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Spring 2009 Seminars

• Seminars in Physiology
Director: Dr. David Basile, Assoc. Professor
Assistant to Dr. Basile: Marlene Brown
Webmaster: Stanley Stump

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Joint Seminars with ICVBM appear in green text.
Director: Dr. Matthias Clauss, Assoc. Professor
Assistant: Ann Sullivan
Webmaster: Stanley Stump 
Archive - Spring / Summer 2009 Seminars and RIP Tuesdays Noon - 1 PM
DATE ROOM SPEAKER or EVENT "TITLE"
13 Jan
Tuesday
MS 326  Reina Watanabe, Thesis Defense
Thesis Advisor: Johnathan Tune
“Contribution of K+ Channels To Coronary Dysfunction In Metabolic Syndrome”
19 Jan -----  Monday Holiday - MLK Day  
20 Jan
Tuesday
MS 326  Suzanne Young, PhD 
Post Doctoral Fellow, Pavalko Lab
Cellular & Integrative Physiology, IUSM
“Focal Adhesion Kinase is Important for Fluid Shear Stress Induced Mechanotransduction in Osteoblasts.”
27 Jan
Tuesday

MS 326

 Jun Dai, MD, PhD, Assistant Professor
Applied Health Science Department
Indiana University, Bloomington, IN
“The Mediterranean diet and cardiovascular disease”
10 Feb
Tuesday
MS 326  Michael Brands, PhD
Professor of Physiology
Medical College of Georgia, Augusta, GA
“Potential Role of Glomerular Filtration Rate Controlling Blood Pressure Early in Metabolic Syndrome”
24 Feb
Tuesday
MS 326  Gregg L. Semenza, MD, PhD
Professor of Pediatrics
Johns Hopkins School of Medicine
“Regulation of Ischemia-induced Vascularization by HIF-1”
3 Mar
Tuesday
MS 326  Jiliang Li, PhD  - Host: S. Rhodes
Assistant Professor of Biology, IUPUI
“Molecular basis of mechanotransduction in living bone”
10 Mar
Tuesday
MS 326  Jordan Pober, MD, PhD
Professor of Dermatology & Pathology
Yale Univ. School of Medicine, New Haven, CT
“T cell responses within the vessel wall”
17 Mar -----  Week of Spring Break  
*25 Mar
*Wed*
*GI
Conf.
Room.
Regen-
strief*
 
Jointly sponsored by −
 Divison of Nephrology and Gastroenterology

 John Lemasters, MD, PhD
Professor, Department of Biochemistry
Medical University of S. Carolina, Charleston, SC
“Mitochondrial Permeabilization in Mitophagy, Apoptosis and Necrosis”
7 Apr
Tuesday
MS 326  Kenneth Dunn, PhD
Associate Professor of Medicine, IUSM
 
Scientific Director of the
 Indiana Center for Biological Microscopy
“Imaging capabilities and opportunities at the Indiana Center for Biological Microscopy”
10 Apr ---  Good Friday Holiday  
14 Apr
Tuesday
MS 326   Michael S. Rogers, PhD
Assistant Professor of Surgery
Dept. of Surgery, Vascular Biology Program
Children's Hospital, Harvard Medical School
“The role of genetic diversity in angiogenesis”

21 Apr
Tuesday

MS 326 · Experimental Biology Meetings, April 18 - 22 ·
 Molly Duman Scheel, PhD - Host: S. Rhodes
Assistant Prof., Medical and Molecular Genetics
IU School of Medicine at South Bend
“Axon guidance molecules: from nervous system development to cancer”
28 Apr
Tuesday
MS 326  Nira Ben-Jonathan, PhD - Host: G. Tanner
Professor, Dept. of Cell & Molecular Biology
University of Cincinnati College of Medicine
“Prolactin as a growth and survival factor in breast cancer”
*13 May
*Wed*
*Emer-son
*304*
 William Chilian, PhD - Host: D. Basile
Professor of Physiology and Pharmacology
Northeastern Ohio University College of Medicine
“The Bipolar Personalities of ROS in the Coronary Circulation”
*14 May
*Thur*
MS 326  Rong Zhao, Thesis Defense
Thesis Advisor: S. Gunst
“ADF/cofilin Activation Regulates Actin Polymerization and Tension Development in Canine Tracheal Smooth Muscle”
25 May -----   Monday Holiday - Memorial Day  
2 June
Tuesday
MS 326  Ketrija Touw, Graduate Student
Advisor: P. Herring
“Diabetes induced changes in colon smooth muscle”
9 June
Tuesday
MS 326  Margaret Schwarz, MD
Associate Professor, Department of Pediatrics
UT Southwestern Medical Center at Dallas
“Lung Development: Vessel Rule and EMAP II Mediation”
23 June
Tuesday
MS 326  Xin Long, Graduate Student
Advisor: M. Sturek
“Role of Adenosine A1 Receptors in Native Coronary Atheroma & In-stent Stenos”
30 June
Tuesday
MS 326  Vijay Bindingnavile, Graduate Student
Advisor: Chris Burlak
“Characterization of Porcine Endothelial Cell Xenoantigens Involved in Organ Rejection”
3 July -----  Friday Holiday for Independence Day  
7 July
Tuesday
MS 326  Ryan Widau, Graduate Student
Advisor: P. Gallagher
“A Role for PP2A in Regulating the Activation and Stability of DAPK to Control Ceramide-Induced Anoikis”
21 July
Tuesday
MS 326  Emily Blue, Graduate Student
Advisor: P. Gallagher
“Regulation of Vascular Smooth Muscle Migration and Adhesion by DAPK”
11 Aug
Tuesday
MS 326  Nolan Hoffman, Graduate Student
Advisor: J. Elmendorf
“Mechanisms of Chromium Picolinate Action in Muscle”
18 Aug
Tuesday
MS 326  William Roell, Graduate Student
Advisor: K. March
“A Changing Glycolytic Phenotype in Differentiating Adipocytes”
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Updated: 8/06/2009