December 2002
Research Lectures and Seminars
University of Connecticut School of Medicine
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December 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, December 3, 2002 | 4:00 P.M. | Department of Neuroscience | Academic Research Building (EG013) | "Do Gap Junctions Precede Functional Chemical Synapse Formation in Development" | Kathryn Curtin, Ph.D., Yale University | Penny Skenderian, (860) 679-4343 |
| Thursday, December 5, 2002 | 12:00 P.M. | Center for Immunotherapy of Cancer and Infectious Diseases | Immunotherapy Conference Room (E6036) | "Development of a mouse gene knockout model for the stress-inducible HSP70s" | David Dix, Ph.D., Research Biologist, U.S. Environmental Protection Agency, National Health and Environmental Effects Research Laboratory, Reproductive Toxicology Division, Research Triangle Park | Tracy Dieli, (860) 679-4444 |
| Thursday, December 5, 2002 | 4:00 P.M. | UConn Center on Aging | Academic Research Building (EG052) | "Vascular dementia - A clinical conundrum" | Robert Paul, Ph.D., Assistant Professor, Department of Psychiatry and Human Behavior, Brown Medical School, Center for Behavioral and Preventive Medicine, Center for AIDS Research | Helen-Mary Schwartz, (860) 679-3958 |
| Monday, December 9, 2002 | 1:00 P.M. | General Clinical Research Center | Academic Research Building (EG013) | "Commercialization at UConn" | Michael F. Newborg, Ph.D., Executive Director and Charles D. Goodwin, Ph.D., Director of Technology Licensing, Center for Science and Technology Commercialization, University of Connecticut Health Center | Lisa Godin, (860) 679-4145 |
| Tuesday, December 10, 2002 | 4:00 P.M. | Department of Neuroscience | Academic Research Building (EG013) | "Muscarinic Receptor Signaling in the Heart: Intracellular Regulation by Calcium and the Cytoskeleton" | Dr. Achilles Pappano, Professor, Department of Pharmacology, University of Connecticut School of Medicine | Penny Skenderian, (860) 679-4343 |
| Wednesday, December 11, 2002 | 12:00 Noon | Center for Molecular Medicine | Academic Research Building (EG052) | "Etiologic Investigation of a Rapidly Increasing Cancer in Connecticut: Epidemiology of Adenocarcinoma of the Esophagus" | Susan T. Mayne, Ph.D., Associate Professor of Epidemiology and Public Health, Yale School of Medicine, Associate Director, Yale Cancer Center | Anita Marren, (860) 679-7640 |
| Monday, December 16, 2002 | 11:00 A.M. | Department of Pharmacology | Vascular Biology Conference Room (E5036) | "Disease, Modulation and Subunit Composition of Cyclic Nucleotide-Gated (CNG) Channels" | Dr. Matthew C. Trudeau, Associate, Howard Hughes Medical Institute, University of Washington Medical School | Judy Conrad, (860) 679-2120 |
| Tuesday, December 17, 2002 | 4:00 P.M. | Department of Neuroscience | Academic Research Building (EG013) | "Reciprocal Interactions of Rapsyn and Ach Receptors in Synapse Development" | Fumihito Ono, M.D., Ph.D., SUNY at Stony Brook | Penny Skenderian (860) 679-4343 |
| Wednesday, December 18, 2002 | 12:00 Noon | Center for Molecular Medicine | Academic Research Building (EG052) | "Reversible Tumorigenesis in Transgenic Models of Breast Cancer" | Lewis A. Chodosh, M.D., Ph.D., Abramson Family Cancer Research Institute, University of Pennsylvania School of Medicine | Anita Marren, (860) 679-7640 |
| Thursday, December 19, 2002 | 12:00 P.M. | Center for Immunotherapy of Cancer and Infectious Diseases | Immunotherapy Conference Room (E6036) | "Lymphocyte development: doing it in vitro" | Dr. J.C. Zuniga-Pflucker, Associate Professor, Senior Scientist, Department of Immunology, University of Toronto, Sunnybrook & Women's Health College Sciences Centre, Toronto | Tracy Dieli, (860) 679-4444 |