Seminar in Biomedical Sciences (MSBS591A) – 1 credit
Course Description: Chee-Gun Lee, Ph.D (MSB E617b, leecg@umdnj.edu)
Faculty representing programs and departments in the GSBS will be invited to present their research and engage in discussion with the class. Students are given a paper to read one week prior to faculty presentations and one group of students is assigned to act as hosts or panelists to lead discussion each week. All materials and papers will be made available on the GSBS-Newark course website.
Schedule: September 08 – December 15
Date |
Speaker |
Department |
Title |
Sept. 08 |
Chee-Gun Lee, PhD |
Biochemistry/Molecular Biology |
Introduction to the course |
Sept. 15 |
Pranela Rameshwar, PhD |
Medicine |
Breast Cancer Stem Cells |
Sept. 22 |
Vincent Tsiagbe, PhD
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Oral Biology |
The tortuous path of endogenous retroviral
superantigen in germinal center-derived B cells lymphomagenesis: The essence of Research |
Sept. 29 |
Richard Howells, PhD |
Biochemistry and Molecular Biology |
Novel Treatment for Multiple Myeloma |
Oct. 06 |
Robert F. Heary, MD |
Neurosurgery |
Experimental spinal cord injury and spine biomechanics |
Oct. 13 |
David Lukac, PhD |
Microbiology and Molecular Genetics |
Latency and Reactivation of Human tumor viruses |
Oct. 20 |
Anna Barrett,
MD |
Neuroscience,
PNMR |
Perceptual-attentional and motor-intentional bias in near and far space |
Oct. 27 |
Diego Fraidenraich, PhD |
Cell Biology and Molecular Medicine |
Blastocyst injection of embryonic stem cells induces global corrections in muscular dystrophy mice |
Nov. 03 |
Narayanan Ramasubba, PhD |
Oral Biology |
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Nov. 10 |
Frederick D. Coffman, PhD |
Molecular Pathology and Immunology |
CHI3L1/YKL-40: a cryptic player in cancer, immune regulation and tissue remodeling |
Nov. 17 |
Janine Santos, PhD
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Pharmacology and Physiology |
hTERT and mtDNA metabolism |
Dec. 01 |
Melissa Rogers, PhD |
Biochemistry and Molecular Biology |
How to keep BMP2 off when it SHOULD be off |
Dec. 08 |
Carolyn Suzuki, PhD |
Biochemistry and Molecular Biology |
Multitasking in the mitochondria by the Lon protease in protein and mtDNA quality control |
Dec. 15 |
Paper Due |
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