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What is the GREAT Symposium Journal Club?
The GREAT Symposium Journal Club introduces students to the research of our keynote speaker through a one-hour discussion of a relevant journal article, led by a faculty member from the Graduate College.
We are pleased to announce that graduate students will be able to meet informally with Dr. Birnbaum to discuss his career and his research. We hope that you will be able to take advantage of this exceptional opportunity. Please read below for more details.
Invitation to meet with the GREAT Keynote Speaker
The Keynote Speaker for the 2009 GREAT Symposium is Dr. Morris J. Birnbaum. Dr. Birnbaum is a Willard and Rhoda Ware Professor of Diabetes and Metabolic Diseases and of Cell and Developmental Biology at the University of Pennsylvania School of Medicine. He received his B.S., M.D., and Ph.D. degrees from Brown University, the latter for studies on the hormonal reguation of hepatic glycogenolysis. After intership and residency in the internal medicine at Barnes Hospital, St. Louis, he completed postdoctoral training as a Helen Hay Whitney fellow at the University of California, San Francisco, and at Memorial Sloan-Kettering Cancer Center in the laboratory of the late Ora Rosen. He was a member of the faculty of Harvard Medical School before moving to the University of Pennsylvania. He was also a Howard Hughes Medical Institute investigatore from 1994 to 2008. Dr. Birnbaum was recently named a fellow of the American Association for the Advancement of Science.
Dr. Birnbaum will be available to meet with students on Apri 2, 2009 from 9:00 am to 10:00 am in the History of Medicine Conference Room (LIB 418). All HSC students are invited to attend the GREAT Symposium Journal Club on March 25th, where they can sign up to meet with Dr. Birnbaum.
If you want to participate, or if you have questions, please send your name, major, and contact information to Melissa Pinkston in the Graduate College at melissa-pinkston@ouhsc.edu. The deadline to sign up for the journal club is March 23rd, but please note, that space is limited to the first 20 students who respond.
The journal club will meet from 12-1 in the Robert Bird Library History of Medicine Room Room 418 on Wednesday March 25th. Lunch will be provided.
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