Seminars, Grand Rounds, & Other Presentations of interest to the UCSF Cancer community* (Campus building abbreviations and addresses at bottom) View online   |   add to, correct, or unsubscribe  |  follow us on Twitter

THURSDAY, May 16

Prostate Cancer Program Seminar Series
4:00 - 5:00 pm, Mission Bay, HD160 Bakar Auditorium; contact
"Cross talk between hormones and the DNA repair machinery: Mechanisms and Therapeutic Implications"
Karen Knudsen, PhD, Professor, Cancer Biology, Urology & Radiation Oncology, Deputy Director, Basic Science, Thomas Jefferson University, Kimmel Cancer Center

Neuroscience Seminar
4:00 pm, Mission Bay, Genentech Hall; live stream
"Functions for the three synaptotagmin isoforms that are expressed in all metazoans"
Ed Chapman, University of Wisconsin

Salvatore Pablo Lucia Distinguished Lecture
4:00 - 5:00 pm, Parnassus, N-225
"From Silos to Synergy: Linking Health Care with Population Health"
Neal D. Kohatsu MD MPH

Hematopoietic Malignancies Program / Heme Club - CANCELED
The previously announced meeting has been canceled for this date.

UC Davis 2013 Hideo "Dale Kubo Memorial Lecture
5:00 - 7:30pm, UCD Auditorium, 4501 X St, Sacramento
"Controversies in the management of localized prostate cancer"
Mack Roach III, Professor and Chair of the Department of Radiation Oncology, UCSF

QB3 Cancer Club
6:00 pm, Mission Bay, Room TBD; contact
"Synovial Sarcoma: mSWI/SNF (BAF) Complexes by the SS18-SSX Oncogenic Fusion"
Cigall Kadoch, PhD Stanford School of Medicine

FRIDAY, May 17

2013 Pancreas Cancer Program Retreat
7:30 am - 6:15 pm, Mission Bay, Genentech Hall
"A Tale of Two Tumors: Unraveling Biology in Pancreatic Neoplasms"
This year's Retreat will include research updates by investigators from UCSF, UCLA, UCSD and NYU.
All faculty and staff affiliated with the Helen Diller Family Comprehensive Cancer Center are encouraged to attend.
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Hematology/Oncology Journal Club
(closed to non-UCSF attendees)
8:00am - 9:00am, Parnassus, Moffitt Hospital, #M1296; contact.
Michael Pourdehnad, MD: "Control of Autophagic Cell Death by Caspase-10 in Multiple Myeloma."
Hope Rugo, MD: "Results ofof a randomized phase 2 study of PD 0332991, a cyclindependent kinase (CDK) 4/6 inhibitor, in combination with letrozole vs letrozole alone for first-line treatment of ER+/HER2- advanced breast cancer (BC)"

Radiation Oncology Grand Rounds
8:00am - 9:00am, Mt Zion, H1031; simulcast to Parnassus, L-34; contact.
"Multiple Myeloma"
Jeffrey Wolf, MD, Clinical Professor, Department of Medicine, UCSF

Psycho-Oncology Journal Club
12:00 - 1:00 pm, Mount Zion, 1600 Divisadero, H3906; contact
Sy-Huey Grace Doong presenting the results of her masters thesis project for the UCSF School of Nursing's oncology program. Her thesis examines the symptom cluster of pain and other symptoms in breast cancer patients.

Cancer Center Seminar as part of Pancreas Program Retreat
4:00 pm, SPECIAL LOCATION: Genentech Hall; contact; >> Live stream at 4pm for UCSF viewers <<
"Compartilization of Ras signaling"
Mark Philips, NYU
Join the event in progress at 4pm or register for the whole day retreat here.

