GWUMC Research Seminar Series

Seminar

Introductory remarks followed by:
Microbiology: (Bottazzi, Constant, Kahn, Nobehn-Trauth)

1. Immune Escape Mechanisms in Leishmaniasisi
   (Nancy Noben-Trauth, Ph.D.)



2. Department of Microbiology, Immunology and Tropical Medicine
   (Imtiaz Khan, Professor)



3. Hookworm E/S products and hots immune evasion and Cyclophilin-CD147 Interaction in Inflammation
   (Stephanie Constant, Assistant Professor)



4. Transition from Research to Vaccine Development
   (Maria Elena Bottazzi, Ph.D.)



5. Microbial Risk Assessment Frameworks, Principles and Approaches
   (Rebecca Parkin, Ph.D, MPH)

AIDS: (Brown, Bukrinsky, Kashanchi, Gordin, Greenberg, Palen, Spiegal, Vjecha, Zeichner)

1. Infectious Diseases
   (Fred Gordin)



2. Division of Infectious Diseases
   Department of Medicine
   ( Fred Gordin)


3. HIV-Related Research Overview
   (Steve Zeichner)



4. The George Washington University School of Medicine and Health Sciences
   (Fatah Kashanchi)



5. HIV/AIDS Research and Service Activities
   GWU SPHHS
   (Alan E. Greenberg)
   
   
6. Laboratory of Moleculary Virology
   Department of Microbiology, Immunology & Tropical Medicine
   (Michael Bukrinsky)
   
   
7. Overview Pediatric HIV Program & IMPAACT/PACTG Vaccine Research
   (Dr. Hans M.L. Spiegel)
   
   
8. Rouitine CDC HIV Screening Guidelines
   (Jeremy Brown)

Neuro/Pharmacology: (Chiappinelli, Gallo, Mendelowitz, (Ross 101) Perry, Peusner, Rosenstein, Popratiloff)

1. Dept. of Pharmacology & Physiology
   (Vincent Chiappinelli)
   
   
2. Nicotine Presentation
   (David Perry)
   
   
3. Dept. of Pharmacology & Physiology
   (Tim Hales)
   
   
4. GWUMC Talk
   (Kenna D. Peusner)
   
   
5. Dept. of Anatomy and Cell Biology
   (Jeffrey Rosenstein)
   
   
6. Center for Microscopy and Image Analysis
   (Anastas Popratiloff)
   
   
7. Dept. of Pharmacology & Physiology
   (David Mendelowitz)

Biochemistry of Alcohol, Liver, Kidney & Related Organs: (Bouscarel, Brown, Lakeshman, Marmillot, Rojkind, Maynard)

1. Dept. of Biochemistry and Molecular Biology and Pathology
   (Marcos Rojkind)



2. Angiogenic factors in preeclampsia
   (Sharon E. Maynard)



3. NIH Project 1
   (Raj Lakshman)



4. B. Bouscarel Presentation
   (Bernard Bouscarel)



5. Chronic Ethanol Consumption
   (Philippe Marmillot)

Biostatistics/Statistics: (Fowler, Hirst, Lai, Thom, Simmens, Bura, Chandra, Gastwirth, Li, Singpurwalla) Core: Simmens

1. Medical Center Presentation
   (Sarah Fowler)



2. Biostatistics Center Medical Center Unit
   (Sam Simmens)



3. The MFMU Network and the MOMS Trial
   (Elizabeth Thom)
4. Statistics Methods for Bioinformatics and Computational Biology (pdf)
   (Yinglei Lai)

Psychology: (Echeverry, Gee, Howe, Philbeck, Lambert, Le, Molock, Moore, Zea)

1. Stress-Triggered Depression Following Job Loss: Individuals, Couples, and Families
   (George W. Howe)



2. Preventing Perinatal Depression in High-Risk Pregnant Latinas: Effects on Maternal and Infant Health
   (Huynh-Nhu(Mimi) Le



3. Adolescent Mothers & Their Babies' Fathers: Predictors of Paternal Involvement and Coparenting
   (Christina B. Gee)



4. Disclosure of HIV-Positive Status to Social Network among Latino Gay and Bisexual Males
   (Maria C. Zea)



5. Terrorism & Emergency Preparedness: The Role of Exposure, Risk Perception and Personality
   (Philip J. Moore)



6. Etiology, Course, and Correlates of Depressive Symptoms Among Urban and African American Youth
   (Sharon Lambert)



7. Club Drug Use and Risky Sexual Behavior Among Latino and Other MSM
   (John J. Echeverry)



8. Medical School Research Seminar
   (John Philbeck)

Cancer/DNA Damage/Cardiovascular/Aging:
(Berg, Ceryak, Defabo, Levine, Noonan, Patierno, Young/Hsia, McCaffrey, Weglicki, Abeledo)

1. Survival Signaling and Carcinogenesis
   (Susan Ceryak)



2. Womens' Health Initiative
   (Judith Hsia)



3. Identifying the Melanoma Wavelengths
   (E. DeFabo)



4. The Inflammatory Breast Cancer, Cancer Registry
   (Paul H. Levine)



5. Treatment Planning Optimization for Radiofrequency Ablation of Hepatic Tumors
   (Hernán Abeledo)



6. In Vivo and InVitro Studies
   (William B. Weglicki)



7. Involvement of BP1 Homeoprotein, in Breast Cancer
   (Pat Berg)



8. Cutaneous Malignant Melanoma
   (Frances Noonan)

Genomics/Proteomics/Bioinformatics: (Chiaramello, McCaffrey, Hathout, Hu, Kashanchi, Florea, Simha, Su, Vertes, Heller)

