All seminars are 8:30 am – 9:30 am in the Physiology Conference Room (BSB 576) unless otherwise noted. 

April 2013

• Wednesday, April 3, Paul Goldspink, PhD, Associate Professor, Department of Physiology, MCW: "Manipulating the IGF-1 isoform system to promote physiologic adaptation in the heart".
• Tuesday, April 16, Justin Miller *Dissertation Defense*, Graduate Student-Forster Lab, Department of Physiology, MCW: "Effect of carotid body denervation on breathing and central neurochemicals: Implications for the mechanisms of central chemosensitivity and plasicity."
• Thursday, April 18, Scott Canfield *Dissertation Defense*, Graduate Student-Bosnjak Lab, Department of Physiology, MCW: "Increased reactive oxygen species and mitochondrial fission contribute to high glucose-induced attenuation of anesthetic preconditioning in human pluripotent stem cell-dervided cardiomyocytes".
• Thursday, April 18, Experimental Biology 2013 Practice Talks - "Schedule to be Announced"
• Tuesday, April 30, David Goldstein, PhD - Student Choice Seminar, The Richard and Pat Johnson Distinguished University Professor, Dept. of Molecular Genetics and Microbiology, Director, Center for Human Genome Variation, Duke University, Durham, North Carolina "Complete sequencing and human disease: a genetic approach to genomics"

March 2013

• Wednesday, March 6, Ranjan Dash, PhD, Associate Professor, Department of Physiology, Biotechnology and Bioengineering Center, MCW: "Regulation of mitochondrial bioenergetics in skeletal muscle during altered energy expenditure: Role of pyruvate dehydrogenase".
• Wednesday, March 13, Diane Munzenmaier, PhD, Assistant Professor, Department of Physiology; Assistant Director, Cardiovascular Center, MCW: "Toward more personalized medical care: the promise, the peril, and the critical role of education".
• Wednesday, February 20, Mingyu Liang, PhD, Professor, Department of Physiology, MCW: "Epigenomics".

February 2013

• Wednesday, February 13, Robert Fitts, PhD, Professor and Chairman, Department of Biological Sciences, Marquette University, Milwaukee, WI: "Impact of exercise-training and pre-conditioning on ischemic injury and electrical properties of the heart".
• Wednesday, February 20, Daniel R. Einstein, PhD, Senior Research Scientist, Pacific Northwest National Laboratory, Olympia, WA: "Multiscale systems toxicology in the rat lung".
• Wednesday, February 27, Allen W. Cowley, Jr., PhD, Professor and Chairman, Department of Physiology; Director, Cardiovascular Center, MCW: "Hydrogen Peroxide: Demon of the renal medulla".

January 2013

• Wednesday, January 9, Daniel Beard, PhD, Professor, Department of Physiology; Director, Center for Computational Medicine, MCW: "Physiological control of blood pressure and the etiology of primary hypertension".
• Wednesday, January 16, Ranjan Pradhan, PhD, Postdoctoral Fellow, Biotechnology and Bioengineering Center, MCW: "Mechanistic characterization of Ca2+ uptake and buffering mechanisms in isolated cardiac mitochondria".
• Tuesday, January 29, Koryn Houdek, Graduate Student - Harder Lab, Department of Physiology, MCW: "Rhythmicity of the cerebral myogenic response and vascular cytochrome P450 expression".
• Wednesday, January 30, Sandra Brown-Ford, Graduate Student-Olivier Lab, Department of Physiology, MCW: "Proteomic analyses of undifferentiated pluripotent stem cells and NAFLD-derived iPS cells".

December

• Wednesday, December 5, 2012, Hubert Forster, PhD, Professor, Department of Physiology, MCW: "Ventilatory responses to ibotenic acid injections into the brains of awake goats are site- and state-specific".
• Wednesday, December 12, David Mattson, PhD, Professor, Department of Physiology, MCW: "T-Lymphocytes, Hypertension, and Kidney Disease".
• Wednesday, December 19, 2012, Naomi Chesler, PhD, Associate Professor, Department of Biomedical Engineering, College of Engineering, University of Wisconsin-Madison: "Pulmonary artery stiffness: Measurement methods and clinical importance".

November

• Monday, November 5, 2012, Christine Peterson, Doctoral Student, Department of Statistics, Rice University, Houston, Texas: "Biological network inference using Bayesian graphical models".
• Wednesday, November 21, 2012, Carol Moreno Quinn, MD, PhD, Associate Professor, Department of Physiology, MCW: "Gender-Specific Determinants of Hypertension in the Rat".
• Wednesday, November 28, 2012, Kenneth R. Hallows, MD, PhD, FASN, Associate Professor of Medicine and of Cell Biology, Renal-Electrolyte Division, University of Pittsburgh School of Medicine, Pittsburgh, PA: "Regulation of Epithelial Transport Proteins by Stress-activated Kinases and Clinical Implications".

October

• Wednesday, October 10, 2012, Xiao Chen, MD, PhD, Assistant Professor, Division of Hematology and Oncology, Department of Medicine, MCW: "The Role of Vitamin A metabolite in the Development of Gastrointestinal Graft-versus-Host Disease".
• Wednesday, October 17, 2012, Melinda Dwinell, PhD, Associate Professor, Department of Physiology, Human and Molecular Genetics Center, MCW: "Making Sense of phenotypes: integrating data for identifying disease models".
• Wednesday, October 24, 2012, Allison Ebert, PhD, Assistant Professor, Department of Cell Biology, Neurobiology and Anatomy, MCW: "Using stem cells to model and treat neurodegenerative diseases".
• Wednesday, October 31, 2012, Ayako Makino, PhD, Assistant Professor, Section of Endocrinology, Diabetes and Metabolism, Department of Medicine, University of Illinois at Chicago: " 'Trick or treat?' Improve endothelial cell function in diabetes by restoring endoplasmic reticulum Ca²⁺ level"
  September

• Wednesday, September 12, Allen Samarel, MD, William B. Knapp Professor of Medicine, Professor of Physiology, Loyola University: "A Tale of Two Kinases: Focal Adhesion Kinases in Cardiac and Vascular Remodeling.
• Wednesday, September 26, Sandra Brown-Ford, Graduate Student, Olivier Lab, Department of Physiology, MCW: "Differential Protein Expression in Human Induced Pluripotent and Embryonic Stem Cells".

