Cancer Biology Research Seminars are held each Thursday from 9 a.m. until 10 a.m. These seminars are sponsored by the UC Davis Cancer Center Basic Sciences Program. Refreshments will be served.

Coordinator: Dr. Hong-Wu Chen
Co-sponsor:  Department of Dermatology
Co-sponsor:  Department of Pathology & Laboratory Medicine

Thursday, April 10, 2008
Guest Speaker:  Philip Lazarus, PhD, Penn State College of Medicine
Host:  Dr. Jim Felton
Topic:  UGT Pharmacogenetics. Potential Role in Cancer Treatment, Prevention and Risk.
Location: Cancer Center Auditorium

Thursday, April 17, 2008
Guest Speaker:  Dr. Felice Lightstone, Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory
Host:  Dr. Jim Felton
Topic:  Computational Modeling of Drug and Peptide Ligands 
Location:  Cancer Center Auditorium

Thursday, May 1, 2008
Dr. Larry Thompson, Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory
Host:  Dr. Jim Felton
Topic: DNA Repair, Double Strand Break Repair.
Location:  Cancer Center Auditorium

Thursday, May 8, 2008
Dr. Hasan Mukhtar, University of Wisconsin
Host:  Dr. Jim Felton
Topic:  Custom Tailoring of Prostate Cancer Chemoprevention Regimens
Location:  Cancer Center Auditorium

Thursday, May 15, 2008
Dr. Ken Turteltaub, Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory
Host:  Dr. Jim Felton
Topic:  AMS as An Ultra-Sensitive Measurement Tool. Microdosing and Micropharmacokinetics. Low dose DNA Damage.
Location:  Cancer Center Auditorium

Thursday, May 29, 2008
Dr. Sophia Tsai, Baylor College of Medicine
Hosts:  Dr. Hsing-Jien Kung & Dr. Reen Wu 
Topic:  COUP-TFII, An Orphan Nuclear Receptor, in Angiogenesis and Vascular Development.
Location:  Cancer Center Auditorium

Thursday, June 5, 2008
Dr. Paul Henderson, Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory
Host:  Dr. Jim Felton
Topic:  Individualized Chemotherapy, Oxidative Damage.
Location:  Cancer Center Auditorium

Thursday, June 12, 2008
Dr. Brian Bennion, Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory
Host:  Dr. Jim Felton
Topic:  Modeling of Hormone Receptors.  Genetic Differences Leading to Structural Differences Through Modeling.
Location:  Cancer Center Auditorium

For more information contact Fran Richardson at (916) 734-3111.