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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)
A counselor from Career Services will hold walk-ins, every other Thursday for Biomedical Postdocs from 10:00am to 12:00pm. Please bring your Penn ID so they can confirm your BPP postdoc status.
Services from a counselor include: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.
A counselor from Career Services will hold walk-ins, every other Thursday for Biomedical Postdocs from 10:00am to 12:00pm. Please bring your Penn ID so they can confirm your BPP postdoc status.
Services from a counselor include: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.
A counselor from Career Services will hold walk-ins, every other Thursday for Biomedical Postdocs from 10:00am to 12:00pm. Please bring your Penn ID so they can confirm your BPP postdoc status.
Services from a counselor include: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.
Please come to learn more about the program as well as information about the council . They will be covering a broad range of information to give you a better idea of necessary things to know during your time here at the University of Pennsylvania. No registration is neccessary. Please bring any questions you have with you.
Topic: Conflict of Interest
Presenter: Joann Rosenthal
PGG 28th Annual Student Symposium
The Independence Seaport Museum
Penn's Landing: 211 S. Columbus Boulevard
Philadelphia, PA
4TH FLOOR FOYER
8:30 – 9:00 AM Registration
BALLROOM
9:00 - 9:15 AM Opening Remarks
9:15 – 11:15 AM 1st Slide SessionEric Deutsch, (9:15 - 9:45)
Measuring Biomarkers of Friedreich Ataxia
Michael Harbut, (9:45 - 10:15)
A bestatin-based chemical biology strategy reveals distinct roles for malaria M1- and M17-family aminopeptidases
Christopher Morgan, (10:15 - 10:45)
Early prenatal stress disrupts masculinization of the mouse brain
Ania Warczyk, (10:45 – 11:15)
Function of Ceramide Kinase in Tumor Cell Survival and Breast Cancer Recurrence
11:15 – 12:00 PM Lunch
12:00 -1:15 PM Poster Session
1:15 - 2:45 PM 2nd Slide SessionMichael Brewer, (1:15 – 1:45)
SUMOylation and Tumorigenesis
Robert Lin, (1:45 - 2:15)
The relation of vasopressin in EEG and ultrasonic vocalizations pertaining to
schizophrenia
Jason Dunkelberger, (2:15 - 2:45)
Characterization of cellular C5aR expression under resting and inflammatory conditions using a novel GFP knock-in mouse
2ND FLOOR FOYER
2:45 – 3:15 PM Coffee Break
BALLROOM
3:15 – 4:15 PM The John S. O’Brien Memorial Lecture:
Targeting alpha particles and nanotubes to cancer
- Dr. David Scheinberg Memorial Sloan Kettering Cancer Center (Translational targeted anti-cancer drugs and imaging agents)
4:15 - 4:30 PM Awards Ceremony
4:30 -5:00 PM Break to explore Independence Seaport Museum
2ND FLOOR BOAT GALLERIES
5:00 PM Reception
Keynote Speaker:
David A. Scheinberg, MD, PhD
Molecular Pharmacology and Chemistry Program;
Experimental Therapeutics Center;
Leukemia Service;
Memorial Sloan Kettering Cancer Center
John s. O'Brien Memorial Lecture in Pharmacology: “Targeting alpha particles and nanotubes to cancer”
October 7, 2011
Robert M. Weinrieb, M.D.
Psychiatry
“Neuropsychiatric Complications of Transplant”
October 14, 2011
Noam A. Cohen, M.D., Ph.D
Otorhinolaryngology
“Cilia Dysfunction in Chronic Rhinosinusitis”
October 28, 2011
John A. Detre, M.D.
Neurology & Radiology
“Cerebral Blood Flow”
November 4, 2011
Ronald L. Wolf, M.D., Ph.D.
Radiology
“Functional Neuroanatomy or Perfusion Imaging in Cerebrovascular Disease”
Speakers:
Mitchell Green, University of Virginia
Thomas Jackson, University of Hawaii
Thomas Wartenberg, Mount Holyoke College
Chair: Frank Hoffman, West Chester University, Chair, GPPC
Commentators: Dominic Sisti, Penn Center for Bioethics; Igor Jasinski, The Pingry School
Coordinator: Steve Esser, GPPC Board of Governors
This event will be free and open to the public.
The results text narrates the story that the figures tell visually. A well-written Results section does not repeat in words what the figures or tables present; it describes the experiments that were performed and the logical connections between them. This session will focus on relating the results text to the figures in a way that tells a compelling scientific story. Taught by Penn-trained Elizabeth Colston, M.D., Ph.D.
This class is available for CME credit.
The Perelman School of Medicine at the University of Pennsylvania designates this live activity for a maximum of 1.5 AMA PRA Category 1 Credit(s)ä. Physicians should claim only the credit commensurate with the extent of their participation in the activity.Would you like to talk about your work in a memorable way? This session will focus on how to organize and deliver an engaging research presentation for an invited talk or national meeting. Taught by Dr. E. Sue Weber, Penn's Communication within the Curriculum Program, School of Arts and Sciences.
This class is available for CME credit.
The Perelman School of Medicine at the University of Pennsylvania designates this live activity for a maximum of 1.5 AMA PRA Category 1 Credit(s)ä. Physicians should claim only the credit commensurate with the extent of their participation in the activity.Learn how to write valid, reliable, effective multiple choice questions in the National Board of Medical Examiners (NBME) format. This session, taught by two experienced clinical educators, will help you to develop better examinations for assessing student learning. Taught by Drs. Carolyn Cambor and Jennifer Kogan.
This class is available for CME credit.
The Perelman School of Medicine at the University of Pennsylvania designates this live activity for a maximum of 1.5 AMA PRA Category 1 Credit(s)ä. Physicians should claim only the credit commensurate with the extent of their participation in the activity.Most journals no longer accept figures created in PowerPoint.
Instead, they require that figures and schematic drawings be generated in programs such as Illustrator or Freehand. Learn the basic tools and functions of Adobe Illustrator. Create simple publication-ready figures. Learn how to import and export images in a variety of formats. Taught by Ms. Mary Leonard, Graphic Designer, Biomedical Arts & Design Dept.Learn about the different approaches available to conducting clinical research. Learning this will help you in reading the medical literature critically, and will help in your care of patients. Should you be interested in conducting clinical research studies, it will also serve as an introduction to that field of research. The instructor for this session is Dr. Brian Strom, Professor and Chair of the Center for Clinical Epidemiology and Biostatistics (CCEB). Dr. Strom will also describe the training programs offered by the CCEB in these methods (as well as in biostatistics methodology).
Does the thought of speaking in front of an audience scare you? This session explores the causes of commonplace communication anxiety and allows participants to practice several strategies for reducing anxiety. Taught by Dr. E. Sue Weber from Penn's School of Arts and Sciences.
This class is available for CME Credit.
The Perelman School of Medicine at the University of Pennsylvania designates this live activity for a maximum of 1.5 AMA PRA Category 1 Credit(s)ä. Physicians should claim only the credit commensurate with the extent of their participation in the activity.The Introduction orients and motivates readers. It must also make a contract with the reader that a question will be answered. Introductions are the most structured part of a paper and readers expect certain elements in a certain order. This session will focus on constructing Introductions with the important elements in the right order. Taught by Penn-trained Elizabeth Colston, M.D., Ph.D.
This class is availabe for CME Credit.
The Perelman School of Medicine at the University of Pennsylvania designates this live activity for a maximum of 1.5 AMA PRA Category 1 Credit(s)ä. Physicians should claim only the credit commensurate with the extent of their participation in the activity.After completing this session participants will be able to :
1) Understand the communication and conflict management challenges posed by a difficult conversation
2) Effectively analyze and ethically prepare for difficult conversations
3) Productively engage in difficult conversations using a framework that fosters learning and forward movement.
Taught by Penn Law alumna Catherine Morrison, J.D., Asst. Professor, The Business of Health, Johns Hopkins Carey School of Business, and Principal, Negotiation and Conflict Management Training and Coaching.
This class is available for CME Credit.
The Perelman School of Medicine at the University of Pennsylvania designates this live activity for a maximum of 1.5 AMA PRA Category 1 Credit(s)ä. Physicians should claim only the credit commensurate with the extent of their participation in the activity.This session is designed for junior faculty who are just starting to work with their assigned mentors or who are looking for additional mentors.
Dr. Marcia Brose, Assistant Professor of Otorhinolaryngology, will discuss how to make the most of your important mentoring relationships, including: The role of a mentor, how to find a mentor, avoiding pitfalls in mentoring relationships, and preparing for productive meetings with your mentor(s).
