Previous CCSB Seminar Series
2012–2013
| Date | Speaker, Talk title |
|---|---|
| Tues 4 Jun 2013 |
Manor Askenazi, Ph.D. Assistant Investigator, Center of Cancer Systems Biology, GRI “Slice: Scalable Data Sharing for Remote Mass Informatics” Host: Lynn Hlatky |
| Tues 21 May 2013 |
Michael Levin, Ph.D. Director, Tufts Center for Regenerative and Developmental Biology; Vannevar Bush Professor, Biology Department, Tufts University “Endogenous voltage gradients and cancer as a developmental disorder: patterning cues in the microenvironment that control carcinogenesis” Host: Edward Rietman |
| Tues 16 Apr 2013 |
Martha L. Bulyk,
Ph.D. Associate Professor of Medicine and Pathology, Brigham & Women's Hospital and Harvard Medical School “Transcription Factors and DNA Regulatory Elements” Host: Edward Rietman |
| Tues 2 Apr 2013 |
Hakho Lee, Ph.D. Center for Systems Biology, Massachusetts General Hospital “Protein typing of circulating microvesicles allows real-time monitoring of glioblastoma therapy” Host: Nava Almog |
| Tues 19 Feb 2013 |
Lawrence Weissbach, Ph.D. Vertex Pharmaceuticals formerly Assistant Professor, Massachusetts General Hospital “Do the truncated plasminogen/apolipoprotein(a)-related genes encode angiogenesis inhibitors?” Host: Chris Briggs |
| 4:00PM Thurs 14 Feb 2013 |
Robert H. Austin, Ph.D. Professor of Physics, Princeton University “Observations of Accelerated Evolution” Host: Ed Rietman |
| Tues 5 Feb 2013 |
Olga Kozyreva,
M.D. Attending Physician, Division of Hematology/Oncology, Steward St. Elizabeth's Medical Center; Assistant Professor of Medicine, Tufts University School of Medicine “Irreversible Electroporation: A Drug-Free Treatment for Cancer” Host: Jaspreet Batra |
| Tues 22 Jan 2013 |
Dorre Grueneberg, Ph.D. President, Augusta Pharmaceuticals “Development of small molecule inhibitors of the ROS receptor tyrosine kinase for cancer treatment” Host: Chris Briggs |
| Tues 8 Jan 2013 |
Thomas N. Seyfried,
Ph.D. Professor of Biology, Boston College “Cancer as a Metabolic Disease” Host: Ed Rietman |
| Tues 18 Dec 2012 |
Nikolai Slavov, Ph.D. van Oudenaarden Systems Biology Lab, MIT “Experimentally identified trade-offs of aerobic glycolysis” Host: Irina Kareva |
| 1:00PM Wed 12 Dec 2012 |
Thierry Colin,
Ph.D. Professor, Université Bordeaux 1; INRIA Futurs, team MC2, France “Image-based simulation of tumor growth: application to metastasis of the lung and the liver. Extension for glioblastomas” Host: Sébastien Benzekry |
| Tues 11 Dec 2012 |
William Chang,
Ph.D. candidate João Xavier Lab, Computational Biology Department, Memorial Sloan-Kettering Cancer Center Physiology, Biophysics and Systems Biology program, Weill Cornell Graduate School of Medical Sciences “Computational modeling of stromal cell-assisted collective cancer cell migration” Host: Kathleen Wilkie |
| Tues 4 Dec 2012 |
James Rheinwald,
Ph.D. Department of Dermatology, Brigham & Women's Hospital; Harvard Skin Disease Research Center, Harvard Medical School “EGFR/MAPK signaling hyperactivity, detectable at the single cell level, identifies early precursors of human squamous cell carcinoma” Host: Shiva Kalinga |
| Tues 20 Nov 2012 |
Michail Sitkovsky, Ph.D. Director of New England Inflammation and Tissue Protection Institute Eleanor W. Black Chair and Professor, Immunophysiology and Pharmaceutical Biotechnology Northeastern University “Immune system response to hypoxia and immunotherapy” Host: Irina Kareva |
| Tues 6 Nov 2012 |
Eric J. Chaisson, Ph.D. Harvard-Smithsonian Center for Astrophsyics “Energy Rate Density: An Astrophysicist Speculates About a Complexity Metric of Potential Interest to the Medical Community” Host: Ed Rietman |
| Tues 23 Oct 2012 |
Carl D. Novina,
M.D., Ph.D. Department of Microbiology and Immunobiology Dana-Farber Cancer Institute, Harvard Medical School, and Broad Institute of Harvard & MIT “Lost in translation: Ribosomes, microRNAs and cancer” Host: Nava Almog |
| Tues 9 Oct 2012 |
Hava Siegelmann, Ph.D. Biologically Inspired Neural and Dynamical Systems (BINDS) Lab Computer Science Department, University of Massachusetts, Amherst “Dynamic Computational Model for Shrinking Tumors” Host: Nava Almog |