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2002 Pharmacology Seminar Series

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Spring 2002


March 8, 2002
MARIO ASCOLI, Ph.D.
Professor
Department of Pharmacology, University of Iowa
"Agonist-induced trafficking of lutropin/choriogonadotropin receptor"
Hosted by: Dr. Ping Law (626-6497)

March 29, 2002
SCOTT KAUFMAN, M.D., Ph.D.
Professor
Molecular Pharmacology and Medicine, Mayo Graduate School
"Induction of apoptosis by anticancer drugs"
Hosted by: Dr. Duanqing Pei (626-1468)

April 5 , 2002
JEFFERY TWISS, M.D., Ph.D.
Assistant Professor
Department of Pathology & Laboratory Medicine, University of California at Los Angeles
"Role of local protein synthesis in axonal regeneration"
Hosted by: Dr. Li-Na Wei (625-9402)

May 3, 2002
JUDY CAMPISI, Ph.D.
Senior Scientist
Life Sciences Division, Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory
"Cancer and aging: the causes and consequences of cellular senescence"
Hosted by: Pharmacology Graduate Students (contact: Molly Shea, 625-5627)

May 10, 2002 ** special time: 11:45 a.m. **
JOHN NITISS, Ph.D.
Associate Member, Department of Molecular Pharmacology
St. Jude Children's Research Hospital, Memphis, Tennessee
"How an enzyme becomes a DNA damaging agent and what cells can do about it "
Hosted by: Dr. Hiroshi Hiasa (626-3101)

May 17, 2002 (rescheduled)
YVES DECLERCK, M.D.
Professor
Pediatrics, Biochemistry and Molecular Biology, University of Southern California
Director, Children's Hospital Los Angeles Research Institute
"Enlarging our views in cancer biology: role of the extracellular matrix in tumor progression"
Hosted by: Dr. Duanqing Pei (626-1468)

May 24, 2002
JOHN RAYMOND, M.D.
Associate Chief of Staff, Research and Development
Division of Nephrology, Medical University of South Carolina
"G protein regulation of sodium-proton exchanger type one"
Hosted by: Dr. Esam El-Fakahany (624-8432)

May 31, 2002
SAVIO WOO, Ph.D.
Professor and Director
Institute for Gene Therapy, Mount Sinai School of Medicine
"Gene therapy for cancer"
Hosted by: Dr. Horace Loh (626-4460)

 

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Fall 2002


September 27, 2002 - Faculty Candidate
Investigations into the Cell Biology of DISC1, a Candidate Gene for Schizophrenia
JILL MORRIS, Ph.D.
Senior Research Biologist
Department of Neuroscience, Merck Laboratories
Hosted by: Dr. Tim Walseth (625-2627)

Thursday, October 3, 2002, 2-101 BSBE, 10:00 a.m. - Faculty Candidate
Molecular Mechanisms Underlying Disease and Calcium/Calmodulin-Dependent Regulation in Cyclic Nucleotide-Gated Channels
MATTHEW TRUDEAU, PH.D.
Postdoctoral Associate
Howard Hughes Medical Institute, University of Washington-Seattle
Hosted by: Dr. Tim Walseth (625-2627)

October 18, 2002
PKQuest: A General Purpose Physiologically Based Pharmacokinetic Software Program
DAVID LEVITT, M.D., PH.D.
Professor Department of Physiology, University of Minnesota
Hosted by: Dr. Tim Walseth (625-2627)

October 25, 2002
Generation and Analysis of Muscarinic Acetylcholine Receptor Knockout Mice: Novel Phenotypes and Clinical Implications
JÜRGEN WESS, PH.D.
Chief, Molecular Signaling Section
Laboratory of Bioorganic Chemistry National Institutes of Health, NIH-NIDDK
Hosted by: Dr. Ping Law (626-6497)
Co-sponsored by the Basic Research Center on the Molecular & Cell Biology of Drug Addiction (NIDA: DA11806)

Tuesday, October 29, 2002, 2-101 BSBE, 12:10 p.m. - Faculty Candidate
Molecular regulation of adenosine and sphingosine-1-phosphate receptor signalling
TIMOTHY M. PALMER, PH.D.
Lecturer
Division of Biochemistry & Molecular Biology, Institute of Biomedical & Life Sciences
University of Glasgow, Scotland
Hosted by: Dr. Tim Walseth (625-2627)

November 8, 2002
Role of Human TFIID and RNA Polymerase II Complexes in Transcription
CHENG-MING CHIANG, PH.D.
Associate Professor
Department of Biochemistry, Case Western Reserve University
Hosted by: Dr. Li-Na Wei (625-9402)

November 15, 2002
Degradomic Screens Reveal New Roles for MMPs in Chemokine Regulation and HIV Dementia
CHRIS OVERALL, Ph.D.
Canadian Chair in Matrix Biology, University of British Columbia
Hosted by: Dr. Duanqing Pei (626-1468)

November 22, 2002
2002 F.E. SHIDEMAN-STERLING LECTURE
LAP-CHEE TSUI, O.C., Ph.D., FRS, FRSC Professor
Department of Genetics
The Hospital for Sick Children, University of Toronto
Hosted by: Dr. Horace Loh (626-4460)

 

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