Seminars: Cancer Research Center of Hawai‘i

Center Programs-Sponsored Lectures

August
The critical role of pathology core and tissue bank-related service in translational cancer research
Thursday August 5 1:00 PM	Jian Huang, MD Assistant Professor of Pathology Lester and Sue Smith Breast Center at Baylor College of Medicine Seminar will be at: Cancer Research Center of Hawai‘i 1236 Lauhala Street Conference Room 401

July
Translational Implications of MicroRNAs in Clinical Diagnostics and Therapeutics
Monday July 12 12:00 PM	Lorenzo F. Sempere, PhD Research Assistant Professor Department of Medicine Rubin 761/765 HB7936 Norris Cotton Cancer Center Seminar will be at: Cancer Research Center of Hawai‘i 677 Ala Moana Boulevard Gold Bond Building 2^nd Floor Conference Room Parking is at JABSOM Lot C Visitors Parking (directly across the street of Gold Bond Building). Entry is $4.00. No validation at Gold Bond.

Sulindac: Old Drug Reveals New Anticancer Target
Thursday July 15 11:30 AM	Gary Piazza, PhD Senior Research Scientist Adjunct Associate Professor of Pharmacology & Biochemistry Southern Research Institute The University of Alabama at Birmingham Seminar will be at: Cancer Research Center of Hawai‘i 677 Ala Moana Boulevard Gold Bond Building 2^nd Floor Conference Room Parking is at JABSOM Lot C Visitors Parking (directly across the street of Gold Bond Building). Entry is $4.00. No validation at Gold Bond.

Transgenesis, Transfection and Gene Therapy with Transposase Enzymes"
Monday July 26 12:00 PM	Stefan Moisyadi, PhD Assistant Professor Institute for Biogenesis Research Department of Anatomy, Biochemistry and Physiology John A. Burns School of Medicine 1960 East West Road, E 108 Seminar will be at: Cancer Research Center of Hawai‘i 677 Ala Moana Boulevard Gold Bond Building 2^nd Floor Conference Room Remote access will be offered from 1236 Lauhala St, Conference Room 401 Parking is at JABSOM Lot C Visitors Parking (directly across the street of Gold Bond Building). Entry is $4.00. No validation at Gold Bond.

June
Role for the Sphingolipid Pathway in Colon Carcinogenesis and Beyond
Monday June 28 12:00 PM	Toshihiko Kawamori, MD, PhD Seminar will be at: Cancer Research Center of Hawai‘i 677 Ala Moana Boulevard Gold Bond Building 2^nd Floor Conference Room Parking is at JABSOM Lot C Visitors Parking (directly across the street of Gold Bond Building). Entry is $4.00. No validation at Gold Bond.

Novel Mechanisms for Ras Activation in Epidermal Carcinogenesis: the RasGRP1 Pathway
Monday June 14 12:00 PM	Patricia Lorenzo, PhD Associate Professor (Researcher) Cancer Research Center of Hawai‘i Seminar will be at: Cancer Research Center of Hawai‘i 677 Ala Moana Boulevard Gold Bond Building 2^nd Floor Conference Room Parking is at JABSOM Lot C Visitors Parking (directly across the street of Gold Bond Building). Entry is $4.00. No validation at Gold Bond.

May
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Monday May 3 12:00 PM	"Telomere shortening and chromosome instability in the etiology and development of cancer" Jian Gu, PhD "Energy balance, diet-gene interactions & bladder cancer risk" Jie Lin, PhD "Genome-wide association study of cancer risk and outcome" Yuanqing Ye, PhD Assistant Professors Department of Epidemiology University of Texas MD Anderson Cancer Center Seminar will be at: Cancer Research Center of Hawai‘i 677 Ala Moana Boulevard Gold Bond Building 2^nd Floor Conference Room Parking is at JABSOM Lot C Visitors Parking (directly across the street of Gold Bond Building). Entry is $4.00. No validation at Gold Bond.

"Genetic Factors Influencing Treatment Response and Clinical Outcomes in Esophageal and Lung Cancers"
Tuesday May 4 10:30 AM	Michelle Hildebrandt, PhD Instructor Department of Epidemiology University of Texas MD Anderson Cancer Center Seminar will be at: John A. Burns School of Medicine 651 Ilalo Street BioSciences Building, Room 222N

"A Wnt-Wnt Situation: Signal Production and Transduction in Stem Cell-mediated Breast Development and Cancer"
Thursday May 6 11:00 AM	Wei Hsu, PhD Associate Professor Biomedical Genetics and Oncology University of Rochester Medical Center Seminar will be at: Cancer Research Center of Hawai‘i 677 Ala Moana Boulevard Gold Bond Building 2^nd Floor Conference Room Parking is at JABSOM Lot C Visitors Parking (directly across the street of Gold Bond Building). Entry is $4.00. No validation at Gold Bond.

