2004-5 SEMINAR SCHEDULE

ROOM 6001 unless otherwise noted- 4:00 P.M.

 

May 10, 2005: Matthew Comeaux, BS, BA
Graduate Student
Human Genetics Program
Tulane University Health Sciences Center

“Cis Factors Affecting Alu Retroposition
Efficiency”

 

May 3, 2005: Elizabeth Mannick, MD
Associate Professor of Pediatrics
Clinical Associate Professor of Surgery
Tulane University Health Sciences Center

“Genetics of Inflammatory Bowel Disease
Inside and Outside of Louisiana”

 

April 26, 2005: Margaret Park, PhD
Hayward Genetics Center
Tulane University Health Sciences Center
Doctoral dissertation

“Cysteinylation of PKCδ by Lysosomal Cystine Enhances Apoptosis in Cultured Cells”
***PLEASE NOTE: Room 5150 – This seminar only***

 

April 19, 2005: Larry Sweetman, Ph.D.
Director of Mass Spectrometry Laboratory
Institute of Metabolic Disease
Baylor University Medical Center
Dallas, TX

“Newborn Screening for Metabolic Disorders: MS/MS”

April 12, 2005: Elizabeth Mannick, MD PhD
Associate Professor of Pediatrics,
Clinical Associate Professor of Surgery.
Tulane University Health Sciences Center

"Genetics of Inflammatory Bowel Disease Inside and Outside of Louisiana"

 

April 5, 2005: Marilyn Li, MD
Assistant Professor
Hayward Genetics Center
Tulane University Health Sciences Center

“Cystic Fibrosis screening and diagnostic testing.”

 

March 29, 2005: Frank Bastian, Ph.D
Professor, Dept. of Pathology
Tulane Univesity School of Medicine

“Creutzfeldt-Jakob Disease”

 

March 22, 2005: No Seminar

 

March 15, 2005: Bruce Bunnell, Ph.D
Assoicate Professor
Department of Pharmacology
Chairman, Division of Gene Therapy
Tulane National Primate Research Center

“The Development of Therapeutic Interventions for
Krabbe’s Disease: Stem Cells and Artificial Chromosomes”

 

March 8, 2005: Pleasant Fite Hooper, M.D.
Scientist - Specialist
Louisiana Office of Public Health
Biochemical Genetics Laboratory

“Newborn Screening 2005 – New Methods & New Cases”

 

March 1, 2005: Arthur Lustig, Ph.D
Associate Professor
Department of Biochemistry

“Telomeres, Recombination, and Cancer”

PLEASE NOTE: Room 5150 – This seminar only

 

February 22, 2005: Craig Cohen, Ph.D.
Professor, Dept. of Medicine, Biochemistry, and Genetics
LSU Health Sciences Center

“The molebiochempulphysiology of cystic fibrosis”

 

February 15, 2005: Yu-Teh Li, Ph.D.
Professor, Department of Biochemistry
Tulane University School of Medicine

“The Biochemical Study of Tay-Sachs Disease”

 

February 1, 2005: Joan Bennett, Ph.D.
Professor, Cell and Molecular Biology
Tulane University

“What good is Fungal Genomics?”

 

January 25, 2005: Prescott Deininger, Ph.D.
Zimmerman Chair for Cancer Research
Tulane Cancer Center and Department of Epidemiology
Tulane School of Public Health and Tropical Medicine
Hayward Genetics Center

“Mobile Elements Cause Extensive Genomic Damage”

 

January 18, 2005: Robert Gensure, MD, Ph.D
Assistant Professor & Chief, Section of Pediatric Endocrinology,
Department of Pediatrics, Tulane Hospital for Children

Subject: To be announced

 

January 11, 2005: Catherine Ward, MD
Fellow in Pediatrics Genetics
University of Texas Health Sciences Center,
Houston, Texas

"Modifier Genes in Tuberous Sclerosis Complex"

December 7, 2004: Melanie Ehrlich, Ph.D
Professor, Biochemistry
Hayward Genetics Center
Tulane University Health Sciences Center

“Frequent DNA Epigenetic Changes in Ovarian
Cancers and Wilms Tumors: Sequences with
Decreases or Increases in Methylation or Both”

 

November 30, 2004: Karen Weissbecker, Ph.D
Assistant Professor
Dept. of Psychiartry and Neurology
Human Genetics Program

“Genetics and Comorbidity of Obsessive Compulsive Disorder”

 

November 23, 2004: Diptasri Mandel, Ph.D
Assistant Professor
Graduate Student Coordinator
Department of Genetics
LSU Health Sciences Center

“Genetics of Prostate Cancer Study: an Update”

 

November 16, 2004: Charles Scriver, MDCM FRS
Alva Professor Emeritus of Human Genetics
McGill University
Montreal Children’s Hospital Research Institute

“After the Human Genome Project – A Phenome Project?:
Messages from the PAH Locus.”

