Previous CCSB Seminar Series
 
2010 – 2011
 

Date Speaker, Talk title
Tues,
12 Jul 2011
Eduardo D. Sontag, Ph.D.
Department of Mathematics, Rutgers
"Some theoretical issues in systems biology"
Host: Edward Rietman
Tues,
17 May 2011
Leonora Balaj, doctoral candidate
Massachusetts General Hospital
"Genetic Elements in Tumor Microvesicles"
Host: Nava Almog
Tues,
19 Apr 2011
Kathryn Huber, M.D., Ph.D.
Tufts Medical Center
"Breast Cancer Initiating Cell Radioresistance: What are the FACS?"
Host: Tyson McDonald
Tues,
12 Apr 2011
Joao Xavier, Ph.D.
Memorial Sloan-Kettering Cancer Center
"Conflict and cooperation in cell populations"
Host: Heiko Enderling
Tues,
29 Mar 2011
Edward Rietman, Ph.D.
Dana-Farber Cancer Institute, Harvard Medical School
"What works and what doesn't work on large and small system models"
Host: Lynn Hlatky
Tues,
15 Mar 2011
Dipanjan Chowdhury, Ph.D.
Dana-Farber Cancer Institute
"microRNAs, DNA repair and cancer therapy"
Host: Swati Girdhani
Tues,
15 Feb 2011
Michael La Croix, Ph.D.
University of Waterloo, Canada
"All work and no play makes Jack enumerate maps"
Host: Kathleen Wilkie
Wed,
9 Feb 2010
Pedro R. Lowenstein, M.D., Ph.D.
Gene Therapeutics Research Institute at Cedars-Sinai Medical Center, Department of Medicine and Molecular and Medical Pharmacology at UCLA
"The first seven days of a brain tumor: how interactions between glioma cells, the vasculature, and the immune system shape the glioma microenvironment, and condition therapeutic responses"
Host: Lynn Hlatky
Tues,
8 Feb 2011
Ofra Benny, Ph.D.
Harvard Medical School, Children's Hospital Boston
"Polymeric antiangiogenic drug for the treatment of cancer and ocular neovascular diseases"
Host: Nava Almog
Tues,
25 Jan 2011
Michael Levin, Ph.D.
Tufts University, Center for Regenerative and Developmental Biology
"Local and long-range bioelectric signals as developmental controls of cancer"
Host: Mahdokht Behravan
Tuesday,
11 Jan 2011
Barton Kamen, M.D., Ph.D.
The Cancer Institute of New Jersey, Robert Wood Johnson Medical School
"Metronomic Therapy: Is It Really a New Paradigm for Chemotherapy?"
Host: Giannoula Klement
Tues,
7 Dec 2010
Bridget Wagner, Ph.D.
Broad Institute
"Chemical strategies to increase beta-cell mass"
Host: Julia Fox
Tues,
23 Nov 2010
James Sherley, M.D., Ph.D.
Boston Biomedical Research Institute
"A bioengineering approach to advancing adult stem cell-based therapeutics"
Host: Afshin Beheshti
Tues,
9 Nov 2010
Dipak Panigrahy, Ph.D.
Harvard Medical School
"Epoxyeicosatrienoic acids control angiogenesis-dependent regeneration, cancer, and metastasis"
Host: Nava Almog
Tues,
26 Oct 2010
Dan Duda, Ph.D.
Harvard Medical School, Massachusetts General Hospital
"Pursuing biomarkers of response and resistance to antiangiogenic therapy"
Host: Nava Almog
Tues,
12 Oct 2010
Paul Clemons, Ph.D.
Broad Institute
"Cheminformatic and biological performance profiling: informing library composition, screening decisions, and target identification"
Host: Julia Fox
Tues,
28 Sep 2010
Johannes Wolff, M.D.
Floating Hospital for Children at Tufts Medical Center
mathematic predictions in clinical medicine
Host: Giannoula Klement
 
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