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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.

Speakers include a diverse mix of clinicians and basic scientists, senior investigators from the Texas Medical Center in Houston, and from across the country.

Seminar Committee

Hashem El-Serag (chair), Doug Burrin, Saul Karpen, Gene LeSage, Marc Rhodes, Jim Versalovic

Fall 2011
September

15

Seema Khurana, Ph.D.
Professor
Department of Biology and Biochemistry
University of Houston

Actin reorganization as the molecular basis for the regulation of apoptosis in the gastrointestinal epithelium

J. Stroehlein MDACC

22

Michael G. Brattain, Ph.D.
Associate Director
Eppley Institute for Research in Cancer
University of Nebraska Medical Center
Omaha, NE

TGFβ Signaling Suppresses Metastasis in Colon Cancer

L. Mishra
MDACC

29

Michelle C. Barton, Ph.D.
Professor, Dept. of Biochemistry & Molecular Biology
Co-Director, Center for Stem Cell and Developmental Biology
UT MD Anderson Cancer Center

p53 exhibits both loss- and gain-of-function during liver regeneration

M Finegold
BCM

October

6

David J. Mangelsdorf, Ph.D.
Professor and Chair, Pharmacology
Investigator, Howard Hughes Medical Institute
Distinguished Chair in Pharmacology
Distinguished Chair in Biomedical Science
UT Southwestern Medical Center
Dallas,  TX

Bile Acid Endocrine Signaling Pathways

D. Moore
BCM

13

OPEN

 

 

20

Jack Shively, Ph.D.
Chair and Professor, Immunology
Associate Dean, City of Hope's Irell & Manella Graduate School of Biological Sciences
Full Member, Cancer Immunotherapeutics Program, Comprehensive Cancer Center

Role of CEACAM1 in inflammation
and cancer

L. Mishra
MDACC

27

Karl-Dimiter Bissig, M.D., Ph.D.
Assistant Professor, Molecular & Cellular Biology, Baylor College of Medicine

TBD

M. Estes
BCM

November

3

Easwaran P. Variyam, M.D.
Professor, Internal Medicine-GI
UTMB, Galveston

TBD

M. Estes
BCM

10

Raymond T. Chung M.D.
Associate Professor, Medicine
Harvard Medical School.
Director of Hepatology, Medicine Service, Massachusetts General
Boston MA

TBD

L. Mishra
MDACC

17

Alphonse Sirica, Ph.D.
Professor, Pathology and Internal Medicine, Chairman, Division of Cellular and Molecular Pathogenesis, Virginia Commonwealth University, Medical College of Virginia

TBD

L. Mishra
MDACC

24

Thanksgiving

December

1

Michael Zhu, Ph.D.
Professor, Integrative Biology & Pharmacology
UT Medical School, Houston

TBD

 

8

OPEN

 

 

15

Robert Atmar, M.D.
Professor, Medicine-Infectious Disease
Molecular Virology & Microbiology
Baylor College of Medicine

TBD

M. Estes BCM

22 & 29          Winter Holidays