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Date
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Speaker
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Topic
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Thursday
Jan 8 |
Jordan Van Orman, Graduate Student, Dr. John Lough Laboratory, Department of Cell Biology, Neurobiology & Anatomy, Medical College of Wisconsin |
"Effects of the Micro-Environment on Embryonic Stem Cell Cardiogenesis" |
Thursday
Jan 15 |
Dr. Rob Nickells, Department of Ophthalmology, University of Wisconsin, Madison
Host: Brian Link, PhD |
"Night of the living dead ganglion cell: An apoptotic switch controlled by Bax gene expression" |
Thursday
Feb 5 |
Dr. Margaret Wong-Riley, Department of Cell Biology, Neurobiology and Anatomy, Medical College of Wisconsin |
"Cytochrome c oxidase in neurons: Bigenomic regulation and coupling with synaptic neurochemical expression" |
Monday
Feb 9 |
Program in Regenerative Medicine Faculty Candidate Seminar
Dr. Biplab Dasgupta, Department of Pathology and Immunology, Washington University School of Medicine
Host: Stephen Duncan, DPhil |
"When metabolic sensors command cell cycle: Control of neural stem cell proliferation and differentiation by AMPK" |
Thursday
Feb 12 |
Dr. Peter Penzes, Department of Physiology, Northwestern University
Host: Nashaat Gerges, PhD |
"Mechanisms of synaptic structural plasticity and pathology" |
Monday
Feb 16 |
Program in Regenerative Medicine Faculty Candidate Seminar
Dr. Benjamin L. Allen, Department of Molecular and Cellular Biology, Harvard University
Host: Stephen Duncan, DPhil |
"Cell surface regulation of Hedgehog signaling during mouse embryogenesis" |
Thursday
Feb 19 |
Dr. Lei Lei, School of Life Sciences, Arizona State University
Host: Vivian Lee, PhD |
"One protein In multiple places: Sox11 and neural development" |
Thursday
Feb 26 |
Dr. Caroline Zeiss, Departments of Comparative Medicine and Opthalmology & Visual Science, Yale University
Host: D J Sidjanin, PhD |
"The platypus eye: A vestige of the past" |
Thursday
Mar 5 |
Dr. Gianluca Tosini, Circadian Rhythms and Sleep Disorders Program, Neuroscience Institute, Department of Anatomy & Neurobiology, Morehouse School of Medicine
Host: Joseph Besharse, PhD |
“Regulation and function of melatonin in the mammalian retina” |
Thursday
Mar 12
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Christine Insinna, Graduate Student, Dr. Joseph Besharse Laboratory, Department of Cell Biology, Neurobiology & Anatomy, Medical College of Wisconsin
Doctoral Dissertation Defense |
"Role of Kinesin 2 motors in photoreceptor cilium assembly and maintenance" |
Thursday
Mar 19 |
Dr. John Lough, Department of Cell Biology, Neurobiology and Anatomy, Medical College of Wisconsin |
"Tip60. What about it?"
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Thursday
Mar 26 |
Dr. Lawrence J. Rizzolo, Department of Surgery; Section of Anatomy, Yale University
Host: David Bolender, PhD |
"Regulation of the subretinal space: Do tight junctions of the RPE play a dynamic role?" |
Tuesday
Mar 31
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Kathryn E. Marshall, Graduate Student, Dr. Alan Mayer Laboratory, Department of Cell Biology, Neurobiology & Anatomy, Medical College of Wisconsin
Doctoral Dissertation Defense |
"Intestinal epithelial cell morphogenesis and the mechanisms governing intestine development in the zebrafish" |
Thursday
Apr 2 |
Dr. Ellen A. Lumpkin, Departments of Neuroscience, Molecular Physiology & Biophysics & Molecular and Human Genetics, Baylor College of Medicine
Host: Cheryl Stucky, PhD |
"Probing mammalian touch reception" |
Thursday
Apr 9 |
Dr. Doug Gould, Departments of Ophthalmology and Anatomy, Institute of Human Genetics, University of California, San Francisco, School of Medicine
Host: Joseph Carroll, PhD |
"Collagen IV mutations are pleiotropic, genetically complex and model several human diseases from intracerebral hemorrhage to glaucoma" |
Thursday
Apr 16 |
Dr. Michelle Barton, Department of Biochemistry and Molecular Biology, UT-MD Anderson Cancer Center, Houston TX
Host: Lisa Cirillo, PhD |
"TAP-ing into p53 functions in normal cells" |
Thursday
Apr 23 |
Dr. Karen M. Downs Department of Anatomy, University of Wisconsin, Madison
Host: Stephen Duncan, DPhil |
"The posterior region of the mammalian conceptus: a posterior node-like center connects the embryo to its mother" |
Thursday
Apr 30 |
Dr. Eduardo Rios, Department of Molecular Biophysics & Physiology, Rush University, Chicago IL
Host: Danny Riley, PhD |
"Deconstructing Calsequestrin. The movements of calcium in the steps that link excitation to contraction of striated muscles" |
Thursday
May 7
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Dr. Robert Viger, Centre for Research in Biology of Reproduction, Université Laval, Quebec, Canada
Host: Michele Battle, PhD |
"Regulation of GATA4 activity and gene transcription" |
Thursday
May 21 |
Dr. Martín I. García-Castro, Department of Molecular, Cellular and Developmental Biology, Yale University
Host: Vivian Lee, PhD. |
"Early neural crest development and its effects on their skeletal potential" |
Thursday
June 4 |