Senior Investigator,
Surgery Branch Center for Cancer Research, NIH
"Adoptive Immunotherapy Using Stem Cell-like T Cells"
Austrian Auditorium, CRB
Director, Beirne Carter Center for Immunology Research
Professor of Pathology and Microbiology
University of Virginia School of Medicine
“Sculpting Antiviral T-Cell Responses in the Infected Respiratory Tract”
Austrian Auditorium, CRB
Assistant Professor of Pathology
New York University School of Medicine
“Macrophage and Dendritic Cell Population Dynamics at the Maternal/Fetal Interface”
Austrian Auditorium, CRB
Program in Developmental Genetics
NYU Cancer Institute
"The B Lymphocyte HIV Repertoire: Are All B Cell Populations Equal?"
Austrian Auditorium, CRB
Department of Immunology & Microbial Science
The Scripps Research Institute
"Programming B Cell Memory"
Austrian Auditorium, CRB
Sherman Fairchild Professor; Investigator, HHMI
Laboratory of Molecular Immunology
The Rockefeller University
"Human antibody response against HIV"
Austrian Auditorium, CRB
Co-Sponsored by CFAR and HIV Grand Rounds
Professor of Biology
Whitehead Institute for Biomedical Research
Host: Steve Liebhaber, Ph.D.
Head, Nuclear Dynamics and Function
The Babraham Institute
Host: Steve Liebhaber, Ph.D.
Professor of Biological Structure
University of Washington
Host: Jonathan Raper, Ph.D.
Professor, Developmental
Biology and Genetics
Stanford University
Host: John Isaac Murray, Ph.D.
A seminar for those who haven't enrolled in Penn's Retirement plan, or those who are in the plan but have questions or who would like information about it.
Some topics which will be discussed include:
- Explanation of Penn's retirement plan
- Tax Deferred Retirement Plan or TDR
- Basic Plan
- Matching Plan
- Supplemental Retirement Plan (SRA)
- How to enroll (web enrollment and phone enrollment)
Effective supervision depends on strong performance management practices. This course is designed for supervisors, both new and experienced, who want to increase their skills related to:
- Building effective relationships with employees
- Setting performance expectations
- Providing feedback and taking corrective action
- Coaching and counseling
- Conducting effective performance appraisals
- Dealing with an employee who is not meeting expectations
Learn:
How psychological type preferences affect us in conflict
A unique three-stage model for managing conflict through type
Ways to best approach, communicate during, and resolve conflict situationsPrerequisite: Interpersonal Dynamics, or proof of recent attendance at a similar Myers-Briggs Type Indicator® seminar.
- Hiring/Posting
- Conflict of Interest
- Paid Time Off
- Terminations
- Recognize and apply the five approaches to coaching
- Employ inquiry and advocacy skills when communicating
- Implement the steps to effective coaching
- Follow the four-step preparation process for conducting a coaching session
BOBBY BASU
September 30, 2011
1:00 PM
TRC Auditorium
Advisor: Dr. Ian Blair
Dissertation title: “SILEC: A new tool to study mitochondrial and metabolic disease”
2001-2011: Ten Years of Penn in Botswana
Anniversary Symposium
Friday Oct 14, 2011
8:00 AM to 12:30 PM
Rubenstein Auditorium 1st Floor
Translational Research Center
3400 Civic Center Boulevard
Penn's Campus
Event will include:
- Overviews of the HIV, TB, Women's Health, and Telemedicine Programs by Botswana and Penn-based Faculty Heads
- "People are dying in chillingly high numbers": Stories from 2001
- Update on Botswana-based Research
- Informationfor Penn medical students and residents about Global Health Rotations to Botswana and other Botswana-based programs available for Penn students
Free registration!
Open to entire Penn community!
For more information, email:
muraglia@mail.med.upenn.edu
or call:
215-573-8499
Katja Lamia, Ph.D., The Scripps Research Institute
Leonard Konrad Kaczmarek, Ph.D.
Professor of Pharmacology & Cellular & Molecular Physiology
Department of Pharmacology
Yale School of Medicine
"Ion Channel-mRNA Interactions and the Regulation of Neuronal Timing"
For more information contact: Department of Physiology, 215-898-8725, phys@mail.med.upenn.edu
Join us to learn about and discuss how public health programs in our
region have successfully harnessed the power of digital and social media.
Text4Baby (www.text4baby.org), a program launched by the National Healthy Mothers, Healthy Babies Coalition is the first free health text messaging service in the U.S. The program supports moms by providing accurate, text-length health information and resources in a format that is personal and timely, using a channel she knows and uses.
Hep B Free Philadelphia (www.hepbfreephiladelphia.org) is a citywide, community-owned education campaign launched to increase testing and vaccination in the fight against hepatitis B and liver cancer. This campaign has successfully used social media to bring people together, via “flashmobs” and raise awareness about their work.
Presenters will include:
- JoAnne Fischer
Executive Director
Maternity Care Coalition - Kathrin Brellochs, MSW
Director of Public Health Programs
Maternity Care Coalition - Chari Cohen, MPH
Associate Director of Public Health
Hepatitis B Foundation - Raymond Lum, MPhil, MS
Associate Professor, Department of
Health Management and Policy
Drexel University School of Public Health
Genetics Research Talks
Samir Wadhawan-Bucan Lab
"Predicting Functional Coding and Noncoding Variance in Complex Diseases"
Joe Lachance-Tishkoff Lab
"Population genomics of African hunter-gatherers"
James D. Neaton, PhD - Randomized Trials of Early Treatment for HIV: Rationale, Design and Implementation Issues; Professor, Division of Biostatistics University of Minnesota School of Public Health | |
| 12:00 p.m. to 1:00 p.m. in Class of '62 Auditorium, John Morgan Building |
| Michel C. Nussenzweig, MD, PhD - Human antibody response against HIV | |
| 4:00 p.m. to 5:00 p.m. in Austrian Auditorium, Clinical Research Building |
Jared Rutter, Ph.DUniversity of Utah“Good and Bad Growth: The Virtues and Vices of Mitochondria and Metabolism”4pm to 5pm Translational Research Center, Room 12-146For updates and more information, please visit www.med.upenn.edu/idom or contact Vesselina Panteva at 215-898-0198 or
panteva@mail.med.upenn.edu
Michael Ostap, Ph.D.,
University of Pennsylvania
“Microtubules to Myosins to GLUT4: Understanding the Molecules that Move Intracellular Membranes”
4pm to 5pm
Translational Research Center, Room 12-146
For updates and more information, please visit www.med.upenn.edu/idom or contact Vesselina Panteva at 215-898-0198 or
panteva@mail.med.upenn.edu
Jacob (Jed) E. Friedman, Ph.D.,
University of Colorado
“Developmental Origins of Fatty Liver: From Mouse to Monkey to Man”
4pm to 5pm
Translational Research Center, Room 12-146
For updates and more information, please visit www.med.upenn.edu/idom or contact Vesselina Panteva at 215-898-0198 or
panteva@mail.med.upenn.edu
Marc Reitman, M.D., Ph.D.,
NIDDK, National Institutes of Health
“BRS-3 Agonists for the Treatment of Obesity”
4pm to 5pm
Translational Research Center, Room 12-146
For updates and more information, please visit www.med.upenn.edu/idom or contact Vesselina Panteva at 215-898-0198 or
panteva@mail.med.upenn.edu
Jay D. Horton, M.D.,
UT Southwestern Medical Center
“Molecular Mediators of Hepatic Steatosis”
4pm to 5pm
Translational Research Center, Room 12-146
For updates and more information, please visit www.med.upenn.edu/idom or contact Vesselina Panteva at 215-898-0198 or
panteva@mail.med.upenn.edu
University of Minnesota School of Public Health
"Randomized Trials of Early Treatment for HIV: Rationale, Design and Implementation Issues".
Reunion Auditorium, John Morgan Building
Co-Sponsored with HIV Grand Rounds
Title: Cytoreductive surgery and HIPEC
Title: The GETAID: gathering evidence through clinical trials in IBD
Associate Professor of Clinical Medicine
University of Pennsylvania
Interdisciplinary Conference
University of Pennsylvania
Title: Endoscopy CQI
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Title: Cell fates revealed by single cell transcript counting
Featuring Willai mHsiao, PhD. Dr. Hsiao's health policy research program spans across developed and less developed nations. He and his research team focus their economic studies on five topics:
- a simulation model of the US health sector;
- payment systems for physicians and hospitals;
- comparative health care systems;
- financing health care in developing nations; and,
- interaction between economic development and health care.
Two projects address policy issues of the United States. Hsiao and his colleagues developed a large scale simulation model that intends to assess the fiscal and health impacts produced by various national health insurance plans. Using time series/cross-sectional data, Hsiao's team designed a multi-equation model that employs a number of variables to predict utilization rates and prices of health services. This model also predicts total health expenditures from supply and demand variables, giving special attention to supply variables, such as physician and hospital beds per capita, availability of primary care physicians, and new technologies. The second project further expands his previous work on the resource-based relative value scale (RBRVS) by packaging physician services into episode of illness, and examines variation in resource input costs by quality of service.
