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Monthly Breast Cancer Seminar Series


Translational Integrity and Continuity: Data Integration for Breast Cancer SPORE
Xiaoming Wang, Ph.D.
Technical Director of Biomedical Informatics Core
Tuesday, May 6, 2008 at 4:30-6pm in GCIS W508


Perils and Pitfalls in Evaluating Technologies for Breast Cancer Screening:
An Example from Computer-Aided Detection

Robert M. Nishikawa, Ph.D., FAAPM

Associate Professor, Department of Radiology, and Committee on Medical Physics
Tuesday, April 1 , 2008 at 4:30-6pm in GCIS W508

Genes that mediate and predict breast cancer treatment resistance
Andy J. Minn, M.D., Ph.D.
Assistant Professor, Department of Radiation and Cellular Oncology
Ludwig Center for Metastasis Research
Tuesday, March 4, 2008 at 4:30-6pm in GCIS W508


A Novel Role for Rap1 in Angiogenesis
Robert Doebele, M.D., Ph.D.
Instructor, Department of Medicine, Section of Hematology/Oncology
The University of Chicago
Tuesday, February 5 , 2008 at 4:30-6pm in GCIS W508

Development of protease-sensitive imaging agents and strategies
for optoacoustic tomography

Patrick La Riviere, Ph.D.
Assistant Professor, Department of Radiology
Tuesday, January 8, 2007 at 4:30-6pm in W632

TGF-beta Regulation of the Tumor Microenvironment
Harold L. Moses, M.D.
Hortense B. Ingram Professor of Molecular Oncology
Professor of Cancer Biology, Medicine and Pathology
Director Emeritus, Vanderbilt-Ingram Comprehensive Cancer Center
Tuesday, December 4 , 2007 at 4:30-6pm in W632

First Annual Breast Cancer SPORE Retreat
Dr. Olufunmilayo Olopade, SPORE PI
Dr. Gini Fleming, Co-Investigator
Dr. Maryellen Giger, Co-Investigator

Tuesday, November 13, 2007 at 8am-3pm in L107
Here for detail schedule


Integrated Analysis of Nuclear Receptor Transcriptional Networks in MCF-7 Cells
Kevin White, Ph.D.
James and Karen Frank Family Professor of Human Genetics,
and Professor of Ecology & Evolution
The University of Chicago
Tuesday, November 6, 2007 at 4:30-6pm in W632

Prediction and Modification of Cancer risk in BRCA1 and BRCA2 Mutation Carriers
Timothy R. Rebbeck, Ph.D.
Professor of Epidemiology
University of Pennsylvania School of Medicine
Tuesday, October 2, 2007 at 4:30-6pm in W632

Targeted Inhibition of DNA Repair Pathways in Breast Cancer Cells
Philip Connell, M.D.

Assistant Professor & Residency Program Director
Department of Radiology and Cellular Oncology
The University of Chicago
Tuesday, September 4 , 2007 at 4:30-6pm in W632

New therapeutic development approaches to breast cancers
Dr. Dennis Slamon
Director of Clinical/Translational Research at UCLA's Cancer Center
Director of the Revlon/UCLA Women's Cancer Research Program
Wednesday, June 6, 2007 at 8 - 9am in P118

Regulation of Breast Cancer Progression by BNIP3
Kay F. Macleod, Ph.D.
Assistant Professor
The Ben May Department for Cancer Research, The University of Chicago
Tuesday, May 1, 2007 at 4:30-6pm in W630/632

High-Throughput Analysis of Novel Protein-Protein Interactions in Diseases
Yves A. Lussier, PH.D.
Associate Professor
Director, Center for Biomedical Informatics
Associate Director for Informatics, University of Chicago Cancer Research Center
Tuesday, April 3, 2007 at 4:30-6pm in W630/632

Biospecimen, Pathology and Genotyping Core:
technologies and resources for the SPORE projects

Maria Tretiakova, MD, Ph.D.
Research Labs Director, Department of Pathology
And
Translational continuity and integrity:
a personalized bedside to bench data management system: TraM

Xiaoming Wang, Ph.D.
Tech. Dir., Biomedical Informatics Core, Office of Shared Research Facilities
Tuesday, March 6, 2007 at 4:30-6pm in W630/632

Breast Cancer Spore Project 2: Specificity of MRI with Optimal Temporal, Spatial and Spectral Sampling in Early Breast Cancer
Gregory Karczmar, Ph.D.
Associate Professor of Radiology
And
Gillian Newstead, M.D.
Associate Professor of Radiology, Clinical Director of Breast Imaging
Tuesday, February 6, 2007 at 4:30-6pm in W630/632

Breast Cancer Spore Project 4: Identifying Population Specific Variants Important in Toxicity to Breast Cancer Chemotherapy
M. Eileen Dolan, Ph.D.
Professor of Medicine, Section of Hematology/Oncology
Tuesday, January 9, 2007 at 4:30-6pm in W630/632

Breast Cancer Spore Project 3: Variation in Hormones and Xenobiotic Metabolizing Enzyme Genes and Breast Cancer
Anna Di Rienzo, Ph.D. and Funmi Olopade, M.D.
Tuesday, December 5, 2006 at 4:30-6pm in W630/632

Breast Cancer Spore Project 1:
Image-Based Determination of Breast Cancer Risk

Maryellen Giger, Ph.D.
Professor of Radiology
Associate Chair, Basic Science Research
Tuesday, November 7, 2006 4:30-6pm in W630/632

 Future seminars

9/2/2008: GCIS W301
Dr. Hania Al-Hallaq

10/7/2008: GCIS W301
Dr. Laszlo Tabar
University of Uppsala, Sweden

*11/11/2008:
Details and location TBD
SPORE retreat

12/2/2008:GCIS W301
Dr. Marvin Makinen

1/6/2009: TBD
Dr. Husain Sattar

2/3/2009: TBD
Dr. Suzanne Conzen

3/3/2009: TBD
Dr. Kathleen Goss

4/7/2009: TBD
Dr. Rita Nanda

5/5/2009: TBD
TBD

6/2/2009: TBD
Dr. Richard B. Jones

Note:
*Not 1st Tuesday of Month
No meetings held July or August