Spring 2008 Seminar Series
   
All seminars meet Mondays at NOON in G202 Medical Biomolecular Research Building (MBRB)
unless otherwise indicated
   
Jump to: FEBRUARY MARCH APRIL MAY
 
Date
Speaker
Seminar
Host
   
January 7

Marc R. Freeman, PhD
Assistant Professor
Department of Neurobiology
University of Massachusetts Medical School

“Neuron-glia Signaling After Acute Brain Injury in Drosophila”
Bhat
   
January 14

Keith Burridge, PhD
Kenan Professor of Cell and Developmental Biology
The University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill
“Rho GTPases, Cell Adhesion and Leukocyte Transendothelial Migration”
Tzima
    January 21
No Seminar
Martin Luther King, Jr. Holiday
    January 28

Howard A. Rockman, MD
Chief, Cardiovascular Medicine
Professor of Medicine, Cell Biology and Molecular Genetics
Duke University Medical Center
“New Concepts in 7 Transmembrane Receptor Signaling”
Caron
  February 4

Arjun Deb, MD
Assistant Professor of Medicine
Carolina Cardiovascular Biology Center (CCBC)
The University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill

“Cardiac Regeneration Clues from Bone Marrow, Stem Cells and the Heart”
Anderson
    February 11

Daniel Pomp, PhD
Professor
Departments of Nutrition, Cell and Molecular Physiology
The University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill

“Combining Physiology and Genomics to Understand Complex Traits”
Sealock
    February 18

Scott Hammond, PhD
Assistant Professor
Cell and Developmental Biology
The University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill

"MicroRNAs in Development and Disease"
    February 25

Greg Bashaw, PhD
Associate Professor
Department of Neuroscience
School of Medicine
University of Pennsylvania
“To Cross Or Not To Cross:  Mechanisms Regulating Axon Guidance at the Drosophila Midline”
Bhat
  March 3

Helen Raybould, PhD, DVM
Professor
Department of Anatomy, Physiology and Cell Biology
School of Veterinary Medicine
University of California - Davis
"How your gut tastes: Nutrient sensing receptors and sensory transduction in the GI tract"
Lund
    March 10 No Seminar
Spring Break
 
    March 17

Pin-Lan Li, MD, PhD
Professor
Department of Pharmacology and Toxicology
School of Medicine
Virginia Commonwealth University
"Lipid Rafts and Transmembrane Signaling in Vascular Cells"
Anderson
    March 24

Hanjoong Jo, PhD
Professor
Wallace H. Coulter Department of Biomedical Engineering
Georgia Institute of Technology
Georgia Tech and Emory University
“Flow-Dependent Regulation of Vascular Inflammation and Diseases”
Tzima
    March 31

Hong Jin Kim, MD
Assistant Professor
Department of Surgery
Division of Surgical Oncology
School of Medicine
University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill
"Pancreatic cancer from a surgeon-scientist's perspective"
Otey
  April 7

Margaret J. McFall-Ngai, PhD
Professor, Medical Microbiology and Immunology
School of Medicine and Public Health
University of Wisconsin - Madison
"The Diplomacy of Symbiosis: Defining the Molecular Language of Cooperation in the Squid-Vibrio Symbiosis"
Rawls
   
April 14

CANCELLED

Kenneth D. Poss, PhD
Assistant Professor
Department of Cell Biology
Duke University

"Mechanisms guiding organ regeneration in zebrafish"
Jin
   
April 21

Kristin Scott, PhD
Associate Professor of Neurobiology
Department of Molecular and Cell Biology
University of California at Berkeley

"Taste Recognition in Drosophila"
Zylka
   

April 23
WEDNESDAY

321 MacNider
4:00 PM

Jane F. Reckelhoff, PhD
Professor, Physiology and Biophysics
University of Mississippi Medical Center
"Mechanisms Responsible for Sex Differences in Blood Pressure and Postmenopausal Hypertension"

Joint Seminar with the
UNC Kidney Center

Maren Professorship Candidate

   
April 24
THURSDAY
 Holly Cline, PhD
Professor
Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory

"Synapse Elimination in Brain Development: Dr. Jekyl and Mr. Hyde"
Joint Seminar - Neuroscience Center
    April 28

Gary Bird, PhD
Staff Scientist
Calcium Regulation Group
NIEHS/NIH
Mechanism and Control of Ca2+ Oscillations
Arendshorst
 
May 5

Adam Hantman, Ph.D.
Department of Biochemistry and Molecular Biophysics
Columbia Neuroscience
Columbia University Medical Center

"Cortical control of proprioceptive signaling"
Perl