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- TRAINING GRANT INFO:
- Summary of GUIDELINES for current trainees -
(updated July 2008 - required reading for all trainees)
- TRAINING GRANT SYMPOSIA, LUNCHES, and MEETINGS for FACULTY & TRAINEES:
- 2006 SYMPOSIUM
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2008 FACULTY/TRAINEE LUNCHES
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2008 CANCER/MAMMALS CLUB MONTHLY MEETINGS
(required for all currently supported trainees and their advisors)
- LOCAL SEMINARS and EVENTS OF INTEREST for FACULTY & TRAINEES:
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Moores UCSD Cancer Center / Director's Seminar Series 2007-2008
(required for all trainees)
-
Moores UCSD Cancer Center /
Cancer Therapeutics Training Program Lecture Series
-
Moores UCSD Cancer Center / Division of Basic Research Seminar Luncheons
2008
(faculty only)
- The weekly local
SALK INSTITUTE Scientific Seminar Bulletin
- The Moores UCSD Cancer Center
News Page
and
Monthly News Bulletin.
- CONGRATULATIONS TO THE FOLLOWING TRAINEES:
- Simon Brown, current predoctoral trainee, on his recent publication:
Jian Wu, Simon H. J. Brown, Sventja von Daake, Susan S. Taylor.
"PKA Type II alpha Holoenzyme Reveals a Combinatorial Strategy for Isoform Diversity." Science 2007 318:274-79.
- Aaron Aslanian, postdoctoral trainee from 2005-2007, who has
just received a Postdoctoral Fellowship from the California Division
of the American Cancer Society, entitled "Regulation of
Transcription Factor Function in Apoptosis by Phosphorylation", for the period
September 1, 2007 through August 31, 2010.
- Tiffany Yano, postdoctoral trainee from 2005-2007,
on identifying a terrific career opportunity at Invitrogen Corporation
in Carlsbad, CA. We wish Tiffany all the best!
- Matt Gentry, postdoctoral trainee from 2003-2005, who was recently approved for a K99/R00 award from NINDS (1K99NS061803-01) to pursue his research on dual-specificity phosphatases.
Also, congratulations to Matt on the publication of his paper:
Gentry MS, Dowen RH III, Worby CA, Mattoo S, Ecker JR, and Dixon JE.
"The Phosphatase Laforin Crosses Evolutionary Boundaries and Links Carbohydrate Metabolism to Neuronal Disease,"
J Cell Biol. 2007 178:477-88.
- Randy Gastwirt, predoctoral trainee from 2003-2007, on publication of the following recent papers:
Gastwirt RF, CW McAndrew and DJ Donoghue.
"Speedy/RINGO Regulation of CDKs in cell cycle, checkpoint activation
and apoptosis", Cell Cycle 2007 6:1188-1193.
McAndrew CW, Gastwirt RF, Meyer AN, Porter LA, Donoghue DJ.
"Spy1 enhances phosphorylation and degradation of the cell cycle inhibitor p27",
Cell Cycle 2007 6:1937-45.
McAndrew, CW, RF Gastwirt and DJ Donoghue.
Regulation of the Cell Cycle. In "Wiley Encyclopedia of Chemical Biology"
(N R Civjan, Ed.) John Wiley & Sons, Inc. 2008 (Invited Review, in press).
- Irene Pedersen, current postdoctoral trainee, who was recently approved for a K01 award from NCI (1 K01 CA122192) to pursue her research on the cooperation of PTEN and SHIP as tumor suppressors in B-Cells.
Also, congratulations to Irene on the publication of her paper:
Pedersen IM, Cheng G, Wieland S, Volinia S, Croce CM, Chisari FV, David M.
"Interferon modulation of cellular microRNAs as an antiviral mechanism",
Nature. 2007 449:919-22.
- Wenlai Zhou, current postdoctoral trainee, on his paper:
Wenlai Zhou, Ping Zhu, Jianxun Wang, Gabriel Pascual, Kenneth A. Ohgi, Jean Lozach, Christopher K. Glass, and Michael G. Rosenfeld.
"Histone H2A Monoubiquitination Represses
Transcription by Inhibiting RNA Polymerase II
Transcriptional Elongation",
Mol. Cell 2008 29:69-80.
- HIGHLIGHTS / RECENT DEVELOPMENTS
- January 25, 2007,
Dr. Alex Hoffmann, Cancer Center Member and training grant faculty member,
Molecular Link between Inflammation and Cancer Discovered - study led by
Dr. Hoffman and published in the journal Cell.
For UCSD News Center article, click
here.
Also, congratulations to Dr. Hoffman who has been
granted a 4-year accelerated promotion to Associate Professor at UCSD,
with tenure, effective July 1, 2008.
- March 22, 2007,
Richard D. Kolodner,
Cancer Center Member and training grant faculty member,
honored with Landon-AACR Prize for Basic Cancer Research.
For Moores UCSD Cancer Center article, click
here.
- April 20, 2007,
Dr. Beth Baber, former postdoc supported by this training grant,
named recipient of 2007 DLA Piper-Athena FlexMBA Scholarship through
UCSD Rady School of Management.
Dr. Baber is
in the process of establishing The Nicholas Conor Institute for Pediatric
Cancer Research, named after her son who was diagnosed with neuroblastoma
in 2005.
For UCSD News Center article, click
here.
- May 1, 2007,
Moores UCSD Cancer Center NCI Core Grant Renewed.
Update from Moores UCSD Cancer Center Director, Dr. Dennis Carson,
"Following almost two years of application preparation and
review, our NCI core grant has been renewed effective May 1, 2007. The
five-year award amounts to approximately $20 million. Accompanying the
grant is the continuation of our status as an NCI designated
comprehensive cancer center, one of 40 in the nation."
- May 22, 2007,
Dr. Michael G. Rosenfeld,
Cancer Center Member and training grant faculty member,
awarded Cancer Center seed money in the amount of $20,000 for
project entitled "Molecular Mechanisms Underlying Ewing's Sarcoma:
Roles of Novel Non-coding RNAs."
For UCSD Moores Cancer Center article, click
here.
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