Department of Pharmacology and Physiology and Cellular and Molecular Pharmacology and Physiology Colloquium Series

The weekly colloquium is generally held on Thursdays at 12:30 p.m. in the Anders Conference Room (4-6912). Unless otherwise noted, our departmental colloquia program is supported by the Alejandro Zaffaroni Endowment Fund and the John R. Murlin Fund. For outside guests, contact Dr. Robert S. Freeman and Dr. Gail V.W. Johnson. For graduate student colloquia, contact Dr. Paul S. Brookes.

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Thursday, September 13, 2012 - Literature Review

Hannah Stoveken

(Graduate student in the laboratory of Dr. Gregory G. Tall )

"Reconstitution of a Frizzled8-Wnt3a-LRP6 Signaling Complex Reveals Multiple Wnt and Dkk1Binding Sites on LRP6"

Thursday, September 20, 2012 - Literature Reviews

Kevin M. Tylock

(Graduate student in the laboratory of Dr. Robert T. Dirksen )

"Misregulation of miR-1 Processing is Associated with Heart Defects in Myotonic Dystrophy"

Tatyana Sevastyanova

(Graduate student in the laboratory of Dr. Paul J. Kammermeier )
"Functional Impact of Allosteric Agonist Activity of Selective Positive Allosteric Modulators of Metabotropic Glutamate Receptor Subtype 5 in Regulating Central Nervous System Function"

Tuesday, September 25, 2012 - Ph.D. Thesis Defense

12:30-1:30 p.m., K-307

Meital Gabay

(Graduate student in the laboratory of Dr. Gregory G. Tall )

"Ric-8 Proteins are Molecular Chaperones that Direct Nascent G Protein Subunit Membrane Association"

Thursday, September 27, 2012

Martin J. Kelly, Ph.D.

Department of Physiology and Pharmacology
Oregon Health & Science University
Guest of Dr. Stephen R. Hammes

"A Gq-coupled Estrogen Receptor is Involved in Hypothalamic Control of Homeostasis"

Thursday, October 4, 2012

Thomas P. Burris, Ph.D.

Professor, Department of Molecular Therapeutics, The Scripps Research Institute
Guest of Dr. Michael T. Sellix
"Chemical Biology of the Mammalian Clock "

CANCELLED

Wednesday, October 10, 2012 - Thesis Proposal

9:00-10:00 a.m., Anders Room

Kristina Modjeski

(Graduate student in the laboratory of Dr. Craig Morrell)
"Getting a "GRIP" on Protein-Protein Interactions in Platelets"

Thursday, October 18, 2012

Ronen Sumagin, Ph.D.

Postdoctoral Fellow, Department of Pathology and Laboratory Medicine, Emory University School of Medicine
Guest of Dr. Ingrid H. Sarelius
"Neutrophil Saga: A Double-edged Sword"

Thursday, October 25, 2012 - Thesis Proposal

12:00-1:00 p.m., Anders Room

Qiuyu Zhu

(Graduate student in the laboratory of Dr. Charles J. Lowenstein)
"STXBPS: A Novel Regulator of Endothelial Exocytosis and Vascular Thrombosis"

Thursday, November 1, 2012 - Ph.D. Thesis Defense

9:00-10:00 a.m., K-307

Oded Spindel

(Graduate student in the laboratory of Dr. Bradford C. Berk)
POSTPONED

Thursday, November 8, 2012

Fumihito Ono, M.D., Ph.D.

Section on Model Synaptic Systems, National Institute on Alcohol Abuve and Alcoholism
Guest of Dr. Paul J. Kammermeier
"Nicotinic Synapses: In Vivo Studies Using Zebrafish Larvae"

Monday, November 12, 2012 - Thesis Proposal

11:00-12:00 p.m.

Bharti R. Patel

(Graduate student in the laboratory of Dr. Gregory G. Tall )

"Conditional Deletion of Mouse Ric-8A as a Means to Ameliorate Disease Caused by Mutant G-Protein Alpha Subunit Alleles"

Tuesday, November 13, 2012 - Thesis Proposal

10:00-11:00 a.m.

Ellie M. Carrell

(Graduate student in the laboratory of Dr. Robert T. Dirksen )

"Characterizing the Role of Orail in Skeletal Muscle Differentiation and Regeneration"

Monday, November 19 , 2012 - Thesis Proposal

10:00-11:00 a.m.

Rahul Chandrasekhar

(Graduate student in the laboratory of Dr. David I. Yule )

"Characterizing the Function of Tetrameric Inositol 1,4,5-Triphosphate (InsP3) Receptors Using Concatenated Constructs"

Thursday, December 13, 2012

Jerod S. Denton, Ph.D.