Comparing health systems across industrialized nations, Hsiao applies political and economic theories to develop a structural framework of essential elements of health systems. His team uses econometric models to test various hypotheses and to estimate the extent to which each structural element influences health expenditures and health status. Employing his systemic framework, he is assisting Taiwan, Cyprus, Mexico, Colombia, China, and Sweden in their health systems reforms.
In developing nations, Hsiao's research focuses on the development of sustainable financing mechanisms to provide health care for the poor, rural population, and urban workers. With UNICEF's support, he collaborates with seven universities in China to conduct a nationwide study on health care financing and provision for 100 million poor Chinese. Meanwhile, with the support of The World Bank, he is launching a large scale social experiment on community financing for the rural Chinese population, involving 100 communities and two million people.
Lunch will be provided. RSVP recommended.
To RSVP email maddene@wharton.upenn.edu
Harvard Medical School
"Cell biological aspects of toll-like receptor signaling"
Austrian Auditorium
Professor of Immunobiology
University of Edinburgh
"Macrophage activation during helminth infection: Inflammation on a budget"
Austrian Auditorium
Division of Hemtology and Oncology
University of Texas Health Science Center
"Immunologists thinking about sex: Sexually dimorphic regulation of B7-H1 co-signaling "
ARC 123 A/B
Seminar, 4 - 5 p.m.
Addiction Module
Henry R. Kranzler, M.D.
Professor of Psychiatry
Perelman School of Medicine, University of Pennsylvania
“The Pharmacogenetics of Alcohol and Alcohol Dependence Treatment”
Location: BRB II/III Auditorium
Addiction Module - TRC 40th ANNIVERSARY LECTURE AND RECEPTION
Nora D. Volkow, M.D.
Director of the National Institute on Drug Abuse (NIDA)
National Institutes of Health
“The Addicted Human Brain”
Location: BRB II/III Auditorium
This lecture is a part of the Fall 2011 Public Health 519 course "Issues in Global Health." If you would like to attend as a guest, please contact Dustin Utt (uttd@upenn.edu) to see if there is room available.
Information about the course: PUBH519 presents an overview of issues in global health from the viewpoint of many different disciplines, with emphasis on economically less developed countries. Themes include the state of the planet, including populations, resources, and environment; determinants of global health, ethical perspectives, challenges in communicable and non-communicable disease, and intervention strategies. If you are interested in registering for the entire course, please follow the protocol used in your home school. This is usually accomplished by checking with the home school program coordinator or advisor. Medical students should contact Helene Weinberg.
This lecture is a part of the Fall 2011 Public Health 519 course "Issues in Global Health." If you would like to attend as a guest, please contact Dustin Utt (uttd@upenn.edu) to see if there is room available.
Information about the course: PUBH519 presents an overview of issues in global health from the viewpoint of many different disciplines, with emphasis on economically less developed countries. Themes include the state of the planet, including populations, resources, and environment; determinants of global health, ethical perspectives, challenges in communicable and non-communicable disease, and intervention strategies. If you are interested in registering for the entire course, please follow the protocol used in your home school. This is usually accomplished by checking with the home school program coordinator or advisor. Medical students should contact Helene Weinberg.
This lecture is a part of the Fall 2011 Public Health 519 course "Issues in Global Health." If you would like to attend as a guest, please contact Dustin Utt (uttd@upenn.edu) to see if there is room available.
Information about the course: PUBH519 presents an overview of issues in global health from the viewpoint of many different disciplines, with emphasis on economically less developed countries. Themes include the state of the planet, including populations, resources, and environment; determinants of global health, ethical perspectives, challenges in communicable and non-communicable disease, and intervention strategies. If you are interested in registering for the entire course, please follow the protocol used in your home school. This is usually accomplished by checking with the home school program coordinator or advisor. Medical students should contact Helene Weinberg.
This lecture is a part of the Fall 2011 Public Health 519 course "Issues in Global Health." If you would like to attend as a guest, please contact Dustin Utt (uttd@upenn.edu) to see if there is room available.
Information about the course: PUBH519 presents an overview of issues in global health from the viewpoint of many different disciplines, with emphasis on economically less developed countries. Themes include the state of the planet, including populations, resources, and environment; determinants of global health, ethical perspectives, challenges in communicable and non-communicable disease, and intervention strategies. If you are interested in registering for the entire course, please follow the protocol used in your home school. This is usually accomplished by checking with the home school program coordinator or advisor. Medical students should contact Helene Weinberg.
This lecture is a part of the Fall 2011 Public Health 519 course "Issues in Global Health." If you would like to attend as a guest, please contact Dustin Utt (uttd@upenn.edu) to see if there is room available.
Information about the course: PUBH519 presents an overview of issues in global health from the viewpoint of many different disciplines, with emphasis on economically less developed countries. Themes include the state of the planet, including populations, resources, and environment; determinants of global health, ethical perspectives, challenges in communicable and non-communicable disease, and intervention strategies. If you are interested in registering for the entire course, please follow the protocol used in your home school. This is usually accomplished by checking with the home school program coordinator or advisor. Medical students should contact Helene Weinberg.
This lecture is a part of the Fall 2011 Public Health 519 course "Issues in Global Health." If you would like to attend as a guest, please contact Dustin Utt (uttd@upenn.edu) to see if there is room available.
Information about the course: PUBH519 presents an overview of issues in global health from the viewpoint of many different disciplines, with emphasis on economically less developed countries. Themes include the state of the planet, including populations, resources, and environment; determinants of global health, ethical perspectives, challenges in communicable and non-communicable disease, and intervention strategies. If you are interested in registering for the entire course, please follow the protocol used in your home school. This is usually accomplished by checking with the home school program coordinator or advisor. Medical students should contact Helene Weinberg.
This lecture is a part of the Fall 2011 Public Health 519 course "Issues in Global Health." If you would like to attend as a guest, please contact Dustin Utt (uttd@upenn.edu) to see if there is room available.
Information about the course: PUBH519 presents an overview of issues in global health from the viewpoint of many different disciplines, with emphasis on economically less developed countries. Themes include the state of the planet, including populations, resources, and environment; determinants of global health, ethical perspectives, challenges in communicable and non-communicable disease, and intervention strategies. If you are interested in registering for the entire course, please follow the protocol used in your home school. This is usually accomplished by checking with the home school program coordinator or advisor. Medical students should contact Helene Weinberg.
This lecture is a part of the Fall 2011 Public Health 519 course "Issues in Global Health." If you would like to attend as a guest, please contact Dustin Utt (uttd@upenn.edu) to see if there is room available.
Information about the course: PUBH519 presents an overview of issues in global health from the viewpoint of many different disciplines, with emphasis on economically less developed countries. Themes include the state of the planet, including populations, resources, and environment; determinants of global health, ethical perspectives, challenges in communicable and non-communicable disease, and intervention strategies. If you are interested in registering for the entire course, please follow the protocol used in your home school. This is usually accomplished by checking with the home school program coordinator or advisor. Medical students should contact Helene Weinberg.
This lecture is a part of the Fall 2011 Public Health 519 course "Issues in Global Health." If you would like to attend as a guest, please contact Dustin Utt (uttd@upenn.edu) to see if there is room available.
Information about the course: PUBH519 presents an overview of issues in global health from the viewpoint of many different disciplines, with emphasis on economically less developed countries. Themes include the state of the planet, including populations, resources, and environment; determinants of global health, ethical perspectives, challenges in communicable and non-communicable disease, and intervention strategies. If you are interested in registering for the entire course, please follow the protocol used in your home school. This is usually accomplished by checking with the home school program coordinator or advisor. Medical students should contact Helene Weinberg.
This lecture is a part of the Fall 2011 Public Health 519 course "Issues in Global Health." If you would like to attend as a guest, please contact Dustin Utt (uttd@upenn.edu) to see if there is room available.
Information about the course: PUBH519 presents an overview of issues in global health from the viewpoint of many different disciplines, with emphasis on economically less developed countries. Themes include the state of the planet, including populations, resources, and environment; determinants of global health, ethical perspectives, challenges in communicable and non-communicable disease, and intervention strategies. If you are interested in registering for the entire course, please follow the protocol used in your home school. This is usually accomplished by checking with the home school program coordinator or advisor. Medical students should contact Helene Weinberg.
CENTER FOR STUDIES OF ADDICTIONS SEMINAR
R. Christopher Pierce, Ph.D.
University of Pennsylvania, Department of Psychiatry
Rational Development of Addiction Therapeutics: Successes, Failures and Prospects
Treatment Research Center
3900 Chestnut Street
Main Conference Room
CENTER FOR THE TREATMENT AND STUDY OF ANXIETY
Intensive Training in Prolonged Exposure Therapy for PTSD
In this workshop, Edna Foa, PhD and faculty from the Center for the Treatment & Study of Anxiety will provide intensive instruction in the use of Prolonged Exposure Therapy for survivors of trauma.
