Danny Thomas Lecture Series

All Danny Thomas Lectures are presented at noon in the St. Jude Auditorium unless otherwise noted.

 Date Presentation
 Jun 7 CANCELLED
 Jun 14 A Small RNA-based Immune System Guards Germ Cell Genomes
Greg Hannon, PhD, Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory/HHMI
Host: Janet Partridge, PhD
 Jun 21 Bromodomain Inhibition in Cancer Therapy
James Bradner, MD, Dana-Farber Cancer Institute
Host: Tanja Gruber, MD, PhD
 Jun 28 OPEN
SUMMER BREAK
July-August
 Sep 6 EPC Chair’s Forum
TBA
Clinton Stewart, PharmD; Michael Taylor, PhD; Cynthia Wetmore, MD, PhD
Host: Martine Roussel, PhD
 Sep 13  Mechanism and Regulation of Autophagic Membrane Assembly
Timothy Mitchison, PhD, FRS, Harvard University
Host: Kip Guy, PhD
 Sep 20 Wiring Up the Retina
Joshua Sanes, PhD, Harvard University
Host: Stanislav Zakharenko, MD, PhD
 Sep 27 TBA
Randy Schekman, PhD, University of California, Berkeley
Host: Mondira Kundu, MD, PhD
 Oct 4 CHAIR’S FORUM
TBA
Wing Leung, MD, PhD
Host: William Evans, PharmD
 Oct 11 TBA
Angelika Amon, PhD, Koch Institute for Integrative Cancer Research, MIT
Host: Brenda Schulman, PhD
 Oct 17 2013 BIOMEDICAL SYMPOSIUM
Foundation for Discovery––Developmental and Stem Cell Biology Mechanisms in Human Disease
Host: Michael Dyer, PhD and Alberto Pappo, MD
 Oct 25 TBA
Sally Kornbluth, PhD, Duke University
Host: Leta Nutt, PhD
 Nov 1 Fungal infection: What does cancer have to do with it
John Perfect, MD, Duke University
Host: Miguela Caniza, MD
 Nov 8 PETER DOHERTY LECTURE
TBA

Tak Mak, PhD, The Campbell Family Institute for Breast Cancer Research at Princess Margaret Hospital, Toronto, Ontario, Canada
Host: Douglas Green, PhD
 Nov 15 TBA
Margaret Goodell, PhD, Baylor College of Medicine
Host: Shannon McKinney-Freeman, PhD
 Nov 21 SAB Member-Poster Session
 Nov 22 TBA
SAB Member
Host: James R. Downing, MD
 Nov 29 THANKSGIVING HOLIDAY
 Jun 21 Bromodomain Inhibition in Cancer Therapy
James Bradner, MD, Dana-Farber Cancer Institute
Host: Tanja Gruber, MD, PhD
 Dec 6 TBA
Joan Massague, PhD, Memorial Sloan Kettering Cancer Center
Host: Martine Roussel, PhD
 Dec 13 TBA
Sakari Kauppinen, PhD, Aalborg University of Copenhagen
Host: Martine Roussel, PhD
 Dec 20 CHRISTMAS HOLIDAY
 Dec 27 CHRISTMAS HOLIDAY

 

To view online lectures, including selected Danny Thomas Lecture Series programs, go to Cure4Kids.

Cure4Kids, developed by the International Outreach Program of St. Jude Children' Research Hospital, provides online lectures about catastrophic illnesses in children, with an emphasis on pediatric oncology.