Student Orientation
Faculty Talks
Thursday, August 18, 2011
(Printable Version)
1:00 pm |
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2126 MERF |
Jun Ni, PhD, Associate Professor, Radiology, Biomedical Engineering |
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Biotransport model and simulation for nanothermotherapy |
2136 MERF |
Gail Bishop, PhD, Professor, Microbiology, Internal Medicine, Immunology, Molecular & Cellular Biology |
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Roles of TRAF molecules in normal and abnormal lymphocyte activation - applications to autoimmunity, lymphoid malignancy, and vaccine design |
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1:15 pm |
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2126 MERF |
C. Andrew Frank, PhD, Assistant Professor, Anatomy & Cell Biology, Genetics, Molecular & Cellular Biology, Neuroscience |
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Using Drosophila to study how synapses maintain stable function |
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2126 MERF |
Stefan Strack, PhD, Associate Professor, Pharmacology, Pathology, Molecular & Cellular Biology, Neuroscience |
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Role of mitochondrial fission/fusion in synaptic plasticity and learning and memory |
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1:30 pm |
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2126 MERF |
Charles Brenner, PhD, Professor, Biochemistry, Genetics, Molecular & Cellular Biology |
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Characterization and Inhibition of the Major DNA Modification Enzyme in Carcinogenesis |
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2136 MERF |
Andrew Russo, PhD, Professor, Molecular Physiology & Biophysics, Genetics, Molecular & Cellular Biology, Neuroscience |
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Molecular basis of migraine |
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1:45 pm |
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2:00 pm |
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2126 MERF |
John Logsdon, PhD, Associate Professor, Biology, Genetics, Molecular & Cellular Biology |
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Sex, cells (why we work on the evolution of sex) |
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2136 MERF |
Craig Ellermeier, PhD, Assistant Professor, Microbiology, Genetics |
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Gram positive bacterial responses to the innate immune system |
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2:15 pm |
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2126 MERF |
George Richerson, MD/PhD, Professor, Neurology, Molecular Physiology and Biophysics, Neuroscience |
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Chemosensitivity of serotonin neurons and sudden death |
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2136 MERF |
Todd Washington, PhD, Associate Professor, Biochemistry, Molecular & Cellular Biology |
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Mutagenesis, Carcinogenesis, and the Replication of Damaged DNA |
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2:30 pm |
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2126 MERF |
Amit Choudhury, PhD, Assistant Professor, Anatomy & Cell Biology, Molecular & Cellular Biology |
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Trafficking and signaling of angiogenic receptors |
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2136 MERF |
Dan Weeks, PhD, Professor, Biochemistry, Molecular & Cellular Biology |
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Using Xenopus embryos to explore congenital defects in development. |
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2:45 pm |
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3:00 pm |
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2126 MERF |
Fang Lin, MD/PhD, Assistant Professor, Anatomy & Cell Biology, Genetics, Molecular & Cellular Biology |
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Regulation of cell migration - a fisheye view |
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2136 MERF |
Hank Qi, PhD, Assistant Professor, Anatomy & Cell Biology |
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Histone demethylase in craniofacial development and cancers |
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3:15 pm |
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2126 MERF |
John Kirby, PhD, Associate Professor, Microbiology, Genetics |
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Signal Transduction and Regulation of Bacterial Biofilms |
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2136 MERF |
Miles Pufall, PhD, Assistant Professor, Biochemistry |
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How proteins integrate signals: from drug resistance in childhood leukemia to molecular mechanism |
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3:30 pm |
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2126 MERF |
DP Mohapatra, PhD, Assistant Professor, Pharmacology, Anesthesia, Neuroscience |
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Chronic Pain in Metastatic Prostate/Breast/Bone Cancers: From Molecular Mechanisms to Animal Models |
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2136 MERF |
Joe Assouline, PhD, Associate Professor (vis), Biomedical Engineering |
| Multimodal Nanoparticles In Regenerative Bioengineering and Drug Delivery: A Novel Approach to Understanding and Curing Diseases | |
