Seminar Series

Seminar Start Time: 4:00 p.m.
Location: Lied Auditorium (except as noted)
Refreshments served in the Hixon Atrium beginning at 3:45 p.m.

January

January 2

No Seminar

January 9

Kee Jun Kim, PhD
Assistant Professor
Microbiology
KUMC
Modulation of the Blood-Brain Barrier by cocaine and microbes

January 16

No Seminar - Martin Luther King, Jr. Day

January 23

Mark Chertoff, Ph.D.
Associate Professor
Hearing and Speech
KUMC
Developing a Clinical Tool to Quantify the Underlying Cochlear Damage that causes Hearing Loss: Bench to…..

January 30

Guangbo Chen
Graduate Student
Molecular & Integrative Physiology
KUMC
Adaptive Chromosomal Instability – Hsp90 Stress Potentiates Rapid Cellular Adaptation through Induction of Aneuploidy

February

February 6

Huan Yang
Graduate Student
Molecular & Integrative Physiology
KUMC
The RDE-10/RDE-11 complex triggers RNAi induced mRNA degradation by association with target mRNA in C. elegans

February 13

Ram Kannan
Graduate Student
Molecular & Integrative Physiology
KUMC
Multiple RNA elements promote spliceosomal cleavage of telomerase RNA

February 20

Wen Tang
Graduate Student
Molecular & Integrative Physiology
KUMC
Fission yeast telomerase RNA biogenesis requires sequential binding of Sm and Lsm complexes

February 27

Phil Lee, Ph.D.
Assistant Professor
Molecular & Integrative Physiology
KUMC
In vivo assessment of neuronal integrity in animal models of neurodegenerative diseases

March

March 5

John Stanford, Ph.D.
Associate Professor
Molecular & Integrative Physiology
KUMC

March 12

Carol C. Linder, Ph.D.
Associate Professor
Department of Biology
New Mexico Highlands University
Las Vegas, NM
Golga3, a protein essential for spermatogenesis

March 19

Andrei B. Belousov, Ph.D.
Associate Professor
Molecular & Integrative Physiology
KUMC
Novel mechanism of glutamate-dependent neuronal death

March 26 – **Kathleen M. Osborn Memorial Lectureship**

P. Jeremy Wang, MD, PhD
Associate Professor, Department of Animal Biology
Director, Center for Animal Transgenesis & Germ Cell Research
School of Veterinary Medicine
University of Pennsylvania
Philadelphia, PA
Genetics and Proteomic of Meiotic Chromatin

April

April 2

Kenneth McCarson, Ph.D.
Associate Professor
Pharmacology, Toxicology & Therapeutics
KUMC

April 9

April 16

April 23

Paula E. Cohen, Ph.D.
Associate Professor, Genetics
Director, Center for Reproductive Genomics
Department of Biomedical Sciences
Cornell University
Ithaca, NY
Investigating meiotic recombination pathways in the house

April 30

May

May 7

Ann Manzardo, Ph.D.
Assistant Professor
Psychiatry and Behavioral Sciences
KUMC

May 14 – **12:00 p.m., 1001-1003 Beller***

Ayman Al-Hendy, MD, PhD, FRCSC, FSOGC, FACOG
Professor & Vice Chair
Department of Obstetrics and Gynecology
Scientific Director
Center for Women’s Health Research
Meharry Medical College, Nashville. TN
Medical Treatment of Uterine Fibroids

May 2

May 28

No Seminar - Memorial Day