 

November 9, 2004: T.C. Narumanchi, MD
Fellow, Human Genetics Program
Tulane Medical School

“Fetus in-Fetu”

November 2, 2004: Report from ASHG

 

October 19, 2004: Chulaluck Techakitteroj, MD
Fellow, Human Genetics Program
Tulane Medical School

“Galactosemia in Louisiana: Newborn Screening
Follow-Up”

 

October 12, 2004: Robert Martensen, MD, Ph.D
James A. Knight Chair in Humanities and Ethics
in Medicine and Professor of Surgery
Tulane University School of Medicine

“Genetics and Human Behavior: Some Current Ethics
Issues”

 

October 5, 2004: Bronya Keats, Ph.D
Professor and Chair, Dept. of Genetics
Director, Center for Molecular and Human Genetics
Louisiana State University School of Medicine

“Progress with the HAPMAP”

 

September 28, 2004: Bo Xu, MD Ph.D.
Assistant Professor of Genetics
Depart of Genetics and Stanley S Scott Cancer Center
LSU Health Sciences Center

"DNA Damage Response and Human Genetics Diseases"

 

September 21, 2004: Mary Kay Pelias, Ph.D. JD.
Professor Emerita of Genetics
GenELSI Consulting Inc.

“Ethical and Legal Issues in Gene Transfer”

 

September 14, 2004: Robert Martensen, MD, Ph.D
James A. Knight Chair in Humanities and Ethics in
Medicine and Professor of Surgery
Tulane University School of Medicine

"Ethics in Genetics: Some Current Issues"

 

September 7, 2004: Hans C. Andersson, MD
Associate Professor of Pediatrics
Tulane University School of Medicine
Human Genetics Program
Hayward Genetics Center

“Cobalamin C Disease: Sleuthing
A French-Canadian Gene In Acadiana”

2003-4 SEMINAR SCHEDULE

 

May 18, 2004: Laurie Denise Smith, M.D., Ph.D, F.A.A.P.
Oregon Health & Science University
Department of Molecular & Medical Genetics Division of Metabolism, Department of Pediatrics

“Glutaric Acidemia Type I: Presentations, Particulars and
Prospects”

 

May 11, 2004: Fern Tsien, Ph.D
Instructor
Department of Genetics
Louisiana State University Health Sciences Center

“Syndromes and Molecular Mechanisms of the 22q11.2
Region”

 

May 4, 2004: David Ledbetter, Ph.D
Woodruff Professor of Human Genetics
Division Director, Medical Genetics, Dept. of Human Genetics
Emory University School of Medicine, Atlanta, Georgia

“Towards a Molecular Karyotype by Array CGH: Progress and
Prospects”

 

April 27, 2004 Pleasant F. Hooper, M.D.
Scientist – Specialist, Newborn Screening
Louisiana Office of Public Health Central Laboratory

“Newborn Screening in Louisiana – 2004”

 

April 20, 2004: Jennifer Abadie, B.S.
Graduate Student, Department of Genetics
Louisiana State University Health Sciences Center

"GJB2 – Associated Deafness"

 

April 13, 2004: Charles S. Hemenway, M.D., Ph. D
Associate Professor of Pediatrics

“Rational Development of an Inhibitor of
t(4;11) Leukemia”

 

April 6, 2004: Albert W. Dreisbach III, MD
Assistant Professor
Sections of Nephrology & Hypertension
and Clinical Pharmacology,
Department of Internal Medicine

“Role of Genetic Polymorphisms in P450
Pathways Hypertension”

 

March 30, 2004: Jess G. Thoene, MD
Director, Human Genetics Program
Hayward Genetics Center
Karen Gore Chair in Human Genetics
Professor of Pediatrics

“Orphan drugs, Orphan tests”

 

March 23, 2004: To Be Announced

 

March 16, 2004: Chris Dvorak, M.S.
Certified Genetic Counselor
Tulane University Health Sciences Center
Hayward Genetics Center
Human Genetics Program

“Genetics of Craniofacial Abnormalities”

 

