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Friday, January 11

Hematology/Oncology Journal Club (closed to non-UCSF attendees)
8:00am - 9:00am, Parnassus, Moffitt Hospital, #M1296; contact
Edward Cha, MD, PhD: "Oncogenic NRAS signaling differentially regulates survival and proliferation in melanoma."
Marc Shuman, MD: "Cord-Blood Engraftment with Ex Vivo Mesenchymal-Cell Coculture"

CPMCRI Seminar
12:00 noon, CPMC, 475 Brannan Street, Conference Room 214; contact
Rohan Dixit, CEO and Co-Founder, Brainbot (www.brainbot.me)
"Mindfulness Meditation & Clinical Outcomes: State of the Research"

Monday, January 14

Hematology/Oncology Clinical Case Conference (closed to non-UCSF attendees)
8:00am - 9:00am, Parnassus, Moffitt Hospital, #M1296; contact
Adam Siegel, MD: "Systemic Lupus Erythematosus Presenting as Throbotic Throbocytopenic Purpura"
Amy Lin, MD: "Issues in Management of Bone Metastases in Prostate Cancer"

GICD/CVRI Seminar
12:00 noon - 1:00 pm, Mission Bay, Gladstone Institute, 1650 Owens St., Mahley Auditorium
Matthew Spite, PhD, University of Louisville
"Lipid mediators in the resolution of inflammation" flyer

Pediatric Malignancies Program Seminar
4:30 pm, Parnassus, Moffitt Hospital, #M666; contact
Xi Huang
"Exploring the functional roles and therapeutic potential of targeting potassium channel in brain tumor growth and metastasis"

OHNS Grand Rounds
5:00 pm - 6:00 pm, Mount Zion, Herbst Hall, 1600 Divisadero St., 2nd fl.; contact
Alina Uzelac, MD - Professor, UCSF Radiology and Biomedical Imaging
"Neuroradiology"

Tuesday, January 15

OMFS Grand Rounds
8:00 am, Parnassus, C-701
OMFS Chair Candidate: Bernard J. Costello, MD, DMD, FACS

Diller Building Research-in-Progress Seminar (closed to non-UCSF attendees)
10:00-11:15 am, Mission Bay, Bakar Auditorium, HD-160; contact
Michael Burgess, Shannon Lab
"Response and resistance to MEK inhibition in acute myeloid leukemia driven by oncogenic Ras"

CPMCRI Seminar
12:00 noon, CPMC, 475 Brannan Street, Conference Room 214; contact
Samy Lamouille, PhD, Sarcotein Diagnostics, LLC
"A membrane-associated protein involved in disease processes"

Medicine Grand Rounds
12:00 noon - 1:00 pm, SFGH: Carr Auditorium
Toby Maurer, Dermatology

Immunotherapy and Tumor Immunology Journal Club
4:00 pm, Parnassus, HSW 1057, refreshments served; contact
Faculty Presentation - Wendell Lim: "Engineering T-Cell Signaling: Applying Synthetic Biology to Cancer Immunotherapy"
Fellow Presentation - Vladi Juric (Bishop Lab): "Oncogenic driver mutations shape the nature of immune responses in tumors"

Biochemistry and Biophysics Seminar
4:00 pm, Mission Bay, Byers Auditorium; Simulcast to Parnassus S161; contact
Claude Desplan, NYU
"Patterning the Drosophila visual system: stochastic and deterministic mechanisms."

LBNL Life Sciences Division Seminars
4:00 - 5:00 pm, 717 Potter Street, room 141, Berkeley, CA 94710; contact
John Tainer, Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory
"Envisioning Complexes Controlling Biological Outcomes at the DNA Replication-repair Interface"

Integrative Cancer Care
5:30 - 7:00 pm, Mount Zion, Herbst Hall
Donald Abrams, MD, Professor of Clinical Medicine at UCSF and Chief of Hematology/Oncology at SFGH will dicuss complimentary therapies in cancer care.

