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CELL BIOLOGY & PHYSIOLOGY SEMINAR SCHEDULE, 2007-8
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Friday, September 14, 2007, 12 noon - "Regulation of CFTR by Sgk-1"
Christopher M. Lewarchik, Graduate Student, Dept of Cell Biology and Physiology
5th Floor Boardroom, Eye & Ear Institute
Friday, September 21, 2007, 12 noon - Conserved Principles of Clathrin-Mediated Endocytosis in Insect Oogenesis
Anupma Jha, Graduate Student, Dept of Cell Biology and Physiology
5th Floor Boardroom, Eye & Ear Institute
Tuesday, September 25, 2007, 12 noon - "The role of Kruppel-like factors KLF4 and KLF5 in ocular surface development"
Shiva Swamynathan, Ph.D., Assistant Professor, Dept of Opthalmology, UPMC
5th Floor Boardroom, Eye & Ear Institute
Friday, September 28, 2007, 12 noon -
No Seminar - Senior Vice Chancellor's Talk
Friday, October 05, 2007, 12 noon - E-Box and ID Proteins:  Potential Mediators of Sertoli Cell Differentiation
Michelle A. Wood, Graduate Student, Dept of Cell Biology and Physiology
5th Floor Boardroom, Eye & Ear Institute
Friday, October 12, 2007, 12 noon -
No Seminar - Senior Vice Chancellor's Talk
Tuesday, October 16, 2007, 11 am - "How the endoplasmic reticulum gets into shape"
Tom Rapoport, Ph.d., Professor, Dept of Cell Biology and Physiology, Harvard University
5th Floor Boardroom, Eye & Ear Institute
Friday, October 19, 2007, 12 noon -
No Seminar - Senior Vice Chancellor's Talk
Friday, October 26, 2007, 12 noon - "Rab11b Regulates Apical Recycling of CFTR in Polarized Intestinal Epithelial Cells"
Mark R. Silvis, Graduate Student, Dept of Cell Biology and Physiology
5th Floor Boardroom, Eye & Ear Institute
Tuesday, October 30, 2007, 11 am - "Function of APC in the control of cell cycle and beyond."
Yong Wan, Ph.D., Assistant Professor Cell Biology and Physiology, Hillman Cancer Center University of Pittsburgh, School of Medicine
5th Floor Boardroom, Eye & Ear Institute
Friday, November 02, 2007, 12 noon - Impaired DNA Damage Repair and Premature Aging in Hutchinson-Gilford Progeria Syndrome
Dan Constantinescu, Graduate Student, Dept of Cell Biology and Physiology
5th Floor Boardroom, Eye & Ear Institute
Tuesday, November 06, 2007, 11 am - " A systems approach to mRNA expression analyzing single molecules"
Robert H. Singer, Ph.D., Co-Chair and Professor Dept. Anatomy and Structural Biology Albert Einstein College of Medicine Bronx, NY
5th Floor Boardroom, Eye & Ear Institute
Friday, November 09, 2007, 12 noon -
No Seminar - Senior Vice Chancellor's Talk
Friday, November 16, 2007, 12 noon - "Role for zinc in hypoxia induced contractile events in pulmonary endothelial cells"
Paula J. Bernal, Graduate Student, Dept of Cell Biology and Physiology
S100A BST
Tuesday, November 20, 2007, 11 am - "Neuronal motors to move mitochondria and build synapses."
Thomas L. Schwarz, Ph.D., Professor Dept. of Neurobiology Harvard Medical School Boston, MA
5th Floor Boardroom, Eye & Ear Institute
Friday, November 23, 2007, 12 noon -
No Seminar - Thankgiving Break
Tuesday, November 27, 2007, 11 am - "Barrier function and fence function of tight junctions in epithelial cells."
