September 9

Ray Truant, Ph.D., Associate Professor of Biochemistry and Biomedical Sciences,  McMaster University, Hamilton, Ontario, CANADA

“The Normal Function of the Huntington Protein in Cell Stress and Cytoskeletal Dynamics and Defining New Drug Targets for Huntington’s by High Content Screening, Biophotonics, Biochemistry and Cell Biology”

Guest of Dr. Angela J.Glading, Ext. 3-5750

September 23

Ned Ballatori, Ph.D., Professor of Environmental Medicine, University of Rochester Medical Center, Rochester, NY

“Getting the fat out…Identification of the Heteromeric Organic Solute Transporter OSTalpha-OSTbeta as a Target for Lowering Bile Acid and Lipid Levels”

September 30

Soundarapandian Vijayakumar, Ph.D., Assistant Professor of Pediatrics, University of Rochester Medical Center, Rochester, NY

“Jim Hensin – A New Puppeteer in Epithelial Morphogenesis”

October 7
11:00-12:00 noon

Alan Wells, M.D., D.M.S., Thomas J. Gill III Professor of Pathology, Vice-Chair for Laboratory Medicine, University of Pittsburgh, Pittsburgh, PA

“Location, Location, Location--m-Calpain Localization During Cell Relation”

Guest of Angela J. Glading, Ext. 3-5750

October 14

Amy Lee, Ph.D., Associate Professor of Molecular Physiology and Biophysics, and Otolaryngology, University of Iowa, Iowa City, IA

“Macromolecular Regulation of Voltage-gated Ca2+ Channels”

Guest of Dr. Paul J. Kammermeier, Ext. 5-5606

October 21

Mohamed Trebak, Ph.D., Associate Professor in The Center for Cardiovascular Sciences, Albany Medical College, Albany, NY

“NON-Capacitative ORAI Channels in Vascular Smooth Muscle”

Guest of Dr. Trevor J. Shuttleworth, Ext. 5-2076

October 28

Eileen M. Redmond, Ph.D., Associate Professor of Surgery, University of Rochester Medical Center, Rochester, NY

“Kickin’ it up a Notch!  A Role in Mediating Alcohol’s Cardiovascular Effects?”

November 4

Carmen Dessauer, Ph.D., Professor of Integrative Biology and Pharmacology, University of Texas Health Science Center, Houston, TX

“Spatial Constraints of cAMP Signaling: The Next Dimension in Adenylyl Cyclase Regulation”

Guest of Dr. Gregory G. Tall, Ext. 3-2069

November 11

C. Michael Crowder, M.D., Ph.D., Seymour and Rose T. Brown Professor of Anesthesiology; Director, Division of Basic Research Department of Anesthesiology; Professor of Developmental Biology, Washington University School of Medicine, St. Louis, MO

“Misfolded Proteins: Savior and Executioner after Hypoxic Injury”

Guest of Dr. Paul S. Brookes, Ext. 3-1626 and Dr. Keith Nehrke, Ext. 3-1626

Dr. Feliciano Protasi,  University G. d'Annunzio of Chieti, Department of Neuroscience and Imaging, Italy

“Mitochondria Coupling to Calcium Stores in Developing, Aging, and Diseased Skeletal Muscle”

Guest of Dr. Robert T. Dirksen, Ext. 5-4824

November 18

Jonathan S. Marchant, Ph.D.,  Associate Professor of Pharmacology, University of Minnesota, Minneapolis, MN

“Pharmacological Biasing of In Vivo Stem Cell Differentiation Through Activiation of Voltage-operated Ca2+ Channels”

Guest of Dr. David I. Yule, Ext. 3-2154

December 2

Mark Dumont, Ph.D., Professor of Biochemistry and Biophysics, University of Rochester Medical Center, Rochester, NY

“Mechanisms of G Protein Coupled Receptor Activation: Lessons from Yeast ”

December 9

William J. Bowers, Ph.D., Associate Professor of Neurology in the Center for Neural Development and Disease, University of Rochester Medical Center, Rochester, NY

“Derivation of Gene-based Passive Immunotherapeutics for Alzheimer's Disease ”