This workshop is open to licensed mental health professionals and those working under a license.
Please visit the CTSA website for additional information or to register - http://www.med.upenn.edu/ctsa/workshops_ptsd.html .
CLINICAL NEUROSCIENCE TRAINING SEMINAR
Robert M. Weinrieb, MD
Psychiatry
"Neuropsychiatric Complications of Transplant"
CLINICAL NEUROSCIENCE TRAINING SEMINAR
Noam A. Cohen, MD, PhD
Otorhinolaryngology
"Cilia Dysfunction in Chronic Rhinosinusitis"
CLINICAL NEUROSCIENCE TRAINING SEMINAR
John A. Detre, MD
Neurology & Radiology
"Cerebral Blood Flow"
CLINICAL NEUROSCIENCE TRAINING SEMINAR
Ronald L. Wolf, MD, PhD
Radiology
"Functional Neuroanatomy or Perfusion Imaging in Cerebrovascular Disease"
- Keynote Speaker Marion Nestle:
"The Overt and Covert Costs of Food: Economic, Social, Ethical, and Health Dimensions" - Scott Poethig:
"Genetic Engineering, then and now" - Roxanne Christensen:
"On the Promise of SPIN Farming"
The University of Pennsylvnia School of Nursing,
Center for Public Health Initiatives and
Master's Program in Public Health, and
The American University of Armenia College of Health Sciences
Invite You To Join Us:
Update on Public Health in Armenia: Myths, Evidence, and Implications for the Region and the World
Thursday, October 27, 2011 | 6:30 -8:00pm | Reception at 6:00pm
Open to the public | 218 Claire M. Fagin Hall on Penn's Campus
For your information, directions, and to RSVP by October 20th, email skagan@nursing.upenn.edu
Dr. Ralph and Sallie Weaver Professor of Research Medicine
Department of Pathology & Laboratory Medicine
University of Pennsylvania
Innate Immunity: more than a "guard" against invading pathogens
Time: 12 noon
Location: 251 BRB II/III
Professor of Medicine
Division of Infectious Disease
University of Pennsylvania
What's lacking in embryonic and neonatal immunity
Time: 12 noon
Location: JMB Reunion
Associate Professor and Chief, Division of Maternal-Fetal Medicine
Vice Chair, Obstetrical Services
Department of Obstetrics, Gynecology and Reproductive Sciences
University of Pittsburgh School of Medicine
Medical Director, Obstetrical Services
Magee-Women's Research Institute
Lower genital tract inflammation and preterm birth
Time: 12 noon
Location: 251 BRB II/III
Associate Professor of Biology
University of Pennsylvania
Ca2+ Signaling and Ion Channels in Fertilization
Time: 12 noon
Location: JMB Reunion
Associate Professor of Cell and Developmental Biology
Chair, Cell and Molecular Biology Graduate Group
Perelman School of Medicine
University of Pennsylvania
Transcriptional Networks in the Vertebrate Organizer
Time: 12 noon
Location: 251 BRB II/III
Professor of Medicine
Duke University
Neuorgenic Inflammation in Pancreatitis
Assistant Professor of Radiation Oncology, Investigator, HHMI
Dana-Farber Cancer Institute
Nucleosome dynamics and the epigenetis of DNA repair
RSVP by October 20th; email skagan@nursing.upenn.edu
Guillermina Lozano, PhD
Anderson Cancer Center
University of Texas
"Regulation of p53 by Mdm Proteins in Homeostasis and Tumorigenesis"
12:00 noon
CRB Austrian Auditorium
Robert Edward Oswald, Ph.D
Professor of Molecualr Medicine
Department of Molecular Medicine
College of Veterinary Medicine
Cornell University
"Structure, function, and dynamics of glutamate receptors"
Thursday, October 6, 2011
4:00 p.m. to 5:00 p.m.
Physiology Conference Room, B404 Richards Building
19 Oct 2011 (Wednesday) | 12 noon - 2 pm Eastern Time
Santosh KumarAddressing Stress and Addictive Behavior in the Natural Environment Using AutoSense
Abstract:
Stress and addictive behavior (e.g. smoking) lead to or worsen diseases of slow accumulation such as heart diseases and cancer. While traditional diseases caused by malnutrition or poor hygiene are becoming rarer, stress and addictive behavior continue to be widespread. Reliable inference of stress and addictive behavior using unobtrusively wearable non-invasive sensors in the natural environment of an individual still remains a formidable challenge due to non-specificity of the measures such sensors collect. In the AutoSense project, we have developed a comprehensive suite of wearable sensors that can be worn in the mobile environment to collect multiple physiological indices of stress and addictive behavior (e.g., ECG, Respiration, Alcohol, etc.). AutoSense is complemented by a software framework on the mobile phone called FieldStream that collects physiological measurements from AutoSense sensors, processes them to derive behavioral inferences, and uses these behavioral events to solicit self-reports on the phone, all in real-time. The entire end-to-end system has been worn by 50+ human volunteers for 2,000+ hours in their natural environments as part of various scientific user studies. From these real-life sensor measurements, we have developed robust models to infer psychological stress and to detect conversation episodes. We find that people are stressed 27% of their day and that the average duration of a conversation is 3.8 minutes, among several other interesting results on naturally occurring human behaviors. In this talk, I will introduce the AutoSense and FieldStream platforms, models for detection of stress and conversation, and describe the advances we are making in inferring addictive behaviors from sensor measurements collected in the natural environment.
Bio:
Santosh Kumar is an Associate Professor of Computer Science at the University of Memphis, where he received an Early Career Research Award from the College of Arts and Sciences in 2008. He received his Ph.D. in Computer Science and Engineering from the Ohio State University in 2006, where his dissertation work won the SBC Presidential Fellowship award. In 2010, the Popular Science magazine named him one of America’s top ten brilliant scientists under the age of 38 for leading the development of the AutoWitness burglar tracking system and the AutoSense wearable sensor system. On the theory side, he is known for establishing new models of coverage with wireless sensors such as barrier coverage for intrusion detection and trap coverage for target tracking. More information on him is available at his homepage: http://www.cs.memphis.edu/~santosh/.
307 Levine Hall
12 noon- 2:00 pm
Santosh Kumar
University of Memphis
Addressing Stress and Addictive Behavior in the Natural Environment Using AutoSense
Stress and addictive behavior (e.g. smoking) lead to or worsen diseases of slow accumulation such as heart diseases and cancer. While traditional diseases caused by malnutrition or poor hygiene are becoming rarer, stress and addictive behavior continue to be widespread. Reliable inference of stress and addictive behavior using unobtrusively wearable non-invasive sensors in the natural environment of an individual still remains a formidable challenge due to non-specificity of the measures such sensors collect. In the AutoSense project, we have developed a comprehensive suite of wearable sensors that can be worn in the mobile environment to collect multiple physiological indices of stress and addictive behavior (e.g., ECG, Respiration, Alcohol, etc.). AutoSense is complemented by a software framework on the mobile phone called FieldStream that collects physiological measurements from AutoSense sensors, processes them to derive behavioral inferences, and uses these behavioral events to solicit self-reports on the phone, all in real-time. The entire end-to-end system has been worn by 50+ human volunteers for 2,000+ hours in their natural environments as part of various scientific user studies. From these real-life sensor measurements, we have developed robust models to infer psychological stress and to detect conversation episodes. We find that people are stressed 27% of their day and that the average duration of a conversation is 3.8 minutes, among several other interesting results on naturally occurring human behaviors. In this talk, I will introduce the AutoSense and FieldStream platforms, models for detection of stress and conversation, and describe the advances we are making in inferring addictive behaviors from sensor measurements collected in the natural environment.
Bio:
Santosh Kumar is an Associate Professor of Computer Science at the University of Memphis, where he received an Early Career Research Award from the College of Arts and Sciences in 2008. He received his Ph.D. in Computer Science and Engineering from the Ohio State University in 2006, where his dissertation work won the SBC Presidential Fellowship award. In 2010, the Popular Science magazine named him one of America’s top ten brilliant scientists under the age of 38 for leading the development of the AutoWitness burglar tracking system and the AutoSense wearable sensor system. On the theory side, he is known for establishing new models of coverage with wireless sensors such as barrier coverage for intrusion detection and trap coverage for target tracking. More information on him is available at his homepage: http://www.cs.memphis.edu/~santosh/.