1. Gene Regulatory Networks & Neurodegenerative Diseases
   (Anne Chiaramello)
   
   
2. Tim McCaffrey - Research Committee
   (Tim McCaffrey)
   
   
3. Comparative Genomics Methods for Alternative Splicing of Eukaryotic Genes
   (Liliana Florea)
   
   
4. Research Areas: Computer Systems, Complexity, Biomolecular Networks
   (Rahul Simha)
   
   
5. Current Proteome Profiling Methods & Applications
   (Yetrib Hathout)
   
   
6. Genomics & Biology of Cancer
   (Yan Su)
   
   
7. Research Seminar - Fatah Kashanchi
   (Fatah Kashanchi)
   
   
8. New Avenues in Proteomics Technology
   (Akos Vertes)
   
   

Public Health/Health Policy/Environmental & Occupational/Prevention & Community: (Goplerud, Rosenbaum, Moses, Guidotti, Edberg, El-Mohandes, Maibach)

1. Project DC-HOPE
   (Ayman El-Mohandes)
   
   
2. Ensuring Solutions to Alcohol Problems
   (Eric Goplerud)
   
   
3. Opportunities for Collaborative Research
   (Tee Guidotti)
   
   
4. Research Day Presentation
   (Mark Edberg)
   
   

Physics: (Bennhold, Berman, Briscoe, Opper, Reeves, Zeng, Wang)

1. Computational Biophysics @ GW (pdf)
   (Chen Zeng)
   
   
2. Computational Biophysics-Brief
   (Guanyu Wang)
   
   
3. Research Seminar Series
   (Mark Reeves)
   
   
4. Functionality and Organization... (pdf)
   (Weiqun Peng)
   
   
   
   

Chemistry: (Wagner, Teng, Ramaker, Gillmor)

1. Nanomaterials Chemistry
   (Michael Wagner)
   
   
2. Department of Chemistry
   (Henry Teng)
   
   
3. X-ray Absorption Spectrocopy
   (David Ramaker)
   
   
4. Biomaterials: Lipids and Surface Chemistry
   (Susan D. Gillmor)
   
   
   
   

Biology: (Allard, Church, Donaldson, Herendeen, Hormiga, Jeremic, Lill, Smith, Wells)

1. Molecular Mechanism of Insulin and Amylin Release in the ß-cell and Etiology of Type II Diabetes Mellitus
   (Aleksandar Jeremic)
   
   
2. Research Seminar Series Handout (pdf)
   (Ken Brown)
   
   
3. Tritrophic Interaction and the Evolution of Diet Breadth in Insect Herbivores (pdf)
   (John T. Lill)
   
   
4. Metabolism of Reactive Oxygen Species in Peroxisomes
   (Rob P. Donaldson)
   
   
5. Unexpected Diversity in the Innate Immune System of the Purple Sea Urchin
   (L. Courtney Smith)
   
   
6. Restoration and Recovery for Federally Endangered Harperella (Ptilimnium nodosum)
   (Elizabeth Fortson Wells)
   
   

Electromagentics,/Emergency Risk Management/Civil Environmental: (DellaTorre, Lang, Harrald, Badie, Eskandarian)

1. Modeling Hazard Generated Needs
   (John Harrald)
   
   
2. NCHRP: National Cooperative Highway Research Program (pdf)
   (Sameh Badie)
   
   
3. Institute of Magnetics Research
   (E. Della Torre)
   
   
4. Overview of Transportation Safety & Security Area of Excellence at GW...
   (Azim Eskandarian)
   
   

Center for Family Research/Psychiatry: (Joshi, Lieberman, Neiderhiser, Reiss, Warren)

1. Early Age Mania - Anything New?
   (Paramjit Joshi)
   
   
2. Using Technology to Expand Access to Evidence-Based Theory
   (Daniel Lieberman)
   
   
3. Interplay of Genes and Environment Across the Lifespan: Genotype x Environment Interaction
   (Jenae Neiderhiser)
   
   
4. Genetic Expression Outside the Skin
   (David Reiss)
   
   
5. Research Seminar Presentation - May 23, 2007
   (Susan Warren)

1. Comparative Genomics of the Order of Chlamydiales (pdf)
   (Garry Myers)
   
   
2. Protein Interaction Networks in Bacteria (pdf)
   (Peter Uetz et al.)
   
   
3. Viral Genomics: Strength in Numbers
   (David Spiro)
   
   
4. Research Interests (pdf)
   (Norman H. Lee
   
   
5. Quorum Sensing in Pathogenic Burkholderias Pergillus
   Fumigatus and Invasive Aspergillosis
   (Bill Nierman)
   
   

1. Electrical rotors: a cause of sudden death
   (Matthew Kay)



2. Medical Visualization and Simulation
   (James Hahn)



3. Elucidating Regulatory Networks in Nervous System Development
   (Moody)



4. Genetic Manipulation of Mouse ES Cells Towards a Specifc Neuronal Fate
   (Anne CHairamello)



5. Maintaining the ocular surface of the eye: the role of corneal epithelial stem in health and disease
   (Mary Ann Stepp)



6. Representative Recent Research in Medical Imaging
   (Murray Loew)



7. Engineering Stem Cell Function and Fate (pdf)
   (Robert Hawley)



8. Cellular Origins of Ectopic Arrhythmias
   (Narine Sarvazyan)



9. B4L Movie (video)



10. EXP4 Montko1 (video)

1. Pre-Award Administration
   (Hal Gollos)
   
   
2. Highlights of Post Award Sponsored Project Administration
   (Jackie Bendall)

Grant Related Resources from GWU Library and Grants.Gov
(Laura Abate, May Watling)