SATURDAY, May 18

Bay Area Biotechnology Symposium
9:00 am - 1:00 pm, Mission Bay, Genentech Hall Auditorium
"Pharmaceuticals for the Future: From Bench to Bedside"
Speakers from Sutro Biopharma, Plexxikon, Amgen, Genentech, Rinat (Pfizer) and Gilead Sciences. Learn about drug development at these companies and the associated challenges. presented by the UCSF School of Pharmacy, Industry Outreach Program

MONDAY, May 20

Hematology/Oncology Clinical Case Conference
(closed to non-UCSF attendees)
8:00am - 9:00am, Parnassus, Moffitt Hospital, #M1296; contact
Morbidity & Mortality: Malignant Hematology

Immunology Seminar
9:00 am, Parnassus, N-225, simulcast to Mission Bay (GH-S271); live stream
Trevor Burt, MD - UCSF Internal Speaker

GICD/CVRI Seminar
12:00 pm, Mission Bay, Smith Cardiovascular Research Building, SC-159; contact
"Genome Editing to Create Human Cellular Models of Disease"
Chad A. Cowan, PhD, Assistant Professor, Department of Stem Cell & Regenerative Biology, Harvard University

CAPS Town Hall
12:00 pm, 50 Beale St., 13th floor McKusick Conference Room
"Implementing the National AIDS Strategy"
Grant Colfax, MD, MPH, Director of the Office of National AIDS Policy

Cancer Epidemiology Seminar
3:00 - 4:00 pm, Mission Bay, HD-291; contact
Luis Carvajal-Carmona, UC Davis

Patient Event: Managing Arm Lymphedema After Cancer: Self Treatment Strategies
4:00 - 5:30 pm, Mount Zion, 1545 Divisadero St., Room 326
with Jet Lee, PT, PhD; Betty Smoot, PT and Debby Hamolsky, RN, MS.

QED@QB3 Seminar
4:00 - 6:00 pm, Mission Bay, 212 Byers Hall
"Managing the development of an emerging biopharma technology"
Part 1 of 2: Workshop 1 - Tools for Project Management (May 20)
Vicky Hines, PhD, Halloran Consulting Group Emily Walsh, PhD, Halloran Consulting Group
NOTE: Unfortunately both sessions have been completely booked up. Please email kaspar.mossman@qb3.org to join the waitlist.

OHNS Grand Rounds Lecture
5:00 - 6:00 pm, Mount Zion, 1600 Divisadero St., Herbst Hall; contact
"Morbidity and Mortality"
Drs. Kevin Burke, Megan Durr, Jonathan George and Ilya Likhterov, UCSF OHNS Residents

TUESDAY, May 21

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

Medicine Grand Rounds
12:00 noon - 1:00 pm, SFGH: Carr Auditorium
"Medical Comorbidities in patients with mentally Illness"
Gail Daumit MD

CPMCRI Seminar
12:00 - 1:00 pm, CPMCRI, 475 Brannan Street, Suite 220, Conference Room 230; contact
"Tracking iPSC-derived neuron-happiness in culture"
Eric Beattie, PhD, Scientist, CPMCRI

Cancer Center Special Seminar - CANCELED
4:00 pm, Mission Bay, Bakar Auditorium (HD-160)
The previously announced seminar with Frank L. Meyskens, Jr has been canceled

Biochemistry & Biophysics Seminar
4:00 pm, Mission Bay, Byers Auditorium (Genentech Hall 106); Simulcast to Parnsassus S161.
"From Darwin to DNA: The genetics of morphological and behavioral adaption in wild mice"
Hopi Hoekstra, Harvard

Immunotherapy and Tumor Immunology Journal Club
4:00 pm, Parnassus, HSW 1057, refreshments served; contact
on "An Immunosurveillance Mechanism Controls Cancer Cell Ploidy"
Jason Park, NIH NDC Cell Propulsion Lab - Lim Lab / Conklin Lab, Bioengineering MD/PhD Candidate - MSTP at UCSF / UCB, Biomedical Engineering / Mechanical Engineering - MIT (S.B. / M.Eng.)