Kevin Mills, PhD
The Jackson Laboratory
"Collatoral Damage: Replication, recombination, and Repair in B-Cells"
12:00 noon
CRB Austrian Auditorium
A Vision for the City
Donald F. Schwarz, MD, MPH, Deputy Mayor of Health and Opportunity and Health Commissioner for the City of Philadelphia
Kate’s Place, Project H.O.M.E., 1929 Sansom Street, 19103
for or more information and to register go to www.bridgingthegaps.info
Addressing Adolescent Risk: Building on Strength
Kenneth Ginsburg, MD, MEd and Covenant House Staff
Covenant House, 31 E. Armat St, 19144
for or more information and to register go to www.bridgingthegaps.info
Improving Care at the End of Life
Joseph Straton, MD, MSCE
Kate’s Place, Project H.O.M.E., 1929 Sansom Street, 19103
for or more information and to register go to www.bridgingthegaps.info
Manuel Serrano, MD, PhD
Spanish National Cancer Research Center (CNIO)
"Tumor Suppressors Beyond Cancer: Aging, Metabolism and Reprogramming"
12:00 noon
CRB Austrian Auditorium
Keith Flaherty, PhD
Havard University /Massachusetts General Hospital
"Building FRAF Inhibition in Melanoma"
12:00 noon
CRB Austrian Auditorium
John Condeelis, PhD
Albert Einstein Medical Center
"Breast Tumor Microenvironments of Dissemination and Metastatic Risk"
12:00 noon
CRB Austrian Auditorium
Please join the Leonard Davis Institute of Health Economics and the Center for Public Health Initiatives for:
William Hsiao, PhD
Date: Wednesday, September 28th, 2011
Time: 12:00 - 1:30pm
Room: Huntsman Hall G92, 3730 Locust Walk
LDI/CPHI Health Policy Seminar
Dr. Hsiao's health policy research program spans across developed and less developed nations. He and his research team focus their economic studies on five topics:
- a simulation model of the US health sector;
- payment systems for physicians and hospitals;
- comparative health care systems;
- financing health care in developing nations; and,
- interaction between economic development and health care.
Two projects address policy issues of the United States. Hsiao and his colleagues developed a large scale simulation model that intends to assess the fiscal and health impacts produced by various national health insurance plans. Using time series/cross-sectional data, Hsiao's team designed a multi-equation model that employs a number of variables to predict utilization rates and prices of health services. This model also predicts total health expenditures from supply and demand variables, giving special attention to supply variables, such as physician and hospital beds per capita, availability of primary care physicians, and new technologies. The second project further expands his previous work on the resource-based relative value scale (RBRVS) by packaging physician services into episode of illness, and examines variation in resource input costs by quality of service.
Comparing health systems across industrialized nations, Hsiao applies political and economic theories to develop a structural framework of essential elements of health systems. His team uses econometric models to test various hypotheses and to estimate the extent to which each structural element influences health expenditures and health status. Employing his systemic framework, he is assisting Taiwan, Cyprus, Mexico, Colombia, China, and Sweden in their health systems reforms.
In developing nations, Hsiao's research focuses on the development of sustainable financing mechanisms to provide health care for the poor, rural population, and urban workers. With UNICEF's support, he collaborates with seven universities in China to conduct a nationwide study on health care financing and provision for 100 million poor Chinese. Meanwhile, with the support of The World Bank, he is launching a large scale social experiment on community financing for the rural Chinese population, involving 100 communities and two million people.
This event is free and open to the public, but registration is required. Please RSVP to maddene@wharton.upenn.edu.
University of Florida
Department of Biochemistry & Molecular Biology
NMR and EPR studies of lung surfactant organization, structure, and dynamics
Department of Biology Seminar Series
Arjun Raj (host: Dr. Brian Gregory)
University of Pennsylvania
"Regulation of Transcription in Single Cells"
September 29, 2011
4:00 pm
Leidy Lab, Room 109
Department of Biology Seminar Series
Simon Chan (host Dr. Brian Gregory and Dr. Michael Lampson)
University of California, Davis
"Engineering Centromeres to Produce Haploid Plants"
October 6, 2011
4:00 pm
Leidy Lab, Room 109
Department of Biology Seminar Series
Dirk Feldmeyer (host Dr. Ted Abel)
Julich Research Center and RWTH
"Layer 4 of the Barrel Cortex: Development, Connectivity and Modulation"
October 13, 2011
4:00 pm
Leidy Lab, Room 109
Department of Biology Seminar Series
Tania Roth (host Dr. Ted Abel)
University of Delaware
"Epigenetic Marking of the BDNF Gene by Stress and Trauma"
October 20, 2011
4:00 pm
Leidy Lab, Room 109
Department of Biology Seminar Series
Chris Fang-Yen (host: TBA)
University of Pennsylvania
"How Worms Eat"
October 27, 2011
4:00 pm
Leidy Labs, Room 109
Richard A. Young, Ph.D.
Professor, Department of Biology
Member, Whitehead Institute for Biomedical Research
Massachusetts Institute of Technology
“Transcriptional Control of Cell State”
Peter Fraser, Ph.D.
Nuclear Dynamics Programme
The Babraham Institute, Cambridge
http://www.babraham.ac.uk/chromatin/fraser.html
“Chromatin, chromosome and nuclear dynamics; links to gene expression”
David W. Raible, Ph.D.
Professor
Department of Biological Structure
University of Washington
http://raibleweb.biostr.washington.edu/
Stuart Kim, Ph.D.
Professor
Department of Developmental Biology
Stanford University
http://cmgm.stanford.edu/~kimlab/
"Aging in C. elegans: Developmental Drift, Odometers and the Fish-Worm"
Department of Biology Seminar Series
Jim Anderson (host: Paul Sniegowski)
University of Toronto
"Experimental Evolution of the Yeast Saccaromyces Cerevisiae: Determinants of Adaptation and Epitasis in Populations"
November 3, 2011
4:00 pm
Leidy Lab, Room 109
We are delighted to announce the launch of Penn’s first Seminar Series on Information and Communication Technologies for Development (ICT4D)*, and, you are cordially invited to the first session of the Seminar Series:
Date and Time: Sep 29, 2011, 4:00 – 5:30 pm
Location: Rm 500, Annenberg School For Communication, 3620 Walnut St
Presenter: Dan Wagner, UNESCO Chair in Learning and Literacy, Professor and Director, International Education and Development Program, and Director, International Literacy Institute, GSE
Title of talk: “ICT and Literacy for the Very Poor: A decade of work”
Abstract:
In many developing countries, over the past decade, the atmospherics concerning information and communications technologies (ICTs) has undergone a dramatic change: from (1) “are you crazy?” to (2) “well, let's see what pieces might work for us,” to (3) “ICTs are the answer.” Even for the poorest countries, the benefits of ICT are now (in 2011) seen as relatively well-suited for coping with the problems of literacy and basic education (and other sectors), and for enhancing the socio-economic consequences for the lives of the users. The reasons for this are varied, and still debated, along with the types of solutions proposed to date. Various examples will be discussed, including the author’s work over the past decade in India and South Africa.
Introduction of the Seminar Series by Joseph Sun, Vice Dean, SEAS
ABOUT THE SERIES
The ICT4D Seminar Series is a new interdisciplinary venture at Penn to bring together researchers, students, and leaders from all sectors who are interested in better understanding the role that ICTs play in international development, and the impact that they have on impoverished and under-resourced communities. The Series will bring together noted researchers, practitioners, and policy makers in the ICT4D field, and will provide a venue for the Penn community to explore this important area of work.
Please RSVP to Laura Schwartz-Henderson (lsh@asc.upenn.edu) by Wednesday, September 27.
For more info, contact: Deepti Chittamuru <dchittamuru@asc.upenn.edu>
ICT4D Seminar Series Faculty Core Group: Emily Hannum (Assoc Professor Sociology & Education, GR Chair Sociology), John Jemmott (Kenneth B. Clark Professor, ASC), Carrie Kovarik (Asst Professor Dermatology, Dermatopathology, and Infectious Diseases, SOM), Joseph Sun (Vice Dean, SEAS), Dan Wagner (UNESCO Chair & Professor GSE)
PhD Student Coordinators: Deepti Chittamuru <dchittamuru@asc.upenn.edu> (ASC, lead contact), Katie Murphy <katiemaeve@gmail.com> (GSE), David Conrad <dconrad@asc.upenn.edu> (ASC)
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* The ICT4D Seminar is supported by the Provost’s Interdisciplinary Initiatives Fund, ASC, GSE, and SEAS. Programmatic support is provided by the Annenberg Center for Global Communication Studies.
