School of Medicine Calendar - ALL
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Some topics which will be discussed include:
• Eligible expenses
• Making a claim
• Avoiding forfeiture
Registration Info: http://knowledgelink.upenn.edu
Contact Person: Megan Maxwell
Contact Email: mmaxwell@mail.med.upenn.edu
- How to prepare for interviews
- How to present yourself and your skills effectively
- The importance of nonverbal communication
- Types of interviews you might encounter
Registration Info: http://knowledgelink.upenn.edu
Contact Person: Megan Maxwell
Contact Email: mmaxwell@mail.med.upenn.edu
• How to have a successful Performance Appraisal.
• What steps to take throughout the year in preparing for your Performance Appraisal.
Topics covered include:
• Objectives of Performance & Staff Development Program.
• How to Prepare for Effective Appraisal Meeting.
• Guidelines for Successful Appraisal Meeting.
• Valuable Follow-Up Activities to Appraisal Meeting.
Registration Info: http://knowledgelink.upenn.edu
Contact Person: Megan Maxwell
Contact Email: mmaxwell@mail.med.upenn.edu
Objectives are to provide an understanding of:
• The Performance Appraisal as an ongoing process rather than just an annual event
• Practical steps to take in preparing for, and writing, a Performance Appraisal
Topics covered include:
• Calibrating what Supervisors write, say and rate during Appraisal Process
• Preparation Steps for Writing Appraisals
• Definition of Performance Expectations
• Types of Expectations
• Criteria for Writing Effective Expectations
• Writing Construction Feedback on Competencies
• Writing Effective Performance Feedback
Registration Info: http://knowledgelink.upenn.edu
Contact Person: Megan Maxwell
Contact Email: mmaxwell@mail.med.upenn.edu
Contact Email: rkat@mail.med.upenn.edu
Contact Email: rkat@mail.med.upenn.edu
Contact Person: Kathleen Flandrick
Contact Email: rkat@mail.med.upenn.edu
Contact Person: Kathleen Flandrick
Contact Email: rkat@mail.med.upenn.edu
Contact Person: Kathleen Flandrick
Contact Email: rkat@mail.med.upenn.edu
Contact Person: Kathleen Flandrick
Contact Email: rkat@mail.med.upenn.edu
- critiques of c.v.'s, resumes, cover letter and other job hunting materials
- advice about conducting an effective job search
- preparation for interviews
- assistance with defining your career direction
Contact Person: Kryste Ferguson
Contact Email: kryste@mail.med.upenn.edu
- critiques of c.v.'s, resumes, cover letter and other job hunting materials
- advice about conducting an effective job search
- preparation for interviews
- assistance with defining your career direction
Contact Person: Kryste Ferguson
Contact Email: kryste@mail.med.upenn.edu
“Biochemistry in the cell in the purinosome”
Contact: Angie Young (younga@mail.med.upenn.edu).
Contact Person: Kryste Ferguson
Contact Email: kryste@mail.med.upenn.edu
Confirmed Speakers:
Prof David Hunter, Harvard University
Prof Alice Whittemore, Stanford University
Prof Richard Spielman, University of Pennsylvania
Prof Nan Laird, Harvard University
Prof Goncalo Abecasis, University of Michigan
Prof Mark Shriver, Pennsylvania State University
Contact Person: Kathleen Flandrick
Contact Email: rkat@mail.med.upenn.edu
Contact Person: Kathleen Flandrick
Contact Email: rkat@mail.med.upenn.edu
Contact Person: Kathleen Flandrick
Contact Email: rkat@mail.med.upenn.edu
Contact Email: rkat@mail.med.upenn.edu
Contact Email: rkat@mail.med.upenn.edu
Contact Person: Kathleen Flandrick
Contact Email: rkat@mail.med.upenn.edu
Contact Person: Kathleen Flandrick
Contact Email: rkat@mail.med.upenn.edu
Contact Person: Kathleen Flandrick
Contact Email: rkat@mail.med.upenn.edu
"Futurism and Realism in the History of Cochlear Implants"
Contact Person: Kathleen Flandrick
Contact Email: rkat@mail.med.upenn.edu
Contact Email: rkat@mail.med.upenn.edu
Contact Person: Kathleen Flandrick
Contact Email: rkat@mail.med.upenn.edu
Contact Person: Kathleen Flandrick
Contact Email: rkat@mail.med.upenn.edu
Contact Email: rkat@mail.med.upenn.edu
Contact Person: Kryste Ferguson
Contact Email: kryste@mail.med.upenn.edu
Contact Email: rkat@mail.med.upenn.edu
Contact Person: Kathleen Flandrick
Contact Email: rkat@mail.med.upenn.edu
Contact Person: Kathleen Flandrick
Contact Email: rkat@mail.med.upenn.edu
Contact Email: rkat@mail.med.upenn.edu
Contact Email: rkat@mail.med.upenn.edu
Contact Person: Kathleen Flandrick
Contact Email: rkat@mail.med.upenn.edu
Contact Person: Kathleen Flandrick
Contact Email: rkat@mail.med.upenn.edu
Contact Email: rkat@mail.med.upenn.edu
"Identification of a novel cellular factor required for HIV assembly: Implications for the cell biology of virus formation"
Contact Person: Kathleen Flandrick
Contact Email: rkat@mail.med.upenn.edu
Contact Person: Kathleen Flandrick
Contact Email: rkat@mail.med.upenn.edu
Contact Person: Kathleen Flandrick
Contact Email: rkat@mail.med.upenn.edu
Contact Person: Kathleen Flandrick
Contact Email: rkat@mail.med.upenn.edu
KEITH WHITFIELD, PHD
Duke University, Department of Psychology and Neuroscience
Center on Biobehavioral and Social Aspects of Health Disparities
Genetic and Environmental Influences on Health and Mental Health in Older African Americans
This program is presented in conjunction with the Penn MARCH Center (Minority Aging Research for Community Health) and the Divison of Geriatric Medicine
Registration Info: mailto:aging@mail.med.upenn.edu
Contact Person: Kathleen Flandrick
Contact Email: rkat@mail.med.upenn.edu
- critiques of c.v.'s, resumes, cover letter and other job hunting materials
- advice about conducting an effective job search
- preparation for interviews
- assistance with defining your career direction
Contact Person: Kryste Ferguson
Contact Email: kryste@mail.med.upenn.edu
- critiques of c.v.'s, resumes, cover letter and other job hunting materials
- advice about conducting an effective job search
- preparation for interviews
- assistance with defining your career direction
Contact Person: Kryste Ferguson
Contact Email: kryste@mail.med.upenn.edu
Contact Person: Kathleen Flandrick
Contact Email: rkat@mail.med.upenn.edu
Contact: Angie Young (younga@mail.med.upenn.edu).
