Program in Cellular and Molecular Basis of Medicine

Department of Pharmacology and Physiology and Program in Cellular and Molecular Basis of Medicine Seminar Series, Spring 2008

Seminars are generally held on Thursdays at 12:30 p.m. in the Anders Room (4-6912) unless otherwise noted.

February 25 *Monday	Alicia J. Kowaltowski, Ph.D. Associate Professor, Departamento do Bioquimica, IQ, Universidade de Sao Paulo, SP Brazil “Mitochondrial Reactive Oxygen Species, Respiration and Aging: Effects of Calorie Restriction”
March 13	Wayne Chen, Ph.D. Professor, Department of Physiology & Biophysics, and Department of Biochemistry & Molecular Biology, University of Calgary, Alberta, Canada “Ryanodine Receptor-associated Muscle Disorders: Abnormal Store-overload-induced Calcium Release (SOICR) ”
March 27	Yong-Xiao Wang, M.D., Ph.D. Professor, Center for Cardiovascular Services, Albany medical College, Albany, New York "Role of Ryanodine Receptor 1 and Mitochondrial ROS in Hypoxic Increase in Ca2+}i in Pulmonary Arterial Smooth Muscle Cells"
April 3	Karen Szumlinski, Ph.D. University of California at Santa Barbara, California "Doh! Homer Proteins Regulate Addiction Vulnerability"
April 7 *Monday, 3:30 p.m., K-307	George F. Koob, Ph.D. (Paul Stark Lecture) Professor and Chair, Committee on the Neurobiology of Addictive Disorders, The Scripps Research Institute, La Jolla, California “The Dark Side of Addiction: Role of Brain Stress Systems”
April 17	Bruce F. Horazdovsky, Ph.D. Associate Professor of Biochemistry and Molecular Biology, Mayo Clinic, Rochester, Minnesota “Rab5 Guanine Nucleotide Exchange Factors: Regulators of Receptor Trafficking from Yeast to Neurons"
April 24	Victor Ruiz-Velasco, Ph.D. Penn State College of Medicine, Hershey, Pennsylvania "Signaling Mechanisms of Nociceptin/orphanin FQ Opioid (NOP) Receptors in Rat Sympathetic Neurons"
May 1	Douglas A. Bayliss, Ph.D. Department of Pharmacology, University of Virginia Health System, Charlottesville, Virginia "Neuronal Background K Channels: Mechanisms of Modulation and Physiological Roles"
May 8	Diane Lipscombe, Ph.D. Professor of Neuroscience, Brown University, Providence, Rhode Island "Splicing Controls of G Protein Coupling to Neuronal Calcium Channels"
May 22	Mary J. Cismowski, Ph.D. Associate Professor of Biochemistry and Pharmacology, Northeastern Ohio Universities College of Medicine, Rootstown, Ohio "Identification and Characterization of AGS1/RasD1, a Very Unusual G-Protein"
May 28 *Wednesday	Isaac N. Pessah, Ph.D. Professor, Department of Molecular Biosciences; Director, University of California at Davis, Children's Center for Environmental Health and Disease Prevention "Homer is a Multifunction Protein"