The University of Texas Southwestern Medical Center at Dallas
PHYSIOLOGY DEPARTMENT SEMINAR SERIES

Monday - 4:00 P.M.               Spring 2009 Schedule               ND13.218

01/12/09

Christian Rosenmund, Ph.D. 
Professor, Department of Molecular and Human Genetics and Department of Neuroscience, Baylor College of Medicine
Talk Title:   Tilting the balance between facilitatory and inhibitory functions of mammalian and Drosophila Complexins orchestrates synaptic vesicle exocytosis
Host:  Robin Hiesinger, Ph.D.

01/26/09

Eduardo Perozo, Ph.D. 
Professor, Biochemistry & Molecular Biology, University of Chicago
Talk Title:   Structural basis of K channel activation and inactivation gating
Host:  Paul Blount, Ph.D.

02/02/09

Ning Zheng, Ph.D. 
Associate Professor, Department of Pharmacology, University of Washington, Seattle, WA
Talk Title:   Ubiquitin Ligase Machinery: From Plant Biology to Human Disease
Host:  Yi Liu, Ph.D.

02/09/09

Paul S. Frenette, M.D.
Professor, Medicine, Hematology and Medical Oncology, Mt. Sinai School of Medicine
Talk Title:  Regulation of the Hematopoietic Stem Cell Niche by the Nervous System
Host:  Alec Zhang, Ph.D.

03/02/09

Anjana Rao, Ph.D.
Senior Investigator, CBR Institute for BioMedical Research; Professor, Department of Pathology, Harvard Medical School
Talk Title:  Calcium Signaling and Transcriptional Regulation in the Immune System
Host:  Shmuel Muallem, Ph.D.

03/16/09

Sergio Grinstein, Ph.D.
Professor, Department of Biochemistry, University of Toronto; Senior Scientist, The Hospital for Sick Children, Toronto, Canada
Talk Title:  Signaling phagocytosis: Receptors, phosphoinositides and surface charge.
Host:  Helen Yin, Ph.D.

04/13/09

William N. Zagotta, Ph.D.
Professor, Department of Physiology and Biophysics, University of Washington; Investigator, Howard Hughes Medical Institute, Seattle, WA
Talk Title:  Molecular mechanism for regulation of ion channels by cyclic nucleotides
Host:  Youxing Jiang, Ph.D.

04/20/09

Michael Levine, Ph.D.
Chair, Neuroscience Graduate Program; Professor, Psychiatry and Biobehavioral Sciences, David Geffen School of Medicine, UCLA
Talk Title:  From Genes to Circuits in Huntington’s Disease: Every Neuron Needs Good Connections
Host:  Ilya Bezprozvanny, Ph.D.

04/27/09

Edwin R. Chapman, Ph.D.
Investigator, Howard Hughes Medical Institute; Professor, Department of Physiology, University of Wisconsin
Talk Title:  Modus operandi of the synaptotagmins: What we know and do not know.
Host:  Don Hilgemann, Ph.D.