"Association of Genetic Variants in LEP and LEPR with Plasma Leptin and Age at Menarche in Adolescent Girls"
Wednesday May 12 1:30 PM	Vinutha Vijayadeva PhD Candidate Public Health Sciences and Epidemiology University of Hawai‘i at Manoa Seminar will be at: Cancer Research Center of Hawai‘i 1236 Lauhala Street 4^th Floor Conference Room (401)

March
"mTOR in translation and folding"
Monday March 1 10:45 AM	Estela Jacinto, PhD Assistant Professor Department of Physiology and Biophysics UMDNJ-Robert Wood Johnson Medical School Seminar will be at: Cancer Research Center of Hawai‘i 677 Ala Moana Boulevard Gold Bond Building 2^nd Floor Conference Room

"Signaling T lymphocyte development: a (protein) complex story"
Tuesday March 2 10:45 AM	Guy Werlen, PhD Rutgers, The State University of New Jersey Department of Cell Biology & Neuroscience Seminar will be at: Cancer Research Center of Hawai‘i 677 Ala Moana Boulevard Gold Bond Building 2^nd Floor Conference Room

"Modulation of Immune Tolerance for Cancer Immune Therapy"
Monday March 22 12:00 PM	Shu-Hsia Chen, PhD Professor Department of Gene and Cell Medicine Mount Sinai School of Medicine, New York Seminar will be at: Cancer Research Center of Hawai‘i 677 Ala Moana Boulevard Gold Bond Building 2^nd Floor Conference Room

"Immune Suppresion by Myeloid-Derived Suppressor Cells and It's Potential Clinical Applications"
Tuesday March 23 11:00 AM	Ping-Ying Pan, PhD Associate Professor Department of Gene and Cell Medicine Mount Sinai School of Medicine, New York Seminar will be at: Cancer Research Center of Hawai‘i 677 Ala Moana Boulevard Gold Bond Building 2^nd Floor Conference Room

February
"Poxviral Vectors as Vaccines"
Monday February 22 12:00 PM	Antonio Siccardi, MD Professor of Biology and Genetics University of Milan, Italy School of Medicine Seminar will be at: Cancer Research Center of Hawai‘i 677 Ala Moana Boulevard Gold Bond Building 2^nd Floor Conference Room

January
"From Television to Cell Phones & Video Games: Monitoring & Impacts of Cancer-Related Communication using Mass Media and New Technologies"
Friday January 8 12:00 PM	Leslie Snyder, PhD Professor, Director Center for Health Communication & Marketing University of Connecticut Seminar will be at: Cancer Research Center of Hawai‘i 677 Ala Moana Boulevard Gold Bond Building 2^nd Floor Conference Room

"Using Social Images in Health Behavior Interventions"
Monday January 11 11:30 AM	Meg Gerrard, PhD Co-Director Cancer Control Research Program Norris Cotton Cancer Center Lebanon, NH Seminar will be at: Cancer Research Center of Hawai‘i 677 Ala Moana Boulevard Gold Bond Building 2^nd Floor Conference Room

"Discrimination, Cognitions, and Health: A Psychosocial Approach to Cancer-Risk Behavior"
Monday January 11 3:00 PM	Frederick X. Gibbons, PhD Research Professor Department of Psychology and Brain Sciences Dartmouth College Seminar will be at: Cancer Research Center of Hawai‘i 677 Ala Moana Boulevard Gold Bond Building 2^nd Floor Conference Room

"Genome-wide Association Study of Cancer Risk and Clinical Outcome"
Thursday January 14 12:00 PM	Xifeng Wu, MD, PhD Professor, Department of Epidemiology Cancer Prevention and Population Sciences The University of Texas M.D. Anderson Cancer Center Seminar will be at: Cancer Research Center of Hawai‘i 677 Ala Moana Boulevard Gold Bond Building 2^nd Floor Conference Room

"Advances in Colonic Carcinogenesis and Chemoprevention: Sprouty-2 and UDCA"
Tuesday January 19 12:30 PM	Sharad Khare, PhD Associate Professor Department of Medicine Division of Gastroenterology, Hepatology, and Nutrition Loyola University Medical Center Seminar will be at: Cancer Research Center of Hawai‘i 1236 Lauhala Street 4^th Floor Conference Room (401)

"New Development in Breast Cancer Imaging"
Monday January 25 11:30 AM	Martin J. Yaffe, PhD Senior Scientist, Imaging Research Sunnybrook Health Science Centre Professor, Depts. Medical Biophysics and Medical Imaging Tory Family Chair in Cancer Research Toronto, ON Canada Seminar will be at: Cancer Research Center of Hawai‘i 1236 Lauhala Street 4^th Floor Conference Room (401)

"Sentinel Node Staging of Solid Tumors - From Concept to Practice"
Thursday January 28 12:00 PM	Jan H. Wong, MD Professor of Surgery Chief of Surgical Oncology Loma Linda University School of Medicine Seminar will be at: Cancer Research Center of Hawai‘i 1236 Lauhala Street 4^th Floor Conference Room (401)

More Seminars to follow....