CURRENT TOPICS IN RADIATION AND CANCER BIOLOGY (77:548)

The University of Iowa

Spring 2001

11:30-12:30, Mondays

Room B180, Med Labs

Contact: nukhet-aykin-burns@uiowa.edu Tel 319-335-8025

January 15, 2001
No Presentation: Martin Luther King Convocation

January 22, 2001
Presenter: Eric Kelley
Paper: "Scavenging of reactive oxygen species leads to diminished peritoneal tumor recurrences" (2000) by M.E. van Rossen et al. in Cancer Res. 60:5625-5629 .

January 29, 2001
Presenter: Meredith Preuss
Paper: "Docosahexaenoic acid, a ligand for the retinoid X receptor in mouse brain" (2000) by A. Mata de Urquiza et al. in Science 290:2140-2144

February 05, 2001
Presenter: Doug Spitz
Paper: "Gene microarray identification of redox and mitochondrial elements that. control resistance or sensitivity to apoptosis" (2000) by Voehringer et al. in PNAS 97:2680-2685 .

February 12, 2001
Presenter: Prabhat Goswami
Paper: "Reprogramming leukemic cells to terminal differentiation by inhibiting specific cyclin-dependent kinases in G1" (2000) by Matushansky et al. in PNAS 97:14317-14322

February 19, 2001
Presenter: Jeff Kirsch
Paper: "SSeCKS, a major protein kinase C substrate with tumor suppressor activity, regulates G1->S progression by controlling the expression and cellular compartmentalization of cyclin D " (2000) by Xueying Lin et al. in Mol. Cell. Biol. 20:7259-7272

February 26, 2001
Presenter: Mike Robbins
Paper: "Modulation of radiation-induced cytokine elevation associated with esophagitis and esophageal stricture by manganese superoxide dismutase- plasmid/liposome (SOD2-PL) gene therapy" (2001) by Epperly et al. from Radiat. Res. 155:2-14

March 05, 2001
Presenter: Bill Osborne
Paper: "Induction of apoptotic cell death and prevention of tumor growth by ceramide analogous in metastatic human cancer" by Selzner et al.. in Cancer Res. 61:1233-1240 (2001).

March 12, 2001
No Presentation: SPRING BREAK

March 19, 2001
No Presentation

March 26, 2001
No Presentation

April 02, 2001
Presenter: Kelly Andringa
Paper: "Suppression of ras-mediated transformation and inhibition of tumor and angiogenesis by anthrax lethal factor, a proteolytic inhibitor of multiple MEK
pathways" by Duesbery et al. from PNAS 98:4089-4094, 2001.

April 09, 2001
No Presentation

April 16, 2001
No Presentation

April 23, 2001
No Presentation: Radiation Research Society Meeting

April 30, 2001
No Presentation

May 07, 2001
No Presentation