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January 19 | Pharmacology 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 30 | Pharmacology 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 13 | Pharmacology Faculty Candidate, Jun Li, Ph.D., Assistant Professor, Department of Neuroscience, University of Connecticut Health Center | "Targeting AMPK and CaMKK in Experimental Stroke" |
February 16 | Alexander 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 1 | Pharmacology 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 22 | Mercedes Rincón, Ph.D., Professor, Department of Medicine, University of Vermont College of Medicine | "MCJ/DnaJC15, a mitochondrial cochaperone that controls metabolic switches" |
March 29 | Robert Bryan, Jr., Ph.D., Professor, Department of Anesthesiology, Baylor College of Medicine | "Circulatory control by Tandem-Pore Domain Potassium Channels" |
April 12 | Mary Dunlop Ph.D., Assistant Professor, University of Vermont School of Engineering | "Dynamics and Correlated Noise in Gene Expression" |
May 3 | Veronika 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 17 | David Benjamin, Ph.D., Consultant in Clinical Pharmacology and Forensic Toxicology | "Pharmacology, Forensics and Legal Medicine" |
July 19 | Luis Fernando Santana, Ph.D., Professor, Department of Physiology & Biophysics, University of Washington | "Calcium signaling amplification by oligomerization of L-type Cav1.2 channels" |
August 9 | Thomas LaRocca, M.S., Postdoctoral Candidate, Integrative Physiolog of Aging Laboratory, University of Colorado at Boulder | "Novel Mediators of Arterial Aging" |
August 9 | Maria 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 20 | Karen Lounsbury, Ph.D., Professor, Department of Pharmacology, University of Vermont College of Medicine Research Forum | "Protein Translation Enzymes in Inflammation and Angiogenesis" |
September 27 | Aimee 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 18 | Jonathan 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 25 | Scott Morrical, Ph.D., Professor, Department of Biochemistry, University of Vermont College of Medicine | "The Enzymology of Homology-directed DNA Repair" |
November 15 | Benjamin Turk, Ph.D., Associate Professor, Department of Pharmacology, Yale University School of Medicine | “Deciphering mechanisms of substrate targeting by protein kinases” |
December 13 | Mohamed 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” |