Graduate Research Seminar Series
Fall 2009 Schedule
Date: Fridays 9:00 – 10:50 AM
Room: 600 GCB
August
Aug 28
Organizational meeting
Speaker: Didier Merlin, Ph.D., Assoc. Professor,
Emory University, Atlanta, GA
Title: "Intestinal PepT1 in Health and Disease"
Host: Yuan Liu
September
Sep 4
Speaker: Xiaoqin Ye, Ph.D., Asst Professor,
Department of Physiology and Pharmacology, College of Veterinary Medicine, Interdisciplinary Toxicology Program, UGA
Title: "GPCR LPA3 in reproduction"
Host: Yuan Liu
Sep 11
Speaker: Yuan Liu, Ph.D., Asst. Professor,
Department of Biology, Georgia State University
Title: "Modulating Leukocyte Inflammatory Responses by Cell Surface Receptors"
Host:
Sep 18
Speaker: Susanna Greer, Ph.D., Asst. Professor,
Department of Biology, Georgia State University
Title: "Turning on Transcription: Implications for Signaling, Chromatin And Transcription Factor Stability"
Host:
Sep 25
Speaker: Dianqing Wu, Ph.D., Professor,
Department of Pharmacology, Yale School of Medicine,
Title: "G protein-coupled signaling in myeloid cells"
Host: Yuan Liu
October
Oct 2
Speaker: Ritu Aneja, Ph.D., Assoc. Professor,
Department of Biology, Georgia State University
Title: "Targeting microtubules for cancer chemotherapy"
Host: Teryl Frey
Oct 9
Speaker: James Affolter, Ph.D.,
Director of Research, Georgia Botanical Garden, Department of Horticulture, University of Georgia, Athens, GA.
Title: "Issues and Advances in Medicinal Plant Use"
Host: Teryl Frey
Oct 16
Speaker: Adam Wilson, Ph.D., Asst. Professor,
Department of Biology, Georgia State University
Title: "Adapting to changing environments: molecular mechanisms of virulence regulation in Bacillus anthracis"
Host:
Oct 23
Speaker: Joshua Weitz, Ph.D., Asst. Professor,
School of Biology, Georgia Institute of Technology,
Atlanta, GA.
Title: "Nonlinear effect of copy number variation on gene expression"
Host: Teryl Frey
Oct 30
Speaker: John Shoffner, MD,
Medical Neurogenetics, Atlanta GA
Title: "Advances in Mitochondrial Disease Research"
Host: Phang C. Tai
November
Nov 6
Speaker: Phillip Santangelo, Ph.D., Asst. Professor,
School of Biology, Georgia Institute of Technology,
Atlanta, GA.
Title: "Single Molecule Sensitive Imaging of RNA in Live Cells"
Host: Teryl Frey
Nov 13
Speaker: Yuying Liang, Ph.D., Asst. Professor,
Department of Pathology, Emory University School of Medicine, Atlanta, GA.
Title: "Molecular Determinants of Pichinde Virus Infection of Guinea Pigs – a Small Animal Model System for Arenaviral Hemorrhagic Fevers"
Host: Teryl Frey
Nov 20
Speaker: Bali Pulendran, Ph.D., Professor,
Department of Pathology, Emory University School of Medicine, Atlanta, GA.
Title: "TBA"
Host: Yuan Liu
Nov 27 Thanksgiving Holiday
December
Dec 4
Speaker: Nader H. Moniri, Ph.D., Asst. Professor,
Department of Pharmaceutical Sciences, College of Pharmacy and Health Sciences, Mercer University, Atlanta, GA.
Title: "Regulation of b2-adrenergic receptor signaling by reactive oxygen species"
Host:
