DDC Research Forum

2006 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.

Spring 2006

January		Speaker	Topic
	12	Mark Gilger, M.D., Associate Professor, Pediatric –GI Baylor College of Medicine	Barrett's Esophagus in Children
	19	Noah Shroyer, Ph.D. Assistant Professor, Pediatrics-GI Baylor College of Medicine	Transcription Factors Math1 and Gfi1 Control Intestinal Differentiation and Homeostasis
	26	L. Garry Adams, DVM, Ph.D., DACVP Associate Dean for Research College of Veterinary Medicine Texas A&M University College Station, TX	In Vivo Pathogen-Host Interactions of Salmonella enterica Typhimurium in Neonatal Calves as Model for Human Salmonellosis
February	2	Don Chase Rockey, M.D. Professor, Internal Medicine Chief, Division of Digestive and Liver Diseases Southwestern Medical School Dallas TX	Cell and Molecular Aspects of Portal Hypertension- from Bench to Bedside
	9	Thomas A. Ullman, M.D. Assistant Professor, Medicine Mount Sinai School of Medicine New York City, NY	Preventing Neoplastic Progression in IBD
	16	Richard N. Sifers, Ph.D. Associate Professor of Pathology and Molecular & Cellular Biology Baylor College of Medicine	Glycoprotein Quality Control as a Mediator of End-Stage Liver Disease
	23	Emily Robinson. M.D. Assistant Professor, Surgery University of Texas Medical School Houston, TX	Matrix Metalloproteinases in Gastrointestinal Injury
March	2	Michael Barry, Ph.D. Associate Professor Center for Gene Therapy Baylor College of Medicine	Mucosal Adenoviral Vaccine Delivery Strategies
	9	Kenneth Devault Director, Gastrointestinal Research Associate Chairperson, Dept of Medicine, Mayo Clinic Associate Professor of Medicine Mayo Medical School Jacksonville, FL	Hilda Schwartz Visiting Professor Barrett's Esophagus: What We Know and What We Need to Know
	16	Margaret Conner, Ph.D. Associate Professor Molecular Virology & Microbiology Baylor College of Medicine	In Vivo Assessment of GI Function
	23	Buford Nichols, Jr., M.D. Professor, Pediatrics-Nutrition Baylor College of Medicine	Let Them Eat Cake; The Digestion of Sugar and Starch
	30	Karen Guillemin Assistant Professor of Biology Institute of Molecular Biology 1229 University of Oregon Eugene, OR	Molecular Dialogues with the Microbiota in the Zebrafish Intestine
April	6	Chris Dekaney, Ph.D. Instructor, Surgery/Pediatric Surgery Baylor College of Medicine	Intestinal Stem Cells and Their Niche: Waking up the Neighbors
	13	S. Chris Pappas M.D., JD Associate Professor of Medicine GI, Hepatology and Nutrition Clinical Research Regulatory Compliance Officer UT Medical School, UTHSC-H	Antiviral Therapy for Chronic Hepatitis C
	20	Jiaren Sun, M.D. Ph.D. Assistant Professor , Microbiology Immunology, Biodefense Center Emerging Infectious Diseases, and Center for Vaccine Development University of Texas Medical Branch	Pathogenesis and Liver Injury in Hepatitis C Virus Infection
	27	Robert A. Edwards, M.D., Ph.D. Assistant Professor In Residence Pathology University of California, Irvine CA	Arachidonic Acid Metabolism, Colitis, and Colon Cancer in the Gia2-/- Mouse Model of IBD
May	4	W.A. Hoogerwerf, M.D. Assistant Professor University of Texas Medical Branch, Galveston, TX	Role of Prokineticin in Gastrointestinal Motility
	11	Bernard Levin Professor, Cancer Prevention MD Anderson, Houston	Chemoprevention of Colorectal Neoplasia: 2006 Perspectives
	18	TBA

Fall 2006

September		Speaker	Topic
	14	Mark A. Kay, M.D.,Ph.D. Farrey Family Professor Pediatrics & Genetics Stanford University	NOTE: In Cullen Auditorium Gene therapy for hemophilia and RNAi based therapeutics for viral hepatitis
	21	J. Marc Rhoads, M.D. Professor, Division Head of Pediatric Gastroenterology, University of Texas Medical School at Houston	Arginine stimulates mTOR signaling in intestinal cell migration and in piglet rotavirus enteritis
	28	David Moore, Ph.D. Professor, Department of Cell Biology, Baylor College of Medicine	Bile acids are hormones
October	5	Ming Hu, Ph.D. Professor, Pharmacological & Pharmaceutical Sciences at Texas Medical Center, College of Pharmacy, University of Houston	Oral bioavailability barriers of flavonoids
	12	Robert S. Chapkin, Ph.D. Professor and Director, Genomics Facility Core, Center for Environmental & Rural Health, Texas A&M University	Genomic analysis of colon cancer: A non-invasive approach
	19	Yoshio Yamaoka M.D., Ph.D. Associate Professor of Medicine-GI Baylor College of Medicine and Michael E. DeBakey VAMC, Houston	Can Geographic Differences in Disease Prevalence Explain Differences between Helicobacter pylori Strains?
	26	Guillermina (Gigi) Lozano, Ph.D. Mattie Allen Fair Research Chair and Professor, Molecular Genetics The University of Texas M. D. Anderson Cancer Center, Houston	The importance of p53 negative regulators
November	2	Yuko Akiyama, M.D. Instructor, Molecular Genetics MD Anderson Cancer Center, Houston	The role of Sox9 in the intestinal epithelium
	9	Andy Morris, Ph.D. Associate Professor, Integrative Biology, UTHSC/Houston	Chloride transport in a remodeling intestinal epithelium: Implications on diarrhea
	16	Douglas Burrin, Ph.D. Research Physiologist, Associate Professor USDA-ARS Children's Nutrition Research Center, Department of Pediatrics Baylor College of Medicine	GLP-2 receptor signaling and intestinal blood flow: Relevance to neonatal GI disease?
	23	*Happy Thanksgiving*
	30	Milton Finegold, M.D. Professor of Pathology & Pediatrics Baylor College of Medicine Head of Pathology & Chief, General Pathology Service, Texas Children’s Hospital	Wilson’s Disease: A Report from the NINDS International Workshop
December		Speaker	Topic
	7	Ian A. Sanderson, M.D. Professor, Associate Dean for Clinical Academic Training, Barts and the London, Queen Mary’s School of Medicine, University of London, UK	Dietary regulation of gene expression in the intestine
	14	Gene LeSage, M.D. Professor and Division Chief, Medicine-GI UTHSC, Houston	Regulation of the NPC1L1 promoter
	21	Happy Holidays

2006 Speakers at the GI Research Forum

Hilda Schwartz Visiting Professor