August
August 29 - Pablo E. Visconti, Ph.D.
Department of Veterinary and Animal Sciences
University of Massachusetts
Regulation of Signaling Pathways in Mammalian Spermatozoa
September
September 12 - Paul Cheney, Ph.D.
Professor& Chair
Molecular & Integrative Physiology
KUMC
Brain Electrical Stimulation: History and Highlights
September 19 - Janet Pierce, RN, DSN, CCRN
Associate Professor
School of Nursing
KUMC
Dopamine's Attenuation of Fatigue and Apoptosis in the Stressed Diaphragm
September 26 - Randoph Nudo, Ph.D.
Professor
Department of Molecular & Integrative Physiology
Director
Landon Center on Aging
KUMC
Expanding the Stroke Therapy window: New Approaches Based on Mechanisms of Cell Death and Neuroplasticity
October
October 3 - **35th Annual Osborn Lecture**
Nelson Horseman, Ph.D.
Graduate Program in Systems Biology and Physiology
University of Cincinnati
Interpretation of Endocrine Signals: How Local Factors Mediate Mammary Gland Development and Homeostasis
October 4 - **Dissertation Defense**
Brian Herman
Molecular & Integrative Physiology
KUMC
Transcriptional Regulation of FSH-Receptor
October 10 –Charles Little, Ph.D.
Department of Anatomy & Cell Biology
KUMC
Endothelial Cell Dynamics and Tissue Biomechanics During Vasculogenesis
October 17 - Jay Vivian, Ph.D.
Institute of Maternal- Fetal Biology
Divisi`on of Cancer & Developmental Biology
and Pathology & Laboratory Medicine
KUMC
Chemical Mutagenesis of Mouse Embryonic Stem Cells
October 24 - Gustavo Blanco, Ph.D.
Molecular & Integrative Physiology
KUMC
Alpha 4 a Na,K-ATPase Isoform Dedicated to spermatozoa
October 31 - Ron Yu, Ph.D.
Stowers Institute for Medical Research
Kansas City, Missouri
Scents and Sensibility: The Neural Circuitry Underlying the Sense of Smell
November
November 7 -Kausik Si, Ph.D.
Stowers Institute for Medical Research
Kansas City, Missouri
Molecular Mechanisms of Persistence of Memory
November 15 -R. Scott Hawley, Ph.D.
Stowers Institute fro Medical Research
Kansas City, Missouri
Hanging on to Your Partner: Studies of a Simple Meiotic System
November 17 -Abderaouf Belhaj-Saif, Ph.D.
Unit of Physiology & Program in Neurosciences
Faculty of Sciences
University of Fribourg
Fribourg, Switzerland
Effect of Anti-NOGO Treatment on the Recovery of Manual Dexterity Following Lesion of the Hand Representation in the Motor Cortex of Monkeys
November 28 - **Faculty Candidate**
Karen Ann Gregerson, Ph.D.
Associate Professor of Physiology
Division of Pharmaceutical Sciences
College of Pharmacy
University of Cincinnati
Investigating Mechanisms of Dopamine and Estrogen Actions on Pituitary Lactotrophs
December
December 1 - Andrew B. Schwartz, Ph.D.
Department of Neurobiology
University of Pittsburgh School of Medicine
Neuroprosthetics: Useful Signals from Motor Cortex
December 5 - Alp Can, M.D.
Department of Histology-Embryology
Ankara University School of Medicine
Ankara, Turkey
Growth and Differentiation Characteristics of Human Umbilical Cord Stromal Cells
December 12 - John Robertson, Ph.D.
Department of Pharmacology, Toxicology and Therapeutics
KUMC
Mechanisms of Chemotherapy-Induced Apoptosis
December 16
- **Faculty Candidate**
Todd Holmes, Ph.D.
Department of Biology
New York University
Circuit Bashing (and Repair of a Circadian Pacemaker Circuit
December 19 - P. Michael Conn, Ph.D.
Oregon National Primate Center
beaverton, Oregon
The GnRH Receptor: A Story Unfolding
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