Speaker: Chand Khanna, DVM, PhD, Head - Tumor and Metastasis Biology Section, Pediatric Oncology Branch, and
Director - Comparative Oncology Program
Affliation: National Cancer Institute, Maryland
Topic of Public Seminar: Dog model for cancer, sponsored by CIAG and CVM.
Date: Tuesday, March 9, 2010
Location: 1226 Veterinary Medicine
Time: Noon
Refreshments: provided by Vet Med in the Fishtank Lobby
Website of the Speaker
Research: Our approach to the problem of metastasis is founded in the development, characterization
and use of relevant in vivo (animal) models of metastasis. These models include transplantable tumor models,
genetically engineered mouse models of metastasis, and naturally occurring cancers that develop in companion
animals. The study of companion animal cancers is facilitated through the Center for Cancer Research - Comparative
Oncology Program (http://ccr.nci.nih.gov/resources/cop/). The use of several model systems to study problems in
metastasis provides an opportunity to emphasize strengths and minimize weaknesses of a single model system.
Chalk Talk at Noon on Wednesday, March 10, 2010
ISU Contact: Matthew Ellinwood
Part of College of Veterinary Medicine Ramsey series
Sponsored by College of Veterinary Medicine and Center for Integrated Animal Genomics (CIAG).
Speaker: Susan J. Brown, Ph.D., Professor, Department of Biology
Affliation: Kansas State University
Topic of Public Seminar: Genetics and genomics of the emerging model organism: Tribolium castaneum, Red Flour Beetle
Date: Monday, April 5, 2010
Location: 1414 Molecular Biology
Time: 4:10 p.m.
Refreshments: 3:45 p.m. in the Atrium of the Molecular Biology Building
Website of Speaker
Research: Evolution of gene regulatory networks, using segmentation in the red flour beetle,
Tribolium castaneum as a model system. Genomics and Bioinformatics, focusing on genome
sequence analysis Tribolium.
Chalk Talk at noon on Tuesday, April 6, 2010.
ISU Contact: Bryony Bonning, Entomology, bbonning@iastate.edu
Dr. Susan J. Brown is also sponsored by ISU ADVANCE.
Speaker: Ralph S. Quatrano, Ph.D., Spencer T. Olin Professor of Biology
Affliation: Washington University in St. Louis
Title of Public Seminar: The moss Physcomitrella patens:
The system and its application to the study of tip growth and tolerance to water stress.
Date: Tuesday, April 13, 2010
Location: 1414 Molecular Biology
Time: 4:10 p.m.
Refreshments: 3:45 p.m. in the Atrium of the Molecular Biology Building
Website of Speaker
Research: I am interested in the mechanisms underlying how cells become polar and how tissue-specific factors
and hormones regulate gene expression in plants. The moss (Physcomitrella patens) is being used
(http://www.biology.wustl.edu/moss) to study cellular polarity and homologous recombination, while
Arabidopsis and P. patens are the models for analyzing tissue-specific gene expression via the phytohormone
abscisic acid (ABA). Protonemal cells of moss (Physcomitrella patens) are being used to study cellular polarity,
while Arabidopsis is the model for analyzing tissue-specific gene expression via the phytohormone abscisic acid (ABA).
Chalk Talk at Noon on Wednesday, April 14, 2010
ISU Contact:
Sponsors: Interdepartmental Genetics
Department of Genetics, Development and Cell Biology
ISU Advance, Increasing the Participation and Advancement of
Women in Academic Science and Engineering Careers
Plant Sciences Institute
College of Veterinary Medicine
Center for Integrated Animal Genomics (CIAG)
College of Liberal Arts and Sciences
College of Agriculture and Life Sciences
Department of Entomology
and ISU Graduate College.