Special Seminar-

Faculty Promotion Candidate-

Andrei L. Osterman, Ph.D., Associate Professor Bioinformatics and Systems Biology Infectious and Inflammatory Disease Center Sanford-Burnham Medical Research Institute

“Metabolic Genomics. From Gene Discovery to Drug Development”

Tuesday, March 1, 2011 10:00 a.m. PST Building 10, Room 1308

Host: Adam Godzik, Ph.D. Contact: Cindy Cook: ccook@sanfordburnham.org

Cancer Center Seminar-

David E. Fisher, M.D., Ph.D. Chairman, Department of Dermatology Director, Melanoma Program MGH Cancer Center Harvard Medical School

“Skin-specific signaling pathways controlling pigmentation and behavior”

Monday, March 7, 2011 12:00 p.m. PT Fishman Auditorium

Host: Dr. Ze’ev Ronai Contact: Kathy Smith: ksmith@sanfordburnham.org

Ihor R. Lemischka, Ph.D. Director, Black Family Stem Cell Institute Lillian and Henry M. Stratton Professor, Department of Gene and Cell Medicine Professor, Developmental and Regenerative Biology Mount Sinai School of Medicine

“Pursuing Pluripotency”

Tuesday, March 15, 2011 12:00 p.m. PT Fishman Auditorium

Host: Christa Muller-Sieburg, Dr. rer. nat. Contact: Tara Mabry: tmabry@sanfordburnham.org

Special Seminar-

Kateri More, D.V.M.
Associate Professor
Department of Gene and Cell Medicine
Department of Development and Regenerative Biology
Black Family Stem Cell Institute
Mount Sinai School of Medicine

“Model Systems to Elucidate Molecular Mechanisms in Stem Cell Niches”

Tuesday March 15th, 2011
4:00pm PDT
Building 12 Auditorium
10905 Road to the Cure
San Diego, CA 92121

Generously sponsored by eBioscience

Host: Christa Muller-Sieburg, Dr. rer.nat
Contact: Wendy Lyon: wlyon@sanfordburnham.org

Special Seminar-

David A. Sassoon, Ph.D.
Director of The Myology Group Research Unit
INSERM and University of Pierre and Marie Curie
Paris, France

“From cell stress to stem cells - identification of a pan stem cell regulator”

Thursday, March 17, 2011
12:00 p.m. PT
Fishman Auditorium, La Jolla

Host: Pier Lorenzo Puri, M.D., Ph.D.
Contact: Esther Schuman: eschuman@sanfordburnham.org

NIH Blueprint-funded La Jolla Neuroscience Center Seminar-

Amanda Roberts, Ph.D.
Associate Professor of Molecular Neurosciences
Department of Molecular and Integrative Neurosciences
The Scripps Research Institute

“The Mouse Behavioral Assessment Core: Services & New Developments”

Monday, March 21, 2011
12:30 p.m. PT
Molecular & Experimental Medicine Multipurpose Room (105A)
The Scripps Research Institute
10550 N. Torrey Pines Road, La Jolla, CA 92037

Host: Stuart A. Lipton, M.D., Ph.D.
Contact: Debi Jeffery: djeffery@sanfordburnham.org

Development and Aging Seminar-

Dr. Robert Ross
Professor
Department of Medicine
University of California, San Diego

“Costameric Proteins and the Cardiac Myocyte: Tales of Talin”

Thursday, March 24, 2011
11:00 a.m. PT
Fishman Auditorium

Host: Dr. Rolf Bodmer

Contact: Kathy Kling: kkling@sanfordburnham.org