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Tuesday, February 7

3:30 PM - 5:30 PM

Title: Bernard Fields Lecturers on Microbial Pathogenesis
Speaker:

  • Mary K. Estes, Ph.D. , Professor, Molecular Virology and Microbiology, Baylor College of Medicine: “Norovirus Vaccine Development: A Bench to Bedside Story”
  • Beatrice H. Hahn, M.D. , Professor of Medicine and Microbiology, Perelman School of Medicine, University of Pennsylvania: “Great Ape Reservoirs of AIDS and Malaria”

Host: Dr. Michael Oldstone
Sponsor: Bernard Fields Memorial Lecture Fund; Kroc Lecture Fund; Pathogenesis Affinity Group
Location: MBB2N - THE COMMITTEE Lecture Hall

Wednesday, February 8

5:00 PM - 6:30 PM

Title: A microRNA Signaling Cascade that Drives Compulsive Cocaine Use
Speaker: Paul Kenny, Ph.D. , Scripps Florida
Sponsor: Faculty Lecture Series
Location: GH1 - Valerie Timken Amphitheater

Thursday, February 9

12:00 PM - 1:00 PM

Title: “The Immune Bee-Hive: Motor-protein Regulated Motility, Motile Synapses and the Generation of Collective Behaviors in the Immune Response”
Speaker: Matthew Krummel, PhD , Associate Professor, Department of Pathology, University of California, San Francisco
Sponsor: Immunology Affinity Group
Location: MBB2N - THE COMMITTEE Lecture Hall

Friday, February 10

9:00 AM - 1:00 PM

Title: FRONTIERS IN CHEMISTRY SYMPOSIUM - 2012
Speaker:

  • Professor Michael Marletta , President, The Scripps Research Institute; “Oxidative Chemistry in the Degradation of Cellulose”
  • Professor Paul Wender , Stanford University, “Toward Transformative Therapies and the Ideal Synthesis”
  • Professor Paul Alivisatos , University of California, Berkeley: “The Emerging Science of Nanocrystals”
  • Professor Ei-ichi Negishi , Purdue University; “Catalytic Asymmetric C–C Bond Formation with 1-Alkenes of One-Point Binding: ZACA Reaction

Host: K.C. Nicolaou, Ph.D. and Phil Baran, Ph.D.
Sponsor: Department of Chemistry
Location: The Neurosciences Institute Auditorium
Notes:

The Neurosciences Institute Auditorium: 10640 John JAY Hopkins Drive • Sa n Diego, California 92121

 

For more information:

Vicky Nielsen Armstrong (vbn@scripps.edu) or Natasha Zepeda (natasha@scripps.edu)
Information: http://www.scripps.edu/research/chem/symposium.pdf


2:00 PM - 3:30 PM

Title: "Development and Application of Advanced Proteomic Methods to Globally Map Protease Substrate Profiles"
Speaker: Melissa Dix , Doctorate of Philosophy Thesis Presentation
Advisor: Professor Benjamin F. Cravatt
Sponsor: Kellogg School of Science and Technology
Location: BCC1 - W.M. Keck Foundation Amphitheater

Wednesday, February 15

2:00 PM - 3:00 PM

Title: Chemical Radiation Studies Related to Radical-Based DNA Damage
Speaker: Chryssostomos Chatgilialoglu, Ph.D. , Director of Research ISOF, Consiglio Nazionale delle Ricerche Bologna Italy
Host: Ryan Shenvi
Sponsor: Department of Chemistry
Location: W.M. Keck Foundation Amphitheater, The Beckman Center for Chemical Sciences

Thursday, February 16

12:00 PM - 1:00 PM

Title: Development of Cancer Vaccines
Speaker: Teresa Ramirez-Montagut, MD, PhD , Research Investigator, Genomics Institute of the Novartis Research Foundation
Sponsor: Immunology Affinity Group
Location: MBB2N - THE COMMITTEE Lecture Hall

Friday, February 17

2:00 PM - 3:30 PM

Title: Using Chemical Synthesis to Unravel the Mysteries of Ubiquitin Signal
Speaker: Ashraf Brik, Ph.D. , Associate Professor, Department of Chemistry, Ben-Gurion University of the Negev
Host: Phil Dawson
Sponsor: Department of Chemistry
Location: W.M. Keck Foundation Amphitheater, The Beckman Center for Chemical Sciences

4:00 PM - 5:00 PM

Title: Search for New Catalysts for More Efficient, Selective Chemistry
Speaker: Dr. Zhaomin Hou , Chief Scientist and Director of Organometallic Chemistry Laboratory, Group Director of Advanced Synthesis Research Group, RIKEN Advanced Science Institute
Host: Jin-Quan Yu
Sponsor: Department of Chemistry
Location: W.M. Keck Foundation Amphitheater, The Beckman Center for Chemical Sciences

