Pharmacology Seminar Schedule

Fall 2008

Tuesdays, 4:00 PM
Room 1102 Mary Ellen Jones Bldg.
**unless otherwise noted**
Date Speaker Seminar Title
Thursday
September 11, 2008 (orig date 9/9)
Arthur Christopoulos, PhD
(Special Seminar)
Monash University
Host: Bryan Roth		 “Challenges and potential of GPCR allosteric modulators”
September 16, 2008 Howard McLeod, PharmD
UNC School of Pharmacy
Host: Gary Johnson 		“Using the Genome to Understand Drug Therapy”
September 23, 2008 Tim Haystead, PhD
Duke University
Host: Lee Graves 		“SMTNL1:  A transcriptional repressor of steroid hormone receptors and mediator of smooth and striated muscle remodeling”
September 30, 2008 David Rubenstein, MD, PhD
UNC Dept. of Dermatology
Host: Gary Johnson 		“Desmosome Signaling:  The identification of keratinocyte p38MAPK as a druggable target for pemphigus”
October 7, 2008 David Lawrence, PhD
UNC-CH (Jt. Appt)
Host:  Gary Johnson		 “Chemical Biology of Signal Transduction:  Inhibition, Visualization, and Manipulation”
October 14, 2008 Brian Wadzinski, PhD
Vanderbilt
Host:  Gary Johnson		 “Regulation of cellular signaling pathways by protein kinase/protein phosphatase 2A complexes”
October 21, 2008 Richard Cheney, PhD
UNC-CH
Host:  Rob Nicholas		 “Myosin-X and a novel form of motility in filopodia”
October 28, 2008 John Hepler, PhD
Emory University
Host:  Ken Harden		 “RGS14 as an integrator of unconventional G protein and MAPkinase signaling pathways important for hippocampal-based learning"
November 4, 2008 Bonnie Sloane,
Wayne State Host:  Gary Johnson		 “Tumors in the Context of their Microenvironment:  Proteolysis as a Paradigm”
November 11, 2008 Franck Polleux, PhD
UNC-CH
Host:  Seminar Committee		 “srGAP2 regulates neuronal migration and differentiation through the ability of its non-canonical F-BAR domain to promote filopodia formation”
November 20, 2008 (orig. date 11/18) Mike Czech, PhD
UMass
Host:  Gary Johnson		 “RNAi-based Approaches to Understanding Metabolic Disease”
December 2, 2008 Irene Zohn, PhD
George Washington Univ. Host:  Channing Der		 “Using the mouse to model human neural tube defects”
December 9, 2008 Xiang-Dong Fu, PhD
UCSD
Host:  Zefeng Wang		 “Functional Genomics:  Importance of parallel ENCODE with ENCORE”