August

• Wednesday, August 1 , Graduate Student Retreat - talks are from 8:30 - 10:45am
• Wednesday, August 15, Tony Prisco, Graduate Student, Greene Lab, Department of Physiology, MCW: "The Engraftment Problem: How TNFalpha Affects Adhesion of Endothelial Propgenitor Cells to the Vascular Endothelium.
• Wednesday, August 22, Scott Canfield, Graduate Student, Bosnjak Lab, Department of Physiology, MCW: "Anesthetic Preconditioning in Human-Induced Pluripotent Stem Cell-Derived Cardiomyocytes. "
• Wednesday, August 29, Allison Sarkis , Graduate Student, Jacob Lab, Department of Physiology, MCW: "Application of Next Generation Sequencing Techniques in the Dissection of Complex Disease . "

July

• Wednesday, July 11 , Jamie (Genthe) Karcher, Graduate Student, Greene Lab, Department of Physiology, MCW: "High salt diet suppresses the angiogenic competency of bone marrow mononuclear cells in the rat ."
• Thursday, July 12 , Gary Mouradian, Graduate Student, Hodges Lab, Department of Physiology, MCW: "The effects on ventilation and chemoreflexes after carotid body denergation in rats: a model for neuroplasticity. "
• Wednesday, July 18 , Clarissa Muere, Graduate Student, Forster Lab, Department of Physiology, MCW: "Effects on ventilation and neuromodulator concentration of cholinergic receptor blockade at the pre-Botzinger Complex. "
• Wednesday, June 27, Scott Bugenhagen, Graduate Student, Beard Lab, Department of Physiology, MCW: "Multiscale modeling of the cardiovascular system in health and disease. "

June

• Wednesday, June 6, ***Dissertation Defense*** Matthew Thompson, Graduate Student, Beard Lab, Department of Physiology, MCW: "Physiologically-based pharmacokinetic modeling in drug development."
• Wednesday, June 13, Jessica Priestley, Graduate Student, Lombard Lab, Department of Physiology, MCW: "Angiotensin II, Gene Expression, and Oxidant Stress in Resistance Arteries - A role for Nrf2?"
• Wednesday, June 20, Sasha Zheng, Graduate Student, Jacob Lab, Department of Physiology, MCW: "Narrowing genetic regions on rat chromosome 12 involved in cardiovascular disease."
• Wednesday, June 27, Justin Miller, Graduate Student, Lombard Lab, Department of Physiology, MCW: "The Effect of Carotid Body Denervation on Breathing and Central Neuromodulation. "

May

• Wednesday, May 2: Matthew Hodges, Ph.D., Assistant Professor, Department of Physiology, MCW:"What's wrong with my rat?  Utilizing the Brown Norway (BN) rat to elucidate mechanisms of respiratory chemoreception"
• Tuesday, May 8: ***Student Choice Lecture*** Joseph H. Nadeau, PhD, Director of Research and Academic Affairs, Institute for Systems Biology, Seattle, WA : "Heritable epigenetic changes: The unexpected ways that ancestral genetics affects phenotypic variation and disease risk across generations "
• Wednesday, May 9: **NO SEMINAR**
• Tuesday, May 15 , Wenhui Wang, M.D., Professor , Department of Pharmacology, New York Medical College: "Role of Src-family protein kinase in regulating potassium handling in the aldosterone-sensitive nephron"
• Tuesday, May 15 , ***Dissertation Defense*** Domagoj Mladinov, Graduate Student, Liang Lab, Department of Physiology, MCW: "MicroRNA in kidney physiology: role of miR-192 "
• Wednesday, May 16: Nashaat Gerges, Ph.D., Assistant Professor, Department of Cell Biology, Neurobiology and Anatomy, MCW:"Synaptic plasticity in health and disease"
• Wednesday, May 23: Jason Bazil, Ph.D., Postdoctoral Fellow , Department of Physiology, MCW:"The Mitochondrial Calcium Sequestration System"
• Wednesday, May 30: Peter Snyder, M.D., Professor of Medicine and Molecular Physiology and Biophysics, Vice Chair for Faculty Advancement, Director of Cardiovascular Research Programs, University of Iowa: "Epithelial Sodium Channel Regulation by the Extracellular Environment"

April

• Wednesday, April 4: James J Smith Memorial Lecture: R. John Solaro, Ph.D., Distinguished University Professor and Head. Department of Physiology and Biophysics, College of Medicine, University of Illinois at Chicago :"Genes That Kill and Signaling to Cardiac Sarcomeres"
• Wednesday, April 11: Zeljko J. Bosnjak, Ph.D., Professor, Department of Anesthesiology, MCW: "Anesthetic-Induced Developmental Neuroapoptosis: Is Anesthesia Bad for the Newborn Brain?"
• Wednesday, April 18, Harold Layton, Ph.D., Professor and Chair, Department of Mathematics, Duke University: "Harmonics and Heterodyning in Renal Hemodynamics
• Wednesday, April 25: **NO SEMINAR**

March

• Tuesday, March 6: Dissertation Defense Di (Raina) Feng, Graduate Student, Cowley Lab, Department of Physiology, MCW: "The role of renal medullary NAD(P)H oxidase subunit p67^phox in the development of salt-sensitive hypertension".
• Wednesday, March 7: Oleg Palygin, PhD, Postdoctoral Fellow, Department of Physiology, MCW: "Ionotropic signaling importance for meuronal-glia circuits".
• Wednesday, March 14: Jeanne L. Seagard, PhD, Professor, Departments of Anesthesiology and Physiology, MCW: "Central Effects of Endocannabinoids on Blood Pressure Control".
• Wednesday, March 21: Andrew S. Greene, PhD, The Dr. Robert D. and Patricia E. Kern Professor of Biotechnology and Bioengineering, Professor of Physiology, Director of the Biotechnology and Bioengineering Center, MCW: "Bone marrow derived stem cells and regenrative medicine of the cadiovascular system: salt, blood pressure, and the renin-angiotensin system".
• Wednesday, March 28- Aron Geurts, PhD, Assistant Professor, Departments of Physiology and Genetics, MCW: "From human GWAS to signaling pathways - rat gene knockout to uncover mechanisms of human disease".

February

• Wednesday, February 1: Hershel Raff, Ph.D., Professor, Departments of Medicine, Surgery and Physiology, MCW: "Intermittent, Acute, and Chronic Neonatal Hypoxia: Endocrine and Metabolic Responses".
• Wednesday, February 8: Julian Lombard , Ph.D., Professor, Department of Physiology, MCW : "Adventures in the Rat Room---What Consomic Strains, Congenic Strains, Gene Knockouts and Other Rodents Can Tell Us About the Antioxidant Properties of Angiotensin II ".
• Wednesday, February 15: **No seminar**
• Wednesday, February 22: Pieter de Tombe, Ph.D., Professor and Chair, Department of Physiology, Loyola University Medical School: "Myocardial sarcomere dynamics in health and disease". Located in the CVC Conference Room (HRC H4950)
• Monday, February 27: Dissertation Defense- Kathleen (Beehner) Lukaszewicz, Graduate Student, Lombard Lab, Department of Physiology, MCW: "The role of the CYP4A/20-HETE system in vascular dysfunction of the Dahl Salt-Sensitive Rat "
• Wednesday, February 29: **No seminar**

January

• Wednesday, January 4: **No seminar**
• Wednesday, January 11: Alexander Staruschenko, Ph.D., Assistant Professor, Department of Physiology, MCW : "Role of the epithelial Na+ channel (ENaC) in the development of salt sensitive hypertension".
• Wednesday, January 18: Michael W. Lawler, MD, Ph.D., Assistant Professor, Department of Pathology, Pediatrics Division, Children's Hospital of Wiscons, MCW: "Evaluating Treatments for X-linked Myotubular Myopathy: An Integrated Pathological and Physiological Approach".
• Wednesday, January 25: **No seminar**
• Monday, January 30: Dissertation Defense- Pallabi Sarkar, Graduate Student, Harder Lab, Department of Physiology, MCW: "Evaluating the protective role of EETs in Amyloid-Beta induced injury."
• Monday, January 30: Nabil J. Alkayed, MD, Ph.D., Professor of Anesthesiology and Perioperative Medicine, Departments of Physiology and Pharmacology, Oregon Health & Science University. : Protein Trafficking and Organelle Biogenesis in Ischemic Brain:.

