NIH's Wednesday Afternoon Lecture Series
Entering its 16th season, the 2009-2010 Wednesday Afternoon Lecture Series is bringing to campus another slate of research "all-stars."
Join us on the main NIH campus at 3 p.m. in Masur Auditorium, Building 10 for these lectures or watch from your office at http://videocast.nih.gov.
September 2009
September 16, 2009
Dr. Helen Piwnica-Worms:
"Targeting Chk1 in Breast Cancer"
Septemer 23, 2009
Maya Angleou:
"An Afternoon with Maya Angelou"
September 30, 2009
Dr. James Hildreth:
"The Lipid and the Virus: The Story of Cholesterol and HIV"
October 2009
October 14, 2009
Dr. Frank J. Rauscher, III:
"Gridlock on the Genomic Beltway: How Epigenetic Gene Silencing Shapes our Cellular Phenotypes"
October 21, 2009
Dr. Bonnie Bassler:
"Intra- and Inter-Species Cell-to-Cell Communication in Bacteria"
October 28, 2009
Dr. Robert Sapolsky:
"Stress and Health: From Molecules to Societies"
November 2009
November 18, 2009
Dr. Dan Kastner:
"Fevers, Genes, and Histories: Adventures in the Genomics of Inflammation"
December 2009
December 2, 2009
Dr. Tobias Meyer:
"Shotgun siRNA Perturbation to Dissect Growth Factor Triggered Proliferation and Migration Signaling Systems"
December 3, 2009
Dr. Juan Bonaficino:
"Sorting It All Out: Signal-mediated Protein Trafficking in the Endosomal-Lysosomal System"
December 9, 2009
Dr. Gerard Karsenty:
"The Novel Physiology of Bone"
December 16, 2009
Dr. Rebecca Richards-Kortum:
"From Cell Phones to Cell Biology: High Tech, Low Cost Solutions for Global Health”
January 2010
January 6, 2010
Dr. John Rich:
"Wrong Place, Wrong Time: Understanding Trauma and Violence in the Lives of Young Black Men"
January 13, 2010
Dr. George Rose:
"Protein Folding: Seeing is Deceiving"
January 20, 2010
Dr. Carol Robinson:
"From Rare Gases to Ribosomes"
January 27, 2010
Dr. Art Horwich:
"Molecular Chaperones in Protein Folding and Neurodegeneration"
February 2010
February 3, 2010
Dr. Ellen Rothenberg:
"Stem Cell to T Cell: Molecular Anatomy of Commitment"
February 10, 2010
Dr. Fred Gage:
"Neural Plasticity and Diversity in the Adult Mammalian Brain"
February 17, 2010
Dr. Helen Mayberg:
"Tuning Depression Circuits Using Deep Brain Stimulation"
February 24, 2010
Dr. Michael Dustin:
"Creating Super-regulatory T Lymphocytes"
March 2010
March 3, 2010
Dr. Susan Taylor:
"Dynamics of PKA Signaling"
March 10, 2010
Dr. Jeffrey Ravetch:
"The Paradox of Immunity"
March 17, 2010
Dr. Carol Barnes:
"Memory and the Aging Brain"
March 18, 2010
Dr. Julio Montaner:
"Closing the Implementation Gap to Stop HIV/AIDS"
March 24, 2010
Dr. Maria Grazia Roncarolo:
"Role of Regulatory T Cells in Tolerance: Implication in Human Diseases"
March 31, 2010
Dr. David Altshuler:
"Genomic Variation and the Inherited Basis of Common Disease"
April 2010
April 7, 2010
Dr. Judy Cho:
"Genetics after Genome-wide Association Studies: Inflammatory Bowel Disease"
April 14, 2010
Dr. Catherine Costello:
"Proteins as Chameleons: The Good, the Bad and the Ugly"
April 21, 2010
Dr. Ronald Breaker:
“Ancient RNA Relics and Modern Drug Discovery”
April 28, 2010
Dr. Sandra Schmid:
"Protecting your Borders: Regulated Entry into the Cell"
May 2010
May 5, 2010
Dr. Joseph Takahashi:
"Clock Genes and Clock Cells: A New View"
May 12, 2010
Dr. Julie Buring:
"What Do We Do When Studies Disagree?"
May 19, 2010
Dr. Michael Karin:
"Control of Tumor Promotion and Metastatic Progression by Inflammatory Signaling"
May 26, 2010
Dr. Daniel Haber:
"Interrogating Circulating Tumor Cells to Direct Targeted Cancer Therapies"
June 2010
June 2, 2010
Dr. Bruce Spiegelman
"Transcriptional Control of Adipogenesis and Systemic Energy Homeostasis"
June 9, 2010
Dr. Yuan Chang:
"A New Virus as a Culprit in Human Cancer"
June 16, 2010
Dr. Rafi Ahmed:
"Memory CD8 T-Cell Differentiation"
June 23, 2010
Dr. Karen Duff:
"It Takes Tau to Tangle : Plaques, Tangles and Neurodegenerative Disease"
June 30, 2010
Dr. Joan Steitz:
"Regulating the Activity of MicroRNAs in Vertebrate Cells"
For a poster of the 2009-2010 Wednesday Afternoon Lecture Series schedule, e-mail Sarah Freeman to request copies for your office.