Contact Person: Kathleen Flandrick
Contact Email: rkat@mail.med.upenn.edu
Contact Person: Kathleen Flandrick
Contact Email: rkat@mail.med.upenn.edu
Contact Person: Kathleen Flandrick
Contact Email: rkat@mail.med.upenn.edu
Contact Email: rkat@mail.med.upenn.edu
Contact Email: rkat@mail.med.upenn.edu
Contact Person: Kathleen Flandrick
Contact Email: rkat@mail.med.upenn.edu
Contact Person: Kathleen Flandrick
Contact Email: rkat@mail.med.upenn.edu
Contact Person: Kathleen Flandrick
Contact Email: rkat@mail.med.upenn.edu
Contact Email: rkat@mail.med.upenn.edu
Contact Person: Kathleen Flandrick
Contact Email: rkat@mail.med.upenn.edu
Contact Person: Kathleen Flandrick
Contact Email: rkat@mail.med.upenn.edu
Contact Email: rkat@mail.med.upenn.edu
Contact Person: Kathleen Flandrick
Contact Email: rkat@mail.med.upenn.edu
Contact Person: Kathleen Flandrick
Contact Email: rkat@mail.med.upenn.edu
Contact Email: rkat@mail.med.upenn.edu
Contact Email: rkat@mail.med.upenn.edu
Contact Email: rkat@mail.med.upenn.edu
Contact Person: Kathleen Flandrick
Contact Email: rkat@mail.med.upenn.edu
Contact Person: Kathleen Flandrick
Contact Email: rkat@mail.med.upenn.edu
Contact Person: Kathleen Flandrick
Contact Email: rkat@mail.med.upenn.edu
Contact Person: Kathleen Flandrick
Contact Email: rkat@mail.med.upenn.edu
Contact Person: Kathleen Flandrick
Contact Email: rkat@mail.med.upenn.edu
Contact Person: Kathleen Flandrick
Contact Email: rkat@mail.med.upenn.edu
- critiques of c.v.'s, resumes, cover letter and other job hunting materials
- advice about conducting an effective job search
- preparation for interviews
- assistance with defining your career direction
Contact Person: Kryste Ferguson
Contact Email: kryste@mail.med.upenn.edu
- critiques of c.v.'s, resumes, cover letter and other job hunting materials
- advice about conducting an effective job search
- preparation for interviews
- assistance with defining your career direction
Contact Person: Kryste Ferguson
Contact Email: kryste@mail.med.upenn.edu
Contact Person: Kathleen Flandrick
Contact Email: rkat@mail.med.upenn.edu
Contact Email: rkat@mail.med.upenn.edu
- critiques of c.v.'s, resumes, cover letter and other job hunting materials
- advice about conducting an effective job search
- preparation for interviews
- assistance with defining your career direction
Contact Person: Kryste Ferguson
Contact Email: kryste@mail.med.upenn.edu
- critiques of c.v.'s, resumes, cover letter and other job hunting materials
- advice about conducting an effective job search
- preparation for interviews
- assistance with defining your career direction
Contact Person: Kryste Ferguson
Contact Email: kryste@mail.med.upenn.edu
- critiques of c.v.'s, resumes, cover letter and other job hunting materials
- advice about conducting an effective job search
- preparation for interviews
- assistance with defining your career direction
Contact Person: Kryste Ferguson
Contact Email: kryste@mail.med.upenn.edu
Professor and Chairman
Department of Biology
Duke University
“Development rooted in interwoven networks”
Alex Brown - Epstein lab
"Hedgehog signaling is necessary for auditory development"
Larry Singh - Hannenhalli Lab
"Expression divergence in paralogous gene families"
Professor
Department of Medical Biophysics
University of Toronto
“Directed differentiation of pluripotent stem cells”
Gerard D. Schellenberg, Ph.D.
Professor, Department of Pathology and Laboratory Medicine
"Tau Genetics - From Model Organisms to Man"
9:55 AM
Maja Bucan, Ph.D.
Professor, Department of Genetics
"The Role of Copy-Number Variation in Neuropsychiatric Illness"
10:20 AM
Zhaolan (Joe) Zhou, Ph.D.
