| DISTINGUISHED SCIENTIST SEMINAR (DSS) SERIES |
| September 2008- May 2009 |
| DATE |
DEPARTMENT |
HOST |
SPEAKER |
AFFILIATION |
SEMINAR TITLE |
| 9/11/2008 |
Physiology |
Dr. Thomas Lincoln |
Jackie D. Corbin, Ph.D.
Bio |
Professor, Department of Molecular Physiology and Biophysics, Vanderbilt Medical Center, Nashville, TN |
"Erectile Dysfunction, Viagra, and PDE5" |
| 9/18/2008 |
Cell Biology & Neuroscience |
Dr. Glenn Wilson |
Charlene McQueen, Ph.D.
Bio |
Department Head, Pharmacal Sciences, Auburn University, Auburn, AL |
"Xenobiotic Induced Changes in Lipid Homeostatis: Implications for Fatty Liver Disease" |
| 9/25/2008 |
OPEN |
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| 10/2/2008 |
Pharmacology |
Dr. Ivan McMurtry |
Barbara Meyrick, Ph.D.
Bio |
Professor, Pathology and Medicine, Vanderbilt University, Nashville, TN |
"Mediators of Idiopathic Pulmonary Arterial Hypertension: the Hunt continues…." |
| 10/9/2008 |
Microbiology & Immunology |
Dr. David Wood |
Jonathon Audia, Ph.D.
Bio |
Assistant Professor, Microbiology and Immunology, University of South Alabama, Mobile, AL |
"The Wonderful World of Rickettsia prowazekii: What Obligate Intracellular Bacteria Can Teach Us About Physiology and Reductive Evolution" |
| 10/16/2008 |
Comparative Medicine |
Dr. Michele Schuler |
Dale Cooper, DVM, MS, Dipl. ACLAM
Bio |
Director, Laboratory Animal Medicne, North America Harlan Inc. |
"Applications For and Management of Cannulated Rodent Models" |
| 10/23/2008 |
OPEN |
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| 11/6/2008 |
Comparative Medicine |
Dr. Jonathan Scammell |
Christopher Aitken, Senior Product Manager
Bio |
Genetically Engineered Models & Services, Charles River Laboratories, Wilmington, MA |
"Breeding a Better Research Rodent through Speed Congenics and Protecting Your Investment through Cryopreservation" |
| 11/13/2008 |
Biochemistry & Molecular Biology |
Dr. Richard Honkanen |
Brian Wadzinski, Ph.D.
Bio |
Vanderbilt Ingram Cancer Center, Vanderbilt Medical School, Nashville, TN |
"Regulation of Cellular Signal Transduction Pathways by Protein Kinase/Protein Phosphatase 2A (PP2A) Signaling Modules" |
| 11/20/2008 |
Physiology |
Dr. Thomas Lincoln |
Harold A. Singer, Ph.D.
Bio |
Center for Cardiovascular Science, Albany Medical College, Albany, NY |
"CaM Kinase II Regulation of Synthetic Phenotype Vascular Smooth Muscle” |
| 12/4/2008 |
Microbiology & Immunology |
Dr. Joseph Brewer |
James Collawn, Ph.D.
Bio |
University of Alabama at Birmingham |
"Chemical Chaperone and Low Temperature Effects on DeltaF508 CFTR Surface Stability in Human Airway Epithelial Cells" |
| 12/11/2008 |
Pharmacology |
Dr. Thomas Rich |
Michael Tamkun, Ph.D.
Bio |
Professor, Department of Physiology, Colorado State University, Ft. Collins, CO |
"Kv2.1 Membrane Corrals: Novel Regulators of K+ Channel Localization and Function" |
| 1/8/2009 |
Pharmacology |
Dr. Ivan McMurtry |
James Downey, Ph.D.
Bio |
Professor, Department of Physiology, University of South Alabama, Mobile, AL |
"Protecting the Infarcting Heart with A2b Agonists" |
| 1/15/2009 |
Cell Biology & Neuroscience |
Dr. Sarah Gebb |
Sonia Flores, Ph.D.
Bio |
Associate Professor, Department of Medicine (Division of Pulmonary Sciences & Critical Care Medicine) at the University of Colorado Health Sciences Center, Denver, CO |
"Pulmonary Arterial Hypertension and HIV Nef: from Monkeys to Humans" |
| 1/22/2009 |
OPEN |
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| 1/29/2009 |
CANCELLED |
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| 2/5/2009 |
OPEN |
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| 2/12/2009 |
Microbiology & Immunology |
Dr. David Wood |
James E. Samuel, Ph.D.
