Spring series of seminars sponsored by the
Departments of Biochemistry and Medicine
begins on March 31
The Department of Biochemistry and the Evans Center in the Department of Medicine are sponsoring their second joint, thematic seminar series. The purpose of the series is to highlight a cutting edge topic in biology with disease relevance. The theme for the Spring joint seminar series is Stem Cells, Development, and Cancer. Each seminar will be held at 4:00 p.m. in Bakst Auditorium.
The first seminar to be held on Thursday, March 31 is a presentation by Mina Bissell, Ph.D., Distinguished Scientist, Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory entitled The Microenvironment and the Genome in Breast Cancer: How Does Tissue Architecture Inform Therapy?
The second seminar in the series will be held on Thursday, April 7. The guest speaker will be Robert Weinberg, Ph.D. Professor of Biology, Whitehead Institute, MIT. The seminar is entitled High-grade Malignancy, the Epithelial-mesenchymal Transition, and Cancer Stem Cells.
The last in the series will be held on Thursday, April 28 and features Matthew Scott, Ph.D., Professor of Developmental Biology, genetics and Bioengineering, Stanford University and Investigator, Howard Hughes Medical institute. The title of this presentation is Communicating with Hedgehogs: Signaling in Development and Disease.