Pharmacology Seminar Schedule

Fall 2009

Tuesdays, 4:00 PM
Room 1131 Bioinformatics
**unless otherwise noted**

Date Speaker Seminar Title
Sept. 15, 2009
No Seminar
No Seminar
Sept. 22, 2009
Mischa Machius, Ph.D.
UNC-CH Pharmacology
Host: Pharmacology Dept.
"The new UNC Center for Structural Biology: An integrated platform of expertise, education, and infrastructure that fosters greater use of structural biology by the UNC community"
Sept. 29, 2009
No Seminar
No Seminar
Oct. 6, 2009
Jun Zhu, Ph.D.
Duke University
Host: Zefeng Wang
“NextGen Sequencing Analysis of Eukaryotic Transcriptomes”
Oct. 13, 2009
FRIDAY CENTER
PHARMACOLOGY
RESEARCH RETREAT

(Carolyn Coyne, Ph.D.
Univ. of Pittsburgh)
“Breaking Barriers:  Enterovirus Entry into Polarized Cell Monolayers”
Oct. 20, 2009 Joe Thorton, Ph.D.
University of Oregon
Host: Alan Jones
“The Functional Synthesis in Molecular Biology and Evolution:  Evolution of Steroid Hormone Receptor Structure and Function”
Oct. 27, 2009 Ken Harden, Ph.D.
UNC-CH Pharmacology
Host: Pharmacology Dept.
“Mechanism of Activation of Phospholipase C by Heterotrimeric and Ras Superfamily G Proteins”
Nov. 3, 2009 George Uhl, M.D.
NIH/NIDA/IRP
Host: Brian Roth
"Genome Wide Association for Polygenic Traits:  Implications for Pharmacology”
Nov. 10, 2009
**G202 MBRB
Gregg Gundersen, Ph.D.
Columbia University
Host: Klaus Hahn
"Microtubules, Rho GTPases and Cell Migration"
Nov. 17, 2009 Hongyan Wang, Ph.D.
Nat'l. Univ of Singapore Medical School
Host: David Siderovski
“Brain Tumor Suppressors and Neural Stem Cell Self-Renewal in Drosophila”
Dec. 1, 2009 Channing Der, Ph.D.
UNC-CH Pharmacology
Host: Pharmacology Dept.
“Ras:  Time to Recognize the Elephant in the Room?”
Dec. 8, 2009
**G202 MBRB
No Seminar
No Seminar
Dec. 15, 2009 Uwe Ohler, Ph.D.
Duke University
Host: Zefeng Wang
“(Computational) regulatory genomics for understanding transcription in D. Melanogaster”