MICROBIOLOGY/IMMUNOLOGY SEMINAR


"ACCOUNTING, PLUMBING AND GEOGRAPHY IN THE T CELL
RESPONSE TO INFECTION"


PRESENTED BY
LEO LEFRANCOIS, PH.D.
Professor of Immunology
University of Connecticut Health Center
Department of Immunology
Farmington, CT

HOST: Ed Usherwood


Monday

DATE: May 5, 2008

TIME: 4:00 PM

PLACE: 658W Borwell



This is made possible by administrative, technical, fiscal resources and contributions of the Department of
Microbiology and Immunology, M2P2, and the Immunology Program.


****Please remember****
Advance Transit Blue Line shuttle departs from DHMC and DMS every 15 minutes. The DHMC stop is the new East Entrance, adjacent to the Cancer Center. The DMS stop is the Remsen/Vail Circle.

" Genetic Analysis of the Neurospora Circadian Oscillator and Characterization of
a FRQ-less Oscillator"

Lori L, McMahon, Ph.D. is an Associate Professor and Director of The Neuroscience Graduate Program in the Department of Physiology and Biophysics at the University of Alabama Birmingham. Dr. McMahon is a Dunaway/Burnham Guest Speaker hosted by Leslie Henderson,Ph.D.
Dr. McMahon will present a seminar entitled: Cholinergic Denervation Sympathetic Sprouting and Plasticity at Hippocampal Synapses.

Carlos A. Penatti, M.S., M.D., is a Graduate Student in the Department of Physiology at Dartmouth Medical School.
This seminar will be Carlos's Thesis Seminar.
Carlos will present a seminar entitled: Effects of Chronic Anabolic Androgenic Steroid Exposure on GABAergic Neurotransmission and Neuronal Activity in the Mammalian Forebrain.

Photography Exhibit at Dana Biomedical Library
Mort Wise, Photographer
April 2 - end of May

This colorful exhibit of 28 photographs captures the culture along China's
2200 year
old east-west trade route, the famous Silk Road, as traveled by Mort Wise
and his wife in 2006. This route took traders and camel caravans with
their merchandise of silk, spices, gems, incense,
textiles, and ivory, toward Persia, well over 2000 miles to the west.
Their journey brought them through an incredibly inhospitable terrain -
the Gobi and Taklamakan Deserts and 7,000 mile high
mountain passes of the Pamirs and the Hindu Kush, for example, all the
while being visited by snow, sand-storms, or droughts. The photographs
document the travels of Mr. and Mrs. Wise from Xian
(home of the world famous terracotta warriors of the second century BC),
west onto the southern route to the oasis towns of Dunhuang and Turpan, and
ending in the most western part of China in Kashgar (Kashi). The pictures
depict scenes of daily activities of the region's children, adults, their
elders, lifestyles, crafts, and the ancient architecture. The exhibit also
includes images from a forty-eight hour sandstorm encountered by the Wises.

Mort, originally from Connecticut, is a 15 year resident of Thetford
Center, Vermont. He found that retirement, combined with a compulsive
desire to travel, gave him all the excuse he needed to
lug his Canon 35m SLR camera from place to place. With their children out
of the house (and golden retriever no longer around), Mort and his wife, a
former travel agent, have been able to hop
from continent to continent, taking pictures in a variety of unique
venues, at various times of year, and under different circumstances. After
40 years as a financial consultant, this creative freedom of expression has
been more than welcomed as solace for the soul.

A reception will be scheduled for sometime in May. Details to follow.

Also of interest -- Mort has donated a collection of books and artwork by
Maurice Sendak to the Dartmouth College Library. This exhibit is now
available to view in Baker-Berry Library.

PHARMACOLOGY AND TOXICOLOGY
SEMINAR SERIES
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Alla Grishok, Ph.D.
Assistant Professor
Department of Biochemistry and
Molecular Biophysics
Columbia University Medical Center


"Endogenous RNAi Processes in
C. Elegans Repress Stress Response and Germ-line Specific Genes”

Wednesday
May 7, 2008
3:30 P.M.
Chilcott Auditorium
Dartmouth Medical School

Host: Dr. Alexei Kisselev

Refreshments will be served outside of Chilcott before the lecture
Sponsored by the Dr. F. Pettengill Fund
****Please remember****
Advance Transit Blue Line shuttle departs from DHMC and DMS every 15 minutes. The DHMC stop is the new East Entrance, adjacent to the Cancer Center. The DMS stop is the Remsen/Vail Circle.

