University Lecture Series

Spring 2013
Time: 4 p.m. Wednesdays	Location: NB2.101 Excellence in Education Lecture Hall	Phone: 214-633-1319
The University Lecture Series (ULS) brings prominent scientists and speakers to UT Southwestern Medical Center to enhance the intellectual climate of the Medical Center community.

Spring 2013

Time:
4 p.m.
Wednesdays

Location:
NB2.101
Excellence in Education Lecture Hall

Phone:
214-633-1319

The University Lecture Series (ULS) brings prominent scientists and speakers to UT Southwestern Medical Center to enhance the intellectual climate of the Medical Center community.

Date	Speaker	Title/Research	Host
01/09	David Holtzman, M.D. Professor and Chair Department of Neurology Washington University, St. Louis	The Neurobiology of apoE and Alzheimer's Disease	Medical Scientist Training Program Courtney Lane, Student Host
01/16	Joan Massague, Ph.D. Chair, Cancer Biology & Genetics Program HHMI Investigator Memorial-Sloan Kettering Cancer Center	TGF-β Signaling in Context: from Stem Cells to Metastasis	David W. Russell, Ph.D. Vice Provost and Dean, Basic Research Professor of Molecular Genetics
01/23	Michael Elowitz, M.A., Ph.D. Professor of Biology, Bioengineering and Applied Physics HHMI Investigator California Institute of Technology	Gene Circuit Dynamics at the Single-Cell Level	Rama Ranganathan, M.D., Ph.D. Professor Green Center for Systems Biology
01/30	Sandra Schmid, Ph.D. Professor and Chair Department of Cell Biology UT Southwestern Medical Center	Star Gazing: Insights into Clathrin-Mediated Endocytosis from Quantitative Live Cell Microscopy	Fred Grinnell, Ph.D. Professor, Cell Biology Michael K. Rosen. Ph.D Professor and Chair, Biophysics
02/06	Nancy Andrews, M.D., Ph.D. Dean of the School of Medicine Vice Chancellor for Academic Affairs Duke University	The Secret Life of the Transferrin Receptor	Southwestern Medical Foundation’s Ida M. Green Distinguished Visiting Professorship, WISMAC
02/13	Richard P. Lifton, M.D., Ph.D. Professor and Chair Department of Genetics Professor of Medicine, HHMI Investigator Yale School of Medicine	New Human Disease Mechanisms from Genome-Level Sequencing	Jonathan C. Cohen, Ph.D. Professor Department of Internal Medicine
02/20	Thomas R. Cech, Ph.D. Professor of Chemistry and Biochemistry HHMI Investigator University of Colorado, Boulder	Noncoding RNPs in Health and Disease: Telomerase and FUS	David R. Corey, Ph.D. Professor Department of Pharmacology
02/27	Larry Goldstein Professor of Cellular & Molecular Medicine Director, Stem Cell Program University of California, San Diego	Using Human Stem Cells to Understand and Treat Human Neurodegenerative Diseases	Postdoctoral Association at UT Southwestern
03/06	Postdoctoral Award Winner	To be announced	UT Southwestern Graduate School Michael G. Roth, Ph.D., Interim Dean
03/13	Richard A. Flavell, Ph.D., FRS Professor and Chair Department of Immunology HHMI Investigator Yale School of Medicine	Inflammasomes in Health and Disease	Felix Yarovinsky, M.D. Assistant Professor Department of Immunology
03/20 Gooch Auditorium	Harry (Hal) C. Dietz, M.D. Professor of Genetics and Medicine HHMI Investigator The John Hopkins University School of Medicine	Found in Translation: New Insights into the Pathogenesis and Treatment of Marfan Syndrome and Related Disorders	Convergence Day Keynote Address Helen H. Hobbs, M.D., Professor McDermott Center for Human Growth and Development
03/27	David M. Knipe, Ph.D. Professor of Microbiology and Molecular Genetics Harvard Medical School	Vaccines and Other New Strategies Targeting Herpes Simplex Virus Lytic and Latent Infection	S. Edward Sulkin Visiting Professorship Michael V. Norgard, Ph.D. Professor and Chair Department of Microbiology
04/03	Roberta B. Ness, M.D., Ph.D. Dean, School of Public Health M. David Low Chair in Public Health UT Health Science Center at Houston	So You Think You Can Innovate? Practical Lessons to Enhance Innovation Generation	Southwestern Academy of Teachers Joseph P. Albanesi, Ph.D., Chair
04/10	Leonard Zon, M.D. Director, Stem Cell Program Children's Hospital Boston Professor of Pediatrics Harvard Medical School	Blood Stem Cell Self-Renewal and Differentiation: Lessons from Being a Post-Doc to a Professor	UTSW Sigma Xi Local Chapter Uttam K. Tambar, Ph.D., President Assistant Professor, Biochemistry
04/17	John S. Condeelis, Ph.D. Professor and Co-Chair Department of Anantomy and Structural Biology Albert Einstein College of Medicine	Imaging Tumor Cells In Vivo to Understand the Molecular Mechanisms of Metastasis	Rupert E. Billingham Lectureship in Cell Biology Sandra L. Schmid, Ph.D. Professor and Chair Department of Cell Biology
04/24	Andrew G. Myers, Ph.D. Professor of Chemistry and Chemical Biology Harvard University	Bringing the Full Power of Chemical Synthesis to Bear on the Discovery of New Antibiotics	Chilton Foundation Annual Lecture Steven L. McKnight, Ph.D. Professor and Chair Department of Biochemistry
05/01	Zhijian ‘James’ Chen, Ph.D. HHMI Investigator Professor, Department of Molecular Biology UT Southwestern Medical Center	The Danger from Within - Innate Immune Sensing and Signaling of Cytosolic DNA and RNA	Joseph ‘Joe’ Goldstein, M.D. Professor and Chair Department of Molecular Genetics
05/08	Bali Pulendran, Ph.D. Professor of Pathology & Laboratory Med. Director, Innate Immunity Program Emory Vaccine Canter Emory University	Systems Vaccinology: Enabling Rational Vaccine Design with Systems Biological Approaches	George E. Peacock Lecture James S. Malter, M.D. Professor and Chair Department of Pathology
5/15	Nominata Seminar	TBA

Christine K. Garcia, M.D., Ph.D.
Chair, University Lecture Series 2012-2013

ULS Video Library

The intention of this video repository is to allow students, postdocs, faculty, and interested employees of UT Southwestern who have been unable to attend the original lecture to watch these University Lecture Series presentations at a later date.

Access to this site is restricted to the intranet and VPN. Any recordings accessible through hyperlinks within this page are to be used for educational purposes by current employees of UT Southwestern ONLY.