Molecular and Developmental Biology Graduate Program

  • Seminar Series

    Every year, the Cincinnati Children's Research Foundation, with the Molecular and Developmental Biology Graduate Program, hosts a weekly seminar series. Noted researchers from across the country come to Cincinnati Children's to talk about a variety of topics within molecular and developmental biology.

    The seminar series is held on Wednesdays from 12 noon to 1 pm in the Research Auditorium, TCHRF 3381.

    For Spring 2013, the scheduled speakers are as follows.

    Date

    Speaker

    Seminar Title

    RACHFORD
    March 27
    ALEXANDRA JOYNER, PhD
    Sloan-Kettering Institute
    **RECEPTION AT 1:00PM IN THE OLD PRATT CAFÉ**
    Cerebellum circuit formation from a developmental perspective
    April 3JONATHAN EPSTEIN, PhD
    University of Pennsylvania
    Molecular Mechanisms of Cardiac Development
    April 10TIMOTHY BLACKWELL, MD
    Vanderbilt University
    Stressed-­‐out Epithelium and the Pathogenesis of IPF
    RACHFORD
    April 17
    AUSTIN SMITH, PhD
    Centre for Stem Cell Research
    **RECEPTION AT 1:00PM IN THE OLD PRATT CAFÉ**
    Embryonic stem cells: capture of a ground state
    April 24ANNE SPERLING, PhD
    The University of Chicago
    Mechanisms by which dendritic cells direct Th2 responses
    May 1ANTHONY WYNSHAW-­‐BORIS, MD, PhD
    University of California, San Francisco
    Modeling human neurogenetic diseases: mouse models in vivo and human iPSC cellular models
    May 8DANIEL BIRNBAUM, MD, PhD
    Cancer Research Center of Marseille, INSERM
    Altered genes and cells in luminal B breast cancer
    May 15CAROLE LABONNE, PhD
    Northwestern University
    Regulation of neural crest EMT
    May 22NANETTE NASCONE-­‐YODER, PhD
    North Carolina State University
    On the right ‘tract’: investigating the morphogenesis and evolution of the gut
    May 29ZHIGANG HE, PhD
    Boston Children’s Hospital
    Re-­‐building neural circuits after CNS injury

     

    Sponsored by the Perinatal Institute and the Division of Developmental Biology.