UMMS: Postdoctoral Research Training Program

2013 Schedule

	DATE	COURSE FACULTY	TOPIC
Week 1	July 8-12	Thomas E. Wilson, MD, PhD Assoc. Professor, Departments of Pathology and Human Genetics	Molecular Biology Introduction
Week 2	July 15-19	Thomas E. Wilson, MD, PhD Assoc. Professor, Departments of Pathology and Human Genetics	Genome Maintenance and Expression
Week 3	Jul 22-Jul 26	Kathleen L. Collins, MD, PhD Professor of Internal Medicine, Division of Infectious Disease and of Microbiology & Immunology	Molecular Mechanisms of Viral Pathogenesis and HIV
Week 4	Jul 29-Aug 2	Ivan Maillard, MD, PhD Assist. Professor of Life Sciences, Internal Medicine, Division of Hematology/Oncology and Cell and Developmental Biology	Experimental Hematopoiesis
Week 5	Aug 5-9	Stephen J. Weiss, MD Upjohn Professor of Medicine and Oncology Research Professor of the Life Sciences Institute Director, Postdoctoral Research Training Program	Membrane-type Matrix Metalloproteinases and the Extracellular Matrix
Week 6	Aug 12-16	Colin S. Duckett, PhD Professor of Pathology and Internal Medicine, Division of Molecular Medicine & Genetics Director of Program Development, North Campus Research Center	Apoptosis and the Molecular Control of Cellularity
Week 7	Aug 19-23	Kristen Verhey, PhD A Kent Christensen Collegiate Professor and Assoc. Professor of Cell and Developmental Biology,	Primary cilia and developmental signaling
Week 8	Aug 26-30	Deneen Wellik, PhD Assoc. Professor of Internal Medicine, Division of Molecular Medicine & Genetics Asst. Director of Organogenesis	Mouse Genetics in Organogenesis
Week 9	Sept 3-6	Martin G. Myers, MD, PhD Marilyn H Vincent Professor of Diabetes Research, Assoc. Professor of Internal Medicine and Molecular & Integrative Physiology	Hypothalamic Signal Transduction