Tuesday
October 9, 2007

12 noon - 1:00 PM

Hanna Mikkola, M.D., Ph.D.
Assistant professor, Molecular, Cell and Developmental Biology, Institute for Stem Cell Biology and Medicine. UCLA

Birth of blood forming stem cells  

Lee Goodglick

Tuesday
October 16, 2007

12 noon - 1:00 PM

Kathrin Plath
Assistant Professor, Biological Chemistry, Institute for Stem Cell Biology and Medicine. UCLA

Nuclear reprogramming and epigenetic remodeling

Lee Goodglick

Tuesday
October 23, 2007

12 noon - 1:00 PM

Steph Targan, M.D.
Director, Inflammatory Bowel Disease Center; Director Division of Gastroenterology, Feintech Family Chair in Inflammatory Bowel Disease. Cedars-Sinai Medical Center

The Model Disease for Translational Research 

Lee Goodglick

MONDAY
October 29, 2007

12 noon - 1:00 PM

Steve Rosenberg, M.D.
Chief of Surgery, National Cancer Institute

The Immunotherapy of Human Cancer Using Induced or Genetically Modified Tumor Reactive T Cells

Lee Goodglick

Tuesday
November 6, 2007

12 noon - 1:00 PM

Frank McCormick, PhD, FRS
Director, UCSF Comprehensive Cancer Center and Cancer Research Institute, David A. Wood Distinguished Professor of Tumor Biology and Cancer Research, Associate Dean, UCSF School of Medicine

New approaches to cancer therapy  

Lee Goodglick

Tuesday
November 13, 2007

12 noon - 1:00 PM

Martin Pera, Ph.D.
Professor, Director, Broad Institute for Integrative Biology and Stem Cell Research, Keck School of Medicine, USC

Lee Goodglick

Tuesday
November 20, 2007

Thanksgiving break

Tuesday
November 27, 2007

12 noon - 1:00 PM

David Baltimore, Ph.D.
President Emeritus and Robert Andrews Millikan Professor of Biology, California Institute of Technology

Inflammation: NF-kB and MicroRNAs Play Their Roles

Lee Goodglick

Monday
December 3, 2007

12 noon - 1:00 PM

Jeff Bluestone, Ph.D.
A.W. & Mary Margaret Clausen Distinguished Professor of Medicine, Pathology, Microbiology & Immunology, Director, Diabetes Center and The Immune Tolerance Network, UCSF

Intrinsic and Extrinsic Control of Autoimmunity

Lee Goodglick

Tuesday
December 11, 2007

12 noon - 1:00 PM

Manuel Perucho, Ph.D.
Program co-Director, Professor, Tumor Development, Burnham Institute for Medical Research

Genetic and Epigenetic Alterations in Gastrointestinal Cancer

Lee Goodglick

THURSDAY
December 13, 2007

12 noon - 1:00 PM

Ron Depinho, M.D.
Department of Medicine and Genetics, Harvard Medical School, Dana Farber Cancer Institute

Modeling and Mining Cancer Genomes

Lee Goodglick

Tuesday
December 18, 2007

no speaker

Winter break

Tuesday
December 25, 2007

no speaker

Winter break

Tuesday
January 1, 2008

no speaker

Winter break

Tuesday
January 8 2008

12 noon - 1:00 PM

Lisa Coussens, Ph.D.
Professor, Cancer Research Institute and Anatomic Pathology, UCSF

Inflammation and Cancer: Tissue Specificity of Tumor-Promoting Immune Responses

Lee Goodglick

Tuesday
January 15 2008

12 noon - 1:00 PM

Isaiah J. Fidler, D.V.M., Ph.D.
Professor and Chairman, Department of Cancer Biology, Director, Cancer Metastasis Research Center, M. D. Anderson Cancer Center

Antivascular therapy of cancer metastasis

Lee Goodglick

Tuesday
January 22, 2008

12 noon - 1:00 PM

Jeffrey Ruberti, Ph.D.
Associate Professor, Department of Mechanical and Industrial Engineering, Northeastern University

Utilizing Smart Cells, Smart Molecules and Development in Corneal Tissue “Engineering”

Lee Goodglick and Pirouz Kavehpour

Tuesday
January 29, 2008

12 noon - 1:00 PM

Hannes Vogel, M.D.
Associate Chair for Neuropathology, Department of Pathology, Stanford School of Medicine

Neurogenic Aspects of Skeletal Muscle Disease

Harry Vinters

Tuesday
February 5, 2008

12 noon - 1:00 PM

Craig Thompson, M.D.
Director, Abramson Cancer Center, Chair, Department of Cancer Biology. University of Pennsylvania School of Medicine

Reconsidering the Pathogenesis of Cancer: Apoptosis, Autophagy and Metabolism

Lee Goodglick

Tuesday
February 12, 2008

12 noon - 1:00 PM

Jean Y. J. Wang, Ph.D.
Professor of Biology, UCSD

Death Beyond p53: Post-Initiation Regulation of Gene Expression by DNA Damage

Lee Goodglick

Tuesday
February 19, 2008

12 noon - 1:00 PM

Pat Brown, M.D., Ph.D.
Howard Hughes Medical Institute, and Professor of Biochemistry, Stanford University School of Medicine