Junichi Ikenouchi, M.D., Ph.D., Institute for Chemical Research, Kyoto University
5th Floor Boardroom, Eye & Ear Institute
Friday, November 30, 2007, 12 noon -
No Seminar
Tuesday, December 04, 2007, 11 am - "Imaging neuropeptide vesicle traffic in the nerve terminal: an inside-out look at synaptic function."
Edwin S. Levitan, Ph.D., Professor Department of Pharmacology University of Pittsburgh School of Medicine
5th Floor Boardroom, Eye & Ear Institute
Friday, December 07, 2007, 12 noon -
No Seminar
Friday, December 14, 2007, 12 noon -
No Seminar - Senior Vice Chancellor's Talk
Friday, January 04, 2008, 12 noon -
No Seminar - Returning from Holiday Break
Thursday, January 10, 2008, 10 am - Protein Misfolding: Interactions with CFTR During the Earliest Stages of its Biogenesis
Phil Thomas, Ph.D., Professor, Department of Physiology University of Texas - Southwestern Medical Center of Dallas
S123 Biomedical Science Tower
Friday, January 11, 2008, 12 noon - Oculocerebrorenal Syndrome of Lowe Protein (OCRL) Function in Polarized Membrane Traffic
Christopher J. Guerriero, Graduate Student, Dept of Medicine, Renal-Electrolyte Division
5th Floor Boardroom, Eye & Ear Institute
Tuesday, January 15, 2008, 11 am - Contribution of nitric oxide-induced zinc release in the hypoxic regulation of pulmonary vascular tone
Claudette M. St. Croix, Ph.D., Assistant Professor Department of Environmental and Occupational Health University of Pittsburgh, Graduate School of Public Health
5th Floor Boardroom, Eye & Ear Institute
Friday, January 18, 2008, 12 noon - A Role for S6 in the Gating of IK1
Mark A. Bailey, Graduate Student, Dept of Cell Biology and Physiology
5th Floor Boardroom, Eye & Ear Institute
Friday, January 25, 2008, 12 noon -
No Seminar - Senior Vice Chancellor's Talk
Tuesday, January 29, 2008, 11 am - CANCELED - "Fluorescent Biosensors for cell pathways."
Alan S. Waggoner, Ph.D., Professor Biological Sciences Director of Molecular Biosensor and Imaging Center Carnegie Mellon University Pittsburgh, PA
5th Floor Boardroom, Eye & Ear Institute
Friday, February 01, 2008, 12 noon - "Tubulogenesis in the testis: in vitro and grafting approaches"
Kathrin Gassei, Ph.D., Graduate Student, Dept of Cell Biology and Physiology
5th Floor Boardroom, Eye & Ear Institute
Tuesday, February 05, 2008, 11 am - Lysosomal deficiencies and cells death in Mucolipidosis type IV
Kirill Kiselyov, Ph.D., Assistant Professor Department of Biological Sciences University of Pittsburgh
5th Floor Boardroom, Eye & Ear Institute
Friday, February 08, 2008, 12 noon - Mechanisms of epidermal growth factor receptor <br>activation after epithelial wounding
Ethan R. Block, Graduate Student, Dept of Cell Biology and Physiology
5th Floor Boardroom, Eye & Ear Institute
Friday, February 15, 2008, 12 noon -
No Seminar - Senior Vice Chancellor's Talk
Tuesday, February 19, 2008, 11 am - Dissecting the Cell Polarity by Genomic Engineering in Drosophila
Yang Hong, Ph.D., Assistant Professor Department of Cell Biology and Physiology University of Pittsburgh School of Medicine
5th Floor Boardroom, Eye & Ear Institute
Friday, February 22, 2008, 12 noon - The Role of Mucolipin-1 in Pathogenesis of the Lysosomal Storage Disease Mucolipidosis Type IV
Mark T. Miedel, Graduate Student, Dept of Cell Biology and Physiology
Montefiore Hospital - Classroom B (next to Cafeteria) 4th Floor - (NOTE: ROOM CHANGE)
Friday, February 29, 2008, 12 noon - Gap Junction Function and Fate During Cell Migration
Bado Hewa Achebe, Graduate Student, Dept of Cell Biology and Physiology
Montefiore Hospital - Classroom B (next to Cafeteria) 4th Floor - (NOTE: ROOM CHANGE)
Tuesday, March 04, 2008, 11 am - The Unstoppable Cx43 Carboxy-terminus-New Roles in Cardiac Gap Junction Organization and Wound Healing
Robert G. Gourdie, Ph.D., Professor Cell Biology and Anatomy Medical University of South Carolina Charleston, SC
5th Floor Boardroom, Eye & Ear Institute
Friday, March 07, 2008, 12 noon -
No Seminar - Senior Vice Chancellor's Talk
Friday, March 14, 2008, 12 noon -
No Seminar - Spring Break
Friday, March 21, 2008, 12 noon -
No Seminar
Tuesday, March 25, 2008, 11 am - "Biology /In Silico/: online tools for "omics".
