Epithelial Biology Center Inaugural Symposium 2011
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Symposium Agenda
Friday, April 29, 2011 - 208 Light Hall
| 10:15am | Introduction Susan R. Wente, Ph.D. Robert J. Coffey, M.D. |
| 10:30 am | R. Daniel Beauchamp, M.D. Professor of Surgery Chairman, Section of Surgical Sciences BMP/Smad4 inhibitory crosstalk to Wnt/β-catenin signaling and intestinal homeostasis |
| 11:05 am | Ethan Lee, M.D., Ph.D. Associate Professor of Cell & Developmental Biology Targeting the Wnt pathway for therapeutics |
| 11:40 am | Robert J. Coffey, M.D. Identification of a pan-ErbB negative regulator that marks colonic stem cells and acts as a tumor suppressor |
| 12:15 pm | Joan S. Brugge, Ph.D. Chair of the Department of Cell Biology Harvard Medical School Extracellular matrix regulation of epithelial morphogenesis, oncogenesis and drug sensitivity |
| 1:15 pm | Lunch |
| 1:45 pm | Albert B. Reynolds, Ph.D. Professor of Cancer Biology The APC’s of p120 and Kaiso in colon cancer |
| 2:20 pm | Matthew J. Tyska, Ph.D. Associate Professor of Cell & Developmental Biology A novel role for cadherins in brush border assembly |
| 2:55 pm | James R. Goldenring, M.D., Ph.D. Professor of Surgery and Cell & Developmental Biology Imaging vesicle trafficking in real time |
| 3:30 pm | W. James Nelson, Ph.D. Professor of Biology and Molecular and Cellular Physiology Stanford University Origins of epithelia and multicellularity |
| 4:30 pm | Closing Discussion |
| 5:15 pm | Reception (Langford Auditorium Lobby) |