December

• Wednesday, December 7: Daniel Beard, PhD , Professor, Department of Physiology, Biotechnology and Bioengineering Center, MCW: "Heritability, Penetrance, Pervasive Epistasis, Genome-Wide Association of Complex Traits, and Starling's 'Harmonious Machine'".
• Wednesday, December 14: Scarlet Yang Shi, Assistant Professor, Division of Pediatric Surgery, MCW/CRI: "Mechanisms of Cardioprotection against ischemia/reperfusion injury".
• Wednesday, December 21: ***No Seminar***
• Wednesday, December 28: ***No Seminar***

November

• Wednesday, November 2: Ulrich Broeckel, MD, Professor and Chief, Section Genomic Pediatrics, Director of Individualized Medicine Institute,  Department of Pediatrics/Genomic Pediatrics, MCW: "Induced pluripotent stem cells to study gene function".
• Wednesday, November 9: Paul Goldspink, Ph.D., Associate Professor, Department of Physiology, MCW: "Manipulating the IGF-1 isoform system to promote physiologic adaptation in the heart".
• Wednesday, November 16: Nikolaos Tsoukias, Ph.D., Associate Professor, Department of Biomedical Engineering, Florida International University: "Intercellular communication and the coordination of microcirculatory reactivity: Role of Calcium, Nitric Oxide and Inositol trisphosphate".
• Wednesday, November 23: ***No Seminar***
• Wednesday, November 30: ***No Seminar***

October

• Wednesday, October 7: Sandra Brown-Ford, Graduate Student, Olivier Lab, MCW: "Proteomic characterization of stem cells and functional studies in iPSC-derived hepatocytes as a mechanism to study Non-alcoholic fatty liver disease (NAFLD)".
• Wednesday, October 14: ***No Seminar***
• Wednesday, October 21: Andrey Sorokin, PhD, Professor, Departments of Medicine/Nephrology, MCW: "p66 Shc Signaling and Actions in the kidney".
• Wednesday, October 28: Cheryl Stucky, PhD, Professor, Department of Cell Biology, Neurobiology and Anatomy, MCW: "Mechanotransduction and sickle cell disease"

September

• Wednesday, September 7: ***No Seminar***
• Wednesday, September 14: Daria Ilatovskaya, MS, Visiting Student, Institute of Cytology RAS, St. Petersburg, Russia: "Cortical actin as a functional mediator of the Epithelial Na+ Channels."
• Wednesday, September 21: Scott Bugenhagen, Graduate Student, Beard Lab: "Multiscale modeling of the cardiovascular system in health and disease".
• Wednesday, September 28: Koryn Carver , Graduate Student, Harder Lab: "Rhythmic expression of CYP450 enzymes in cultured rat astrocytes and rat brain microvascular endothelial cells".

August

• Wednesday, August 3: Graduate Student Retreat
• Wednesday, August 10: ***No Seminar***
• Monday, August 15: Marina Vannucci, Professor, Department of Statistics, Rice University: "Bayesian Models for Variable Selection that Incorporate Biological Information". Located in the CVC Conference Room (HRC H4950)
• Wednesday, August 17: Kathleen (Beehner) Lukaszewicz, Graduate Student, Lombard Lab: “Role of Cytochrome P450-4A and 20-HETE Production in Vascular Dysfunction in the Dahl Salt-Sensitive Rat”.
• Wednesday, August 24: Sandra Brown-Ford, Graduate Student, Olivier Lab: - Seminar Postponed
• Wednesday, August 31: Domagoj Mladinov, Graduate Student, Liang Lab: "miRNAs Target Important Transporters and Channels in Nephron Segments".

July

• Wednesday July 13: Sheila Reagles, Graduate Student, Jacob Lab, MCW : " Knockout Rat Atherogenic Models ".
• Wednesday July 20: Justin Miller, Graduate Student, Forster Lab, MCW : " Carotid Afferents and Parafacial Neuronal Excitatory Effects on Breathing ".
• Wednesday July 27 : Allison Sarkis, Graduate Student, Jacob Lab, MCW: "Identification of Genes Contributing to Cardiac Hypoxia Response in Rats ".

June

• Wednesday June 8: Catherine Kaczorowski, Ph.D., Postdoctoral Fellow, Tryba Lab, MCW : " Novel role of TRPC3 in neurotrophin-initiated plasticity, neuronal excitability and spatial memory formation"
• Wednesday June 22 : Matthew Thompson, Graduate Student, Beard Lab, MCW : " Physiologically-based modeling in drug development and rish assessment".
• Wednesday June 29: Scott Canfield, Graduate Student, Bosnjak Lab, MCW: "Anesthetic preconditioning in human induced pluripotent stem cell-derived cardiomyocytes from healthy and diabetic patients".

May

• Wednesday May 4 : Thomas Kleyman, M.D., Professor of Medicine, Cell Biology, Physiology, Chief, Renal-Electrolyte Division, Department of Pharmacology and Cell Biology, University of Pittsburgh School of Medicine: "Regulation of Epithelial Sodium Channels by External Cues"
• Wednesday May 11: Matthew Hodges, Ph.D., Assistant Professor, Department of Physiology, Medical College of Wisconsin: "Mechanisms of Chemoreception: A New Approach to an Old Problem".
• Monday May 16: Student Choice Seminar HRC AUDITORIUM: Timothy J. Kamp, M.D., Ph.D., Stem Cell and Regenerative Medicine Center Cellular and Molecular Arrhythmia Research Program, Univerity of Wisconsin Medical School: "Human Pluripotent Stem Cells: Tools for Cardiovascular Medicine".
• Wednesday May 18: ****NO SEMINAR***
• Wednesday May 25: Mingyu Liang,Ph.D., Associate Professor, Department of Physiology, Medical College of Wisconsin:"MicroRNAs in Your Research Area".

April

• Wednesday April 6: Howard J. Jacob, Ph.D. Director, Human & Molecular Genetics Center, Warren P. Knowles Chair of Genetics, Professor, Dept. of Physiology & Pediatrics MCW, Vice Chair of Research, Dept. of Pediatrics, Children's Hospital of WI: "NextGen Sequencing. The End of a Career".
• Wednesday April 13: **NO SEMINAR**
• Monday April 18: Louis C. Evans, Doctoral Candidate, Centre for Cardiovascular Science, The Queen's Medical Research Institute, University of Edinburgh : "Evaluation of Renal Function and Water Homeostasis in a Mouse Model of the Syndrome of Apparent Mineralocortivoid Excess (AME)".
• Wednesday April 20: David R. Harder, Ph.D., Professor of Physiology, Medicine and Pediatrics, Kohler Co. Endowed Chair, Associate Dean of Research, Director of Metoring CTSI, MCW: "Matching Bloodflow to Neural Activity".
• Wednesday April 27: **NO SEMINAR**
• Thursday April 28: **DISSERTATION DEFENSE** Satarupa Das, Graduate Student, Mattson Lab, Department of Physiology, MCW: "Role of L-Arginine in Angiotensin II Induced Hypertension in Rats".
• Thursday April 28, 2:00 pm: Dewan Majid, M.D., Ph.D., Professor, Department of Physiology, Hypertension and Renal Center of Excellence, Tulane University School of Medicine: "TNF-alpha and Kidney Function".

