Frontiers
in Gene and Molecular Therapies
Lecture Series
2008-2009
Hosted by:
Mark A.
Kay, M.D., Ph.D., Director of Human Gene Therapy
Sponsored by the Department of Pediatrics
3:00-4:00
p.m. at Munzer Auditorium
Beckman Center
Stanford University
Reception will follow
Scheduled Speakers:
January 17, 2008: David A. Dean, Ph.D., Professor, Dept of Pediatrics M&D Neonatology, University of Rochester School of Medicine
“Cytoplasmic and Intranuclear Trafficking of Plasmids”
January 31, 2008: Markus Grompe, M.D., Professor of Molecular and Medical Genetics and Pediatrics, Oregon Health & Science University
“Stem Cells in the Liver and Pancreas: New Tools and Paradigms”
February 7, 2008: Pier Lorenzo Puri, M.D., Ph.D., Assistant Professor, Burnham Institute for Medical Research
“Chromatin Signaling in Muscle Stem Cells: Novel Targets for Pharmacological Manipulation of Muscle Regeneration?”
March 10, 2008: Lawrence Krauss, M.D., Ambrose Swasey Professor of Physics, Professor of Astronomy, and Director of the Center for Education and Research in Cosmology and Astrophysics
“The Attack on Science and Medicine: From Washington to the Classroom...”
March 13, 2008: Sina Bavari, Ph.D., Chief, Immunology, Target Identification and Translational Research, US Army Medical Research Institute of Infectious Diseases
“Impact of Chemical Biology on Immunology of Pathogenic Microbes”
March 20, 2008: John Zaia, M.D., Division of Virology, Beckman Research Institute of City of Hope
“Lentivirus-Based Gene Transfer in AIDS Patients Undergoing Hematopoietic Cell Transplantation”
April 3, 2008: Thomas R. Gingeras, Ph.D., Vice President of Biological Sciences, Affymetrix, Inc.
"Genome-Wide Maps of the Human Transcriptome Reveal an Interleaved Organization and Novel Short and Long Classes of RNAs"
April 17, 2008: Maria-Grazia Roncarolo, M.D., Ph.D., Director of San Raffaele Telethon Institute for Gene Therapy
"Gene Therapy for Primary Immunodeficiencies: the ADA/SCID Paradigm and Beyond"
May 1, 2008: Bryan R. Cullen, Ph.D., Professor, Department of Molecular Genetics & Microbiology; Research Professor, Department of Medicine, Duke University School of Medicine
“Viruses, MicroRNAs, and RNA Interference”
May 15, 2008: Frank Slack, Ph.D., Associate Professor, Department of Molecular, Cellular and Developmental Biology, Yale University
"MicroRNAs in Development and Cancer"
June 12, 2008: Fatima Bosch, Ph.D., Professor of Biochemistry and Molecular Biology, and Director of the Center of Animal Biotechnology and Gene Therapy, the Universitat Autònoma de Barcelona
"Gene Therapy Approaches for Diabetes Mellitus"
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