College of Medicine Research Seminar Schedule

Fall 2001 - Spring 2002

Thursdays at 4:00 PM in Room C1-17

FALL 2001
DATE SPEAKER SEMINAR TITLE
September 6 Stuart J. Frank, M.D., Div. of Endocrinology and Metabolism, University of Alabama (hosted by Dr. Peter Sayeski) New Insights into Growth Hormone Action
September 13 Gregg B. Fields, Ph.D., Dept. of Chemistry & Biochemistry, Florida Atlantic University (hosted by Dr. Ben Dunn) Correlating the Role of Collagen and Collagenolytic Protease Activity to Tumor Cell Invasion
September 20 Eduardo Marban, M.D., Ph.D., Depts. of Medicine & Physiology, Johns Hopkins University (hosted by Dr. M. Ian Phillips) Gene Therapy for Cardiac Arrhythmias
September 27 Robert Siliciano, MD., Ph.D., Dept. of Medicine, John Hopkins University (hosted by Dr. John W. Sleasman) Latent Reservoirs for HIV
October 4 Curt D. Sigmund, Ph.D., Depts. of Medicine & Physiology, University of Iowa (hosted by Craig H. Gelband, Ph.D.) Understanding the Physiological Significance of Tissue Renin-Angiotensin Systems Using Transgenic Models
October 11 Hans R. Scholer, Ph.D., New Bolton Center for Transgenesis, University of Pennsylvania (hosted by Dr. James Resnick) Gene Function and Regulation in Pluripotent Stem Cells and the Germline of Mammals
October 18 Baldomero Olivera, Ph.D., Distinguished Professor of Biology, University of Utah (hosted by Dr. Art Edison) Conus Peptides, Ion Channels, and Receptors: 50 Million Years of Neuropharmacology
October 25 Ron Viola, Ph.D., Dept. of Chemistry & Biochemistry, University of Toledo (hosted by Dr. David N. Silverman) Expanding Enzyme Catalysis with Unnatural Amino Acids
November 1 Jack Griffith, Ph.D., Lineberger Comp. Cancer Center, University of North Carolina (hosted by Dr. Maurice S. Swanson) Telomere Architecture and t-loops in Humans, Mice, and Peas
November 8 Robert Nakamoto, Ph.D., Dept. of Molecular Physiology, University of Virginia (hosted by Dr. Brian E. Cain) Rotational Coupling in the ATP Synthase
December 6 Lila Gierasch, Ph.D., Dept. Biochemistry & Molecular Biology, University of Massachusetts (hosted by Dr. Art Edison The Roles of Local and Global Sequence in the Folding of a Predominately Beta Sheet Protein
 
SPRING 2002
DATE SPEAKER SEMINAR TITLE
January 3 Brenda Bass, Ph.D., HHMI Dept. of Biochemistry, University of Utah (hosted by Dr. Maurice S. Swanson) Cellular functions of double-stranded RNA:  RNA editing and RNA interference
January 10 Esther Sabban, Ph.D., Dept. of Biochemistry, New York Medical College (hosted by Dr. Nihal Tumer) Stress and Illness: A Molecular Neurobiologist's View
January 17 Brian H. Robinson, Ph.D., Dept. of Biochem & Pediatrics, University of Toronto (hosted by Dr. Peter W. Stacpoole) Sagenuary Lac St Jean Cytochrome Oxidase Deficiency:  A 15 Year Quest for the Gene Responsible
January 24 Toshio Narahashi, Ph.D., Dept. of Pharmacology, Northwestern University Medical School (hosted by Dr. William R. Kem) Modulation of Neuroreceptors and Ion Channels as the Basis for Drug Action:  Alzheimer's Drugs and Alcohol
January 31 Gary L. Johnson, Ph.D., Dept. of Pharmacology, University of Colorado (hosted by Dr. Nao Terada) MEK Kinase Knockouts Define Their Function in Cytokine Expression and Organ Maintenance
February 7 Gokhan Hotamisligil, Ph.D., Div. Biological Sciences, Harvard School of Public Health (hosted by Drs. Nihal Tumer & Phil Scarpace) Molecular Pathways Linking Adipocyte, Macrophage and the Metabolic Syndrome
February 14 George Michalopoulos, M.D., School of Medicine, University of Pittsburgh (hosted by Dr. Bryon Peterson) Hepatocyte Growth Factor in Liver Regeneration and Hepatic Tissue Engineering
February 28 Marcus Fechheimer, Ph.D., Dept. of Cellular Biology, University of Georgia (hosted by Dr. Michael R. Bubb) Dynamics of the Actin Cytoskeleton from Dictyostelium to Disease
March 7 Jan Erikson Ph.D., Wistar Inst., University of Pennsylvania (hosted by Dr. Laurence Morel) The Regulation of Anti-DNA B Cells in Health and Disease
March 14 Joseph R. Vasselli, Ph.D., St. Luke's-Roosevelt Hospital, Columbia University (hosted by Dr. Phil Scarpace) Behavioral and Biological Aspects of Leptin Resistance
March 28 Meredith Hay, Ph.D., Dalton Cardiovascular Research Institute, University of Missouri (hosted by Dr. Colin Sumners) Cellular Mechanisms of Frequency Dependent Depression in Baroreceptor Neurons
April 4 Lubo Zhang, Ph.D., Dept. Pharmacology, Loma Linda University School of Medicine (hosted by Dr. Charles Wood) Cocaine and Apoptosis in Coronary Artery Endothelial Cells
April 11 Christopher J. Danpure, Ph.D., Dept. Biology, University College London (hosted by Dr. Saeed Khan) Differential Targeting of Alanine:Glyoxylate Aminotransferase in Mammalian Evolution and Human Genetic Disease

Wed., Apr. 17
4:00 PM
C1-17

Sam Speck, Ph.D., Eminent Scholar, Microbiology and Immunology, Emory University (hosted by Dr. Richard Moyer) Gammaherpesvirus 68 Infection in Mice:  A Model for Human Gammaherpesvirus Infection and Tumor Induction?
Thu., Apr. 18
9:30 AM
LG-101A
Kelly Leach, Brian Raisler, Angela Starkes, J. Michael Thomson, Jason Coleman, Yi Tang College of Medicine Research Day - Medical Guild Graduate Student Research Competition
Thu., Apr. 18
11:00 AM
C1-11
Donald Heistad, M.D., Director, Division of Cardiology, University of Iowa (hosted by Dr. M. Ian Phillips) Gene Transfer to Blood Vessels: a Tool for Vascular Biology and a Potential Therapy
April 25
C1-3
Charles M. Rice, Ph.D., Lab. Virology and Infectious Disease, Rockefeller University (hosted by Dr. Chen Liu) Hepatitis C Virus: New Therapies and Vaccines
May 2
C1-3
Mario Stevenson, Ph.D., Medical College, University of Massachusetts (hosted by Dr. Maureen M. Goodenow) Pathogenic Determinants in Primate Lentiviral Accessory Genes
May 9
C1-3
Antony Stretton, Ph.D., Dept. of Zoology, University of Wisconsin-Madison (hosted by Dr. Art Edison) Peptides in nematode neurons - what, where (and why)?
May 16
C1-3
James M. Musser, M.D., Ph.D., NIH Rocky Mountain Laboratories (hosted by Dr. Bradley Moore) Genome-Scale Analysis of Human Bacteria Pathogenesis: Selected Insights

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