Digestive Health Center

Seminar Series

Past Seminars

You can view past seminar schedules here:

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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.

The seminar series is held on Tuesdays at Noon in Location S (new research building) Room 6.125. 

Conference DatePresenterTitle/Topic
June 3, 2008 Bryan Mackenzie, PhD
Dept Molecular & Cellular Physiology		 "Functional Properties of the Iron Transporter DMT1 and Its Role in Intestinal Metal-Ion Absorption"
June 10, 2008 Noah Shroyer, PhD
Gastroenterology		 Atonal homolog 1
June 17, 2008 Katie Moyer, MD
Gastroenterology    		 Journal Club
June 24, 2008 William Paterson, MD, FRCPC
Queen's University		 "Novel Insights into the Pathogenesis
of Gastroesophageal Reflux Disease"
July 1, 2008 to August 31 2008 Summer Break
September 2, 2008 Marepalli Rao, PhD and
Ranajit Chakraborty, PhD
Dept. of Environmental Health
University of Cincinnati

 
Biostatistical Workshop: Biostatistics 101

September 9, 2008 Clara Abraham, MD
Yale Univeristy		 Inflammatory bowel disease
September 16, 2008 Journal Club     TBD
September 23, 2008 TBD  
September 30, 2008 John Bucuvalas, MD
Gastroenterology        		 Optimizing the outcome of children with chronic liver disease
October 7, 2008 Jarek Meller, PhD
Depts.of Environmental Health and Biomedical Engineering
University of Cincinnati		 "Structural Bioinformatics as Hypothesis Generator: Prediction and Modeling of Protein Interactions"
October 14, 2008 Journal Club TBD
October 21, 2008 Kevin Hommel, PhD
Behavioral Medicine & Clinical Psychology		 Adherence to medication in patients with Inflammatory Bowel Disease
October 28, 2008 Klaus Kaestner, PhD
University of Pennsylvania		  Gastrointestinal epithelium differentiation
November 4, 2008 No Conference due to AASLD meeting
November 11, 2008 No Conference due to University of Cincinnati Holiday
November 18, 2008 Alex Bondoc, MD
Pediatric & Thoracic Surgery		 Preventing rotavirus induced biliary atresia using live rotavirus vaccine
November 25, 2008 No Conference due to Thanksgiving Holiday
December 2, 2008 Matthias Tschoep, PhD
Dept. of Psychiatry
University of Cincinnati

 
Ghrelin and obesity

December 9, 2008 Martin Martin, MD
UCLA; Mattel Children's Hospital		 Mechanism of IgG and IgA transport across the intestinal layer

Last updated: June 3, 2008