The Division of Surgical Research
Seminar Series 2009
Monthly seminar series on topics in inflammation and injury in critical illness.
The seminars are arranged and organized by Dr. Alfred Ayala and his administrative assistant, Courtney Coto and held at 4 PM in Conference Room 104 in the Nursing Arts Building at Rhode Island Hospital, unless otherwise indicated. |
View previous seminars topics from 2001 - 2008. |
| Date | Speaker | Title |
| 2009 | ||
| January 27, 2009 | Jay X. Tang, PhD Assistant Professor, Department of Physics Brown University |
"From in vitro actin assembly to neutrophil migration" |
| February 5, 2009 | James Lederer, PhD Associate Professor, Department of Surgery Brigham & Women's Hospital Harvard University School of Medicine Boston MA |
"Damage control - Regulating the immune response to injury" |
| April 9, 2009* | Sanna Goyert, PhD Professor & Chair, Dept of Emergency Medicine City University of New York, New York, NY |
"CD14 and other LPS receptors in severe infection" |
| May 12, 2009 | Adam Chodobski, PhD Associate Professor, Department of Emergency Medicine Rhode Island Hospital, Brown University |
"Traumatic brain injury and inflammation" |
| July 7, 2009 | G. Wayne Zhou, PhD Principal Scientist Hypromatrix Inc, Worcester, MA |
“Protein expression and subcellular localization profiling of cancer cells by Dissociable Antibody MicroArray (DAMA) staining technology |
| July 14, 2009 | Christopher C. Fraser, PhD Team Leader Inflammation Combinatorx Inc., Cambridge, MA |
“Super-suppression of macrophage activation: interaction of multiple signaling pathways induces a hypersensitive response to glucocorticoids.” |
| July 21, 2009 | Javier E. Irazoqui, PhD Post-Doc Fellow/ Dept of Genetics, MGH/Harvard Medical School Boston, MA |
“Gut Feelings: Dissecting the C. elegans Host Response to S. aureus Infection.” |
| September 8, 2009 | Frank W. Sellke, MD Chief Cardiothoracic Surgery RI Hospital, Brown University Providence, RI |
“Regenerative therapies for the treatment of heart disease: Why are they not ready for prime time?” |
| October 6, 2009 | Jason Aliotta, MD Assistant Professor /Dept Medicine RI Hospital, Brown University, Providence, RI |
“The lung and bone marrow: Micro vesicles and their role in cellular communication” |
| November 3, 2009 | John Sedivy, PhD Professor of Biology & Medical Science Department of Molecular, Cell & Biochem. (MCB) Brown University, Providence, RI |
“Replicative cellular senescence in the context of organismal aging” |
| December 8, 2009 | James R. Klinger, M.D. Assistant Professor /Dept Medicine RI Hospital, Brown University, Providence, RI |
"Natriuretic Peptides in Pulmonary Endothelial Barrier Function" |
| 2010 | ||
| January 12, 2010 | Diane Hoffman-Kim, Ph.D. Associate Professor Department of Molecular, Pharm. Physiol. & Biotech. Brown University, Providence, RI |
TBA |
*NOTE: Indicated seminars are a conjoined presentation between the Division of Surgical Research and the Graduate Pathobiology Program, starting at 4pm at 70 Ship Street, 1st floor conference room. |