March

• Wednesday March 2 : NO SEMINAR
• Wednesday March 9 : Seminar will take place in CVC Conference Room H4905 at 9:00 am, Daniel Goldstein, MBBS, Associate Professor, Internal Medicine-Cardiology, Yale School of Medicine :"How Aging Impacts Inflammation"
• Wednesday March 16: Katie Dunn, Ph.D., Postdoctoral Fellow, Department of Pharmacology, University of Vermont College of Medicine :"TRPV4-meadiated Ca2+ Signals in Cortical Perivascular Astrocytes".
• Wednesday March 23: Brian Carlson, Ph.D.,Research Scientist, Biotechnology and Bioengineering, MCW: "Systematic Evaluation of Cellular Mechanisms in the Myogenic Response".
• Wednesday March 30: Andrew K. Tryba, Ph.D., Assistant Professor, Department of Physiology, MCW: "TRP-ing Over Your Next Breath and Initiating a Seizure".

February

• February 2: Melinda Dwinell, Ph.D., Assistant Professor, Department of Physiology, MCW: "Making Sense of Phenotypes: Developing and Integrated Web Portal for Phenotype Data".
• February 9: Tohru Fukai, M.D., Ph.D., FAHA, Associate Professor, Department of Medicine, Section of Cardiology and Pharmacology, Center for Cardiovascular Research, University of Illinois at Chicago: "Novel Role of Copper Chaperone and Transporters in Oxidative Stress Dependent Vascular Disease".
• February 16: Carol Moreno-Quinn, M.D., Ph.D., Assistant Professor, Department of Physiology, MCW: "Tools for Dissecting the Genetics Determinants of Hypertension in the Rat"
• February 22: **DISSERTATION DEFENSE** Sarah Parker, Graduate Student- Greene Lab, Department of Physiology MCW: "Effect of Bone Marrow Derived Stem Cell Transfer on Cardiac Structure and Function during Hypertensive Heart Disease in the Salt-Sensitive Rat"
• February 23: Paul O'Connor, Ph.D., Assistant Professor, Department of Physiology MCW: "Cellular H+ efflux, NAD(P)H oxidase and renal disease in the Dahl salt-sensitive rat".

• January 5: Dave Mattson, Ph.D., Professor, Department of Physiology, MCW: " Enviromental factors and immune mechanisms in salt-sensitive hypertension and kidney disease"
• January 12: Michele Battle, Ph.D., Assistant Professor, Department of Cell Biology, Neurobiology and Anatomy, MCW: "Transcriptional regulation of intestinal development and function by GATA factors"
• January 19: Mike Flister, Ph.D., Post Doctoral Fellow, Jacob Lab, MCW: " Inflammation, lymphangiogenesis, and lymphatic endothelial progenitors".
• January 26: Sang Lee, Ph.D., Assistant Prpfessor, Department of Pharmacology and Toxicology, MCW: "Role of synaptic scaffolding proteins in synaptic plasticity and mental illness".

December

• December 1: Alison Kriegel, Ph.D., Postdoctoral Fellow-Liang Lab, Department of Physiology, MCW:"miRNAs in Renal EMT and Fibrosis"
• December 8: Stephen Duncan, Ph.D., Director, MCW Program in Regenerative Medicine and Stem Cell Biology, Department of Cell Biology, Neurobiology and Anatomy, MCW:" The Use of Human Pluripotent Stem Cells in the Study of Liver Development and Disease".
• December 15: **Dissertation Defense** Caitlin O'Meara, Graduate Student- Jacob Lab, Department of Physiology MCW:" Evaluation of Rat Chromosome Three in the Development of Kidney Disease in the FHH Rat".
• December 22 & 29: NO SEMINARS

November

• November 3: Matthew Thompson, Graduate Student-Beard Lab, Dept. of Physiology: " Virtual Boxes and Physiological Tape: Building a Rat to Study Xenobiotic Disposition"
• November 10: Domagoj Mladinov, Graduate Student- Liang Lab, Dept. of Physiology: "miRNAs Target Important Transporters and Channels in Nephron Segments"
• November 17: Hershel Raff, Ph.D., Professor of Medicine and Physiology, Medical College of Wisconsin Director of Endocrine Research, Aurora St. Luke's Medical Center: " Circadian HPA Axis Rhythms in Patients with End-Stage Renal Disease".
• November 24: ****NO SEMINAR****

October

• October 6: Satarupa Das, Graduate Student- Mattson Lab, Dept. of Physiology: "Effect of L-Arginine on Angiotensin II Induced Hypertension in Rats".
• October 13: **NO SEMINAR**
• October 20: Mark Knepper, M.D.,Ph.D., Chief, Laboratory of Kidney and Electrolyte Metabolism, NHLBI:" Application of Protein Mass Spectrometry to Discovery of Vasopressin Signaling Pathways in Renal Collecting Duct".
• October 27: Allen W. Cowley, Jr., Ph.D. Chairman and Professor Department of Physiology, Director, Cardiovascular Center, MCW:" The Kidney in Salt-Sensitive Hypertension".

September

• September 1: Debebe Gebremedhin, Ph.D., Associate Professor, Dept of Physiology: "An Aspect of Endogenous Mediators Regulating Cerebral Function".
• September 8: Scott P. Levick, Ph.D., Research Assistant Professor, School of Medicine, University of South Carolina: " Sensory Nerve and Cardiac Mast Cell Modulation of Myocardial Remodeling"
• September 15: Koryn Carver, Graduate Student-Harder lab: " Cicardian Expression of Expoxygenases Cyp2c11 and Cyp4x1 in the Rat Brain and Vasculature".
• September 22: Christopher Butson, Ph.D., Assistant Professor, Dept. of Neurology: "Therapeutic Effects and Mechanisms of Neuromodulation"
• September 29: Aron Geurts, Ph.D., Assistant Professor, Dept. of Physiology: "Manipulating the Rat Genome: Gene Knockout, Gene Knockin, What's Next?"

