2015/2016 Monday Noon Seminars

Mondays, 12-1p
November – June
Holden Auditorium (Farrell Learning and Teaching Center)

Mini-Series Topics:

November 2: Dongsheng Duan (University of Missouri), “Dystrophin-based DMD gene therapy: from mice to dogs”
November 9: Alfred Goldberg (Harvard University), “Molecular Mechanisms of Muscle Atrophy and Cancer Cachexia”
November 30: Chris Weihl (WUSTL Neurology), “Protein quality control in inherited and acquired myopathies”
December 7: Christina Gurnett (WUSTL Neurology), “Hypotonia and contractures: lessons from genetic studies of scoliosis and arthrogyprosis”

January 4: Shelly Sakiyama-Elbert (WUSTL Biomedical Engineering), “Materials for Cell Transplantation After Spinal Cord Injury”
January 11: Nicholas Maragakis (Johns Hopkins University School of Medicine), “Stem Cell Transplantation as a Neuroprotective Strategy for Treating Amyotrophic Lateral Sclerosis”
January 25: Fumihiko Urano (WUSTL Internal Medicine), “A Soluble Endoplasmic Reticulum Factor-Based Regenerative Therapy for Diabetes and Neurodegeneration in Wolfram Syndrome”
February 1: Andrew Yoo (WUSTL Developmental Biology), “Subtype-specific Neuronal Conversion of Human Fibroblasts and Disease Modeling”

February 8: Valeria Cavalli (WUSTL Neuroscience), “Epigenetic modifications promoting axon regeneration”
February 22: Hiroko Yano (WUSTL Neurosurgery), “Manipulating epigenetic mechanisms to save Huntington’s disease neurons”
February 29: Ting Wang (WUSTL Genetics), “Transposable elements and epigenome evolution”
March 7: Michael Kobor (University of British Columbia), “Epigenetic Signatures of Human Aging”

Organizer, Tamara Hershey and Shannon Macauley-Rambach

March 21: Tamara Hershey (WUSTL Psychiatry), Shannon Macauley-Rambach (WUSTL Neurology), “Diabetes and the Brain – from mice to humans”
March 28: Maria Remedi (WUSTL Internal Medicine), “The role of KATP channels in Diabetes and Brain Pathologies”
April 4: Suzanne Craft (Wake Forest Baptist Medical Center), “Insulin and Alzheimer’s Disease: The Path of Most Resistance”
April 11: Ana Maria Arbelaez (WUSTL Pediatrics), “Brain Hormone Interaction in Hypoglycemic Counterregulation”

Organizers, Kelly Monk and Andrew Yoo (co-hosted with the Department of Developmental Biology)

April 25: Gail Mandel (Oregon Health & Science University), “New Insights into the Dysfunctional Circuitry Underlying Rett Syndrome”
May 2: Azad Bonni (WUSTL Neuroscience), “Epigenetic regulation of neuronal connectivity in the brain”
May 9: Harrison Gabel (WUSTL Neuroscience), “The neuron-specific epigenome in development and disease”
May 16: Kristen Kroll (WUSTL Developmental Biology), “Gene regulatory networks in neural development and disease”

Wednesday, September 30: Chad Dickey (University of South Florida), “Drowsy chaperones: How the protein quality control system enables diseases of aging”
12:00 PM
Location: Erlanger Auditorium (Medical Campus)
Thursday, October 15: Monica Vetter (University of Utah), “Birth and death in the retina: pathways modulating proliferation, differentiation and neurodegeneration”
4:00 PM
Location: Cori Auditorium (Medical Campus)
Monday, October 26: Erika Holzbaur (University of Pennsylvania School of Medicine), “Autophagy and mitophagy in neuronal homeostasis and neurodegeneration”
12:00 PM
Location: Cori Auditorium (Medical Campus)

December 14: Cheryl Lichti (University of Texas Medical Branch), “A Proteomic Survey of Glioma Stem Cells”

June 6: Cheryl Leyns (Holtzman Lab, WUSTL Neurology), “Direct delivery of full-length, therapeutic anti-tau antibodies to the brain by gene transfer”
Lauren Walker (DiAntonio Lab, WUSTL Developmental Biology), “MAPK signaling functions upstream of SARM1 to promote axonal degeneration”