Current Topics in Pharmacology 2006-2007 Schedule
Meets: Wednesdays 12:30 PM
Room: T-473 HSB
| October | 11 | Stan McKnight | A taste for fat |
| 18 | Blake Nichols | Opening or closing of wounds through electrical signals. Chemotaxic vs electrotaxic in cell polarity. | |
| 25 | John Lyssand | A histaminergic diet | |
| November | 1 | Erica Melief | Why professors go senile; Glucocorticoids and the progression of Alzheimer's Disease |
| 8 | Nephi Stella | 'Please do not switch it off': transcription and Huntington's disease | |
| 15 | Paul DeCaen | Lunch with parasites: P. falciparum, P. vivax, P. ovale and P. decaen" or "Targeting the apicoplast: an opportunity for rational drug design and novel pharmaceutics for malarial treatment | |
| 29 | Angie Hertz | Creeping closer to a cancer cure: The use of genetically engineered T cells in cancer immunotherapy | |
| December | 13 | Bruce Tempel | You and Me and Individuality |
| 20 | WINTER BREAK | ||
| 27 | WINTER BREAK | ||
| January | 3 | Nate Camp | Worms: Not just for breakfast anymore! What we can learn from C. elegans besides development. |
| 10 | Bill Catterall | SOCs, SCID, CRAC, STIM, and Orai Revealed: The Molecular Mechanism of Store-Operated Calcium Entry | |
| 17 | Steve Kraynik | Assault on GALT: The First Casualty in HIV Pathogenesis | |
| 24 | Chris Hague | Bcat and Ccat | |
| 31 | Christine Cheah | Potential rAAV6-microdystrophin Treatment for Duchenne Muscular Dystrophy | |
| February | 7 | Richard Gardner | Mom always licked you better! Increased maternal nurturing in rats causes epigenetic changes in childhood that influence adult behavior. |
| 14 | Cecilea Clayton | A Voltage Sensing GPCR | |
| 21 | Derek Dirocco | BDNF expression in Rett Syndrome | |
| 28 | Heidi Gray | Beta-adrenergic signaling and Alzheimer disease | |
| March | 7 | Ning Zheng | A Silent SNP Making a Big Buzz |
| 21 | SPRING BREAK | ||
| 28 | Paul Phillips | Inflaming your social life | |
| April | 4 | Edith Wang | In Search of the Master Switch for Tumor Suppression |
| 11 | Trongha Phan | Astrocytes: They aren't just brain glue. Recognizing their unrecognized roles | |
| 18 | Frank Vincenzi | The Motor Theory of Speech Perception: It's All Done with Mirrors - Mirror Neurons that is | |
| 25 | Faith Reyes | Aida-1: the synapse-to-nucleus messenger | |
| May | 2 | Selena Schreiber | Searching for a new class of anti-HIV drugs: Look within yourself |
| 9 | Neil Nathanson | Celltype-Specific Translational Control: Control Mechanisms for Him, and HER, TOO | |
| 16 | Lisa Tsai | Antigen Induced Asymmetric T Lymphocyte Division | |
| 23 | Aaron Miller | How you can live in Seattle, work seven days a week in the lab, and still have a nice suntan | |
| 30 | Joe Beavo | MicroRNAs, they probably do more than we thought! | |
| June | 6 | Charley Chavkin | Are hallucinations of a 'genetic basis' a symptom of schizophrenia? |