August

• August 4:Graduate Student Retreat Day
• August 11: Di (Raina) Feng, Graduate Student Cowley Lab, Dept. of Physiology: Role of NAD(P)H-Oxidase Subunit p67 Phox in Salt-Sensitive Hypertension and Renal Injury.
• August 16: James J. Tomasek, Ph.D. Professor, Dept. of Cell Biology, Dean of the Graduate College, University of Oklahoma: Mechanoregulation of Myofibroblast Formation and Function.
• August 17: Dissertation Defense Amy Cayemberg, Graduate Student Wakatsuki Lab, Dept of Physiology: The Role of Rho Kinase Isoforms in Fibroblast Contraction and Extracellular Matrix Production.
• August 18: Sarah Parker, Graduate Student, Greene Lab, Dept of Physiology: Adult Progenitor Cells in Hypertensive Heart Disease.
• August 25: NO SEMINAR

July

• July 7: Wim Van Drongelen, PhD., Professor Dept. of Neurology, Committee on Computational Neuroscience, The University of Chicago: "Spatiotemporal Characteristics of Neuronal Oscillation in Epilepsy".
• July 7: Anthony Rick, Graduate Student Beard Lab, Dept. of Physiology, MCW: "Identification of Catalytic Mechanism of Mitochondrial Malate Deyhydrogenase".
• July 14: Kevin Regner, M.D., FASN, Assistant Professor of Medicine, Division of Nephrology & Kidney Disease, MCW: "Role of 20-HETE in Renal Ischemia-Reperfusion Injury".
• July 21: Ogugua Anene-Maidoh, Graduate Student Greene Lab, Dept. of Physiology, MCW: "Role of Angiotensin1-7 in the Development of Cardiac Hypertrophy and Fibrosis".
• July 28: Pallabi Sarkar, Graduate Student Harder Lab, Dept. of Physiology, MCW: " The Effect of Amyloid Beta on Epoxygenase Activity in Brain".

June

• June 2: Margaret Wong-Riley, Ph.D., Professor Cell Biology, Neurobiology and Anatomy, MCW: " Neurochemical and Physiological Bases for a Critical Period of Respiratory Development in Rats".
• June 9: Daniel Beard, Ph.D., Professor Department of Physiology, Biotechnology and Bioengineering, MCW:"Control in Physiology: Why you Don't Have a Heart Attack Every Time you Walk Up a Flight of Stairs".
• June 9: Dissertation Defense Matthew Durand, Graduate Student, Lombard Lab, Department of Physiology, MCW: "Introgression of the Brown Norway Renin Allele onto the Dahl Salt Sensitive Genetic Background Restores Endothelial Function in Cerebral Resistance Arteries".
• June 16: Allison Sarkis, Graduate Student, Jacob Lab, Department of Physiology, MCW:"Identifying Genetic Components of Resistance to Myocardial Infarction using SS-6BN:.
• June 23: Kathleen Beehner, Graduate Student, Lombard Lab, Department of Physiology, MCW: "The Effect of a High Salt Diet on Vascular Regulation by 20-HETE".
• June 30: Changzoon Chun, Ph.D., Research Scientist I, Pediatrics, Genetics Division, MCW: "Hemagioblast (fli+:etsrp+) Development of the Lateral Plate Mesoderm in Zebrafish".

May

• May 5: Hubert V. Forster, Ph.D. Professor, Department of Physiology, MCW:" Plasticity of Ventilatory Control Mechanisms"
• May 12: Dissertation Defense Carmen De Miguel- Graduate Student, Mattson Lab Department of Physiology, MCW: " The Role of Renal Immune Cell Infiltration in Salt-Sensitive Hypertension."
• May 19: Charles J. Marcuccilli, M.D., Associate Professor, Department of Neurology, Division of Pediatric Neurology, MCW: "A Model for Pharmacogenetic Testing in the Treatment of Neurological Disorders".
• May 24 : Student Choice Seminar Kathy Griendling, Ph.D. Professor of Medicine, Emory University, Atlanta, GA "NADPH Oxidase in Vascular Biology".

April

• April 7: JJ Smith Memorial Lecture, John Mullins, Ph.D., Professor of Molecular Physiology, Queens Medical Research Institute, University of Edinburgh, U.K. "Genetics and Physiology of Hypertension: 'culture-clash' or 'sibling rivalry'?"
• April 12: Dissertation Defense, Lisamarie Collins, Graduate Student, Department of Physiology, MCW, "Proteomic Approach to Identify Candidate Genes Influencing High-Density Lipoprotein Particle Size in Obesity".
• April 14: Tetsuro Wakatsuki, Ph.D., Assistant Professor, Department of Physiology, Biotechnology & Bioengineering Center, MCW. " Scar Tissue in Skin and Heart: How to Trick Fibroblasts into Repairing the Damage Properly".
• April 21: Michael Olivier, Ph.D., Professor of Physiology, Department of Physiology, Biotechnology & Bioengineering Center, MCW. " The Wisconsin CEGS- Is it Not What is Sounds Like..".
• April 28: **NO SEMINAR** Experimental Biology Meeting

March

• March 3: NO SEMINAR
• March 10: Bassam Wakim, Ph.D., Associate Professor, Biochemistry, Protein Nucleic Acid Facility, MCW,: "Diagnostic Potential of the Urinary Proteome".
• March 17: Alexander Starushchenko, Ph.D., Assistant Professor, Physiology, MCW,: Title Pending
• March 24: Karim Si-Tayeb, Ph.D., Postdoctoral Fellow, Cell Biology, Neurobiology and Anatomy, Developmental and Cell Biology MCW,. "Human Stem Cells as a Model to study Human Liver Development and Disease.
• March 31: Mary Dallman, Ph.D., Professor Emerita, Department of Physiology, University of California, San Francisco,. "Fat Ingestion, Insulin and Hepatic Vagus".

January 2010

• Jan 6 Matthew R. Hodges, Ph.D., Assistant Professor, Dept of Physiology, MCW- The Role of Serotonergic Neurons in Respiratory and Temperature Control: Insights from Transgenic Mouse Models.
• Jan 13 Brian Link, Ph.D., Associate Professor, Dept of Cell Biology, Neurobiology and Anatomy, MCW- Cell Polarity and Organelle Dynamics Cooperate to influence Retinal Neurogenesis.
• Jan 20 Ozgur Ogut, Ph.D., Assistant Professor of Biology, Division of Cardiovascular Disease, Mayo Clinic- Regulation of Cardiac Muscle Contraction: Impact of the Thin Filament Post Translational State.
• Jan 27 Sylvain Baillet, Ph.D., Associate Professor of Neurology, Scientific Director, MEG Program, Dept of Neurology- Electromagnetic Functional Imaging at the Speed of Brain.

