Cancer and Embryonic Development meets every Monday, Wednesday, and Friday from 2:30 to 3:30 pm in 3131 MRBIII.   We will have three graduate trainees and one postdoctoral fellow serving as teaching assistants and with their help will provide students with highly interactive, student-teacher environment.  This year, the course will be divided into 4 modules. 

The third module, Cell Interactions, will be offered from Monday, February 23 through Friday, March 20, 2009.  Presentations and readings for each class follow.

To download the presentation from each class simply click on the title.  Clicking on a reading will either take you to the webpage for the full article or pdf download or allow you to download the publication directly (in cases where the information is not available on the web).

III. CELL INTERACTIONS
2/23/09	Anna Means	Cellular interactions development
Reading	Spleen versus pancreas: strict control of organ interrelationship revealed by analyses of Bapx1-/- mice.  2007 Genes & Development 20: 2208-2213
2/25/09	Simon Hayward	Cellular interactions in cancer (not endothelial cells)
Reading	No evidence of clonal somatic genetic alteations in cancer-associated fibroblasts from human breast and ovarian carcinomas.  2007 Nature Genetics 40: 650
2/27/09	Students	Journal Club
BREAK
3/9/09	Stacey Huppert	Stem Cell Nicehes in development
Reading	Live-animal tracking of individual haematopoietic stem/progenitor cells in their niche.  2009 Nature 457: 92-96
3/11/09	Michael Cooper	Stem Cell Niches in malignancy
Reading	Leukemic cells create bone marrow niches that disrupt the behavior of normal hematopoietic progenitor cells.  2008 Science 322: 1861-1865
3/13/09	Students	Journal Club
3/16/09	David Bader	Endothelial patterning and tissue interactions during development
Reading	Induction of Pancreatic Differentiation by Signals from Blood Vessels.  2001 Science 294: 564-567
3/18/09	Ambra Pozzi	Tumor-endothelium interactions
Reading	An essential role for SRC-activated STAT-3 in 14,15-EET-induced VEGF expression and angiogenesis.  2008 Blood 111; 5581-
3/20/09	Students	Journal Club
(For more information about CBIO320/CANB320 please contact the Course Director or Course Assistants)