Ansuman Chattopadhyay, Ph.D., Professor Falk Library - Health Sciences Library System University of Pittsburgh School of Medicine
5th Floor Boardroom, Eye & Ear Institute
Friday, March 28, 2008, 12 noon - TBA
James R. Thieman, Graduate Student, Dept of Cell Biology and Physiology
5th Floor Boardroom, Eye & Ear Institute
Tuesday, April 01, 2008, 11 am - Novel Regulation of V-ATPase by Kinases in Proton-Secreting Epithelial Cells.
Nuria M. Pastor-Soler, M.D., Ph.D., Assistant Professor, University of Pittsburgh School of Medicine, Renal-Electrolyte Division
5th Floor Boardroom, Eye & Ear Institute
Friday, April 04, 2008, 12 noon - TBA
ShanShan Cui, Graduate Student, Dept of Cell Biology and Physiology
5th Floor Boardroom, Eye & Ear Institute
Friday, April 11, 2008, 12 noon - TBA
Cavita K. Chotoo, Graduate Student, Dept of Cell Biology and Physiology
5th Floor Boardroom, Eye & Ear Institute
Tuesday, April 15, 2008, 11 am - RNF5 (RING FINGER PROTEIN 5) and JAMP (7TM ER protein) - new addiitions to ERAD
Z'ev Ronai, Ph.D., Director, Burnam Institute for Medical Research, La Jolla, CA
5th Floor Boardroom, Eye & Ear Institute
Friday, April 18, 2008, 12 noon -
No Seminar - Senior Vice Chancellor's Talk
Friday, April 25, 2008, 12 noon - Delaying Cellular Senescence in a Murine Model of Accelerated Aging
Siobhan Gregg, Graduate Student, Dept of Cell Biology and Physiology
5th Floor Boardroom, Eye & Ear Institute
Tuesday, April 29, 2008, 11 am - TBA
Xiaodong (Robert) Wang, Ph.D., Assistant Professor, University of Toledo Health Science CampusA
5th Floor Boardroom, Eye & Ear Institute
Friday, May 02, 2008, 12 noon - DNA Cross-linking, Double-strand Breaks and Apoptosis in Corneal Endothelial Cells after a Single Exposure to Mitomycin-C
Daniel Roh, Graduate Student, Dept of Cell Biology and Physiology
5th Floor Boardroom, Eye & Ear Institute
Tuesday, May 06, 2008, 11:00 am - Population Effects on Bacterial Thermotaxis
Hanna Salman, Ph.D., Assistant Professor,Department of Physics and Astronomy,University of Pittsburgh
5th Floor Boardroom, Eye & Ear Institute
Friday, May 09, 2008, 12 noon - Prospective Isolation of Bronchiolar Stem Cells
Roxana M. Teisanu, Graduate Student, Dept of Cell Biology and Physiology
5th Floor Boardroom, Eye and Ear Institute