December 2009

• Dec. 2 Paul Goldspink, Ph.D., Assistant Professor, Dept of Medicine, University of Illinois- Molecular and Cellular Aspects of Cardiac Protection and Repair by Manipulating Local IGF-1.
• Dec. 9 Bassam Wakim, Ph.D., Associate Professor, Biochemistry Protein Nucleic Acid Facility, MCW- Diagnostic Potential of the Urinary Proteome.
• Dec. 16 Simon Twigger, Ph.D., Assistant Professor, Physiology and Genetics, MCW- The Informatics Forecast: Cloudy with a Chance of Hairballs.
• Dec. 23 NO SEMINAR
• Dec. 30 NO SEMINAR

November 2009

• Nov. 4- Julian Lombard, Ph.D., Professor, Physiology MCW- Protective Effect of Physiological Angiotensin II Levels to Preserve Endothelial Function and Maintain Vascular Relaxation: Implications for Salt-Sensitive Hypertension.
• Nov. 11- Gabor Raffai, Ph.D., Postdoctoral Fellow, Physiology MCW- Biomechanical Properties of Human Intracranial Aneurysms: What leads to their rupture?
• Nov. 18- Faiza Ben Mabrouk, Ph.D., Postdoctoral Fellow, Physiology MCW- Neuromodulation of rhythmic motor activities and intrinsic bursting properties: from locomotion to respiration.
• Nov. 19- Filip Sedlic- Dissertation Defense- The role of reactive oxygen species and partial mitochondrial depolarization in cardiac preconditioning.
• Nov. 25- NO SEMINAR

October 2009

• Oct. 7- Jefferson Frisbee, Ph.D, Associate Professor of Physiology and Pharmacology, West Virginia University, Microvascular Perfusion and Peripheral Vascular Disease: A Shift in Fractal Distribution Patterns?
• Oct. 14- Ranjan Dash, Ph.D., Associate Professor of Physiology, Biotechnology and Bioengineering, MCW- Mechanism-oriented computational modeling of mitochondrial bioenergetics and cation handling.
• Oct. 21- Mark Shapiro, Ph.D., Associate Professor of Physiology, University of San Antonio- Receptor-specific modulation of neuronal ion channels.
• Oct. 28- Terry Vanden Hoek, M.D., Associate Professor of Medicine, University of Chicago- Role of the Survival Kinase Akt in Resuscitation from Sudden Death.

September 2009

• Sept. 2 - Satarupa Das, Graduate Student - The anti-hypertensive role of L-Arginine on Angiotensin II induced hypertension in rats
• Sept. 9 - Daniel Beard, Associate Professor - Strong inference for systems biology
• Sept. 16 - Research Day, Christine E. Seidman, MD. - Cardiac Hypertrophy: Lessons from Mutations and Models
• Sept. 22 - Takefumi Mori, MD, PhD, Associate Professor - Paradigm shift of anti-aging from the ancient may explain the pathogenesis of chronic kidney disease
• Sept. 30 - Frank Park, PhD, Associate Professor - Receptor-independent G protein regulator modulates proliferation in PKD

August 2009

• August 5- Graduate Student Retreat Day
• August 12- Domagoj Mladinov, Graduate Student- MicroRNA in nephron segmental physiology.
• August 19- Dora Hargitai M.D., Semmelweis University- The Effect of Purinergic Receptor Activation and the Extracellular Ionic Enviroment on Calcium Entry in Human Airway Epithelial Cells.
• August 26- Ogugua Anene-Maidoh, Graduate Student- Role of Angiotension 1-7 in the development of cardiovascular fibrosis.

July 2009

• July 1 - Carmen De Miguel, Graduate Student- The role of renal immune cell infiltration in salt-sensitive hypertension.
• July 8 - Caitlin O' Meara, Graduate Student- The genetics of renal failure in the Fawn Hooded Hypertensive rat.
• July 13- Josh Bonis- Dissertation Defense- Insights into the role of pontine respiratory group in the control of breathing during physiologic conditions.
• July 15 - Di (Raina) Feng, Graduate Student- Role of p67 in the development of Salt-sensitive hypertension in Dahl S rats.
• July 22 - Sarah Parker, Graduate Student- Therapeutic efficacy of bone marrow derived progenitor cells during heart failure in the Dahl salt-sensitive rat.
• July 29 - Pallabi Sarkar, Graduate Student- Cytoprotective effect of EETs in brain.

June 2009

• June   3  -  Filip Sedlic, Graduate Student - Reactive oxygen species and mitochondria in anesthetic preconditioning
• June   5   - Gerald B. Spurr Memorial - Julio Reina, M.D. - Malnutrition, work capacity, and productivity
• June 10  -  Matthew Durand, Graduate Student - A congenic approach to understanding endothelial dysfunction in the cerebral circulation of  the Dahl SS rat
• June 17 -   Amy Cayemberg, Graduate Student - The effects of ROCK isoform knockdown on fibroblast contractility
• June 24  -  Edward Frohlich, M.D. - The role of salt in hypertension - it doesn't only raise blood pressure

May 2009

• May  7  -  Doris A. Taylor, Ph.D. - Cells for Prevention, Treatment and Cure of Cardiovascular Disease
• May 13  - CANCELLED
• May 20  -  Howard Jacob, Ph.D. - The changing landscape of animal models: Back to the future
• May 27  -  CANCELLED

April 2009

• April   1   -  Catherine Kaczorowski, Ph.D. - Plasticity of Intrinsic Excitability in learning and Aging
• April   2  -   Lucas Hart - Dissertation Defense - The effect of motor learning on protein expression and functional hyperemia in the cerebral cortex
• April   8  -  James Amos-Landgraf, Ph.D. - Building a better model of human colon cancer.  The development of the Pirc rat for genetics, genomics                    and toxicogenomics of tumor development and response
• April 15  -  Paula North, MD, Ph.D. - The life of an endothelial cell in infantile hemangioma: a story of proliferation, senescence, and death
• April 22  -  No Seminar
• April 29  -  Carlos Schreck, MD - Dilutional fluorescent method to measure glomerular albumin reflection coefficient in vitro

March 2009

• March  4   -  Cheryl Stucky, Ph.D. - TBA
• March 11  -   Aron Geurts, Ph.D. - That was yesterday, this is tomorrow - manipulating the rat genome to build the next generation of disease models
• March 18  -  Jeffery D. Molkentin, Ph.D. - Genetic dissection of MAPK signaling pathways in cardiac hypertrophy
• March 25  -  Kathryn LaNoue, Ph.D. - Glutamate metabolism in the brain, "What could go wrong?"
• March 30  -  Aaron Polichnowski - Dissertation Defense - Mechanisms of hypertension-induced renal injury
• March 31  -  Talha Akbulut - Dissertation Defense - Protective role of 20-HETE against renal ischemia and reperfusion injury

February 2009

• Feb.  4   -  Richard Roman, Ph.D. - Use of Consomic and Congenic strains of rats for dissecting the genetic basis of hypertension and renal disease
• Feb. 11  -   Ramani Ramchandran, Ph.D. - Navigation of Vessels: Lessons Learned from Axon Guidance
• Feb. 18  -  Michael Widlansky, M.D. - Mitochondrial Homeostasis and Vascular Endothelial Dysfunction in Diabetes
• Feb. 25  -  Paul O'Connor, Ph.D. - Identifying the source of oxidative stress in the salt-sensitive kidney

January 2009

• Jan. 7   -  Tetsuro Wakatsuki, Ph.D. - Engineered tissue based high-throughput functional genomic analysis
• Jan. 14 -   Hartmut Weiler, Ph.D. - Innate immunity and the blood coagulation syster
• Jan. 21 -  Hubert (Bert) Forster, Ph.D. - What stimulates breathing: rest, (awake and asleep) and exercise?
• Jan. 23 -  Ryan D. Schulteis - Master's Thesis Defense - Impaired survival of peripheral T cells, disrupted NK/NKT cell development, and liver failure in mice lacking gimap5
• Jan. 28 -  Melinda Dwinell, Ph.D. - Phenotypes and disease models: lessons from the PGA