QED@QB3 Seminar
4:00 - 6:00 pm, Mission Bay, 212 Byers Hall
"Managing the development of an emerging biopharma technology"
Part 2 of 2: Workshop 2 - Project Management Applied (May 21)
Vicky Hines, PhD, Halloran Consulting Group Emily Walsh, PhD, Halloran Consulting Group
NOTE: Unfortunately both sessions have been completely booked up. Please email kaspar.mossman@qb3.org to join the waitlist.

Patient Event: Nutrition and Breast Cancer
5:30 pm, Mount Zion, 1600 Divisadero St., H-3906

WEDNESDAY, May 22

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

Breast Oncology Program Weekly Seminar
8:30 - 10:00 am, Mount Zion, Lurie Conference Room, 2340 Sutter Street; contact
"Epigenetic Contributions to Cell Identity in Human Breast"
Philippe Gascard, PhD, Department of Pathology, UCSF

Endocrine Grand Rounds
8:30 - 9:30 am, Parnassus, Langley Porter Auditorium, Room LP-190; contact
"Autoimmune Thyroid Disease in the Pregnant Patient: Advances and Uncertainties"
Chrysoula Dosiou, MD, MS, Clinical Assistant Professor, Stanford University School of Medicine

Tobacco Control Seminar
12:00 - 1:30 pm, Parnassus, Library 366
"Death of a Salesman: Public perceptions of tobacco retail interventions"
Janet Hoek, PhD, Professor of Marketing, University of Otago, New Zealand

Diller Building Journal Club
12:00 noon, Mission Bay, Bakar Auditorium, HD-160; contact
Julia Freimuth

BMS Seminar Series
4:00 pm, Parnassus, N-225; simulcast to MBay Gen-271; live stream
"Mononuclear phagocytes, lymphatic transport, and chronic inflammatory disease"
Gwendalyn Randolph, Washington University School of Medicine

THURSDAY, May 23

Pediatric Grand Rounds
8:00 - 9:00 am, Parnassus, N-217
"Pulmonary Lymphatic Development and Function in a Large Animal Model of Increased Pulmonary Blood Flow"
Sanjeev Datar MD, PhD, Asst. Adj. Professor, Critical Care, Department of Pediatrics, UCSF

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

3rd Annual Bay Area Viruses Symposium
9:00 am - 4:30 pm, UC Berkeley, 245 Li Ka Shing Center; 4:30-6pm poster session and cocktail hour
The symposium aims to strengthen interactions among Bay Area scientists who share a strong interest in virology. Chaired by a committee composed of Laurent Coscoy (UC Berkeley), Paul Luciw (UC Davis), Melanie Ott (Gladstone), Peter Sarnow (Stanford), and Philip Norris (Blood Systems Research Institute)

Dermatology Resident Expert Talk (follows Grand Rounds)
10:30 am, Mount Zion, 1701 Divisadero St, 3rd floor; contact
"The Evidence for Skin Cancer Screening"
Ricardo Pollitt, MD, PhD, Resident, Department of Dermatology, UCSF

GIND Seminar
11:00 am - 12:00 pm, Mission Bay, Gladstone Building, 1st floor, Robert Mayley Auditorium
"A Probiotic Therapy for Autism in Mouse Models"
Sarkis Mazmanian, Ph.D., of the Division of Biology at the California Institute of Technology

UCD Cancer Metabolism Symposium
10:00 am - 4:00 pm, UC Davis, Auditorium, 4501 X Street; register
Co-sponsored by: UC Davis Comprehensive Cancer Center and NIH: West Coast Metabolomics Center
Keynote Speakers: Dr. Ronald M. Evans, a Howard Hughes Investigator at the Salk Institute
Dr. Kun-Liang Guan, a Professor of Pharmacology at UCSD

BBC Seminar
12:00 - 1:00 pm, Mission Bay, Genentech Hall, Byers Auditorium; simulcast to Parnassus, Medical Sciences, S-161
David Bartel, MIT

Medicine Grand Rounds
12:00 - 1:00 pm, Parnassus, HSW-300
"Palliative Care: Year in Review"
Lynn Flint, MD, Assistant Clinical Professor, Division of Geriatrics, Staff Physician in the Community Living Center, San Francisco VA Medical Center.

