David E. Fisher, MD, PhD

Director, Melanoma Program in Medical Oncology
Dana-Farber Cancer Institute
Children’s Hospital, Boston

Professor, Division of Pediatric Hematology/Oncology
Harvard Medical School

WILL SPEAK ON

“Transcriptional and Signaling Pathways in Melanocytes and Melanoma”

Thursday, September 20, 2007
3:30 P.M.

Posner Auditorium
200 Harrison Avenue
Boston, MA 02111

Host: Grace Gill

Chitra Biswas Memorial Lecture
Department of Anatomy & Cellular Biology

Mary Hendrix, Ph.D.
President and Scientific Director
Children’s Memorial Research Center
Northwestern University Feinberg School of Medicine

WILL SPEAK ON

"Reprogramming Metastatic Tumor Cells with Embryonic Microenvironments”

Thursday, September 27, 2007
3:30 P.M.

Sackler A
145 Harrison Ave
Boston, MA 02111

Host: Ana Soto, M.D.

Carole LaBonne, Ph.D.

Associate Professor
Biochemistry, Molecular Biology & Cell Biology
Northwestern University

WILL SPEAK ON

“Modulating the Activity of Neural Crest Regulatory Factors: SLUGing It Out and Knocking Your SOX Off”

Thursday, October 11, 2007
3:30 P.M.

Posner Auditorium
200 Harrison Avenue
Boston, MA 02111

Host: Grace Gill

Gary Schwarting, Ph.D.

Professor of Cell Biology
Eunice Kennedy Shriver Center
University of Massachusetts Medical School

WILL SPEAK ON

“Can a Simple Sugar Really Regulate Olfactory Axon Guidance?”

Thursday, October 18, 2007
3:30 P.M.

Posner Auditorium
200 Harrison Avenue
Boston, MA 02111

Host: Jim Schwob

Jeffrey W. Ruberti, Ph.D.

Associate Professor
Department of Mechanical and Industrial Engineering
Northeastern University

WILL SPEAK ON

“Organizing Collagen In Vitro and de Novo”

Thursday, October 25, 2007
3:30 P.M.

Posner Auditorium
200 Harrison Avenue
Boston, MA 02111

Host: Tom Linsenmayer

Cliff Tabin, Ph.D.

George Jacob and Jacqueline Hazel Leder
Professor and Chair
Department of Genetics
Harvard Medical School

WILL SPEAK ON

“Development and Evolution of Morphology in Vertebrates”

Thursday, November 15, 2007
4:00 P.M.

Posner Auditorium
200 Harrison Avenue
Boston, MA 02111

Host: Carlos Sonnenschein

Robert A. Weinberg, Ph.D.

Member, Whitehead Institute
Daniel K. Ludwig Professor of Biology
Massachusetts Institute of Technology

WILL SPEAK ON

“Mechanisms of Malignant Progression”

Thursday, November 29, 2007
4:00 P.M.

Posner Auditorium
200 Harrison Avenue
Boston, MA 02111

Host: Charlotte Kuperwasser

Laura E. Benjamin, Ph.D.

Division of Cancer Biology and Angiogenesis
Beth Israel Deaconess Medical Center

Associate Professor
Department of Pathology
Harvard Medical School

WILL SPEAK ON

 “Targeting AKT Pathways in Angiogenesis”

 Thursday, January 10, 2008
4:00 P.M.

 Posner Auditorium
200 Harrison Avenue
Boston, MA 02111

 Host: Charlotte Kuperwasser

Robert Braun, Ph.D.

Professor, Associate Director and Chair of Research

The Jackson Laboratory
Bar Harbor, Maine

WILL SPEAK ON

“Germline Stem Cells – Balancing Self-Renewal with Differentiation”

Thursday, January 17, 2008
4:00 P.M.

Posner Auditorium
200 Harrison Avenue
Boston, MA 02111

Host: Carlos Sonnenschein

Philip W. Hinds, Ph.D.

Associate Director
Molecular Oncology Research Institute
Professor, Radiation Oncology
Tufts-New England Medical Center

WILL SPEAK ON

“The Retinoblastoma Protein Pathway in Differentiation and Cancer”

Thursday, January 24, 2008
4:00 P.M.

Behrakis Auditorium
Room #130
150 Harrison Avenue
Boston, MA 02111

Host: Grace Gill

Vicki Rosen, Ph.D.

Professor and Chair
Department of Developmental Biology
Harvard School of Dental Medicine

WILL SPEAK ON

“BMPs in Bone Formation
and Repair”

Thursday, February 14, 2008
4:00 P.M.

Posner Auditorium
200 Harrison Avenue
Boston, MA 02111

Host: Li Zeng

Shuguang Zhang, Ph.D.

Associate Director
Center for Biomedical Engineering
Center for Bits & Atoms
Massachusetts Institute of Technology

WILL SPEAK ON

“Designer Self-assembling Peptide Scaffolds”

Thursday, February 28, 2008
4:00 P.M.

Posner Auditorium
200 Harrison Avenue
Boston, MA 02111

Host: Christophe Egles

Gilbert H. Smith Ph.D.

Head, Mammary Stem Cell Biology Section
Mammary Biology and Tumorigenesis Laboratory
Center for Cancer Research
National Cancer Institute

WILL SPEAK ON

“Stem Cells and the Mammary Microenvironment”

Thursday, March 20, 2008
4:00 P.M.

Posner Auditorium
200 Harrison Avenue
Boston, MA 02111

Host: Maricel Maffini

Yingzi Yang, Ph.D.

Head, Developmental Genetics Section
Genetic Disease Research Branch
National Human Genome Research Institute
National Institutes of Health

WILL SPEAK ON

“Wnt and Hedgehog Signaling in Skeletal Development and Homeostasis”

Thursday, March 27, 2008
4:00 P.M.

Posner Auditorium
200 Harrison Avenue
Boston, MA 02111

Host: Jake Chen