Assistant Professor, Department of Genetics
"Insight into the Molecular Basis of an Autism Spectrum Disorder - Rett Syndrome"
11:10 AM
Logan Everett
Graduate Student, Genomics and Computational Biology
"Computational Modeling of Modification-Dependent Transcription Factors"
11:35 AM
Christian J. Stoeckert, Jr., Ph.D.
Research Professor, Department of Genetics
"Conservation of Transcriptional Networks in the Apicomplexan Family of Eukaryotic Parasites"
12:00 PM
Carlo Maley, Ph.D.
Assistant Professor, Department of Molecular and Cellular Oncogenesis, The Wistar Institute
"The genetics of evolution in the neoplastic progression of Barrett's esophagus"
1:25 PM
Daniel J. Rader, M.D.
Professor, Department of Medicine
"Human Genetics of Lipid Traits: Post-GWAS Directions and Implications"
1:50 PM
Vivian G. Cheung, M.D.
Associate Professor, Department of Pediatrics
”Genetics of Individual Differences in Response to Radiation"
2:15 PM
Yael P. Mosse, M.D.
Assistant Professor, Department of Pediatrics
"Discovery and Translation of Oncogenic ALK Signaling in Neuroblastoma"
3:05 PM
Claude Warzecha
Graduate Student, Genetics and Gene Regulation
"ESRP1 and ESRP2 Coordinate an Epithelial Splicing Regulatory Network"
3:30 PM
Eileen M. Shore, Ph.D.
Associate Professor, Department of Orthopaedic Surgery
"Fibrodypsplasia Ossifican Progressiva (FOP): The Difference that One Nucleotide Can Make"
4:00 PM
Keynote Address
Aravinda Chakravarti, Ph.D.
Professor, Departments of Medicine, Pediatrics, Molecular Biology, Genetics, and Biostatistics
Johns Hopkins University
"Human Genetic Screens for Cardiac Phenotypes"
Claude Desplan, D.Sc., Ph.D.
Professor
Department of Biology
New York University
“Color vision in Drosophila”
Paula Goldenberg - CHOP Fellow
"Schizophrenia and 22q11.2 Deletion Syndrome: a proposed genetic epidemiologic study in an at-risk population"
Scott Palmer - Chen Lab
"Bcl-3, a multifaceted modulator of NF-kB"
Contact Person: Kimberly Freeman
Contact Email: freeman2@mail.med.upenn.edu
"Genome-wide impact of Foxa2 on nucleosome positioning"
Christopher Edwards - Berger Lab
"Acetylation of Non-Histone Chromatin Proteins by NuA4 in Budding Yeast"
Kimberly Mowry, Ph.D.
Professor
Department of Molecular, Cellular Biology Biochemistry
Brown University
“RNA Transport in the Oocyte Cytoplasm: How to Get There From Here”
"The Role of miRNAs in the Intestinal Epithelium"
Audience:
Community Physicians, Healthcare Providers, Faculty, UPHS Employees, House Staff, Nursing Staff
Contact Person: Dr. Alexander Opotowsky
Contact Email: Alexander.Opotowsky@uphs.upenn.edu
"Molecular controls of arterial specification"
Dr. Michael Simons
Chief, Section of Cardiovascular Medicine
Yale University School of Medicine
NOTE LOCATION: BRB 2/3 Room 253
Contact Person: Nina Maschak
Contact Email: maschak@mail.med.upenn.edu
Cardiovascular Grand Rounds - HUP:
"Therapeutic Angiogenesis- from Concepts to Clinical Reality"
Dr. Michael Simons
Chief, Cardiovascular Medicine
Yale School of Medicine
Contact Person: Denice Susini
Contact Email: denice.susini@uphs.upenn.edu
Audience:
Community Physicians, Healthcare Providers, Faculty, UPHS Employees, House Staff, Nursing Staff
Contact Person: Dr. Alexander Opotowsky
Contact Email: Alexander.Opotowsky@uphs.upenn.edu
Cancelled - Passover
Contact Person: Nina Maschak
Contact Email: maschak@mail.med.upenn.edu
Cancelled - Passover
Contact Person: Denice Susini
Contact Email: denice.susini@uphs.upenn.edu
Audience:
Community Physicians, Healthcare Providers, Faculty, UPHS Employees, House Staff, Nursing Staff
Contact Person: Dr. Alexander Opotowsky
Contact Email: Alexander.Opotowsky@uphs.upenn.edu
Cancelled due to ITMAT Symposium:
http://www.itmat.upenn.edu/symposium.shtml
Cardiovascular Grand Rounds - HUP:
"3D Echocardiography: The Benefits of the Additional Dimension"
Dr. Roberto Lang
Director, Non-invasive Cardiac Imaging Lab
University of Chicago
Cardiovascular Grand Rounds - Presby:
"Sterotaxis Lab"
Dr. Kent Volosin and Dr. John Bullinga
University of Pennsylvania
Audience:
Community Physicians, Healthcare Providers, Faculty, UPHS Employees, House Staff, Nursing Staff
Contact Person: Dr. Alexander Opotowsky
Contact Email: Alexander.Opotowsky@uphs.upenn.edu
Special CVI Seminar
"Therapy for Heart Failure and Sudden Cardiac Death: Fixing the Leak in RyR Channels"
Dr. Andrew R. Marks
Wu Professor and Chair, Department of Physiology and Cellular Biophysics
Founding Director, Helen and Clyde Wu Center for Molecular Cardiology
Columbia University College of Physicians and Surgeons
Please Note - - Event is held on TUESDAY, April 21
Cancelled due to April 21 Special Seminar.
