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Specific Aim 3 - To enrich the mentoring experience of young faculty supported by the RCMI Program by sustaining a monthly RCMI Forum and by convening an annual retreat for all NCRR-funded investigators, as a means of enhancing opportunities for data sharing and collaboration.

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    2006

    2007

    2008

January
February
14 Thursday, RCMI Forum, 11am - 1pm, MEB 301
John S. Allen III: Applications of Targeted Ultrasound Contrast Agents
Richard Yanagihara: Preparations for the RCMI EAC/BRCC Meeting to be held March 19-20, 2008

March

20 Thursday, RCMI External Advisory Committee Meeting, 8:00am - 12 noon, 'Ekahi Room, Hyatt Regency Waikiki

April

10 Thursday, RCMI Forum, 11am - 1pm, MEB 301
cancelled

May

8 Thursday, RCMI Forum, 11am - 1pm, MEB 301
Angel A Yanagihara: Hawaiian Box Jellyfish Envenomation: Mechanisms of Pathogenesis
Richard Yanagihara: Parallel Co-Evolution of Hantaviruses and their Soricid and Rodent Reservoir Hosts

June
July
August

14 Thursday, RCMI Forum, 11am - 1pm, MEB 304
Marla J. Berry: Selenoprotein H - a redox and metal responsive DNA binding protein that upregulates GSH synthesis

September

11 Thursday, RCMI Forum, 11am - 1pm, MEB 304
Patricia A. Couvillon: Epidemiology of a Parasite and Other Honeybee Perils
Yuanan Lu: Lentiviral Vector-mediated Stable Expression of TNFR in Human Macrophages in vitro and in vivo

October

9 Thursday, RCMI Forum, 11am - 1pm, MEB 304
Jun Panee: Exploration of the Anti-Breast Cancer Function of Bamboo Extract
Bradley R. Jones: Updates and Tips from the Computer Network Support Facility

November
December

1-4 Monday - Thursday, 11th RCMI International Symposium on Health Disparities, Sheraton Waikiki

    2009

January
February
12 Thursday, RCMI Forum, 11am - 1pm, MEB 304
Brenda Y. Hernandez: Human Papillomavirus (HPV) Infection in Men: Implications for Prophylactic Vaccination
Wei-Kung Wang: Antibody Responses to Dengue Virus during the Natural Course of Infection

March

25 Wednesday, RCMI EAC/BRCC Meeting, 7:30am - 5:45pm, MEB 314

April

9 Thursday, RCMI Forum, 11am - 1pm, MEB 301
Yi Zuo: Interdisciplinary Study of Lung Surfactant
Aaron Ohta: Single-Cell Manipulation in the UH Electrical Engineering Department

May
June
July
August

13 Thursday, RCMI Forum, 11am - 1pm, MEB 301
Frederick Bellinger: Selenoprotein Function in Neurological Disorders

September
October

6 Tuesday, Special Seminar (sponsored by the RCMI Program and the School of Engineering, 12noon - 1pm, POST 127
Ralph Etienne-Cummings (The Johns Hopkins University, Baltimore): Biomorphic Circuits and Systems: Development and Applications of Silicon Models of the Nervous System (seminar description)

November

12 Thursday, RCMI Forum, 11am - 1pm, MEB 315 (auditorium)
Marla Berry: Novel methods for investigating RNA protein interactions and identifying RNA-binding proteins in vivo

December

10 Thursday, RCMI Forum, 11am - 1pm, TBA
Meredith Hermosura: TBA
Daniel Alacata: TBA

    2010

    2011

The University of Hawaii RCMI Program (G12RR003061) is funded by the Research Centers in Minority Institutions Program, an initiative of the National Center for Research Resources at the National Institutes of Health.