December 2008

• Dec. 3   -  Dissertation Defense - Daniel Brozoski, Grad Student - Effects of endocannbinoids in the central control of the baroreflex in hypertensive and normotensive rats
• Dec. 10 -   Cancelled
• Dec. 17 -  Andrew Tryba, Ph.D. - TRPing over your next breath & the role of neuromodulators in rhythm generation during breathing and seizing
• Dec. 24 -  No Seminar
• Dec. 31 -  No Seminar

November 2008

• Nov. 5   -  Nashaat Gerges, Ph.D. - Role of neurogranin in synaptic plasticity balance
• Nov. 12 -   Mingyu Liang, MB, Ph.D. - MicroRNA and systems molecular medicine
• Nov. 19 -  Toku Takahashi, MD, Ph.D. - Effects of acute and chronic stress on gastric motor function
• Nov. 26 -  No Seminar

October 2008

• Oct. 1 -    Frans Leenen, M.D., Ph.D. - The brain and salt-sensitive hypertension
• Oct. 8 -   Anthony G. Hudetz, Ph.D. - Neural correlates of anesthesia??
• Oct. 15 -  Lisamarie Collins - A proteomic approach to identify candidate genes influencing HDL particle size in obesity
• Oct. 22 -  Hershel Raff, Ph.D. - Cushing' Syndrome: From basic physiology to diagnosis and differential diagnosis
• Oct. 29 -  Talha Akbulut - The role of 20-HETE in ischemia and reperfusion injury

September 2008

• Sept. 3 -    Alan Sinaiko, MD - Insulin resistance vs. BMI in the development of cardiovascular risk
• Sept. 10 -  Carmane De Miguel - Renal infiltration of immune cells and hypertension
• Sept. 17 -  Satarupa Das - The effects of L-Arginine on Angiotensin-II infused hypertensive rats
• Sept. 24 -  Debebe Gebremedhin, Ph.D. - Oxidant modulation of mechanisms regulating cerebral vascular function
• Sept. 25 -  Simon Malpas, Ph.D. - The role of the sympathetic nervous system in the development of cardiovascular disease

August 2008

• Aug. 6 -  Graduate Students Retreat Day
• Aug. 13 -  Amy Cayemberg - The role of Rho Kinase in fibroblast contraction and cardiac fibrosis
• Aug. 15 - James R. Schmidt, Dissertation Defense - The role of the renin angiotensin system in the control of blood flow in the rat
• Aug. 20 - Matthew Durand - Regulatin of the renin gene and its role in maintaining normal vascular relaxation mechanisms
• Aug. 27 - Di Feng - Determination of the role of p67 in the development of salt-sensitive Dahl S rats
• Aug. 27 - Sarah Parker - Techniques for the relative quantitation of proteins involved in angiogenesis

July 2008

• July  2 -  Michael Michalkiewicz, Ph.D. - Epigenetics of hypertension and renal disease
• July  9 -  Aaron Polichnowski - Mechanisms of renal injury in hypertensive models with altered angiotensin II and Nitric Oxide
• July 16 - James Stockand, Ph.D. - Hypertension in P2Y2 receptor-deficient mice is caused by constitutive activation of ENaC
• July 23 - Allen W. Cowley, Jr., Ph.D. - Mechanisms of renal medullary oxidative stress in salt-sensitive hypertension
• July 30 - Lucas Hart - Cerebral cortex blood flow responses in skilled behavior and motor learning

June 2008

• June  4 -  Daniel Brozoski - The role of endocannabinoids in the central control of the baroreflex in hypertensive and normotensive rats
• June 11 - Ashraf El-Meanawy M.D., Ph.D. - Oligonephronia in the Oligosyndactyly mouse
• June 18 - No Seminar
• June 25 - Josh Bonis - Modulation of the pontine respiratory group alters breathing and sleep

May 2008

• May  7 -  Diane Munzenmaier, Ph.D. - Angiotensins and vascular growth: the controversy continues
• May 12 - JJ Smith Lecture, Dr. Eric O. Feigl - Control of coronary blood flow during exercise (Why we don't die when we walk up the stairs)
• May 14 - Ronald M. Harper, Ph.D. - Imaging of brain structure in sleep-disordered breathing
• May 20 - Master's Thesis, Matthew Brown - Vascular remodeling in a rat model of unilateral pulmonary artery hypoplasia
• May 21 - Jordan Miller, Ph.D. - Oxidative stress in calcific aortic valvular stenosis
• May 27 - Dissertation Defense, Alison Kriegel - Substitution of Brown Norway chromosome 16 preserves cardiac function with aging in a salt-sensitive Dahl consomic rat
• May 28 - Ellis Avner, M.D. - New insights into cellular pathophysiology of polycystic kidney disease

April 2008

• April  2 -  Jan Williams, Ph.D. - The progression of renal disease in the Dahl S rat vs. the FHH rat: Who's your money on?
• April  9 -  No Seminar
• April 14 - Nader Abraham, Ph.D. - Functional expression of heme oxygenase-stem cells in obesity and metabolic syndrome
• April 15 - Peter Hunter, Ph.D., FRS - Multi-scale modeling and computational physiology
• April 16 - Michael Harrison, Dissertation Defense - The comparative genetics of Phosducin, a novel candidate gene for hypertension
• April 17 - Lutz Hein, MD - Adrenergic signaling at the interface between neuronal and cardiovascular systems
• April 23 - Robin L. Davisson, Ph.D. - Student Choice Speaker - Physiological genomic analysis of cardiovascular disease
• April 30 - David Harder, Ph.D. - To Be Announced

March 2008

• March  4 -  Raymond C. Koehler, Ph.D. - Mechanisms of neurovascular coupling
• March  5 -  Kathryn Dunn, Dissertation Defense - The role of 20-HETE in ischemic stroke sensitivity and cerebral vascular oxidative stress in spontaneous hypertension
• March 12 - Simon Twigger, Ph.D. - Seven bioinformatics secrets you need to know
• March 19 - Katie Krause, Dissertation Defense - The role of the pre-Botzinger Complex in respiratory rhythmogenesis and chemosensitivity during physiologic conditions
• March 26 - Alexander Starushchenko, Ph.D. - Acute regulation of the Epithelial Na+ Channel by P13-kinase signaling

February 2008

• Feb.  6 -  Anthony Hudetz, DBM, Ph.D. - Neural correlates of anesthesia
• Feb. 13 - Gabor Raffai, Ph.D. - Adaptation of the cardiovasculary system to gravitational loading: systemic hemodynamic and regional vascular responses to acute and chronic orthostasis
• Feb. 20 - Jeanne Seagard, Ph.D. - Endocannabinoid modulation of baroreflex control
• Feb. 27 - Kirk Pritchard, Ph.D. - Matrix instability and impaired angiogenesis in tight skin mice - a murine model for systemic sclerosis

January 2008

• Jan.  2 -  No Seminar
• Jan.  9 -  Philip Clifford, Ph.D. - Reedforward skeletal muscle vasodilation at the onset of exercise.
• Jan. 16 - Daniel Beard, Ph.D. - Simulation and analysis of coronary oxygen transport and cardiac energy metabolism.
• Jan. 23 - David Rector, Ph.D. - High frequency oscillations (200-600Hz) and their role in sensory processing.
• Jan. 30 - David Mattson, Ph.D. - Protein-sensitive hypertension and renal disease in Dahl SS rats.

