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

November 2009

 

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  • 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

 

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  • 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

 

Sunday Monday Tuesday Wednesday Thursday Friday Saturday
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  • 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

 

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  • 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

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  • 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

Sunday Monday Tuesday Wednesday Thursday Friday Saturday
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  • 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

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  • 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

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  • 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

Sunday Monday Tuesday Wednesday Thursday Friday Saturday
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  • 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

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  • 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

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  • 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

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  • 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

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  • 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

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  • 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

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  • 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

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  • 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

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  • 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

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  • 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

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  • 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

Sunday Monday Tuesday Wednesday Thursday Friday Saturday
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       12:00 Noon

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       10:00 am

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  • 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

Sunday Monday Tuesday Wednesday Thursday Friday Saturday
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  • 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

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  • 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

Sunday Monday Tuesday Wednesday Thursday Friday Saturday
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  • 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

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  • 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

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  • 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

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  • 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

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  • Sept. 5   -  Richard Roman, Ph.D. - Effects of a novel selective metalloprotease inhibitor on hypertension and diabetic nephropathy
  • 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

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  • 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

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  • 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

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  • 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

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  • 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

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  • 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

Sunday Monday Tuesday Wednesday Thursday Friday Saturday
        1 2 3
4 5 6
7    Seminar
8 9 10
11 12 13 14   Seminar 15 16 17
18 19 20 21   Seminar 1:00 pm 22   Seminar 23 24
25 26 27 28   29   Seminar 10:00 30   Seminar 1:00 pm 31
  • 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

Sunday Monday Tuesday Wednesday Thursday Friday Saturday
        1 2 3
4 5 6
7    Seminar
8 9 10
11 12 13 14   Seminar 15 16 17
18 19 20 21   22   Seminar 23 24
25 26 27 28   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

Sunday Monday Tuesday Wednesday Thursday Friday Saturday
  1 2 3     No Seminar 4 5 6
7 8 9
10   Seminar
11  12 13
14 15 16 17    No Seminar 18 19 20
21 22 23 24   Seminar 25 26 27
28 29  30 31   Seminar      
  • 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
 
 
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