2013 Speakers

Brenda A. Schulman, Ph.D.Brenda A. Schulman, Ph.D.

  • Member of the Departments of Structural Biology and Genetics/Tumor Cell biology St. Jude Children’s Research Hospital
  • Co-Director of the Program in Molecular Oncology St. Jude Comprehensive Cancer Center
  • Investigator, Howard Hughes Medical Institute

Twists and Turns in Ubiquitin Conjugation Cascade

January 10, 2013

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Andrew Z. Fire, Ph.D.

  • Professor of Pathology and Genetics Stanford University School of Medicine
  • Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine 2006

Biological responses to foreign information

January 24, 2013

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C. Ronald Kahn, M.D.C. Ronald Kahn, M.D.

  • Mary K. Iacocca Professor of Medicine Harvard Medical School
  • Member, Institute of Medicine and National Academy of Sciences

Insulin, Diabetes, and the Control of Brain Metabolism

February 21, 2013

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Scott Hultgren, Ph.DScott Hultgren, Ph.D

  • Helen L. Stoever Professor of Molecular Microbiology
  • Director of the Center for Women’s Infectious Disease Research Washington University
  • Member, National Acadmy of Sciences

Molecular Blueprint of Uropathogenic E. coli Pathogenesis and Targeted Therapies

March 7, 2013

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Jonathan G. Seidman, Ph.D.Jonathan G. Seidman, Ph.D.

  • Henrietta B. and Frederick H. Bugher Foundation Professor of Genetics Harvard Medical School
  • Investigator, Howard Hughes Medical Institute

Next generation sequencing has revolutionized cardiovascular genetics

March 14, 2013

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Jeffrey A. Whitsett, M.D.Jeffrey A. Whitsett, M.D.

  • Co-Director, Perinatal Institute
  • Chief, Section of Neonatology, Perinatal & Pulmonary Biology
  • Professor, UC Department of Pediatrics Cincinnati Children’s Hospital Medical Center
  • Member, Institute of Medicine

Transcriptional networks regulating lung formation and alveolar homeostasis: Lessons from newborn infants

March 28, 2013

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Professor Sir Rory CollinsProfessor Sir Rory Collins

  • Professor of Medicine and Epidemiology
  • Co-Director, Clinical Trial Service Unit & Epidemiological Studies Unit University of Oxford
  • Principal Investigator/Chief Executive, UK Biobank

Size matters: The Need for Large-scale Population Studies

April 4, 2013

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Lee Hartwell, Ph.D.Lee Hartwell, Ph.D.

  • Virginia G. Piper Chair in Personalized Medicine
  • Chief Scientist, Center for Sustainable Health, Biodesign Institute, Arizona State University
  • President Emeritus, Fred Hutchinson Cancer Research Center
  • Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine 2001

The emerging world of biomarkers

April 11, 2013

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Jennifer Lippincott-Schwartz, Ph.D.Jennifer Lippincott-Schwartz, Ph.D.

  • Chief of the Section on Organelle Biology Cell Biology and Metabolism Program National Institute of Child Health and Human
  • Development National Institutes of Health
  • Member, National Academy of Sciences (Epithelial Biology Symposium)

Breakthroughs in Imaging Using Photoactivatable Fluorescent Proteins

April 18, 2013

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Michael S. Brown, M.D.Michael S. Brown, M.D.

  • Regental Professor
  • Director of the Jonsson Center for Molecular Genetics University of Texas Southwestern Medical Center at Dallas
  • Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine 1985
  • Member, National Academy of Sciences

Scap: Anatomy of a Membrane Sterol Sensor

April 25, 2013

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Joan Steitz, Ph.D.Joan Steitz, Ph.D.

Vanderbilt Prize Winner

  • Professor of Molecular Biophysics and Biochemistry Yale Medical Center
  • Investigator, Howard Hughes Medical Institute

Noncoding RNAs: with a viral twist.

May 2, 2013

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James E. K. Hildreth, M.D., Ph.D.James E. K. Hildreth, M.D., Ph.D.

  • Dean of College of Biological Sciences
  • Professor of Molecular and Cellular Biology and Internal Medicine University of California at Davis
  • Member, Institute of Medicine

HIV-1: Limited Genome, Unlimited Biological Complexity – Mechanisms and Implications

May 23, 2013

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Nora D. Volkow, M.D.Nora D. Volkow, M.D.

  • Director of the National Institute on Drug Abuse (NIDA), National Institutes of Health
  • Member, Institute of Medicine

Advances in Addiction Medicine

August 29, 2013

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Wylie Burke, M.D., Ph.D.Wylie Burke, M.D., Ph.D.

  • Professor and Chair Department of Bioethics and Humanities at University of Washington
  • Member, Institute of Medicine

Genome Medicine's Challenge to Practical Wisdom

September 19, 2013

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Michael M. Merzenich, Ph.D.Michael M. Merzenich, Ph.D.

  • Professor of Otolaryngology at UCSF School of Medicine
  • Member, National Academy of Sciences
  • Member, Institute of Medicine

Living With A Plastic Brain

September 26, 2013

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Carl W. ZimmerCarl W. Zimmer

  • Award-winning Science Writer
  • Lecturer, Yale University

When Science Goes Wrong, and Ways to Set It Right

October 3, 2013

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Keith Yamamoto, Ph.D.Keith Yamamoto, Ph.D.

  • Vice Chancellor for Research at UCSF
  • Executive Vice Dean of the School of Medicine, and Professor of Cellular and Molecular Pharmacology
  • Members, Institute of Medicine
  • Member, National Academy of Sciences

Molecular Signal Processing: From a Steroid Hormone, to Transcriptional Regulatory Networks, to Physiology, and Back

October 10, 2013

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Michael L. Klein, Ph.D.Michael L. Klein, Ph.D.

  • Dean, College of Science and Technology at Temple University
  • Laura H. Carnell Professor of Science
  • Member, National Academy of Sciences

Exploring Nature's Design of Voltage Gated Ion Channels via Computation

October 24, 2013

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Harold E. Varmus, M.D.Harold E. Varmus, M.D.

  • Director, National Cancer Institute
  • Member, National Academy of Sciences
  • Members, Institute of Medicine
  • Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine 1989

New Directions in Cancer Research

November 21, 2013

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Jennifer Puck, M.D.Jennifer Puck, M.D.

  • Professor of Immunology, Department of Pediatrics, UCSF
  • Medical Director, Pediatric Clinical Research Center, Clinical & Translational Sciences Institute
  • Investigator, Institute for Human Genetics
  • Members, Institute of Medicine

Early Detection of Severe Immune Defects by Newborn Screening

December 12, 2013

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