Events and Seminars

9/5/2007	Jason Thonhoff, Neuroscience Graduate Student, Proposal Seminar, "Effects of ALS Glia on Human Fetal Neural Stem Cells".
9/12/2007	Hans-Peter Brecht, CPMB Graduate Student, Final Dissertation Seminar, Title TBD.
9/19/2007	Ruslan Grishanin, Ph.D., Postdoctoral Fellow, Department of Physiology and Howard Hughes Medical Institute, University of California at San Francisco, San Francisco, California, Faculty Candidate Seminar, Molecular Insights in the Regulated Neurotransmitter Release".
9/24/2007	Jian Zhong, Ph.D., Research Scientist, Neuroscience Center, University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill, North Carolina, Faculty Candidate Seminar, "Genetic Dissection of the Raf-Mek-Erk Signaling Pathway in the Nervous System Development".
10/1/2007	Hui (Iris) Zhang, Ph.D., Associate Research Scientist, Department of Neurology, Columbia University, New York, New York, Faculty Candidate Seminar, "Plasticity of Dopamine Release and Its Effect on Corticostriatal Synapse".
10/10/2007	Ok-Ho Shin, Ph.D., Assistant Instructor, Center for Basic Neuroscience, University of Texas Southwestern Medical Center, Dallas, Texas, Faculty Candidate Seminar, "The Molecular Mechanisms Mediating Ca2+-regulated Neurotransmitter Release".
10/15/2007	Wu, Faculty Candidate Seminar.
10/22/2007	Shao-Jun Tang, Ph.D., Assistant Instructor, Department of Neurobiology and Behavior, Center for Neurobiology of Learning and Memory, University of California, Irvine, California, Faculty Candidate Seminar, "Molecular Mechanisms of Synaptic Plasticity".
10/25/2007	Bridget Hawkins, Neuroscience Graduate student Final Dissertation Seminar, Title TBD.
10/29/2007	Cho, Faculty Candidate Seminar.
10/31/2007	Pollard, Pomerat Lecture.
11/26/2007	Spinette, Epstein Seminar Guest Lecturer.

Past Seminars

5/9/2007	Lindsey Jackson, M.D., Cell Biology Graduate Student, UTMB, Student Proposal Seminar, "PI3K/Akt Activation is Critical for Hepatic Regeneration After Partial Hepatectomy".
5/10/2007	Darshana Choksi, Cell Biology Graduate Student, UTMB, Student Proposal Seminar, "Role of Protein Tyrosine Nitration in Mitochondrial Function and Aging".
5/14/2007	Paivi Jordan, Neuroscience Graduate Student, UTMB, Final Dissertation Seminar, "Molecular and Cellular Regulation of Motoneuron Differentiation from Human Neural Stem Cells"
5/21/2007	Harvey M. Fishman, Ph.D., Professor, Department of Neuroscience and Cell Biology, UTMB. "Axonal Plasticity".
5/23/2007	Malcolm S. Brodwick, Ph.D., Professor, Department of Neuroscience and Cell Biology, UTMB, "Glutamatergic Modulation of Internal Chloride Concentration".
6/11/2007	Zobeida Cruz-Monserrate, Cell Biology Graduate student, Final Dissertation Seminar, "Integrin a6ß4 Contributions in Pancreatic Adenocarcinoma".
6/13/2007	Shinichi Takayama, M.D., Ph.D., Assistant Professor, Department of Radiology, Medical Colloge of Georgia Cancer Center, Augusta, Georgia. "Role of BAG3 in Myofibrillar Myopathy and Cancer Metastasis".
7/23/2007	Wensheng Lin, M.D., Ph.D., Research Associate, Department of Neurology, The University of Chicago, Chicago, Illinois. ER stress modulates the response of oligodendrocytes to interferon-g.
7/30/2007	Xiuqian Mu, M.D., Ph.D., Assistant Professor, Department of Biochemistry and Molecular Biology, University of Texas M.D. Anderson Cancer Center, Houston, TX, Faculty Candidate Seminar, "A Gene Regulatory Network for Retinal Ganglion Cell Development".
8/6/2007	Wei Guo, Cell Biology Graduate student, Proposal Seminar, Title TBD. 10:00 am.
8/7/2007	Gangqiang Li, Neuroscience Graduate student, Annual Seminar, Title TBD. Noon.
8/7/2007	Martin B. Gill, Neuroscience Graduate student, Final Dissertation, "Location, Location, Location". 2:00 p.m.
8/13/2007	Erika D. Eggers, Ph.D., Postdoctoral Fellow, Department of Ophthalmology and Visual Science, Washington University, St. Louis, Mo., Faculty Candidate Seminar, "Synaptic Mechanisms of Retinal Inhibition".
8/20/2007	L. Keith Henry, Research Instructor, Department of Pharmacology, Vanderbilt University School of Medicine, Nashville, Tennessee, Faculty Candidate Seminar, "From Cave Drawings to Rosetta Stone: Exciting New Insights into the Structure-Function Properties of the Human Serotonin Transporter".
8/21/2007	Jittima Weerachayaphorn, CPMB Graduate Student, Final Dissertation Seminar, "Molecular Transport Properties of Sodium/Dicarboxylate Cotransporters".
8/27/2007	Lei Jin, Ph.D., Research Assistant Professor, Department of Pathology and Laboratory Medicine, The University of Texas Houston – The Medical Center, Houston, Texas. Faculty Candidate Seminar, "The Atomic-Resolution Age for Single-Particle Cryo-EM-3.88A Cryo-EM Structure of Cytoplasmic Polyhedrosis Virus".