Contact Person: Nina Maschak
Contact Email: maschak@mail.med.upenn.edu
"Atrial flutter: History, Mechanisms and Therapy"
Professor Nadir Saoudi
Chef de Service Cardiologie
Centre Hospitalier Princesse Grace
Monaco
Contact Person: Denice Susini
Contact Email: denice.susini@uphs.upenn.edu
Audience:
Community Physicians, Healthcare Providers, Faculty, UPHS Employees, House Staff, Nursing Staff
Contact Person: Dr. Alexander Opotowsky
Contact Email: Alexander.Opotowsky@uphs.upenn.edu
Cancelled; resumes May 20
Cardiovascular Grand Rounds - HUP:
"Circulating Neuregulin–1β in Human Heart Failure"
Dr. Bonnie Ky
University of Pennsylvania
Duke University
Title: "Development rooted in interwoven networks"
Contact Person: Kim P. Sheppard
Contact Email: ksheppar@mail.med.upenn.edu
Contact Email: jillcarp@mail.med.upenn.edu
Medical Biophysics
University of Toronto
Title: Directed differentiation of pluripotent stem cells
Contact Person: Jill Agolino
Contact Email: jillcarp@mail.med.upenn.edu
New York University
Title: "Color vision in Drosophila "
Contact Person: Jill Agolino
Contact Email: jillcarp@mail.med.upenn.edu
Associate Professor of Internal Medicine (Molecular Medicine and Genetics)
Investigator, Howard Hughes Medical Institute
Director, University of Michigan Center for Stem Cell Biology
Henry Sewall Professor in Medicine
Title: "The regulation of stem cell self-renewal"
Contact Person: Jill Agolino
Contact Email: jillcarp@mail.med.upenn.edu
Molecular, Cellular Biology Biochemistry
Brown University
Title: RNA Transport in the Oocyte Cytoplasm: How to Get There from Here
Contact Person: Jill Agolino
Contact Email: jillcarp@mail.med.upenn.edu
- critiques of c.v.'s, resumes, cover letter and other job hunting materials
- advice about conducting an effective job search
- preparation for interviews
- assistance with defining your career direction
Contact Person: Kryste Ferguson
Contact Email: kryste@mail.med.upenn.edu
Contact Person: Kryste Ferguson
Contact Email: kryste@mail.med.upenn.edu
Contact Person: Kryste Ferguson
Contact Email: kryste@mail.med.upenn.edu
- critiques of c.v.'s, resumes, cover letter and other job hunting materials
- advice about conducting an effective job search
- preparation for interviews
- assistance with defining your career direction
Contact Person: Kryste Ferguson
Contact Email: kryste@mail.med.upenn.edu
- critiques of c.v.'s, resumes, cover letter and other job hunting materials
- advice about conducting an effective job search
- preparation for interviews
- assistance with defining your career direction
Contact Person: Kryste Ferguson
Contact Email: kryste@mail.med.upenn.edu
Contact Email: kimmeyer@mail.med.upenn.edu
Contact Email: david.katzka@uphs.upenn.edu
Eric Moss, PhD
Associate Professor of Molecular Biology
Robert Wood Johnson Medical Center
UMDNJ
Contact Person: Kim Meyers-McCombs
Contact Email: kimmeyer@mail.med.upenn.edu
Tom Faust, MD
Contact Person: Kim Meyers-McCombs
Contact Email: kimmeyer@mail.med.upenn.edu
Contact Email: kimmeyer@mail.med.upenn.edu
Contact Email: kimmeyer@mail.med.upenn.edu
Contact Email: david.katzka@uphs.upenn.edu
Laura Beretta, PhD
Associate Member Public Health Sciences Division
Fred Hutchinson Cancer Research Center
Contact Person: Kim Meyers-McCombs
Contact Email: kimmeyer@mail.med.upenn.edu
Gary Wu, MD
Contact Person: Kim Meyers-McCombs
Contact Email: kimmeyer@mail.med.upenn.edu
Contact Email: kimmeyer@mail.med.upenn.edu
Contact Email: kimmeyer@mail.med.upenn.edu
Contact Person: David A. Katzka,2C M.D.
Contact Email: david.katzka@uphs.upenn.edu
Laurence A Turka, MD
C. Mahlon Kline Professor of Medicine
University of Pennsylvania School of Medicine
Contact Person: Kim Meyers-McCombs
Contact Email: kimmeyer@mail.med.upenn.edu
Contact Email: kimmeyer@mail.med.upenn.edu
David Jaffe, MD
Contact Person: Kim Meyers-McCombs
Contact Email: kimmeyer@mail.med.upenn.edu
Contact Email: kimmeyer@mail.med.upenn.edu
Contact Email: kimmeyer@mail.med.upenn.edu
Contact Email: kimmeyer@mail.med.upenn.edu
Contact Email: kimmeyer@mail.med.upenn.edu
Contact Person: Kim Meyers-McCombs
Contact Email: kimmeyer@mail.med.upenn.edu
Contact Email: david.katzka@uphs.upenn.edu
Makoto Senoo, PhD
Assistant Professor
Department of Animal Biology and
The Institute for Regenerative Medicine
The University of Pennsylvania
Contact Person: Kim Meyers-McCombs
Contact Email: kimmeyer@mail.med.upenn.edu
John Lynch, MD, PhD
Contact Person: Kim Meyers-McCombs
Contact Email: kimmeyer@mail.med.upenn.edu
Contact Email: kimmeyer@mail.med.upenn.edu
Contact Email: kimmeyer@mail.med.upenn.edu
Contact Email: david.katzka@uphs.upenn.edu
Amit Maity, MD, PhD
Associate Professor
Department of Radiation Oncology
University of Pennsylvania School of Medicine
Contact Person: Kim Meyers-McCombs
Contact Email: kimmeyer@mail.med.upenn.edu
Faten Aberra, MD, MSCE
Contact Person: Kim Meyers-McCombs
Contact Email: kimmeyer@mail.med.upenn.edu
Contact Email: kimmeyer@mail.med.upenn.edu
University of Michigan
Director, Center for Stem Cell Biology
Contact Person: Terry Torres
Contact Email: torrest@mail.med.upenn.edu
"Double baloon enteroscopy"
Representatives from the following offices:
- Biomedical Postdoctoral Programs
- Biomedical Postdoctoral Council
- Career Services
- Center for Technology Transfer
- English Language Programs
- Office of International Programs
The Orientation will be followed by a reception.
