August
August 24 - Jeremy Chien
Ph.D. Dissertation Defense
Department of Molecular& Integrative Physiology
KUMC
Role of Calcitonin in Prostate
September 11 – Mike Werle, Ph.D.
Department of Molecular & Integrative Physiology
KUMC
Molecular Mechanisms Controlling Aynapse Formation and Remodeling at the Neuromuscular Junction
September 18 – Michael Wolfe, Ph.D.
Assistant Professor
Molecular & Integrative Physiology
KUMC
THe Role of Egr1 and it's Corepressor Nab in Pituitary Gonadotropes
September 25 – Randy Nudo, Ph.D.
Associate Professor, Molecular & Integrative Physiology
Associate Director, Center on Aging
KUMC
Cortical Calisthenics: Neural Correlates of Motor Learning in Normal and Injured Brains
October 2 – Joe Lutkenhaus, Ph.D.
Department of Microbiology
KUMC
Spatial Regulation of Cell Division
October 9 – **Bohan Lecture Series Seminar**
John Nilson, Ph.D.
John H. Hord Professor & Chair
Pharmacology
Case Western Reserve University
Targeted Overexpression of LH in Transgenic Mice: An Endocrine Train Wreck that Signals Hypersecretion of Several Hormones, Engineers Multiple Tumors, and Derails Pregnancy
October 16 - Rich Alper, Ph.D.
Department of Pharmacology, Toxicology & Therapeutics
KUMC
Non-genomic Effects of Estrogens in Hippocampus and Cortex: Role of Protein Kinases on G Protein- Coupled Receptors
October 23 – Jennifer Hill Karrer, Ph.D.
Assistant Professor
Molecular & Integrative Physiology
KUMC
Neurophysiological, Behavioral and Molecular Measures of Longitudinal Development among Infants with Fragile X and Down Syndrome
October 30 – Joan Hunt, Ph.D.
Department of Anatomy & Cell Biology
KUMC
HLA-G and Immunotolerance in Pregnancy
November
November 6 - Jim Calvet, Ph.D.
Department of Biochemistry& Molecular Biology
KUMC
Polycystic Kidney Disease: Hints About Protein
November 13 - Russell V. Anthon, Ph.D.
Hill Professor of ANimal Biotechnology
College of Veterinary Medicine
Colorado State University
Placental Insufficiency-Intrauterine Growth Restriction: What Can Be Learned From Sheep?
November 14 - Russell V. Anthony, Ph.D.
Hill Professor of ANimal Biotechnology
College of Veterinary Medicine
Colorado State University
Transcriptional Regulation of Ovine Placental Lactogen
November 20 - Robert Forster, M.D.
Isaac Ott Professor Emeritus of Physiology
Department of Physiology
University of Pennsylvania School of Medicine
Carbonic Anhydrase, CO2 and HCO3 Transport, from 1933 to 2000
November 27 - David Threadgill, Ph.D.
Department of Genetics
Lineberger Cancer Center
University of North Carolina
Genetic Dissection of Disease Susceptibility
November 29 - **Faculty Candidate**
Gustavo Blanco, M.D., Ph.D.
Department of Cell Biology & Physiology
Washington University, School of Medicine
St. Louis, MO
The Na,K-ATPases: a Family of Isozymes with Different Function
December
December 4 - Bob De Lisle, Ph.D.
Department of Anatomy and Cell Biology
KUMC
Cystic Fibrosis in the GI System: Studies Using the CF Mouse
December 6 - ** Faculty Candidate**
Paul A. Welling, M.D.
Department of Physiology
University of Maryland School of Medicine
Baltimore, MD
Molecular Mechanisms of Renal Potassium Channel Function
December 11 - ** 30th Annual KATHLEEN M. OSBORN MEMORIAL LECTURE**
Jon Levine, Ph.D.
Department of Neurobiology & pHysiology
Northwestern University
Neuronal Progesterone Receptors: Where signals Converge to Surge
December 12 - ** Faculty Candidate **
John A. Imig, Ph.D.
Department of Physiology
Tulane University Medical Center
New Orleans, LA
Is 11,12-EET the Elusive Endothelium-derived Hyperpolarizing Factor (EDHF)?
December 18 - Robert E Schmidt, M.D., Ph.D.
Professor of Pathology
Director of Division of Neuropathology
Washington University School of Medicine
Diabetic Autonomic Neuropathy: Human Pathology and Animal Models
