NEWS
September 11, 2009
Thirteen Internationally-Recognized Investigators
Will Present their Most Recent Findings in Cancer Research at IRIC this Fall
The Institute for Research in Immunology and Cancer (IRIC) is pleased to host the eighth edition of its Distinguished Scientist Lecture Series, with a full 13-part program. Join us at IRIC this fall, on Mondays (unless otherwise specified) at 4:00 pm, to learn about the latest developments in cancer research and therapeutic advances with leading biomedical investigators from Canada, the United States, Europe and Oceania.
September 14: Morten Frödin
Biotech Research and Innovation Center, University of Copenhaguen, Denmark
RSK is a Principal Effector of the RAS-ERK Pathway to Induce a Pro-motile/Invasive Gene Program and Phenotype in Epithelial Cells
September 22 (Tuesday): Benjamin Kile
The Walter and Eliza Hall Institute of Medical Research, Melbourne, Australia
Bcl-2 Family Proteins in the Regulation of Platelet Production and Function
September 28: Craig Crews
Department of Chemistry, Yale University, New Haven
Chemical Biology: Using Small Molecules to Probe Cell Biology
October 5: Stephen Hanessian
Department of Chemistry, Université de Montréal, Montreal
Structure-based Synthesis: From Natural Products to Achiral Drug Prototypes
October 19: Dave Sherwood
Department of Biology, Duke University, Durham
Breaching the Basement Membrane: Anchor Cell Invasion in C. elegans
October 26: Nathalie Lamarche
Department of Anatomy and Cell Biology, McGill University, Montreal
Signaling Mechanisms in the Neuronal Growth Cone
November 2: Ulrich Tepass
Department of Cell and Systems Biology, University of Toronto, Toronto
Novel Mechanisms of Epithelial Polarization
November 9: Cornelis Melief
Department of Immunohematology and Blood Transfusion, Leiden University Medical Center, Netherlands
Cancer Immunotherapy - Overview and Future Directions
November 16: Alex Toker
Department of Pathology, Beth Israel Deaconess Medical Center, Boston
The PI-3-Kinase Pathway in Cancer Progression
November 23: Gerald W. Hart
Department of Biological Chemistry, Johns Hopkins University, Baltimore
Crosstalk Between GlcNAcylation and Phosphorylation: Roles in Signaling, Transcription and Disease
November 30: Nahum Sonenberg
Department of Biochemistry, McGill University, Montreal
Translational Control of Cancer
December 7: Anne-Claude Gingras
The Samuel Lunenfeld Research Institute, Toronto
Charting the Kinase/Phosphatase Interactomes
December 14: Monica Bettencourt Dias
Instituto Gulbenkian de Ciência, Oeiras, Portugal
Control of Centrosome Biogenesis
Practical Information
Organized by IRIC for graduate students, postdoctoral trainees and members of the biomedical community at large, these lectures are held on Mondays at 4 pm in lecture hall S1-151 at the Marcelle-Coutu Pavilion on the Université de Montréal campus. Located at 2950 chemin de la Polytechnique, we are a 5-minute walk from the corner of Queen-Mary and Decelles. Admission is free. No reservation required. For more information, please contact Catherine Ordi at 514 343.6111 ext. 1.0542 or at catherine.ordi@umontreal.ca.
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