Director's Seminar Series

Director's Seminar Series lectures are held monthly from 4 to 5 p.m. in the Goldberg Auditorium at Moores Cancer Center (directions and map). A reception precedes each lecture at 3:30 p.m. in the auditorium foyer.

For more information, contact Gaylene Eisenach, 858-534-5142, or Zoya Vigalok, 858-822-2655.

Lecture series hosts

Kun-Liang Guan, PhD
Co-Leader, Cancer Biology Program
Professor, Department of Pharmacology

Dong-Er Zhang, PhD
Co-Leader, Cancer Biology Program
Professor, Departments of Biological Sciences and Pathology

2012-13 dates and topics

Date

Speaker

Title

Oct. 11, 2012

Razelle Kurzrock, MD
UT MD Anderson Cancer Center

Genomics and Targeted Therapy

Nov. 14, 2012

Yang Liu, PhD
University of Michigan

FOXP3: the X-linked tumor suppressor for breast and prostate cancer

Dec. 12, 2012

Vishva Dixit, MD
Genentech

Role of Ubiquitin Modification in Cancer Pathogenesis

Jan. 23, 2013

Robert Weinberg, PhD
MIT

Malignant Progression, the EMT and Cancer Stem Cells

Feb. 13, 2013

Anil Sood, MD
MD Anderson Cancer Center

TBA

March 6, 2013

Elaine Mardis, PhD
Washington University, St. Louis, MO

Next Generation Cancer Genomics

March 25, 2013

Elizabeth Blackburn, PhD
UCSF

TBA

April 10, 2013

Thomas Hudson, MD, PhD
Ontario Institute for Cancer Research, Canada

Genome Variation Affecting Cancer Predisposition and Response to Therapy

May 8, 2013

Matthew Meyerson, MD, PhD
Dana Farber Cancer Institute

Somatic Genome Alterations in Human Cancers

June 12, 2013

Chi Dang, MD, PhD
Abramson Cancer Center, Philadelphia, PA

Role of Myc in Cancer Metabolism