2012 Seminars

DateSpeakerTitle
January 19Pharmacology Faculty Candidate, Wilson Clements, Postdoctoral Fellow, Department of Cellular and Molecular Medicine, University of California at San Diego  "Wnt16 in Hematopoietic Stem Cell Specification and Leukemia"
January 30Pharmacology Faculty Candidate, Rafael Garcia-Mata, Ph.D., Research Assistant Professor, Cell and Developmental Biology, University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill“Mechanisms of Regulation of Rho GTPases”
February 13Pharmacology Faculty Candidate, Jun Li, Ph.D., Assistant Professor, Department of Neuroscience, University of Connecticut Health Center "Targeting AMPK and CaMKK in Experimental Stroke"
February 16Alexander Bishop, Ph.D., Assistant Professor, Department of Cellular & Structural Biology, University of Texas Health Science Center at San Antonio “Targeting Cancer by following the Pathways”
February 23 Patricia Lorenzo, Ph.D., Associate Professor, Cancer Biology Program, University of Hawaii Cancer Program"Emerging molecular targets in non-melanoma skin cancer: the RasGRP1 pathway"
March 1Pharmacology Faculty Candidate, Robert Lukowski, Ph.D., Research Associate and Group Leader, Departments of Pharmacology, Toxicology & Clinical Pharmacy, Eberhard-Karls University "Transgenic models to study cGMP pathways in health and disease"
March 8 Stefan Balaz, Ph.D., D.Sc., Professor & Chair, Department of Pharmaceutical Sciences, Albany College of Pharmacy“Computational prediction of drug-receptor binding affinities: The devil’s in the details”
March 22Mercedes Rincón, Ph.D., Professor, Department of Medicine, University of Vermont College of Medicine  "MCJ/DnaJC15, a mitochondrial cochaperone that controls metabolic switches"
March 29Robert Bryan, Jr., Ph.D., Professor, Department of Anesthesiology, Baylor College of Medicine"Circulatory control by Tandem-Pore Domain Potassium Channels"
April 12Mary Dunlop Ph.D., Assistant Professor, University of Vermont School of Engineering "Dynamics and Correlated Noise in Gene Expression"
May 3Veronika Leiss, Ph.D., Independent Postdoctoral Associate, Departments of Pharmacology & Experimental Therapy, Eberhard-Karls University "Analyzing the role of VGCC, cGMP-signaling and Gi-proteins for islet functions in transgenic mice"
 May 17David Benjamin, Ph.D., Consultant in Clinical Pharmacology and Forensic Toxicology  "Pharmacology, Forensics and Legal Medicine"
July 19Luis Fernando Santana, Ph.D., Professor, Department of Physiology & Biophysics, University of Washington  "Calcium signaling amplification by oligomerization of L-type Cav1.2 channels"
August 9Thomas LaRocca, M.S., Postdoctoral Candidate, Integrative Physiolog of Aging Laboratory, University of Colorado at Boulder "Novel Mediators of Arterial Aging"
August 9Maria Gomez, Ph.D., Associate Professor, Department of Clinical Sciences, Lund University, Sweden "NFAT as a novel target for the treatment of vascular complications of diabetes"
September 20Karen Lounsbury, Ph.D., Professor, Department of Pharmacology, University of Vermont College of Medicine Research Forum  "Protein Translation Enzymes in Inflammation and Angiogenesis"
September 27Aimee Shen, Ph.D., Assistant Professor, Department of Microbiology & Molecular Genetics, Univeristy of Vermont College of Medicine"Regulation of Sporulation and Spore Germination in Clostridium difficile."
October 18Jonathan Satin, Ph.D., Professor, Department of Physiology, University of Kentucky  “The Heart & Cardiac Myocytes As 'Models' for Studying L-type Calcium Channel Complex Function”
October 25Scott Morrical, Ph.D., Professor, Department of Biochemistry, University of Vermont College of Medicine"The Enzymology of Homology-directed DNA Repair"
November 15Benjamin Turk, Ph.D., Associate Professor, Department of Pharmacology, Yale University School of Medicine  “Deciphering mechanisms of substrate targeting by protein kinases”
December 13Mohamed Trebak, Ph.D.,  Associate Professor, Department of Nanobioscience, College of Nanoscale Science & Engineering, Univeristy of Albany “Ca2+ signaling, Sex hormones, Leukotrienes and the silent Orai”

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