Wednesday, January 16

Head & Neck Tumor Conference
7:30 - 9:00 am, Mount Zion, 1600 Divisadero, H3805
Contact: 885-7879.

Dermatology Research-in-Progress
11:00 am -12 noon, Mount Zion, Lurie Conference Room, 2340 Sutter St.; contact
John Murnane, PhD
"The deficiency in DNA repair near telomeres and its role in cancer"

Cancer Center Special Seminar
2:30 pm, Parnassus, HSW-303; contact
Craig Thompson, Memorial Sloan-Kettering Cancer Center
"IDH Mutations: Oncometabolite Deregulation of Epigenetic Remodeling"
co-sponsored with BMS

Biostatistics and Bioinformatics Seminar
3:00 pm, China Basin, Room 6704, Lobby 3, followed by social hour
Iryna Lobach, PhD, Department of Biostatistics, New York University
"ANALYSIS OF GENE-ENVIRONMENT INTERACTIONS WITH MEASUREMENT ERRORS IN ENVIRONMENTAL EXPOSURES"
Host: John Neuhaus, PhD, (john@biostat.ucsf.edu)

Developmental & Stem Cell Biology Journal Club
5:30 pm, Mission Bay, CVRI SC159
Presenter: Presenter: Marie La Russa

Thursday, January 17

Pediatric Grand Rounds
8:00 - 9:00 am, Parnassus, N-217
David Gordon MD, MPH, UCSF Dept. of Pediatrics
"Beyond International Standards: Mortality Reduction Through Site-Specific Innovation in Ethiopia"

Immunology Journal Club
9:00 am, Parnassus, N-217, simulcast to Mission Bay (GH-S261); live stream
Jeff Cox

UCB Molecular and Cell Biology Summer Seminar
4:00 - 5:00 pm, UC Berkeley, 101 Life Sciences Addition
Swarnali Acharyya, Memorial Sloan-Kettering Cancer Center
"Tumor microenvironment interactions that promote cancer therapy resistance and metastasis"

Friday, January 18

Hematology/Oncology Journal Club (closed to non-UCSF attendees)
8:00am - 9:00am, Parnassus, Moffitt Hospital, #M1296; contact
Muppidi; Bergsland

UCB Genomic Medicine Symposium
9:00 am - 5:30 pm, UC Berkeley, 245 Li Ka Shing Center

Methods Core Seminar
10:00 - 11:30 am, McKusick Conference room, 50 Beale Street, 13th floor; contact
Tor Neilands, PhD, Associate Professor of Medicine, Director, Methods Core, UCSF / CAPS
"Handling Missing Data, Part II"

Cancer Center Seminar
4:00 pm, Mission Bay, Bakar Auditorium (HD-160); contact; >> Live stream at 4pm for UCSF viewers <<
Laura D. Attardi, PhD, Principal Investigator, Stanford
"Deconstructing p53 Pathways in vivo Using Mouse Models"

Saturday, January 19

First Northern California Educational Summit for Adolescents and Young Adults with Cancer
8:00 am 4:00 pm, Sacramento State Alumni Center, 6000 J Street, Sacramento
"Lives Interrupted: Adolescents and Young Adults with Cancer"
Register by emailing Cheryl.Johnson@lls.org, or marlene.vonfriederichs-fitzwater@ucdmc.ucdavis.edu

Monday, January 21: Martin Luther King, Jr Day Observed

Tuesday, January 22

OMFS Grand Rounds
8:00 am, Parnassus, C-701
Sue Yom, MD, Assistant Professor of Radiation Oncology Department of Radiation Oncology, UCSF
"Radiation Therapy for Head and Neck Cancer"

Diller Building Research-in-Progress Seminar (closed to non-UCSF attendees)
10:00-11:15 am, Mission Bay, Bakar Auditorium, HD-160; contact
Robin Lerner, Petritsch Lab

Biochemistry and Biophysics Seminar
4:00 pm, Mission Bay, Byers Auditorium; Simulcast to Parnassus S161; contact

LBNL Life Sciences Division Seminars
4:00 - 5:00 pm, 717 Potter Street, room 141, Berkeley, CA 94710; contact
Jeanne B. Lawrence, University of Massachusetts
"Regulating the Epigenome via Chromosomal RNAs: Implications for Genome Biology and Chromosome Pathology"

Wednesday, January 23

Head & Neck Tumor Conference
7:30 - 9:00 am, Mount Zion, 1600 Divisadero, H3805
Contact: 885-7879.

