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2002-2003 SEMINAR SCHEDULE

May 6:	Mary Kay Pelias, Ph.D., J.D. Professor Department of Genetics Louisiana State University Health Sciences Center “The Eugenics Movement, Human Experimentation, and Informed Consent”
April 29:	Gabriella Pridjian, M.D. Associate Professor Department of Obstetrics and Gynecology and the Hayward Genetics Program Tulane Univesity Health Sciences Center Amy Cunningham, MS, LDN, RD Metabolic Nutritionist Hayward Genetics Program Tulane University Health Sciences Center "PKU and the Reproductive Age Female"
April 22:	Leena Al-Kokko, M.D. Ph.D Center for Gene Therapy Dept. of Medicine Tulane University Health Sciences Center "The Role of Genetic Factors in Common Musculoskeletal Diseases"
April 15:	Donald G. Phinney, Ph.D Associate Professor Center for Gene Therapy and Department of Microbiology and Immunology Tulane University Health Sciences Center "Mesenchymal Stem Cells: Genomics to Cell Therapy"
April 8:	Linda Hyman, Ph.D Associate Professor Department of Biochemistry Tulane University Health Sciences Center "A new Role For An Old Enzyme: An Aminoacyl tRNA Synthetase Involved in mRNA 3' End Formation."
April 1:	Ed Grabczyk, Ph.D Assistant Professor Department of Genetics Louisiana State University Health Sciences Center "Mutations with a Twist: Friedreich Ataxia"
March 25:	Karen Weissbecker, Ph.D Assistant Professor Tulane University Health Sciences Center Department of Psychiatry and the Hayward Genetics Center “Update on Genetic Studies of Obsessive-Compulsive Disorder”
March 18:	Bronya Keats, Ph.D Professor and Head Department of Genetics Louisiana State University Health Sciences Center “Mouse Models In Hearing Loss”
March 11:	No Seminar: ACMG Meetings. Screening of "Our Genes / Our Choices"
March 4:	No Seminar: Happy Mardi Gras!
February 25:	Margaret Park, B.S. Graduate Student Hayward Genetics Center Tulane School of Medicine “Redox State and Regulation of Programmed Cell Death”
February 18:	Kelly Jackson, M.S. Certified Genetic Counselor Instructor, Departments of Clinical Medicine and Pediatrics Tulane Hayward Genetics Center Tulane School of Medicine “Fanconi Pancytopenia and the Connection to Breast Cancer"
February 11:	Janet E. Larson, M.D. Head, Ochsner Children’s Research Institute Department of Pediatrics Ochsner Clinic Foundation “Pathophysiologic Consequences of CFTR-Dependent Developmental Cascades”
February 4:	J. Craig Cohen, Ph.D Professor, Department of Medicine, Biochemistry, and Genetics Louisiana State University Health Sciences Center “In utero Gene Therapy: Past, Present, and Future”
January 28:	Marilyn Li, M.D. Assistant Professor Director, Cytogenetics Laboratory Hayward Genetics Center Tulane School of Medicine “Molecular and Cytogenetic Diagnosis of Birth Defects”
:January 21:	Prescott Deininger, Ph.D Zimmerman Chair for Cancer Research Professor, Enviromental Health Sciences Associate Director Cancer Center "Mobile Elements: The Genomic Plague"
January 14:	Pleasant Hooper, M.D. Public Health Laboratory Scientist - Specialist State of Louisiana Department of Health & Hospitals Office of Public Health - Central Health Laboratory Division of Biochemistry "Application of Tandem Mass Spectrometry in Supplemental Newborn Screening"
January 7:	Pleasant Hooper, M.D. Public Health Laboratory Scientist - Specialist State of Louisiana Department of Health & Hospitals Office of Public Health - Central Health Laboratory Division of Biochemistry “Post Transfusion Newborn Screening Policies - Results of a National Survey”
December 10:	Paula Gregory, Ph.D Associate Professor Dept. of Genetics Louisiana State University Health Sciences Center “Research Programs for the Analysis for Heart, Lung and Blood Disease”
December 3:	Sarah H. Elsea, Ph.D., F.A.C.M.G Assistant Professor Director, DNA Diagnostic Program Depts. Of Zoology and Pediatrics and Human Development Michigan State University “Molecular and Clinical Dissection of Smith-Magenis Syndrome: One Gene or Many Genes?”