*This Orientation is highly recommended for any postdoc starting after December 1, 2008, although all postdocs are welcome.
Presenter:
Lisa B. Marshall
Communications Coach
www.lisabmarshall.com
In both academia and industry a large part of professional success depends on the important ability to network effectively. Networking isn’t just about handing out business cards, asking for referrals and attending meetings. Networking is the development and maintenance of mutually valuable relationships. Lisa shares valuable concepts and practical techniques to help you learn the following:
- Business card and networking basics
- Unusual, uncommon and unexpected networking techniques
- Principles to create comfort, engaging others and building rapport with professionals at all levels
"Mass Spectrometry-Based Proteomics Reveals Distinct Mechanisms of Astrocyte Protein Secretion"
Global Approaches to Translational Research
April 14 and 15, 2009
The Institute for Translational Medicine and Therapeutics will hold its fourth annual International Symposium on Tuesday and Wednesday, April 14 and 15, 2009. This meeting will bring together leaders from global initiatives in translational research to review opportunities and challenges particular to this form of research as well as to highlight progress in some emerging therapeutic modalities. This meeting traditionally attracts speakers and attendees from academia, pharma and biotech, as well as from venture, regulatory bodies, politics and the media. Pease visit our website for registration details: http://www.itmat.upenn.edu/symposium.shtml
Global Approaches to Translational Research
April 14 and 15, 2009
The Institute for Translational Medicine and Therapeutics will hold its fourth annual International Symposium on Tuesday and Wednesday, April 14 and 15, 2009. This meeting will bring together leaders from global initiatives in translational research to review opportunities and challenges particular to this form of research as well as to highlight progress in some emerging therapeutic modalities. This meeting traditionally attracts speakers and attendees from academia, pharma and biotech, as well as from venture, regulatory bodies, politics and the media. Pease visit our website for registration details: http://www.itmat.upenn.edu/symposium.shtml
The Institute for Diabetes, Obesity, and Metabolism; the Division of Endocrinology, Diabetes, and Metabolism; and the Diabetes, Endocrinology Research Center Combined Spring 2009 Seminar Series presents:
Gregory Brent, M.D., University of California, Los Angeles
Seminar: “Thyroid Hormone Receptor Isoform-Specific Regulation of Metabolic Pathways”
DATE: Tuesday, March 31, 2009
TIME: 4 p.m.
LOCATION: 302 Conference Room Clinical Research Building
The Institute for Diabetes, Obesity, and Metabolism; the Division of Endocrinology, Diabetes, and Metabolism; and the Diabetes, Endocrinology Research Center Combined Spring 2009 Seminar Series presents:
Seminar: “Circadian Rhythms and Metabolism in Drosophila”
DATE: Tuesday, April 7, 2009
TIME: 4 p.m.
LOCATION: 302 Conference Room Clinical Research Building
The Annual Hammond Lecture is Postponed until the Fall:
Presenter: David Altshuler, M.D., Ph.D., Harvard Medical School
Title: “The Inherited Basis of Type 2 Diabetes”
Location: Reunion Hall, John Morgan Building
The Institute for Diabetes, Obesity, and Metabolism; the Division of Endocrinology, Diabetes, and Metabolism; and the Diabetes, Endocrinology Research Center Combined Spring 2009 Seminar Series presents:
Seminar: "Responses to Altered NAD Metabolism"
DATE: Tuesday, April 21, 2009
TIME: 4 p.m.
LOCATION: 302 Conference Room Clinical Research Building
The Institute for Diabetes, Obesity, and Metabolism; the Division of Endocrinology, Diabetes, and Metabolism; and the Diabetes, Endocrinology Research Center Combined Spring 2009 Seminar Series presents:
Michael Pagliassotti, Ph.D., Colorado State University
Seminar: "Do Metabolic Diseases Threaten Endoplasmic Reticulum Homeostasis?”
DATE: Tuesday, April 21, 2009
TIME: 4 p.m.
LOCATION: 302 Conference Room Clinical Research Building
Professor Cell and Developmental Biology
"Lessons from the enemy: what pathogens can teach us about cytoskeletal function and dynamics"
UC Berkeley
Contact: Kim P. Sheppard
e-mail: ksheppar@mail.med.upenn.edu
Ana Maria Cuervo, MD, PhD
Associate Professor of Medicine, Developmental & Molecular Biology,
and Anatomy & Structural Biology
Albert Einstein College of Medicine of Yeshiva University
“Selective autophagy and
aging: Regulated cleaning
and refueling”
Registration reqested via email
to aging@mail.med.upenn.edu
or by phone at 215-898-3163.
