School of Medicine Calendar - ALL
All School of Medicine events for staff (does not include Student events) - ( Details and Feeds
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New staff orientation is a half-day program that provides an overview of the Perelman SOM as well as specific useful information about key functions and resources that are important to Perelman SOM staff. Specifically, the program will help new staff:
- feel welcome
- understand the Perelman School of Medicine's past, mission, and vision for the future
- understand the Perelman School of Medicine's organizational and reporting structure
- learn relevant functional departments contacts and numbers
- identify resources that are available to support you as a Perelman School of Medicine employee
It is expected that all new employees and transfers to the Perelman School of Medicine will participate in the orientation as soon after their start date as possible. Orientation sessions are generally scheduled monthly, but may vary with the volume of new hires. Invitations are sent directly to all new staff and transfers at their home address. There are three ways to register:
- Call our office at 215-573-0682
- Email to oe@mail.med.upenn.edu
- Register on Knowledge Link (Course title: New Staff Orientation SOM)
Department of Physiology Seminar Program
Randall Peterson, Ph.D
Asst Professor of Medicine, Harvard Medical School
Assistant in Biology, Mass General Hospital
"Discovering New Bioactive Molecules through in Vivo Screening in Zebrafish"
For more information contact: Department of Physiology, 215-898-8725, phys@mail.med.upenn.edu
Psychotherapy Module
Ellen Berman M.D.
Clinical Professor of Psychiatry
Founder and Co-Director, Center for Couples and Adult Families
Perelman School of Medicine, University of Pennsylvania
“Psychotherapy Module Case Conference”
Location: John Morgan Building, Reunion Hall Auditorium
Associate Professor of Dermatology
University of Pennsylvania
Src kinases and srcasm regulate squamous cell carcinoma in multiple organs
Location: TRC Auditorium
Advisor: Dr. Jonathan Epstein
The Biochemistry and Molecular Biophysics Graduate Group
Thesis Defense
Kathryn Lorenz Sarachan
(advisor: Gregory D. Van Duyne, Ph.D.)
"Structural Studies of the SMN-Gemin 2 Complex"
3:30 pm
Thursday, December 15, 2011
Class of '62 Lecture Hall, John Morgan Building
"HIV: The Past, The Future - A night in support of children orphaned by AIDS in South Africa"
When: Thursday, Dec 15 from 4:30 - 6
Where: TRC Auditorium (2nd floor at the Perelman Center for Advanced Medicine)
What: Talks by world experts on HIV:
· 4:30pm - The Ape Origin: Where it all began. - Dr. Beatrice Hahn, Professor of Microbiology at the Perelman School of Medicine
· 5:10pm - An HIV Vaccine: Why we need one, why it remains a challenge, and why there is hope. - Dr. Bette Korber, Fellow at the Los Alamos National Laboratory and board member of Friends of NOAH USA
Followed by a brief intro to Friends of NOAH and a reception with snacks and a cappella by the Ultrasounds.
The event is designed primarily to raise awareness but we will also be collecting tax deductible donations during the reception. It costs Friends of NOAH less than $80 to provide a child with a full year of services including daily meals and after school care! Look forward to seeing you at the kickoff next Thursday.
Dr. Hahn
Dr. Hahn has had a long-standing interest in elucidating the origins and evolution of human and simian immunodeficiency viruses, and in studying HIV/SIV gene function and disease mechanisms from an evolutionary perspective. She traced the zoonotic origins of HIV-1 to chimpanzees and HIV-2 to sooty mangabeys, and found that a single transmission of SIVcpz from chimpanzee to man led to the current AIDS pandemic. Most recently, she discovered the origin of the human malaria parasite Plasmodium falciparum in western gorillas.
Dr. Korber
Dr. Korber is a theoretical biologist and has led the HIV sequence and immunology database project at Los Alamos National Laboratory for the past 15 years. Her research in part uses the collected data in the HIV database as a foundation, and in part involves working with experimentalist collaborators from around globe. Her primary areas of research include: HIV vaccine design, HIV evolution, the impact of the human immune response on HIV, and conversely the potential for a pathogen to impact human populations. She received the E.O. Lawrence Award, the highest scientific honor from the Department of Energy, for her achievements in the Life Sciences, and the Elizabeth Glaser Scientist Award.
Friends of NOAH (Nurturing Orphans of AIDS for Humanity) USA, is a non-profit that helps communities in South Africa more effectively raise children who have lost their parents to the AIDS Pandemic: www.noahorphans.org