"Bestowing Values, Hopes, and Life's Lessons: Rediscovering the Tradition of Ethical Wills"
Guest Speaker: Barry Baines, MD
Inaugural Lecture in the Father John Mullin Biennial Lecture Series
Thursday, May 8, 7-8:15 p.m.
Auditorium E, Level 3, Barbara E. Rubin Building, DHMC

"We all want to be remembered, and everyone leaves something behind."

Ethical wills are a way to share your values, blessings, life's lessons, hopes, love, and forgiveness with your family, friends, and community. Join us as Dr. Barry Baines, a nationally recognized expert, teaches us how to develop our own ethical wills.

In May 2007, John Mullin, SJ, retired after 25 years of service as a chaplain at Dartmouth-Hitchcock Medical Center. In the best tradition of Jesuit learning, the Father John Mullin Biennial Lecture Series brings together great minds in faith and medicine at the juncture where spirituality and science meet. This new lecture series is sponsored by Dartmouth-Hitchcock's Palliative Care Service and co-sponsored by Norris Cotton Cancer Center.

Barry Baines, MD, is Chief Medical Officer of UCare, a Health Maintenance Organization in Minneapolis, and Associate Medical Director for Hospice of the Twin Cities. He is Board Certified in Family Practice and in Hospice and Palliative Medicine.

"Genetic Control of Stem Cell Renewal in the Mammary Gland & Breast Cancer"
Norris Cotton Cancer Center Grand Rounds

Speaker:
James DiRenzo, PhD
Scientific Director, Comprehensive Breast Program; Member, Cancer Mechanisms Research Program; Norris Cotton Cancer Center
Assistant Professor of Pharmacology and Toxicology, Dartmouth Medical School

Location:
Auditorium G
Level 4
Barbara E. Rubin Building
DHMC

RSVP to Andrea.Gilbert@Dartmouth.edu or 603-653-6018

To view the Webcast during or after the lecture or the podcast, visit http://www.cancer.dartmouth.edu/ events/media.shtml

"Regulation of an RNA interference pathway by double-stranded RNA and DNA damage"

Dartmouth Medical School and the Maine Army National Guard have joined to launch a two-tiered Mild Traumatic Brain Injury (mTBI) Program involving both state-of-the-art screening and a system of integrated care to meet the needs of returning soldiers through cooperation between private and public community-based providers.

Dartmouth pediatrician Dr. John Modlin, a prominent children's infectious disease expert, has been appointed senior associate dean for clinical affairs at Dartmouth Medical School, effective immediately. In this position, he will serve in an advisory role to DMS Dean Dr. William R. Green for all aspects relating to the school's academic mission involving the clinical faculty and programs at Dartmouth-Hitchcock Medical Center.

Dr. Ethan Dmitrovsky, the Andrew Wallace Professor of Pharmacology and Toxicology and professor of medicine at Dartmouth Medical School, has been named a Clinical Research Professor by the American Cancer Society.

Increasing the size of the physician workforce has not led overall to better care, greater availability of care or patient satisfaction with medical care. So why do some continue to argue that adding more doctors is critical to addressing the US health care crisis? That's the question posed by Dartmouth Medical School physicians David C. Goodman and Elliott S. Fisher in the April 17 New England Journal of Medicine.

Dartmouth Medical School geneticists have pinpointed the terminator controls in a pathway for cells destined to live or die, switching on a killer gene when needed to assure the development of a healthy animal.

Medicare pays many hospitals and their doctors more than the most efficient and effective health care institutions to treat chronically ill people, yet gets worse results, according to a new report from the Dartmouth Institute for Health Policy and Clinical Practice by Dartmouth Medical School professors.

Joining their counterparts across the country, graduating Dartmouth Medical School students celebrated Match Day, a rite of passage when they learn where they will begin their training as newly minted physicians.

Using a promising model they devised to study the stubborn lung infections that plague cystic fibrosis (CF) patients, Dartmouth Medical School researchers have discovered strikingly strong resistance to conventional antibiotics, and suggest that the intense therapy needed to combat infection may contribute to its persistence.