Dr. Glenn J. Giesler, Jr., Department of Neuroscience, University of Minnesota
Host: Cheryl Stucky, PhD |
"The spinothalamic tract: Pain, itch and development" |
Monday
June 15
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Jordan Van Orman, Graduate Student, Dr. John Lough Laboratory, Department of Cell Biology, Neurobiology & Anatomy, Medical College of Wisconsin
Doctoral Dissertation Defense |
"Effect of human endoderm, and of products secreted by ischemic myocardium, on the growth and cardiac differentiation of pluripotent stem cells" |
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Thursday
July 9
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Dr. Michael Friedlander , Wilhelmina Robertson Professor and Chair Department of Neuroscience, Director of Neuroscience Initiatives Baylor College of Medicine
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"Dynamics of synaptic plasticity and calcium signals in the neocortex" |
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Thursday
August 6
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Dr. Ravi Misra - Professor - Department of Biochemistry
Medical College of Wisconsin |
"Coronary Vascular Development: Serum Response Factor as a Regulator of Endothelial Cell Formation and Function " |
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Wednesday September 9
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Dr. D.J. Sidjanin - Assistant Professor - Department of Cell Biology, Neurobiology & Anatomy - Medical College of Wisconsin |
"Genetics and cataracts" |
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Wednesday September 30
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Dr. Akihiro Ikeda - Assistant Professor - Department of Medical Genetics -University of Wisconsin-Madison
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"Identification of the modifier of the retinoschisis gene" |
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Wednesday October 7
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Dr. Sheila Baker - Department of Ophthalmology - Duke University School of Medicine Eye Center
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"The hitchhiker's guide to the photoreceptor: The subcellular targeting of membrane proteins in a specialized neuron"
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Wednesday October 14
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Dr. Aron Geurts - Department of Physiology, Human & Molecular Genetics Center - Medical College of Wisconsin
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"Breaking into the rat genome with a jumping gene and a pair of scissors"
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Wednesday October 21
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Dr. David Williams - Photoreceptor/RPE Cell Biology Laboratory - Jules Stein Eye Institute - UCLA
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"Molecular motor function in the outer retina: Cell biology, disease and therapy"
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Wednesday November 11
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Dr. Leah Solberg-Woods - Department of Pediatrics - Medical College of Wisconsin
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"Fine-mapping genetic loci for type 2 diabetes using heterogeneous stock rats"
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Wednesday November 18
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Dr. Dale Bjorling - Department of Surgical Sciences, School of Veterinary Medicine - University of Wisconsin-Madison
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"Endogenous cannabinoids and NGF signaling in pain associated with cystitis"
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Thursday November 19
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Dr. Dinender K. Singla - Biomolecular Science Center, Burnett School of Biomedical Sciences - University of Central Florida
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"Embryonic stem cells in cardiac repair and regeneration"
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Wednesday December 9
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Dr. Lisa Cirillo - Department of Cell Biology, Neurobiology & Anatomy, Medical College of Wisconsin
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“New Roles for Forkhead Factors in Development and Disease”
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Monday December 14
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Dr. Allison D. Ebert - Department of Neurology, University of Wisconsin - Madison
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"Using stem cells to model and treat neurodegenerative diseases"
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Wednesday December 16
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Dr. Stephen Gauld - Allergy & Clinical Immunology - Children's Research Institute and Medical College of Wisconsin
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"Mechanisms of B cell anergy and its role in autoimmune disease"
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