Cancer Center Seminar

Eli Arama, Ph.D.
Senior Scientist
Weizmann Institute of Science, Israel

“Caspase-dependent nonapoptotic cellular processes: the difference between living and dying by them”

Monday, April 4, 2011
12:00 p.m. PT
Fishman Auditorium, La Jolla

Host: Dr. Guy Salvesen
Contact: America Vega: avega@sanfordburnham.org

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President’s Lecture Series

Brenda A. Schulman, Ph.D.
Co-Director, Molecular Oncology Program
Member, Department of Structural Biology & Genetics
Member, Department of Tumor Cell Biology
St. Jude Children’s Research Hospital
Investigator, Howard Hughes Medical Institute

“Twists and turns in ubiquitin conjugation cascades”

Tuesday, April 5, 2011
12:00 p.m. PT
Fishman Auditorium, La Jolla

Host: Matt Petroski, Ph.D.
Contact: Tara Mabry: tmabry@sanfordburnham.org

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Special Seminar

Atsuo T. Sasaki, Ph.D.
Instructor in Medicine,
Harvard Medical School

“Investigating the impact of GTP-metabolism on cancer”

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

Host: Dr. Sara A. Courtneidge
Contact: Stephanie Nath: snath@sanfordburnham.org

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Informal Seminar

Erik R.P. Zuiderweg
Professor of Biological Chemistry
University of Michigan Medical School

“Hsp70 chaperones by NMR: Allosteric mechanism and allosteric drugs”

Tuesday, April 19, 2011
4:00 p.m. PT
Building 12 Auditorium, La Jolla

Host: Dr. Maurizio Pellecchia, Ph.D. Contact: Lloyd Slivka: lslivka@sanfordburnham.org

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Cancer Center Seminar

Ana Maria Cuervo, M.D., Ph.D.
Professor
Department of Developmental & Molecular Biology
Department of Anatomy & Structural Biology
Department of Medicine
Albert Einstein College of Medicine

“Selective Autophagy on the Cellular Response to Stress in Aging”

Monday, April 25, 2011
12:00 p.m. PT
Fishman Auditorium, La Jolla

Host: John C. Reed, M.D., Ph.D.
Contact: Laura Hughes: lhughes@sanfordburnham.org

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President’s Lecture Series

Kevin P. Campbell, Ph.D.
Investigator, Howard Hughes Medical Institute
Director, Wellstone Muscular Dystrophy Research Ctr.
Chair, Dept. of Molecular Physiology and Biophysics
University of Iowa

“Mechanistic and molecular insights into the pathogenesis of muscular dystrophy”

Tuesday, April 26, 2011
12:00 p.m. PT
Fishman Auditorium, La Jolla

Host: Pier Lorenzo Puri, M.D., Ph.D.
Contact: Tara Mabry: tmabry@sanfordburnham.org

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Cancer Center Seminar

Reuben J. Shaw, Ph.D.
Salk Institute for Biological Studies

“The LKB1/AMPK Pathway Coordinates Growth, Metabolism and Autophagy”

Friday, April 29, 2011
10:00 a.m. PT
Fishman Auditorium, La Jolla

Host: Dr. Jorge Moscat
Contact: Adrienne Crown: acrown@sanfordburnham.org