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The Pennsylvania Muscle Institute Seminar
Michael Lampson, PhD
Department of Biology
University of Pennsylvania
"Gradients and Clocks: Chromosome Segration in Mitosis and Meiosis"
September 26, 2011
2pm to 3pm
CRB Austrian Auditorium
The Pennsylvania Muscle Institute Seminar
Alan J. Hunt, PhD
Department of Biomedical Engineering
University of Michigan
"Laser Nanomachining, Nanomanipulation, and Application to Biomedical Research and Engineering"
October 3, 2011
2pm to 3pm
Physiology Conference Room
B404 Richards Building
The Pennsylvania Muscle Institute Seminar
Bruce Goode, PhD
Department of Biology
Brandeis University
"New Collaborations in the Control of Actin Filament Assembly and Disassembly"
October 10, 2011
2pm to 3pm
CRB Austrian Auditorium
The Pennsylvania Muscle Institute Seminar
Edward H. Egelman, PhD
Department of Biochemistry & Molecular Genetics
University of Virginia
"Actin, Protein Polymers, and the Lability of Quaternary Structure"
October 24, 2011
2pm to 3pm
CRB Austrian Auditorium
The Pennsylvania Muscle Institute Seminar
Dorothy Schafer, PhD
Department of Biology
University of Virginia
"New Functions for an Old Favorite: The Dynamin GTPase and Actin Filament Networks"
October 31, 2011
2pm to 3pm
CRB Austrian Auditorium
Advisor: Dr. Celeste Simon
Location: Class of 62, JMB
The Endocrinology Clinical Case Conference and Grand Rounds Series presents:
Robert Rosenfeld, MD, Professor of Medicine, University of Chicago
Title: TBD
Date: Wednesday, October 19, 2011
Time: 12:00 noon - 1:00 pm
Location: 12th Floor - TRC - Translational Research Center 12-146
The Endocrinology Clinical Case Conference and Grand Rounds Series presents:
Michael Rickels, Assistant Professor of Medicine, Division of Endocrinology, Diabetes and Metabolism
Title: "Islet Transplantation for Type 1 Diabetes"
Date: Wednesday, September 28, 2011
Time: 12:00 noon - 1:00 pm
Location: 12th Floor - TRC - Translational Research Center 12-146
The Endocrinology Clinical Case Conference and Grand Rounds Series presents:
Pablo Tebas, MD - Associate Professor of Medicine, Department of Infectios Disease, UPHS
Title: "Metabolic derangements in HIV patients"
Date: Wednesday, October 26, 2011
Time: 12:00 noon - 1:00 pm
Location: 12th Floor - TRC - Translational Research Center 12-146
Department of Cell Biology and Pharmacology
New York University School of Medicine
ARC 123-C
Research Associate Professor Pathology and Laboratory Medicine
Reunion Auditorium, JMB
Associate Professor Pathology and Laboratory Medicine
Reunion Auditorium, JMB
Professor, Immunology Program
The Wistar Institute
**Seminar located in TRC Auditorium**
Associate Professor Microbiology
Reunion Auditorium, JMB
"Drosophila as a model for human genetic diseases associated with DNA instability"
Host: Steve DiNardo, (CDB)
Director, Signal Transduction Program
Reunion Auditorium, JMB
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Come hear Penn students speak about their past internships, study abroad, service learning, and research in Botswana, Ghana, and South Africa.
Learn about the different programs and find out why going to the continent might be the best thing you EVER do!
With examples from:
- · International Internship Program (IIP)
- · International Development Summer Institute (IDSI)
- · Penn Study Abroad
- · Wharton International Programs (WIP)
- Learn what research is currently being conducted by faculty and staff in Botswana
- Find out what support and information is available to researchers
- Update others on your project and seek ways to share information and resources
- What are the specific aims of your project and who are your collaborators in Botswana and elsewhere?
- Who is the primary funding source for your project?
- Where are the different aspects of your work being done and what data are you using?
- How far along are you in this project?
- What obstacles have you encountered? Do you need help or information to move forward? Have you learned any logistical lessons?
Lalitha Gudipaty, MD and Meg Garin, MD – Endocrine Fellows
Title: Presentation and Discussion of Endocrinology Cases
Date: Wednesday, October 5, 2011
Time: 12:00 noon - 1:00 pm
Location: 12th Floor - TRC - Translational Research Center - 12-146
Thyroid Case Management Conference
Presenters: TBD
Location: 12th Floor - TRC - Translational Research Center 12-146
Attending: Anne Cappola
Fellow: Ilona Lorincz
Attending: Julia Kharlip
Fellow: Eve Bloomgarden
Lisa Bottalico - "MS-based identification of in vivo S-nitrosoproteome in GSNOR-/- Mouse Heart"
Andrew Worth - "LC-MS Analysis of Citric Acid Cycle Metabolites as Biomarkers for Mitochondrial Dysfunction"
Maya Khezam - "Proteomics based approach for the validation of pancreatic cancer biomarkers in human serum samples"
Diana Avery - "The Effect of FAP-Mediated Collagen Degradation & Remodeling on Tumorigenesis"
Bridgin Lee - "The genomic binding profile for CREB; in multiple tissues and the role of CREB co-factors"
Michael Chiorazzo - "Glycerophosphocholine Increase in Apoptosis: A Potential Mechanism for Machrophage Recruitment"
Featuring Sonia Ehrlich Sachs, Director of Health, Millennium Villages Project
The Millennium Villages project is led and executed by the communities on the ground in Africa. Throughout the continent, more than 400,000 people are leading this bold initiative, giving their time, skills, and resources to make the project a success and one that is relevant to local conditions. Because Millennium Villages are an investment toward a sustainable end to extreme poverty, Millennium Village communities strengthen their local governments and institutions and certify the preparation and implementation of the interventions in their community.
To RSVP: https://docs.google.com/spreadsheet/viewform?formkey=dDdjVF8zMUVVUW14QzAwT3U0RkhuYnc6MQ
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Sima Patel
Nishita Shastri - "A genome-wide approach to investigate synthetic lethal interactions between ATR inhibition and oncogenic stress: implications for cancer treatment"
Alan Yee - "Amyloid Metabolism in HIV Associated Neurocognitive Disorder"
Lauren Francey - "A comparison of dione-mediated redox cycling and DNA damage"
Mansi Shinde - "Role of the Lnk Plekstrin Homology Domain in Hematopoiesis"
Natalie Daurio - "Mutations in GATA1 Transcription Factor and Effects on Gene Regulation and Hematopoesis"
Jared Rutter, Ph.D.,University of Utah
“Good and Bad Growth:
The Virtues and Vices of Mitochondria and Metabolism”
Michael Ostap, Ph.D., University of Pennsylvania
“Microtubules to Myosins to GLUT4:
Understanding the Molecules that Move Intracellular Membranes”
Jacob (Jed) E. Friedman, Ph.D., University of Colorado
“Developmental Origins of Fatty Liver:
From Mouse to Monkey to Man”
Marc Reitman, M.D., Ph.D., NIDDK, National Institutes of Health
“BRS-3 Agonists for the Treatment of Obesity”
Annual Retreat and Symposium
Muscle and Metabolism
October 17, 2011
BRB II/III Auditorium
Pennsylvania Muscle Institute
Institute for Diabetes, Obesity and Metabolism
Organized by: Patrick Seale, PhD, Morris J. Birnbaum, MD, PhD, and E. Michael Ostap, PhD
Abstract Deadline: October 10, 2011
| 8:30 – 9:00 | Refreshments and Poster Setup |
| 9:00 – 9:05 | Welcome – E. Michael Ostap, Ph.D. Director, Pennsylvania Muscle Institute Perelman School of Medicine at the University of Pennsylvania |
| Robert E. Davies Honorary Lectures | |
| 9:05 – 9:35 | Mimicking Caloric Restriction in Muscle Joseph A. Baur, Ph.D. Assistant Professor of Physiology Perelman School of Medicine at the University of Pennsylvania |
| 9:35 – 10:20 | Molecular Mechanisms of Muscle Atrophy Alfred L. Goldberg, Ph.D. Professor of Cell Biology Harvard Medical School |
| 10:20 – 10:50 | Coffee Break and Posters |
| 10:50 – 11:10 | Selected Short Talk |
| 11:10 – 11:40 | Myostatin and IGF–I Interactions and Implications for Treating both Muscular Dystrophies and Sarcopenia |
| 11:40 – 12:00 | Selected Short Talk |
| 12:00 – 1:30 | Lunch, Vendor Show, and Poster Session |
| Andrew P. Somlyo Honorary Lectures | |
| 1:30 – 2:00 | Importance of Muscle IGF–I for Organismal Growth |
| 2:00 – 2:45 | Epigenetics of Skeletal Myogenesis Vittorio Sartorelli, M.D. Chief, Laboratory of Muscle Stem Cells and Gene Regulation National Institute of Arthritis and Musculoskeletal and Skin Diseases National Institutes of Health |
| 2:45 – 3:10 | Coffee Break and Posters |
| 3:10 – 3:30 | Selected Short Talk |
3:30 – 4:15
| Mitochondrial Stress and Insulin Action in Muscle Deborah M. Muoio, Ph.D. Associate Professor Departments of Medicine and Pharmacology & Cancer Biology Sarah W. Stedman Nutrition and Metabolism Center Duke University Medical Center, Independence Park Facility |
| 4:15 – 4:30 | Poster Award Presentation |
| 4:30 – 5:30 | Reception |
CNST Student Event:
Dave & Buster's
325 N. Columbus Boulevard
Friday, October 21, 2011
6:30pm - 9:30pm
Dave & Buster's
325 N. Columbus Boulevard
Friday, October 21, 2011
6:30pm - 9:30pm
CENTER FOR STUDIES OF ADDICTIONS SEMINAR
Roy A. Wise, Ph.D.