Jupiter, FL

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Thursday, February 9

4:00 PM - 5:00 PM

Title: “Bacterial Communications and the Discovery of New Molecules”
Speaker: P. Jeffrey Conn, Ph.D. Lee E. Limbird Professor of Pharmacology Director, Vanderbilt Program in Drug Discovery Department of Pharmacology Vanderbilt University Medical Center
Host: Dr. Laura Bohn
Location: Rodney B. Fink Education Pavilion (Auditorium)

Thursday, February 23

4:00 PM - 5:00 PM

Title: To Be Announced
Speaker: William Carlezon, PhD Associate Professor of Psychiatry McLean Hospital, Behavioral Genetics Lab Harvard University
Host: Dr. Laura Bohn
Location: Rodney B. Fink Education Pavilion (Auditorium)

Thursday, March 1

4:00 PM - 5:00 PM

Title: “Postsynaptic MAGUK Associated Signaling Complexes underlie the organization and evolution of behavior”
Speaker: Seth Grant, PhD Professor of Molecular Neuroscience, University of Edinburgh School of Molecular & Clinical Medicine Centre for Neuroregeneration
Host: Dr. Gavin Rumbaugh
Location: Rodney B. Fink Education Pavilion (Auditorium)

Thursday, March 8

4:00 PM - 5:00 PM

Title: To Be Announced
Speaker: Nevin Lambert, PhD Department of Pharmacology & Toxicology Georgia Health Sciences University
Host: Dr. Kirrill Martemyanov
Location: Rodney B. Fink Education Pavilion (Auditorium)

Thursday, March 15

3:00 PM - 5:00 PM

Title: To Be Announced
Speaker: Tom Muir, Ph.D. Richard E. Salomon Family Professor, Head of the Selma and Lawrence Ruben Laboratory of Synthetic Protein Chemistry The Rockefeller University
Host: Dr. Paul Thompson
Location: Rodney B. Fink Education Pavilion (Auditorium)

Thursday, March 22

4:00 PM - 5:00 PM

Title: To Be Announced
Speaker: Kristin Baldwin, Ph.D. Associate Professor, Department of Cell Biology The Scripps Research Institute
Host: Dr. Gavin Rumbaugh
Location: Rodney B. Fink Education Pavilion (Auditorium)

Thursday, March 29

4:00 PM - 5:00 PM

Title: To Be Announced
Speaker: Jeremy Nicholson, Ph.D. Chair of Biological Chemistry Head of The Department of Surgery and Cancer Surgery and Cancer Clinical Programme Group/Stratified Medicine Research Leader, Faculty of Medicine ~ Imperial College London
Host: Dr. Bill Ja
Location: odney B. Fink Education Pavilion (Auditorium)

Thursday, April 5

4:00 PM - 5:00 PM

Title: ”Is schizophrenia a systemic disorder?: multifaceted translational approach"
Speaker: Akira Sawa, PhD, Professor of Psychiatry Director, Program in Molecular Psychiatry Psychiatry and Behavioral Sciences Neuroscience John Hopkins Hospital
Host: Dr. William Ja
Location: Rodney B. Fink Education Pavilion (Auditorium)

Thursday, May 3

4:00 PM - 5:00 PM

Title: To Be Announced
Speaker: Monsef Benkirane, PhD Director Laboratory of Molecular Virology Institute of Human Genetics Montpellier, France
Host: Dr. Susana Valente
Location: Rodney B. Fink Education Pavilion (Auditorium)

Thursday, May 10

4:00 PM - 5:00 PM

Title: To Be Announced
Speaker: Robert Batey, PhD Associate Professor Molecular Biophysics Program University of Colorado Boulder
Host: Dr. Matthew Disney
Location: Rodney B. Fink Education Pavilion (Auditorium)

Thursday, May 17

4:00 PM - 5:00 PM

Title: Genome-wide approaches to understanding nuclear receptor function"
Speaker: Christopher Glass, MD, PhD Professor of Cellular & Molecular Medicine Professor of Medicine University of California San Diego
Host: Dr. Kendall Nettles
Location: Rodney B. Fink Education Pavilion (Auditorium)

Thursday, May 24

4:00 PM - 5:00 PM

Title: “The Genetics of Innate Behavior: Smell, Sex, and Eating”
Speaker: Leslie Vosshall, PhD Investigator, Howard Hughes Medical Institute Robin Chemers Neustein Professor Laboratory of Neurogenetics and Behavior
Host: Dr. William Ja
Location: Rodney B. Fink Education Pavilion (Auditorium)