGUISHED SPEAKERS SEMINAR SERIES
Speaker:	Harry C. Dietz, III, M.D.
	Victor A. McKusick Professor, Medicine and Genetics - Institute of Genetic Medicine, Departments of Pediatrics, Medicine, Molecular Biology & Genetics - Johns Hopkins University School of Medicine, Baltimore, MD
Title:	Marfan Syndrome and Related Disorders: from Molecules to Medicines
Location:	IGM Harkness Assembly, 2250 Alcazar Street, CSC-250
	Health Sciences Campus (HSC)
Contact:	Gracie, (323) 442-1144 graciela.mercado@usc.edu
	Admission: Free Refreshments will be served

	Tuesday April 22 at 4:00 PM
Sponsor:	Center for Stem Cell and Regenerative Medicine
Speaker:	Dr. Austin Cooney
	Associate Professor, Molecular and Cellular Biology, Baylor College of Medicine, Houston, Texas
Title:	Regulation of ES cell gene expression by nuclear receptors
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

	Tuesday April 22 at 12:00 Noon
Sponsor:	The Saban Research Institute Research Seminars
Speaker:	Tom Keens, MD and Marlene Krammer, J.D., M.A.
	Committee on Clinical Investigations and Human Subjects Protection Program, Childrens Hospital Los Angeles, Los Angeles, CA 90027
Title:	Protecting Human Research Subjects
Location:	CHLA, The Saban Research Institute Building, 4661 Sunset Boulevard, Auditorium, Los Angeles, CA 90027
	Childrens Hospital Los Angeles (CHLA)
Contact:	Denise, (323) 669-4110 ddillon@chla.usc.edu
Website:	www.childrenshospitalla.org/body.cfm?id=8
	No registration needed. Call for parking information.

	Tuesday April 22 at 12:00 Noon
	12:00 - 1:00 PM
Sponsor:	USC/Norris Cancer Center Grand Rounds
Speaker:	Jeffrey N. Weitzel, M.D.
	Professor of Oncology and Population Sciences, Director, Department of Clinical Cancer Genetics, City of Hope Cancer Center
Title:	Hereditary Breast Cancer in an Underserved Population: Characterization of Germline BRCA Mutations in High Risk Hispanic Families
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=20099
	Refreshments Provided

New Week

	Friday April 18 at 12:30 PM
Sponsor:	Biochemistry Graduate Student Seminar Series
Speaker:	Jingjing Zhou
	Graduate Student, Genetic, Molecular and Cellular Biology
Title:	Loss of TGF beta signal leads to reduced lysyl oxidase expression, impaired elastogenesis, and aortic aneurysm
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. Henry Sucov; Host: Jiafeng Gu

	Friday April 18 at 12:00 Noon
Sponsor:	Center for Craniofacial Molecular Biology, School of Dentistry
Speaker:	Kathleen Burke
	Ph.D., Center for Premature Infant Health and Development Institute, Genetic Medicine Kech School of Medicine
Title:	The Effects of Perinatal Hypoxic Ischemic Brain Injury on Development of the Rat Prefrontal
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 April 18 at 12:00 Noon
Sponsor:	Biochemistry Graduate Student Seminar Series
Speaker:	Jiafeng Gu
	Graduate Student, Genetic, Molecular and Cellular Biology
Title:	Mechanistic Aspects of Non-Homologous DNA End Joining (NHEJ) Pathway
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 Lieber; Host: Rosanne Yetemian

	Thursday April 17 at 3:30 PM
Sponsor:	BISC Inter-Section Seminar
Speaker:	Donal Manahan
	University of Southern California
Title:	Development and Evolution in Extreme Environments
Location:	HNB large conference room
	University Park Campus (UPC)
Contact:	Samantha Butler 1-1161 butlersj@usc.edu
Website:	college.usc.edu/labs/manahan/home/index.html
	A series of presentations highlighting ongoing research by your colleagues in Molecular & Computational Biology, Neurobiology and Marine Environmental Biology and guest Lecturers that span Sectional interests

	Thursday April 17 at 2:00 PM
Sponsor:	Dissertation Defense
Speaker:	Isabel Hsu
	Ph.D. Candidate, Physiology & Biophysics, USC Keck School of Medicine, Los Angeles, CA 90033
Title:	The Physiological and Pathophysiological Role of Sympathetic Nervous System Induced Pulsatile Lipolysis in Metabolism
Location:	Norris Medical Library Conference Room
	Health Sciences Campus (HSC)
Contact:	Elena Camarena, (323) 442-1039 ecamaren@usc.edu
	Mentor: Richard N. Bergman, Keck Professor of Medicine and Chair, Tel: (323) 442-1920

	Wednesday April 16 at 12:00 Noon
Sponsor:	The Institute for Genetic Medicine - DISTINGUISHED SPEAKERS SEMINAR SERIES
Speaker:	Janan T. Eppig, Ph.D.
	Professor, The Jackson Laboratory, Bar Harbor, ME
Title:	Taming the Mouse: Integrating Data from Sequences to Disease Models
Location:	IGM Harkness Assembly, 2250 Alcazar Street, CSC-250
	Health Sciences Campus (HSC)
Contact:	Gracie, (323) 442-1144 graciela.mercado@usc.edu
	Admission: Free Refreshments will be served

New Week

Friday April 11 at 1:30 PM

Symposium 1:30 pm - 4:30 pm, Reception and Open House to Follow

Sponsor:

USC Epigenome Center Inaugural Symposium

Location:

Aresty Auditorium, Harlyne J. Norris Cancer Research Tower, LG Level

Health Sciences Campus (HSC)

Contact:

Brittany De La Torre (323) 865-0648 bgac@usc.edu

Website:

www.usc.edu/dept/pubrel/specialevents//esvp/esvp_epigenome.php


	USC Epigenome Center - Inaugural Symposium

1:30 pm	Elizabeth Garrett, Ph.D.	USC Vice President for Academic Planning	Welcome
	Peter Laird, Ph.D.	Director, USC Epigenome Center USC Norris Cancer Center	Opening Remarks

	First Session
1:35 - 2:05 pm	Bradley Bernstein, M.D., Ph.D.	Massachusetts General Hospital	Genomewide studies of the pluripotent chromatin state
2:05 pm - 2:35 pm	Joseph Ecker, Ph.D.	The Salk Institute for Biological Studies	Creating integrated single base resolution epigenome maps
2:35 pm - 3:00 pm	Daniel Crichton, Ph.D.	California Institute of Technology	A knowledge system architecture for biomarker discovery in cancer research

3:00 - 3:10 pm	Break - Refreshments Served

	Second Session
3:10 pm - 3:40 pm	David Duggan, Ph.D.	Translational Genomics Research Institute (TGen)	Technological approaches to genome-wide and individual SNP-based association studies
3:40 pm - 4:10 pm	Steven Jacobsen, Ph.D.	University of California, Los Angeles	Genetics and genomics of DNA methylation patterning
4:10 pm - 4:30 pm	Goncalo Abecasis, D.Phil.	University of Michigan	Genome wide searches for complex disease susceptibility genes

4:30 pm	Peter Laird, Ph.D.	Director, USC Epigenome Center USC Norris Cancer Center	Closing remarks

4:30 pm - 6:00 pm	USC Epigenome Center Reception and Open House
	Harlyne J. Norris Cancer Research Tower - LG Level

	Friday April 11 at 12:30 PM
Sponsor:	Biochemistry Graduate Student Seminar Series
Speaker:	Rosanne M. Yetemian
	Graduate Student, Genetic, Molecular and Cellular Biology
Title:	CHARACTERIZATION OF THE NRL-/-GRK1-/- DOUBLE KNOCKOUT MOUSE AS A MODEL FOR LIGHT-INDEPENDENT CONE PHOTORECEPTOR DEGENERATION
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. Cheryl Craft; Host: Kyung Hwan Kim

	Friday April 11 at 12:00 Noon
Sponsor:	Center for Craniofacial Molecular Biology, School of Dentistry
Speaker:	Xiaofeng Huang
	Ph.D.
Title:	Apoptosis of Mee Cells During Palatogenesis
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 April 11 at 12:00 Noon
Sponsor:	USC SCHOOL OF PHARMACY Department of Pharmacology and Pharmaceutical Sciences Seminar Series
Speaker:	A. Leslie Morrow, Ph.D.
	Professor of Psychiatry and Pharmacology, Associate Director, Bowles Center for Alcohol Studies, Scholl of Medicine, University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill, NC
Title:	Neuroactive Steroids Mediate Alcohol Sensitivity in Rats And Humans: Therapeutic Relevance
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. Daryl Davies, Ph.D. (Voice: 323-442-1427; eMail: ddavies@usc.edu) Refreshments will be served at 11:45 a.m.!

