10901 North Torrey Pines Road
La Jolla, CA 92037
FISHMAN AUDITORIUM
“Building 4, 1st Floor”

*SPECIAL SEMINAR*

Brad Marsh, Ph.D.
Chief Investigator, Institute for Molecular Bioscience ARC Centre of Excellence in Bioinformatics The University of Queensland Brisbane

“Mapping Biomedical Function onto 3D Cellular Landscapes at High Resolution: Quantitative Spatial Analysis of the Insulin Biosynthetic/Secretory Pathway Through a Comparative Whole Cell Tomography and Bioimage Informatics Approach”

Tuesday, October 20, 2009
12:00p.m.

Host: Dr. Dorit Hanein
Contact: Debbie Signer, dsigner@burnham.org

*CANCER CENTER SEMINAR*

Richard Jove, Ph.D.
Director, Beckman Research Institute Deputy Director, Comprehensive Cancer Center Professor, Department of Molecular Medicine City of Hope National Medical Center

“A Tale of Two Kinases: Targeting SRC and JAK for Cancer Therapy”

Monday, October 12, 2009
12:00pm

Host: Dr. Ze’ev Ronai
Contact: Kim Wright kwright@burnham.org

*PRESIDENT’S LECTURE SERIES*

Don W. Cleveland, Ph.D.
Head, Laboratory for Cell Biology, Ludwig Institute for Cancer Research, Professor and Chair, Department of Cellular and Molecular Medicine University of California, San Diego “From Charcot to Lou Gehrig: mechanism and treatment for ALS”

Tuesday, October 6, 2009
12:00p.m.

Host: Huaxi Xu, Ph.D.
Contact: Collette Beaton cbeaton@burnham.org

*DEVELOPMENT AND AGING PROGRAM SEMINAR*

Dr. Katia Del Rio-Tsonis
Associate Professor, Department of Zoology, Miami University

“Transdifferentiation or stem cell activation: Modes for retinal repair”

Wednesday, October 7, 2009
3:00P.M.

Host: Dr. Gregg Duester
Contact: Katherine Kling, kkling@burnham.org

*SOUTHERN CALIFORNIA STEM CELL CONSORTIUM*

Panagiotis A. Tsonis, Ph.D.
Professor, Department of Biology
Director, Center for Tissue Regeneration and Engineering at Dayton (TREND)

“Reprogramming, Transdifferentiation and Regeneration in Newts”

Thursday, October 8, 2009
9:30 – 11:00 a.m.

Host: Evan Snyder, M.D., Ph.D.
Contact: Bobbie Larraga, blarraga@burnham.org

*PRESIDENT’S SEMINAR*

***NOTE: BUILDING 12, AUDITORIUM

Dimitri Krainc, M.D., Ph.D.
Massachusetts General Hospital
Mass General Institute for Neurodegenerative Disease

“Molecular Mechanisms of Neurodegeneration in Huntington’s disease: focus on therapeutic targets”

Thursday, October 15, 2009
3:00p.m.

Host: Stuart Lipton, M.D., Ph.D.
Contact: Collette Beaton cbeaton@burnham.org

*PRESIDENT’S LECTURE SERIES*

Inder Verma, Ph.D.
American Cancer Society Professor of Molecular Biology
The Salk Institute, Laboratory of Genetics

“A Novel Mouse Model of Human Cancers”

Tuesday, October 27, 2009
12:00p.m.

Host: Ze’ev Ronai, Ph.D.
Contact: Collette Beaton cbeaton@burnham.org