January
January 10 - **Faculty Candidate**
Paige Geiger, Ph.D.
Section of Applied Physiology
Washington University
Enhanced Insulin Sensitivity in Skeletal Muscle After Exercise
January 24 - Yu-Jui Yvonne Wan, Ph.D.
Pharmacology, Toxicology & Therapeutics
KUMC
RXRalpha - The Center of the Metabolism
January 25 - **Faculty Candidate**
Christopher Bishop, Ph.D.
Department of Anatomy & Cell Biology
Wayne State University School of Medicine
Serotonin Neuroplasticity in the Dopamine Depleted Basal Ganglia: Implications for the Treatment of Parkinson's Disease
January 31- Alan Godwin, Ph.D.
Molecular & Integrative Physiology
KUMC
Reverse Genetic Techniques for Functionally Analyzing Regeneration in Zebrafish
February
February 3 - **Faculty Candidate**
Zixi Cheng, Ph.D.
Kosair Children's Hospital
Department of Pediatrics
University of Louisville
The Brain-Heart Connection: Circuitry and Remodeling
February 7 –Cameron McIntyre, Ph.D.
Department of Biomedical Engineering
Cleveland Clinic Foundation
Lerner Research Institute
Deep Brain Simulation: Models, Mechanisms, and Future Technology
February 8 – **Faculty Candidate**
Mayumi Prins, Ph.D.
UCLA Division of Neurosurgery
Traumatic Brain Injury in the Developing Brain: Age and Alternative Metabolic Substrates
February 21 – Brian Copple, Ph.D.
Department of Pharmacology, Toxicology and Therapeutics
KUMC
Role of Early Growth Response Factor-1 (Egr-1) and Hepatocellular Hypoxia in the Development of Chronic Liver Disease
February 24 - **Faculty Candidate**
Qing Lin, M.D., Ph.D.
Department of Neuroscience & Cell Biology
University of Texas Medical Branch at Galveston
Mechanisms of Neurogentic Inflammation-Induced Pain
February 28 - Mike Griswold, Ph.D.
Department of Molecular Biosciences
Washington State University
Lesson Learned from Expression Profiling of Spermatogenesis and Testis Development
March 2 – **Faculty Candidate**
Raou Adibhatla, Ph.D.
Department of Neurosurgery
University of Wisconsin
CDP-Choline: Mechanisms and Efficacy in Stroke
March 7 - Debbie O'Brien, Ph.D.
Department of Cell & Developmental Biology
University of North Carolina School of Medicine
Novel Glycolytic Enzymes are Required for Sperm Motility and Male Fertility
March 8 - Karen Berkley, Ph.D.
Program in Neuroscience
Florida States University
Neural Mechanisms of Pelvic Pain
March 10 - **Faculty Candidate**
Kathleen Curis, Ph.D.
Department of Psychology
Program in Neuroscience
Florida State University
Sec Difference in Body Fluid Regulation
March 14 -Kyle Orwig, Ph.D.
Pittsburgh Development Center
Magee-Women's Research Institute University of Pittsburgh
Stem Cells in the Male Germline
March 15 - Kazuhiko Seki, Ph.D.
Department of Developmental Physiology
National Institute for Phyiological Science
Japan
Dynamic Modulation of Sensory Input During Volitional Movement: Behavioral Correlate of Presynaptic Inhibition
March 21 - Greg A. Gerhardt, Ph.D.
Department of Anatomy & Neurobiology, Neurology, and Psychiatry
University of Kentucky
Intraputmenal Glial Cell Line-Derived Neurotorphic Factor (GDNF) as a Treatment for Parkinson's Disease: Good, Bad or Placebo
March 28 - Erik A. Lundquist, Ph.D.
Department of Molecular Bioscience
University of Kansas
Cytoskeletal Signal Transduction and Axon Pathfinding in C. Elegans
April
April 4 - Malcolm J.Low, M.D., Ph.D.
Vollum Institute
Department of Behavioral Neuroscience
Oregon Health Science University
Genetic Approaches to Study Neuro/Neuroendocrine Physiology in the Mouse
April 11 - John H. Morrison, Ph.D.
Department of Neuroscience and Neurobiology of Aging Laboratories
Mount Sinai School of medicine
Life and Death of Neurons in the Aging Cerebral Cortex
April 18 - ** Dissertation Defense**
Numa Dancause
Molecular & Integrative Physiology
KUMC
Pattern of Cortical Connections of the Ventral Premotor Cortex in a New World Monkey: Impact of a Primary Motor Cortex Lesion
April 25 - Peggy Petroff, Ph.D.
Anatomy & Cell Biology
KUMC
New Members of the B7 Family Molecules : Trophoblast Modulators at the Maternal-Fetal Interface
May
May 2 - Eric W. Overstrom,Ph.D.
Department of Biology & Biotechnology
Worcester Polytechnic Institute
Players and Pretenders in Somatic Cell Nuclear Transfer
May 9 - Kevin J. Leco, Ph.D.
Department of Physiology & Pharmacology
Child Health Research Institute
University of Western Ontario
TIMPs are Essential for Normal Function ad Developmental Pattering of Murine Lung and Heart
May 13- ** Ph.D. Dissertation Defense**
Ning Lei
Molecular & Integrative Physiology
KUMC
Characterization of Dmrt1 in Testis Differentiation
May 18 -**Fred E. Samson Memorial Lecture**
Dianna A. Johnson, Ph.D.
Department of Ophthalmology
University of Tennessee Health Science Center
Promises and Problems of Retinal Synaptic Plasticity: Corrupt Re-wiring in Retinoblastoma
May 23 - K.M. Jairam Menon, Ph.D.
Department of Biological Chemistry
university of Michigan
LH Receptor Expression in the Ovary: Regulation by an RNA Binding Protein
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