BMS Journal Club
12:00 pm, Parnassus, N-225 & videoconferenced to Room GH-S271, Mission Bay; live stream
Mark Noviski (student): "A guest that just won't leave: Why cancer vaccines have limited efficacy"
Samira Khakpour (student): "Interferon Interference: Type I interferon suppresses type II interferon-triggered anti-mycobacterial responses"

Seventh Annual Thelma Shobe Endowed Lecture on Ethics, Spirituality and Health
6:00 - 9:00 pm, Parnassus, Cole Hall
"Religion and the Case for Women's Reproductive Freedom"
Rev. Rita Nakashima Brock, PhD, Research Professor of Theology and Culture, Brite Divinity School, Fort Worth, Texas
"Abortion, Conscience, and the Ethics of Provision"
Margaret Olivia Little, PhD, Director of the Kennedy Institute of Ethics, Associate Professor of Philosophy, Georgetown University, Washington, DC

FRIDAY, May 24

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

UCSF/Legacy Tobacco Documents Workshop
9:30 am - 4:00 pm, Parnassus, contact
"PUTTING THE TOBACCO INDUSTRY'S WORDS TO WORK FOR YOU"
The University of California, San Francisco Center for Tobacco Control Research and Education, an interdisciplinary research community, announces its one-day workshop on using tobacco industry documents for advocacy.
Cost: $25 registration fee to reserve your place, refundable upon completion of the workshop. Deadline is May 17.

Cancer Center Seminar
4:00 pm, Mission Bay, Bakar Auditorium (HD-160); contact; >> Live stream at 4pm for UCSF viewers <<
"Diversity of Receptor Tyrosine Kinase Activation Mechanisms"
Mark Lemmon, University of Pennsylvania

MONDAY, May 27 - MEMORIAL DAY

TUESDAY, May 28

Ob/Gyn & RS Grand Rounds
9:00 am - 10:00 am, Parnassus, HSW-301
"Gynecologic Oncology: Morbidity and Mortality"
Chief Resident, Department of Ob/Gyn & RS, UCSF

Diller Building Research-in-Progress Seminar
(closed to non-UCSF attendees)
10:00 - 11:15 am, Mission Bay, Bakar Auditorium, HD-160; contact
"BRAF status in personalizing treatment approaches for pediatric gliomas"
Aleksandra Olow, Haas-Kogan Lab

Medicine Grand Rounds
12:00 noon - 1:00 pm, SFGH: Carr Auditorium
Cancer Screening
Louise Walter

CHORI Seminar
12:00 pm, 5700 Martin Luther King Jr Way, Little Theatre, Room 2319
"The gibbon genome reveals a parallel between mechanisms of chromosomal rearrangements in species evolution and cancer"
Lucia Carbone, PhD, Assistant Professor, Oregon Health & Science University

Biochemistry & Biophysics Seminar
4:00 pm, Mission Bay, Byers Auditorium (Genentech Hall 106); Simulcast to Parnsassus S161.
Diana Bautista, UC Berkeley

LBNL Life Sciences Division Seminar
4:00 - 5:00 pm, 717 Potter Street, Berkeley (Informal reception follows)
"RNA-programmed Genome Defense and Editing"
Jennifer Doudna, HHMI, University of California, Berkeley; Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory

Patient Event: Nutrition and Prostate Cancer
4:00 pm, Mount Zion, 1600 Divisadero St., H-3906