National Institute on Drug Abuse, Intramural Research Program
The predictor of reward becomes the reward: How the peripheral effects of cocaine explain the speed of cocaine
Treatment Research Center
3900 Chestnut Street
Main Conference Room
CENTER FOR STUDIES OF ADDICTIONS SEMINAR
Benjamin Nordstrom, MD
University of Pennsylvania, Department of Psychiatry
The effects of neighborhood characteristics on rearrest after participation in Drug Treatment Court
Treatment Research Center
3900 Chestnut Street
Main Conference Room
CENTER FOR STUDIES OF ADDICTIONS SEMINAR
Kyle Kampman, MD
University of Pennsylvania, Department of Psychiatry
Probuphine (implantable buprenorphine) for the treatment of opioid dependence, does it work and do we need it?
Treatment Research Center
3900 Chestnut Street
Main Conference Room
CENTER FOR STUDIES OF ADDICTIONS SEMINAR
Laurence Steinberg, PhD
Temple University, Department of Psychology
Why adolescents make risky decisions
Treatment Research Center
3900 Chestnut Street
Main Conference Room
Logan Everett-Kaestner Lab
"Exploring the Regulatory Role of CREB in Liver Metabolism and Beyond Using ChIP-seq"
Clara Elbers-Tishkoff Lab
"Large-scale gene-centric meta-analysis across 39 studies identifies type 2 diabetes loci"
Alexandra Neuhaus-Follini-Bashaw Lab
"Proteolysis of the Frazzled/DCC receptor is required for transcriptional regulation of midline axon guidance"
Jean Perry-Sundaram Lab
"Maintaining Epithelial Junction Integrity in C. elegans"
Genetics Research Talks
Isabel Wang-Cheung Lab
"RNA-DNA sequence differences in human cells"
Ishmail Abdus-Saboor-Sundaram Lab
"The homeodomain protein MLS-2 is required for normal cell shape in the C.elegans excretory (renal) system"
Henry Lin-Spinner Lab
"Modeling Liver Disease in Alagille Syndrome with Induced Pluripotent Stem Cells"
Bettina Mucha Le-Ny-Shore Lab
"Studying fibrodysplasia ossificans progressiva (FOP) in zebrafish"
World Food Day
Philly 2011
Symposium & Reception
Sun, October 16
2:30PM - 6PM
Hopkinson House, 32nd Fl.
604 S. Washington Square
Philadelphia, PA 19106
Keynote Speakers
Marion Nestle
The Overt and Covert Costs of Food:
Economic, Social, Ethical,
and Health Dimensions
Scott Poethig
Genetic Engineering: Then and Now
Roxanne Christensen
On the Promise of SPIN Farming
Limited Seating. Free Admission.
Donations are much appreciated.
To RSVP or for questions:
info@una-gp.org
Eric T. Ahrens, Ph.D.
Carnegie Mellon University
Department of Biological Sciences
Mouse-to-Man MRI Cell Tracking Using Perfluorocarbon-Based Tracer Agents
Jaclyn St. Louis - Effects of Lithium on mTORC2 Signal Transduction
Kevin Patel - Metabolic and Inflammatory Responses to Acute Niacin
John O'Donnell - NMDA Receptor Interaction with Potassium Channel Kv4.2
October 6, 2011
Time: 4:00 – 5:30 pmLocation: Annenberg School for Communication (3620 Walnut Street), Room 500
To RSVP, please email Laura Schwartz-Henderson
Introduction of the ICT4D Seminar and Speaker Series
Joseph Sun, Vice Dean for Academic Affairs, Penn Engineering
ICT and Literacy for the Very Poor: A Decade of Work
By: Dan Wagner, UNESCO Chair in Learning and Literacy and Professor of Education, University of Pennsylvania Graduate School of Education
Abstract: In many developing countries, over the past decade, the atmospherics concerning information and communications technologies (ICTs) has undergone a dramatic change: from (1) "are you crazy?" to (2) "well, let's see what pieces might work for us," to (3) "ICTs are the answer." Even for the poorest countries, the benefits of ICT are now (in 2011) seen as relatively well-suited for coping with the problems of literacy and basic education (and other sectors), and for enhancing the socio-economic consequences for the lives of the users. The reasons for this are varied, and still debated, along with the types of solutions proposed to date. Various examples will be discussed, including the author's work over the past decade in India and South Africa.
About the Speaker: Dr. Dan Wagner is the UNESCO Chair in Learning and Literacy and a professor of education at Penn GSE. He is director of the International Literacy Institute (ILI), co-sponsored by UNESCO and Penn. As founding director of the Literacy Research Center in 1983, he is also director of the National Center on Adult Literacy. He received his Ph.D. in developmental psychology at the University of Michigan and was twice a visiting fellow at the International Institute of Education Planning in Paris, a visiting professor at the University of Geneva (Switzerland), and a Fulbright-Hays Scholar at the University of Paris. He is a fellow of the American Psychological Association and the American Anthropological Association. He is also director of the International Educational Development Program (IEDP) at Penn GSE. Dr. Wagner has extensive experience in national and international educational issues, has consulted for numerous U.N. and donor agencies as well as with the U.S. government, and has worked in more than a dozen countries around the world. Dr. Wagner has more than 120 professional publications, including 20 books (translated into a half-dozen languages) across topics of literacy, basic education, child development, applied technology, and research and policy in cultural and international perspectives. October 13, 2011
Time: 4:00 – 5:30 pmLocation: Annenberg School for Communication (3620 Walnut Street), Room 500
To RSVP, please email Laura Schwartz-Henderson
Title: Myths of Information Technology for International Development
By: Kentaro Toyama, Visiting Researcher, School of Information, University of California, Berkeley
Abstract: The past decade has seen incredible interest in applying information and communication technologies for international development, an endeavor often abbreviated "ICT4D." Can mobile phones be used to improve rural healthcare? How do you design user interfaces for an illiterate migrant worker? What value is technology to a farmer earning $1 a day? Interventionist ICT4D projects seek to answer these kinds of questions, but the excitement has also generated a lot of hype about the power of technology to solve the deep problems of poverty. In this talk, I will (1) present several myths of ICT4D that persist despite evidence to the contrary, (2) offer a theory of "technology as amplifier" which explains the gap between rhetoric and reality, and (3) provide recommendations for successful ICT4D interventions. My hope is to temper the brash claims of technology with realism about its true potential.
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About the Speaker: Dr. Kentaro Toyama is a visiting researcher in the School of Information at the University of California, Berkeley. He is working on a book that argues that increasing wisdom should be the primary focus of global development. Toyama co-founded Microsoft Research India, where he started an interdisciplinary research group to understand how electronic technology could support the socio-economic development of the world’s impoverished communities. The group's projects - including Digital Green, MultiPoint, and Text-Free UI - have been seminal in ICT4D research. Prior to his time in India, he did computer vision and multimedia research at Microsoft Research in Redmond, WA, USA and Cambridge, UK, and taught mathematics at Ashesi University in Accra, Ghana. Toyama graduated from Yale with a PhD in Computer Science and from Harvard with a bachelor’s degree in Physics. November 3, 2011
Time: 4:00 – 5:30 pmLocation: Annenberg School for Communication (3620 Walnut Street), Room 500
To RSVP, please email Laura Schwartz-Henderson
Title: Phone-based Tools for Community Health Workers
By: Neal Lesh, Chief Strategy Officer, Dimagi Inc.
Abstract: It is increasingly possible to apply computer innovation to improve aspects of health care delivery in low-income countries. In this talk, I will provide an overview of some recent efforts in ‘eHealth’ and ‘mHealth’. I will then present our experiences with implementing CommCare, a phone based tool for Community Health Workers over the last four years in sub-Saharan Africa and India. I will provide an overview of the tool, and then discuss challenges, lessons learned, and some recent successes.
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About the Speaker: Dr. Neal Lesh is the Chief Strategy Officer of Dimagi, Inc. He received a PhD in computer science from the University of Washington in 1998 and a Master in Public Health from the Harvard School of Public Health. From 2005-2009, he lived in East and Southern Africa, working on information systems for projects including large-scale AIDS treatment programs, rural hospitals, and research projects. His primary focus now is on the CommCare project, a phone-based tool for use by community health works in low-income countries. Jason Karlawish will read from Open Wound and lead a discussion of the ethical and social challenges that continue to shape contemporary researchers as they labor to advance both science and their careers. His book will be on sale for him to sign afterward.
