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Seminars 2007-2008 Academic Year

Use the selection list below to find more information about our seminar programs.

This page shows the Physiology Department's seminars database for the full academic year 2007-2008. For a listing of upcoming Physiology seminars, please select an appropriate link in the select list below.

For the complete UMass Medical School Seminar list, see the Institution wide list.

Please bookmark this page and check back frequently, especially just before the events you wish to attend, as schedules often shift.

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September 2007
Monday, September 17, 2007
"Ca2+ in the Syntilla Microdomain Inhibits Exocytosis. Or: Man Bites Dog"
John V. Walsh, Jr., M.D.

Professor of Physiology
Department of Physiology
University of Massachusetts Medical School
Monday, September 24, 2007
"Dopamine Transporter Trafficking: Putting on the Brakes"
Haley E. Melikian, Ph.D.

Assistant Professor of Psychiatry and Biochemistry & Molecular Pharmacology
Brudnick Neuropsychiatric Research Institute
University of Massachusetts Medical School
Worcester, MA
October 2007
Thursday, October 18, 2007
"The I-II Loop Controls Plasma Membrane Expression and Gating of Cav3.2 T-type Ca2+ Channels: A Paradigm for Childhood Absence Epilepsy"
Edward Perez-Reyes, Ph.D.

Professor
Department of Pharmacology
University of Virginia Health Systems
Charlottesville, VA
Monday, October 29, 2007
"Shooting Sparks: Currents, Calcium, and Confocals - - The Legacy of Fred Fay"
W. Jonathan Lederer, M.D., Ph.D.

Professor & Director
Medical Biotechnology Center
University of Maryland Biotechnology Institute
Baltimore, MD
November 2007
Monday, November 19, 2007
"Mechanism of myosin Va regulation by its tail domain--Put on the brake to stop the ATPase cycle"
Xiang-Dong Li, PhD

Instructor
Department of Physiology
UMass Medical School
February 2008
Wednesday, February 13, 2008
"Action Potential Codes Modulate Ca2+-dependent and Ca2+-independent Secretion in Somata of DRG Neurons"
Zhuan Zhou, Ph.D.

Professor & Senior Investigator
Laboratory of Cellular Biophysics
Institute of Molecular Medicine
Peking University
Beijing, China
March 2008
Monday, March 24, 2008
"Rhodopsin Regulation and Fly Visual Sensitivity"
Hong-Sheng Li, Ph.D.

Assistant Professor
Univ. of Mass. Med. Sch.
Department of Neurobiology
Worcester, MA
April 2008
Monday, April 14, 2008
"Palmitoylated CavB2a Toggles Ca2+ Channel Modulation from Inhibition to Enhancement: A Fatty Acid Tale"
Ann R. Rittenhouse, Ph.D.

Associate Professor
Department of Physiology
University of Massachusetts Medical School
Worcester, MA
Tuesday, April 29, 2008
"Dynamic Roles of Rab27A in Insulin Secretion"
Edward L. Stuenkel, Ph.D.

Professor of Molecular and Integrative Physiology
University of Michigan
Ann Arbor, MI
May 2008
Monday, May 19, 2008
"An Opening for the Fusion Pore"
Manfred Lindau, Ph.D.

Professor
School of Applied & Engineering Physics
Cornell University
Ithaca, NY
July 2008
Thursday, July 17, 2008
"Molecular Reconstitution of Retrograde Endocannabinoid Signaling in Sympathetic Neurons"
Stephen R. Ikeda, M.D., Ph.D.

National Institute on Alcohol Abuse & Alcoholism
Division of Intramural Clinical & Biological Research
National Institutes of Health
Bethesda, MD



 

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