Human Biology 115C
Spring 1997

Emerging Concepts in Emerging Disease

List of recommended seminars
Class list
Seminar list
List of possible contract activities
Student contract list

Course notes

Important information

Note: Please review your contracts to make sure they are complete, specific and accurate. Please include the number of each type of session you intend to attend.

Week 4 agenda (please send any additions or corrections, especially names)

Ancient flu - Meredith
ProMED - Ajai, Catherine
Andrew Fell - Meredith, Catherine, Molly
Ernle Young - Janet
Note: Joy will be gone (Johns Hopkins)

Week 5 agenda (please send any additions or corrections, especially names)
ID Grand Rounds - Matt, Jennifer J, Jennifer T, Robin, Catherine, Molly
Medicine Grand Rounds (Relman, Small) - Joy
The Science of Viruses and their Social Impact - Molly
Cocci - Molly
Ras induced activation of Raf; and its implications on Tumorigenesis - Janet
ProMED - Ajai, Catherine, Joy

Week 6 agenda (please send any additions or corrections, especially names)
Carl Djerassi - Janet
ProMED - Ajai, Catherine, Joy
TB in SF - JJ
Mad cow demo - Bob
Week 7 agenda (With special guest discussant Baruch Blumberg)
Coccidioides immitis - Molly
Antigenic variation in Trypanosomes - Jennifer J.
Epidemiology of breast and uterine cancer - Robin
Structure of HIV gp41 Cell - Ajai
1-cell and n-cell skin cancer - Janet
UCSF Pediatric Grand Rounds - Achieving high immunization rates - Jennifer T.

Week 8 agenda (please send any additions or corrections, especially names)
Ajai's honors defense
DNA vaccine for HIV, May issue Nature Medicine - Meredith
H. pylori - Joy
Virus X - Joy
Grand Rounds with Small and Relman - Joy
ID Grand Rounds - Catherine
ProMED - Ajai, Catherine, Joy
T cell transcription factor, NFATp - Anjana Rao - Janet
Lupus anti-dsDNA therapy - Robin
?Otoscope demo - Bob
?Microbe demo - Bob

Week 9 agenda (please send any additions or corrections, especially names)
ID Grand Rounds - ???
ProMED - Ajai, Catherine, Joy

Highly recommended seminars (etc.)

+ Jim Gamble
Friday 30 May 1997 5:30-7:00pm
History Building 200, Room 305
Out of the Mainstream: A Social History of People with Physical Disabilities

+ BIOMEDICAL SCIENCES SYMPOSIUM - UCSF
Saturday, 5/31 9:15-5:00PM HSW-300 

SPRING BMS SYMPOSIUM  *******************
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                                         GENOMICS TECHNOLOGIES

Mark Bogusky - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - NCBI
Closing the Gap Between Sequence and Function: Informatics 
               and High Throughput Biology

Joe Gray - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - UCSF
  Physical Maps: Resources for Disease Gene Localization 
                      and Identification

Mike Palazzolo - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - LBNL
            Genomic DNA Sequence Analysis

Ron Jensen - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - UCSF
   PCR-based DNA Fragment Analysis Applied to Molecular 
                     Genetics of Cancer

Dan Pinkel - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - UCSF
     An Array Approach to Relative DNA Sequence Copy 
                      Number Analysis

Steven Fodor - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - Affymetrics
           Genes, Chips, and the Human Genome

Pat Brown  - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - Stanford
         Diverse Applications of DNA Microarrays


                   HOST:  Joe Gray
+ Baruch Blumberg
Wed June 4 noon to 1 p.m. - Fairchild auditorium
Hepatitis B Virus, Discovery, Control: Vaccination and the Prevention of Liver Cancer

Ongoing

+ ID Ground Rounds - Thursdays at 4:30 HRP T138B - first floor conference room

+ Medicine Ground Rounds - Thursdays at 8:30 Fairchild Auditorium

+ HIV Journal Club
alternate Wednesdays 4-5 p.m. in med center room R309
Papers are available outside med center R308.

Suggested ProMED topics for review

O'yong oyong fever
Hepatitis A outbreak
Mad pig disease

Suggested scientific papers for formal review

Ancient flu - Science
Obesity virus - http://www.cnn.com/HEALTH/9704/07/obesity.virus.ap/

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