2010 Seminars
Wednesday - January 13, 2010
Dr. Jeffrey Hardin - Department of Zoology - University of Wisconsin, Madison
Title: "Cooperating with the cadherin complex in C. elegans"
Host: Dr. David Bolender
Monday, January 18, 2010 ***3:00 PM ***
Dr. Todd Hoagland - Department of Anatomy & Neurobiology - Boston University School of Medicine
Title: "Managing change in health professions education - Experiences from the gross anatomy trenches"
Host: Dr. Joseph Besharse
Wednesday - January 20, 2010
Dr. Joseph Besharse - Cell Biology, Neurobiology & Anatomy - Medical College of Wisconsin
Title: "Research in progress: Does kinesin 17 phosphorylation regulate photoreceptor sensory ciliogenesis and turnover?"
Wednesday - February 3, 2010 ***To be presented in room M2050***
Dr. Brian P. Brooks - National Eye Institute - National Institutes of Health
Title: "The genetics of uveal coloboma"
Host: Dr. DJ Sidjanin
Wednesday - February 10, 2010
Dr. Kathryn Jones - Cell Biology, Neurobiology and Anatomy - Loyola University - Chicago IL
Title: "CD4+T cell-mediated neuroprotection: relevance to peripheral nerve injury and ALS"
Host: Dr. David Bolender
Wednesday - February 17, 2010
Dr. Ramani Ramchandran - Department of Pediatrics - Medical College of Wisconsin
Title - "Vasculogenesis mechanisms in vertebrates"
Wednesday - March 10 , 2010
Dr. Sandya Govindaraju - Cell Biology, Neurobiology & Anatomy - Medical College of Wisconsin
Title: “The highs, lows and shocking facts of vibration”
Wednesday - March 10 , 2010 ***1:30 PM ***
Doctoral Dissertation Defense
Eryn Hassemer - Cell Biology, Neurobiology & Anatomy - Medical College of Wisconsin
Title: “The waved with open eyes (woe) mouse mutant is caused by a hypomorphic mutation in Adam17”
Wednesday - March 17, 2010 ***To be presented in room M2050***
Student Choice Seminar
Dr. Michael Caterina - Department of Biological Chemistry - Johns Hopkins University School of Medicine
Title: "The versatility of heat-gated TRPV ion channels"
Host: Department Graduate Students
Wednesday - March 31, 2010
Dr. Milan Jamrich - Program in Developmental Biology - Baylor College of Medicine
Title: "Key events in vertebrate eye formation"
Host: Dr. DJ Sidjanin
Wednesday - April 7, 2010
Dr. George A. Wilkinson - Department of Pediatrics/Genetics - Medical College of Wisconsin
Title: "ECSCR, a novel cell surface enhancer of VEGF signaling"
Wednesday - April 14, 2010
Dr. Angie Rizzino - Eppley Institute for Research in Cancer and Allied Diseases - University of Nebraska Medical Center
Title: "Transcription factors that orchestrate the self-renewal and pluripotency of embryonic stem cells function as molecular rheostats"
Host: Dr. John Lough
Wednesday - April 21, 2010
Dr. Serena Dudek - National Institute of Environmental Heath Sciences - National Institutes of Health
Title: "On the late phase of synaptic plasticity: getting to the nucleus"
Host: Dr. Margaret Wong-Riley
Wednesday - May 12, 2010
Dr. Martin Hessner - Max McGee National Research Center for Juvenile Diabetes, Medical College of Wisconsin
Title: "Serum induced transcriptional signatures as biomarkers of inflammation"
Host: Dr. DJ Sidjanin
Wednesday - May 19, 2010
Dr. Cheryl Stucky and Rick Lennertz - Cell Biology, Neurobiology & Anatomy - Medical College of Wisconsin
Title: "Peppers and peppercorns: Insights into the mechanisms of tingling paresthesia and sickle cell pain"
Wednesday - June 2, 2010 ***To be presented in room M2050***
Student Choice Seminar
Dr. Roberto Malinow - Division of Biological Sciences - University of California San Diego
Title: "Synapses in Health and Disease"
Host: Department Graduate Students
Wednesday - June 16, 2010
Dr. Sakae Ikeda - Department of Genetics, University of Wisconsin - Madison, Eye Research Institute
Title: "Molecular mechanisms of cell proliferation and neovascularization in the cornea"
Host: Dr. DJ Sidjanin
Wednesday- September 29
Noah Shroyer, PhD - Cincinnati Children's Hospital
Title: "Transcriptional control of intestinal growth and development: regulation of stem cells and cancer by Notch-Atoh1"
Host: Michele Battle, PhD
Wednesday, October 6, 2010
Michael Olivier, PhD - Biotechnology and Bioengineering Center, Medical College of Wisconsin
Title: "Where genomics and proteomics collide: Novel integrated approaches and technologies for the analysis of complex human diseases"
Host: DJ Sidjanin, PhD
Wednesday, October 13, 2010
Jason Mills, MD, PhD- Washington University School of Medicine - St. Louis
Title: “How stem cells become normal secretory cells or GI tract malignancies based on two key transcription factors”
Host: Michele Battle, PhD
Wednesday, October 20, 2010
Russell Debose-Boyd, PhD- University of Texas Southwestern Medical Center - Dallas
Title: "ER-Associated Degradation and Cholesterol Homeostasis"
Host: Department Graduate Students
Wednesday, November 10, 2010
James M. Wells, PhD -University of Cincinnati College of Medicine
Title: “Translating Basic Studies of Embryonic Development into Generating Pancreatic and Intestinal Tissue from Stem Cells”
Host: Stephen Duncan, DPhil
Thursday, November 11, 2010 ***2:00 PM ***
Lior Gepstein, MD, PhD -Rappaport Institute
Title: “Human pluripotent stem cells: implications for basic and applied cardiovascular research”
Host: David Gutterman, MD
Wednesday, December 8, 2010
Jack M. Winters, PhD - Marquette University College of Engineering
Title: "A Protein “Families” Framework for Interpreting Muscle Tissue Microarray Transcripts, Applied to Normal and Various Pathological Datasets"
Host: Danny Riley, PhD
Wednesday, December 15, 2010
Gregory I. Frolenkov, PhD - University of Kentucky
Title: “Shaping mechanosensitivity of cochlear hair cells”
Host: Cheryl Stucky, PhD
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