Colloquia are held on Mondays at 11:30 a.m. in the Anders Room (4-6912)
unless otherwise noted.
Complete List for Fall 2009 |
*August 10
(10:00 a.m, 2-6408)
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Thesis Defense
Camelia N. Mihaila
(Dr. Margot Mayer-Proschel, Advisor)
"The Impact of Iron Deficiency on Glial Lineage Development and Myelination" |
September 14 |
Thesis Proposal
Meital Gabay
(Laboratory of Dr. Gregory G. Tall)
"Deciphering The Role Of The Non-receptor Guanine Nucleotide Exchange Factor Ric-8A in Cell Division and G Protein Mediated Signaling" |
September 21 |
Erik L. Allman
(Laboratory of Dr. Keith Nehrke)
"Optogenetic Analysis of Synaptic Function"
Laura B. Fornarola
(Laboratory of Dr. Robert S. Freeman)
"The Peptide-prolyl Isomerase Pin1 Facilitates Cytokine-induced Survival of Eosinophils by Suppressing Bax Activation"
|
September 28 |
Yelena V. Lerman
(Laboratory of Dr. Alan V. Smrcka)
"Evidence for the Second, High-affinity G-beta-gamma Binding Site on G-alpha-1-GDP"
Vivek Nanda
(Laboratory of Dr. Joseph M. Miano)
"Leiomodin is an Actin Filament Nucleator in Muscle Cells" |
October 5 |
Tricia M. Nienaber
(Laboratory of Dr. David I. Yule)
"Deranged Calcium Signaling and Neurodegeneration in Spinocerebellar Ataxia"
Oded N. Spindel
(Laboratory of Dr. Bradford C. Berk)
"PARP-1 Inhibition Prevents Oxidative and Nitrosative Stress-induced Endothelial Cell Death via Transactivation of the VEGF Receptor 2" |
October 19 |
Xi Shi
(Laboratory of Dr. Bradford C. Berk)
"RSK: Pathogenic Mediator and Potential Drug Target in I/R" |
October 26 |
Ana V. Nunes
(Laboratory of Dr. Mark D. Noble)
"Cisplatin Negatively Affects the CNS and Erythroprotein Partially Prevents These Effects" |
*October 29
(Thursday, 11:30 a.m.,
3-6408) |
Thesis Defense
Keigan M. Park
(Drs.William Bowers and David Yule, Co-advisors)
"Regulation of the Inositol (1,4,5) Trisphosphate Receptor by Tumor Necrosis Factor-alpha" |
*November 10
(Tuesday, 2:00 p.m.) |
Thesis Proposal
Pui-Yee Chan
(Laboratory of Dr. Gregory G. Tall)
"Defining the Mechanism of Ric-8 Protein-stimulated Nucleotide Exchange and Determining the Kinetic Properties of Ric-8B, A Putative G Protein Alpha s GEF" |
November 16 |
Thesis Proposal
Nicole M. Boschi
(Laboratory of Dr. A. William Tank)
"Determining the Role of Poly(c)-Binding Protein 2 in the Cyclic AMP-mediated Induction of Tyrosine Hydroxylase mRNA Translation in Midbrain Dopaminergic Neurons" |
*November 20
(Friday, 1:30 p.m.,
2-6408) |
Thesis Proposal
Lianghui Zhang
(Laboratory of Dr. Alan V. Smrcka)
"Phospholipase C-epsilon Plays a Convergent Role Downstream of Diverse Cardiac Signaling Pathways" |
November 30 |
Thesis Proposal
Wei Kan
(Laboratory of Dr. Alan V. Smrcka)
"Direct Scaffolding of G Protein Subunits and Phospholipase C-beta to the Third Intracellular Loops of Muscarinic and Adrenergic Receptors" |
December 7 |
Andrew P. Wojtovich
(Laboratory of Dr. Paul S. Brookes)
"Title TBA"
|
*December 8
(Tuesday) |
Thesis Defense
Axel L. Dessal
(Dr.Alan V. Smrcka, Advisor)
"Title TBA" |
December 14 |
Soner Gundemir
(Laboratory of Dr. Gail V. W. Johnson)
"Title TBA" |
