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Friday, December 5, 2008 - Thursday, December 11, 2008

View Day Friday, December 5, 2008

Today's Events

 
7:00am

25th Annual Postgraduate Medicine Course Update in Gastroenterology, Hepatology & Nutrition
Uris Auditorium Weill Cornell Medical College 1300 York Avenue (East 69th Street) New York, New York 10021

This course will focus on important, recent developments and current controversies in gastroenterology, liver disease and nutrition. The format will consist of succinct presentations and extensive discussion with audience participation.

11:00am

Motor Neuron Center Seminar
Neurological Institute, Alumni Auditorium.

"Animal models of Spinal Muscular Atrophy." Speaker: Dr. Gregory Matera, University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill

View Day Saturday, December 6, 2008

Today's Events

 
9:00am

Basic and Translational Neuroscience
Hammer Health Sciences Center, Room 401.

Basic Neuroanatomy, Neurophysiology, Neuropharmacology, Neuroendocrinology, Neurochemistry and Neurogenetics. John D. Koester, Ph.D., professor of clinical neurobiology & behavior, John W. Krakauer, M.D., associate professor of neurology, John Martin, Ph.D., professor of clinical neurobiology & behavior.

12:00pm

Diabesity: Update in Diabetes and Obesity
Russ Berrie Medical Science Pavilion

Current clinical literature and methodologies for diagnosing, preventing, treating, and managing patients with diabetes resulting from obesity. Ileana Vargas-Rodriguez, M.D., assistant clinical professor of pediatrics, and Gabriel R., Guardarramas, M.D., M.P.H., instructor in clinical medicine.

Ending Events

 

25th Annual Postgraduate Medicine Course Update in Gastroenterology, Hepatology & Nutrition
Uris Auditorium Weill Cornell Medical College 1300 York Avenue (East 69th Street) New York, New York 10021

This course will focus on important, recent developments and current controversies in gastroenterology, liver disease and nutrition. The format will consist of succinct presentations and extensive discussion with audience participation.

View Day Sunday, December 7, 2008

No Events Today

View Day Monday, December 8, 2008

Today's Events

 
12:00pm

Pathology and Cell Biology Seminar
Humphreys Auditorium, VC 14-240

"A Phylogenetically-Conserved Molecular Signature of Depression in the Amygdala. " Etienne Sibille, Ph.D., Assistant Professor, Department of Psychiatry University of Pittsburgh.

1:30pm

Thesis Defense Presentation
Columbia University Medical Center Pharmacology Library Black Building 7-724

Kacy Redd, PhD candidate in lab. or Gareth Tibbs, Thesis presentation: Ions, Second Messenger, and Anesthetics: Deconvolving the Mechanistic Actions of Regulators of HCN Pacemaker Channel Function

View Day Tuesday, December 9, 2008

Today's Events

 
10:00am

"IRB 101" Seminar
VC 14-240, Humphreys Auditorium.

history of human subjects protection, regulatory requirements, submission tips, and RASCAL updates as they relate to the Human Research Protection Program at CU.

12:00pm

Physiology Seminar Series
Physiology Library, P&S 11-505

"Mechanistic Insights into the Function of a Multimeric Rab Guanine Nucleotide Exchange Factor", by Susan Ferro-Novick, Ph.D., Professor of Cellular and Molecular Medicine, University of California, San Diego/HHMI Investigator.

2:00pm

Thesis Defense Presentation
Columbia University Medical Center Neurological Institute Alumni Auditorium

Sean Luo, MD/PhD candidate, Laboratories of Larry Abbott and Richard Axel, Neurobiology and Behavior Graduate Program, Thesis defense public presentation. Thesis title: Models of Olfactory Discrimination in Drosophila

3:00pm

Suzhao Li Thesis Defence
Physiology Conference Room, P&S 11-511.

"Mechanisms fo Efferocytosis and its role in Atherosclerosis".

3:30pm

Genetics and Development Seminar
Neurological Institute Auditorium, 710 West 168th Street, 1st Floor.

PTFIA and PDXI regulation of progenitor flux in the main phase of pancreatic organogenesis.

4:30pm

PEDIATRIC ENDOCRINE SEMINAR
PH 5 East 520

""PCOS and Adolescents" Speaker:Richard Legro, M.D., professor of OB/GYN Penn State University, Hershey Medical Center.

View Day Wednesday, December 10, 2008

Today's Events

 
12:00pm

Microbiology Seminar
Columbia University Medical Center, Hammer Building, 701 West 168th Street, Room 312.

Speaker, Dr. Rob Knight, University of Colorado will disuss "Mapping the Human Microbiome".

Columbia Neuroscience Seminar
Neurological Institute Alumni Auditorium, 710 West 168th Street, 1st Floor.

"Molecular mechanisms underlying experience-dependent plasticity in developing visual cortex". Megumi Kaneko, M.D., Ph.D., Postdoctoral Fellow, University of California, San Francisco.

5:00pm

Education Grand Rounds
P&S Alumni Auditorium.

"Jazz and the Art of Medicine." Paul Haidet, M.D., M.P.H., Baylor College of Medicine.

View Day Thursday, December 11, 2008

Today's Events

 
12:00pm

Seminar in Neurobiology
Columbia University Medical Center Neurological Institute Alumni Auditorium

Mayank Mehta, PhD, Department of Neuroscience, Brown University. Seminar title: Synaptic Plasticity, Place Cell Plasticity, Oscillations and Sleep.

4:30pm

Clinical and Translational Research
Hammer Health Sciences Center, Room 401.

“The future of obesity research: why haven’t we translated basic discoveries into effective treatments?" Rudy Leibel, M.D.. professor of Pediatrics and Molecular Genetics, F. Xavier Pi-Sunyer, M.D., professor of Medicine, Steven B. Heymsfield, M.D., Global Director of Scientific Affairs, Obesity, Merck Research Laboratories, Merck & Co.

5:00pm

Primary Care in the U.S. with Robert Phillips, M.D.
Irving Cancer Research Center (ICRC), 1130 St. Nicholas Avenue @ 168th Street, Room 114.

The Center for Family and Community Medicine presents "Primary Care in the U.S.: The Big Picture," with Robert L. Phillips Jr., M.D., MSPH, director of the Robert Graham Center: Policy Studies in Family Medicine and Primary Care in Washington, DC.



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