John (Jack) W. Rowe, MD
Professor of Health Policy and Management, Columbia University
Chair, The MacArthur Foundation Research Network on an Aging Society
Former Chairman and CEO, Aetna, Inc.
“The Challenges and Opportunities
of an Aging Society”
Registration required via email to aging@mail.med.upenn.edu
or by phone at 215-898-3163.
Penn Faculty
Gerard Schellenberg: "Tau Genetics - From Model Organisms to Man"
Eileen Shore: "Fibrodypsplasia Ossifican Progressiva (FOP): The Difference that One Nucleotide Can Make"
Vivian Cheung: "Genetics of Individual Differences in Response to Radiation"
Joe Zhou: "Insight into the Molecular Basis of an Autism Spectrum Disorder - Rett Syndrome"
Yael Mosse: "Discovery and Translation of Oncogenic ALK Signaling in Neuroblastoma"
Maja Bucan: "The Role of Copy-Number Variation in Neuropsychiatric Illness"
Chris Stoeckert: "Conservation of Transcriptional Networks in the Apicomplexan Family of Eukaryotic Parasites"
Carlo Maley: "The genetics of evolution in the neoplastic progression of Barrett's esophagus"
Daniel Rader: "Human Genetics of Lipid Traits: Post-GWAS Directions and Implications"
Penn Students
Logan Everett: "Computational Modeling of Modification-Dependent Transcription Factors"
Claude Warsecha: "ESRP1 and ESRP2 Coordinate an Epithelial Splicing Regualatory Network"
Keynote Speaker
Aravinda Chakravarti: "Human Genetic Screens for Cardiac Phenotypes"
Lance Wahlert, Lecturer in the Departments of English, Cinema Studies, History of Medicine and Biochemistry, University of Pennsylvania
Lunch will be provided. Please confirm your attendance to jean.arena@uphs.upenn.edu.Clinical Director, Center for Value-Based Insurance Design, University of Michigan
“Research Trailblazing: Challenges in Communicating Personalized Genomic Risks”
This talk will provide an overview of new discovery in genomics and its potential benefits for promoting health behavior change. Dr. McBride will provide an overview of the research to date and suggest important new directions for translation research in this burgeoning field.
Co-sponsored with Annenberg Colloquium Series, with support provided by the Provost Seminar Fund
12:00PM, Room 500 Annenberg School for Communication
“Figuring genealogical ethics in familial patterns of genetic disclosure: The case of fragile X syndrome”
Co-sponsored with the Center for Bioethics with support provided by the Provost Seminar Fund
12:00PM, Refreshments served
“Public Health Genomics: From the Sciences of Discovery to the Sciences of Action”
Co-sponsored with the Department of Medicine at HUP, with support provided by the Provost Seminar Fund
12:00PM, Medical Alumni Hall, 1 Maloney Building, HUP
David Bird, NC State University
- "Sequence of Meloidogyne hapla: A compact nematode genome evolved for plant parasitism.”
Kristi Montooth, Indiana University
- Title-"Developmental, physiological and evolutionary consequences of mitochondrial-nuclear interactions in flies"
- Title-"Fog-ecosystem interactions in the California Channel Islands"
- Title-"Collective decision making in bacterial viruses"
Michael Brainard, UCSF
Contributions of Avian Basal Ganglia Circuitry to Adult Song Performance and Plasticity
Russell Poldrack, UCLA
What (and How) Can Neuroimaging Tell Us About Mental Processes?
Giulio Tonini, M.D., Ph.D, Univ. of Wisconsin, Madison
Sleep and the Neural Basis of Consciousness
Anderson Lee (Supervisor - Minghong Ma)
"Olfactory Marker Protein Is Critical For Functional Maturation of Olfactory Sensory Neurons in Mice"
Juan Ramón Martinez-Francois (Supervisor: Zhe Lu)
"Molecular Mechanisms of a Retinal Cyclic Nucleotide-Gated Channel"
RSVP required to Deborah Fulton at: fultond@email.chop.edu
Speakers: Benjamin Yerys, Lauren Kenworth, Josh Corbin, Children's National Medical Center
Stewart H. Mostofski, Walter E. Kaufmann, Mary E. Blue Kennedy Krieger/Johns Hopkins
Timothy Roberts, Robert Schultz, Hakon Hakonarson, Edward S. (Ted) Brodkin CHOP
William Edward Gilbert Professor of
Molecular Biophysics and Biochemistry
Howard Hughes Medical Institute Investigator
Yale University
8:00−9:30 Registration, breakfast (pre-registrants only) and networking (BRB 251/253)
with remarks from the Office of the Dean9:30−10:30 Plenary speaker Kate O’Hanlan, MD (Austrian Auditorium)Medical Evidence about Orientation and Identity, & the Injury of Discrimination
10:30−10:45 Coffee break 10:45−12:00 Concurrent workshops
a. Detoxifying the Workplace: Doing Away with Toxic Language (BRB 251)
b. Mentoring the Next Generation for Change (BRB 301)
For more information contact Michelle Wells Lockett at 215-746-6658 or
miwells@mail.med.upenn.edu or surf to http://www.med.upenn.edu/lgbt/ to register
Anil K. Sood, M.D.
