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Fall 2009 Seminar Series
October 7 - Keith Burridge, Ph.D., Professor, Lineberger Comprehensive Cancer Center; Department of Cell & Developmental Biology, University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill, "Rho GTPases: Key Regulators of Endothelial Cell Function" Host: Alexey Belkin, Ph.D.
October 14 - Steve L. Gonias, M.D., Ph.D., Professor and Chair, Department of Pathology, UCSD, School of Medicine, "Protease Receptor-initiated cell-signaling in cancer and inflammation" Host: Dudley Strickland, Ph.D.
October 21 - Kenn Holmbeck, Ph.D., Staff Scientist, Matrix Metalloproteinase Unit, Craniofacial and Skeletal Diseases Branch, National Institute of Dental and Craniofacial Research, NIH, "Genetic Dissection of Membrane-type MMP function" Host: Rajabrata Sarkar
October 28 - Richard L. Proia, Ph.D., Branch Chief, Genetics of Development and Disease Branch, National Institute of Diabetes and Digestive and Kidney Diseases, NIH, "The role of sphingosine-1-phosphate in metabolism and signaling" Host: Li Zhang, Ph.D.
November 4 - Charles L. Chaffin, Ph.D., Associate Professor, Department of Obstetrics, Gynecology and Reproductive Sciences, University of Maryland, "Lipoprotein uptake as a mediator of the ovulatory cascade in primates" Host: Toni M. Antalis, Ph.D.
November 11 - Silvia Montaner, Ph.D., M.P.H., Associate Professor, Department of Oncology and Diagnostic Sciences and Pathology and Greenebaum Cancer Center, University of Maryland, "KSHV vGPCR: Lessons on inflammation-mediated angiogenesis from a viral oncogene" Host: Toni M. Antalis, Ph.D.
November 18 - No Seminar
December 2 - Kathleen P. Pratt, Ph.D., Assistant Member, Puget Sound Blood Center, Seattle, WA, "Mapping T-Cell and B-Cell Epitopes to Design Less Immunogenic Factor VIII Proteins" Host: David Scott, Ph.D.
December 9 - Tami J Kingsbury, Ph.D., Assistant Professor, Department of Physiology, University of Maryland, "Cellular regulation of calcineurin phosphatase activity" Host: Nancy Fossett, Ph.D.
December 16 - Joseph Craft, M.D., Professor of Medicine, Chief of Rheumatology, Professor of Immunobiology and Director of Investigative Medicine, Yale University School of Medicine, "New Insights into Effector CD4 T Cell Differentiation and Function" Host: David Scott, Ph.D.