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Digestive Health Center

Seminar Series

The Digestive Health Center hosts a weekly seminar series which will include distinguished speakers outside the Academic Medical Center. Additionally we will feature conferences by principal investigators and research fellows from Cincinnati Children's Hospital Medical Center and the University of Cincinnati.  Below is the tentative schedule of speakers.  See weekly seminar email announcement for current information.  

The seminar series is held on Tuesdays at Noon in Location S Room 6.125. 

Conference Date Presenter Title/Topic
September 6, 2011 No Seminar  
September 13, 2011 Aleixo Muise, MD, PhD, FRCPC
Hospital for Sick Children
University of Toronto
"Genetic and Functional Studies in IBD: A Candidate Gene Approach"
September 20, 2011 Kevin Hommel, PhD
Behavioral Medicine and Clinical Psychology
Cincinnati Children's Hospital Medical Center
"Toward Individualized Self-Management in Pediatric Inflammatory Bowel Disease"
September 27, 2011 Alexander Miethke, MD
Gastroenterology, Hepatology & Nutrition
Cincinnati Children's Hospital Medical Center
"The Role of Regulatory T Cells in Biliary Atresia"
October 4, 2011 Amit Tevar, MD
Department of Surgery
University of Cincinnati
"The Role of B Cells in the Progression of
Non-Alcoholic Steatohepatitis"
October 11, 2011 Samuel Klein, MD
Washington University at St. Louis
"Metabolically Normal and Abnormal Obesity"
October 18, 2011 Mehdi Keddache, PhD
DHC Gene and Protein Expression Core
Cincinnati Children's Hospital Medical Center
"The Next Generation Sequencing Based Transcriptome Analysis Services of the CCHMC Sequencing Facility: mRNA-seq, cDNA-seq and microRNA-seq"
October 25, 2011 Senad Divanovic, PhD
Molecular Immunology
Cincinnati Children's Hospital Medical Center
"Role of IL-17 in NAFLD Development and Progression"
November 1, 2011 Giorgina Mieli-Vergani, MD, PhD
King's College London School of Medicine
TBA
November 8, 2011 No Seminar - AASLD Conference  
November 15, 2011 Laura Woollett, PhD
Dept of Pathology and Laboratory Medicine
University of Cincinnati
TBA
November 22, 2011 No Seminar- Thanksgiving Holiday  
November 29, 2011 Jerrold Turner, MD, PhD
University of Chicago
"A Mechanistic Approach to Treating the Mucosal Barrier"
December 6, 2011 Yana Zavros, PhD
Dept of Molecular and Cellular Physiology
University of Cincinnati
"The Role of Sonic Hedgehog as a Regulator of Gastric Epithelial Regeneration"
December 13, 2011 Keith Stringer, MD
DHC Morphology Core
Cincinnati Children's Hospital Medical Center
"Tutorial on Using the Digital Slide Scanning Software"
December 20, 2011 No Seminar- Christmas Holiday  
December 27, 2011 No Seminar- Christmas Holiday