The Bettyann Asche Murray Distinguished Professor
Director, Ovarian Cancer Research
Departments of Gynecologic Oncology and Cancer Biology
M.D. Anderson Cancer Center
"Therapeutic gene silencing in vivo using RNA interference"
Barbara T. Wakimoto, Ph.D.
Professor of Biology and Adjunct Professor of Genome Sciences
University of Washington
“Toward a comprehensive genetic dissection of sperm function using Drosophila”
Stephen Lye, Ph.D.
Associate Director, Samuel Lunenfeld Research Institute at Mount Sinai Hospital
“Targeting Endocrine and Inflammatory Pathways to Prevent Preterm Birth”
Katherine A. McGlynn, Ph.D., M.P.H.
Senior Investigator, National Cancer Institute
Division of Cancer Epidemiology and Genetics
U.S. National Institutes of Health
"The Epidemiology of Testicular Germ Cell Tumors"
“Role of Estradiol Metabolites on Breast Cancer Development:
Rationale for Aromatase Inhibitors for Prevention”
Richard Santen, M.D.
Professor of Internal Medicine
Associate Director of Clinical Research
University of Virginia
Monday, March 30 , 2009
12-1 PM
Class of ‘62 Lecture Hall
John Morgan Building
Refreshments Served
Cancelled due to ACC
Nancy Scheper-Hughes is Professor of Anthropology at UC Berkeley and Founding Director of Organs Watch, and she is currently serving as an adviser to the WHO on global transplant ethics and safety.
This lecture based on fieldwork in Recife, Durban, and Jerusalem, explores the following questions: What kind of moral worlds do kidney hunters and organs traffickers and their clients inhabit? How do they justify their actions?
Ted Dawson, MD, PhD
Leonard and Madlyn Abramson Professor in Neurodegenerative Diseases, Director, Movement Disorder Division, Director, Neuroregeneration and Stem Cell Programs, Institute for Cell Engineering, The Johns Hopkins University School of Medicine “Parkinson’s Diseases: Looking forward to Tomorrow’s Therapies”
Assistant Professor of Neurology and Neurogenetics, University of Washington School of Medicine "TBA"
The Thomas and Yvonne Williams Lectures for the Advancement of Logic and Philosophy
W. Hugh Woodin
The Continuum Hypothesis and the Search for Ultimate (Mathematical) Truth
Michael Freed, UPenn
Signal and Noise at the synaptic Input to Retinal Ganglion Cells
Keynote speaker: Alex Joyner, Memorial Sloan-Kettering Cancer Center
Sprague Lecturer: Joseph Fetcho, Cornell
The Endocrinology Clinical Case Conference and Grand Rounds Series Present:
Speaker: Gregory Brent, M.D., University of California, Los Angeles
Title: Environmental Threats to the Thyroid: Mechanisms and Clinical Manifestations
Time: 12:00 - 1:00 pm
Location: 702 CRB
$10 to get in, free unlimited bowling till 2AM!!
$3 Dos Equis, Corona & Margaritas
Please RSVP by email to folami@mail.med.upenn.edu
Location:
Strikes Bowling Lounge
4040 Locust St, Philadelphia, PA 19104
www.strikesbowlinglounge.com
Nancy Nielsen
President of the American Medical Association (AMA)
Nancy H. Nielsen, MD, PhD, an internist from Buffalo, N.Y., became the 163rd president of the American Medical Association (AMA) in June 2008. Dr. Nielsen was speaker of the AMA House of Delegates (HOD) from 2003 to 2007 and vice speaker for the three preceding years. She was a delegate from New York and previously served two terms on the AMA Council on Scientific Affairs, where she helped formulate policy positions for AMA-HOD debates on the diagnosis and treatment of depression, alcoholism among women, Alzheimer’s disease, priorities in clinical preventive services, colorectal cancer screening, asthma control, nicotine content of cigarettes and medication safety. As president of the AMA she is committed to bringing together the nation's healthcare professionals to create a better health care system in the US.Ed Lein, PhD
Director of Neuroscience
Allen Brain Institute
“Allen Brain Atlas”
Cardiology Update 2009:
A Patient Management Approach
Course Objectives
Upon completion of this activity, participants should be able to:
- Review the role of echocardiography in acute coronary syndromes
- Discuss the advantages and disadvantages of stress echo vs. stress nuclear
- in cardiac disease
- Describe the role of fetal ultrasound in the current management
- of pregnancy
- Review the cardiac manifestations of sarcoidosis
- Identify the current state-of-the art regarding robotic mitral valve surgery
- Describe the guidelines regarding auto driving restriction in patients
- with cardiac disease
- Discuss the cardiovascular complications of sleep apnea syndrome
- Review medical management of various lipid abnormalities
- Describe the recommendations for preoperative cardiovascular
- evaluation and management before non-cardiac surgery
- Discuss the treatment of the asymptomatic patient who is found to have
- significant coronary disease
- Review the surgical indications for aortic stenosis and
- mitral regurgitation
- Describe clinical approaches to electrical disorders of the heart: drugs,
- ablation, and devices
- Discuss the economics, ethics, and legal implications of automatic
- cardioverter defibrillators
Cardiovascular MR & CT Fellowship
Target Audience:
Radiologists and Cardiologists
At the end of this continuing medical education activity, participants should be able to:
- Independently process and interpret cardiac CT data set
- Part I
- Utilize MR in CVI with increased knowledge of imaging methods and principles and the relevant anatomy and pathophysiology of common cardiovascular disorders
- Evaluate ischemic heart disease, congenital, valvular, myocardial and pericardial disease as well as cardiac tumors using MR
- Part II
- Utilize MR in CVI with increased knowledge of imaging methods and principles and the relevant anatomy and pathophysiology of common cardiovascular disorders
- Select the appropriate patients and identify how to prepare them for Cardiac CT
- Use the correct techniques to perform Cardiac CT
- Evaluate atherosclerotic, valvular, congenital, and electrophysiologic disease using cardiac CT
- Describe relevant training guidelines for Cardiac CT & MR practice
New Frontiers in Cardiology 2009
Target Audience:
Local and regional cardiovascular healthcare providers
At the end of this continuing medical education activity, participants should be able to:
- Describe the multiple therapeutic strategies for treatment of congestive heart failure and prolongation of life in this ominous syndrome.
