Seminar FRRB:6000/77:207 in Free Radical and Radiation Biology Schedule
Spring 2017
Room Location: Watzke Aud 3 BSB

January 19, 2017 In lieu of our FRRB Seminar on Thursday January 19th, we will attend the Department of Epidemiology Seminar at 11:30 am in N120 CPHB
Presenter: Hua Zhao, PhD, Associate Professor, Department of Epidemiology
Title: “Molecular Epidemiology of Human Cancer in the Post-GWAS Era”

January 26, 2017
Presenter: Dr. Garry R. Buettner
Title: “The Chemical Biology of Pharmacological Ascorbate When Used to Treat Cancer”

February 2, 2017
Presenter: Canceled
 

Tuesday, February 7, 2017 at 1:30pm in 2117 MERF Please note new date, time, and location
Presenter: Joshua Schoenfeld
Title: “The Role of Redox Active Iron Metabolism in the Selective Toxicity of Pharmacological Ascorbate in Cancer Therapy”

February 16, 2017
Presenter: Canceled

 

Wednesday, February 22, 2017 at 12pm SFRBM Webinar in B180 Med Labs Conference Room. Please note new date, time, and location
Presenter: Dr. Michael Davies, PhD, University of Copenhagen, Denmark
Title: “Protein Oxidation - By Numbers”

March 2, 2017
Presenter: Dr. Praveen Vayalil, PhD, University of Alabama-Birmingham
Title: “Mitochondrial Oncobioenergetics of Carcinogenesis”

March 9, 2017
Presenter: Canceled
 

March 16, 2017 -- SPRING BREAK, No seminar

March 23, 2017
Presenter: Paige Kluz
Title: “CD177 Suppresses Breast Cancer Progression by Regulating the Canonical WNT/ß-Catenin Pathway”

March 30, 2017
Presenter: Adrienne Klinger
Title: “Dual Oxidase Promotes Toxicity in Pharmacological Ascorbate Treated Pancreatic Cancer Cells”

April 6, 2017
Presenter: Collin Heer
Title: “Utilizing Redox-Based Agents in Cancer Therapy: Studies of GC4419 and Pharmacological Ascorbate”

April 13, 2017 
Presenter: Canceled
 

April 20, 2017
Presenter: Somya Kapoor
Title: “MAPKi  Induced Redox Imbalance Mediates Adaptation via ER Stress Induced Autophagy in Melanoma”

April 27, 2017
Presenter: Shane Solst
Title: “Inhibition of Mitochondrial Pyruvate Transport Selectively Sensitizes Cancer Cells to Metabolic Oxidative Stress”
 

May 4, 2017
Presenter: Madelyn Espinosa-Cotton
Title: “Targeting Inflammation to Increase Cetuximab Efficacy in Head and Neck Squamous Cell Carcinoma”