Seminar Program 2009-2010
Seminars are on Tuesdays, 4:00-4:50 in Sanger Hall, 
2nd floor Room 2-020

Sep. 1

Gary G. Schwartz, Ph.D., M.P.H., Ph.D.
Associate Professor
Cancer Biology - Epidemiology & Prevention
Wake Forest University Health Sciences
Winston-Salem, NC

Host: David Gewirtz, Ph.D.

"The roles of vitamin in the natural history of prostate cancer"

Sep. 8

No Seminar

Sep. 15

TBA

Sep. 22

Hamid Akbarali, Ph.D., Professor
Dept. of Pharmacology & Toxicology
Virginia Commonwealth University
Richmond, VA

Host: Andrew Davies

"Inflammation at the tail of the calcium channel: A tale of nitration and phosphorylation"

Sep. 29

TBA

Oct. 6

TBA

Oct. 13

Klaus A Miczek, Ph.D.
Professor of Psychology
Director, Behavioral Core of the Neuroscience Research Center
Sackler School of Biomedical Sciences
Dept. of Psychology, Tufts University
Medford, MA

Host: Michael Miles, M.D., Ph.D. 

TBA

Oct. 27

Bruce Blough, Ph.D. - Everette May Lecture Speaker
Senior Research Chemist
Research Triangle Institute International
Research Triangle Park, NC

Host: Steve Negus, Ph.D.

"Neurotransmitter releasers as safe therapeutics"

Nov. 3

Mohan K. Raizada, Ph.D., Professor
Dept. of Physiology and Functional Genomics
University of Florida, College of Medicine
Gainesville, FL

Host: Pin-Lan Li, M.D., Ph.D.

TBA

Nov. 10

David M. Pollock, Ph.D., Regents Professor
Vascular Biology Center
Surgery, Physiology, Pharmacology and Toxicology
Medical College of Georgia
Augusta, GA

Host: Ningjun Li, Ph.D.

TBA

Nov. 17    

Bradley E. Alger, Ph.D., Professor
Depts. of Physiology and Psychiatry
University of Maryland School of Medicine
Baltimore, MD

TBA

Dec. 1    

Diomedes Logothetis, Ph.D., Chair
Dept. of Physiology and Biophysics
Virginia Commonwealth University
Richmond, VA

Host: Hamid Akbarali, Ph.D.

"Modulation of ion channel activity by G proteins and phosphoinositides"

Dec. 8    

Jeffery C. Frisbee, Ph.D., Associate Professor
Physiology and Pharmacology
West Virginia University
Morgantown, WV

Host: Pin-Lan Li, M.D., Ph.D.

TBA

Dec. 15    

Danny Winder, Ph.D., Associate Professor
Director of Graduate Studies
Dept. of Molecular Physiology & Biophysics
Vanderbilt University School of Medicine
Nahsville, TN

Host: Darlene Brunzell, Ph.D.

TBA