Current Topics in Pharmacology 2000-2001 Schedule
Meets: Wednesdays 12:30 PM
Room: T-473 HSB
| October | ||
| 4 | Stan McKnight | A CRE-LOX Assault on the Insulin Receptor |
| 11 | Katie Day | Sexual Repression: does methylation kill the Mojo?? |
| 18 | Cindy Reiner | Cash in on ATM signalling |
| 25 | Danielle Ippolito | Making the Silence Painful: Using LTP to define a role for silent glutamatergic synapses in nociception |
| November | ||
| 1 | Doug Howe | Stem Cells and CNS cell transplant therapy |
| 8 | Kavita Shah | An Evolutionary and Functional Rationale for Hormonal Regulation of Osteoporosis |
| 15 | Charles Chavkin | An Exciting Role for a Phosphate Transporter |
| 22 | Lisa Walter | What an ICE idea: Caspase inhibition as a potential treatment of neurodegenerative disorders |
| 29 | Drew Mhyre | Dendritic Spines: The Other Side of the Synapse |
| December | ||
| 6 | Canceled | |
| January | ||
| 3 | William Catterall | Just SNARE 'em: Reconstitution of Vesicle Fusion from Pure Proteins |
| 10 | Jeremy Celver | A toll for the innate immune system: Immune cell activation by CpG DNA |
| 17 | Scott Auerbach | The Role of Nuclear Receptors FXR and LXR in Cholesterol Homeostasis |
| 24 | Heidi Iverson | A Tasty Talk: The umami and bitter taste receptors |
| 31 | Kimberly Burton | Genetic Analysis of Male Infertility |
| February | ||
| 7 | Valeria Vasta | SURVIVOR 3: Cells are Voted Out by Trophic Factor Deprivation |
| 14 | Susan Hamilton | Purging the Plaques"; Reductions in plaque burden and cognitive deficits by Aß immunization in mouse models of Alzheimers |
| 21 | Jennifer Fitzpatrick | SIR2: A Metabolic Sensor for Aging |
| 28 | Open | |
| March | ||
| 7 | Joe Beavo | Protease activated receptors: PAR for the course |
| 28 | Margaret Allen | Insulin release from ß -Cells: cAMP dependent, PKA dependent , PKA anchored and cAMP dependent, PKA independent mechanisms |
| April | ||
| 4 | Nephi Stella | Sphingosine 1-phosphate induces cell motility: lets move on! |
| 11 | Randall Moon | Signal Transduction on the Web: Comparing STKE, Biocarta & AFCS |
| 18 | Edith Wang | Sequencing of the Human Genome |
| 25 | Jennifer Glick | Ghrelin, the newest player in body weight regulation |
| May | ||
| 2 | Neil Nathanson | The Ins and Outs of Glutamate Receptors: Making Silent Synapses Shout and Shouting Synapses Shut Up |
| 9 | Ben Cheyette | Opposites attract...or repel...or both: Axon guidance through the looking glass |
| 16 | Open | |
| 23 | Bruce Tempel | Interesting targeting of SODIUM channels (concessions of a K channel guy) |
| 30 | Sandy Bajjalieh | A old pore returns to the fore: The vacuolar proton pump and membrane fusion |




