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Seminars for 2002

June 5, 2002

Paul T. Schumacker, Ph.D.
Professor, Department of Medicine, The University of Chicago
"Role of Mitochondrial Oxidant Signaling in Endothelial Responses to Mechanical Strain"

June 19, 2002

Keshav Singh, Ph.D.
Assistant Professor of Oncology, Johns Hopkins University
School of Medicine
"Mitochondria, Oxidative Stress and Genetic Instability"

June 26, 2002

Jahar Bhattacharya, M.D., D. Phil.
Professor of Clinical Physiological Medicine, Columbia University
"Mitochondrial Transduction of Proinflammatory Signaling in Lung Capillary"

July 15, 2002

Min-Xin Guan, Ph.D.
Assistant Professor in Human Genetics and Director of Mitochondrial Genetics Laboratory, Cincinnati Children's Hospital Medical Center
"Nuclear Modifier Genes and Aminoglycosides Modulate the Phenotypic Expression of the Deafness-Linked Mitochondrial 12S rRNA Mutation"

July 19, 2002

Dr. Varda Shoshan-Barmatz
Professor and Chair, Department of Life Science,
Ben Gurion University, Beer Sheva, Israel
"Voltage Dependent Anion Channel (VDAC): Its Role in Apoptosis and Intracellular Communication"

July 22, 2002

Dr. Lawrence Lash
Professor, Department of Pharmacology,
Wayne State University
"Mitochondrial Glutathione Transport"

September 25, 2002

Dean P. Jones, Ph.D.
Professor, Department of Biochemistry,
Emory University School of Medicine
"Mitochondrial Thioredoxin and Glutathione Protection Against Oxidant-induced Apoptosis"

September 30, 2002
Yisang Yoon, Ph.D.
Assistant Professor, Department of Biochemistry and Molecular Biology, Mayo Graduate School
"Mitochondrial Dynamics in Mammalian Cells"
October 3, 2002
Jochen Prehn, Ph.D.
Head, Research Group, "Apoptosis and Cell Death"
Interdisciplinary Center for Clinical Research, Westphalian Wilhelms University, Germany
"Mitochondrial Control of Neuron Death: From Functional Genomics to Single-cell Analysis"
October 28, 2002
Pierre Maechler, Ph.D.
Department of Internal Medecine, University Medical Center, Geneva, Switzerland
"Regulation of Insulin Secretion at the Mitochondrial Level in Pancreatic Beta-cells"
October 29, 2002

Paolo Bernardi, M.D.
Department of Biomedical Sciences, University of Padova
"Mitochondria and Cell Death: A Pore Man's View"