	Friday April 11 at 12:00 Noon
Sponsor:	Biochemistry Graduate Student Seminar Series
Speaker:	Kyunghwan Kim
	Graduate Student, Biochemistry & Molecular Biology
Title:	Isolation and Characterization of a Novel H1.2 Complex That Acts as a Repressor of p53-Mediated Transcription
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. Woojin An; Host: Meng Xu

	Thursday April 10 at 12:00 Noon
Sponsor:	USC Ethel Percy Andrus Gerontology Center - Multidisciplinary Research Colloquium Series in Aging
Speaker:	Chandra A. Reynolds, Ph.D.
	Associate Professor, Department of Psychology, University of California, Riverside, Riverside, CA
Title:	Cognitive Aging: Beyond Heritability
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 April 10 at 08:30 AM

8:30 a.m. Registration Begins, 9:15 a.m. Part 1. Basic Biology and Mechanisms, 11:00 a.m. Part 2. Genetic & Ethnic Differences, 3:00 p.m. Part 3. Intervention Strategies, 4:00 p.m. Special Guest Lecture, Author Gary Taubes, 5:00 p.m. Reception

Sponsor:

USC Keck School of Medicine Childhood Obesity Research Center Presents a Symposium - Childhood Obesity: Genes, Brains and Behavior

Location:

USC Norris Research Tower: Aresty Auditorium, 1450 Biggy Street, Los Angeles, CA 90038

Health Sciences Campus (HSC)

Contact:

Kami McClure, 323.442.4101 mmcclure@usc.edu

Website:

www.childhoodobesitycenter.org

Dear Friends and Colleagues, The University of Southern California Childhood Obesity Research Center invites you to attend a one- day symposium: Childhood Obesity: Genes, Brains, and Behavior on Thursday, April 10, 2008. Please join us for what promises to be a highly informative, provocative, and energizing day with speakers from USC and around the country, culminating with a talk by Gary Taubes, author of Good Calories Bad Calories. Breakfast, breaks, and lunch will be provided followed by a reception from 5:00 p.m. - 6:00 p.m at no charge. Don't miss this opportunity to hear from many of the nation's top experts on obesity presenting a wide range of research, findings and implications. RSVP Link: http://usc.edu/esvp Enter Code: CORC


8:30 - 9:00 a.m.	Registration

9:00 - 9:10 a.m.	Carmen A. Puliafito, MD	Dean, USC Keck School of Medicine	Opening Remarks
9:10 - 9:15 a.m.	Michael I. Goran, PhD	Director, USC Childhood Obesity Research Center	Welcome

9:15 - 10:45 a.m.	Part 1: Basic Biology and Mechanisms

9:15 - 9:45 a.m.	Richard N. Bergman, PhD	Keck Professor of Medicine and Chair, Department of Physiology & Biophysics, USC Keck School of Medicine	The Portal Theory
9:45 - 10:15 a.m.	Richard Simerly, PhD	Professor of Pediatrics & Director, Neuroscience Program, Saban Research Institute, Childrens Hospital Los Angeles, USC Keck School of Medicine	Wired for Obesity: Development of Leptin-Sensitive Hypothalamic Circuitry
10:15 - 10:45 a.m.	Kevin Grove, PhD	Associate Scientist, Division of Neuroscience, Oregon National Primate Center	Development of Metabolic Systems in Non Human Primates

10:45 - 11:00 a.m.	BREAK

11:00 - 2:30	Part 2: Genetic & Ethnic Issues

11:00 - 11:30 a.m.	Nancy Butte, PhD	Professor of Pediatrics, USDA/ARS Children's Nutrition Research Center, Department of Pediatrics, Baylor College of Medicine	Genetics of Childhood Obesity in Hispanics
11:30 - 12:00 p.m.	Holly Ingraham, PhD	Professor of Physiology, University of California San Francisco	Molecular Genetics of Hypothalamic Obesity
12:00 - 12:30 p.m.	Jose Fernandez, PhD	Associate Professor of Nutrition Sciences, University of Alabama at Birmingham	Genetic Admixture in Childhood Obesity

12:30 - 1:30 p.m.	LUNCH

1:30 - 2:00 p.m.	Silva Arslanian, MD	Richard L Day Endowed Professor of Pediatrics, University of Pittsburgh, School of Medicine; Director, Pediatric Clinical & Translational Research Center; & Director, Weight Management & Wellness Center Children's Hospital of Pittsburgh of UPMC	Ethnic and Pubertal Differences in Fat Distribution and Insulin Resistance in Children
2:00 - 2:30 p.m.	Myles Faith, PhD	Center for Weight and Eating Disorders, University of Pennsylvania School of Medicine	Genetic Origins of Obesigenic Eating Patterns in Childhood

2:30 - 3:00 p.m.	BREAK

3:00 - 5:00 p.m.	Part 3: Intervention Strategies

3:00 - 3:30 p .m.	Mary Ann Pentz, PhD	Professor of Preventive Medicine, USC Keck School of Medicine	Behavioral Interventions: Lessons from Drug and Tobacco
3:30 - 4:00 p.m.	Bernard Gutin, PhD	Adjunct Professor of Nutrition at the University of North Carolina - Chapel Hill	Exercise Strategies in Children
4:00 - 4:45 p.m.	Gary Taubes	Freelance Science Journalist and Author	Special Guest Lecture: Good Calories Bad Calories
4:45- 5:00 p.m.	Closing Remarks

5:00 - 6:00 p.m.	RECEPTION

	Wednesday April 09 at 12:00 Noon
Sponsor:	Microbiology and Pharmacology & Pharmaceutical Sciences Seminar Guest Speaker
Speaker:	Sally Ward, Ph.D.
	Professor, Department of Immunology, UT Southwestern Medical Center, TX
Title:	FcRn as an IgG Homeostat: from Protein Engineering to Single Molecule Microscopy
Location:	Zilkha Neurogenetic Institute, Herklotz Seminar Room, Room 112
	Health Sciences Campus (HSC)
Contact:	Aileen Calimlim, 3234421710 calimlim@usc.edu

	Tuesday April 08 at 12:00 Noon
Sponsor:	The Institute for Genetic Medicine - Microarray SEMINAR
Speaker:	Peter Herzer, Ph.D.
	Eppendorf Biochip Systems
Title:	Silverquant® Detection - An Alternative to Fluorescence for DualChip Gene Expression Microarrays and Transcription Factor Analysis of Stem Cells
Location:	IGM Harkness Assembly, 2250 Alcazar Street, CSC-250
	Health Sciences Campus (HSC)
Contact:	(323) 442-1220 mehrian@usc.edu
	Hosted by: Ruty Mehrian-Shai, Ph.D. Admission: Free Lunch will be served. Please RSVP: davis.r@eppendorf.com

	Tuesday April 08 at 12:00 Noon
	12:00 - 1:00 PM
Sponsor:	USC/Norris Cancer Center Grand Rounds
Speaker:	Takahiro Maeda, Ph.D.
	Assistant Professor, Department of Hematopoietic Stem Cell and Leukemia Research, Beckman Research Institute, City of Hope
Title:	Roles of the Transcription Factor LRF in Hematopoiesis
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=19786
	Refreshments Provided

New Week

	Friday April 04 at 12:30 PM
Sponsor:	Biochemistry Graduate Student Seminar Series
Speaker:	Meng Xu
	Graduate Student, Genetic, Molecular, and Cellular Biology
Title:	Structural Studies of MCM4/6/7 Hexamers
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. Xiaojiang; Host: Shirley Oghamian

	Friday April 04 at 12:00 Noon
Sponsor:	Biochemistry Graduate Student Seminar Series
Speaker:	Shirley Oghamian
	Graduate Student, Biochemistry & Molecular Biology
Title:	BRAFV600E Induces Hepatocellular Carcinoma in Mice
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: Risheng Ye

	Friday April 04 at 09:30 AM
	9:00-9:30 Breakfast 9:30-10:30 Presentation 10:30-11:00 Networking
Sponsor:	USC Childhood Obesity Research Center - TREC TEAM Seminar
Speaker:	David D. Ludwig, MD, PhD
	Division of Endocrinology, Children's Hospital Boston Massachusetts
Title:	An Integrative, Family-Based Approach to Childhood Obesity
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 April 03 at 12:00 Noon
	Lecture is from 12:00 - 1:30 p.m.
Sponsor:	Cellular Homeostasis Lecture Series (Pathology 575)
Speaker:	Dean Bok, PhD
	Jules Stein Eye Institute, UCLA
Title:	The role of retinoid cycle in inherited retinal disease.
Location:	McKibben (MCH) Lecture Hall, room 156
	Health Sciences Campus (HSC)
Contact:	Rosy Macias or Rebecca Handan, 323-442-3121 rmacias@usc.edu
Website:	www.usc.edu/alpd
	Sponsored by: The Southern California Research Center for ALPD & Cirrhosis, & the Department of Pathology Refreshments will be provided Seminar open to Faculty and Students

	Thursday April 03 at 11:00 AM
Sponsor:	Clifton Stewart Diabetes Lecture Series
Speaker:	Christopher P. O'Donnell, Ph.D.
	Associate Professor of Medicine and Anesthesiology, Divison of Pulmonary, Allergy, and Critical Care Medicine, University of Pittsburgh School of Medicine, Pittsburgh, PA 15213
Title:	The Metabolic Effects of Sleep Apnea and Intermittent Hypoxia
Location:	Aresty Conference Room - 503/4, Lower Ground, Harlyne J Norris Research Tower
	Health Sciences Campus (HSC)
Contact:	Elena Camarena, (323) 442-1039 ecamaren@usc.edu
	Host: Richard N. Bergman, Keck Professor of Medicine and Chair, Department of Physiology & Biophysics. Tel: (323) 442-1920

	Tuesday April 01 at 12:00 Noon
Sponsor:	The Saban Research Institute Research Seminars
Speaker:	Dwayne Stupack, PhD
	Assistant Professor, Cancer Biology Program, Department of Pathology, University of California San Diego
Title:	Two faces of caspase 8 in neuroblastoma
Location:	CHLA, The Saban Research Institute Building, 4661 Sunset Boulevard, Auditorium, Los Angeles, CA 90027
	Childrens Hospital Los Angeles (CHLA)
Contact:	Denise, (323) 669-4110 ddillon@chla.usc.edu
Website:	www.childrenshospitalla.org/body.cfm?id=8
	No registration needed. Call for parking information.

	Tuesday April 01 at 12:00 Noon
	12:00 - 1:00 PM
Sponsor:	USC/Norris Cancer Center Grand Rounds
Speaker:	Andreas Beutler, M.D.
	Assistant Professor in Medicine (Hematology Oncology), Department of Medicine, Mount Sinai School of Medicine, New York, New York
Title:	Chronic Cancer Pain: Gene Therapy to (Epi-)Genomics
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=19712
	Refreshments Provided

March 2008

	Friday March 28 at 1:00 PM
Sponsor:	Center for Stem Cell and Regenerative Medicine
Speaker:	Lei Yang, PhD
	Postdoctoral Fellow, Black Family Stem Cell Institute, Mount Sinai School of Medicine, New York
Title:	Multipotential cardiovascular progenitors derived from human ES 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

	Friday March 28 at 12:30 PM
Sponsor:	Biochemistry Graduate Student Seminar Series
Speaker:	Risheng Ye
	Graduate Student, Biochemistry & Molecular Biology
Title:	Novel Role of Endoplasmic Reticulum Stress Protein GRP78/BiP on the regulation of Glucose Homeostasis and Obesity
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. Amy Lee; Host: Kuo-Chan Hung

	Friday March 28 at 12:00 Noon
Sponsor:	Biochemistry Graduate Student Seminar Series
Speaker:	Kuo-Chan Hung
	Graduate Students, Genetic, Molecular and Cellular Biology
Title:	Development of novel Ga protein FRET-based biosensors using mRNA display selection
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. Richard Roberts; Host: Jennifer Sims

	Friday March 28 at 08:00 AM
Sponsor:	Dept of Pathology & Laboratory Medicine Grand Rounds
Speaker:	Lakshmanan Sathyavagiswaran, M.D.
	Chief Medical Examiner-Coroner, LAC+USC Medical Center
Title:	Scene Investigation - Directed Autopsy
Location:	Norris Topping Tower, Conf Rm 7409, Norris Cancer Hospital
	Health Sciences Campus (HSC)
Contact:	Leslie Wauke, (323) 442-1180 lwauke@keck.usc.edu
	Refreshments will be served.

