College of Medicine Research Seminar Schedule

Fall 2000 - Spring 2001

Thursdays at 4:00 PM in Room C1-4

FALL 2000
DATE

SPEAKERS

 SEMINAR TITLE
Sept. 7, 2000

C. Dale Poulter, Ph.D., Professor, Dept. Chemistry, Univ. Utah (hosted by A. Edison)

 Isoprenoid Tales:  The Role of Zinc in Protein Prenylation and Related Stories
Sept. 14

Cheryl R. Scheid, Ph.D., Professor, Dept. of Physiology, Univ. Massachusetts Medical School (hosted by S. Khan)

 Bench to Bedside:  Linking Oxidant Stress to Kidney Stone Disease
Sept. 21

Robert Landick, Ph.D., Professor, Dept. Bacteriology, Univ. Wisconsin (hosted by R. Condit)

 How Does RNA Polymerase Recognize Regulatory Signals During Transcription?
Sept. 28

Michael Davis, Ph.D., Professor, Dept. of Physiology, Texas A&M Univ. (hosted by C. Gelband)

 Regulation of Calcium Channels in Smooth Muscle by Extracellular Matrix
Oct. 5

John A. Dani, Ph.D., Assoc. Professor, Neuroscience, Baylor University (hosted by R. Papke)

 Nicotinic Mechanisms in the Central Nervous System
Oct. 19

David A. Sinclair, Ph.D., Asst. Professor of Pathology, Cancer Center, Harvard Medical School (hosted by J. Aris)

 Molecular Links Between Cancer and Aging
Oct. 26

Harry T. Orr, Ph.D., Professor , Dept. Genetics, Cell Biology and Development, Director, Institute of Human Genetics, University of Minnesota (hosted by M. Swanson)

 Pathogenesis of a Polyglutamine Neurodegenerative Disease:  SCA1
Nov. 2

Claude Libert, Ph.D., Professor of Molecular Genetics, University of Gent, Belgium (hosted by L. Moldawer)

 Turning Tumor Necrosis Factor Into a Safe Antitumor Weapon by Preventing its Lethal Effects
Nov. 9 Robin Davisson, Ph.D., Asst. Professor, Dept. Anatomy & Cell Biology, Univ. Iowa (hosted by M. Raizada) Defining the Role of the Brain Renin- Angiotensin System in Blood Pressure Regulation:  Application of Novel Genetic Tools
Nov. 16

Andre Nussenzweig, Ph.D., Investigator, National Cancer Institute (hosted by S. Sugrue)

 Interplay Between DNA Damage Detection and Repair in Genomic Stability and Lymphomagenesis
Nov. 30

Allen P. Minton, Ph.D., Physical Chemistry Section Chief, Laboratory of Biochemistry & Genetics, NIDDK, NIH, Bethesda MD (hosted by M. Bubb)

 Biochemistry in a Crowded Environment:  Effects of High Fractional Volume Occupancy on Rates and Equilibria of Macromolecular Reactions
Dec. 7

Shmuel Muallem, Ph.D., Professor, Dept. Physiology, Univ. Texas Southwestern (hosted by T. Miller)

 Calcium Signaling in Polarized Epithelial Cells
SPRING 2001
DATE

SPEAKERS

 SEMINAR TITLE
Jan. 11, 2001

Joseph Lam, Ph.D, Professor, Dept. Microbiology, Univ. Guelph, Canada  (hosted by S. Jin)

 Lipopolysaccharide of Pseudomonas aeruginosa - Genetics and Biochemistry, and the Search for Antimicrobial Targets
Jan. 18

Michael Caplan, M.D., Ph.D., Professor, Dept. Cellular & Molecular Physiology, Yale Univ.
(hosted by C. Wingo)

 Sorting and regulation of ion transport proteins in epithelial cells
Jan. 25

Susan Gottesman, Ph.D., Chief, Biochemical Genetics, National Cancer Institute, NIH
(hosted by S. Frost)