WEDNESDAY, May 29

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

Endocrine Grand Rounds
8:30-9:30 am, Parnassus, Langley Porter Auditorium, Room LP-190; contact
Irisin and Other Myokines: Skeletal Muscle as an Endocrine Organ"
Mona Walimbe, MD, Endocrine Fellow, UCSF

Breast Oncology Program Weekly Seminar
8:30 - 10:00 am, Mount Zion, Lurie Conference Room, 2340 Sutter Street; contact
Fijs W.B. van Leeuwen, PhD, Associate Professor, Department of Radiology, Leiden University Medical Center

UCB Genetics, Development and Molecular Evolution Supergroup Symposium
9:00 am - 5:00 pm, UCB Campus, 125 Li Ka Shing Center; register
Symposium Talks from 9:00 am - Noon and 2 - 4:30 pm in 125 LKS
Poster Session and Lunch from noon-2 pm in the LKS Lobby

Diller Building Journal Club
12:00 noon, Mission Bay, Bakar Auditorium, HD-160; contact
June Chan

PSPG Seminar
12:00 - 1:00 pm, Mission Bay, Rock Hall, RH-102; Simulcast to Parnassus, N-217
John Novembre, PhD, Assistant Professor, Department of Ecology and Evolutionary Biology, UC Los Angeles

Entrepreneurship Center Event
UCSF only
1:00 - 4:00 pm, Mission Bay; see registration for details
"Life Science Angels Mentoring"

Tobacco Control Special Seminar
1:30 - 3:00 pm, Parnassus, Library 366
"Battle for pictures: Evolution of cigarette packs' health warning labels"
Heikki Hiilamo, PhD, Social Insurance Institution of Finland

Biostatistics and Bioinformatics Seminar
first and third Wednesdays
3:00 pm, followed by social hour at 4; China Basin, Lobby 3, Room 6704
Michael Mahoney, Stanford University

BMS Seminar Series
4:00 pm, Parnassus, N-225; simulcast to MBay Gen-271; live stream
"Linking RNA to Human Health and Disease"
John Rinn, Broad Institute

THURSDAY, May 30

Pediatric Grand Rounds
8:00 - 9:00 am, Parnassus, N-217
Pediatric Resident QI Projects
John Takayama MD, MPH, Professor of Clinical Pediatrics, , UCSF

Liver Center Mini-Symposium
8:45 am - 3:00 pm, Parnassus, Aldea Center on Mt. Sutro
Molecular Pathogenesis of Liver Cancers
RSVP: Brian Fabian

BMS Journal Club
12:00 noon, Parnassus, N-225 & videoconferenced to Room GH-S271, Mission Bay; live stream
Lisandro Maya-Ramos (student); Stephanie Moquin (student)

QED@QB3 Entrepreneurs' Discussion Series
12:00 - 1:00 pm, Mission Bay, N-114 Genentech Hall
"Equity compensation: strategies for startups"
Kathy Ryan & Kyle Holm, CEO and CFO, RoseRyan; Associate Partner, Radford

Neuroscience Seminar
4:00 pm, Mission Bay, Genentech Hall; live stream
"Neural circuits for Fly Visual Course Control"
Axel Borst, Max-Planck Institute

FRIDAY, May 31

Hematology/Oncology Journal Club - CANCELED due to ASCO

Tobacco Control Seminar
10:00 am, Parnassus, Library 366
"A partnership between Pfizer & the Smoking Cessation Leadership Center: New resources for doing the right thing"
Steve Schroeder, MD & hosted by Frank Bandiera, PhD, Tobacco Research Postdoctoral Fellow.

Cancer Center Seminar
4:00 pm, Mission Bay, Bakar Auditorium (HD-160); contact; >> Live stream at 4pm for UCSF viewers <<
"New Insight Into Tumor Suppressor Gene Networks"
Scott W. Lowe, PhD, HHMI INVESTIGATOR Memorial Sloan-Kettering Cancer Center

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