	Thursday March 27 at 3:30 PM
Sponsor:	BISC Inter-Section Seminar
Speaker:	Judith Hirsch
	University of Southern California
Title:	Neuronal circuits adapted for the statistics of natural images
Location:	HNB large conference room
	University Park Campus (UPC)
Contact:	Samantha Butler 1-1161 butlersj@usc.edu
	A series of presentations highlighting ongoing research by your colleagues in Molecular & Computational Biology, Neurobiology and Marine Environmental Biology and guest Lecturers that span Sectional interests

	Thursday March 27 at 12:00 Noon
	Lecture is from 12:00 - 1:30 p.m.
Sponsor:	Cellular Homeostasis Lecture Series (Pathology 575)
Speaker:	Daria Mochly-Rosen, PhD
	Stanford University School of Medicine
Title:	Protein kinase C in life & death of the heart & the brain.
Location:	McKibben (MCH) Lecture Hall, room 156
	Health Sciences Campus (HSC)
Contact:	Rosy Macias or Rebecca Handan, 323-442-3121 rmacias@usc.edu
Website:	www.usc.edu/alpd
	Sponsored by: The Southern California Research Center for ALPD & Cirrhosis, & the Department of Pathology Refreshments will be provided Seminar open to Faculty and Students

	Thursday March 27 at 12:00 Noon
Sponsor:	USC Ethel Percy Andrus Gerontology Center - Multidisciplinary Research Colloquium Series in Aging
Speaker:	Ruth O'Hara, Ph.D.
	Associate Professor, Department of Psychiatry and Behavioral Sciences, Stanford University Medical School
Title:	The Serotonin Transporter Polymorphism and Stress: A Role in Cognitive Aging
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 March 27 at 11:00 AM
Sponsor:	The Institute for Genetic Medicine - DISTINGUISHED SPEAKERS SEMINAR SERIES
Speaker:	Cliff Rosen, M.D.
	Senior Scientist, The Maine Medical Center Research Institute, Scarborough, ME
Title:	What's new with Bone and Fat?
Location:	IGM Harkness Assembly, 2250 Alcazar Street, CSC-250
	Health Sciences Campus (HSC)
Contact:	Gracie, (323) 442-1144 graciela.mercado@usc.edu
	Admission: Free Refreshments will be served

	Wednesday March 26 at 5:00 PM
Sponsor:	Norris Comprehensive Cancer Center and Dept. of Mol. Microbiology & Immunology
Speaker:	Ian Frazer, MD
	Professor and Director Center of Immunology and Cancer Research, Medicine, University of Queensland, Brisbane, Australia
Title:	HPV Update: Immunology, Epidemiology and Prevention
Location:	Aresty Auditorium, Harlyne Norris Research Tower, NRT lower ground level, 1450 Biggy Street, Los Angeles, CA 90033
	Health Sciences Campus (HSC)
Contact:	W. Martin Kast, 323-442-3870 mkast@usc.edu
	This is truly a unique opportunity to hear one of the greatest scientists in the field of HPV. Dr Ian Frazer's research was the basis for the very effective current vaccine for cervical cancer. Dr Frazer won the Australian Eureka award for leadership in science and was named Australian of the year in 2006 for his work on HPV. Don't let this opportunity to hear him pass you by! Host: W. Martin Kast, PhD, mkast@usc.edu

	Tuesday March 25 at 4:00 PM
Sponsor:	Center for Stem Cell and Regenerative Medicine
Speaker:	Karl Willert, PhD
	Assistant Adjunct Professor & Director of Human Embryonic Stem Cell Core Facility, Cellular and Molecular Medicine, University of California- San Diego
Title:	Exploring Wnt pathway interactions in stem 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

	Tuesday March 25 at 12:00 Noon
Sponsor:	Center for Craniofacial Molecular Biology, School of Dentistry
Speaker:	Akira Yamane, Ph.D.
	Department of Pharmacology, Tsurumi University School of Dental Medicine
Title:	Myogenesis and Synaptogenesis of Craniofacial Muscles
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 25 at 12:00 Noon
	12:00 - 1:00 PM
Sponsor:	USC/Norris Cancer Center Grand Rounds
Speaker:	Walter Wolf, Ph.D.
	Distinguised Professor, Director, Pharmacokinetic Imaging Program, Dept. of Pharmaceutical Sciences, School of Pharmacy, Chair, Biomedical Imaging Science Initiative
Title:	Functional & Molecular Imaging in Monitoring & Guiding Cancer Treatment
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=19596
	Refreshments Provided

New Week

	Friday March 21 at 12:00 Noon
Sponsor:	Zilkha Neurogenetic Institute
Speaker:	Wah Chiu, Ph.D.
	Professor of Biochemistry, Director, National Center for Macromolecular Imaging, Baylor College of Medicine, Houston, TX, 77030
Title:	Cryo-EM of Molecular Machines and Cells
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

Friday March 21 at 08:30 AM

Event beginning with a continental breakfast at 8:30 a.m.
The symposium will conclude shortly after 4 p.m

Sponsor:

USC Research Center for Liver Diseases, 13th Annual Symposium

Location:

HMR (Hoffman Medical Research) Hastings Auditorium (1st Floor)

Health Sciences Campus (HSC)

Contact:

Margarita Castillon, 323-442-1800 margarsc@usc.edu


8:30 - 9:00 a.m.	Continental Breakfast

9:00 am - 10:00 am (9:50-10:00 Q&A)	Advisory Board Lecture:	Anna Mae Diehl, M.D.	Chief & Professor of Medicine, Department of Medicine, Division of Gastroenterology, Duke University School of Medicine	Role of Fetal Morphogens in Adult Liver Repair
10:00 am - 10:30 am (10:25 -10:30 Q&A)	P/F Project Progress Report:	Tracy Grikscheit, M.D.	Visiting Associate Professor of Surgery, Department of Surgery, Children’s Hospital of Los Angeles, Keck School of Medicine, USC	Tissue Engineered Intestine Salvage of Short Bowel Syndrome
10:30 am- 11:00 am (10:55-11:00 Q&A)	P/F Project Progress Report:	Keigo Machida, Ph.D.	Assistant Professor of Research, Department of Molecular Microbiology and Immunology, Keck School of Medicine, USC	Role of AP-1 and DNA Damage Repair in HCV-Induced Hepatocellular Carcinoma

11:00 - 11:10 a.m.	Coffee Break

11:10 am - 11:40 am (11:35-11:40 Q&A)	P/F Project Progress Report:	Martin Pera, Ph.D.	Professor & Director of Center for Stem Cell and Regenerative Medicine, Department of Cell & Neurobiology, Keck School of Medicine, USC	A Model for Engraftment of Regenerating Liver
11:40 am - 12:00 PM (11:55 -12:00 Q&A)	New Applicant:	Heping Yang, M.D., Ph.D.	Assistant Professor of Research, Department of Medicine, Division of GI/ Liver, Keck School of Medicine, USC	Regulation of p53 and Cyclin D1 by Toxic Bile Acid: Role of Myc-Max and Mnt-Max

12:00 1:00 p.m.	Lunch Break		Lunch will be provided/ Closed Meeting: (Executive/Advisory Board - with Director & Associate director)

1:00 pm - 2:00 pm (1:50- 2:00 Q&A)	Center Member Lecture:	Jae Jung, Ph.D.	Chair & Professor, Department of Molecular Microbiology & Immunology, Keck School of Medicine, USC	Induction and Evasion of the Type I Interferon Response by Viruses
2:00 pm - 2:20 pm (2:15- 2:20 Q&A)	New Applicant:	Vijay Kalra, Ph.D.	Professor, Department of Biochemistry & Molecular Biology, Keck School of Medicine, USC	Hypoxia-Inducible Factor in the Regulation of Inflammation in Liver Injury
2:20 - 2:40 pm (2:35 - 2:40 Q&A)	New Applicant:	Shuping Zhong, Ph.D.	Assistant Professor of Research, Department of Biochemistry & Molecular Biology, Keck School of Medicine, USC	Epigenetic Role of HCV Core Protein Regulating Chromatin Remodeling to Increase RNA Pol III Transcription
2:40 - 3:00 pm (2:55 -3:00 Q&A)	New Applicant:	Wendong Huang, Ph.D.	Assistant Professor, Department of Gene Regulation and Drug Discovery, Beckman Research Institute, City of Hope	Farnesoid X Receptor and Liver Regeneration

3:00 - 3:10 p.m.	Coffee Break

3:10 pm - 3:40 pm (3:35- 3:40 Q&A)	P/F Project Report:	Tobias Ulmer, Ph.D.	Assistant Professor, Department of Biochemistry & Molecular Biology, Keck School of Medicine, USC	Regulation of Human Liver-type Carnitine Palmitoyltransferase I
3:40 pm - 4:10 pm (4:05- 4:10 Q&A)	P/F Project Report:	Bangyan Stiles, Ph.D.	Assistant Professor of Surgery, Department of Molecular Pharmacology and Toxicology, USC School of Pharmacy	The Role of LKB/AMPK in Liver Carcinogenesis

4:15 pm	Conclusion of Symposium

	Tuesday March 18 at 12:00 Noon
	12:00 - 1:00 PM
Sponsor:	USC/Norris Cancer Center Grand Rounds
Speaker:	Shijie Sheng, Ph.D.
	Associate Professor and Co-Leader, Department of Pathology, The Proteases and Cancer Program, The Barbara Ann Karmanos Cancer Institute, Wayne State University School of Medicine
Title:	A Role of Maspin in Prostate Tumor Progression
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=19446
	Refreshments Provided