December 2007

• Dec. 5     -  No Seminar
• Dec. 12   -  Zeljko Bosnjak, Ph.D. - Protection against ischemia and reperfusion injury
• Dec. 19   -  Yong Liu, Ph.D. - 11B-hydroxysteroid dehydrogenase 1: from adipogenesis to salt-sensitive hypertension
• Dec. 26   -  No Seminar

November 2007

• Nov. 7     -  Julie Freed, Disseration Defense - Proteomic analysis of shear stress-mediated protection from apoptosis in endothelial cells
• Nov. 14   -  Paul O'Connor, Ph.D. - Oxidative stress in the renal medulla of salt-sensitive rats
• Nov. 21   -  Thanksgiving Week - No Seminar
• Nov. 27  -   Kelly Duffy, Dissertation Defense - Functional genetic analysis of pathogenic chromosomal copy number variation in Down syndrome and Proteus syndrome
• Nov. 28   -  Bradford C. Berk, MD, Ph.D. - Genetics of vascular remodeling

October 2007

• Oct. 3    -  Andrew S. Greene, Ph.D. - Recent progress in the Greene Lab
• Oct. 10  -  Marc Chevalier, Ph.D. - Body rhythms linked to ion channel activity: focus on epilepsy disorders
• Oct. 17  -  Jean F. Liard, MD, Ph.D. - Bumps on the translational highway
• Oct. 24  -  Satarupa Das, Grad Student - Role of immune cells in the development of hypertension and kidney disease
•                  Carmen De Miguel, Grad Student - Effects of L-Arginine infusion on Angiotensin II-induced hypertension
• Oct. 31  -  Howard Jacob, Ph.D. - Linking the Framingham Heart Study to the Program in Genomic Applications

September 2007

• Sept. 12  -  Hartmut Weiler, Ph.D. - Protein C Pathway in the Treatment and Pathogenesis of Sepsis
• Sept. 19 -  Lucas Hart - The role of the neurovascular unit in learning
• Sept. 26 -  Michael Olivier, Ph.D. - Human functional Disease Genetics: The trials and Tribulations of NOT Working with Rats

August 2007

• Aug. 1   -  Allen Cowley, Jr. - Hypertension and pressure-natriuresis in theory and practice
• Aug. 8   -  Graduate Student Retreat
• Aug. 15 -  Aaron Polichnowski - Hypertension-induced renal damage
• Aug. 22 -  Daniel Brozoski - The role of endocannabinoids in the central control of the baroreflex
• Aug. 29 -  Domagoj Mladinov - Further understanding the mechanism of hypertension - analysis of eNOS promoter
• Aug. 29 -  Talha Akbulut - The role of cytochrome P450 following ischemia-reperfusion injury in the rat kidney

July 2007

• July 4  - Holiday
• July 11 - Josh Bonis - The pons: where do we go, how do we get there, and what does it do for breathing
• July 20 - Steven R. Goldsmith, MD - Vasopressin antagonism in heart failure and hyponatremia: theory and current practice
• July 25 - Alison Kriegel - Characterization of idiopathic left ventricular hypertrophy and impaired cardiac function in the SS-16BN/Mcwi consomic rat

June 2007

• June 6  - Kelly Duffy - Somatic partial chromosome 11 duplication in patients with Proteus syndrome
• June 14 - Kimberly Pechman, Dissertation Defense - The long term effects of altered structure and function following acute renal failure
• June 20 - Katie Dunn - The role of 20-HETE in ischemic stroke and cerebral vascular dysfunction in the stroke prone rat
• June 27- Katie Krause - The pre-Botzinger complex may not be the sole determinant of respiratory rhythm

May 2007

• May 2   - No Seminar
• May 9   - Mingyu Liang, Ph.D. - MicroRNA
• May 16 - Thomas Feroah, Ph.D. - Assessing novel and circadian movement behavior in parental and ENU knockout inbred strains of rats
• May 23 - Edward Smith, Ph.D. - Fine-mapping a human QTL associated with the lipid profile
• May 30 - Tetsuro Wakatsuki, Ph.D. - To Be Determined

April 2007

• April 4   - Xujing Wang, Ph.D. - Network modeling of gene expression data
• April 11 - Hubert Forster, Ph.D. - Muscle activation patterns and neural mechanisms regulating multiple behaviors utilizing the respiratory muscles
• April 18 - Michael Michalkiewicz, DVM, Ph.D. - Validation of a candidate disease gene with inclusion of epigenomic tools
• April 24 - Jeffrey Eckert, Grad Student Dissertation Defense - The role of protein tyrosine phosphatase 1 beta sequence variants in human obesity
• April 25 - Donald Bowden, Ph.D. - Genetics studies of diabetes, metabolic dysregulation, and their complications in diverse human populations
• April 26 - Kevin Campbell, Ph.D. - Student Choice Seminar - Maintenance of cell membrane integrity and the pathogenesis of muscular dystrophy, 3:30 HRC Auditorium

March 2007

• March 7 - Andrew Tryba, Ph.D. - Mechanisms of rhythm generation in neocortical epilepsy
• March 14 - Melinda Dwinell, Ph.D. - Who's on first? Deciphering chromosome1 using consomic rats
• March 21 - Scott McEwen, Grad Student Dissertation Defense - The role of AT-1 receptor signaling to restore cerebrovascular relaxation mechanisms
• March 22 - Abraham P. Provoost, Ph.D. - Physiological genomics of renal damage and blood pressure in the FHH rat
• March 29 - Jasna Marinovic, Grad Student Dissertation Defense - The role of sarcolemmal KATP channel in cardiac preconditioning and apoptosis
• March 30 - Marko Ljubkovic, Grad Student Dissertation Defense - Cardiomyocyte resistance to injury can be enhanced by modulation of mitochondrial K+ homeostasis

February 2007

Note Thursday Seminar

• Feb. 7 - Frank Park, Ph.D. - The nuts and bolts about lentiviral vectors
• Feb. 14 - Rajesh Khanna, Ph.D. - Ion channel trafficking: from molecule to malady
• Feb. 22 - Michael Garrett, Ph.D. - Searching for the molecular basis of renal disease in the Dahl salt-sensitive rat: linkage analysis, congenic strains, and fine-mapping using recombinant progeny testing
• Feb. 28 - Kalyan Vinnakota, Ph.D. - pH dynamics, glycogenolysis and phosphoenergetics in isolated cell free reconstituted systems and in mouse skeletal muscle

January 2007

• Jan. 3  -  No Seminar
• Jan. 10 - Julian Lombard, Ph.D. - Role of Angiotensin II in regulating vascular relaxation mechanisms: more new verses to an old song
• Jan. 17 - No Seminar
• Jan. 24 - Simon Twigger, Ph.D. - Annotating the List - bioinformatic approaches to experimental data annotation
• Jan. 31 - Tatjana Adamovic, Ph.D. - Identification and characterization of cancer genes in hormone-dependent tumors: molecular genetic analysis  in rat models of endometrial and mammary cancer