2015 Monday Seminars December 7, 2015 5:15-6:15 PM – Room 451, Cancer Genetics Research Complex (CGRC) Building Peter Todd, MD, PhD Department of Neurology University of Michigan “Repeat associated non-AUG (RAN) translation: mechanisms and roles in neurodegeneration” September 21, 2015 10:00-11:00 AM – Room 451, Cancer Genetics Research Complex (CGRC) Building Lien Nguyen University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign Department of Chemistry “Small Molecules targeting expanded CCUG and CUG repeats as potential therapeutics for Myotonic Dystrophy” July 23, 2015 10:00-11:00 AM – Room 451, Cancer Genetics Research Complex (CGRC) Building Andrei Korostelev, PhD Department of Biochemistry & Molecular Pharmacology University of Massechusetts Medical School “Mechanisms of IRES-dependent translation and tRNA translocation on the ribosome” July 9, 2015 1:30-2:30PM – Room 451, Cancer Genetics Research Complex (CGRC) Building Laura Bott, PhD National Institutes of Health National Institute of Neurological Disorders and Stroke NeuroGenetics Branch “Spinal and Bulbar Muscular Atrophy: New Insights into the Disease Mechanism and Prospects for Pharmacological Therapy” March 30, 2015 5:15-6:15 PM – Room 451, Cancer Genetics Research Complex (CGRC) Building Michael Waters, MD, PhD Department of Neurology University of Florida “Pathophysiology in SCA13” May 14, 2015 2:00-3:00PM – Room 451, Cancer Genetics Research Complex (CGRC) Building Tiffany Todd, PhD Yale University Department of Genetics “Nemo-Like Kinase modulates the pathogenesis of the polyglutamine disease Spinal and Bulpar Muscular Atrophy” February 23, 2015 5:15-6:15 PM – Room 451, Cancer Genetics Research Complex (CGRC) Building Edgardo Rodriguez, Ph.D. Department of Pharmacology & Therapeutics University of Florida “AAV-CRISPER/Cas9: A new approach to the study and treatment of neurogenetic disease” February 3, 2015 4:00-5:00PM – DeWeese Auditorium, McKnight Brain Institute Nahum Sonenberg, PhD Department of Biochemistry McGill University, Montreal, Canada “Translational control of cancer and neurodevelopmental diseases via eIF4E” Jan 26, 2015 5:15-6:15 PM – Room 451, Cancer Genetics Research Complex (CGRC) Building David Vaillancourt, Ph.D. Departments of Applied Physiology and Kinesiology; Neurology; Biomedical Engineering University of Florida “Neuroimaging in Spinocerebellar Ataxia 6”
Peter Todd, MD, PhD
Lien Nguyen
Andrei Korostelev, PhD
Michael Waters, MD, PhD
Tiffany Todd, PhD
Edgardo Rodriguez, Ph.D.
Nahum Sonenberg, PhD
David Vaillancourt, Ph.D.