Bio |
Professor, Texas A&M Health Science Center College of Medicine, Department of Microbial and Molecular Pathogenesis, College Station, TX |
"Coxiella burnetti: A Stealth Pathogen as Revealed by in vivo, in vitro and Comparative Genomic Studies"
|
| 2/19/2009 |
Physiology |
Dr. Jian Yang |
Rosalind Coleman, M.D.
Bio |
Professor, Nutrition and Pediatrics, Department of Nutrition, University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill, NC |
“Why Do We Need Multiple ACSL Isoforms to Activate Fatty Acids? A Surprising Answer!”
|
| 2/26/2009 |
Pharmacology |
Mark Gillespie, Ph.D. |
Enrico Vittorio Avvedimento, M.D.
Bio
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Professor, Department of General Pathology, Biology and Molecular Pathology, University Federico II Medical School, Naples, Italy
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"DNA Oxidation Drives Estrogen-Induced Transcription: A Paradigm or a Specific Estrogen Story?”
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| 3/5/2009 |
Physiology |
Dr. Jian Yang |
Ming-Hui Zou, M.D., Ph.D.
Bio |
Division of Endocrinology and Diabetes, Department of Medicine, University of Medicine, University of Oklahoma Health Sciences Center, Oklahoma City, OK |
"The Blooming of the French lilac-Identification of protein kinase C-zeta as the AMP-activated kinase in endothelial cells" |
| 3/12/2009 |
Biochemistry & Molecular Biology |
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R. Clinton Webb, Ph.D.
Bio |
Department of Physiology,
Medical College of Georgia,
Augusta, GA |
"New Insights into Mechanisms of Vascular Contraction: STIM-1/Orai-1 Pathway
and Augmented Vascular Reactivity in Hypertension" |
| 3/19/2009 |
Microbiology & Immunology |
Dr. David Wood |
Guy H. Palmer, DVM, Ph.D.
Bio |
Diplomate, American College of Veterinary Pathologists & Regents Professor and Director of the School for Global Animal Health, Washington State University, Pullman, WA |
"Superinfection as a driver of genetic change in highly antigenically variant pathogens"
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| 3/26/2009 |
Cell Biology & Neuroscience |
Dr. Susan LeDoux |
Mike Robbins, Ph.D.
Bio |
Professor & Section Head, Radiation Biology, Wake Forest University Baptist Medical Center, Winston-Salem, NC |
"Radiation-induced Brain Injury: Pathogenesis and Treatment" |
| 4/2/2009 |
Biochemistry & Molecular Biology |
Dr. Richard Honkanen |
David L. Brautigan, Ph.D.
Bio |
Professor, Microbiology and Internal Medicine and Director, Center for Cell Signaling, University of Virginia School of Medicine |
"Functional Genomics of SIT4-Prtein Phosphatase 6: Cell Cycle, Cytokine Sginaling, DNA damage"
|
| 4/9/2009 |
Center for Lung Biology |
Dr. Troy Stevens |
Jeff Whitsett, Ph.D.
Bio |
Chief, Section of Neonatology, Perinatal and Pulmonary Biology Cincinnati Children's Hospital Medical Center, Cincinnati, OH |
"The Transcriptional Network Regulating Goblet Cell Differentiation and Mucous Hyperproduction" |
| 4/16/2009 |
Pharmacology |
Dr. Karen Fagan |
E. Dale Abel, M.D., Ph.D.
Bio |
Professor, Medicine and Biochemistry, and Chief, Division of Endocrinology Metabolism Biology and Genetics, University of Utah School of Medicine |
"Insulin and Growth Factor Signaling in the Heart and Vasculature" |
| 4/30/2009 |
Biochemistry & Molecular Biology |
Dr. Richard Honkanen |
Jeffrey A. Toretsky, M.D.
Bio |
Professor, Departments of Oncology and Pediatrics, Lombardi Comprehensive Cancer Center, Georgetown University, Washington, DC |
"EWS-FLI1 to PTPL1: Why Does an Oncogene make a Phosphatase" |
| 5/7/2009 |
Pharmacology |
Dr. Samuel Strada |
Robert Speth, Ph.D.
Bio
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Professor of Pharmacology,
University of Mississippi,
School of Pharmacy |
"Unmasking a Novel Angiotensin II, Angiotensin III Binding site in the Brain"
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"Unmasking a Novel Angiotensin II, Angiotensin III Binding site in the Brain"
| 5/14/2009 |
OPEN |
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| 5/21/2009 |
Dean's Office |
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