Joseph Kissell, PhD
Assistant Professor
Molecular and Cellular Oncogenesis Program
The Wistar Institute
Philadelphia, PA

Laurence Wood, PhD
University of Pennsylvania, Philadelphia, PA      

"Understanding and Targeting the Type I Interferon System in Tumors using Listeria monocytogenes"

Ashok Aiyar, PhD
Associate Professor

Department of
Microbiology, Immunology and Parasitology
LSUHSC

"Regulation of an Epstein-Barr virus transactivator determines the fate of EBV-transformed cells "

Klaus-Peter Knobeloch, PhD   
Molecular Genetics Group Head

Department of Neuropathology
University of Frieburg
Frieburg, Germany

“Functional role of the the ISG15 modification system in vivo-lessons from gene knockout mice”  

José R. Rodríguez Medina, PhD
Professor and Chair

Department of Biochemistry
School of Medicine
University of Puerto Rico
San Juan, Puerto Rico

Jim D. Karam, PhD
Chair
Professor of Biochemistry
Department of Biochemistry
Tulane University Health Sciences Center

Gerard Blobe, MD, PhD
Associate Professor
Duke University Medical Center
Durham NC

19 September

MEB S4 (3209)

Kenneth M. Blumenthal, PhD
Professor and Chairman
School of Medicine and Biomedical Sciences
SUNY at Buffalo, NY

Alan K. Howe, PhD
Assistant Professor
Vermont Cancer Center
Department of Pharmacology
University of Vermont College of Medicine

Allan Weissman, MD
Laboratory Chief
Laboratory of Protein Dynamics and Signaling
National Cancer Institute at Frederick
Frederick, MD

31 October

MEB S5 (3210)

Marc Symons, PhD
Investigator
Center for Oncology and Cell Biology
Director Light Microscopy Facility
The Feinstein Institute for Medical Research at North Shore‐LIJ
Manhasset, NY

Guillermo Marqués, PhD
Assistant Professor
Dept. of Cell Biology
School of Medicine
The University of Alabama at Birmingham

Electa Park
Graduate Student

Dissertation Defense:
MAP Kinase and Prostate Cancer: 
Connections through Adhesion.

* MEB 5252 O

Pharmacology Conference Room
1:00 pm