	Monday March 17 at 12:00 Noon
Sponsor:	Basic Science Seminar Series
Speaker:	Howard Y. Chang, M.D., Ph.D.
	Assistant Professor, Dermatology, Stanford University School of Medicine, Stanford, CA
Title:	Genomic Encoding of Positional Identities
Location:	USC/Norris Topping Tower 7409
	Health Sciences Campus (HSC)
Contact:	Graciela Mercado (323) 442-1144 gracielm@usc.edu
	Host: Dr. Cheng Ming Chuong - Pizza lunch will be served

New Week

	Friday March 14 at 12:30 PM
Sponsor:	Biochemistry Graduate Student Seminar Series
Speaker:	Jennifer Sims
	Graduate Student, Biochemistry & Molecular Biology
Title:	Expression of cell fate-specific genes are regulated by a novel monomethyl histone H4K20 and H3K9 trans-tail histone code
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. Judd Rice; Host: Melania Apostolidou

	Friday March 14 at 12:00 Noon
Sponsor:	Center for Stem Cell and Regenerative Medicine
Speaker:	Duc Dong, PhD
	Postdoctoral Scientist, Organogenesis & Regenerative Medicine, University of California, San Francisco
Title:	'Genetic Mechanisms of Pancreas and Liver Progenitor Cell Fate Specification'
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

	Friday March 14 at 12:00 Noon
Sponsor:	Biochemistry Graduate Student Seminar Series
Speaker:	Melania Apostolidou
	Graduate Student, Biochemistry & Molecular Biology
Title:	Structure of α-Helical Membrane-bound IAPP and its Implications for Membrane-mediated Misfolding
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. Ralf Langen; Host: Hao-Ru Hsu

	Thursday March 13 at 12:00 Noon
	Lecture is from 12:00 - 1:30 p.m.
Sponsor:	Cellular Homeostasis Lecture Series (Pathology 575)
Speaker:	Raymond J. Deshaies, PhD
	CALTECH
Title:	Mechanisms & regulation of ubiquitin-dependent proteolysis.
Location:	McKibben (MCH) Lecture Hall, room 156
	Health Sciences Campus (HSC)
Contact:	Rosy Macias or Rebecca Handan, 323-442-3121 rmacias@usc.edu
Website:	www.usc.edu/alpd
	Sponsored by: The Southern California Research Center for ALPD & Cirrhosis, & the Department of Pathology Refreshments will be provided Seminar open to Faculty and Students

	Thursday March 13 at 12:00 Noon
Sponsor:	USC Ethel Percy Andrus Gerontology Center - Multidisciplinary Research Colloquium Series in Aging
Speaker:	Linda M. Burton, Ph.D.
	James B. Duke Professor of Sociology, Department of Sociology, Duke University, Durham, North Carolina
Title:	All Our Kin in the Era of the Hook-up
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 March 13 at 12:00 Noon
Sponsor:	USC SCHOOL OF PHARMACY Department of Pharmacology and Pharmaceutical Sciences Seminar Series
Speaker:	Julio A. Camarero, Ph.D.
	Head of Laboratory of Protein Chemistry & Engineering, Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory, Biosciences and Biotechnology Division, University of California, Livermore, CA
Title:	New Chemical Tools for the High Throughput Analysis of Biomolecular Interactions
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. Nouri Neamati, Ph.D. (Voice: 323-442-2341; eMail: neamati@usc.edu) Refreshments will be served at 11:45 a.m.!

	Thursday March 13 at 11:00 AM
Sponsor:	Microbiology Faculty Candidate - Seminar Guest Speaker
Speaker:	Robert Prins, Ph.D.
	Assistant Professor, Division of Neurosurgery, UCLA, Los Angeles, CA
Title:	Immunotherapeutic Targeting of Shared Tumor-Associated Antigens in Malignant Glioma
Location:	Zilkha Neurogenetic Institute, Herklotz Seminar Room, Room 112
	Health Sciences Campus (HSC)
Contact:	Aileen Calimlim, 3234421710 calimlim@usc.edu
	Microbiology Faculty Candidate

	Wednesday March 12 at 12:00 Noon
Sponsor:	Zilkha Neurogenetic Institute
Speaker:	Francesco Tombola, Ph.D.
	Postdoctoral Fellow, Molecular and Cell Biology, Berkeley University, Berkeley, CA 94720
Title:	Voltage Sensing in Excitable Membranes: When the Sensor Becomes a Channel
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 March 11 at 2:00 PM
Sponsor:	Basic Science Seminar Series
Speaker:	Ronald C. Desrosiers, Ph.D
	Professor, Microbiology and Molecular Genetics, Harvard Medical School, Director, New England Primate Research Center, Southborough, MA
Title:	Scientific Obstacles to an Effective HIV Vaccine
Location:	USC/Norris Topping Tower 7409
	Health Sciences Campus (HSC)
Contact:	Graciela Mercado (323) 442-1144 gracielm@usc.edu
	Host: Dr. Jae Jung - Pizza lunch will be served

	Tuesday March 11 at 12:00 Noon
	12:00 - 1:00 PM
Sponsor:	USC/Norris Cancer Center Grand Rounds
Speaker:	Nicos Petasis, Ph.D.
	Harold E. & Lillian M. Moulton Professor of Chemistry, Head, Organic/Materials Division, Department of Chemistry and Loker Hydrocarbon Research Institute, USC
Title:	From New Molecules to New Therapies for Inflammation and Cancer
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=19214
	Refreshments Provided

	Monday March 10 at 4:00 PM
Sponsor:	Weekly Seminar Series on Engineering Neuroscience and Health
Speaker:	Norberto Grzywacz, Ph.D
	Professor of Biomedical Engineering and Director of the Neuroscience Graduate Program, BME - Center for Vision Science and Technology, University of Southern California, Los Angeles, CA 90089
Title:	Responses of Retinal Ganglion Cells to Natural Images
Location:	Ahmanson Center for Biological Research (ACB) 238
	University Park Campus (UPC)
Contact:	Francisco Valero, Ph.D (213) 821-2084 Valero@usc.edu
Website:	bme.usc.edu/directory/faculty/primary-faculty/francisco-valero-cuevas//seminar.htm

	Monday March 10 at 12:00 Noon
Sponsor:	Basic Science Seminar Series
Speaker:	Jason K. Kim, Ph.D
	Associate Professor, Cellular & Molecular Physiology, Program Director, Penn State Diabetes & Obesity Mouse Phenotyping Center, Pennsylvania State University College of Medicine, Hershey, PA
Title:	Role of Inflammation in Diabetes and Complications
Location:	USC/Norris Topping Tower 7409
	Health Sciences Campus (HSC)
Contact:	Graciela Mercado (323) 442-1144 gracielm@usc.edu
	Host: Dr. Amy Lee - Pizza lunch will be served

New Week

	Friday March 07 at 12:00 Noon
Sponsor:	Biochemistry Graduate Student Seminar Series
Speaker:	Jessie Hao-Ru Hsu
	Graduate Student, Genetic, Molecular and Cellular Biology
Title:	The Role of BMI-1 in Ewing Sarcoma Family of Tumors
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. Elizabeth Lawlor; Host: Stephanie Stanford

	Thursday March 06 at 12:00 Noon
	Lecture is from 12:00 - 1:30 p.m.
Sponsor:	Cellular Homeostasis Lecture Series (Pathology 575)
Speaker:	Anastasia Kralli, PhD
	Scripps Research Institute
Title:	Role of coregulator PGC-1 in regulating energy metabolism.
Location:	McKibben (MCH) Lecture Hall, room 156
	Health Sciences Campus (HSC)
Contact:	Rosy Macias or Rebecca Handan, 323-442-3121 rmacias@usc.edu
Website:	www.usc.edu/alpd
	Sponsored by: The Southern California Research Center for ALPD & Cirrhosis, & the Department of Pathology Refreshments will be provided Seminar open to Faculty and Students

	Wednesday March 05 at 12:00 Noon
Sponsor:	Zilkha Neurogenetic Institute
Speaker:	Karen Chang, Ph.D.
	Postdoctoral Fellow, Biology, Indiana University, Bloomington, IN 47405
Title:	Studying the molecular mechanisms of Down Syndrome: Drosophila as a Model System
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 March 04 at 12:00 Noon
	12:00 - 1:00 PM
Sponsor:	USC/Norris Cancer Center Grand Rounds
Speaker:	Chris Haiman, Ph.D.
	Assistant Professor, Department of Preventive Medicine, Keck School of Medicine, USC
Title:	Variation at 8q24 &Cancer Risk
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=19112
	Refreshments Provided

	Tuesday March 04 at 09:30 AM
	9:00-9:30 Breakfast 9:30-10:30 Presentation 10:30-11:00 Networking
Sponsor:	USC Childhood Obesity Research Center - TREC TEAM Seminar
Speaker:	Patty Freedson, PhD
	Professor and Chair, Department of Kinesiology, School of Public Health and Health Sciences, University of Massachusetts/Amherst
Title:	Novel methods to process and interpret accelerometer data to assess physical activity
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.

February 2008

	Friday February 29 at 12:30 PM
Sponsor:	Biochemistry Graduate Student Seminar Series
Speaker:	Stefanie Stanford
	Graduate Student, Genetic, Molecular and Cellular Biology
Title:	Regulation of Lymphoid Phosphatase by Serine Phosphorylation in T Cell Receptor Signaling
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. Nunzio Bottini; Host: Jeffrey Friedman

	Friday February 29 at 12:00 Noon
Sponsor:	Biochemistry Graduate Student Seminar Series
Speaker:	Jeffrey Friedman
	Graduate Student, Biochemistry & Molecular Biology
Title:	The role of microRNAs in bladder 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 Jones; Host: Kwangwon Jeong

	Thursday February 28 at 12:00 Noon
	Lecture is from 12:00 - 1:30 p.m.
Sponsor:	Cellular Homeostasis Lecture Series (Pathology 575)
Speaker:	David Ron, MD
	NYU School of Medicine
Title:	A physiologic perspective on unfolded protein responses.
Location:	McKibben (MCH) Lecture Hall, room 156
	Health Sciences Campus (HSC)
Contact:	Rosy Macias or Rebecca Handan, 323-442-3121 rmacias@usc.edu
Website:	www.usc.edu/alpd
	Sponsored by: The Southern California Research Center for ALPD & Cirrhosis, & the Department of Pathology Refreshments will be provided Seminar open to Faculty and Students

	Tuesday February 26 at 12:00 Noon
Sponsor:	USC SCHOOL OF PHARMACY Department of Pharmacology and Pharmaceutical Sciences Seminar Series
Speaker:	Russell Dahl, Ph.D.
	Manager, Medicinal Chemistry and PK/ADME, Burnham Institute for Medical Research, La Jolla, CA
Title:	Hit to lead and beyond: shortening the path to preclinical drug compounds via parallel SAR generation
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. Nouri Neamati, Ph.D. (Voice: 323-442-2341; eMail: neamati@usc.edu) Refreshments will be served at 11:45 a.m.!

