July
July 10 - **Ph.D. DISSERTATION DEFENSE**
Martha Z. Carletti
Graduate Student
Department of Molecular & Integrative Physiology
KUMC
MicroRNA-21 Mediated Post-Transcriptional Gene Regulation in Ovarian Function
August
August 12 - **Ph.D. DISSERTATION DEFENSE**
Gwenaelle Clarke
Graduate Student
Department of Molecular & Integrative Physiology
KUMC
Regulation of Sympathetic Plasticity in the Heart
September
September 7 - No Seminar - Labor Day
September 14 -
Joshua Mammen, M.D., Ph.D.
Assistant Professor
General Surgery
KUMC
Ischemia/Reperfusion Injury in the Intestine: Important Roles for PKC, MAPK, and Adenosine
September 21 -
Kenneth E. Miller, Ph.D.
Associate Professor
Department of Anatomy & Cell Biology
Oklahoma State University Center for Health Sciences
Tulsa, OK
A Role for Phosphate-Activated Glutaminase in Chronic Pain
September 28 -
Merlin Butler, M.D.
Professor
Department of Psychiatry & Behavioral Sciences
KUMC
Prader-Willi Syndrome: Genetics and Behavior
October
October 5 -
Virginia Rider, Ph.D.
Associate Professor
Department of Biology
Pittsburg State University
Pittsburg, KS
Estrogen: Contributor to Gender-Based Autoimmunity
October 12 -
George Vielhauer, Pharm.D., Ph.D.
Senior Scientist
Institute for Advancing Medical Innovation
KUMC
Development of HSP90 Inhibitors for Treatment of Prostate Cancer
October 19 -
Janet Pierce, RN, DSN, CCRN
Professor
School of Nursing
KUMC
Treatment of Diaphragm and Lung Apoptosis Following Hemorrhagic Shock
October 23 - **Ph.D. DISSERTATION DEFENSE**
George P. Thomas
Graduate Student
Department of Molecular & Integrative Physiology
Neural Substrates of Insulin-Mediated Memory Facilitation in Early Alzheimer's Disease; The Impact of the Apolipoprotein E-Epsilon-4 Allele on Hippocampal Insulin Responses
October 26 -
Katherine Swenson-Fields, Ph.D.
Research Associate Professor
Department of Anatomy & Cell Biology
KUMC
Wnt Signalling in Cell Fate Determination
November
November 2 -
S. Omar Ahmad, Ph.D.
Assistant Professor
Occupational Therapy Education
KUMC
Microbiological Quantitation: The ABCs of Stereology
November 9 -
Rocio M. Rivera, Ph.D.
Assistant Professor
Department of Animal Sciences
University of Missouri, Columbia
Effects of Assisted Reproductive Technologies on the Epigenetic Program of Pre- and Post-Implantation Mouse Embryos
November 16 -
Mark Fisher, Ph.D.
Professor
Department of Biochemistry & Molecular Biology
KUMC
To Catch a Toxin: EM Structure of the Anthrax Translocation Complex
November 23 -
Marco Brotto, BSN, MS, Ph.D.
Associate Professor
School of Nursing
University of Missouri, Kansas City
Discovery of a Muscle Specific Phosphatase (MIP-MTMR14) and its Roles in Muscle Health and Disease
November 30 -
Michael Crawford, Ph.D.
Director, Laboratory of Biological Anthropology
Professor, Department of Anthropology
University of Kansas, Lawrence
Biological Aging and Genetic Structure in Mennonite Populations of Kansas and Nebraska
December
December 7 - No Seminar
December 14 - No Seminar
December 21 - No Seminar
December 28 - No Seminar
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