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Seminars for 2004

January 21, 2004
Elaine A. Sia, Ph.D.
Assistant Professor, Department of Biology, University of Rochester
"Repair and Maintenance of the Mitochondrial Genome in Saccharomyces cerevisiae"
January 21, 2004
Jae-Sung Kim, Ph.D.
Research Assistant Professor, Department of Cell and Developmental Biology, University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill
"Mitochondrial Permeability Transition: A Causative Mechanism of Cell Death after Ischemia/Reperfusion of Hepatocytes and Myocytes"
January 28, 2004

Seong-Woon Yu, Ph.D.
Postdoctoral Fellow, Department of Neurology, Johns Hopkins University School of Medicine
"Apoptosis-inducing Factor and Poly (ADP-Ribose) Polymerase-1 in Cell Death"

February 4, 2004

Keli Hu, M.D., Ph.D.
Postdoctoral Fellow, Department of Physiology, University of California at San Francisco
"Traffic Regulation of ATP-sensitive K+ Channels"

February 11, 2004

Lihua He, Ph.D.
Research Instructor, Department of Cell and Developmental Biology, University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill
"Inhibition of Mitochondrial Permeability Transition Pore Opening in the Mechanism of Cytoprotection by Heat Shock Proteins"tochondrial Permeability Transition Pore Openings in the Mechanism of Cytoprotection by Heat Shock Proteins"

February 18, 2004

Vilhelm A. Bohr, M.D., Ph.D., D.Sc.
Chief, Laboratory of Molecular Genetics, National Institute on Aging, National Institutes of Health
"Mitochondrial DNA Repair and Its Relevance"

March 3, 2004

Michael Zaugg, M.D.
Head of Cardiovascular Anesthesia Laboratory, Institute of Anesthesiology and Pharmacology and Toxicology, University of Zurich and Attending Physician in Clinical Anesthesia, University Hospital of Zurich
"Signaling Pathways and Transcriptions in Cardiac Preconditioning"

March 17, 2004
Robert S. Balaban, Ph.D.
Chief, Laboratory of Cardiac Energetics, National Heart, Lung and Blood Institute
"Control of Mitochondrial Oxidative Phosphorylation"
August 11, 2004
Dhananjaya Nauduri, Ph.D.
Postdoctoral Fellow, Department of Occupational and Environmental Health, University of Iowa
"Synthesis and Characterization of Environmentally Relevant Perfluoro-1-octanesulfamido Derivatives"
September 22, 2004
Irfan Rahman, Ph.D.
Assistant Professor, Department of Environmental Medicine, Division of Lung Biology and Disease, University of Rochester
"Oxidative Stress and Regulation of Glutathione Biosynthesis "
October 8, 2004
Dr. Christian Schudt
Head of Therapeutic Area, ALTANA Pharma AG, Konstanz, Germany
"Roflumilast Efficacy in Inflammation and Specific Pathomechanisms in Asthma and COPD"
November 17, 2004
Dr. Kim Tieu
Department of Environmental Medicine, University of Rochester
"Mitochondrial Dysfunction in Parkinson's Disease and Huntington's Disease"
December 15, 2004
Jun-ichi Abe, M.D., Ph.D
Associate Professor, Department of Medicine in the Center for Cardiovascular Research
"ERK5 kinase as a unique transcription factor: Implication in regulating PPARgamma transcriptional activity"