Seminars – Fall, 2009

 

Generally on Thursdays, 3:30-4:30 PM, in 526 Nash

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  Date 

Speaker

Title or Topic

Sept.  10No seminar(Annual Departmental Meeting)
Sept.  17Leta Nutt, Ph.D.
Assistant Member
Dept. of Biochemistry
St. Jude Children’s Research Hospital
host: Dr. David Nutting
"Metabolic regulation of programmed cell death"
Sept.  24Himabindu Penmatsa, M.Sc.
Graduate Research Assistant
Dept. of Physiology and College of Graduate Health Sci., UTHSC
mentor: Dr. AP Naren
"Compartmentalized cAMP clusters PDE3A and CFTR into microdomains"
Oct.  1Ted S. Strom, M.D., Ph.D
Assistant Professor, Dept. of Pathology & Director, Hematology Lab, VAMC Lab. Medicine, UTHSC		"Enhanced phagocytosis of antibody-opsonized WASP(-) platelets contributes to the thrombocytopenia of WAS (Wiscott-Aldrich Syndrome)"
Oct.  8John D. Schuetz, Ph.D.
Member, Dept. Pharmaceutical Sci., St. Jude Children’s Research Hospital
host: Dr. AP Naren
Porphyrin transporters
Oct.  15 Ingrid Fleming, Ph.D.
Prof. Physiology (Vascular Signaling), Goethe University, Frankfurt-am-Main, Germany
host: Dr. Gadiparthi Rao
Vascular homeostasis: Molecular mediators and cellular mechanisms
Oct.  22Maria J.C. Gomes-Solecki, D.V.M.
Assistant Professor, Dept. of Molecular Sci. UTHSC; and

Founder & Research Dir., Biopeptides Corp. (aka Memphis Biopeptides)

host: Dr. RK Rao

TBA
Oct.  29Lester VanMiddlesworth, M.D., Ph.D.       

Professor Emeritus            

Depts. of Physiology & Medicine             

UTHSC
"Natural radium background in bovine and human thyroid glands"
Nov. 5Jena J. Steinle, Ph.D.

Associate Professor                          

Depts. of  Ophthalmology and             

Anatomy &  Neurobiology, UTHSC		"Beta-adrenergic receptor regulation of retinal vasculature and neuronal cells"
Nov. 12None—replaced by Hypertension Research Day,   Wed. Nov. 11th 8 AM-noon) - http://hrd.utmem.edu

Nov. 19Franklin Garcia-Godoy, D.D.S., M.S.
Professor
Dept. of Periodontology

& Executive Dean for Research*                

College of Dentistry, UTHSC
"Research at the dental school:  Overview of the multi-potency of stem cells derived from the periodontal ligament"
Nov.  26None—Thanksgiving holiday

Dec. 3
Claire M. Doerschuk, M.D.
Professor
Dept. of Med (Immunology)              

Univ. North Carolina College of Med. & UNC Comprehensive Cancer Center            Chapel Hill, N.C.    

host: Dr. Kaushik Parthasarathi

Host defense mechanisms in the lungs
Dec. 10Martha Cathcart, Ph.D.
Professor
Depts. of Cell Biology

& Cardiovascular Medicine

The Cleveland Clinic
TBA
Dec. 17Samuel Dagogo-Jack, M.D.
Professor and Division Chief
Dept. of  Medicine, Div. Endocrinology
UTHSC
"Leptin regulation and human metabolic pathophysiology"
 

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Seminars resume Jan. 7, 2010:

 

Jan. 7:     Veronica Garcia-Conoley, B.A.

S1 of H5N1 interacts with SAP-97 in a PDZ-dependent manner to disrupt epithelial

 

Jan. 14:   Dr. Catherine Proenza,  Ph.D.,  Univ. Colorado SOM

Topic:  Molecular physiology of cardiac pacemaking

(host = Dr. Kristen O’Connell)