Pharmacology 7010: Fall Seminar Series

Fall 2009 Schedule

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July 13, 2009
Monday

Da-Ting Lin
Postdoctoral Fellow, Huganir Lab
Dept of Neuroscience, HHMI
Johns Hopkins University
Activity Dependent AMPA Receptor Insertion and Synaptic Plasticity
9:00 am, Jordan 5023
Host: Pharmacology Faculty Search Committee

July 16, 2009
Thursday

Steven Crone
Postdoctoral Fellow
Dept of Neurobiology
University of Chicago
A Molecular Genetic Approach to Investigate Motor Circuits and Behavior
9:00 am, Jordan 5023
Host: Pharmacology Faculty Search Committee

July 20, 2009
Monday

Michael Scott
Postdoctoral Fellow, Elmquist Lab
Center for Hypothalamic Research, Dept of Internal Medicine
University of Texas Southwestern Medical Center
Extra-Hypothalamic Actions of Leptin and Orexin
9:00 am, Jordan 5023
Host: Pharmacology Faculty Search Committee

July 27, 2009
Monday

Garret Stuber
Associate Investigator
The Ernest Gallo Clinic and Research Center
Dept of Neurology, University of California, San Francisco
Dissecting the Neural Circuitry of Reward Learning and Decision Making
9:00 am, Jordan 5023
Host: Pharmacology Faculty Search Committee

August 7, 2009
Friday

Melissa Hatley Nagelin
Graduate Student
Catherine "Lynn" Hedrick's Lab
Pharmacology Department, UVA
Role of 12/15-lipoxygenase in Macrophage ATP-binding Cassette Transporter G1 Expression and Function
1:00 pm, MR-5, Room 1041 (new location as of 8/5)
Dissertation Defense Seminar

September 10, 2009
Thursday

David D. Moore
Professor of Molecular and Cellular Biology
Baylor College of Medicine
Nuclear Receptors - Best for Diabetes?
4:00 pm, Jordan 1-17
Host: Ira Schulman

 

September 17, 2009
Thursday

Rosalind Coleman
Professor of Nutrition and Pediatrics
Department of Nutrition, University of North Carolina
Acyl-CoA Synthetase-1 Gives Fatty Acids Their Marching Orders
4:00 pm, Jordan 1-17
Host: Thurl Harris

 

September 24, 2009
Thursday

Brendan D. Price
Assistant Professor of Radiation Oncology
Division of Genomic Stability and DNA Repair
Dana-Farber Cancer Institute
Harvard University
Mechanistic Links between DNA Repair, Tip60 and Histone Methylation Codes
4:00 pm, Jordan 1-17
Host: Tom Sturgill

 

October 8, 2009
Thursday

Joyce Repa
Assistant Professor of Physiology
University of Texas, Southwestern
Medical Center at Dallas
Targeting NPC Proteins to Alter Cholesterol Balance in Human Disease
4:00 pm, Jordan 1-17
Host: Ira Schulman

 

October 22, 2009
Thursday
Allison Armstrong
Graduate Student
Catherine "Lynn" Hedrick's Lab
Pharmacology Department, UVA
An Emerging Role for Sterols in the Regulation of the Immune System
10:00 am, Jordan 5023
Dissertation Defense Seminar

 

October 22, 2009
Thursday

Umesh Deshmukh
Assistant Professor of Research, Medicine, Nephrology
University of Virginia School of Medicine
Activation of Innate Immune Responses and Development of Autoimmunity
4:00 pm, Jordan 1-17
Host: Doug Bayliss

 

November 6, 2009
Friday

Yun Li
Research Associate, Neurology
Johns Hopkins University
Astroglial Transporter and Motor Neuron Degeneration: Translational and Basic Scientific Studies
10:00 am, Jordan 5023
Host: Pharmacology Faculty Search Committee

 

November 12, 2009
Thursday

Donald P. McDonnell
Glaxo-Wellcome Professor of Molecular Cancer Biology
Department of Pharmacology and Cancer Biology
Duke University Medical School
The Complexities of Nuclear Receptor-cofactor Interactions Provide Opportunities for Mechanism-based Approaches for Drug Discovery
4:00 pm, Jordan 1-17
Host: Ira Schulman

 

November 20, 2009
Friday

Andrew Morris
Professor of Medicine and Molecular & Cellular Biochemistry
University of Kentucky, Cardiovascular Research Center
Regulation of Signaling and Metabolism by Lipid Phosphatases
12:15 pm, Jordan 5023
Hosts: Kevin Lynch and Doug Bayliss

 

 

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