Seminar Series Calendar

All seminars are open to faculty and students throughout the University and held at noon in Room 338 of the Leon Levy Center for Oral Health Research, accessed through the Robert Schattner Center, 240 South 40th Street, Philadelphia, Pa.

Seminars are held on Thursdays, except where noted.

Date & Time	Speaker	Topic	Host
September 17, 2009 1 p.m.	Dr. Kevin Hardwick, NIDCR	Extramural funding opportunities and other issues	Dr. Robert Collins, Chief of the Division of Community Oral Health
September 24, 2009 1 p.m.	Dr. Weidong Yang, DDS, PhD, Department of Biological Sciences, University of Delaware	Perlecan Domain I Functions in Cartilage Development and Osteoarthritis Treatment	Dr. Edward Lally, Professor of Pathology
October 1, 2009 Noon	Dr. Matthew P. Hoffman, NIH/NIDCR	Regulation of Fgfr2 function during epithelial branching morphogenesis	Dr. Gary Cohen, Professor and Chair of Microbiology
CANCELLED October 8, 2009 Noon	Dr. Michael Martin, University of Louisville	Immunomodulatory Properties of the Phosphatidylinositol 3-kinase Pathway	Dr. Bruce Shenker, Chair and Professor of Pathology Associate Dean for Research
October 15, 2009 1 p.m.	Dr. F. Fusun Ozer, Clinical Associate of Restorative Dentistry	Self-Etch Adhesives in Clinical Dentistry	Dr. Markus Blatz, Chair and Professor of Restorative Dentistry-Clinician Educator
October 22, 2009 Noon	Dr. Dana Graves, UMDNJ School of Dentistry	The Impact of Inflammation on Bone and Soft Tissue Healing	Dr. Bruce Shenker, Chair and Professor of Pathology Associate Dean for Research
October 29, 2009 Noon	Dr. Janine T. Bryan, Merck	Human Papillomavirus: Pathogenesis, Diseases, and the Quadrivalent Vaccine	Dr. Gary Cohen, Professor and Chair of Microbiology
November 5, 2009 Noon	Dr. Donna Woulfe, PhD Department of Medicine, Thomas Jefferson University	Akt activation in platelets: regulation, function and consequences for thrombosis	Dr. Kelly Jordan-Sciutto, Associate Professor of Pathology
November 12, 2009 Noon	Dr. Richard Tapping, University of Illinois	Unraveling the complexities of Toll-like receptor 2 recognition and function	Dr. Bruce Shenker, Chair and Professor of Pathology Associate Dean for Research
December 3, 2009 Noon	Dr. Joseph L. Mankowski, DVM, PhD, Molecular and Comparative Pathobiology, Johns Hopkins University School of Medicine	Natural Host Genetic Resistance to Lentiviral CNS Disease: MHC class I Allele Neuroprotection in SIV-infected Macaques	Dr. Kelly Jordan-Sciutto, Associate Professor of Pathology
Friday December 4, 2009 Noon	Dr. Jianmin Meng, PhD, University of Massachusetts Medical School	MD-2-mediated ionic interactions between lipid A and TLR4 are essential for receptor activation	Dr. Denis Kinane, Morton Amsterdam Dean, Professor of Pathology and Periodontics
December 10, 2009 Noon	Dr. Susan Volk, School of Veterinary Medicine, Department of Clinical Studies	Mesenchymal progenitor cells in cutaneous wound healing: directing their activity to improve problematic healing	Dr. Sherri Adams, Professor of Biochemistry
December 17, 2009 Noon	Dr. Jordan S. Orange, CHOP, Department of Pediatrics	The Ins and Outs of NK Cell Cytotoxicity	Dr. Claude Krummenacher, Assistant Professor of Biochemistry
January 14, 2010 1 p.m.	Dr. John D. Gearhart, Penn Institute for Regenerative Medicine	To be announced	Dr. Jonathan Korostoff, Associate Professor of Periodontics
January 21, 2010	Henry Margolis, PhD, Head, Department of Biomineralization The Forsyth Institute	Protein-mediated Biomineralization: The Role of Amelogenin in Dental Enamel Formation	Dr. Carolyn Gibson, Professor of Anatomy & Cell Biology
February 4, 2010 Noon	Dr. Sydney M. Evans, VMD, University of Pennsylvania, Department of Radiation Oncology	To be announced	Dr. Sunday Akintoye, Assistant Professor of Oral Medicine
February 11, 2010 Noon	Dr. Elisabeth Barton, PhD, Assistant Professor of Anatomy and Cell Biology	To be announced
March 4, 2010 Noon	Dr. Brian D. Keith, PhD, Abramson Cancer Center, University of Pennsylvania	To be announced	Dr. Kelly Jordan-Sciutto, Associate Professor of Pathology
March 11, 2010 1 p.m.	Dr. Rose Wadenya, DMD, Assistant Professor of Pediatric Dentistry-Clinician Educator, Department of Preventive and Restorative Sciences	To be announced

Seminar organizers:

Dr. Claire Mitchell, Associate Professor of Anatomy and Cell Biology, Penn Dental Medicine

Dr. Claude Krummenacher, Assistant Professor of Biochemistry, Penn Dental Medicine

Please check back regularly for an updated listing.