Graduate Seminar Series

Fall 2006 Schedule

Date: Fridays 9:30-10:50 AM
Room: 400 GCB
Instructors: Drs. Chun Jiang and Delon W. Barfuss
Telephone: (404) 651-0913, (404) 651-3081
Email: biocjj@langate.gsu.edu and biodwb@langate.gsu.edu
Course Website

August

August 25
Organizational Meeting
All registered students should be there.

September

Sep 1 
Taronna R. Maines, PhD
Title: "Transmissibility of H5N1 Avian-human Reassortant Viruses in a Ferret Model"

Sep 8
Dr. Chun Jiang
Biology Department, GSU
Title: TBA

Sep 15        
Dr. Heather Eisthen
Associate Professor, Dept. of Zoology , Michigan State University
Title: "So Many Chemosensory Pathways, So Little Time: Two Tales from a Nose"
Host: Dr. Charles Derby

Sep 22
Dr. Delon Barfuss, GSU Biology Department
Title: “Isotonic Fluid Absorption in the Kidney Proximal Tubule” or “How Does the Kidney Absorb all that Water!”

Sep 29
Dr. Russ Price, Emory Universtiy
Title: "Muscle atrophy: A tale of two proteases"
Host: Dr. William Walthall

October

Oct 6
Dr. Dong-Hyeon Kwon,
Title: “Can We Treat Antibiotic-Resistant Bacteria Pathogens?”
Host: Dr. Chung-Dar Lu

Oct 13
Dr. William A. Carlezon, Ph.D.
Department of Psychiatry, Harvard University Medical School at McLean Hospital
Title: "Role of nucleus accumbens CREB in motivated behavior: implications for co-morbidity of addiction and depression"
Host: Dr. Kyle Frantz

Oct 20
Dr. Elizabeth Unger, (CDC/CCID/NCID)
Title: TBA
Host: Dr. Susanna Greer

Oct 27
Asheebo Rojas
Title: "Elucidation of the role played by Kir channels in central CO 2 chemoreception"
Host: Dr. Chun Jiang

November

Nov 3
Dr. Melody Neely
Wayne State University
Title: "Analysis of host-pathogen interactions duringstreptococcal infection using a zebrafish infectious disease model"
Host: Dr. Zehava Eichenbaum

Nov 10
Dr. Andrei Ivalov
Emory University
Title: "Lords of the cytosolic rings:  endocytosis and cytoskeleton as key regulators of disassembly of epithelial junctions”
Host: Dr. Yuan Liu

Nov 17
Dr. Julia Kubanek
Depts of Biology and Chemistry Georgia Tech
Title: "Chemical cues in the ocean"
Host: Dr. Charles Derby

Nov 24
Holiday, no class

December

Dec 1
Dr. Richard Zimmer
UCLA
Title: "The Neuroecology of Chemical Defenses"
Host: Dr. Charles Derby

Dec 8
Dr. Chudi Gaun
New England Biolabs, Inc.
Title: "How does the junction-resolving enzyme T7 endonuclease I possess so many substrate specificities?"
Host: Dr. Yuan Liu

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