Searching for the 'Dark Matter' of Biological Regulation

Lee Goodglick

Tuesday
February 26, 2008

12 noon - 1:00 PM

Chancellor Gene Block, Ph.D.
Chancellor, UCLA

The Effects of Aging on Biological Timing

Lee Goodglick

Tuesday
March 4, 2008

12 noon - 1:00 PM

Lou Staudt, M.D., Ph.D.
Deputy Chief, Metabolism Branch, National Cancer Institute, NIH

Achilles Heel RNA Interference Screens for Molecular Targets in Cancer

Lee Goodglick

THURSDAY
March 6, 2008

3:00 pm

Gaetano Thiene, M.D., FRCP
Professor, Cardiovascular Pathology, Dept. Medical-Diagnostic Science and Special Therapies, University of Padua Medical School

Prevention of Sudden Cardiac Death in the Young: Dream or Reality?

Michael Fishbein

Tuesday
March 11, 2008

12 noon - 1:00 PM

Kathryn Atchison, DDS, MPH
Vice Provost, Intellectual Property and Industry Relations. Associate Vice Chancellor for Research

Commercializing UCLA Technologies

Lee Goodglick

Tuesday
March 18, 2008

12 noon - 1:00 PM

Scott W. Lowe, Ph.D.
Howard Hughes Medical Institute and Professor Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory

Dissecting Tumor Suppressor Gene Function In Vivo

Lee Goodglick

Tuesday
March 25, 2008

12 noon - 1:00 PM

Keith Yamamoto
Professor, Cellular and Molecular Pharmacology; and Executive Vice Dean, UCSF School of Medicine

Determinants of Selective Transcriptional Regulation by the Glucocorticoid Receptor

Lee Goodglick

Tuesday
April 1, 2008

12 noon - 1:00 PM

Jim Heath, Ph.D.
Elizabeth W. Gilloon Professor of Chemistry, Caltech

Systems Biology Driven In Vitro Diagnostic Approaches to Cancer

Latta Lecture

Lee Goodglick

Tuesday
April 8 2008

12 noon - 1:00 PM

Caleb "Tuck" Finch, Ph.D.
Professor, Biological Sciences and Gerontology, ARCO/William F. Kieschnick Chair in the Neurobiology of Aging, Co-Director, USC Alzheimer Disease Research Center, USC

Dining With Roy

Walford Lecture

Rita Effros

Tuesday
April 15 2008

12 noon - 1:00 PM

Gerard Evan, PhD., FRS
Professor of Cancer Biology, Cancer Research Institute, UCSF

Using the Mouse to Model Cancer Therapies

Lee Goodglick

Thursday
April 17 2008

12 noon - 1:00 PM

Curt Harris, MD
National Cancer Institute

Inflammation and cancer: Interpretation of microRNA, free radical cytokine and p53 pathway

Robert H. Schiestl

Tuesday
April 22, 2008

12 noon - 1:00 PM

Talal Chatila, M.D.
Professor, Pediatrics, Chief, Pediatric Immunology, Allergy and Rheumatology. UCLA

Dominant Immune Tolerance and its Breakdown in Foxp3 Deficiency

Lee Goodglick

Tuesday
April 29, 2008

3:00 PM

Steven Friend, M.D., Ph.D.
Executive Vice President, Oncology, Merck Research Laboratories

Technology Platforms: Exploring Targets to Clinical Trials - The Last 10 Years and the Next 10 Years

Lee Goodglick

Tuesday
May 6, 2008

12 noon - 1:00 PM

Carl Nathan, M.D.
R.A. Rees Pritchett Professor of Microbiology, Professor of Microbiology and Immunology, Cornell University

Chemotherapy of Infectious Disease Guided by Host-Pathogen Relationships

Lee Goodglick

Tuesday
May 13, 2008

12 noon - 1:00 PM

Elizabeth Blackburn, Ph.D..
Morris Herzstein Professor of Biology and Physiology, Department of Biochemistry and Biophysics, UCSF

Telomeres and Telomerase: Their Implications for Human Health and Disease

Lee Goodglick

Tuesday
May 20, 2008

12 noon - 1:00 PM

Roger Perlmutter, MD, Ph.D.
Executive Vice President of Research and Development, Amgen

Lee Goodglick

Tuesday
May 27, 2008

12 noon - 1:00 PM

Michael Teitell, M.D., PhD.
Associate Professor, Departments of Pathology and Pediatrics, UCLA

Lee Goodglick

Tuesday
June 3, 2008

12 noon - 1:00 PM

William Lowry, Ph.D.
Assistant Professor, UCLA Molecular Cellular & Developmental Biology, and the Broad Stem Cell Institute

Tuesday
June 10, 2008

12 noon - 1:00 PM

Tuesday
June 17, 2008

12 noon - 1:00 PM