Seminars and Events
Spring 2008 Seminar Series
Spring 2008 Seminar Schedule (pdf) Past Seminars (Archived - pdf)
Sanger Hall, Room 2-020
Wednesdays at 12:00 p.m. (unless otherwise noted)
| January 16 | I. Scott Ramsey, PhD., Cardiovascular Department, Children’s Hospital Boston and
Harvard Medical School (Chair of Search Committee: Dr. Clive Baumgarten) Proton Channels and More: Identification and Functional Characterization of Novel Voltage Sensor Domain Proteins |
| January 23 | Sylvia Christakos, Ph.D., Department of Biochemistry and Molecular Biology, UMDNJ (Host: Dr. Joseph Feher) New Insights into the Mechanism of Vitamin D Action |
| January 30 | Georgios Skiniotis, Ph.D., Department of Cell Biology, Harvard Medical School (Chair of Search Committee: Dr. Roland Pittman) Visualization of Dynamic Protein Systems by Molecular Electron Microscopy |
| February 6 | No Seminar—Biophysical Society Meeting |
| February 13 | Kakoli Mitra, Ph.D, Skirball Institute of Molecular Medicine, New York University School of
Medicine (Chair of Search Committee: Dr. Roland Pittman) Seminar Cancelled - Rescheduled for 4/2/08 |
| February 20 | Gregory S. Allen, Ph.D., Health Research Inc., at Wadsworth Center (Chair of Search Committee: Dr. Roland Pittman) A Hybrid Structural Approach to Studying Macromolecular Complexes |
| February 27 | Alexander Deiters, Ph.D, Department of Chemistry, North Carolina State University (Host: Dr. Diomedes Logothetis) Regulation of Biological Processes with Light |
| March 5 | Nigel Bunnett, Ph.D., Departments of Surgery and Physiology, UCSF (Host: Dr. Jack Grider) Protease Switches: Pathways to Inflammation and Pain Seminar Cancelled |
| March 12 | Louis J. DeFelice, Ph.D., Department of Pharmacology and Neuroscience, Vanderbilt University School of Medicine (Host: Dr. Diomedes Logothetis) Ion Channels in Neurotransmitter Transporters: A new target for therapeutic drugs |
| March 19 | Brian O’Rourke, Ph.D., Institute of Molecular Cardiobiology, Department of Medicine, Johns
Hopkins University (Host: Dr. Clive Baumgarten) Role of Mitochondrial Ion Channels in the Heart |
| March 26 | Carlos Escalante, Ph.D., Department of Structural and Chemical Biology, Mount Sinai SOM (Chair of Search Committee: Dr. Roland Pittman) Protein-DNA Interactions in the Assembly of Macromolecular Machines: Insights from the Interferon-β Enhanceosome and Viral Replication Proteins |
| April 2 | Kakoli Mitra, Ph.D, Skirball Institute of Molecular Medicine, New York University School of
Medicine (Chair of Search Committee: Dr. Roland Pittman) Structural Elucidation of Cellular Processes Using High-resolution Cryo-electron Microscopy: Protein Translation and Translocation |
| April 9 | Ligia Toro, Ph.D., Department of Anesthesiology, David Geffen School of Medicine at University
of California, Los Angeles (Host: Dr. Diomedes Logothetis) MaxiK: A Multifaceted Ion Channel |
| April 10 (Thursday) |
Enrico Stefani, M.D., Ph.D., Department of Anesthesiology, David Geffen School of Medicine at
University of California, Los Angeles (Host: Dr. Diomedes Logothetis) Heart Estrogen, Estrogen Receptors and Cardio-protection |
| April 11 (Friday) |
Basic Health Sciences Outstanding Alumnus Award Robert Moreland, Ph.D., Department of Pharmacology and Physiology, Drexel College of Medicine (Host: Dr. George Ford) Regulation of Smooth Muscle Contraction: How many steps are involved? Reception at the Alumni House immediately following the lecture. |
| April 16 | Distinguished Lecturer (Nineteenth Annual Distinguished Lecturer) David E. Clapham, M.D., Ph.D., Department of Neurobiology and Cardiovascular Research, Harvard Medical School (Host: Dr. Diomedes Logothetis) TRP Channels in Vesicular Trafficking Reception immediately following the lecture. |
| April 23 | David Lominadze, Ph.D., Department of Physiology and Biophysics, University of Louisville
School of Medicine (Chair of Search Committee: Dr. Roland Pittman) Fibrinogen, A New Danger from an Overlooked Foe |
| April 30 | Marshall Montrose, Ph.D., Department of Molecular and Cellular Physiology,
University of Cincinnati (Host: Dr. Murthy Karnam) Dynamic Defense of the Epithelial Barrier in the GI Tract |
May 6 (Tuesday) |
Vladimir Yarov-Yarovoy, Ph.D., Department of Pharmacology, University of Washington, Seattle (Chair of Search Committee: Dr. Clive Baumgarten) Ion channel structure prediction using the Rosetta-Membrane method |
| May 7 | Nicholas Ryba, D. Phil., Laboratory of Oral Sensory Biology, NIDCR, NIH (Host: Dr. John DeSimone) The Molecular and Cellular Basis for Mammalian Taste Perception |
| May 14 | Frederick Sachs, Ph.D., Department of Physiology & Biophysics, SUNY at Buffalo (Host: Dr. Clive Baumgarten) Stress, Strain, Mechanosensitive Channels, Osmoregulation, Probes and Some Other Stuff |
| May 21 | Byung Chang Suh, Ph.D., Department of Physiology & Biophysics, University of Washington,
Seattle (Chair of Search Committee: Dr. Gea-Ny Tseng) Regulation of ion channels by membrane phosphoinositides |
| May 28 | James J. Galligan, Ph.D., Department of Pharmacology & Toxicology, Michigan State University (Host: Dr. Jack Grider) Fast Synaptic Mechanisms in the Enteric Nervous System |
| June 4 | Lei Zhou, Ph.D., Center for Neurobiology & Behavior Columbia University, New York (Chair of Search Committee: Dr. Gea-Ny Tseng) Ligand binding and gating in cyclic-nucleotide regulated ion channels: from static contacts to collective motions |
| June 11 | Qinglian Liu, Ph.D., Department of Biochemistry and Molecular Biophysics, Columbia
University, New York (Chair of Search Committee: Dr. Roland Pittman) Structural Insights into the ATP-Driven Mechanism of Hsp70 Chaperone Activity |