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?" |