DEPARTMENT OF
PHYSIOLOGY and BIOPHYSICS
Seminar Series
Spring 2009
Sanger Hall, Room 2-020
Wednesday, at 12:00 p.m.
January 14
Vijay Lyall, Ph.D., Department of Physiology and Biophysics, VCU School of Medicine
(Host: Dr. De Felice)
Title: TRPV1t: A Candidate Mammalian Salt Taste Receptor
January 21
Edward W. Inscho, Ph.D., Department of Physiology, School of Medicine,
Medical College of Georgia
(Host: Dr. Pin-Lan Li)
Title: Mechanisms of Renal Microvascular Dysfunction in Hypertension
January 28
Sid Simon, Ph.D., Department of Neurobiology, Duke University
(Host: Dr. Vijay Lyall)
Title: The Gustatory System and Multisensory Integration
February 4
Sarah Spiegel, Ph.D., Department of Biochemistry and Molecular Biology,
VCU School of Medicine
(Host: Dr. Diomedes Logothetis)
Title: The Ins and Outs of Sphingosine-1-Phosphate
February 11
Linda Boland, Ph.D., Department of Biology, University of Richmond
(Host: Dr. Gea-Ny Tseng)
Title: Polyunsaturated Fatty Acid Inhibition of Fast-Inactivation Potassium Channels
February 18
Jason Rife, Ph.D., Department of Medicinal Chemistry, VCU School of Medicine
(Host: Dr. Roland Pittman)
Title: KsgA/Dim1 Methyltransferases: Ribosome Biogenesis One Methyl Group at a Time
February 25
Douglas A. Bayliss, Ph.D., Department of Pharmacology, University of Virginia Health System
(Host: Dr. Louis De Felice)
Title: Regulation of Cellular Excitability by Modulation of Background Channels: Mechanisms and
Physiological Roles
March 4
No Seminar – Biophysical Society Meeting
March 11
Spring Break
March 18
Shanthi Srinivasan, M.D., Division of Digestive Disease, Emory School of Medicine,
Emory University
(Host; Dr. Murthy Karnam)
Title: Role of Glial Derived Neurotrophic Factor (GDNF) in Diabetic Enteric Neuropathy
March 25
Thirteenth Annual Ramsey Lecturer
Evangelia G. Kranias, Ph.D., Department of Pharmacology and Cell Biophysics,
University of Cincinnati
(Host: Dr. Joseph Feher)
Title: Targeting Calcium Cycling as a Therapeutic Modality in Heart Failure
April 1
Ming-Ming Zhou, Ph.D., Department of Structural & Chemical Biology,
Mount Sinai School of Medicine
(Host: Dr. Diomedes Logothetis)
Title: Modulating the Modulator: Epigenetic Control Beyond the Histone Code
April 8
Antonio Abbate, M.D., Department of Internal Medicine, Division of Cardiology,
VCU Medical Center
(Host: Dr. Fadi Salloum)
Title: Interleukin-1 and Post-Infarction Cardiac Remodeling
April 15
Cancelled
Iban Ubarretxena, Ph.D., Department of Structural and Chemical Biology,
Mount Sinai School of Medicine
(Host: Dr. Diomedes Logothetis)
Title: Structural Studies on the Mechanism of Beta-Amyloid Peptide Production by Gamma-Secretase
April 22
Cancelled
Stuart Sealfon, M.D., Department of Neurology, Mount Sinai School of Medicine
(Host: Dr. Logothetis)
Title: The Glutamate-Serotonin Receptor Complex in Psychedelics and Schizophrenia
April 29
Brian Duling, Ph.D., Department of Molecular Physiology and Biophysical Science and
Biomedical Engineering, University of Virginia
(Host: Dr. Helena Carvalho)
Title: A Role for Voltage Gated Channels in Endothelial Cell Signaling
May 6
Paul M. Wassarman, Ph.D., Department of Developmental & Regenerative Biology,
Mount Sinai School of Medicine
(Host: Dr. Diomedes Logothetis)
Title: The Egg's Zona Pellucida and Mammalian Fertilization
May 13
Sergei Noskov, Ph.D., Institute for Biocomplexity and Informatics, Department of Biological
Sciences, University of Calgary
(Host: Dr. Louis De Felice)
Title: Computational Models of Channels and Transporter Function
Please Note:
The following seminars will be given in Sanger Hall, Room 3-016
May 20
Michael Caterina, Ph.D., Department of Biological Chemistry, Center for Sensory Biology,
Johns Hopkins University
(Host: Dr. Scott Ramsey)
Title: TBA
May 27
Twentieth Annual Distinguished Lecturer
Wayne Hendrickson, Ph.D., Department of Pharmacology, Columbia University
(Host: Dr. Qinglian Liu)
Title: Transduction of Biochemical Signals Across Cell Membranes
June 3
Steven A. Siegelbaum, Ph.D., Department of Neuroscience, Columbia University,
Howard Hughes Medical Institute
(Host: Dr. Lei Zhou)
Title: Regulating Memory Storage Through Dendritic Integration
June 10
Kenton Swartz, Ph.D., NIH/NINDS
(Host: Dr. I. Scott Ramsey)
Title: Structural Basis of Voltage Sensor Function and Pharmacology in Voltage-Activated
Ion Channels
June 17
Alfred L George, Jr., M.D., Division of Genetic Medicine, Vanderbilt University
(Host: Dr. Gea-Ny Tseng)
Title: Structure and Function of KCNE Potassium Channel Accessory Subunits
June 24
Fred S. Lamb, M.D., Ph.D., University of Iowa Children’s Hospital, Department of Pediatrics
(Host: Dr. Clive Baumgarten)
Title: Distinct Intracellular and Extracellular Pathways of Nox1-dependent IC1 swell Activation: Novel
Targets for the Selective Control of Inflammatory Nox Signaling