PTR 506 Advances in Experimental Pathology
Sample Course Schedule
Spring Semester

Mondays 1:30 to 2:30 PM
RPCI Science Building Room 520

Week	Topic	Lecturer
1	Organizational	Leong and Musser
2	Martin Luther King Holiday	No Class
3	Epidemiology	Ambrosone
4	Chromosome Integrity in Saccharomyces Cerevisiae: the Interplay of DNA Replication Initiation Factors, Elongation Factors, and Origins	Yao
5	Flow Cytometry	Wallace
6	President’s Day	No Class
7	Cancer Prevention & Population Sciences	Marshall
8	Polyamine Catabolism in Platinum Drug Action	Hector
9	Dietary Isothiocyanates Potently Inhibit the Growth of Human Bladder Cancer Cells in Vitro	Tang
10	Spring Recess	No Class
11	Antisense Therapy Targeting MDM2 Oncogene in Prostate Cancer: Effects on Proliferation, Apoptosis, Multiple Gene Expression, and Chemotherapy	Li
12	AACR meeting	No Class
13	Histologic Grade, Stage, and Survival in Breast Carcinoma: Comparison of African American and Caucasian Women	Dalin Pan
14	Phosphorylations of Bcl-2 Family Proteins Mediated by JNK and Akt are Involved in Alpha-Tocopheryl Succinate-Induced Apoptosis in Human Prostate Cancer Cells	Zu
15	Tumors Secreting Glucose-Regulated Protein 170 (grp170) as Cell-Based Vaccines	Arnouk
16	Technolgoy for Generating Mutant Mouse Wnt1DMD Mouse	Herman
17	Characterization of the Resistance Mechanisms of Leukemia Cells to Apo2L/TRAIL	Cheng

Course Coordinator: Susan S. Leong, PhD – sleong@adelphia.net

Consists of student presentation of current topics and guest lectures. All students in the program are required to attend and participate every semester