{"id":4205,"date":"2011-02-28T13:59:36","date_gmt":"2011-02-28T17:59:36","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.bumc.bu.edu\/biochemcellbio\/?p=4205"},"modified":"2026-01-07T15:16:48","modified_gmt":"2026-01-07T20:16:48","slug":"joint_series_03-11","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.bumc.bu.edu\/biochemcellbio\/2011\/02\/28\/joint_series_03-11\/","title":{"rendered":"Stem Cells, Development, and Cancer &#8211; Series Begins March 31"},"content":{"rendered":"<h2>Spring series of seminars sponsored by the<br \/>\nDepartments of Biochemistry and Medicine<br \/>\nbegins on March 31<\/h2>\n<p>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 <em><strong>Stem Cells, Development,  and Cancer<\/strong><\/em>. Each seminar will be held at 4:00 p.m. in Bakst Auditorium.<\/p>\n<p>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 <em>The Microenvironment and the Genome in Breast Cancer: How Does Tissue Architecture Inform Therapy?<\/em><\/p>\n<p>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 <em>High-grade Malignancy, the Epithelial-mesenchymal Transition, and Cancer Stem Cells.<\/em><\/p>\n<p>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 <em>Communicating with Hedgehogs: Signaling in Development and Disease.<\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Spring series of seminars sponsored by the Departments of Biochemistry and Medicine begins on March 31 The Department of Biochemistry [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":922,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[1],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bumc.bu.edu\/biochemcellbio\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4205"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bumc.bu.edu\/biochemcellbio\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bumc.bu.edu\/biochemcellbio\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bumc.bu.edu\/biochemcellbio\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/922"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bumc.bu.edu\/biochemcellbio\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=4205"}],"version-history":[{"count":9,"href":"https:\/\/www.bumc.bu.edu\/biochemcellbio\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4205\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":8368,"href":"https:\/\/www.bumc.bu.edu\/biochemcellbio\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4205\/revisions\/8368"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bumc.bu.edu\/biochemcellbio\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=4205"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bumc.bu.edu\/biochemcellbio\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=4205"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bumc.bu.edu\/biochemcellbio\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=4205"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}