Director's Seminar Series

Hosts:

Kun-Liang Guan, PhD
Co-Leader, Cancer Biology Program
Professor, Dept. of Pharmacology

Dong-Er Zhang, PhD
Co-Leader, Cancer Biology Program
Professor, Depts. of Biological Sciences & Pathology

When:

4:00-5:00 p.m. - Dates as indicated
Reception precedes lectures at 3:30 p.m. in the auditorium foyer

Where:

Lee and Frank M. Goldberg Auditorium
Moores Cancer Center, Second Floor

Contact information:

Zoya Vigalock
chadmin@ucsd.edu

858-822-2655

Angela Robles
angelarobles@ucsd.edu  
858-822-1110

Date

Speaker

Title

2011
Oct. 12

Thomas Kipps, MD
Professor and Director (Interim)
Moores UCSD Cancer Center

Insights into the Biology of Chronic Lymphocytic Leukemia

Nov. 16 

Juanita Merchant, MD, PhD
Professor
University of Michigan

Chronic Inflammation and Gastric Cancer: Role of Hedgehog Signaling

Dec. 7

Anjana Rao, PhD
Professor
La Jolla Institute of Allergy and Immunology

Tet Proteins and 5-hydroxymethylcytosine in Haematopoietic Function and Cancer

2012
Jan. 25

Joan S. Brugge, PhD
Professor and Chair
Harvard Medical School

Adaptive Protective Responses to Targeted Cancer Therapies 

Feb 15  

John E. Dick, PhD
Professor and Director
Ontario Institute of Cancer Research, Canada

Towards Unification of the Cancer Stem Cell and Clonal Evolution Models of Cancer Heterogeneity

April 11

John Blenis, PhD
Professor
Harvard Medical School


mTORC1 and Cell Growth Control

May 9

Michael Cleary, MD
Professor
Stanford School of Medicine

Molecular Pathways that Sustain Leukemia Stem Cells

June 13

Michael Karin, PhD
Professor
UCSD, Dept. of Pharmacology

TBA