	Tuesday February 26 at 12:00 Noon
Sponsor:	The Saban Research Institute Research Seminars
Speaker:	Santiago Chambers and Dr. Charles Gomer
	Childrens Hospital Los Angeles, Los Angeles, CA 90027
Title:	Introduction to Basic Laboratory Safety
Location:	CHLA, The Saban Research Institute Building, 4661 Sunset Boulevard, Auditorium, Los Angeles, CA 90027
	Childrens Hospital Los Angeles (CHLA)
Contact:	Denise, (323) 669-4110 ddillon@chla.usc.edu
Website:	www.childrenshospitalla.org/body.cfm?id=8
	No registration needed. Call for parking information.

	Tuesday February 26 at 12:00 Noon
	12:00 - 1:00 PM
Sponsor:	USC/Norris Cancer Center Grand Rounds
Speaker:	Graham Casey, Ph.D.
	Visiting Professor, Department of Preventive Medicine, Keck School of Medicine, USC
Title:	Common Genetic Variants in Prostate Cancer: Going Beyond Cancer Risk
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=18934
	Refreshments Provided

	Monday February 25 at 1:00 PM
Sponsor:	Microbiology Faculty Candidate - Seminar Guest Speaker
Speaker:	Weiming Yuan, Ph.D.
	Associate Research Scientist, Immunobiology, Yale University School of Medicine, New Haven, CT
Title:	Molecular Mechanism and Viral Modulation of CD1d Antigen Presentation
Location:	Zilkha Neurogenetic Institute, Herklotz Seminar Room, Room 112
	Health Sciences Campus (HSC)
Contact:	Aileen Calimlim, 3234421710 calimlim@usc.edu
	Microbiology Faculty Candidate

	Monday February 25 at 12:00 Noon
Sponsor:	USC SCHOOL OF PHARMACY Department of Pharmacology and Pharmaceutical Sciences Seminar Series
Speaker:	Joffre B. Baker, Ph.D.
	Chief Scientific Officer, Genomic Health, Inc., Redwood City, CA
Title:	The Development and Clinical Uses of a Multigene Test: Oncotype DX®
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. Roger Duncan, Ph.D. (Voice: 323-442-1449; eMail: rduncan@usc.edu) Refreshments will be served at 11:45 a.m.!

	Monday February 25 at 12:00 Noon
Sponsor:	Basic Science Seminar Series
Speaker:	James Rheinwald, Ph.D.
	Associate Professor, Department of Dermatology, Brigham and Women’s Hospital, Harvard Skin Disease Research Center, Harvard Medical School, Boston, MA
Title:	Novel Tumor Suppressor and Replicative Senescence Mechanisms Revealed by the Behavior of Human Epithelial Tissue Stem Cells in Culture
Location:	USC/Norris Topping Tower 7409
	Health Sciences Campus (HSC)
Contact:	Graciela Mercado (323) 442-1144 gracielm@usc.edu
	Host: Dr. Wei Li - Pizza lunch will be served

New Week

	Friday February 22 at 12:30 PM
Sponsor:	Biochemistry Graduate Student Seminar Series
Speaker:	KwangWon Jeong
	Graduate Student, Biochemistry & Molecular Biology
Title:	Fli-I, a nuclear receptor coactivator, mediates the interactions between estrogen receptor and chromatin-remodeling complexes
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: Toshi Hinoue

	Friday February 22 at 09:30 AM
	9:00-9:30 Breakfast 9:30-10:30 Presentation 10:30-11:00 Networking
Sponsor:	USC Childhood Obesity Research Center - TREC TEAM Seminar
Speaker:	Ronald M. Krauss, M.D.
	Director/Senior Scientist/Adjunct Professor, Atherosclerosis Research/Department of Genome Science/Department of Nutritional Sciences, Children's Hospital Oakland Research Institute (CHORI)/Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory/UC Berkeley
Title:	Genetic and Dietary Effects of Atherogenic Dyslipidemia
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.

	Friday February 22 at 08:00 AM
Sponsor:	Dept of Pathology & Laboratory Medicine Grand Rounds
Speaker:	George Garratty, Ph.D., FRCPath
	Scientific Director, American Red Cross Blood Services, Southern California Region
Title:	Do Blood Groups Have A Biological Role?
Location:	Norris Topping Tower, Conf Rm 7409, Norris Cancer Hospital
	Health Sciences Campus (HSC)
Contact:	Leslie Wauke, (323) 442-1180 lwauke@keck.usc.edu
	Refreshments will be served.

	Thursday February 21 at 4:00 PM
Sponsor:	BISC Inter-Section Seminar
Speaker:	Alejandro Sanchez Alvarado
	University of Utah, HHMI
Title:	Regeneration, stem cells and the planarian Schmidtea mediterranea
Location:	HNB 100
	University Park Campus (UPC)
Contact:	Samantha Butler 1-1161 butlersj@usc.edu
Website:	planaria.neuro.utah.edu/
	A series of presentations highlighting ongoing research by your colleagues in Molecular & Computational Biology, Neurobiology and Marine Environmental Biology and guest Lecturers that span Sectional interests

	Thursday February 21 at 12:00 Noon
	Lecture is from 12:00 - 1:30 p.m.
Sponsor:	Cellular Homeostasis Lecture Series (Pathology 575)
Speaker:	Y. Henry Sun, PhD
	CALTECH
Title:	Function & regulation of the Jak/STAT signaling during Drosophila eye development.
Location:	McKibben (MCH) Lecture Hall, room 156
	Health Sciences Campus (HSC)
Contact:	Rosy Macias or Rebecca Handan, 323-442-3121 rmacias@usc.edu
Website:	www.usc.edu/alpd
	Sponsored by: The Southern California Research Center for ALPD & Cirrhosis, & the Department of Pathology Refreshments will be provided Seminar open to Faculty and Students

	Tuesday February 19 at 2:30 PM
Sponsor:	Microbiology Faculty Candidate - Seminar Guest Speaker
Speaker:	Subhash Verma, Ph.D.
	Research Associate, Department of Microbiology, University Pennsylvania, Philadelphia, PA
Title:	Latent Replication of the Kaposi's Sarcoma Associated Herpesviurs Genome
Location:	Aresty Conference Room, Lower Ground 503, Harlyne Norris Tower
	Health Sciences Campus (HSC)
Contact:	Aileen Calimlim, 3234421710 calimlim@usc.edu
	Microbiology Faculty Candidate

	Tuesday February 19 at 12:00 Noon
Sponsor:	USC SCHOOL OF PHARMACY Department of Pharmacology and Pharmaceutical Sciences Seminar Series
Speaker:	Mathew Parker, Ph.D.
	Senior Scientist, ChemDiv, Inc., San Diego,CA
Title:	Combinatorial Approaches to Novel Monamine Receptor Ligands: Ergot-Based Libraries
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. Nouri Neamati, Ph.D. (Voice: 323-442-2341; eMail: neamati@usc.edu) Refreshments will be served at 11:45 a.m.!

	Tuesday February 19 at 12:00 Noon
	12:00 - 1:00 PM
Sponsor:	USC/Norris Cancer Center Grand Rounds
Speaker:	Agnieszka Kobielak, Ph.D.
	Assistant Professor, Department of Otolaryngology, Department of Biochemistry and Molecular Biology, Keck School of Medicine, USC
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
Website:	uscnorriscancer.usc.edu/Core/Calendar/OccurDetail.aspx?OID=18881
	Refreshments Provided

	Tuesday February 19 at 10:00 AM
Sponsor:	Systems Biology and Disease Dissertation Defense
Speaker:	Julie Kang
	PhD candidate in MD/PhD program, Systems Biology and Disease (SYBD), USC Keck School of Medicine and Zilkha Neurogenetics Institute, Los Angeles, CA
Title:	New views, inputs and properties: a new look at the renin-angiotensin system
Location:	Keith Administration 505 (KAM 505)
	Health Sciences Campus (HSC)
Contact:	Alicia McDonough 2-1238 mcdonoug@usc.edu
	refreshments!