November 26:	Jiang He, M.D., Ph.D., DMS Lynda B. and H. Leighton Steward Associate Professor of Epidemiology and Medicine, Department of Epidemiology Tulane University School of Public Health “Searching for the Etiology of Hypertension: From Environment to Genes to Gene x Environment Interaction”

November 19:	Yan Cui, Ph.D. Assistant Professor LSUHSC Gene Therapy “Immunotherapy Treatment of Cancer Using Lentiviral Vector Modified Hematopoietic Stem/Progenitor Cells”
November 12:	Kailash N. Pandey, Ph.D Associate Professor Department of Physiology Tulane University Health Science Center “Genomic Structure, Organization, and Promoter Region Analysis of Guanylyl Cyclase/Natriuretic Peptide Receptor-A Gene”
November 5:	Suresh C. Sikka, Ph.D., HCLD Associate Professor and Research Director Department of Urology Tulane University Health Science Center “Differential Cell Proliferation and Apoptotic Response of Human Prostate to Oxidative Stress and “Antioxidants”
October 22:	Reports from the ASHG Meetings
October 1:	Hans Andersson, MD Associate Professor of Pediatrics Hayward Genetics Program “Cholesterol Biosynthesis Defects: Lessons for (Dys) Morphogenesis”
September 17:	Diptasri Mandel, Ph.D Assistant Professor Department of Genetics LSU Health Science Center “Genetics of Prostate Cancer”
September 10:	Jess Thoene, M.D. Karen Gore Chair in Pediatrics Director, Hayward Genetics Center “Modulation of apoptosis in cultured renal tubule epithelium and fibroblasts by lysosomal cystine: implication for the pathogenesis of cystinosis”

2001-2002 SEMINAR SCHEDULE

May 28	No Seminar
May 21	No Seminar
May 14	Mary Kay Pelias, Ph.D,JD Professor Department of Genetics LSU Health Science Center Legal and Ethical Issues in Human and Medical Genetics (Part 2)
May 7	Mary Kay Pelias, Ph.D,JD Professor Department of Genetics LSU Health Science Center Open Discussion: Legal and Ethical Issues in Human and Medical Genetics
April 30	Gabriella Pridjian, MD Associate Professor OB/GYN and Pediatrics Clinical Geneticist, Human Genetics Program Hayward Genetics Center Director, Maternal-Fetal Medicine Tulane University Health Science Center “Pre-eclampsia: Is it a genetic disorder?”
April 23	Amanda Helip Graduate Student Hayward Genetics Program Tulane University Health Science Center “Insights into Lysosome Biogenesis”
April 16	Diptasri Mandal, Ph.D. Assistant Professor Department of Genetics LSU Health Science Center “Genetics of Prostate Cancer: An Update”
April 9	Alexandra Peister Graduate Student Tulane Gene Therapy Program and Hayward Genetics Program Tulane Univesity Health Science Center “Apolipoprotein E and Alzheimer’s Disease”
April 2	Matthew Burow, Ph.D. Research Assistant Professor Department of Pharmacology Tulane University Health Science Center “MEK5-BMK1/Erk5, A Novel Mitogen-Activated Protein Kinase (MAPK)
March 26	Canceled Gabriella Pridjian, M.D. Associate Professor, Department of Obstetrics and Gynecology Section Chief, Maternal Fetal Medicine Clinical Geneticist, Human Genetics Program Tulane University Health Sciences Center “Pre-eclampsia: Is it a genetic disorder?”