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Faculty Talks
Friday, August 19, 2011
(Printable Version)
1:00 pm |
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1135 MERF |
Bridget Lear, PhD, Assistant Professor, Biology, Genetics, Neuroscience |
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From Clocks to Behavior: Neuronal Output of the Drosophila Circadian Pacemaker |
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1139 MERF |
Hien Nguyen, PhD, Assistant Professor, Chemistry |
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Design of heparin with minimal binding affinity to PF4 protein |
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1:15 pm |
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1135 MERF |
Andrew Forbes, PhD, Assistant Professor, Biology |
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Cascades of Ecological Speciation - Studying Origins of Diversity for the most Diverse Animals on Earth. |
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1139 MERF |
Robert Cornell, PhD, Associate Professor, Anatomy & Cell Biology, Genetics, Neuroscience |
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Identifying components of the gene regulatory networks that govern development of neural crest derivatives. |
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1:30 pm |
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1135 MERF |
Douglas Houston, PhD, Associate Professor, Biology, Genetics, Neuroscience |
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Roles of localized mRNAs and lipid droplets during body axis formation in vertebrate embryos |
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1139 MERF |
Howard Xue, MD/PhD, Assistant Professor, Microbiology, Immunology |
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Novel roles of the Wnt pathway in regulating developing and mature T cells |
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1:45 pm |
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2:00 pm |
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1135 MERF |
Zuhair Ballas, MD, Professor, Internal Medicine, Immunology |
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Organ-specific NK cells determine potential for tumor metastases |
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1139 MERF |
Steve Stasheff, MD/PhD, Assistant Professor, Pediatrics, Biomedical Engineering, Ophthamology, Neuroscience |
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How the retina alters its communication with the brain in retinal degenerations |
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2:15 pm |
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1135 MERF |
Bryan Phillips, PhD, Assistant Professor, Biology, Genetics, Molecular & Cellular Biology |
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Wnt signaling and cell fate specification in C. elegans |
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1139 MERF |
Kris DeMali, PhD, Assistant Professor, Biochemistry, Molecular & Cellular Biology |
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Cell Adhesion Defects in Breast Cancer |
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2:30 pm |
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1135 MERF |
Ernesto Fuentes, PhD, Assistant Professor, Biochemistry, Molecular & Cellular Biology |
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Structural Biology of Prokaryotic and Eukaryotic Signal Transduction |
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1139 MERF |
Chioma Okeoma, PhD, Assistant Professor, Microbiology |
| Regulation of human APOBEC3 proteins during HIV-1 infection | |
2:45 pm |
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3:00 pm |
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1135 MERF |
Mary Wilson, MD, Professor, Microbiology, Internal Medicine, Epidemiology, Genetics, Immunology, Molecular & Cellular Biology |
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Survival mechanisms of the tropical parasitic protozoan, Leishmania |
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1139 MERF |
Amy Lee, PhD, Associate Professor, Molecular Physiology & Biophysics, Otolaryngology, Neuroscience |
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Ca2+ signaling complexes in the nervous and cardiovascular systems |
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3:15 pm |
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1135 MERF |
Jessica Sieren, PhD, Assistant Professor, Radiology, Biomedical Engineering |
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Quantitative imaging for cancer insight |
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1139 MERF |
Rob Philibert, MD/PhD, Professor, Psychiatry, Genetics, Neuroscience |
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Genome wide Methylation Approaches to Neuropsychiatric Illness |
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3:30 pm |
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1135 MERF |
Yuriy Usachev, PhD, Associate Professor, Pharmacology, Anesthesia, Neuroscience |
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Activity-dependent plasticity in the pain pathways |
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1139 MERF |
Apollina Goel, PhD, Assistant Professor, Radiation Oncology, Free Radical & Radiation Biology |
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Quantitative imaging for cancer insight |
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