Immunology Research Symposiu
Date:  Thursday, May 29th, 2008
Location:  Microbial Sciences Building
Symposium schedule:
8:00-8:30 Registration and poster setup
8:30-10:00   Session I
Dr. Jenny Gumperz - CD1-restricted T cells: monitors of inflammatory lipid messengers?
4 short talks chosen from submitted abstracts
10:30-12:00  Session II
Dr. Chuck Czuprynski -  The aryl hydrocarbon receptor: a new player in innate immunity to bacterial infection.
4 short talks chosen from submitted abstracts

The UW Cardiovascular Research Center will cosponsor the Biomedical Engineering Seminar (BME) Lecture on Monday, April 14, 2008.  Please join us for Multi-ScaleModeling and Computational Physiology, given by Peter Hunter, Ph.D., FRS, Professor, Engineering Science, Academic/Institute Director, Auckland Bioengineering Institute, University of Auckland. The BME lecture will be at 3:00 pm, in the Tong Auditorium, Room 1003 Engineering Centers Building, 1550 Engineering Drive.

The Vascular Biology Research Colloquium on Thursday, April 3, 2008,will feature Alan Rapraeger, Ph.D., Professor, Department of Pathology and Laboratory Medicine, who will speak on “Inhibition ofangiogenesis by synstatin." This colloquium will be held from 11 a.m. to 12:30 p.m. in room 116 Service Memorial Institute (SMI).

Deadline for application is Friday, April 11th
Fall 2008 TA Positions in Biocore

Cardiovascular Research Conference will be held on Tuesday, March 25, 2008 and will feature Barry London, MD, Ph.D., Harry S. Tack Professor of Medicine; Professor of Cell Biology and Physiology; Chief, Division of Cardiology; Director, University of Pittsburgh Medical Center Cardiovascular Institute (CVI).  Dr. London will speak on “Sodium Channel Trafficking and Arrhythmias.” The lecture will be at 4:00 p.m. in room 1345 HSLC. It is sponsored by the Division of Cardiovascular Medicine and the UW Cardiovascular Research Center (CVRC). For more information, contact Hector H.

The Endocrinology and Reproductive Physiology (ERP) graduate program and the Center for Women's Health Research (CWHR) are pleased to announce a Joint Symposium entitled “From Cells to Society”. This symposium is our first venture in forging strong academic partnerships between ERP and the CWHR and is jointly sponsored by the Meriter Hospital Foundation and the Department of Obstetrics and Gynecology. The symposium will be held on Friday, April 4, 2008 from 8-4:00 pm at the Pyle Center.

Register now for the 2008 Conference on Interdisciplinarity, to be held on
Thursday and Friday, February 28th and 29th at the Fluno Center.

Tuesday, December 4, 2007, 3-5 pm in the Atrium of the Health Sciences Learning Center.  More than 60 scientific posters representing a wide range of cardiovascular research will be on display, and will be presented by colleagues of the Center, trainees on the Training Program in Translational Cardiovascular Science and medical student interns who worked in cardiovascular research labs during the summer of 2007.  The topics covered at this fair include: Vascular Biology, Heart Failure, Cardioregenerative Medicine, Arrhythmias and Ion Channels, Gene Regulation and Development, Mitochondrial B

The 13th Annual UW Cardiovascular Research Center Scientific Poster fair will be held on Tuesday, December 4, 2007, 3-5 pm in the Atrium of the Health Sciences Learning Center.  More than 60 scientific posters representing a wide range of cardiovascular research will be on display, and will be presented by colleagues of the Center, trainees on the Training Program in Translational Cardiovascular Science and medical student interns who worked in cardiovascular research labs during the summer of 2007.  The topics covered at this fair include: Heart Failure, Cardioregenerative Medicine, Gene Re

Fall NIH Conference on Biological and Biomedical Computing
Friday, October 12, 2007
On-site registration: 8:30am - 9:00am
Presentations: 9:00am - 2:00pm
Ebling Symposium Center, room 1220 Microbial Science Building