UW MSTP Dinner Meetings, 2005-2006

All meetings are at 6pm in the Turner conference room (E-202), Health Sciences Center, University of Washington

• Thursday October 20, 2005
• 6:30pm: Luke Judge, MSTP/MCB Graduate Student, on "Function and Assembly of the Dystrophen-Glycoprotein Complex in Skeletal Muscle"
• 7pm: Dr. Jaisiri Lingappa, Associate Professor, Pathobiology, on "Assembly of HIV-1: A Cell Biologist's Perspective"
• Thursday November 10, 2005
• 6:30pm: Michelle Dossett, MSTP/Immunology Graduate Student, on "WT1-Specific T Cell Receptors for Tumor Immunotherapy"
• 7pm: Dr. Susie Pun, Assistant Professor, Bioengineering, on "Non-Viral Gene Delivery"
• Thursday December 1, 2005
• 6:30pm: Emily Speelmon, MSTP/MCB Graduate Student, on "Elucidating a role for human TRIM5alpha in HIV-1 transmission"
• 7pm: Dr. Adrienne Fairhall, Assistant Professor, Physiology and Biophysics, on "The Role of Adaptation in Neural Information Processing"
• Thursday Jan 12, 2006
• 6:15pm: John Newman, MSTP/Biochemistry Graduate Student, on "Mining the Origins of Complex Human Disease: Cockayne Syndrome and L2L"
• ~6:45pm: Richard Palmiter, Professor, Biochemistry, on "Genetic Approaches to Understanding Why We Eat"
• Thursday February 23, 2006
• 6:15pm: Jonathan Golob, MSTP/Pathology Graduate Student, on "Cromatin in the Embryonic Stem Cell"
• ~6:45pm: Carol Sibley, Professor, Genome Sciences, on "Drug Resistance in Malaria Parasites: What Can a Geneticist Do?"
• Thursday March 9, 2006
• 6:15pm: Angela Collie, MSTP/Bioengineering Graduate Student
• ~6:45pm: Mark Groudine, Deputy Director FHCRC and Professor, Radiation Oncology
• Thursday April 20, 2006
• 6:30pm: Student Speaker TBA
• 7pm: Faculty Speaker TBA