| Past
Speakers at the GI Research Forum
This weekly series is presented every Thursday
at 4:00pm in Room M112 of Baylor College of Medicine’s
DeBakey Building, from September through May. UTHSC also
provides visiting guests to the DDC audience.
Speakers include a diverse mix of clinicians
and basic scientists, senior investigators from the Texas
Medical Center in Houston, and from across
the country.
January |
9 |
Frederick A.
Moore, M.D.
Professor and Chief, General Surgery
University of Texas Medical School |
The Role of the Gut in
Multiple Organ Failure |
N. Weisbrodt |
16 |
Raj Kapur, Ph.D.
Associate Professor, Pathology
University of Washington, Seattle |
Intestinal Neuronal Dysplasia:
Animal Models for a Non-Disorder |
M. Finegold |
23 |
David Brenner,
M.D.
Professor, Medicine, Biochemistry, Biophysics
University of N. Carolina, Chapel Hill
Editor of Gastroenterology |
Molecular Pathogenesis
of Hepatic Fibrosis |
Don Powell |
30 |
Paul Dawson,
Ph.D.
Professor, Internal Medicine-GI
Wake Forest University School of Medicine
Winston-Salem, NC |
Targeted Inactivation of
the Ileal Bile Acid Transporter
Gene (Slc10a2) in Mice: Physiologic and Metabolic Consequences |
G. LeSage |
February |
6 |
Robert Bresalier,
M.D.
Professor & Chair, Medicine-Gastrointestinal Medicine
& Nutrition, UT-MD Anderson |
Mucins and Mucin Binding Proteins
in Colon Cancer Metastasis |
D. Graham |
13 |
Sandor Szabo, M.D., Ph.D., M.P.H.
Professor, Pathology & Pharmacology
University of California, Irvine
Chief, Pathology, VA Medical Center Long Beach; Chief
of Staff, VA Long Beach Health Care System |
Gene Expression and Gene
Therapy in GI Ulcer research |
L. Lichtenberger |
20 |
David Y. Graham,
M.D.
Professor, Medicine-GI
Chief, Digestive Disease Section
Baylor College of Medicine |
New Thoughts About the
Urea Breath Test for H. pylori Infection
&
What's New with the DDC Study Design and Specimen Core |
M. Hellmich |
27 |
Michael A. Pack,
M.D.
Medicine-GI,
University of Pennsylvania School of Medicine, Philadelphia |
Modeling Human Digestive
Diseases in the Zebrafish |
M. Finegold |
March |
6 |
Easwaran P. Variyam, M.D.
Professor, Medicine; Chief, Gastroenterology,
Texas Tech University Health Sciences Center; Director,
Digestive Diseases Center, Lubbock TX |
Hilda Schwartz
Visiting Professorship
Host Defense Against Invasive Amebiasis |
G. Ergun |
13 |
Manoop S. Bhutani, M.D., FACG, FACP
Co-Director, CERTAIN (Center for Endoscopic Research, Training and Innovation); Director,Center for Endoscopic Ultrasound;
University of Texas Medical Branch |
Endoscopic Ultrasound - Research into New Areas of Clinical Application |
D. Burrin |
20 |
Helen Raybould,
Ph.D.
Professor, School of Veterinary Medicine
University of California, Davis CA |
How Does Your Gut Taste?
Sensory Transduction in the GI Tract |
M. Hellmich |
27 |
Andrzej Tarnawski, M.D.
Professor, Medicine; University of CA, Irvine Chief,
Gastroenterology, VA Long Beach, CA |
GI Damage and Wound Healing |
D. Graham |
April |
3 |
Shahid Umar, Ph.D.
Assistant Professor, Gastroenterology,
Hepatology and Nutrition; The University of Texas
- Houston Health Science Center |
Transmissible Murine Colonic Hyperplasia (TMCH): An Innovative Model to
Study Mucosal Remodeling |
G. LeSage |
10 |
Richard C. Boland,
M.D.
Chief, Division of Gastroenterology
Baylor University Medical Center, Dallas |
The Role of JC Virus as
an Initiator of Chromosomal Instability
in Colorectal Cancer |
D. Graham |
17 |
Juanita L. Merchant,
M.D., Ph.D.
Associate Professor, Internal Medicine and Physiology,
University of Michigan
Core Director, Michigan Gut Peptide Research Center,
Ann Arbor MI |
Butyrate Induction of Growth
Arrest Targets Transcription Factor ZBP-89 |
M. Hellmich |
24 |
Terry Barrett,
M.D.
