CCSB Seminar Series -- 2011-2012

Unless otherwise stated, seminars are held in the Center for Biomedical Research, Room 101 at St. Elizabeth's Medical Center on Tuesdays at 2pm.
External visitors are advised to confirm arrangements with Ms. Cassie Enayo: tel. 617.789.2995.

Date Speaker, Talk title
Tuesday,
21 February
Daniel Segrè, Ph.D.
Departments of Biology and Biomedical Engineering, Bioinformatics Program, Boston University
"Metabolic interactions within and between cells"
Host: Lynn Hlatky
 
Tuesday,
6 March
Constantine Mitsiades, M.D., Ph.D.
Dana-Farber Cancer Institute, Harvard Medical School
title tba
Host: Giannoula Klement
 
Thursday,
8 March
Jack Tuszynski, Ph.D.
Department of Biophysics/Condensed Matter, University of Alberta, Edmonton, Canada
title tba
Host: Edward Rietman
 
Tuesday,
20 March
tba
 
Tuesday,
17 April
James A. Glazier, Ph.D.
Director, Biocomplexity Institute, Department of Physics, Indiana University
title tba
Host: Heiko Enderling
 
Tuesday,
24 April
tba
 
Tuesday,
8 May
tba -- Dr. Spira's talk is being rescheduled.
 
Tuesday,
22 May
tba
 
Tuesday,
5 June
tba
 
Tuesday,
19 June
tba

For comments and suggestions please contact Nava Almog.

 

Previous Seminars

Date Speaker, Talk title
Thurs,
2 Feb 2012
Lloyd Demetrius
Harvard University; Max Planck Institute
"The Origin of Cancer and Age Related Neurological Diseases: The Warburg Effect"
Host: Ed Rietman
Tues,
31 Jan 2012
Jan Poleszczuk
Institute of Applied Mathematics and Mechanics,
University of Warsaw, Poland
"Mathematical Modeling of Tumor Growth"
Host: Heiko Enderling
Tues,
24 Jan 2012
Johan Paulsson, Ph.D.
Department of Systems Biology, Harvard Medical School
"Fluctuation Theory as a Basis for Experimental Design"
Host: Edward Rietman
Tues,
3 Jan 2012
Jacquin C. Niles, M.D., Ph.D.
Assistant Professor of Biological Engineering, Pfizer-Laubach Career Development Chair, Massachusetts Institute of Technology
"Controllably manipulating the cellular RNA landscape: Applications in model eukaryote and human malarial parasite biology"
Host: Edward Rietman
Tues,
13 Dec 2011
Andrey Sharov, M.D., Ph.D.
Department of Dermatology, Boston University School of Medicine
"The role of BMP-Smad pathway in cutaneous stem cell maintenance and carcinogenesis"
Host: David Goukassian
Tues,
29 Nov 2011
Richard Van Etten, M.D., Ph.D.
Director, Cancer Center at Tufts Medical Center
"Quantitative modeling of chronic myeloid leukemia and other myeloproliferative neoplasms in mice"
Host: Lynn Hlatky
Tues,
15 Nov 2011
Michael Reich
Director of Cancer Informatics Development, Broad Institute of MIT and Harvard
"Tools for Genomic Computation, Visualization, and Integration"
Host: Edward Rietman
Tues,
1 Nov 2011
Janusz Rak, M.D., Ph.D.
McGill University, Canada
"Microvesicles -- the mediators and messengers of tumour progression"
Host: Giannoula Klement
Tues,
18 Oct 2011
Hava Avraham, Ph.D.
Beth Israel Deaconess Medical Center
"Substance P/NK-1R and VEGF/Angiopoietin-2 as Molecular Determinants in Breast Cancer Metastasis to the Brain"
Host: Lynn Hlatky
Tues,
11 Oct 2011
Agnès Vignery, D.D.S., Ph.D.
Departments of Orthopaedics and Cell Biology, Yale School of Medicine
"Macrophage fusion in health and disease"
Host: Lynn Hlatky
Tues,
4 Oct 2011
Natalie Artzi, Ph.D.
Research Scientist, Harvard-MIT Division for Health Sciences and Technology;  Instructor, Harvard Medical School, Brigham & Women's Hospital
"Engineering Biomaterials to Deliver Desired Clinical Outcome"
Host: Nava Almog
Tues,
16 Aug 2011
Jacob Scott, M.D.
Integrative Mathematical Oncology, H. Lee Moffitt Cancer Center
"Genotypic determinants of metastatic fitness: a delicate balance of driver and passenger mutations"
Host: Heiko Enderling

 

Past Seminar Series

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