Current Topics in Pharmacology 2003-2004 Schedule
Meets: Wednesdays 12:30 PM
Room: T-473 HSB
| October | 1 | Stanley McKnight | Typos Can Neutralize a WMD |
| 8 | Travis Biechele | How the COPs Know Who to Haul Away | |
| 15 | Paige Cundiff | Taking a Detour in the Amyloid Cascade Hypothesis: The Road to Recovering Memories Lost in Alzheimer's Disease | |
| 22 | Alexandra Few | NCS-1: a Sensitive Sensor of Calcium and its Role in Short-term Facilitation of Synaptic Transmission | |
| 29 | Seth Goldenberg | King of the PAK; Recent Advances in the Regultaion of Group II p21-activated Kinases (PAKs) | |
| November | 5 | Kaori Ikeda | Neuroligins and Neurexins in Synaptogenesis |
| 12 | Tom Hinds | Parkinson's Disease: A Case for Cyclooxygenase Involvement in Neurodegeneration | |
| 19 | Martha Port | No Signaling in Plants | |
| 26 | Paul Amieux | Heterochromatin: There's More Going On Than Meets The Eye | |
| December | 3 | Nephi Stella | An Obituary for Apoptosis |
| 10 | Charles Chavkin | How Far Have We Come in Understanding the Neurological Basis of Schizophrenia? | |
| January | 7 | William Catterall | Anions Do It Differently: Structure, Function, and Genetic Diseases of Chloride Channels |
| 14 | Kristin Mahan | The Flip Side of Prions: How Translational Activator CPEB May Enhance Synaptic Plasticity Due to its Prion-like Properties | |
| 21 | Eiron Cudaback | A Potpourri of Pluripotency: News from the Neural Stem Cell Front | |
| 28 | Ning Zheng - CANCELED | Break on Through to the Other Side: How do Proteins Get Across or Integrate into the Membrane? | |
| February | 4 | Laura Beth Johnson | Prostaglandin Production in Gliomas: Enhancing Cancer Treatment with COX-2 Inhibitors |
| 11 | Lorna Kategaya | Insulin Signalling and Sex Determination | |
| 18 | Sunil Laxman | Specificity in Signaling Domains and Scaffolds: Molecular Monogamy | |
| 25 | Paul Muchowski | Why it's Fun to FRET: A Phat Foray into Fluorescence Techniques to Study Signaling | |
| March | 3 | Randall Moon | Mathematical Modeling of Signal Transduction Pathways Made Easy (well, easier) |
| 10 | Janet Lowe | Psychotic Phosphatases: A Potential Role for Phosphatases and Their Inhibitors in Schizophrenia | |
| 31 | Jennifer Wacker | Recent Strategies to Prevent or Delay the Development of Prion Disease | |
| April | 7 | Joseph Beavo | For Whom the Cells Toll: New Roles for New Receptors |
| 14 | Misty Marshall | Dendritic Spine Changes, AMPA Receptor Trafficking and Synapse Unsilencing - Molecular Models of LTP | |
| 21 | Edith Wang | Do flies get cancer? Modeling Transformation and Metastasis in Drosophila | |
| 28 | None | ||
| May | 5 | Neil Nathanson | When Good Factors Go BAD: NGF Kills Like a PRO |
| 12 | Giancarlo De Ferrari | CANCELED | |
| 19 | Bruce Tempel | CANCELED | |
| 26 | Open | ||
| June | 2 | JP Jones | SMaRT RNAs Can Learn New Tricks |