Assistant Professor, Gastroenterology
Northwestern University, Evanston IL |
Mechanisms of
T Cell-Induced Epithelial Cell Apoptosis and
Differentiation in the Intestine |
N. Shroyer |
May |
1 |
Dan Teitelbaum,
M.D.
Associate Professor, Pediatric Surgery
University of Michigan |
Crosstalk at the Intestinal
Mucosal Interface |
M. Helmrath |
8 |
Mitchell B.
Cohen, M.D.
Professor, Pediatrics
Division of Gastroenterology, Hepatology and Nutrition, University of Cincinnati & Children's
Hospital Medical Center, Cincinnati, OH |
Through the Alimentary
Canal with the Guanylin Ligand Family |
S. Henning |
15 |
Fred Gorelick,
M.D.
Professor, Internal Med Digestive Diseases and Cell
Biology
Yale University, New Haven CT |
Perils of Pancreatic Protein
Processing |
M. Hellmich |
22 |
Tsutomu Chiba,
M.D., Ph.D.
Professor and Chief
Division of Gastroenterology & Hepatology
Department of Internal Medicine
Graduate School of Medicine
Kyoto University |
Intestinal Mucosal Stem
Cells and Their Differentiation |
S. Henning |
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September
Date |
Speaker |
Topic |
Faculty Host |
11 |
Lin Chang, M.D.
C.N.S. Center for Neurovisceral Sciences & Women's
Health, CURE: Digestive Diseases Research Center
UCLA Division of Digestive Diseases, Los Angeles |
Mechanisms of visceral hypersensitivity |
G. Ergun |
18 |
Terrence A. Barrett, M.D.
Assistant Professor,
Gastroenterology, Northwestern University Medical
School, Evanston, IL |
TNF-induced p53 regulates intestinal epithelial
apoptosis following T cell activation |
H. Zoghbi |
25 |
Kenneth Zaret. Ph.D.
Senior
Member, Basic Science Division, Cell and Developmental
Biology Program, Fox Chase Cancer
Center, Philadelphia, PA |
Inducing the liver and pancreas in embryonic development |
G. Darlington |
October
Date |
Speaker |
Topic |
Faculty
Host |
2 |
Hoda Malaty,
M.D., Ph.D.
Associate Professor, Medicine-GI, Baylor
College of Medicine, VAMC, Houston |
Transmission of Helicobacter pylori Infection |
M. Estes |
9 |
Milan Jamrich, Ph.D.
Associate Professor, Molecular & Cellular
Biology
Molecular & Human Genetics, and Program
in Developmental Biology, Baylor College of Medicine |
The role of the forkhead gene
FoxF1 in Xenopus gut
development |
G. Darlington |
16 |
UTMB GRIP Speaker |
TBA |
M. Hellmich |
23 |
Jeff Gordon, M.D.
Professor & Head, Molecular Biology & Pharmacology,
Washington University School of Medicine, St. Louis,
MO |
Honor thy symbionts |
S. Henning |
30 |
Sundararajah Thevananther,
Ph.D.
Assistant Professor of Pediatrics
Baylor College
of Medicine |
Purinergic regulation
of hepatocyte proliferation |
S. Karpen |
November
Date |
Speaker |
Topic |
Faculty
Host |
6 |
Dr. Rhonda Souza, M.D.
Medicine-GI, UT Southwestern
Medical Center, Dallas |
Does acid cause esophageal cancer |
H. El-Serag |
13 |
David Shafritz, M.D.
Director,
Marion Bessin Liver
Research Center, Albert Einstein College of Medicine,
New York |
Liver repopulation with transplanted cells: State
of the art in 2003 and hopes for the future
|
G. LeSage |
20 |
Vincent W. Yang, M.D., Ph.D.
Department of Medicine,
Emory University School of Medicine, Atlanta, GA |
Mechanisms of intestinal tumorigenesis |
M. Hellmich |
December
Date |
Speaker |
Topic |
Faculty
Host |
4 |
Jonathan Braun, M.D., Ph.D
Chairman,
Pathology & Laboratory Medicine,
UCLA Medical Center, Los Angeles |
Being 10% human: microbial-immune regulation and
inflammatory bowel disease pathogenesis |
M. Finegold |
11 |
LuAnn Thompson-Snipes, Ph.D.
Assistant Professor,
Pathology, Baylor College of Medicine, Houston |
TBA |
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18 |
Deborah Rubin, M.D.
Associate Professor, Internal
Medicine, Washington University School of Medicine,
St. Louis, MO |
TBA |
M. Hellmich |
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