2007 Seminars

DateSpeakerTitle
January 25Bernhard Nausch, Graduate Student, Pharmacology Department, University of Vermont  "Interstitial Cells in the lower urinary tract"
February 8Alissa Weaver, M.D., Ph.D., Assistant Professor, Department of Cancer Biology, Vanderbilt University "Cortactin in head and neck tumor progression" 
March 1 Nicholas Standen, Ph.D., Professor, Department of Cell Physiology & Pharmacology, University of Leicester, UK"Regulation of arterial potassium channels by vasodilators, vasoconstrictors and glucose"
March 5Sharon Cawley, Graduate Student, Pharmacology Department, University of Vermont“The Intracellular Dynamics of Guanosine-3',5'-monophosphate (cGMP) in Vascular Smooth Muscle”
March 8Bin Deng, Ph.D., Research Associate, Department of Biology, University of Vermont "Proteomics Research at UVM"
March 29Randy Hall, Ph.D., Assistant Professor, Department of Pharmacology, Emory University  "G Protein-Coupled Receptor Regulation by PDZ Scaffolds"
April 12Alexander Sorkin, Ph.D., Professor, Department of Pharmacology, University of Colorado Health Sciences Center "Endocytosis of EGF receptor and dopamine transporter: Functional roles and unexpected similarity of the mechanisms"
April 19Michael Brines, M.D., Ph.D., Co-Founder, Chief Scientific Officer, Warren Pharmaceuticals  "Erythropoietin: Beyond Erythropoiesis"
May 31Michel Tremblay, Ph.D., Professor, Director of the McGill Cancer Centre, McGill University  "PTP1b in breast cancer"
June 7Jaclyn teRiele, Graduate Student, Pharmacology Department, University of Vermont  "PKA Signaling and Sperm Motility"
August 9Kenneth D. Bloch, M.D., William T. G. Morton Professor of Anaesthesiology, Harvard Medical School "Nitric oxide/cGMP signaling in cardiovascular pathophysiology: lessons from genetically-modified mice"
August 27Patricia Rose, Graduate Student, Department of Pharmacology, University of Vermont  “Gene Expression in Vascular Smooth Muscle: Models of Hypertension and Angiotensin II Signaling"
September 13Matthew Lord, Ph.D., Assistant Professor, Department of Molecular Physiology & Biophysics, UVM College of Medicine  "Stabilizing actomyosin contractile rings during cytokinesis in fission"
September 27Søren-Peter Olesen, M.D. Ph.D., Professor, Department of Medical Physiology, University of Copenhagen"Activation of hERG potassium channels as a new anti-arrhythmic principle"
October 4Claudia Zwingmann, Ph.D., Assistant Professor, Department of Organic/Analytical Chemistry, University of Bremen "Multinuclear NMR spectroscopy and isotopomer analysis: application in metabolic encephalopathy due to liver diseases"
October 5Kevin Foley, MT, SC (ASCP), Department of Laboratory Medicine and Pathology, Mayo Clinic  "Discussion on Clinical Fellowship Opportunities at the Mayo Clinic"
October 25Donald Welsh, Ph.D., Assistant Professor, Department of Physiology & Biophysics, University of Calgary  "Discussion on Clinical Fellowship Opportunities at the Mayo Clinic"
November 8Tomohisa Ishikawa, Ph.D., Professor, University of Shizuoka, Japan"Physiological role of nitric oxide in pancreatic beta cells"
November 29Clavin Vary, Ph.D., Scientist II, Center for Molecular Medicine, Maine Medical Center Research Institute"Novel Biochemical Pathways of Endoglin in Vascular Development and Disease"
December 5Lydia Nausch, Graduate Student, Department of Pharmacology, University of Vermont“Novel insights into PKG activation and cGMP signaling in response to nitric oxide and atrial natriuretic peptide in vascular smooth muscle cells"
December 6Nathalie Lamarche-Vane, Ph.D., Associate Professor, McGill University  "Netrin-1 signaling in axon growth and guidance: A role for the small Rho GTPases"
December 13Chris Schaffer, Ph.D., Assistant Professor, Department of Biomedical Engineering, Cornell University  "Nonlinear optics in vivo: Using light to study and perturb blood flow in the living brain"

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