Assistant Professor of Anesthesiology and Pharmacology, Vanderbilt University Medical Center
Guest of Dr. Keith W. Nehrke
"Chemical Probes of Inward Rectifier Potassium Channels: Novel Tools for Integrative and Translational Physiology"

Friday, December 14, 2012 - Ph.D. Thesis Defense

9:00-10:00 a.m., K-207 (2-6408)

Lianghui Zhang

(Graduate student in the laboratory of Dr. Alan V. Smrcka)
"Mechanisms for Phospholipase C-epsilon-dependent Regulation of Cardiac Hypertrophy"

Thursday, January 17, 2013

Alina Ainbinder

(Graduate student in the laboratory of Dr. Robert T. Dirksen)

"Structural and Functional Impact of Mitochondrial Ca2+ Signaling in Skeletal Muscle"

Thursday, January 24, 2013

Vyacheslav A. Korshunov, Ph.D.

Assistant Professor of Medicine, Aab Cardiovascular Research Institute, University of Rochester Medical Center
Guest of Dr. A. William Tank

"GABA A Receptors and Cardiovascular Susceptibility to Stress in Mice"

Thursday, January 31, 2013

Hen Prizant

(Graduate student in the laboratory of Dr. Stephen R. Hammes)

"Uterine-specific Loss of Tsc2: A Mouse Model for Leiomyoma and Lymphangioleiomyomatosis"

Thursday, January 31, 2013 - Ph.D. Thesis Defense

9:30 - 10:30 a.m., K-307 (3-6408)

Oded N. Spindel

(Graduate student in the laboratory of Dr. Bradford C. Berk)
"Characterization of Thioredoxin-Interacting Protein (TXNIP), an alpha-Arrestin Scaffold Protein in Endothelial Signaling"

Thursday, February 7, 2013

Lei Xu, Ph.D.

Assistant Professor of Biomedical Genetics, of Oncology, and of Pharmacology and Physiology, University of Rochester Medical Center
Guest of Dr. A. William Tank

"GPR56 Regulates the Turnover of Tissue Transglutaminase and Stability of Fibronectin in Melanoma"

Thursday, February 21, 2013

Laura B. Fornarola

(Graduate student in the laboratory of Dr. Robert S. Freeman)

"Title TBA"

Wednesday, March 6, 2013

12:00 p.m.
Yelena V. Lerman

(Graduate student in the laboratory of Dr. Minsoo Kim)

"Integrin alpha-3-beta-1 Upregulation During Sepsis and its Role in Neutrophil Biology"

Thursday, March 7, 2013

Mary Gantz Marker

(Graduate student in the laboratory of Dr. Robert S. Freeman)

"The Role of the Prolyl hydroxylase EGLN3 in Neuronal Cell Death"

Thursday, March 14, 2013 - Louis C. Lasagna Lecture

1:30 - 2:30 p.m., room K-207 (2-6408)

T. Kendall Harden, Ph.D.

Kenan Distinguished Professor, Department of Pharmacology, University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill

Guest of Dr. Alan V. Smrcka
"Mechanism of Gq-mediated Activation of Phospholipase C and its Implications for Drug Development"

Thursday, March 21, 2013

Leslie Griffith, M.D., Ph.D.

Professor of Biology, Nancy Lurie Marks Professor of Neuroscience; Director, Volen National Center for Complex Systems, Brandeis University

Guest of Dr. Gail V.W. Johnson
"Regulation of Membrane Excitability and Intracellular Signaling by the Ether-a-go-go (eag) Potassium Channel"

Thursday, March 28, 2013

Jonathan M. Barasch, M.D., Ph.D.

Associate Professor of Medicine, and Pathology and Cell Biology, Columbia University

Guest of Dr. Soundarapandian Vijayakumar
"NGAL Defends the Urinary System from Infection by Chelating Iron"

Thursday, April 11, 2013

Room K-307 (3-6408)
Jeffrey W. Keillor, Ph.D.

Professor of Chemistry, University of Ottawa, Ottawa, CA

Guest of Drs. Gail V. W. Johnson and Patricia Sime
"Chemistry and Biology of Tissue Transglutaminase"

Thursday, April 25, 2013

Erik L. Allman

(Graduate student in the laboratory of Dr. Keith Nehrke)

"Calcineurin Homologus Proteins (CHPs) are Essential for Membrane Stability of Sodium/Proton Exchangers in C. elegans "