GI Grand Rounds Special Seminar
8:00 am, Parnassus, S-214; contact
Andrew Chan, MD, MPH Harvard/Massachusetts General Hospital
"Aspirin for the Prevention of Cancer: Are We Ready?"

Endocrine Grand Rounds
8:30 - 9:30 am, Parnassus, LP-190; contact
Amnon Schlegel, MD, PhD, Assistant Professor of Internal Medicine and Biochemistry, University of Utah
"Hepatic ketone body transport-from zebrafish genetics to a new mode of integrating fasting physiology"

Breast Oncology Program Weekly Seminar
8:30 - 10:00 am, Mount Zion, Lurie Conference Room, 2340 Sutter Street; contact
Suleiman Massarweh, MD, Associate Professor, University of Kentucky

PSPG Seminar
12:00 noon - 1:00 pm, Mission Bay, Rock Hall RH-102; simulcast to Parnassus N-217
Steven McCarroll, PhD, Professor, Department of Genetics, Harvard Medical School

UCB Molecular and Cell Biology Summer Seminar
4:00 - 5:00 pm, UC Berkeley, 101 Life Sciences Addition
Evan Miller, University of California, San Diego
"Chemical Tools to Illuminate the Brain"

BMS Graduate Program Seminar
4:00 pm, Parnassus, N-217; contact
Robert Schreiber, Washington University, St. Louis
"Using genomics to elucidate cancer immunoediting and inform cancer immunotherapy"
Host: Art Weiss, MD, PhD

Thursday, January 24

Pediatric Grand Rounds
8:00 - 9:00 am, Parnassus, N-217
James Huang, MD, Health Sciences Clinical Professor, Department of Pediatrics
"Clots in Kids: An Update on Pediatric Thrombosis"

Immunology Journal Club
9:00 am, Parnassus, N-217, simulcast to Mission Bay (GH-S261); live stream
Melissa Ruck, Hermiston Lab; Imran Khan, Anderson Lab

Breast Oncology Program Retreat 2013
12:00 noon - 5:00 pm, Jewish Community Center in San Francisco, 3200 California Street

BBC Seminar
12 noon - 1:00 pm, Mission Bay, Genentech Hall Auditorium; simulcast to S-161
Wenying Shou, Fred Hutchinson Cancer Center
"War and peace: a biological basis for population segregation and mixing"

UCB Molecular and Cell Biology Summer Seminar
4:00 - 5:00 pm, UC Berkeley, 100 Genetics & Plant Biology Building
Gloria Brar, University of California, San Francisco
"Using high-resolution translation measurements to define meiotic cellular remodeling and redefine elements of genome coding "

UCB Conference: State, Challenges and Opportunities of Global Health
4:00 - 6:00 pm, UC Berkeley, Li Ka Shing Auditorium
Register via email before January 18

Friday, January 25

Breast Oncology Program Retreat 2013
8:00 am - 5:00 pm, Jewish Community Center in San Francisco, 3200 California Street

Hematology/Oncology Journal Club (closed to non-UCSF attendees)
8:00am - 9:00am, Parnassus, Moffitt Hospital, #M1296; contact
Research in Progress

Cancer Center Seminar
4:00 pm, Mission Bay, Bakar Auditorium (HD-160); contact; >> Live stream at 4pm for UCSF viewers <<
Boris Bastian, MD, PhD, Gerson and Barbara Bakar Distinguished Professor of Cancer Biology, UCSF
"Genotypes and phenotypes of melanocytic neoplasia"

* Unless noted otherwise, events are free and open to all interested researchers both within and outside UCSF.