March 7
RanBPM, An Accessory Protein That Regulates Mu Opioid Receptor Signaling
CHARLES MURRIN, Ph.D.
Professor, Departments of Pharmacology and Experimental Neuroscience
University of Nebraska Medical Center
Hosted by: Dr. Esam El-Fakahany (612.624.8432)
March 14
Opioid Receptor Signals Regulation
PING-YEE LAW, Ph.D.
Professor, Department of Pharmacology
University of Minnesota
Co-sponsored by the Basic Research Center on the Molecular and Cell Biology of Drug Addiction (NIDA: DA011806)
March 28
Topography in Drug Discovery: Exploiting Allosteric Sites on G Protein-coupled Receptors
ARTHUR CHRISTOPOULOS, Ph.D.
Professor, Department of Pharmacology
Monash University, Australia
Hosted by: Dr. Esam El-Fakahany (612.624.8432)
April 4
New neuronal nicotinic receptor pharmacology: The surprising properties of AZD0328
TIMOTHY PISER, Ph.D.
Associate Director, CNS Discovery Research, Department of Neuroscience
AstraZeneca Pharmaceuticals
Hosted by: Dr. Stan Thayer (612.626.7049)
April 11
Role of Endoplasmic Reticulum Stress in the Secretion of Apolipoprotein B From the Liver
HENRY GINSBURG, M.D.
Professor of Medicine and Director, Irving Institute for Clinical and Translational Research,
Columbia University
Hosted by: Dr. Li-Na Wei (612.625.9402)
April 18 * Room Location: 2-137 Jackson Hall *
ESE-1: An Ets
Transcription Factor that Transforms
Human Mammary Epithelial Cells
ARTHUR GUTIERREZ-HARTMANN, M.D.
Professor, Department of Medicine (Division of Endocrinology)
University of Colorado
Hosted by: Dr.
Carol Lange (612.626.0621)
Partially funded by MICAB graduate program
April 25
Emerging Roles for C-Type Natriuretic Peptide
ERIC ESPINER, M.D.
Professor, Department of Medicine
Christchurch School of Medicine and Health Sciences
University of Otago, New Zealand
Hosted by: Dr. Lincoln Potter (612.624.7251/624.7282)
May 2 (Career Development Seminar)
Modulation of the Formation and Loss of Synapses by Drugs and Neurotoxins
HEE JUNG KIM, Ph.D.
Post Doctoral Associate, Department of Pharmacology
University of Minnesota
May 9 (Career Development Seminar)
Biology of miRNA
XIAOXIAO ZHANG, Ph.D.
Post Doctoral Associate, Department of Pharmacology
University of Minnesota
May 16
Bio-inspired Peptide Design for Nanomedicine
MAXIM RYADNOV, Ph.D.
Lecturer in Organic Chemistry, Department of Chemistry
University of Leicester, UK
Hosted by: Dr. Kirill Martemyanov (612.626.5309)
May 20, Tuesday, 2-101 Hasselmo Hall, 12:00 p.m. (Faculty Candidate)
The Proteasome and its ATPases: Regulating a Protein Degradation Machine
DAVID M. SMITH, Ph.D.
Instructor, Department of Cell Biology
Harvard Medical School
Hosted by: Dr. Li-Na Wei (612.625.9402)
May 21, Wednesday, 2-137 Jackson Hall, 12:00 p.m. (Faculty Candidate)
DNA Damage Response and BRCA1 Complexes
BIN WANG, Ph.D.
Postdoctoral Fellow, Brigham and Women's Hospital
Harvard Medical School
Hosted by: Dr. Stan Thayer (612.626.7049)
May 23 (Career Development Seminar) CANCELLED
Retinoids and CRABP1: Novel Insights
PAWAN GUPTA, Ph.D.
Post Doctoral Associate, Department of Pharmacology
University of Minnesota
May 30 *2-137 Jackson Hall * (Graduate Faculty Candidate) CANCELLED - Reschedule TBD
Synaptic Activity, Calcium, and Development: Life or Death of Auditory Neurons
LANCE ZIRPEL, Ph.D.
Assistant Professor, Department of Neuroscience
Univeristy of Minnesota
June 20
Using positron emission tomography (PET) as a molecular imaging tool to facilitate CNS drug R&D
CHI-MING LEE, Ph.D.
Executive Director, Translational Science
CNS Pain Control Research Area
AstraZeneca Pharmaceuticals
Hosted by: Dr. Horace Loh (612.626.4460)
Co-sponsored by the Basic Research Center on the Molecular and Cell Biology of Drug Addiction (NIDA: DA011806)
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