Pathology Seminar Series

Unless otherwise noted, Pathology Seminar Series events are held in BMSB Room 303 at 8:00 AM.

UNM Pathology Department Faculty meetings are scheduled usually on the 3rd Thursday of January, February, April, May, June, September, October, and November at 8 am to 9am in Domenici 3010. Dates, times and location are subject to change.

Spring 2012

SERIES C

Thursday, January 19, 2012

Presenter:  Ramachandra Gullapalli, MD, PhD, Molecular Genetics Pathology Fellow, Division of Molecular Diagnostics, Department of Pathology, University of Pittsburgh Medical Center, Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania

Title: “The Role of Microstructural Polymorphisms in Class I HLA-B Peptide Binding”

Location: BMSB Room 303

Time: 8:00 AM 

Thursday, January 26, 2012Pathology Faculty Meeting (No Seminar)

SERIES D:  Adhesion and Molecular Discovery 

Co-Chairs:  Larry Sklar, PhD and Alexandre Chigaev, PhD

Thursday, February 02, 2012

Presenter:  Jeffrey Price, MD, PhD, Associate Professor with Signal Transduction at Sanford-Burnham Medical Research Institute in La Jolla, California

Thursday, February 09, 2012

Presenter:  Klaus Ley, MD, Division Head and Professor with Autoimmune Research: Inflammation Biology at the La Jolla Institute for Allergy & Immunology in La Jolla, California

Title: “Molecular and Cellular Mechanisms of Neutrophil Arrest”

Learning Objectives:

  1. To understand mechanisms of integrin activation.

  2. To discuss cellular adaptations to adhesion under shear.

  3. To understand the biomechanics of neutrophil adhesion.

Thursday, February 16, 2012Pathology Faculty Meeting (No Seminar) Faculty meeting canceled

Thursday, February 23, 2012

Presenter: Alexandre Chigaev, PhD, Assistant Professor with the Department of Pathology at the University of New Mexico School of Medicine in Albuquerque, New Mexico

Title: "Integrins: New Probes, Old Pathways, and New Discoveries"

Thursday, March 01, 2012

Presenter: John P. Nolan, PhD, Professor with the La Jolla Bioengineering Institute in San Diego, California

Title: "Multiplexing in Diagnostics and Discovery"

Thursday, March 08, 2012

Presenter: Steve Miller, PhD, President and CEO of On-Target Biotech Consulting, Inc. in Union City, California

Title: "Commercialization Strategies for Innovative Technologies"

SERIES E

Thursday, March 15, 2012 – No Seminar or Faculty Meeting

APS Spring Break March 12 – 16, 2012

Thursday, March 22, 2012

Presenter:  Von Samedi, MD, Assistant Professor with the Department of Pathology at the University of New Mexico School of Medicine, Albuquerque, New Mexico

Title: TBA

Thursday, March 29, 2012 - In BMSB Room 303, 8:00 AM

Presenter:  Diane S. Lidke, PhD, Associate Professor with the Department of Pathology at the University of New Mexico School of Medicine, Albuquerque, New Mexico

Title: "Diffusion, Dimerization and Domains: Single Quantum Dot Tracking to Correlate Membrane Receptor Dynamics with Signaling"

Thursday, April 12, 2012 - In BMSB ROOM 303, 8:00 AM

Presenters:  Resident Invited Lectures (3 residents)

Titles:

Devon Chabot-Richards, MD, will present “DBA.44 Positivity is Predictive of Hairy Cell Leukemia Variant over Splenic Marginal Zone Lymphoma When Classic Hairy Cell Leukemia is Excluded”

Joshua Coleman, MD, will present “Immunoglobulin Variable Region Somatic Hypermutation (IGVH) Analysis of Bitypic CLL Cases Detects Prognostically Different Clones with Different Variable Region Segment Usage”

Jennifer Pincus, MD, will present "No Role for IgG4 Plasma Cells or Plasmacytoid Dendritic Cells in Lobular Granulomatous Mastitis and/or Age and Ethnicity Ranges in the Patient Population of New Mexico with Lobular Granulomatous Mastitis"

Thursday, April 19, 2012Pathology Faculty Meeting (No Seminar)

Thursday, April 26, 2012 - In BMSB Room 303, 8:00 AM

Presenter:  Judy Cannon, PhD, Assistant Professor with the Department of Pathology at the University of New Mexico School of Medicine, Albuquerque, New Mexico

Title: “Molecular Regulators of T cell Migration”

SERIES F

Thursday, May 3, 2012

Pathology Research Day

The Pathology Research Poster Session and Alumni Reception will take place at the Embassy Suites Hotel from 5:00 to 7:00 p.m. in the Sandia Ballroom. Hors D'oeuvres will be served. We will not have a morning seminar.

Thursday, May 10, 2012 - In BMSB Room 303, 8:00 AM

Presenter:  Jennifer Gillette, PhD, Assistant Professor with the Department of Pathology at the University of New Mexico School of Medicine, Albuquerque, New Mexico

Title: “Regulation of Hematopoietic Stem Cell Communication with the Bone Marrow Niche”

Thursday, May 17, 2012 - In BMSB Room 303, 8:00 AM

Presenter:  Kathryn Foucar, MD, Professor with the Department of Pathology at the University of New Mexico, and Medical Director of Hematopathology with TriCore Reference Laboratories. 

Title: "Gold Headed Cane: Perspectives of a "Sr" Pathologist"

The Thursday, May 17, 2012 Pathology Faculty Meeting has been canceled so that Dr. Foucar can present.

Thursday, May 24, 2012 - In BMSB Room 303, 8:00 AM

Presenter: Tione Buranda, PhD, Assistant Professor with the Department of Pathology at the University of New Mexico School of Medicine, Albuquerque, New Mexico

Title: TBA


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