University of Tennessee Health Science Center

Department of Molecular Sciences

 

2012-2013

Seminar Schedule

 

All seminars are held on Mondays at 4:00 pm in A202 GEB. See seminar announcement for the speaker summary. There is a map for the campus. http://www.uthsc.edu/map/. Refreshments at 3:45.

 

Last updated Oct. 4, 2012

 

Date

Speaker

Affiliation

Title

Host

 

 

 

 

 

September

10

 

 

 

 

September

17

 

 

 

 

 

September

24

 

 

 

 

October

1

 

 

 

 

October

8

David Haake, M.D., Professor of Medicine, Microbiology, Immunology and Molecular Genetics

The David Geffen School of medicine, UCLA, Los Angeles. CA

Maintenance Host Vaccines for prevention of leptospirosis

Maria Gomes-Solecki

October

17*

note Wed. not Monday

 

Prof. Dr. Klaus Schughart, Ph.D.

Helmholtz Centre for Infection Research & University of Veterinary Medicine Hannover, Germany

Host genetic susceptibility to influenza A infection – mouse mutants and populations

Mike Whitt

October

22

Jeffery Steketee, Ph.D. Professor

Dept. of Pharmacology, UTHSC

Stop or Go: the Prefrontal Cortex and Substance Abuse.

Fruz Pourmotabbed

October

 29

 

 

 

 

November

5

RK Rao, Ph.D.

Dept. of Physiology, UTHSC

 

Fruz Pourmotabbed

November

12

 

 

 

 

November

19

 

 

 

 

November

26

 

 

 

 

December 3

Chistopher Waters, Ph.D.

Dept. of Physiology, UTHSC

 

Fruz Pourmotabbed

December

10

Yi Lu

 

Inhibition of VEGF signaling pathway in breast cancer by biological and chemical therapeutic approaches.

Fruz Pourmotabbed

December 17

 

 

 

 

December 24

Holiday break

 

 

 

December

31

New Years

 

 

 

January

7

 

 

 

 

January

14

 

 

 

 

January

21

Martin Luther King Jr. Holiday

 

 

 

January

28

 

 

 

 

February

4

 

 

 

 

February

 11

 

 

 

 

February

18

 

 

 

 

February

25

A. P. Naren, Ph.D., Professor

Dept. of Physiology, UTHSC

Targeting Cystic Fibrosis Transmembrane Conductance Regulator (CFTR)

Fruz Pourmotabbed

March

4

 

 

 

 

March

11

 

 

 

 

March

18

Matthew Ennis, Ph.D. Professor

Dept. of Anatomy and Neurobiology, UTHSC

Glomeruli: Dynamic Portals into the olfactory brain

L. Albritton

March

25

Monica M. Jablonski, Ph.D.,

Professor of Opthamology

Hamilton Eye Institute

and Dept. of Anatomy and Neurobiology, UTHSC

Genetic Modulation of the Iris Transillumination Defect: A Systems Genetic Analysis Using the Expanded Family of BXD Glaucoma Strains

 

April

1

Clinton F. Stewart, Pharm.D.,

Member

St. Jude Childrens Research Hospital, Dept. of Pharmaceutical Sciences

Incorporating Preclinical Pharmacokinetics in Drug Development processes for Pediatric Brain Tumors

 

April

8

Anton J Reiner, Ph.D.,

 

Dept. of Anatomy and Neurobiology UTHSC

Therapy for Huntingtons Disease: Targeting Corticostriatal Transmission

L. Albritton

April

15

Xiong Deng, Ph.D. Research Assistant professor

Dept. of Pharmacology

Fox)1 Regulates SREBP-1c Gene Expression

Rod Hori

April

22

Michael P. McDonald, Ph.D.,

Associate Professor

Dept. of Neuroscience, UTHSC

 

Fruz Pourmotabbed

April

29

Charles O. Rock, Ph.D., Member

St. Jude Childrens Research Hospital, Dept. of Infectious Diseases

Bacterial Lipid Metabolism: Unique Biochemistry and Drug Discovery

John Cox

Special Seminar May

3 at noon

Victor Nizet, M.D., Professor

Division of Pediatric Pharmacology and Drug Discovery, Dept. of Pediatrics and School of Pharmacy, UCSD

 

Mike Whitt

May

13

Shan-Lu Liu, Ph.D., Associate Professor

University of Missouri, College of Medicine, Dept of Molecular Microbiology and Immunology

 

L. Albritton

May

20

Daruka Mahadevan, M.D., Ph.D.

Professor

College of Medicine, Division of Hematology, UTHSC

 

Marko Radic