April 2002
Research Lectures and Seminars
University of Connecticut School of Medicine
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April 2002 Research Lectures and Seminars University of Connecticut School of Medicine
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| Date | Time | Department/ Center | Location | Title | Speaker | Contact Person |
| Tuesday, April 2, 2002 | 4:00 P.M. | Department of Neuroscience | Academic Research Building (EG013) | "To be announced" | Carol Ann Mason, Ph.D., Professor, Department of Pathology, Columbia University | Marianne Hebenstreit, (860) 679-8001 |
| Thursday, April 4, 2002 | 12:00 P.M. | Center for Immunotherapy of Cancer and Infectious Diseases | Immunotherapy Conference Room (E6036) | "CD8+ T cell responses to respiratory syncytial virus" | James Crowe, M.D., Associate Professor of Pediatrics, Vanderbilt University Medical Center | Sue Wasik, (860) 679-4444 |
| Thursday, April 4, 2002 | 4:00 P.M. | Center on Aging Grand Rounds | Faculty/Staff Conference Room | "Falls in Older Persons: from Prediction to Prevention to Practice" | Mary E. Tinetti, M.D., Professor of Medicine and Epidemiology and Public Health, Yale University | Vivian Bournival, (860) 679-4559 |
| Thursday, April 4, 2002 | 4:00 P.M. | Department of Neuroscience | Academic Research Building (EG013) | "Regulation of neurotransmitter release by pre-synaptic calcium-activated potassium channels" | Zhao-Wen Wang, Ph.D., Department of Anatomy and Neurobiology, Washington University School of Medicine | Marianne Hebenstreit, (860) 679-8001 |
| Monday, April 8, 2002 | 10:00 A.M. | Center for Microbial Pathogenesis | Microbial Pathogenesis Conference Room (E7036) | "Mapping the proteome interaction networks: Focus on bacterial secretion Type IV" | Thierry Rose, Ph.D., Research Associate, Department of Biochemistry and Molecular Biophysics, Washington University School of Medicine | Virginia Hahn, (860) 679-8129 |
| Tuesday, April 9, 2002 | 4:00 P.M. | Department of Neuroscience | Academic Research Building (EG013) | "Pre- and postsynaptic regulation of information transfer at synapses" | Shobhana Sivaramakrishnan, Ph.D., Instructor, Department of Neuroscience, University of Connecticut School of Medicine | Marianne Hebenstreit, (860) 679-8001 |
| Wednesday, April 10, 2002 | 12:00 P.M. | General Clinical Research Center | Faculty/Staff Dining Room | "Binge Drinkers: Biphasic Alcohol Effects and Mechanisms of Risk" | Andrea King, Ph.D., Assistant Professor, Department of Psychiatry, Director, Substance Abuse Clinic, University of Chicago | Lisa Godin, (860) 679-4145 |
| Wednesday, April 10, 2002 | 12:00 P.M. | Department of Community Medicine and Health Care | Academic Research Building (EG013) | "Organizational and Institutional Ethics" | Thomas McGovern, Ed.D. Texas Tech University | Theo Ungewitter, (860) 679-5495 |
| Thursday, April 11, 2002 | 12:00 P.M. | Center for Microbial Pathogenesis | Microbial Pathogenesis Conference Room (E7036) | "Subtilisin serine proteinases and their role in Toxoplasma gondii invasion" | Kami Kim, M.D., Assistant Professor of Medicine and Microbiology & Immunology, Albert Einstein College of Medicine | Virginia Hahn, (860) 679-8129 |
| Friday, April 12, 2002 | 11:00 A.M. | Center for Immunotherapy of Cancer and Infectious Diseases | Immunotherapy Conference Room (E6036) | "A Transgenic Model System for Analysis of Immunity and Immunologic Tolerance to a Nominal Prostate Tumor Antigen" | Michael Brown, M.D., Medical Oncologist, Royal Adelaide Hospital, Australia | Tracy Dieli, (860) 679-4444 |
| Monday, April 15, 2002 | 10:00 A.M. | Center for Microbial Pathogenesis | Microbial Pathogenesis Conference Room (E7036) | "The exceptional role of RNA polymerase I in the protist parasite Trypanosoma brucei" | Arthur Gunzl, Ph.D., Group Leader Zoological Institute, Section of Cell Biology, University of Thbingen, Thbingen, Germany | Virginia Hahn, (860) 679-8129 |
