January 6 - Faculty
Candidate
Fried Eggs and filopodia: Cytoskeletal mechanisms underlying neuritogenesis
and axon guidance
ERIK DENT, Ph.D.
Postdoctoral Fellow
Department of Biology
Massachusetts Institute of Technology
Hosted by: Dr. Jonathan Marchant (624-6687)
Monday, January 9, 2-101 NHH, 3:00 pm - Faculty
Candidate
Biochemical Dissection of An Apoptotic Signaling Pathway to Mitochondria
QING ZHONG, Ph.D.
Postdoctoral Fellow
Department of Biochemistry
Howard Hughes Medical Institute
University of Texas Southwestern Medical Center
Hosted by: Dr. Greg Connell (624-3132)
January 20
Opiate abuse and HIV neuropathogenesis: a critical role of glia in exacerbating
disease progression
KURT HAUSER, Ph.D.
Professor, Department of Anatomy and Neurobiology
University of Kentucky
Hosted by: Dr. Sabita Roy (624-4615)
February 3 - Faculty
Candidate
Yeast genetics on Microarrays: dissection of pathway topology and probing for
modes of chemical actions
XUEWEN PAN, Ph.D.
Postdoctoral Fellow
Department of Molecular Biology & Genetics
The High Throughput Biology Center
Johns Hopkins University School of Medicine
Hosted by: Dr. Gibson Wood (612-467-3303)
February 10 - Faculty Candidate
Organization of the MCM helicase on DNA in Archaea and Eukarya
MICHAEL TRAKSELIS, Ph.D.
Postdoctoral Research Fellow
Cancer Unit, Hutchinson MRC/Cambridge University
Hosted by: Dr. Kirill Martemyanov (626-5309)
February 17
APOE, cholesterol homeostasis and Alzheimer's disease
G. WILLIAM REBECK, Ph.D.
Associate Professor, Department of Neuroscience
Georgetown University
Hosted by: Dr. Gibson Wood (612-467-3303)
Wednesday, March 8, 2-101 NHH, 1:30 pm - Faculty
Candidate
Invasion Mechanisms of SARS coronavirus
FANG LI, Ph.D.
Postdoctoral Fellow
Dept of Biological Chemistry & Molecular Pharmacology
Harvard Medical School & Children's Hospital
Hosted by: Dr.
Li-Na Wei (625-9402)
March 10
The PPAR nuclear receptor family and metabolic disease
CHIH-HAO LEE, Ph.D.
Assistant Professor
Department of Genetics & Complex Diseases
Harvard University
Hosted by: Dr. Horace Loh (626-4460)
Co-sponsored by the Basic Research Center on the Molecular and Cell Biology of Drug Addiction (NIDA: DA011806)
March 24
Mechanism of action and physiological function of the retinoid-related
orphan receptors (RORs) and Gli-similar (Glis) transcriptional regulators
ANTON JETTEN, Ph.D.
Head of Cell Biology Section
National Institutes of Health
Hosted by: Dr.
Li-Na Wei (625-9402)
March 31
Timing is everything: the rates of deactivation mechanisms underlying
rod phototransduction
MARIE BURNS, Ph.D.
Associate Professor, Center for Neuroscience
University of California, Davis
Hosted by: Dr. Kirill Martemyanov (626-5309)
April 7
Naturally Occurring Human Hepatitis B Virus Variants
C. SHIH, Ph.D.
Professor, Department of Microbiology & Immunology
University of Texas, Galveston
Hosted by: Dr. Duanqing Pei (626-1468)
April 14
The striatal enriched protein RGS9-2 is an essential modulator of Mu opioid
receptor function
VANNA ZACHARIOU, Ph.D.
Assistant Professor of Medicine
Department of Basic Sciences
University of Crete, Greece
Hosted by: Drs. Kevin Wickman (624-5966) & Kirill Martemyanov (626-5309)
April 28
Genetic approaches to study opioid receptor function
BRIGITTE KIEFFER, Ph.D.
Professor
IGBMC, France
Hosted by: Dr. Ping-Yee Law (626-6497)
Co-sponsored by the Basic Research Center on the Molecular and Cell Biology of Drug Addiction (NIDA: DA011806)
May 5
Receptor tyrosine kinase-mediated signaling at the synapse
NANCY Y. IP, Ph.D.
Chair Professor & Department Head, Biochemistry; Director, Biotechnology
Research Institute & Co-Director, Molecular Biology
Hong Kong University of Science and Technology
Hosted by: Dr. Horace Loh (626-4460)
May 12
Pharmacogenomics: Science and Translation
RICHARD WEINSHILBOUM, Ph.D.
Professor, Department of Pharmacology & Medicine
Mayo Clinic College of Medicine
Hosted by: Dr. Sheldon Sparber (625-5960)
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September 22
Light-driven protein translocation in photoreceptors: A novel paradigm in light adaptation"
VADIM ARSHAVSKY, Ph.D.
Professor, Department of Ophthalmology & Neurobiology
Duke University Medical School
Hosted by: Dr. Kirill Martemyanov
October 20
Role of astrocytes in neuroinflammation and HIV-1 dementia: CD38 and other stories
ANUJA GHORPADE, Ph.D.
Associate Professor, Department of Pharmacology
Chief, Laboratory of Cellular Neuroimmunology
University of Nebraska Medical Center
Hosted by: Dr. Timothy Walseth
October 27
Development of the Sleeping Beauty Transposon System for Gene Therapy
SCOTT MCIVOR, Ph.D.
Adjunct Professor, Department of Lab Medicine/Pathology
University of Minnesota
Hosted by: Dr. Sundaram Ramakrishnan
November 3
Nuclear receptors in embryonic development
SOPHIA TSAI, Ph.D.
Professor, Department of Molecular & Cellular Biology
Baylor College of Medicine
Hosted by: Dr. Li-Na Wei
November 17
The Endocannabinoid Systetm in Pain and Pleasure
BILLY MARTIN, Ph.D.
Professor and Chair, Department of
Pharmacology & Toxicology
Medical College of Virginia
Virginia Commonwealth University
Hosted by: Dr. Horace Loh
Co-sponsored by the Basic Research Center on the Molecular and Cell Biology of Drug Addiction (NIDA: DA011806)
December 1
Molecular epidemiology of breast cancer
WEI ZHENG, Ph.D.
Professor of Medicine, General Internal Medicine and Public Health
Vanderbilt University
Hosted by: Dr. Jordan Holtzman
December 8
Unraveling the function of alpha-synuclein in the brain: A role in lipid metabolism with downstream effects on cellular function
ERIC MURPHY, Ph.D.
Assistant Professor, Department of Pharmacology, Physiology & Therapeutics
University of North Dakota
Hosted by: Dr. Gibson Wood
December 15
Double Agents: The Two Faces of Heat-Shock Proteins in Pancreatic Cancer Research
ASHOK SALUJA, Ph.D.
Professor, Department of Surgery
University of Minnesota
Hosted by: Dr. Sabita Roy
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