Physiology Seminar Schedule -- Spring 2009

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Fall 2009 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 29 Guangping Chen, MD, PhD, Division of Nephrology, Department of Medicine, Emory Molecular mechanisms underlie UT-A1 regulation at the cell surface tba
February 5 Ji-Bin Peng, PhD
Department of Medicine, Division of Nephrology, University of Alabama at Birmingham		 Physiological Roles and Regulation of Epithelial Calcium Channels tba
February 12 Chun Jiang, PhD
Department of Biology, Georgia State University		 Search for CO2 Chemoreceptors with a Functional Genomic Approach tba
February 19 Ingeborg Schmidt-Krey, PhD
Department of Biology, Georgia Tech		 Structural Studies of the Membrane Protein Human Leukotriene C4 Synthase by Electron Crystallography tba
February 26 Criss Hartzell, PhD
Department of Cell Biology, Emory		 The Mucus Thickens: New and Newer Families of Chloride Channels (Bestrophins and Anoctamins): Roles in epithelial function and disease Eaton
March 5 Thomas D. DuBose, Jr., MD
Department of Medicine, Wake Forest University		 Candidate pH Sensor Systems in the Kidney Wall
March 12 Lin Mei, MD,PhD
Department of Neurology, Medical College of Georgia		 Mechanisms of Synapse Formation and Synaptic Plasticity: Implications in Muscular Dystrophy and Schizophrenia Choi
March 19 Aniko Naray-FejesToth, MD
Department of Physiology, Dartmouth University 		Aldosterone-Induced Gene Products in Kidney and Heart Helms
Tuesday, Mar. 24 Francisco Alvarez, Ph.D.
Department of Neuroscience, Cell Biology, and Physiology, Wright State 		Motor synaptic circuits during development and after injury Hochman
March 26 John P. Johnson, MD
Department of Medicine, Renal-Electrolyte Division, University of Pittsburgh 		Regulation of the ENaC Recycling Compartment Eaton
April 2 Joey Granger, PhD
Department of Physiology & Biophysics, University of Mississippi		 Hypertension in response to placental ischemia: role of angiostatic factors Eaton
April 9 Guy Benian, MD
Department of Pathology, Emory 		Functions of giant polypeptides in C. elegans muscle Eaton
April 16 Michael Koval, PhD
Associate Professor of Medicine and Cell Biology, Emory 		Connexin and Claudin Assembly in Alveolar Epithelial Cells Helms
April 23 CANCELED [Elias Manjarrez, PhD] CANCELED Hochman
April 30 Marek Michalak, PhD & FRSC
Department of Biochemistry, University of Alberta, Canada 		Quality control in the secretory pathway and congenital pathologies Gooch
May 7 Philine Wangemann, PhD
Department of Anatomy & Physiology, Kansas State University 		Three mechanisms leading to deafness in Pendred syndrome Lin
May 14 Ping Chen, PhD
Department of Cell Biology, Emory		 Shaping the cochlea and its sensory cells for auditory sensibility tba
May 21 Lorne Mendell, PhD
Distinguished Professor Dept. Neurobiology and Behavior SUNY at Stony Brook 		Enhancing Circuit Performance in the Injured Spinal Cord Hochman
May 28 Gary Striker, MD
Department of Medicine, Division of Nephrology, Mt. Sinai School of Medicine 		Mechanisms of AGE-induced Inflammation in Kidney Aging Sands
June 4 Heather A. Drummond, Associate Professor, Department of Physiology and Biophysics University of Mississippi Medical Center Paradoxical hypertension in a mouse model of reduced bENaC Helms

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