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2008 Spring Seminar Schedule

  All seminars are on MONDAY @ 12:00 p.m., Room 8-201 (unless indicated otherwise). Please note that seminar day, time, and room may change.  Check website often for updates.

Below you will find our 2008 spring seminar schedule. Seminars are presented by Departmental faculty and students, as well as invited guest speakers on a weekly basis during the fall and spring semesters.

 

 

DATE

SPEAKER

TITLE

 

Thursday, Feb 14
Noon, room 8-201

Mitzi Glover
Graduate student
Dept of Cellular Biology and Anatomy, Louisiana State University, Med School, Shreveport, LA

Effects of acute ethanol administration on the poly I:C-induced immune response:
Role of HPA versus SNS

Friday, Feb 15
9:00, room 8-201

Yihang Pan
Graduate Student
Dept of Cellular Biology and Anatomy, Louisiana State University, Med School, Shreveport, LA

Function of the intermediate filament protein synemin in astrocytoma cells

Friday, Feb 15
1:00, Room 8-201

Disha Mody
Graduate student
Dept of Cellular Biology and Anatomy, Louisiana State University, Med School, Shreveport, LA

To be announced

Monday, March 10
Noon, room 8-201

Kristine von Maltaz
Graduate student
Dept of Cellular Biology and Anatomy, Louisiana State University, Med School, Shreveport, LA

To be announced

Monday, March 17
Noon, room 8-201

Steven Funk
Graduate student
Dept of Cellular Biology and Anatomy, Louisiana State University, Med School, Shreveport, LA

To be announced

Tuesday, March 25
8:00 am
B-445 FWCC
Joint seminar with FWCC

Anita Sabichi, M.D.
Associate Professor
Clinical Cancer Prevention, Department of Head
Neck Medical Oncology, University of Texas
M.D. Anderson Cancer Center,Houston, TX

Transgenic mouse models for the study of superficial and invasive bladder cancer & tumorigenesis o

Tuesday, April 1
8:00 am
B-445 FWCC
Joint seminar with FWCC

Wayne Koch, M.D.
Professor,
Head and Neck Cancer Center, Johns Hopkins School of Medicine, Baltimore, MD

TP53 mutation and MPV in HNSCC: Interaction and prognostic implications

Monday, April 7
Noon, room 8-201

Aaron Pitre
Graduate student
Dept of Cellular Biology and Anatomy, Louisiana State University, Med School, Shreveport, LA

To be announced

Monday, April 14
Noon, Room 8-201

Walter Cromer
Graduate student
Dept of Cellular Biology and Anatomy, Louisiana State University, Med School, Shreveport, LA

To be announced

Monday, April 21
Noon, room 8-201

Shilpa Bathia
Graduate student
Dept of Cellular Biology and Anatomy, Louisiana State University, Med School, Shreveport, LA

Alphavirus-based oncolytic virus vectors for cancer gene therapy.

Tuesday, April 29
Noon, room 8-201

Alan Eastman, Ph.D.,
Professor of Pharmacology; Director of Molecular Therapeutics Research
Dartmouth-Hitchcock Medical School, Lebanon, NH

Cell cycle checkpoint inhibitors as a means to enhance anticancer activity

Tuesday May 06
8:00 am
B-445 FWCC
Joint seminar with FWCC

Ramesh Ganju, Ph.D.
Professor of Pathology; Vice-Chair, axis: Experimental Pathology, Ohio State    University, Columbus, OH

CXCL 12/CXCR4 and Slit/Robo signaling Functional role and pathological relevance

Monday, May 12
Noon, Room 8-201

Ana Nedeljovik-Kurepa
Graduate student
Dept of Cellular Biology and Anatomy, Louisiana State University, Med School, Shreveport, LA

To be announced

Tuesday May 20
8:00 am
B-445 FWCC
Joint seminar with FWCC

John Laterra, M.D.
Professor, Departments of Neurology,Neuroscience and Oncology, Johns Hopkins School of Medicine and the Kennedy Krieger Research Institute, Baltimore, MD

Primary brain cancer:  New concepts and targeted therapeutic