New Week

	Friday February 15 at 12:30 PM
Sponsor:	Biochemistry Graduate Student Seminar Series
Speaker:	Deepankar Roy
	Graduate Student, Biochemistry & Molecular Biology
Title:	Mechanism of R-loop formation at Immunoglobulin Class switch sequences
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 Lieber; Host: Samantha Yeligar

	Friday February 15 at 12:00 Noon
Sponsor:	Center for Craniofacial Molecular Biology, School of Dentistry
Speaker:	Sra Parsa, Ph.D. Candidate
	The Saban Research Instittute of Childrens Hospital Los Angeles
Title:	Role of FGF10/FGFR2b Signaling in Mammary Gland Development
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

	Friday February 15 at 12:00 Noon
Sponsor:	Biochemistry Graduate Student Seminar Series
Speaker:	Samantha Yeligar
	Graduate Student, Biochemistry & Molecular Biology
Title:	Ethanol stabilizes hypoxia inducible factor-1α (HIF-1α), leading to increased expression of inflammatory molecules in endothelial cells
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. Vijay Kalra; Host: Caryn Gonsalves

	Thursday February 14 at 12:00 Noon
	Lecture is from 12:00 - 1:30 p.m.
Sponsor:	Cellular Homeostasis Lecture Series (Pathology 575)
Speaker:	David H. Ellison, MD, FASN
	Oregon Health & Science University
Title:	WNKkinases: Master regulators of renal Na/K balance.
Location:	McKibben (MCH) Lecture Hall, room 156
	Health Sciences Campus (HSC)
Contact:	Rosy Macias or Rebecca Handan, 323-442-3121 rmacias@usc.edu
Website:	www.usc.edu/alpd
	Sponsored by: The Southern California Research Center for ALPD & Cirrhosis, & the Department of Pathology Refreshments will be provided Seminar open to Faculty and Students

	Thursday February 14 at 12:00 Noon
Sponsor:	USC Ethel Percy Andrus Gerontology Center - Multidisciplinary Research Colloquium Series in Aging
Speaker:	Robert McCann, Ph.D
	Associate Professor of Clinical Management Communication, Center for Management Communication, Marshall School of Business, University of Southern California, Los Angeles, CA
Title:	Intergenerational Communication Across the Pacific Rim
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/

	Wednesday February 13 at 4:00 PM
Sponsor:	Center for Stem Cell and Regenerative Medicine
Speaker:	Professor Christine Mummery, PhD
	Hubrecht Institute, Developmental Biology and Stem Cell Research,, The Netherlands
Title:	Cardiomyocytes from human embryonic stem 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

	Wednesday February 13 at 12:00 Noon
Sponsor:	Zilkha Neurogenetic Institute
Speaker:	Jiang Wu, Ph.D.
	Postdoctoral Fellow, Pathology and Developmental Biology, Stanford University, Stanford, CA 94305
Title:	An Epigenetic Switch Required for Vertebrate Neural Development
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 February 13 at 12:00 Noon
Sponsor:	The Institute for Genetic Medicine - DISTINGUISHED SPEAKERS SEMINAR SERIES
Speaker:	Richard M. Myers, Ph.D.
	Stanford W. Ascherman Professor and Chairman-Department of Genetics, Director-Stanford Human Genome Center, Stanford University School of Medicine, Stanford, CA
Title:	Global Analysis of Transcription in Humans
Location:	IGM Harkness Assembly, 2250 Alcazar Street, CSC-250
	Health Sciences Campus (HSC)
Contact:	Gracie, (323) 442-1144 graciela.mercado@usc.edu
	Admission: Free Refreshments will be served

	Tuesday February 12 at 12:00 Noon
Sponsor:	The Saban Research Institute Research Seminars
Speaker:	Michael Goran, PhD
	Professor, Associate Director, Institute for Health Promotion & Disease Prevention Research, Preventive Medicine and Physiology, Keck School of Medicine, University of Southern California, Los Angeles, CA 90033
Title:	Childhood Obesity, Insulin Resistance and Disease Risk
Location:	CHLA, The Saban Research Institute Building, 4661 Sunset Boulevard, Auditorium, Los Angeles, CA 90027
	Childrens Hospital Los Angeles (CHLA)
Contact:	Denise, (323) 669-4110 ddillon@chla.usc.edu
Website:	www.childrenshospitalla.org/body.cfm?id=8
	No registration needed. Call for parking information.

	Tuesday February 12 at 12:00 Noon
	12:00 - 1:00 PM
Sponsor:	USC/Norris Cancer Center Grand Rounds
Speaker:	Tim Eisen, Ph.D., FRCP
	Professor of Medical Oncology, University of Cambridge, Department of Oncology, Addenbrooke's Hospital, Cambridge
Title:	The Cycle, Its Fault, The Tumours & Their Treatment -- A Case of Papillary RCC in a Patient with SDHB Deficiency
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=18835
	Refreshments Provided

	Monday February 11 at 4:00 PM
Sponsor:	Weekly Seminar Series on Engineering Neuroscience and Health
Speaker:	Maja Mataric, Ph.D
	Professor of Computer Science and Neuroscience, Director, Center for Robotics and Embedded Systems (CRES), Co-Director, Robotics Research Lab, Senior Associate Dean for Research Viterbi School of Engineering (VSoE), Computer Science, University of Southern California, Los Angeles, CA 90089
Title:	Socially Assistive Robotics for Hands-Off Rehabilitation
Location:	Ahmanson Center for Biological Research (ACB) 238
	University Park Campus (UPC)
Contact:	Francisco Valero, Ph.D (213) 821-2084 valero@usc.edu
Website:	bme.usc.edu/directory/faculty/primary-faculty/francisco-valero-cuevas//seminar.htm

	Monday February 11 at 1:00 PM
Sponsor:	Microbiology Faculty Candidate - Seminar Guest Speaker
Speaker:	Anil Kumar Ojha, Ph.D.
	Research Assistant Professor, Department of Biological Sciences, University of Pittsburgh, Pittsburgh, PA
Title:	Persistance of Mycobacteria in Fatty Biofilms
Location:	Herklotz Seminar Room, Room 112, Zilkha Neurogenetic Institute
	Health Sciences Campus (HSC)
Contact:	Aileen Calimlim, 3234421710 calimlim@usc.edu
	Microbiology Faculty Candidate

New Week

	Friday February 08 at 12:30 PM
Sponsor:	Biochemistry Graduate Student Seminar Series
Speaker:	Caryn Gonsalves
	Graduate Student, Biochemistry & Molecular Biology
Title:	Role of HIF-1α in the regulation of chemokine gene expression in response to hypoxia and placenta growth factor in sickle cell 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. Vijay Kalra; Host: Jingjing Sun

	Friday February 08 at 12:00 Noon
Sponsor:	USC SCHOOL OF PHARMACY Department of Pharmacology and Pharmaceutical Sciences Seminar Series
Speaker:	Robert J. Lee, Ph.D.
	Associate Professor, College of Pharmacy, The Ohio State University NCI Comprehensive Cancer Center NSF Nanoscale Science and Engineering Center, Columbus, OH
Title:	Targeted drug delivery via folate 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: Wei-Chiang Shen, Ph.D. (Voice: 323-442-1902; eMail: weishen@usc.edu) Refreshments will be served at 11:45 a.m.!

	Friday February 08 at 12:00 Noon
Sponsor:	Biochemistry Graduate Student Seminar Series
Speaker:	Jingjing Sun
	Graduate Student, Biochemistry & Molecular Biology
Title:	Msx2 is a downstream target of Foxc1 during the development of frontal bone primordium
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. Robert Maxson; Host: Sahar Bedrood

	Friday February 08 at 09:30 AM
	9:00-9:30 Breakfast 9:30-10:30 Presentation 10:30-11:00 Networking
Sponsor:	USC Childhood Obesity Research Center - TREC TEAM Seminar
Speaker:	Antoine Bechara
	Brain and Creativity Institute, USC
Title:	Decision making, impulse control and loss of willpower to resist temptations: A neuro-cognitive perspective
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 February 07 at 12:00 Noon
	Lecture is from 12:00 - 1:30 p.m.
Sponsor:	Cellular Homeostasis Lecture Series (Pathology 575)
Speaker:	Rudolf Jaenisch, MD
	Whitehead Institute, MIT
Title:	Stem cells, pluripotency, & nuclear reprogramming.
Location:	McKibben (MCH) Lecture Hall, room 156
	Health Sciences Campus (HSC)
Contact:	Rosy Macias or Rebecca Handan, 323-442-3121 rmacias@usc.edu
Website:	www.usc.edu/alpd
	Sponsored by: The Southern California Research Center for ALPD & Cirrhosis, & the Department of Pathology Refreshments will be provided Seminar open to Faculty and Students

	Wednesday February 06 at 12:00 Noon
Sponsor:	Zilkha Neurogenetic Institute
Speaker:	Jeffrey L. Goldberg, M.D., Ph.D.
	Assistant Professor, Ophthalmology and Cell Biology & Anatomy, University of Miami, Miami, Fl 33136
Title:	Survival and Regeneration in the Visual System
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 February 06 at 11:00 AM
Sponsor:	USC SCHOOL OF PHARMACY Department of Pharmacology and Pharmaceutical Sciences Seminar Series
Speaker:	Brian D. Karger, Ph.D.
	Celectricon Inc., Gaithersburg, MD
Title:	Superior transfection of neuronal tissue samples and cultures
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)

	Tuesday February 05 at 12:00 Noon
Sponsor:	USC SCHOOL OF PHARMACY Department of Pharmacology and Pharmaceutical Sciences Seminar Series
Speaker:	Thomas J. Millar, Ph.D.
	Associate Professor, School of Natural Sciences, University of Western Sydney, Locked Bag 1797, Penrith South DC NSW, AUSTRALIA 1797
Title:	The interaction of proteins with lipids at an air liquid interface
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 served at 11:45 a.m.!

	Tuesday February 05 at 12:00 Noon
Sponsor:	USC/Norris Cancer Center Grand Rounds
Speaker:	Jae Jung, Ph.D.
	Professor and Chair, Department of Molecular Microbiology and Immunology, Keck School of Medicine, USC
Title:	Virus and Autophagya
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 February 04 at 4:00 PM
Sponsor:	Weekly Seminar Series on Engineering Neuroscience and Health
Speaker:	Michele Rucci, Ph.D Biomedical Engineering
	Director, Active Perception Laboratory, Cognitive and Neural Systems, Boston University, Boston, MA 02215
Title:	Active Vision in Humans and Robots
Location:	Ahmanson Center for Biological Research (ACB) 238
	University Park Campus (UPC)
Contact:	Francisco Valero, Ph.D (213) 821-2084 valero@usc.edu
Website:	bme.usc.edu/directory/faculty/primary-faculty/francisco-valero-cuevas//seminar.htm

	Monday February 04 at 1:00 PM
Sponsor:	Microbiology Faculty Candidate - Seminar Guest Speaker
Speaker:	Rui Lu, Ph.D.
	Postdoctoral Fellow, Plant Pathology & Microbiology, University of California, Riverside, Riverside, CA
Title:	RNAi-mediated antiviral immunity
Location:	Herklotz Seminar Room, Room 112, Zilkha Neurogenetic Institute
	Health Sciences Campus (HSC)
Contact:	Aileen Calimlim, 3234421710 calimlim@usc.edu
	Microbiology Faculty Candidate