The program is free and open to the public. Registration is required in order to attend the post-reading reception at 7:30pm
Dr. Finkel will explain why he believes quantitative risk assessment can, and should, be both scientifically sound and also humane. He will discuss examples‐‐ both from EOH and from clinical medicine‐‐ of how risk‐based decision making can become more precautionary, while heeding the lessons of recent policy failures caused by precaution unsupported by proper analysis.
Penn Cardiovascular Institute
Peter Libby, MD
Chief, Division of Cardiovascular Medicine
Brigham and Women's Hospital
Boston,MA
"Mechanisms of the Acute Coronary Syndromes"
Wednesday October 26, 2011
4pm to 5pm
Translational Research Center, Conference Rom, 11-146, 11th Floor
For more information contact Nina Maschak, 215-573-8002, maschak@mail.med.upenn.edu
Ran Reshef, MD
(Advisors: David L. Porter, MD and Robert Vonderheide, MD, DPhil)
"Lymphocyte Trafficking in Graft vs. Host Disease"
Thursday,October 27, 2011
Maloney, Room 8030
For more information contact Marti Dandridge, martig@exchange.upenn.edu
Lunchtime Research Panel: Communicating with Disaster Affected Communities (CDAC) Haiti
Monday, October 17th
12:00-1:30 PM
Lunch Served at 11:45
Annenberg School For Communication, 3620 Walnut Street, Room 300
Since the devastating 7.0 earthquake in Haiti on January 12, 2011, Communicating With Disaster Affected Communities (CDAC) and Internews Network have been working with local Haitian media and humanitarian aid agencies to get critical information directly to the people who need it most. CDAC’s initiative in Haiti is a cross-cluster service that brings together experts in outreach and communications and humanitarians in a collective effort to improve a two-way communication flow between the humanitarian community and affected populations. CDAC-Haiti provides a coordinated service to maximize aid effectiveness and disseminate information, using radio and local media to explain food distribution systems, publicize vaccination campaigns, and provide information for displaced people with HIV/AIDS. For more information, please see the attached PDF.
Core to the project is a major research component that seeks public opinion about information needs that would help Haitians rebuild their lives, avoid getting sick from infectious diseases, and understand and be informed about the various reconstruction efforts underway.
On October 17, we will host the project’s director of research and a group of Haitian researchers, trained in social science research methods, who have been conducting surveys, focus groups and other research related work throughout Haiti as part of an effort to assist with humanitarian media efforts.
Please join us for an afternoon panel as the CDAC-Haiti representatives present their research to the Penn community.
To RSVP please contact lsh@asc.upenn.edu
Title: "Politics of Assistive Technology: The Case of 20th Century Reading Machines"
This event is free and open to the public.
Advisor: Ben Stanger, MD, PhD
Location: BRB 251
Advisor: Jordan Orange, MD, PhD
Location: 130 Hill Pavilion
Attending the APHA Conference?
Come join the Penn public health community for an evening of food, drink, and networking opportunities!
Also, visit our website for a compendium of Penn presenters at APHA:
http://www.cphi.upenn.edu/2011APHACompendium.shtml
12:00 p.m. luncheon; 12:30 p.m. lecture
The Atrium at the Annenberg Public Policy Center
202 South 36th Street
Dr. Hannah Faye C. Chua, Research Associate, School of Public Health, University of Michigan
“Neural Mechanisms of Persuasive Communications and Behavior Change”
Recent advances have brought together neuroscience techniques with communication research, creating the birth of communication neuroscience. In this presentation, Dr. Chua will discuss her recent research exploring how neural and psychological mechanisms are involved in processing persuasive tailored messages related to tobacco cessation and how these mechanisms are related to behavior change. Do differences in how people respond to communication messages influence their behavior a few months after? Are there potential genetic influences on how people's brains respond to tailored messages? We use tailored smoking cessation messages in smokers to examine some of these neural and psychological mechanisms.
Lunch will be provided
Seating is limited! Please RSVP by Monday, October 31
Karen Riley: kriley@asc.upenn.edu; 215-746-0045
Sponsored by:
The Annenberg Public Policy Center
The Center for Mental Health Policy and Services Research
The Center for Health Behavior Research
Andrew D. Siderowf, MD, MSCE, Associate Professor of Neurology
"Non-Motor Features of Parkinson's Disease and Improved Early Diagnosis""Multiple System Atrophy and Sleep"
Nuria Bramswig-Kaestner Lab
"Chromatin marks in human pancreatic cells"
Translational Research Center (TRC), 3400 Civic Center Boulevard, 1:00-4:00pm
Join us in the new Translational Research Center (TRC) Commons in the Perelman Center for Advanced Medicine.
Don't miss this opportunity to Connect, Network, and Apply to positions offered by a wide range of employers interested in candidates with research knowledge and skills.
GET PREPARED! View the list of registered employers below to begin gathering the information you need to ask informed questions to the representatives during the fair. The specific open positions listed by some of the employers can be found online.
Faculty members from different types of area institutions will discuss what makes their institution unique, and how to effectively conduct your job search if you are interested in an institution like theirs. Registration is requested: https://www.surveymonkey.com/s/THC6LS3
Keith Tanswell, M.D.*
Hospital for Sick Children
Division of Neonatology
“Mechanisms and mediators of chronic neonatal lung injury in a rat model”
40th Anniversary Celebration of the Penn/VA Center for Studies of Addiction (1971-2011)
Thursday, October 27, 2011
12:00pm
Grand Rounds speaker:
Nora D. Volkow, MD
Director, National Institute on Drug Abuse
presenting "The Addicted Human Brain"
followed by a poster session highlighting research produced by the Center over the past 40 years
RSVP by 10/1 - 215-222-3200 x132 or graci_m@mail.trc.upenn.edu
"Molecular Mediators of Hepatic Steatosis"
Jay D. Horton, MD, PhD
UT Southwestern Medical Center
The Endocrinology Clinical Case Conference and Grand Rounds Series presents:
Ilona Lorincz, MD and Meg Garin, MD - Endocrine Fellows
Topic: "Presentation and Discussion of Endocrinology Cases"
Date: Wednesday, November 2, 2011
Time: 12:00 noon - 1:00 pm
Location: 12th Floor - TRC - Translational Research Center 12-146
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Technology and entrepreneurship goes hand in hand these days. What better way to learn about the variety of opportunities available with startups than through a Penn alum? On Thursday, November 3rd we welcome Adam Levin to @PennCareerDay on Twitter to talk about his day in business development at a cutting-edge technology company, Meebo. Adam's contributions to @PennCareerDay is one of highlighted resources featured October 31st through November 5th on Startups. To learn more about Adam, read his bio on Penn&Beyond and follow him on November 3rd.
"Identification of Causal Genes, Networks and Transcriptional Regulators of REM Sleep and Wake" Millstein, et al. Sleep
Houston Hall, Golkin Room
Whether you want to make an impact on land, air or elsewhere with your engineering or science degree, come learn about exciting opportunities within the government! Our distinguished panel of alumni will discuss their work and the intern and full-time positions that exist for students with degrees in areas such as physics, mathematics, environmental science, biology, geology, all engineering disciplines and related fields.
Panelists include:
Quinton Krueger - former Program Manager for a Department of Homeland Security (DHS) Science and Technology Directorate Program focusing on the detection of explosive materials in the aviation security environment. Currently, Mr. Krueger is lead project manager for Quasars-Inc. overseeing technical consulting efforts with DHS, specifically the Transportation Security Administration (TSA). Mr. Krueger holds a BS & MS in Chemical Engineering from Michigan Tech and a MSE from the University of Pennsylvania (SEAS).
Julie (Novick) Nace - Environmental Analyst at New England Interstate Water Pollution Control Commission/Peconic Estuary, NY; formerly a Park Guide with the National Park Service in addition to holding numerous roles in environmentally-focused organizations. Ms. Nace holds a Bachelor of Arts with Distinction in Environmental Studies and a minor in Anthropology from the University of Pennsylvania, and a Master of Environmental Management in Resource and Coastal Ecology from Duke University.
Dr. Barbara Thompson - Research Astrophysicist, the Laboratory for Solar & Space Physics, NASA Goddard Space Flight Center. Dr. Thompson has devoted the majority of her solar research to the study of coronal mass ejections and associated phenomena, particularly global coronal disturbances. Her current research efforts focus on the new field of space weather, understanding how the Sun’s magnetic variations affect geospace. Dr. Thompson holds a B.A. Physics and Mathematics with a Minor in Geology from the University of Pennsylvania in 1991 and earned her Ph.D. in Physics from the University of Minnesota in 1996.