Previous CCSB Seminar Series
2011 – 2012
| Date | Speaker, Talk title |
|---|---|
| Wed 27 Jun 2012 |
Robert Silver, Ph.D. Professor Departments of Pharmacology, Physiology and Radiology, Wayne State University School of Medicine Department of Biomedical Engineering, Wayne State University School of Engineering “How do cells make decisions: simple question, complex answer” Host: Lynn Hlatky |
| Tues 19 Jun 2012 |
A.J. Marian Walhout, Ph.D. Professor and Co-Director Program in Systems Biology, Program in Gene Function and Expression, Program in Molecular Medicine, University of Massachusetts Medical School “Gene regulatory networks” Host: Edward Rietman |
| Mon 18 Jun 2012 |
David Varon, M.D. Director, Coagulation Unit Hadassah-Hebrew University Medical Center “The role of platelets and their microparticles in angiogenesis, tissue regeneration and cancer progression” Host: Giannoula Lakka Klement |
| Tues 5 Jun 2012 |
Jeff Gore, Ph.D. Assistant Professor of Physics, Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT) “Cooperation, cheating, and collapse in microbial populations” Host: Irina Kareva |
| Tues 22 May 2012 |
Nader Rahimi, Ph.D. Boston University School of Medicine “IGPR-1: A novel adhesion molecule involved in tumor invasion and angiogenesis” Host: Heiko Enderling |
| Tues 15 May 2012 |
Neda Bagheri, Ph.D. Chemical and Biological Engineering Northwestern University, Chicago “A dynamical systems perspective on cytokine signaling responses by human T cells” Host: Heiko Enderling |
| Tues 24 Apr 2012 |
Mikael Pittet, Ph.D. MGH Center for Systems Biology, Massachusetts General Hospital; Harvard Medical School “Long-range communication between tumors and the immune system” Host: Kathleen Wilkie |
| Tues 17 Apr 2012 |
James A. Glazier, Ph.D. Director, Biocomplexity Institute, Department of Physics, Indiana University “Modeling tumor growth and blood vessel formation in CompuCell 3D” Host: Heiko Enderling |
| Thurs 8 Mar 2012 |
Jack Tuszynski, Ph.D. Department of Physics/Condensed Matter, University of Alberta, Edmonton, Canada “From in silico to in vivo drug discovery for cancer chemotherapy” Host: Edward Rietman |
| Tues 6 Mar 2012 |
Constantine Mitsiades, M.D., Ph.D. Dana-Farber Cancer Institute, Harvard Medical School “Tumor–microenvironment interactions and their influence on responsiveness to anti-cancer therapeutics” Host: Giannoula Klement |
| Tues 21 Feb 2012 |
Daniel Segrè, Ph.D. Departments of Biology and Biomedical Engineering, Bioinformatics Program, Boston University “Metabolic interactions within and between cells” Host: Lynn Hlatky |
| Thurs 2 Feb 2012 |
Lloyd Demetrius Harvard University; Max Planck Institute “The Origin of Cancer and Age Related Neurological Diseases: The Warburg Effect” Host: Ed Rietman |
| Tues 31 Jan 2012 |
Jan Poleszczuk Institute of Applied Mathematics and Mechanics, University of Warsaw, Poland “Mathematical Modeling of Tumor Growth” Host: Heiko Enderling |
| Tues 24 Jan 2012 |
Johan Paulsson, Ph.D. Department of Systems Biology, Harvard Medical School “Fluctuation Theory as a Basis for Experimental Design” Host: Edward Rietman |
| Tues 3 Jan 2012 |
Jacquin C. Niles, M.D., Ph.D. Assistant Professor of Biological Engineering, Pfizer-Laubach Career Development Chair, Massachusetts Institute of Technology “Controllably manipulating the cellular RNA landscape: Applications in model eukaryote and human malarial parasite biology” Host: Edward Rietman |
| Tues 13 Dec 2011 |
Andrey Sharov, M.D., Ph.D. Department of Dermatology, Boston University School of Medicine “The role of BMP-Smad pathway in cutaneous stem cell maintenance and carcinogenesis” Host: David Goukassian |
| Tues 29 Nov 2011 |
Richard Van Etten, M.D., Ph.D.
Director, Cancer Center at Tufts Medical Center “Quantitative modeling of chronic myeloid leukemia and other myeloproliferative neoplasms in mice” Host: Lynn Hlatky |
| Tues 15 Nov 2011 |
Michael Reich Director of Cancer Informatics Development, Broad Institute of MIT and Harvard “Tools for Genomic Computation, Visualization, and Integration” Host: Edward Rietman |
| Tues 1 Nov 2011 |
Janusz Rak, M.D., Ph.D. McGill University, Canada “Microvesicles -- the mediators and messengers of tumour progression” Host: Giannoula Klement |
| Tues 18 Oct 2011 |
Hava Avraham, Ph.D.
Beth Israel Deaconess Medical Center “Substance P/NK-1R and VEGF/Angiopoietin-2 as Molecular Determinants in Breast Cancer Metastasis to the Brain” Host: Lynn Hlatky |
| Tues 11 Oct 2011 |
Agnès Vignery, D.D.S., Ph.D. Departments of Orthopaedics and Cell Biology, Yale School of Medicine “Macrophage fusion in health and disease” Host: Lynn Hlatky |
| Tues 4 Oct 2011 |
Natalie Artzi, Ph.D. Research Scientist, Harvard-MIT Division for Health Sciences and Technology; Instructor, Harvard Medical School, Brigham & Women's Hospital “Engineering Biomaterials to Deliver Desired Clinical Outcome” Host: Nava Almog |
| Tues 16 Aug 2011 |
Jacob
Scott, M.D. Integrative Mathematical Oncology, H. Lee Moffitt Cancer Center “Genotypic determinants of metastatic fitness: a delicate balance of driver and passenger mutations” Host: Heiko Enderling |