New Week

	Friday February 01 at 12:30 PM
Sponsor:	Biochemistry Graduate Student Seminar Series
Speaker:	Sahar Bedrood
	Graduate Student, Biochemistry & Molecular Biology
Title:	Structural Changes of Amyloid Fibrils Due to Annexin A5 Interaction
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. Ralf Langen; Host: Hai-Yun Yen

	Friday February 01 at 12:00 Noon
Sponsor:	BIOMEDICAL IMAGING SCIENCE INITIATIVE AND USC SCHOOL OF PHARMACY Department of Pharmacology and Pharmaceutical Sciences Seminar Series
Speaker:	Hartmuth Kolb, Ph.D.
	Vice President, Siemens Medical Imaging Biomarker Reserarch
Title:	Click Chemistry Based Development of Novel PET Tracers
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) Light refreshments will be served

	Friday February 01 at 12:00 Noon
Sponsor:	Biochemistry Graduate Student Seminar Series
Speaker:	Hai-Yun Yen
	Graduate Student, Biochemistry & Molecular Biology
Title:	Mutations in Notch ligand Jagged1 enhance craniosynostosis and skeletal abnormalities of Twist1 heterozygous mice
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. Robert Maxson; Host: Erika Wolff

	Friday February 01 at 11:00 AM
Sponsor:	Microbiology Faculty Candidate - Seminar Guest Speaker
Speaker:	Jonathan Deane, Ph.D.
	Postdoctoral Fellow, Autoimmunity and Functional Genomics Section, NIAID, Bethesda, Maryland
Title:	Gene Dosage of Nucleic Acid-Sensing Molecules as a Critical Modulator of Autoimmunity
Location:	Herklotz Seminar Room, Room 112, Zilkha Neurogenetic Institute
	Health Sciences Campus (HSC)
Contact:	Aileen Calimlim, 3234421710 calimlim@usc.edu
	Microbiology Faculty Candidate

January 2008

	Thursday January 31 at 12:00 Noon
	Lecture is from 12:00 - 1:30 p.m.
Sponsor:	Cellular Homeostasis Lecture Series (Pathology 575)
Speaker:	Cheng-Ming Choung, MD, PhD
	Professor of Pathology, Pathology, University of Southern California, Los Angeles, CA 90033
Title:	Macro-environmental regulation of stem cell activation during hair regeneration.
Location:	McKibben (MCH) Lecture Hall, room 156
	Health Sciences Campus (HSC)
Contact:	Rosy Macias or Rebecca Handan, 323-442-3121 rmacias@usc.edu
Website:	www.usc.edu/alpd
	Sponsored by: The Southern California Research Center for ALPD & Cirrhosis, & the Department of Pathology Refreshments will be provided Seminar open to Faculty and Students

	Thursday January 31 at 12:00 Noon
Sponsor:	USC Ethel Percy Andrus Gerontology Center - Multidisciplinary Research Colloquium Series in Aging
Speaker:	Rita Efros
	Professor of Pathology and Laboratory Medicine, David Geffen School of Medicine, UCLA, Los Angeles CA
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/

	Thursday January 31 at 12:00 Noon
Sponsor:	USC SCHOOL OF PHARMACY Department of Pharmacology and Pharmaceutical Sciences Seminar Series
Speaker:	Gene-Jack Wang, Ph.D.
	Professor of Psychiatry, Senior Medical Scientist & Chairman, Mount Sinai School of Medicine/Medical Department, New York University/ Brookhaven National Laboratory, Upton, New York
Title:	Functional Neuroimaging of Eating Behavior
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 C. Shih, Ph.D. (Voice: 323-442-1441; eMail: jcshih@usc.edu) Refreshments will be provided!

	Tuesday January 29 at 12:00 Noon
Sponsor:	The Saban Research Institute Research Seminars
Speaker:	Kevin A. Nash, PhD
	Assistant Professor, Pathology and Laboratory Medicine, Keck School of Medicine, University of Southern California/Childrens Hospital LA, Los Angeles, CA 90027
Title:	Scientific Misconduct and Conflict of Interest
Location:	CHLA, The Saban Research Institute Building, 4661 Sunset Boulevard, Auditorium, Los Angeles, CA 90027
	Childrens Hospital Los Angeles (CHLA)
Contact:	Denise, (323) 669-4110 ddillon@chla.usc.edu
Website:	www.childrenshospitalla.org/body.cfm?id=8
	No registration needed. Call for parking information.

	Tuesday January 29 at 12:00 Noon
	12:00 - 1:00 p.m.
Sponsor:	USC/Norris Cancer Center Grand Rounds
Speaker:	Elizabeth Lawlor, M.D., Ph.D.
	Assistant Professor, Departments of Pediatrics & Pathology, Keck School of Medicine, USC, Division of Hematology-Oncology, Children's Hospital, Los Angeles
Title:	The Polycomb Gene BMI-1 Functions As An Oncogene In Ewing's Sarcoma
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=18586
	Refreshments Provided

	Tuesday January 29 at 09:00 AM
Sponsor:	Depts of Pathology & Neurology Grand Rounds
Speaker:	Shoji Yano, MD, PhD; Arthur Partikian, MD; Andy Wong, MD
	Pathology/Neurology, USC
Title:	Case Presentation: Adrenoleukodystrophy (Lorenzo's Oil)
Location:	Herklotz Seminar Room 112, Zilkha Neurogenic Institute
	Health Sciences Campus (HSC)
Contact:	Leslie Wauke, (323) 442-1180 lwauke@keck.usc.edu
	Refreshments will be served.

	Monday January 28 at 12:00 Noon
Sponsor:	Basic Science Seminar Series
Speaker:	Trevor K. Archer, Ph.D.
	Chief, Laboratory of Molecular Carcinogenesis, National Institute of Environmental Health Sciences (NIEHS), Research Triangle Park, NC
Title:	Nuclear Receptor Regulated Transcription
Location:	USC/Norris Topping Tower 7409
	Health Sciences Campus (HSC)
Contact:	Graciela Mercado (323) 442-1144 gracielm@usc.edu
	Host: Dr. Michael Stallcup - Pizza lunch will be served

New Week

	Friday January 25 at 12:30 PM
Sponsor:	Biochemistry Graduate Student Seminar Series
Speaker:	Erika Wolff
	Graduate Student, Biochemistry & Molecular Biology
Title:	The role of the tight junction protein ZO-2 in bladder 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 Jones; Host: Chen-Yin Ou

	Friday January 25 at 12:00 Noon
Sponsor:	USC SCHOOL OF PHARMACY Department of Pharmacology and Pharmaceutical Sciences Seminar Series
Speaker:	Paul M. Hwang, M.D., Ph.D.
	Principal Investigator, Translational Medicine Branch, NHLBI-NIH, Bethesda, MD
Title:	p53 regulates mitochondrial respiration
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: Toroser@usc.edu) Refreshments will be provided!

	Friday January 25 at 12:00 Noon
Sponsor:	Biochemistry Graduate Student Seminar Series
Speaker:	Chen-Yin Ou
	Graduate Student, Genetic, Molecular and Cellular Biology
Title:	Regulation of β-catenin-mediated transcriptional activation by CCAR1
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: Jacob Andrade

	Thursday January 24 at 5:00 PM
Sponsor:	USC SCHOOL OF PHARMACY Department of Pharmacology and Pharmaceutical Sciences Seminar Series
Speaker:	Claus-Michael Lehr, Ph.D.
	Professsor and Head, Department of Biopharmaceutics and Pharmaceutical Technology, Saarland University, Saarbruecken, GERMANY
Title:	Nanomedicines to deliver drugs across biological barriers
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) Refreshments will be served!

	Thursday January 24 at 3:30 PM
Sponsor:	BISC Inter-Section Seminar
Speaker:	Magnus Nordborg, Ph.D.
	University of Southern California
Title:	Genetic basis of adaptation in Arabidopsis
Location:	HNB large conference room
	University Park Campus (UPC)
Contact:	Samantha Butler 1-1161 butlersj@usc.edu
Website:	walnut.usc.edu/Members/magnus/
	A series of presentations highlighting ongoing research by your colleagues in Molecular & Computational Biology, Neurobiology and Marine Environmental Biology and guest Lecturers that span Sectional interests

	Thursday January 24 at 1:00 PM
Sponsor:	Microbiology Seminar Guest Speaker
Speaker:	Omid Akbari, Ph,D,
	Assistant Professor, Department of Pediatrics, Harvard Medical School, Boston, MA 02115
Title:	The Role of T cell subsets in allergic disease and asthma
Location:	Harlyne Norris Research Cancer Tower, Aresty Conference Room, Lower Ground 503
	Health Sciences Campus (HSC)
Contact:	Aileen Calimlim, 3234421710 calimlim@usc.edu

	Thursday January 24 at 12:00 Noon
	Lecture is from 12:00 - 1:30 p.m.
Sponsor:	Cellular Homeostasis Lecture Series (Pathology 575)
Speaker:	Michael G. Rosenfeld, MD
	Howard Hughes Medical Institute, UCSD
Title:	Prelude to a kiss; barriers, movements, & repeats in nuclear receptor-mediated & epigenetic transcriptional strategies.
Location:	McKibben (MCH) Lecture Hall, room 156
	Health Sciences Campus (HSC)
Contact:	Rosy Macias or Rebecca Handan, 323-442-3121 rmacias@usc.edu
Website:	www.usc.edu/alpd
	Sponsored by: The Southern California Research Center for ALPD & Cirrhosis, & the Department of Pathology Refreshments will be provided Seminar open to Faculty and Students

	Wednesday January 23 at 12:00 Noon
Sponsor:	Zilkha Neurogenetic Institute
Speaker:	Bing Ye, Ph.D.
	Postdoctoral Fellow, Physiology and Biochemistry, University of California, San Francisco, San Francisco, CA 94158
Title:	The Role of Membrane Systems in Differentiating Dendrite and Axon Development
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 January 22 at 2:00 PM
Sponsor:	USC Research Center for Liver Diseases
Speaker:	Fabio Cominelli, MD, PhD
	David D. Stone Professor of Medicine, Gastroenterology and Hepatology, Digestive Health Center of Excellence
Title:	New Concepts in the Pathogenesis and Treatment of Inflammatory Bowel 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
	Special Seminar.