March 9, 2004: Cathy Higgins, Ph.D.ABD
Tulane University, Department of Chemistry

“Unfolding and Stability Properties of [2Fe-2S]
Ferredoxins from the Hyperthermophilic Bacterium
Aquifex aeolicus”

 

March 2, 2004: Tara Turley-Stoulig
Graduate Student, LSU Health Sciences Center
Department of Human Genetics

“Approaches to Complex Genetic Disease Studies”

February 24, 2004: Mardi Gras - No Seminar

February 17, 2004: Michelle Lacey, Ph.D
Assistant Professor
Tulane Department of Mathematics

"Detecting Genetic Alterations in Small Samples: MicroarrayAnalysis of Amplified DNA"

 

February 10, 2004: Andrew Hollenbach, Ph.D
Assistant Professor
Louisiana State University Health Sciences Center
Department of Genetics

"Pax3 and Pax3-FKHR in Myogenic Differentiation and Alveolar Rhabdomyosarcoma"

 

February 3, 2004: Aline Scandurro, Ph.D.
Research Assistant Professor
Dept. of Microbiology & Immunology

“Hypoxia and surprisingly, erythropoietin elicit a pro-angiogenic phenotypic switch in human mesenchymal stem cells”

 

January 20, 2004: Samir El-Dahr, M.D.
Professor of Pediatrics, Section of Nephrology
Tulane University Health Sciences Center

January 13, 2004: Roderick R. McInnes, M.D., Ph.D.
Senior Scientist, Hospital for Sick Children
Anne and Max Tanenbaum Chair in Molecular Medicine
Professor of Pediatrics and Molecular and Medical Genetics
University of Toronto

“How and why photoreceptors die in the inherited retinal degenerations–from math to
molecules.”

 

December 16, 23, 30: NO SEMINAR - HAPPY HOLIDAYS

 

December 9: Arthur J. Lustig, Ph.D
Associate Professor of Biochemistry
Adjunct Associate Professor of Human Genetics
Tulane University Health Sciences Center

“Clues to Catastrophic Telomere Loss in Mammals from Yeast
Telomere Rapid Deletion”

 

December 2: Bart M. Sevin, Ph.D
Director, Louisiana Center for Excellence in Autism
Human Development Center
LSU Health Sciences Center

“Autism - Diagnosis and Treatment”

 

November 25: Reports from the ASHG Meetings

 

November 18: Sudhir K. Sinha, Ph.D
President and Lab Director
ReliaGene Technologies, Inc.

“Forensic Applications of DNA Testing”

 

November 11: Eva Morava, M.D., Ph.D
Assistant Professor of Pediatrics
Nijmegen Center for Mitochondrial Disorders
University Medical Center, Nijmegen, The Netherlands

“Congenital Anomalies in Mitochondrial Disorders: Metabolic and
Molecular Genetic Background”

 

November 4: No Seminar (ASHG Meetings)

 

October 28: Jill Schurr, M.S.
Instructor
Department of Genetics
LSU Health Sciences Center

“Microarray-based Gene Expression Profiling Reveals Defective TLR-4
signaling in Experimental K. Pneumoniae
Infection” (Room 4150)

 

October 21: John A. Phillips III
Professor of Pediatrics, Medicine & Biochemistry
Vanderbilt University School of Medicine

“Primary Pulmonary Hypertension is A Complex Genetic Disease”?

 

October 14: Seven D. Clarke, Ph.D
Professor of Molecular Genetics
Pennington Biomedical Research Center
Louisiana State University

“The Unique Supression of Lipogenic Gene Transcription by
Polyunsaturated Fats: Mechanism to Prevent Diabetic Steatosis”

 

October 7: Michael J. Schurr Ph.D
Assistant Professor
Tulane University Health Sciences Center
Department of Microbiology and Immunology
Program in Molecular Pathogenesis and Immunity

“Pseudomonas Aeruginosa Clinical Isolates Produce Hydrogen
Cyanide in Cystic Fibrosis”

 

September 30: Mary Kay Pelias, Ph.D
Professor
Department of Genetics
LSU Health Science Center

“Legal and Ethical Issues in Genetics: An Update”

September 23: Tara Turley
Ph.D Candidate
Department of Genetics
LSU Health Sciences Center

“Approaches to Complex Genetic Disease Studies”

September 16: Jess Thoene, MD
Karen Gore Professor of Pediatrics
Director, Hayward Genetics Center

“Biochemical Genetics as a Paradigm for Understanding Gene Action”