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Seminars and Events

The Department of Pharmacology hosts a weekly Seminar Series and the Annual Totman Trustees Visit. In November, the Department spends two days in Stowe, Vermont for its Annual Pharmacology Retreat.

2013 Spring Seminars

Seminars are presented during the academic year on Thursday at 8:45 a.m. in room 300 Health Science Research Facility (HSRF), unless otherwise noted. For more information, contact Pharmacology at (802) 656-2500 or email Series Coordinator, margo.green@uvm.edu.
 

Date

Speaker

Title

February 7 Robert Feil, Ph.D., Professor of Biochemistry, University of Tübingen, Germany
“New mouse models and functions of cGMP signaling”
March 7 Benjamin Prosser, Ph.D., Assistant Professor, Department of Physiology, University of Maryland School of Medicine
"Pulling on the Heart Strings - Stretch-Dependent ROS and Calcium Signaling"

March 12 Tuesday

Clare Reynell, Ph.D., Division of Biosciences, University College of London

“The role of pericytes in neurovascular coupling under both physiological and pathological conditions”

March 21 Daniel Mulkey, Ph.D., Assistant Professor, Department of Physiology and Neurobiology, University of Connecticut
"Role of purinergic signaling in the chemical control of breathing and blood pressure"

March 28 MedEd 300

Ji Zhang, Ph.D., Assistant Project Scientist at University of California San Diego, La Jolla, CA
"Lost in Lipid Metabolism: finding the phasphatase in mitochondria"

April 11

Hana Totary-Jain, Ph.D., Associate Research Scientist, Department of Physiology and Cellular Biophysics, Columbia University, New York, NY
"MicroRNA-Based Strategy to Preserve Endothelial Function After Angioplasty"

April 25 MedEd 300

Bing-Hua Jiang, Ph.D., Professor, Departments of Pathology, Anatomy & Cell Biology, Thomas Jefferson University
"ROS and signaling pathways in regulating tumorigenesis and angiogenesis"

April 30

Benedek Erdos, M.D., Ph.D., Research Assistant Professor, Department of Physiology and Functional Genomics, University of Florida, College of Medicine, Gainesville, FL
“Integrating cardiovascular responses to stress;
the roles of MIF and BDNF”

May 9

Kevin Foskett, Ph.D., Professor, Vice-Chair, Departments of Physiology, and Cell & Developmental Biology, University of Pennsylvania
"Regulation of Cell Bioenergetics by Constitutive Ion Channel-mediated ER Ca2+ Transfer to Mitochondria"
June 13 Harald Sontheimer, Ph.D., Professor, Department of Neurobiology, University of Alabama Birmingham
TBA

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