	Tuesday January 22 at 12:00 Noon
Sponsor:	The Saban Research Institute Research Seminars
Speaker:	Michele D. Kipke, PhD
	Professor, Pediatrics and Preventive Medicine, Keck School of Medicine, University of Southern California/Childrens Hospital LA, Los Angeles, CA 90027
Title:	Community Participatory Research for Obesity Prevention and Care
Location:	CHLA, The Saban Research Institute Building, 4661 Sunset Boulevard, Auditorium, Los Angeles, CA 90027
	Childrens Hospital Los Angeles (CHLA)
Contact:	Denise, (323) 669-4110 ddillon@chla.usc.edu
Website:	www.childrenshospitalla.org/body.cfm?id=8
	No registration needed. Call for parking information.

	Tuesday January 22 at 12:00 Noon
	12:00 - 1:00 p.m.
Sponsor:	USC/Norris Cancer Center Grand Rounds
Speaker:	Richard Jove, Ph.D.
	Director, Beckman Research Institute, Deputy Director, City of Hope Cancer Center
Title:	Targeting SRC and STAT3 Signaling for Cancer 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=18287
	Refreshments Provided

New Week

	Friday January 18 at 12:30 PM
Sponsor:	Biochemistry Graduate Student Seminar Series
Speaker:	Jacob Andrade
	Graduate Student, Genetic, Molecular and Cellular Biology
Title:	Tracking Hematopoietic Stem Cell Engraftment in vivo with Bioluminescence
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. Gay Crooks; Host: Helty Adisetiyo

	Friday January 18 at 12:00 Noon
Sponsor:	Center for Craniofacial Molecular Biology, School of Dentistry
Speaker:	Emily Liman, Ph.D.
	Associate Professor, Biological Science/Neurobiology, College of Letters, Arts and Sciences
Title:	Taste and Pheromone Sensation in Vertebrates: Insights from Ion Channels
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

	Friday January 18 at 12:00 Noon
Sponsor:	Biochemistry Graduate Student Seminar Series
Speaker:	Helty Adisetiyo
	Graduate Student, Genetic, Molecular and Cellular Biology
Title:	Osteopontin modulates uPA and MMP activities in prostate cancer cells to confer invasive advantage
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. Pradip Roy-Burman; Host: Changhan Lee

	Thursday January 17 at 1:00 PM
Sponsor:	Microbiology Seminar Guest Speaker
Speaker:	Pin Wang, Ph.D.
	Assistant Professor, Mork Family Department of Chemical Engineering and Materials Science, USC, Los Angeles, CA 90089
Title:	Engineering Immunity by Synthetic Viral Vectors
Location:	Harlyne Norris Research Cancer Tower, Lower Ground 503
	Health Sciences Campus (HSC)
Contact:	Aileen Calimlim, 3234421710 calimlim@usc.edu

	Wednesday January 16 at 12:00 Noon
Sponsor:	Zilkha Neurogenetic Institute
Speaker:	Daoyun Ji, Ph.D.
	Postdoctoral Fellow, Structural and Computational Biology and Molecular Biophysics, Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Cambridge, Massachusetts 02139
Title:	Searching for Memory Traces in the Brain: From the Hippocampus to Visual Cortex
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

New Week

	Friday January 11 at 12:30 PM
Sponsor:	Biochemistry Graduate Student Seminar Series
Speaker:	Changhan Lee
	Graduate Student, Genetic, Molecular and Cellular Biology
Title:	Starvation-dependent Differential Stress Resistance protects normal but not cancer cells against high dose chemotherapy
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. Valter Longo; Host: Connie Cortez

	Friday January 11 at 12:00 Noon
Sponsor:	Center for Craniofacial Molecular Biology, School of Dentistry
Speaker:	Antoni P. Tomsia, Ph.D.
	Material Science Division, Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory, Berkeley, CA
Title:	Composites and Scaffolds for Calcified Tissue Regeneration
Location:	Large Conference Room, CSC 120A
	Health Sciences Campus (HSC)
Contact:	Ronald Mellow, (323) 442-3170 magdaljm@usc.edu
Website:	www.usc.edu/hsc/dental/ccmb

	Friday January 11 at 12:00 Noon
Sponsor:	USC SCHOOL OF PHARMACY Department of Pharmacology and Pharmaceutical Sciences Seminar Series
Speaker:	Cara Wellman, Ph.D.
	Associate Professor fo Psychology, Program in Neuroscience and Department of Psychological and Brain Sciences, Indiana University, Bloomington, IN
Title:	Chronic Stress Effects in Prefrontal Cortex: Morphology, Chemistry, and Behavior
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 C. Shih, Ph.D. (Voice: 323-442-1441; eMail: jcshih@usc.edu) Refreshments will be provided!

	Friday January 11 at 12:00 Noon
Sponsor:	Biochemistry Graduate Student Seminar Series
Speaker:	Connie Cortez
	Graduate Student, Biochemistry & Molecular Biology
Title:	The Epigenetic Regulation of Non CpG Dense Regions
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: Christine Jao

	Friday January 11 at 09:30 AM
	9:00-9:30 a Networking Breakfast 9:30-10:30 Presentation
Sponsor:	USC Childhood Obesity Research Center - TREC TEAM Seminar
Speaker:	Robert Gottlieb
	Professor of Urban and Environmental Policy and Director of the Urban & Environmental Policy Institute, Occidental College
Title:	Reinventing Los Angeles: Nature and Community in the Global City
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.

	Tuesday January 08 at 12:00 Noon
	12:00 - 1:00 p.m.
Sponsor:	USC/Norris Cancer Center Grand Rounds
Speaker:	Rick Selby, M.D.
	Professor of Surgery Chief, Division of Hepatobiliary and Pancreas Surgery, Director, USC Liver Transplant Program, Chief, Division of Hepatobiliary and Pancreas Surgery, University of Southern California
Title:	Evolving Surgical Strategies to Keep Pace with Chemotherapy Advancement; Local & Regional Surgical Control in Hepato-Biliary-Pancreatic Surgery
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=17572
	Refreshments Provided

	Monday January 07 at 12:00 Noon
Sponsor:	Basic Science Seminar Series
Speaker:	Eileen White, Ph.D.
	Professor, Department of Molecular Biology and Biochemistry, Rutgers University, Piscataway, NJ
Title:	Autophagy, Protein Quality Control and Cancer
Location:	USC/Norris Topping Tower 7409
	Health Sciences Campus (HSC)
Contact:	Graciela Mercado (323) 442-1144 gracielm@usc.edu
	Host: Dr. Amy Lee Pizza lunch will be served

New Week

	Friday January 04 at 12:00 Noon
Sponsor:	Biochemistry Graduate Student Seminar Series
Speaker:	Christine Jao
	Graduate Student, Biochemistry & Molecular Biology
Title:	Membrane curvature inducers studied by site-directed spin labeling
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. Ralf Langen; Host: Irina Ianculescu

June 2008

Friday June 27 at 12:00 Noon

Monday June 16 at 12:00 Noon

Thursday June 12 at 12:00 Noon

Thursday June 12 at 12:00 Noon

Tuesday June 10 at 2:00 PM

Tuesday June 10 at 12:00 Noon

Tuesday June 10 at 12:00 Noon

Thursday June 05 at 12:00 Noon

May 2008

Friday May 30 at 08:00 AM

Friday May 23 at 09:30 AM

Thursday May 22 at 4:00 PM

Thursday May 22 at 09:30 AM

Wednesday May 21 at 12:00 Noon

Monday May 19 at 12:00 Noon

Monday May 19 at 11:00 AM

Monday May 19 at 08:00 AM

Friday May 16 at 12:30 PM

Friday May 16 at 12:00 Noon

Friday May 16 at 11:00 AM

Thursday May 15 at 12:00 Noon

Wednesday May 14 at 12:00 Noon

Friday May 09 at 12:30 PM

Friday May 09 at 12:00 Noon

Friday May 09 at 09:30 AM

Thursday May 08 at 12:00 Noon

Wednesday May 07 at 1:15 PM

Tuesday May 06 at 12:00 Noon

Tuesday May 06 at 12:00 Noon

Monday May 05 at 12:00 Noon

Monday May 05 at 12:00 Noon

Friday May 02 at 12:30 PM

Friday May 02 at 12:00 Noon

Thursday May 01 at 12:00 Noon

April 2008

Tuesday April 29 at 12:00 Noon

Tuesday April 29 at 12:00 Noon

Friday April 25 at 12:00 Noon

Thursday April 24 at 12:00 Noon

Wednesday April 23 at 12:00 Noon

Wednesday April 23 at 12:00 Noon

Tuesday April 22 at 4:00 PM

Tuesday April 22 at 12:00 Noon

Tuesday April 22 at 12:00 Noon

Friday April 18 at 12:30 PM

Friday April 18 at 12:00 Noon

Friday April 18 at 12:00 Noon

Thursday April 17 at 3:30 PM

Thursday April 17 at 2:00 PM

Wednesday April 16 at 12:00 Noon

Friday April 11 at 1:30 PM

Friday April 11 at 12:30 PM

Friday April 11 at 12:00 Noon

Friday April 11 at 12:00 Noon

Friday April 11 at 12:00 Noon

Thursday April 10 at 12:00 Noon

Thursday April 10 at 08:30 AM

Wednesday April 09 at 12:00 Noon

Tuesday April 08 at 12:00 Noon

Tuesday April 08 at 12:00 Noon

Friday April 04 at 12:30 PM

Friday April 04 at 12:00 Noon

Friday April 04 at 09:30 AM

Thursday April 03 at 12:00 Noon

Thursday April 03 at 11:00 AM

Tuesday April 01 at 12:00 Noon

Tuesday April 01 at 12:00 Noon

March 2008

Friday March 28 at 1:00 PM

Friday March 28 at 12:30 PM

Friday March 28 at 12:00 Noon

Friday March 28 at 08:00 AM

Thursday March 27 at 3:30 PM

Thursday March 27 at 12:00 Noon

Thursday March 27 at 12:00 Noon

Thursday March 27 at 11:00 AM

Wednesday March 26 at 5:00 PM

Tuesday March 25 at 4:00 PM

Tuesday March 25 at 12:00 Noon