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Sorry, I’ve been negligent posting this week. I am moving my lab & office from FITCI @Monocacy to @ Hood and haven’t been spending enough time on-line. Not to mention, now that I am at Hood, I have enlisted a couple of undergrad interns and I am spending time teaching them the basics of cell culture (without the benefit of actual cells or a lab to work in, yet).
I really, really want to thank all of the people who have RSVP’d and offered to bring some munchies for BioBeers next Thursday 12 Feb. The response has been overwhelming, with over 65 confirmed RSVP’s, I think we’re going to have close to 80 people this time around!
I want this event to continue to be a informal networking occasion, without name tags and strict agendas. At the same time I want people to be able to have their 10 minutes of fame and present their data, 
studies, research or to simply pitch their wares. This time, we’re going to let James Matan of the Matan Group give a brief presentation (the least I could do since he insisted on sponsoring the entire event, thank you James). I am also please to announce that Mark Powers Director of R&D Cell Systems Division at Life Technologies Corp is going to present some information about their AlgiMatrix 3D cell culture products.
There was a press release yesterday that shows Life Tech is putting their money where their mouth is. They announced that they donated more than $500,000 in funding to a dozen programs through its Life TechnologiesTM Foundation (formerly the Invitrogen Foundation) in 2008. According to the press release, a portion of those funds went to Hood College’s Summer Science Research Institute. Now that I am “on campus” (for the first time since 1988!), I’ll try to keep my ear to the ground for interesting events here at Hood.
I hope to some day be able to lure someone out of SAIC or NCI to present. I also want to make sure everyone out there is aware of a tremendous opportunity in the NCI-Frederick Lecture series, that I have highlighted in the February Events page. I am attaching it again below, but the page will stay up through the month. There seminars are FREE and open to the public. I swear the armed guards at the Gate won’t bite. If there isn’t anything on this month’s list to pique your interest, then maybe you’re in the wrong field!
| 12:00 PM | Steve Anderson |
Bldg 549 Auditorium |
| Endogenous Anti-Sense Transcripts Regulate the Human KIR Gene Cluster | ||
| 10:00 AM | Various Speakers |
Bldg 426 Conf. Rm |
| Genes to Proteins Brown Bag Lunch Seminar | ||
| 12:30 PM | Dr. Dan Gincel, Director of Maryland Stem Cell Research Fund | |
| Free informational lunchtime seminar about the Maryland Stem Cell Research Fund. | ||
| 10:00 AM | Dr. George John |
Bldg 549 Auditorium |
| Self-Assembled Molecular Gels: An Enzymatically Triggered Drug-Delivery Platform | ||
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| 12:00 PM | Dr. Bin Gao |
Bldg 426 Conf. Rm |
| STAT3, Inflammation, and Liver Disease | ||
| 12:00 PM | Dr. Rosalyn Lang-Walker |
Bldg 549 Auditorium |
| Developing ELISA Standards for Deamidated COMP: A Biomarker for the Assessment of Osteoarthritis Progression | ||
| 8:00 AM | Ola Langdon, MD, PhD |
Bldg 549 Conf. Rm B |
| Hematologic Malignancies and Their Precursors: An Area of Progression | ||
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| 11:00 AM | SIP Students |
Bldg 549 Lobby |
| Werner H. Kirsten Student Intern Program (SIP) Winter Poster Day | ||
| 12:00 PM | Marc Nicklaus |
Bldg 549 Auditorium |
| New Chemistry Resources Used in the Quest for HIV-1 Integrase Inhibitors | ||
| 12:00 PM | Dr. Philipp Oberdoerffer |
Bldg 549 Auditorium |
| A Mechanistic Link Between DNA Damage, Chromatin and Aging | ||
| 4:30 PM | BioBeers East ‘09 | |
| Connecting and Promoting Biotech in Frederick County | ||
| 12:00 PM | Dr. Lee Helman |
Bldg 549 Auditorium |
| Targeting the IGF Pathway in Pediatric Sarcomas-Lessons Learned and Questions Raised | ||
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| 2:00 PM | Dr. Kylie Walters |
Bldg 549 Auditorium |
| Signaling for Degradation by the Proteasome | ||
| 8:00 AM | Titia de Lange, PhD |
Bldg 549 Conf. Rm B |
| How Shelterin Protects Telomeres | ||
| 12:00 PM | Jairaj Acharya |
Bldg 549 Auditorium |
| Sphingolipids: CERT’n Differences Between Insects and Mammals | ||
| 12:00 PM | Dr. Ulrich Siebenlist |
Bldg 549 Auditorium |
| New Frontiers for NF-KappaB Transcription Factors | ||
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| 1:30PM | Dr. Chrysi Kanellopoulou |
Bldg 549 Auditorium |
| DICEcting RNAi Function in Embryonic Stem Cells and Mice | ||
| 3:00 PM | Napoleone Ferrara, MD |
Bldg 10 Lipsett |
| Novel Insights on the Regulation of Angiogenesis by VEGF-A and other Mediators | ||
| 8:00 AM | Jonathan Vogel, MD |
Bldg 549 Conf. Rm B |
| The Identification and Characterization of Tumor-Initiating Cells in Human Squamous Cell Carcinoma of the Skin | ||
| 12:00 PM | Denise Whitby |
Bldg 549 Auditorium |
| Viruses, MicroRNA and Cancer | ||
| 12:00 PM | Dr. Jenny Ting |
Bldg 549 Auditorium |
| Genomic Discovery of New Innate and Adaptive Immune Genes | ||
