| Date |
Speaker |
Seminar Title |
| January 15, 2008 |
Jack Riordan, Ph.D.
UNC-CH, Biochem & Biophys
Host: Rob Nicholas |
“CFTR F, F and F” |
| January 22, 2008 |
Ellie Tzima, Ph.D.
UNC-CH, Cell & Mol Phys
Host: Gary Johnson |
“Mechanosensory
complexes in the endothelium” |
| January 29, 2008 |
Jeffrey Conn, Ph.D.
Pharmacolgoy, Vanderbilt
Host: Ken Harden |
“Allosteric Modulators of GPCRs as a Novel Approach for Treatment of CNS Disorders” |
| February 5, 2008 |
John Cidlowski, Ph.D.
NIH/NIEHS
Host: Ken Harden
|
“Glucocorticoids: New Mechanisms for Old Drugs” |
| February 12, 2008 |
Adrienne Cox, Ph.D.
UNC-CH, Rad-Onc
Host: Ken Harden |
“Small GTPases and kinases at the crossroads:
How phosphorylation dictates location and function of Ras and Rho family proteins” |
| February 19, 2008 |
Jung Weon Lee, Ph.D.
Seoul Nat’l Univ.
Host: Rudy Juliano |
“Tumorigenesis mediated by tetraspanin TM4SF5 through its friendship with integrins” |
| February 26, 2008 |
Alex Duncan, M.D., Ph.D.
UNC-CH, Medicine
Host: Ken Harden |
“Cryopyrin and the molecular mechanisms of inflammatory signaling during infection” |
March 3, 2008
Monday
**LCCC Pagano Conf. Room |
John Tyson, Ph.D.
Virginia Tech
Host: Tim Elston |
Special Seminar
“Regulation of the Eukaryotic Cell Cycle: From Molecular Networks to Cell Physiology” |
March 4, 2008
CANCELLED |
Brent Graveley, Ph.D.
Univ. of Connecticut
Host: Zefeng Wang |
*Seminar Cancelled* |
March 11, 2008
CANCELLED |
Paul Insel, M.D.
Univ. of Calif at San Diego
Host: Rob Nicholas |
“Cellular organization and regulation of GPCR signaling” |
March 18, 2008
time change:
12:00-1:00 pm |
Rick Neubig, M.D., Ph.D.
University of Michigan
Host: Henrik Dohlman | “Physiology and Chemical Biology of RGS proteins” |
| March 25, 2008 |
Anning Lin, Ph.D.
University of Chicago
Host: Gary Johnson |
“Negative and Positive Regulation of JNK by the IKK/NF-kB Pathway” |
March 27, 2008
Thursday
**1131 Bioinformatics
**2:00 pm |
Brian Kobilka, M.D.
Department of Molecular and Cellular Physiology,
Stanford University
Host: Klaus Hahn |
Steelman Pharmacology Lecture
“Structure and dynamics of the human β2 adrenergic receptor” |
March 28, 2008
Friday
**1131 Bioinformatics
**4:00 pm |
Brian Kobilka, M.D.
Department of Molecular and Cellular Physiology,
Stanford University
Host: Klaus Hahn |
Steelman Lecture
“Adrenergic receptor signaling: insights from molecules and mice” |
| April 1, 2008 |
Victor Velculescu, M.D., Ph.D.
Johns Hopkins
Host: Franck Polleux |
“Genomic analyses of breast and colorectal cancers” |
| April 8, 2008 |
Mike Gelb, Ph.D.
University Wash-Seattle
Host: Adrienne Cox |
“Protein Prenylation: From Discovery to Promising Therapeutics for
Tropical Parasite Diseases” |
| April 15, 2008 |
Guri Tzivion, Ph.D.
Wash. State University
Host: Gary Johnson |
“Signaling interplay in regulation of
cancer and longevity” |
April 22, 2008
**1131 Bioinformatics
|
Joseph Beavo, Ph.D.
Univ. of Washington
Host: Lee Graves |
John P. Perkins Lecture
“New roles for new phosphodiesterases” |
| April 29, 2008 |
Robert Margolskee, MD, Ph.D.
Mt. Sinai Sch of Med.
Host: David Siderovski |
“Tasteful receptors and gut feelings: gut-expressed gustducin and sweet taste receptor regulate enteroendocrine functions” |
May 6, 2008
**1131 Bioinformatics CANCELLED |
Jack Dixon, Ph.D.
Howard Hughes Med Instit
Vice President
& Chief Sci Off
Host: Graduate Students |
Luminary Distinguished Speaker “Protein Phosphatases: Biochemistry to Disease” |
May 13, 2008
CANCELLED-Rescheduled to Fall |
Irene Zohn, Ph.D.
George Washington Univ.
Host: Channing Der |
“How to make a mouse embryo: using mouse genetics to unravel the pathways regulating morphogenesis” |