| Monday, April 15, 2002 | 4:00 P.M. | Department of Neuroscience | Academic Research Building (EG013) | "To be announced" | Carla Shatz, Ph.D., Chair, Department of Neurobiology, Harvard Medical School | Marianne Hebenstreit, (860) 679-8001 |
| Tuesday, April 16, 2002 | 12:00 P.M. | Center for Vascular Biology | Academic Research Building (EG013) | "Diverse Roles for the Endocytic Receptor Megalin in the Embryo and Adult" | W. Scott Argraves, Ph.D., Professor, Department of Cell Biology and Anatomy, Medical University of South Carolina | Annarita Erwin, (860) 679-3746 |
| Tuesday, April 16, 2002 | 4:00 P.M. | Department of Neuroscience | Academic Research Building (EG013) | "Frames of Reference in the Auditory Pathway" | Jennifer Groh, Ph.D., Assistant Professor, Center for Cognitive Neuroscience, Dartmouth College | Marianne Hebenstreit, (860) 679-8001 |
| Thursday, April 18, 2002 | 12:00 P.M. | UConn Cancer Center | Link Room (CG076) | "The Control of Tumor Cell Survived by Heat Shock Protein 70" | Marja Jaattela, M.D., Ph.D., Institute of Cancer Biology, Apoptosis Laboratory, Danish Cancer Society, Copenhagen | Christine Kaminski (860) 679-1173 |
| Thursday, April 18, 2002 | 12:00 P.M. | Department of Microbiology | Academic Research Building (EG013) | "RNA Editing During Hepatitis Delta Virus Replication" | Dr. David Lazinski, Tufts University | Asis Das, (860) 679-3405 |
| Thursday, April 18, 2002 | 4:00 P.M. | Center on Aging | Faculty/Staff Dining Room | "Scope of health outcomes and population-based research at the UConn Center on Aging" | Richard Fortinsky, Ph.D., Associate Professor of Medicine, UConn Center on Aging, University of Connecticut School of Medicine | Vivian Bournival, (860) 679-4559 |
| Monday, April 22, 2002 | 4:00 P.M. | Department of Neuroscience | Neuroscience Conference Room (E4036) | "Excitotoxic calcium signaling in dendrites of hippocampal neurons" | Bill Shuttleworth, Ph.D., Assistant Professor, Department of Neurosciences, University of New Mexico School of Medicine | Marianne Hebenstreit, (860) 679-8787 |
| Monday, April 22, 2002 | 5:00 P.M. | Department of Community Medicine and Health Care | Keller Auditorium | "The
Human Cost of War"
"The Role of Health Professionals in Human Rights" |
Victor
W. Sidel, M.D., Distinguished Professor of Social Medicine, Albert
Einstein College of Medicine
Leonard S. Rubenstein, J.D., Executive Director, Physicians for Human Rights |
Theo Ungewitter, (860) 679-5495 |
| Thursday, April 25, 2002 | 9:00 A.M. | Center for Immunotherapy of Cancer and Infectious Disease | Immunotherapy Conference Room (E6036) | "Heat Shock Proteins: Therapeutic Targets or Immunotherapeutic Agents" | A. Graham Pockley, Ph.D., Reader in Immunobiology, Heat Shock Protein Immunology Group, Section of Cardiovascular, Northern General Hospital | Tracy Dieli, (860) 679-4444 |
| Thursday, April 25, 2002 | 12:00 P.M. | Department of Microbiology | Academic Research Building (EG013) | "Transcription Regulation by Higher Order Nucleoprotein Complexes" | Dr. Sankar Adhya, National Cancer Institute | Asis Das, (860) 679-3405 |
| Thursday, April 25, 2002 | 2:00 P.M. | Department of Pharmacology | Vascular Biology Conference Room (E5036) | "A Uroporphyrinogen Decarboxylase Knockout Mouse" | Richard Lambrecht, Ph.D., Research Assistant Professor, Department of Medicine, University of Massachusetts Medical School | Stephanie Smail, (860) 679-2513 |
| Tuesday, April 30, 2002 | 4:00 P.M. | Department of Neuroscience | Academic Research Building (EG013) | "Neural Plasticity: Stem Cells and Synapses" | Ira Black, M.D., Department of Neuroscience and Cell Biology, Robert Wood Johnson Medical School | Marianne Hebenstreit, (860) 679-8001 |