PHARMACOLOGY AND TOXICOLOGY
SEMINAR SERIES
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David Price, Ph.D.
Professor of Biochemistry
University of Iowa


"Controlling the Elongation Phase of
mRNA Transcription with P-TEFb”

Wednesday
October 8, 2008
3:30 P.M.
Chilcott Auditorium
Dartmouth Medical School


Host: Dr. Michael Cole


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.

PHARMACOLOGY AND TOXICOLOGY
SEMINAR SERIES
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David Price, Ph.D.
Professor of Biochemistry
University of Iowa


"Controlling the Elongation Phase of
mRNA Transcription with P-TEFb”

Wednesday
October 8, 2008
3:30 P.M.
Chilcott Auditorium
Dartmouth Medical School


Host: Dr. Michael Cole


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.

MICROBIOLOGY/IMMUNOLOGY SEMINAR

NOTE: Location is Chilcott

"ARCHAEAL PROTEIN TRANSPORT PATHWAYS AND THEIR SUBSTRATES"


PRESENTED BY
MECKY POHLSCHRODER, PH.D.
Associate Professor
University of Pennsylvania
Philadelphia, PA


HOST: George O’Toole


Monday

DATE: October 6, 2008

TIME: 4:00 PM

PLACE: Chilcott Auditorium
Dartmouth Medical School


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.

Gerald R. Crabtree, Ph.D. is a Professor in the Departments of Developmental Biology and Pathology at the Howard Hughes Medical Institute at Stanford University. Dr. Crabtree will be the Guest Lecturer at the Seventh Annual Allan Munck Distinguished Lecture. This lecture is hosted by Paul Guyre and Aniko Fejes-Toth.
The title of this lecture is: Understanding the Words of Chromatin Remodeling
Location of this lecture is DHMC Auditorium G

Presented by Shawnmarie Mayrand-Chung, Ph.D., J.D. (DMS '98)
NIH Director for The Biomarkers Consortium
Office of the Director - Science Policy Analysis
Program on Public-Private Partnerships
Auditorium D

Faculty, students, and other colleagues are invited to an informal conversation with Shawnmarie Mayrand-Chung, PhD, DMS '98, JD, a program director, from the Office of Science Policy, OSPA, Office of the Director at the National Institutes of Health (NIH). The session would be useful to individuals interested in learning more about the non-traditional partnerships, alternate mechanisms for working with intramural scientists, and other in-kind services and research collaborations available within the NIH.

This informal discussion will be held in Auditorium F at DHMC.

Self-guided treatment for depression could soon be only a mouse click away.

A Dartmouth Medical School physician and former astronaut is part of a National Space Biomedical Research Institute (NSBRI) team developing an interactive, multi-media program to manage depression and other psychosocial problems in space and it could be brought down to earth, especially where access to health care is limited.

The medical home has great potential to improve the delivery of coordinated health care to patients. But significant obstacles still exist in making the transition from model to reality, says Dartmouth physician Dr. Elliott S. Fisher in the September 18 New England Journal of Medicine.

Dartmouth Medical School has been awarded $19 million to continue leadership of a national trial that is exploring a safe and cost-effective way help prevent colorectal cancer, one of the most common cancers in the US.

Successful health care reform requires better public policy planning for the medical professionals the country needs, asserts a Dartmouth Medical School physician. He calls for the establishment of a national health workforce commission.

Questioning the definitions of death in transplanting infant hearts, a Dartmouth Medical School neurologist called for setting new standards for organ donations after cardiac rather than brain death in a perspective for the August 14 New England Journal of Medicine.

Dartmouth neuroscientist Dr. Leslie Henderson has been named senior associate dean for academic affairs. Her appointment, effective September 1, was announced by Dartmouth Medical School Dean Dr. William R. Green.

Alarming numbers of young adolescents are exposed to graphic violence in movies rated R for violence, calling into question the effectiveness of the current movie rating system, report Dartmouth Medical School researchers. Their results of a nationwide survey that documents widespread exposure of 10-14 -year-olds to violent movies are published in the August issue of Pediatrics.