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Seminar Program 2007-2008

Seminars are on Tuesdays, 12:00 – 12:50 pm in Sanger Hall, Room 1-044

 

Contact  April Filips or Jennifer Mooney for further information

 

Date

Speaker

Title

Sept. 11

 

Hong Wang, M.D., Ph.D.

Professor, Department of Pharmacology and Toxicology

Temple University

Philadelphia, PA

Hyperhomocysteinemia and endothelial injury”

Sept. 25

Steven Goldberg, Ph.D.
Section Chief, Behavioral Neuroscience Research Branch

National Institute on Drug Abuse, NIH

Bethesda, MD

Endocannabinoid system activity and the control of reinforced

Behavior”

**Oct. 9

 

4 pm

Shulin Li, Ph.D.

Professor, Dept. of Comparative Biomedical Science

School of Veterinary Medicine

Louisiana State University

Baton Rouge, LA

"Electroporation-assisted immune gene therapy and

immune-chemo-gene therapy for treating tumors"

Oct. 23

Edmund O. Acevedo, Ph.D. FACSM
Professor and Chair

Virginia Commonwealth University

Health and Human Performance

Richmond, VA

“The physiology of combined mental and physical challenge”

Nov. 6

Susan Mooberry, Ph.D.
Associate Scientist

University of Texas Science Center

San Antonio, TX

New microtubule stabilizers from nature: Potential to improve on

taxane-based chemotherapy?

Nov. 27

Irena Levitan, Ph.D.
Associate Professor, Dept. of Medicine

Pulmonary, Critical Care and Sleep Medicine

University of Illinois at Chicago

“Lipid rafts, membrane fluidity and deformability of endothial cells”

Dec. 11

Leonidas Tsiokas, Ph.D.
Associate Professor, Dept. of Cell Biology

University of Oklahoma

“PKD2 in polycystic kidney disease”

Jan. 8

open

 

Jan. 22

William J. Arendshorst, Ph.D.

Professor

Dept. of Cell and Molecullar Physiology, UNC at Chapel Hill

Chapel Hill, NC

 “TBA”

Feb. 5

Suresh C. Tyagi, Ph.D.

Professor and Vice Chair

Dept. of Physiology and Biophysics

University of Louisville

“Molecular mechanism of cardiac remodeling in hyperhomocysteinia

Feb. 19

Lynn Harrison, Ph.D.

Associate Professor
Dept. of Molecular and Cellular Physiology

LSU Health Sciences Center

“Oxidative stress and DNA damage”

Mar. 4

Pam Carmines, Ph.D., FAHA
Professor and Director of Graduate Studies

Dept. of Cellular and Integrative Physiology

University of Nebraska College of Medicine

Omaha, NE

“EGF/RHO signaling in the kidney”

Mar. 18

Nikolai Soldatov, Ph.D.
Investigator, Molecular and Clinical Pharmacology Section

National Institute of Aging, NIH

Baltimore, MD

“Calcium sensitivity of calcium channels”

April 1

John Shacka, Ph.D.
Instructor, Dept. of Pathology

Neuropathology Division

University of Alabama at Birmingham

Autophagic stress-induced neuron death”

April 15

Ken Mackie, Ph.D.

Linda and Jack Gill Chair of Neuroscience and Professor

Dept. of Psychological and Brain Sciences

Indiana University

“THC, cannabis and cannabinoids:  What’s the buzz about?”

 

May 6

STERLING LECTURE

Kathleen Brady, M.D., Ph.D.

Professor, Dept. of Psychiatry

Medical University of South Carolina

Charleston, SC

“TBA”