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

Monday - 4:00 P.M.               Spring 2008 Schedule               ND13.218

01/14/08

Philip Coffino, M.D., Ph.D. 
Professor, Department of Microbiology and Immunology, University of California, San Francisco
Talk Title:   Proteasome Power and Processivity: Designer Substrates that Test the Limits
Host:  George DeMartino, Ph.D.

The Fouad A. and Val Imm Bashour Distinguished Lectureship in Physiology

In conjunction with
The University Lecture Series

Craig C. Mello, Ph.D. 

Nobel Laureate
Professor of Molecular Medicine
Investigator, Howard Hughes Medical Institute
University of Massachusetts Medical School

Return to the RNAi World:
Rethinking Gene Expression, Evolution and Medicine

Wednesday - January 23, 2008          4:00 P.M. - NB2.101

01/28/08

 Ardem Patapoutian, Ph.D.
Associate Professor, The Scripps Research Institute, Department of Cell Biology,  LaJolla, CA
Talk Title:  The Fifth Sense: Molecular Mechanisms of Temperature and Pain Detection
Host:  Paul Blount, Ph.D.

02/11/08

Wei Zhang, Ph.D.
Professor, Department of Pathology, Director ~ Cancer Genomics Core Lab, MD Anderson Cancer Center, Houston, TX
Talk Title:  Cancer Genomics: Identification and Validation of Prognostic Markers and Therapeutic Targets
Host:  Alec Zhang, Ph.D.

03/03/08

Gary E. Landreth, Ph.D.
Professor of Neurosciences and Neurology, Case Western Reserve University, School of Medicine, Cleveland, OH
Talk Title:  Mechanisms of Abeta Clearance from the AD Brain: The Roles of LXRs and ApoE
Host:  Malú Tansey, Ph.D.

03/17/08

Paul Worley, M.D.
Professor of Neuroscience and Neurology, The Johns Hopkins School of Medicine, Baltimore, MD
Talk Title:  IEGs and Synaptic Plasticity
Host:  Shmuel Muallem, Ph.D.

03/31/08

Tamas Balla, M.D., Ph.D.
Head, Section on Molecular Signal Transduction, Endocrinology and Reproduction Research Branch, NICHD/NIH
Talk Title:  Phosphatidylinositol 4-kinases. Old Enzymes with Emerging Functions
Host:  Helen Yin, Ph.D.

04/14/08

Ira Tabas, M.D., Ph.D.
Richard J. Stock Professor and Vice-Chair of Research, Department of Medicine, and Professor of Anatomy and Cell Biology, Columbia University, New York, NY
Talk Title:  From Atherosclerosis to Innate Immunity. Lessons from Studying How Macrophages Die
Host:  Joyce Repa, Ph.D.

05/12/08

Xiaomin Chen, Ph.D.
Assistant Professor, Department of Biochemistry and Molecular Biology, MD Anderson Cancer Center, Houston, TX
Talk Title:  Structural and Functional Studies of STAT Proteins
Host:  Youxing Jiang, Ph.D.