Current Topics in Pharmacology 1998-1999 Schedule
Meets: Wednesdays 12:30 PM
Room: Room T-530/530A HSB
| September | ||
| 30 | Stanley McKnight | Dancing to the ras-raf-rap |
| October | ||
| 7 | Michael Nolan | A Heart-To-Heart Talk About Calcineurin |
| 14 | George Laszlo | Unraveling Axonal Guidance Cues: Semaphorins and Growth Cone Repulsion |
| 21 | Christian Wade | Sticky Synapses: The Role of Cadherins in Synaptic Connectivity |
| 28 | Todd Scheuer | You gotta have rhythm: Cylic-nucleotide modulated ion channels underlying cardiac pacemaking and neuronal bursting |
| November | ||
| 4 | Sarah Hallagan | PAR-3 and an Atypical PKC: Possible Parallel Between C. Elegans Embryos And Mammalian Epithelial Cells |
| 18 | Charles Chavkin | Control of GABA and GLY Receptor Functioning by Gephyrin: location, location, location |
| December | ||
| 2 | Joe Beavo | Caveolae, 'Little Caves': Roles In Signal Transduction |
| 9 | Traci Hilton | Alzheimers and apoptosis. Presenilins: the saga continues |
| January | ||
| 6 | Bill Catterall | SNARE Proteins and Exocytosis: Do they or don't they? |
| 13 | Elizabeth Dunphy | Tit for Tat: Gimme NTPs and I'll give you Elongation |
| 20 | Victor Pineda | Disease and Early Development - multiple functions for dystroglycan |
| 27 | Brian Hale | Great Expectations: The Role of PIP2 in the Regulation of KATP |
| February | ||
| 3 | Colleen Niswender | Killing the messenger: RNA mutations as a mechanism for neurodegeneration |
| 10 | Amanda Kalaydjian | The Ins and Outs of G2-M Checkpoint Regulation by a kinase, a phosphatase and a 14-3-3 protein |
| 17 | William Watt | Polyglutamine repeats in Huntingtin's and other Neurodegenerative Diseases: How Objectional is the Nuclear Inclusion? |
| 24 | Kimberly Burton | PSD95, a MAGUK required for memory |
| March | ||
| 3 | Laird Sheldahl | PKA-independent CRE/CREB activities |
| 10 | Edith Wang | HIV vaccine: the elusive pot of gold at the end of the rainbow? |
| April | ||
| 7 | Jane Gunther | P2X receptors times two. Two independent labs report on the activity of P2X receptor channels to change their ionic selectivity |
| 14 | Kevin White | From the South Pacific to Germany: Kava-Kava makes its debut as an anti-anxiety drug |
| 21 | Dale Chenault | C/EBPs and Immunity |
| 28 | Angela Cantrell | Deadly Cl- Channels: A Role in the Formation of Primary Brain Tumors |
| May | ||
| 5 | Neil Nathanson | When You're Hot, You're Hot: The Vanilloid Receptor, an Ion Channel Activated by Heat AND Hot Pepper |
| 12 | Rejean Idzerda | Locally regulated translation in dendrites (a mechanism) |
| 19 | Susan Hamilton | Yabba GABAB Do! Activation Takes Two – GABAB Receptors as GPCR-Heterodimers |
| 26 | Bruce Tempel | Learning requires increased inhibition |