 Two modes of post-transcriptional regulation of RpoS, the stress sigma factor of E. coli:  Regulated proteolysis and small RNA-mediated translational regulation
Feb. 1

Marlene Rabinovitch, M.D., Director, Cardiovascular Research, Hospital for Sick Children, Toronto
(hosted by M. Raizada & C. Gelband)

 A Novel Chymase in the Pathophysiology of Hypertension
Feb. 8

Rod Geisert, Ph.D., Professor, Dept. Animal Science, Oklahoma State Univ. (hosted by W. Buhi)

 Acute Phase Proteins - Possible Mediators of Uterine Implantation
Feb. 15

Suresh Subramani, Ph.D., Professor & Interim Assoc. Dean, Division of Biology, Univ. California at San Diego, (hosted by W. Dunn)

 Mechanism of Import of Proteins into the Peroxisome Matrix
Feb. 22

Ashley T. Haase, M.D., Regents' Professor and Head, Dept. Microbiology, Univ. Minnesota (hosted by R. Moyer)

 The Geography and Demographics of HIV-1 and Other Lentiviral Infections
Mar. 1

John H. Hartwig, Ph.D., Assoc. Professor, Dept. Medicine, Div. Exp. Med., Brigham and Women's Medical Center, Harvard Medical School
(hosted by F. Southwick)

 The Life and Death of the Blood Platelet
Mar. 15

William Greenough, Ph.D., Professor, Beckman Institute for Science and Technology, Univ. Illinois at Urbana-Champaign (hosted by D. Bloom)

 Synaptic Plasticity, Synaptic Protein Synthesis, Memory, and Mental Retardation
Mar. 22

Alan Weiner, Ph.D., Professor & Chair, Dept. Biochemistry, Univ. Washington
(hosted by M. Swanson)

 The Role of p53 and the Cockayne Syndrome B Protein (CSB) in Virally-Induced Fragility of the Human U1, U2, and 5S Genes
Friday, Mar. 30 H-611

David Botstein, Ph.D., Professor & Chair, Dept. Genetics, Stanford Univ. School of Medicine
(hosted by F. Rosenzweig)

 Gene Expression Profiling: New Perspectives on the Biology of Cancer
Apr. 5

Alexander Wlodawer, Ph.D., Assoc. Director, Prog. Structural Biology, Chief, Macromolecular Crystallography Lab., National Cancer Institute
(hosted by B. Dunn)

 Structural Studies of Transport Proteins in Bacteria and Phages
Apr. 12

Marek Michalak, Ph.D., Professor, Dept. Biochemistry, Univ. Alberta (hosted by J. Patel)

 Calreticulin, a New Player in Cardiac Development and Pathology
Apr. 19

Celia Sladek, Ph.D., Professor, Dept. Physiology & Biophysics, Chicago Medical School (hosted by P. Kalra)

 Neurotransmitter and Neuropeptide Interactions in the Regulation of Vasopressin and Oxytocin Secretion.
Apr. 26

Kevin R. Lynch, Ph.D., Professor, Dept. Pharmacology, Univ. Virginia School of Medicine
(hosted by J. Harrison)

 Molecular Pharmacology of Lysophospholipid Mediators
May 3

Miguel A.L. Nicolelis, M.D., Ph.D., Assoc. Professor, Dept. Neurobiology, Duke Univ. Medical Center (hosted by P. Bedenbaugh)

 Motor Learning and Robot Control: New Adventures in Neural Population Coding
May 17

Harry Noller, Ph.D., Professor, Dept. Biology, Univ. California at Santa Cruz (hosted by R. Condit)

 X-ray crystal structure of the complete ribosome at 5.5A resolution:  Some implications for the mechanism of translation
May 24 N2-200 MSB Auditorium

Eric H. Davidson, Ph.D., Professor, Cell Biology, California Inst. Technology (hosted by S. Sugrue & P. Linser)
4th Annual Whitney Laboratory Lecture

 The Hardwiring of Development: Regulatory Programming in the Animal Genome

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