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March Events

Frontiers in Obesity, Diabetes and Metabolism Seminar: Andrew Norris, MD, PhD

Monday, March 2, 2020, 1:00pm to 2:00pm

Andrew Norris, MD, PhD  Director (interim), Pediatric Endocrinology & Diabetes Professor of Biochemistry Professor of Pediatrics - Endocrinology and Diabetes  Presentation: TBD 

Biochemistry Workshop: Jeffrey White

Tuesday, March 3, 2020, 12:30pm to 1:30pm

"SUMO-responsive Transcriptional Repression from TFAP2A-Occupied Microsatellites" Jeffrey White Molecular Medicine Graduate Student  Dr. Ronald Weigel Lab

Biochemistry Seminar: Dr. Richard Maraia

Thursday, March 5, 2020, 10:30am to 11:30am

Dr. Richard Maraia  Intramural Research Program  National Institutes of Health 

Biochemistry Workshop: Dr. David Price

Tuesday, March 10, 2020, 12:30pm to 1:30pm

"A Unified View of the Sequence and Functional Organization of the Human RNA Polymerase II Promoter" David Price Professor Department of Biochemistry University of Iowa

Biochemistry Seminar: Dr. Pedram Mehrdad

Thursday, March 12, 2020, 10:30am to 11:30am

"A Tale of the Tails: A Tryp to Mice and to the Maze of Autism" "A story of the chromosome ends: A journey from African trypanosomes to mice and autism" Mehrdad Pedram, PhD Associate Professor Department of Genetics and Molecular Medicine Zanjan University of Medical Sciences 

2020 Health Sciences Research Day

Thursday, March 12, 2020, 2:30pm to 6:30pm

This event has been canceled.   The 2020 Health Sciences Research Day will take place on Thursday, March 12, 2020 and will include a poster session, mini-symposia of trainee talks, and a keynote lecture.

Ramon and Victoria Lim Medical Science Lecture - Yi Zhang, PhD

Monday, March 23, 2020, 12:00pm to 1:00pm

This visit has been canceled.  We will try to reschedule for the Fall.   Dr. Yi Zhang, PhD, will visit campus on March 23, 2020 to present a lecture (TBD) at 12:00pm in the Urmila Sahai Seminar Room (2117 MERF). Dr. Zhang is a Howard Hughes Medical Institute Investigator and the Fred Rosen Professor of Genetics and Pediatrics at Harvard Medical School.   This lecture is co-sponsored by the Ramon and Victoria Lim Medical Science Lectureship.    

Biochemistry Workshop: Masayoshi Honda

Tuesday, March 24, 2020, 12:30pm to 1:30pm

Masayoshi Honda Assistant Research Scientist  Dr. Maria Spies Lab 

Biochemistry Workshop: Grant Cooling and Ashley Goll

Tuesday, March 31, 2020, 12:30pm to 1:30pm

Grant Cooling  Graduate Research Assistant  Dr. Ashley Spies Lab