Current Topics in Pharmacology 2004-2005 Schedule
Meets: Wednesdays 12:30 PM
Room: T-473 HSB
| October | 6 | Stanley McKnight, "Genes, GREs, and Steroids: The Ballet" |
| 13 | Aaron Nudelman, "Remembering Christopher Reeve: Promoting Neuronal Regeneration After Spinal Cord Injury" | |
| 20 | Todd Scheuer, "Too Much of a Good Thing: Timothy Syndrome Highlights the Role of Calcium Channels in Development" | |
| 27 | Dan Morgan, "The Neuroendocrine Precursor Goes Through Puberty: Growing Pains Associated with Pro-protein Maturation" | |
| November | 3 | Charley Chavkin, "How Does Lithium Work?" |
| 10 | Paul Amieux, "The Melanophore: A Model System for Organelle Transport" | |
| 17 | Frank Yu, "Acidotoxicity: Ca Entry Through ASIC1a and Neuronal Damage Following Ischemic Stroke" | |
| December | 1 | Nephi Stella, "Where Do Brain Tumors Stem From?" |
| 8 | Bruce Tempel, "TRPs at the Tips" | |
| January | 5 | William Catterall, "Pumping Ion: Structure of the Ca-ATPase SERCA-1 in Each State of its Pump Cycle" |
| 12 | Travis Biechele, "Help! I'm stuck! Throw me a ligand!: Therapies for Diseases of Protein Misfolding" | |
| 19 | Alexandra Few, "Munc13s: Multiple Modes of Short-term Synaptic Plasticity" | |
| 26 | Ning Zheng, "Exit Here If You Don't Make It: Protein Retro-Translocation Across the ER Membrane" | |
| February | 2 | Paige Cundiff, "Vita-Meata-VEGF: A New Hope in the Treatment of ALS" |
| 9 | Seth Goldenberg, "Moving towards a complete picture of the nuclear transport cycle: Recent crystallography, single molecule imaging, and quantitative modeling studies" | |
| 16 | Open | |
| 23 | Martha Port, "Sex, Lies and Betrayal: The Secret Lives of Angiotensin-converting Enzymes" | |
| March | 2 | Randall Moon |
| 9 | Andrew Chien, "Lawyers, Drugs, and Money: Retirement Account Prophylaxis for the Aspiring Pharmacologist" | |
| April | 6 | Joseph Beavo "Diabetes? Take Two Aspirin and Call Back Later" |
| 13 | Paul Muchowski ,"I Am Going to Wash That Gray Right Out of My Hair... With Melanocyte Stem Cells" | |
| 20 | Frank Vincenzi , "And Now for Something Different: A Peek Under the Tent Flap of the Carnival Known as Mind-Body Medicine" | |
| 27 | Edith Wang , "'Super Baby' Provides New Hopes for Muscular Dystrophy Treatment" | |
| May | 4 | Tom Hinds , "Got Alzheimer's? Try the Fish Curry..." |
| 11 | Neil Nathanson , "Neural Regulation of the Immune System via the Inflammatory Reflex: Why the Marlboro Man Didn't Die of Sepsis" | |
| 18 | Kimberly Burton, "What Do Blood Pressure and Fertility Have in Common?" | |
| 25 | Ben Major, "The Transcriptional Signature of 'Good and Bad' Cancers Reconciles Two Different Models of How Metastatic Cancer Arises." | |
| June | 1 | Open |