Seminars
January 2010
Kevin Xhang, Ph.D.
4:00-5:00 PM, MSB 2.135
University of Illinois
Carmen Dessauer, Ph.D.
4:00-5:00 PM, MSB 2.135
Department of Integrative Biology & Pharmacology, University of Texas Health Science Center
December 2009
Miguel Vicente-Manzanares, Ph.D.
10:00-11:00 AM, MSB 2.135
Department of Cell Biology, University of Virginia School of Medicine
“Non-muscle myosin II takes center stage in cell adhesion and migration”
Randy Legerski, Ph.D.
4:00-5:00 PM, MSB 2.135
Department of Genetics, MD Anderson Cancer Center
Jeffrey Chang, Ph.D.
10:00-11:00 AM, MSB 2.135
Institute for Genome Sciences and Policy, Duke University
“Genomic Strategies to Decipher the Complexity of Cancer”
Anyong Xie, Ph.D.
10:00-11:00 AM, MSB 2.135
Department of Medicine, Harvard Medical School
“The ends are the beginning: DNA double strand break repair and cancer”
Tom Rich, Ph.D.
4:00-5:00 PM, MSB 2.135
University of South Alabama
Karik Venkatachalam, Ph.D.
10:00-11:00 am, MSB 2.135
Department of Biological Chemistry, Johns Hopkins University School of Medicine
“TRP Channels and Neurodegenerative Disese"
Tao Wang, Ph.D.
10:00-11:00 AM, MSB 2.135
Department of Basic Sciences, Fred Hutchinson Cancer Research Center
“TOR pathway, link between growth and death”
November 2009
Oleh Pochynyuk, Ph.D.
10:00-11:00 AM, MSB 2.135
Department of Physiology, University of Texas Health Science Center at San Antonio
“Paracrine regulation of ENaC activity by ATP/purinergic tone in the mammalian collecting duct”
Lorin Olson, Ph.D.
10:00-11:00 AM, MSB 2.135
Department of Developmental and Regenerative Biology, Mt. Sinai School of Medicine
“Activation of PDGFR Signaling in Stromal Cell Development and Homeostasis”
Grace Pavlath, Ph.D.
4:00-5:00 PM, MSB 2.135
Department of Pharmacology, Emory Medical School
“Novel roles for olfactory receptors in skeletal muscle”
Karik Venkatachalam, Ph.D.
10:00-11:00 AM, MSB 2.135
Department of Biological Chemistry, Johns Hopkins University School of Medicine
“TRP Channels and Neurodegenerative Disese"
Dr. Mei Kong
10:00-11:00 AM, MSB 2.103
Abrambson Family Cancer Research Institute, University of Pennsylvania
“Protein phosphatase 2A in cell survival and stress response”
Dr. Xiongbin Lu
10:00-11:00 AM, MSB 2.135
Department of Biological Sciences, University of South Carolina
“A Master Inhibitor in the ATM-p53 DNA Damage Response Pathway”
September 2009
Dr. Michael Zhu
Ohio State University
Center for Molecular Neurobiology
10:00 AM, MSB 2.103
“Novel Ion Channels for Calcium Signaling”
Dr. Vihang Narkar, Ph.D
4:00-5:00 PM, MSB 2.135
The Institute of Molecular Medicine Center for Diabetes and Obesity Research
"Nuclear Receptors, AMPK & Muscle Genome: Breaking the Endurance Ceiling"
A Reception will follow. Please encourage all your lab members to participate!
David Loose, PhD
4:00-5:00 PM, MSB 2.135
Department of Integrative Biology and Pharmacology, University of Texas Medical School at Houston
“A New Side to DNA Methylation”
May 2009
Dr. Mark R. Philips
4:00-5:00 PM, MSB 2.135 Monday
Department of Cell Biology & Pharmacology, NYU School of Medicine
““PLD and Compartmentalized Signaling of Ras and Rap 1”
Dr. John Tesmer
4:00-5:00 PM, MSB 2.135 Monday
University of Michigan
April 2009
Dr. Jeremy Thorner
Univ. of California-Berkeley
March 2009
Dr. Richard Egleton
Marshall University
Srinivas Ravi V. Iyengar, Ph.D.
Mount Sinai School of Medicine New York, NY
“Cell state change decisions triggered by Receptors”
Dr. Steve Sansom
Univ. of Nebraska Medical Center Physiology and Biophysics
“Emerging Role of the Renal Maxi-K Channel Subunits in Hypertension.”
Lily Jiang, Ph.D.
Dept. of Pharmacology UT Southwestern - Dallas Dallas, TX
“Regulation and function of adenylyl cyclase VII”
February 2009
Bradley McConnell, Ph.D.
University of Houston College of Pharmacy Dept. of Pharmacological and Pharmaceutical Sciences
“Targeted Disruption of beta-Adrenergic Signaling in the Heart in vivo”
Dr. Ka Bian
Molecular Medicine - Research IMM – Cell Signaling UTHSC-Houston
“cGMP as Molecular Targets for Therapy of Malignant Brain Tumor.”
Prasanna Sivaprakasam Ph.D. Candidate
Dept. of Medicinal Chemistry University of Mississippi School of Pharmacy University
“Computational and Biological Studies of small molecule Glycogen Synthase Kinase-3β Inhibitors”
January 2009
Roger K. Sunahara, Ph.D.
Dept. of Neuroscience & Cell Biology Univ. of Texas Medical Branch Galveston
“Allosteric modulation of agonist, inverse agonist and antagonist binding to GPCRs by G proteins”
Li-Yen Mae Huang, Ph.D.
Department of Cell Biology & Pharmacology, NYU School of Medicine
“Purinergic P2X receptor signaling in nociception”
