February 2007
Research Lectures and Seminars
University of Connecticut School of Medicine
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February 2007 Research Lectures and Seminars University of Connecticut School of Medicine
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| Date | Time | Department/ Center | Location | Title | Speaker | Contact Person |
| Thursday, February 1, 2007 | 12:00 P.M. | Department of Immunology | Academic Research Building (EG013) | "Sympathetic Proteolysis" | James O'Rourke, M.D., Professor, Department of Immunology, University of Connecticut School of Medicine | Susan Wasik, (860) 679-4444 |
| Monday, February 5, 2007 | 2:00 P.M. | Department of Genetics and Developmental Biology | Academic Research Building (EG013) | "Antisense-Mediated Control of Chromatin and Transcription in X-Chromosome Inactivation" | Dr. Claire Rougeulle, Group Leader, Institut Pasteur, Paris, France | Annmarie McGrath, (860) 679-7947 |
| Tuesday, February 6, 2007 | 3:00 P.M. | Division of Endocrinology and Metabolism | Academic Research Building (EG052) | "Shining a (Fluorescent) Light on PTH Receptor Signaling and Trafficking" | Peter A. Friedman, Ph.D., Professor, Departments of Pharmacology and Medicine, University of Pittsburgh School of Medicine | Arlene Janick, (860) 679-2197 |
| Tuesday, February 6, 2007 | 4:00 P.M. | Department of Neuroscience | Academic Research Building (EG013) | "New Neurons in the Adult Mammalian Brain: Synaptogenesis, Functional, Integrational and Physiological Significance" | Shaoyu Ge, Ph.D., Department of Neuroscience/Neurology and the Institute of Cell Engineering, Johns Hopkins University School of Medicine | Penny Skenderian, (860) 679-4343 |
| Thursday, February 8, 2007 | 12:00 P.M. | Department of Immunology | Academic Research Building (EG013) | "Generation of antigen-specific CD8+ T cell immunity to Mycobacterium tuberculosis" | Samuel M. Behar, M.D., Ph.D., Associate Professor in Medicine, Division of Rheumatology, Immunology, and Allergy, Brigham and Women's Hospital | Susan Wasik, (860) 679-4444 |
| Thursday, February 15, 2007 | 12:00 P.M. | Department of Immunology | Academic Research Building (EG013) | "Microbial gene products interacting with the immune system" | Paul J. Lehner, Ph.D., Professor, Department of Immunology and Medicine, University of Cambridge, UK | Susan Wasik, (860) 679-4444 |
| Tuesday, February 20, 2007 | 4:00 P.M. | Department of Neuroscience | Academic Research Building (EG013) | "Vesicle and Membrane Trafficking in Ribbon Synapses of the Retina" | David Zenisek, Ph.D., Assistant Professor, Departments of Cellular and Molecular Physiology, Yale University School of Medicine | Kathy Borthwick, (860) 679-8787 |
| Wednesday, February 21, 2007 | 4:30 P.M. | Carole and Ray Neag Comprehensive Cancer Center | Academic Research Building (EG013) | "Modulating regulatory T cells in the therapy of hematologic malignancies" | Hyam Levitsky, M.D., Professor of Oncology, Medicine and Urology, Division of Immunology and Hematopoiesis, Sidney Kimmel Comprehensive Cancer Center, Johns Hopkins University School of Medicine | Shelly Lombardo, (860) 679-7685 |
| Thursday, February 22, 2007 | 12:00 P.M. | Department of Genetics and Developmental Biology | Academic Research Building (EG052) | "Repressing and Activating mRNAs" | Dr. Mary Wickens, Professor, Department of Biochemistry, University of Wisconsin-Madison | Annmarie McGrath, (860) 679-7947 |
| Tuesday, February 27, 2007 | 3:00 P.M. | Division of Endocrinology and Metabolism | Academic Research Building (EG052) | "Skeletal Complications of Anorexia Nervosa" | Catherine M. Gordon, M.D., M.Sc., Associate Professor of Pediatrics, Harvard Medical School, Director, Children's Hospital Bone Health Program, Divisions of Adolescent Medicine and Endocrinology, Children's Hospital Boston | Arlene Janick, (860) 679-2197 |
| Tuesday, February 27, 2007 | 4:00 P.M. | Department of Neuroscience | Academic Research Building (EG013) | "Intrinsic and Extrinsic Determinants of Ion Channel Clustering" | Matthew Rasband, Ph.D., Assistant Professor, Department of Neuroscience, University of Connecticut School of Medicine | Kathy Borthwick, (860) 679-8787 |