January
January 5 - Charles W. Van Way, III, M.D.
Professor of Surgery
Sosland/Missouri Endowed Chair of Trauma Research
Director of Shock/Trauma Research Center
University of Missouri - Kansas City
Pharmacologic Treatment of Hemorrhagic Shock
January 12 -
David C. Poole, Ph.D., D.Sc.
Professor
Departments of Kinesiology, Anatomy & Physiology
Kansas State University - Manhattan
Myths and the Microcirculation: Inconvenient Truths
January 19 - No Seminar - Martin Luther King, Jr. Holiday
January 26 -
Robert A. White, Ph.D.
Director, Molecular Genetics Research Laboratory
Children's Mercy Hospital
Associate Professor, Pediatrics
University of Missouri - Kansas City
The Search for a Novel Gene for Hereditary Spherocytosis using the Nan (Neonatal Anemia) Mouse Model
February
February 2 -
Darren P. Wallace, Ph.D.
Research Assistant Professor
Kidney Institute
KUMC
Cell Proliferation in Polycystic Kidney Disease: Regulation by B-Raf and Integrin-Linked Kinase
February 5 - **Ph.D. Dissertation Defense**
Lynda K. McGinnis
Graduate Student
Department of Molecular & Integrative Physiology
KUMC
Src-Family Tyrosine Kinases Participate in the Regulation of Mammalian Oocyte Maturation and Zygotic Development
February 9 - Craig E. Lunte, Ph.D.
Professor
Department of Chemistry
University of Kansas - Lawrence
Application of Microdialysis Sampling for Pharmacodynamic Studies of Neuroactive Drugs
February 16 - R. C. Andrew Symons, M.D.
Assistant Professor
Department of Ophthalmology
KUMC
The Genetics of the Response of the Retinal Vasculature to Hyperoxia
February 23 - Glen K. Andrews, Ph.D.
Professor
Department of Biochemistry & Molecular Biology
KUMC
Regulation and Function of Zip4, the Acrodermatitis Entropathica Gene
February 27 - **Ph.D. Dissertation Defense**
Anisha Gupte
Graduate Student
Department of Molecular & Integrative Physiology
KUMC
Heat Shock Proteins: Novel Therapeutic Targets Against Insulin Resistance and Type 2 Diabetes
March
March 2 -
Rick T. Dobrowsky, Ph.D.
Professor
Department of Pharmacology & Toxicology
University of Kansas - Lawrence
Altered Neureglin Signaling Contributes to Diabetic Peripheral Neuropathy
March 5 - **Ph.D. Dissertation Defense**
Alison Y. Ting
Graduate Student
Department of Molecular & Integrative Physiology
KUMC
Novel Strategies in Cancer Prevention and Fertility Preservation with Tamoxifen
March 9 -
Alexei Y. Bagrov, M.D., Ph.D.
Investigator and Head of the Hypertension Unit
Laboratory of Cardiovascular Science
National Institute on Aging
Baltimore, MD
Endogenous Cardiotonic Steroids and Pathogenesis of Hypertension
March 16 - Wohaib Hasan, Ph.D.
Research Assistant Professor
Department of Molecular & Integrative Physiology
KUMC
Cardiac Autonomic Neuroplasticity in Congestive Heart Failure
March 23 - Doug Wright, Ph.D.
Associate Professor
Department of Anatomy & Cell Biology
KUMC
An Anatomist's View of Peripheral Nerve Disease
March 30 - Kenneth R. Peterson, Ph.D.
Professor & Vice-Chariman
Department of Biochemistry & Molecular Biology
KUMC
Transactivation and Repression of Fetal Hemoglobin Expression: A Bimodal Approach to Treat Sickle Cell Disease
April
April 6 -
Alberto Pereda, Ph.D.
Professor
Dominick P. Purpura Department of Neuroscience
Albert Einstein College of Medicine
Bronx, NY
Plasticity of Electrical Synapses
April 13 -
Argenia Doss
Graduate Student
Department of Molecular & Integrative Physiology
KUMC
Langerhans Cells: A Possible Player in Diabetes-Induced Peripheral Neuropathy
Tim Donohue
Graduate Student
Department of Molecular & Integrative Physiology
KUMC
Disruption of Prejunctional Inhibition in the Autonomic Nervous System: Contribution to Parasympathetic Withdrawal in Heart Failure
April 20 -
Sarah Tague
Graduate Student
Department of Molecular & Integrative Physiology
KUMC
Sometimes It Hurts to be a Woman. Nociceptor Modulation by Vitamin D and Estrogen.
Emily McDonald
Graduate Student
Department of Molecular & Integrative Physiology
KUMC
Adiponectin Regulation of Trophoblast Endocrine Function
April 23 -
Ira M. Herman, Ph.D.
Distinguished Professor,
Department of Physiology
Director, Center for Innovations in Wound Healing
Research
Tufts University School of Medicine
Boston, MA
Pericyte-Endothelial Interactions and Microvascular Remodeling: A Role
in Pathological Angiogenesis?
April 27 -
Sara Turk
Graduate Student
Department of Molecular & Integrative Physiology
KUMC
Role of Src Tyrosine Kinase in GnRH Induction of the LH Beta-Subunit Promoter
Aritra Bhattacherjee
Graduate Student
Department of Molecular & Integrative Physiology
KUMC
Estrogen-Induced Nerve Plasticity in the Female Reproductive Tract
May
May 4 -
Brittnany Gorres
Graduate Student
Department of Molecular & Integrative Physiology
KUMC
The Combined Effect of a High Fat Diet and Estrogen Loss on Insulin Resistance
Jill Morris
Graduate Student
Department of Molecular & Integrative Physiology
KUMC
Preclinical Studies of a Link between Parkinson's Disease and Type 2 Diabetes
May 11 -
Susan E. Smittkamp, Ph.D.
Research Assistant Professor
Department of Molecular & Integrative Physiology
KUMC
Preclinical Studies of ALS
May 18 -
Kenneth A. Bradley, Ph.D.
Assistant Professor, Department of Microbiology, Immunology & Molecular Genetics
Director, Molecular Screening & Shared Research
University of California, Los Angeles
Host-Pathogen Interactions in Anthrax
May 21 - **Ph.D. Dissertation Defense**
Rachel Williams
Graduate Student
Molecular & Integrative Physiology
KUMC
HIV-encephalitis: Mechanisms for CXCL10 Induction in Astrocytes
May 25 - No Seminar - Memorial Day
June
June 1 - **Fred E. Samson, Jr. Memorial Lectureship**
George Perry, Ph.D.
Dean & Professor of Biology
University of Texas, San Antonio
Mitochondria at the Center of Oxidative Stress in Alzheimer Disease
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