Physiology Seminar Schedule -- Spring 2008

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Fall 2008 Schedule

Seminars are on Thursdays at 9:00 a.m. in the Whitehead Building 6th Floor Common Room.
Informal discussion with the speaker is from 10:00 - 10:30 a.m.
Light refreshments are served at 8:45 a.m.

Date
Speaker
Topic
Host (E-mail)
January 3 tba tba tba
January 10 tba tba tba
January 17 Kamal Sharma, Ph.D., Assistant Professor, Department of Neurobiology, University of Chicago Developmental principles reveal organization of motor circuits Wenner
January 24 William Guggino, Ph.D., Professor and Director, Department of Physiology, Johns Hopkins University Bacterial proteins modulate the surface expression of CFTR Wall
January 31 tba tba tba
February 7 Dena Howland, Ph.D., Associate Professor, Department of Neuroscience, University of Florida Approaches to Enhance Motor Recovery Post-SCI R. Nichols
February 14 tba tba tba
February 21 John Stokes, M.D. Professor and Director, Division of Nephrology; University of Iowa Mechanisms of aldosterone action on the epithelial Na channel: surprises and insights Eaton
February 28 Lawrence Palmer, Ph.D., Professor, Department of Physiology and Biophysics, Cornell University Epithelial Na channels and regulation of renal Na excretion Eaton
March 6 tba tba tba
March 13 Shmuel Muallem, Ph.D., Professor, Department of Physiology, University of Texas Southwestern Medical Center Mechanism and Regulation of epithelial HCO3- secretion Choi
March 20 Russ Price, Ph.D., Professor of Medicine, Division of Nephrology, Emory University Actions and Reactions! Atrophy-related changes in muscle signaling Choi
March 27 Nael A. McCarty, Ph.D., Associate Professor and Senior CF Scientist, Division of Pulmonology, Allergy/Immunology, Cystic Fibrosis, and Sleep, Department of Pediatrics, Emory What I did on my six-year sabbatical Choi
April 3 Klaus Beyenbach, Ph.D., Professor, Department of Biomedical Sciences, Cornell University Powering transepithelial transport with a V-type H+ ATPase Choi
April 10 Gabriel Haddad, M.D., Professor and Chairman, Department of Pediatrics, University of California, San Diego Hypoxic Cell Injury: Insights from Invertebrate models Choi
April 17 Jose Contreras-Vidal, Ph.D., Assistant Professor, Department of Kinesiology, University of Maryland. Neural mechanisms underlying sensorimotor learning: From Parkinson's disease to brain-machine interfaces R. Nichols
April 24 David McLean, PhD, Cornell University Using zebrafish to reveal principles of neural circuit function Hochman
TUES., April 29 Alberto Pereda, M.D., Ph.D, Albert Einstein School of Medicine Plasticity of electrical synapses Pinter
May 1 Jerod Denton, Ph.D., Assistant Professor, Department Anesthesiology, Vanderbilt University Mechanisms of Kir1.1 K+ channel dysfunction in Bartter syndrome and progress toward disease pharmacotherapy Helms
May 8 cancelled .
May 15 David Yule, Ph.D. Assoc. Professor, Department of Pharmacology and Physiology, University of Rochester Subtype-specific regulation of inositol 1,4,5-trisphosphate receptors: defining specificity for intracellular calcium signals Gooch
May 22 John Cidlowski,Ph.D., Head, Molecular Endocrinology Group, NIH/NIEHS Tissue Specific Actions of Glucocorticoids : New Mechanisms for Old Drugs Eaton
May 29 Carole Liedtke, Ph.D., Professor, Department of Physiology and Biophysics, Case Western Reserve University Regulation of Epithelial Cl Transporters by Protein Complexes Eaton
June 12 Wenbin Deng, Ph.D. Asst. Prof. Department of Cell Biology and Human Anatomy, UC Davis The Glutamate Signaling Cascade in Glial Development and Disease Pinter

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