January 11

Student Orientation

January 18

Kenneth S. Zaret, Ph.D., Fox Chase Cancer Center Signals that initiate liver and pancreas development (Moderator: Kasper Wang, M.D./Hide Tsukamoto, D.V.M.; Ph.D.)  

January 25

Mani Pashmforoush, M.D., Ph.D., Keck School of Medicine of USC Transcriptional pathways for cardiac arrhythimias (Moderator: Vijay Kalra, PhD)  

February 1

Randal J. Kaufman, Ph.D., University of Michigan Medical Center The unfolded protein response: A decision of life vs. death. (Moderator: Amy Lee, Ph.D.)  

February 8

John F. Engelhardt, Ph.D., University of Iowa, College of Medicine Redox-dependent endosomal singaling by NADPH oxidase toll (Moderator: Ebi Zandi, Ph.D.)  

February 15

Michael Gale Jr.; Ph.D. University of Texas Southwestern Medical Center Triggering and control of innate defenses against hepatitis C virus (Moderator: James Ou, Ph.D.)  

February 22

Suzanne Pfeffer, Ph.D. Stanford University School of Medicine Regulation of receptor trafficking by Rab GTPases (Moderator: Vijay Kalra, Ph.D.)  

March 1

Stephen A. Duncan, D. Phil, Medical College of Wisconsin Control of liver and heart development by GATA4 and GATA6 (Moderator: Kasper Wang, M.D.)  

March 8

Vishva M. Dixit, M.D., Genetech The Inflammasome: a dynamic caspase activating apparatus (Moderator: Vijay Kalra, Ph.D.)  

March 15

Spring Break (March 12-17, 2007)  

March 22

Soichi Kojima, Ph.D., Molecular Cell Pathology Research Unit, Japan Detection and prevention of liver diseases by targeting TGF- beta activation reaction and transglutaminase-induced hepatic cell death (Moderator: Hide Tsukamoto, Ph.D.)  

March 29

Carl P. Blobel, M.D., Ph.D. ADAMs: key molecules in EGF-receptor signaling and prostate cancer (Moderator: Yuan-Ping Han, Ph.D.)