19	Jennifer Bramer Graduate Student Hayward Genetics Center Tulane University Health Sciences Center ““Genetic Disorder In Fiction””
12	Jessica Ezzell Graduate Student Hayward Genetics Center Tulane University Health Sciences Center “Congenital Disorders of Glycosylation”
5	Fern Tsien, Ph.D. Hayward Genetics Center Tulane University Health Sciences Center “DNA Methylation and Heterochromatin in a DNA Hypomethylation Syndrome (ICF), a Dominant Muscular Dystrophy Syndrome (FSHD), and Normal Embryonic Cell Cultures”
February 26	Stuart Schwartz, Ph.D Professor of Genetics & Oncology Director, Center for Human Genetics Laboratory Case Western Reserve University (SUBJECT: TO BE ANNOUNCED)
19	Prescott Deininger, Ph.D Associate Director Cancer Center Zimmerman Professor of Cancer Research Tulane University Health Science Center “Mobil Elements and Human Instability”
12	Mardi Gras
5	Linda Hyman, Ph.D Associate Professor Department of Biochemistry Tulane University Health Science Center “Elongi C and its role in VHL Disease: Studies from the Yeast Model System”
January 29	Craig Cohen, Ph.D. Professor Department of Medicine LSU Health Science Center “The Endless Possibilities of In Utero Gene Therapy”
22	Karen Weissbecker, Ph.D. Assistant Professor Hayward Genetics Center and Department of Psychiatry and Neurology Tulane University Health Science Center Journal Club: “Pharmacogenetics of antipsychotic treatment: Lessons learned from Clozapin” Masellis M, et al., Biol. Psychiatry 47:252-266, 2000.
15	Sevtap Sevas, Ph.D. Post Doctoral Fellow Department of Genetics LSU Health Science Center “Molecular Variation in the USH1C Gene"
8	January 8 - NO SEMINAR
1	Happy New Year!
December 18	Karen Weissbecker, Ph.D Assistant Professor Hayward Genetics Program and Department of Psychiatry and Neurology Tulane University Health Science Center “Journal Club: “Pharmacogenetics of Antipsychotic Treatment: Lessons learned from Clozapine” Masellis M, et al., Biol, Psychiatry 47:252-266, 2000.
11	Robert P. Erickson, M.D. Professor of Pediatrics & Molecular and Cellular Biology University of Arizona Health Sciences Center “Niemann-Pick “C” and Intracellular Cholesterol Transport”
4	Margaret Parks Graduate Student Hayward Genetics Program Tulane University Health Science Center “Cystinotic Fibroblasts Display Aberrant Apoptosis”
November 27	Melanie Ehrlich, Ph.D. Professor Human Genetics Program Dept. Of Biochemistry Tulane Cancer Center "ICF, A DNA Methyltransferase 3B Disease: Microarray Expression Studies, Chromosomes Studies, and Relationship to Epigenetic and Chromosomal Changes In Cancer"
20	TBA
13	Leena-Al-Kokko, M.D., Ph.D. Center for Gene Therapy Dept. Of Medicine Tulane Medical Center "Cartilage collagens from rare to common diseases"
6	Jay K. Kolls, M.D. Professor of Medicine and Director of Gene Therapy Program Louisiana State University Health Science Center "Gene Therapy to Modulate Lung Immunity"
October 30	Kelly Jackson, MS Certified Genetic Counselor Instructor, Depts. of Clinical Medicine and Pediatrics Tulane Human Genetics Program "New Insights in Breast/Ovarian Cancer Genetics"
23	Reports from the ASHG Meetings
9	Gauri Gaikwad Graduate Student Department of Genetics, LSU Health Sciences "Genetics of Parkinson's Disease"
2	Tulane Cytogenetics Laboratory "Presentation of Interesting Case Reports" Complex Chromosomal Rearrangement (CCR) In a Child with Developmental Delay and Autism Autism Presentation: John Van Brunt III, MAT,CLSp (CG) Discussion: Marilyn Li, MD Balanced Pericentric Inversion Resulting in an Unbalanced Recombinant Fetus Presentation: Delma Herrera, BS, CLSp (CG) Discussion: Marilyn Li, MD A Familial t(6;22) Translocation Resulting in Both Duane Syndrome and Vel-Cardio-Facial Syndrome in Siblings Presentation: Jerilyn Johnson, MPH,CLSp (CG) Discussion: Marilyn Li, MD
September 25	Bronya Keats, Ph.D. Professor and Head Department of Genetics, LSU Health Sciences "Connexin 26 and other genes for Hearing Loss"
18	No Seminar
11	No Seminar
4	No Seminar