Seminar Schedule 2012
A seminar series entitled “Topics in Organogenesis” offers lectures by University of Michigan faculty and invited speakers from outside of the University. All lectures are held on Tuesdays at 4:00 pm in BSRB seminar room unless otherwise noted. All outside speakers are guests of the Center for Organogenesis. The Center is also actively involved in co-sponsoring invited speakers with various departments within the University.
Fellowship awardees are required to attend this series. Attendance of other students and trainees is strongly encouraged because these seminars expose them to new directions of thought and, new research opportunities that they might not otherwise have encountered within the confines of their own training programs.
All seminars are held in room BSRB Seminar Room 4-5 pm unless otherwise noted.
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| Tue 15 Jan 2013 |
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Ricardo Dolmetsch, Ph.D. Assistant Professor, Department of Neurobiology, Stanford University |
CANCELLED Using iPSC to Study Autism Spectrum Disorders |
Lori Isom Jack Parent |
| Tue 22 Jan 2013 |
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Timothy J. Kamp, Ph.D. Associate Professor of Medicine & Physiology, University of Wisconsin-Madison |
Human Pluripotent Stem Cells: Tools for Cardiovascular Medicine | Sharlene Day |
| Tue 29 Jan 2013 |
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Steve Hrycaj, Ph.D. Internal Medicine |
Trainee Presentation: A Hox-Wnt-Sox Signaling Axis Regulates Lung Development, Patterning, and Branching | Deneen Wellik |
| Tue 5 Feb 2013 |
Irma Thesleff,, Ph.D. Professor and Research Director, Institute of Biotechnology, University of Helsinki |
Mechanisms of Tooth Renewal | Petros Papagerakis | |
| Tue 12 Feb 2013 |
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Ali Shilatifard, Ph.D. Investigator, Stowers Institute for Medical Research |
Chromatin Modifications, Transcriptional Elongation Control, and Childhood Leukemia | Greg Dressler |
| Tue 19 Feb 2013 | Ania Dabrowski, | Trainee Presentation: The Fibroblast Growth Factors and Their Receptors that Make Synaptic Connections in the Hippocampus |
Hisashi Umemori Jack Parent |
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| Tue 5 Mar 2013 |
Raphael Kopan, Ph.D. Professor & Co-Director, High Throughput Core, Departments of Developmental Biology & Medicine Washington University-St. Louis |
Unintended Consequences: How Losing Notch Signaling in the Skin Taught us About Tumor Promotion and Tumor Resistance | Sunny Wong | |
| Thu 7 Mar 2013 | Terry Zwolan, Ph.D. Bryan Pfingst, Ph.D., Yehoash Raphael, Ph.D. | Cross Talk Hearing Restoration with Cochlear Implants: Contribution from Developmental Biology | 1057 MBNI | |
| Tue 12 Mar 2013 |
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Matthias Hebrok, Ph.D. Director, UCSF Diabetes Center, Hurlbut-Johnson Distinguished Professor in Diabetes Research, University of California-San Francisco |
Deciphering Cellular Plasticity in Diabetes and Pancreatic Cancer | Marina Pasca di Magliano |
| Tue 19 Mar 2013 |
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Dhananjay Yellajoshyula, Ph.D. | Trainee Presentation: THAP1 Transcriptional Activity in Neuronal Development and DYT6 Primary Dystonia | William Dauer |
| Tue 26 Mar 2013 |
Douglas Black, Ph.D. Microbiology, Immunology & Molecular Genetics, Howard Hughes Medical Institute, University of California-Las Angeles |
Alternative Splicing and the Regulation of Neuronal Gene Expression | Miriam Meisler | |
| Tue 2 Apr 2013 |
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Alison Althaus, Predoctoral Fellow for Center for Organogenesis, Neuroscience Program |
Trainee Presentation: Dentate Granule Cell Neurogenesis in a Rodent Model of Temporal Lobe Epilepsy | Jack Parent |
| Tue 9 Apr 2013 |
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Andrea Ramos, Predoctoral Fellow for Center for Organogenesis, Cellular & Molecular Biology Program |
Trainee Presentation: Cis-Regulatory Control of Hedgehog Target Genes | Scott Barolo |
| Tue 16 Apr 2013 |
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Jennifer Freeman, M.D. Postdoctoral Fellow, Center for Organogenesis Department of Surgery |
CANCELLED Trainee Presentation: Intestinal Epithelial Cell Growth Dynamics are Modulate by TLR-4/MyD88 Signaling in a Mouse Model of TPN | Daniel Teitelbaum |
| Tue 23 Apr 2013 |
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Janet Rossant, Ph.D., FRS, FRSC Senior Scientist, Developmental & Stem Cell Biology; Chief of Research, Research Institute; Professor of Molecular Genetics, Obstetrics & Gynecology, Hospital for Sick Children, Toronto |
Stem Cells and Early Embryo Development | Sundeep Kalantry |
| Tue 30 Apr 2013 |
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Hui Xu, Ph.D. | Trainee Presentation: Essential Role of Zic2b in the Proliferation of Muller Glia-Derived Progenitors during Zebrafish Retinal Regeneration | Daniel Goldman |
| Tue 7 May 2013 |
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Nancy Speck, Ph.D. Professor of Cell & Developmental Biology, University of Pennsylvania |
Hematopoietic Stem Cell Formation in the Embryo | Ivan Maillard |
| Thu 9 May 2013 | Martin Myers, M.D., Ph.D. Amy Rothberg, M.D. | Cross Talk: The Biology and Clinical Practice of Body Weight Regulation | 1057 MBNI | |
| Tue 14 May 2013 |
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Sebastian Parlee, Ph.D. | Trainee Presentation: Neonatal Exposure to Saccharin through Maternal Lactation Alters Body Composition and Glucose Metabolism in Adult Male Mice | Ormond MacDougald |