- Determine the role of myoblast transplantation or stem cell research related to post myocardial infarction heart failure.
- Identify the multiple methods of myocardial salvage which affect the survival after myocardial infarction, in particular, the early recanalization of a totally occluded artery after acute myocardial infarction.
- Explain why there is an advancing use of echocardiography in the ongoing analysis of left ventricular function, valvular disease, coronary artery disease and other cardiovascular disease patterns.
- Identify the presentation, mechanism and therapeutic strategies in the treatment of myocardial infarction with cardiogenic shock.
- Differentiate between the patterns of coronary artery disease in the populations represented in the United States and other countries.
- Discuss the controversy between multivessel coronary stenting vs. multivessel coronary artery bypass graft surgery for coronary revascularization.
Nortin M. Hadler, M.D., MACP, FACR, FACOEM, is professor of medicine and microbiology/immunology at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill and attending rheumatologist at UNC Hospitals. His most recent book is Worried Sick: A Prescription for Health in an Overtreated America (UNC Press).
Positive Health Lecture Series, sponsored by the Robert Wood Johnson Foundation (RWJF), the School of Medicine of the University of Pennsylvania, and the University of Pennsylvania Positive Psychology Center
John Disterhoft, Ph.D., Professor of Neuroscience, Northwestern University
Cellular Mechanisms of Associative Learning in Young and Aging Hippocampus
Jean Bethke Elshtain
Laura Spelman Rockefeller Professor of Social and Political Ethics in the Divinity School and Department of Political Science, The University of Chicago
"Genetic Fundamentalism: The Search for Certainty in Uncertain Times"
Molecular and Transgenic Models of Aging
Bruno Conti, Ph.D.
Associate Professor
Harold L. Dorris Neurological Institute
Molecular and Integrative Neurosciences Department
The Scripps Research Institute
Monday, April 20, 2009
12-1 PM
Class of ‘62 Lecture Hall
John Morgan Building
Refreshments Served
Function of MAP3Kinases: Trophoblast Stem Cells, EMT and Metastasis
Gary L. Johnson, Ph.D.
Professor and Chair
Department of Pharmacology
University of North Carolina School of Medicine
Monday, April 27, 2009
12-1 PM
Class of ‘62 Lecture Hall
John Morgan Building
Refreshments Served
Speakers:
Jenny Sabin, Co-Direcor Sabin + Jones LabStudio
Full-time Lecturer, University of Pennsylvania, School of Design
Peter Jones, PhD, Co-Direcor Sabin + Jones LabStudio
Lecturer, University of Pennsylvania, School of Design
RSVP : sgreer@sciencecenter.org
Darren Boehning, PhD, Assoc Prof, Dept of Neuroscience and Cell Biology, Univ. of Texas Medical Branch
Ubiquilin-1 and Late Onset Alzheimer's Disease
Robert Frank, Dept. of Linguistics, Yale
Neural Networks and Mental Grammar: Prospects for a New Paradigm
Joseph Coyle, MD, Eben S. Draper Prof. of Psychiatry and Neuroscience, Harvard
NMDA Receptor Hypofunction and Schizophrenia: The Emergence of a Pathologic Circuit
David F. Dinges, PhD, Prof. of Psychology in Psychiatry, Chief, Div. of Sleep and Chronobiology,
Director, Unit for Experimental Psychiatry, Dept. of Psychiatry, UPenn
Phenotypic Differential Vulnerability to Sleep Loss
Michael S. Avidan, MBBCh, DA, FCA, Assoc. Prof. Dept. of Anesthesia, Wash U
Postoperative Cognitive Decline After Non-Cardiac Surgery or Major Illness
Karl Deisseroth, Stanford
Optogenetics: Development and Application
Pat Levitt, Ph.D.
Director, Zilkha Neurogenetic Institute Provost Professor of Neuroscience, Psychiatry & Pharmacy Chair, Department of Cell and Neurobiology Keck School of Medicine of USC
"Biological Underpinnings of Autism: Convergent Evidence from Studies of Humans and Model Systems"
Marcel Just, Ph.D.
Director, Center for Cognitive Brain ImagingD.O. Hebb Professor, Psychology Carnegie Mellon University
"Systems Underconnectivity in the Autistic Brain: Brain Function, Anatomy, and Cognition"
Christopher Reina
Response of the Neurodegenerative Protein Ataxin-3 toProteotoxic Stress
Advisor: Randall Pittman
University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill
Regina Barzilay, Computer Science & Artificial Intelligence Lab, MIT
Embracing Language Diversity: Unsupervised Multilingual Learning
Anil Panigrahi
Mentor: Nina Luning Prak
"RS Rearrangement: Observations and Implications from a Novel Assay of B Cell Tolerance"