Pharmacology Seminars

 

Seminars are held in the Pharmacology Department Library (BB 7-724)
on Mondays from 12:00 noon to 1:00 p.m. unless otherwise noted.

Coffee is served and all are welcome.

 

2007: September October November December

September

September 17, 2007

Neil Harrison, Ph.D.

Professor, Dept of Anesthesiology and Pharmacology
Weill Cornell Medical College

"Extrasynaptic GABA-A receptors: Physiology, Pharmacology and Gene Regulation"

 

September 24

Stuart McLaughlin, Ph.D.

Professor, Dept of Physiology and Biophysics
State University of New York, Stony Brook

"The enigma of PIP2: How does one lipid do so much "

 



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October

October 1

Susan Steinberg, M.D.

Professor, Department of Pharmacology
Columbia University

“Protein kinase C-Delta signaling in cardiomyocytes. Rules of phosphorylation "

 

October 8

Michael Rosen, M.D.

Gustavus A. Pfeiffer Professor of Pharmacology and Pediatrics
Columbia University

" Gene and cell therapy of cardiac arrhythmias "

 

October 15

Robert V Stahelin, Ph.D.

Assistant Professor of Biochemistry and Molecular Biology
Dept. of Biochemistry and Molecular Biology
Indiana University School of Medicine - South Bend

“New Avenues in Protein-Lipid Interactions”

 

October 22

Leonid Margolis, Ph.D., Dr.Sci

Section Chief, Section on Intercellular Interactions
National Institutes of Health

“HIV Pathogenesis in Human Tissues: War and Piece Between Microbes?"  

 

October 29

Milton H. Werner, Ph.D.

Vice President,
Discovery Research Celtaxsys

“Opportunties for drug discovery in apoptosis and chemotaxis:  A perspective from an academic turned biotechnologist”

 



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November

November 5

No Seminar Scheduled  

 

November 12

David S. Cafiso, Ph.D.

Professor, Department of Chemistry
University of Virginia

"Dynamics and Conformational Changes in a Membrane Transport Protein: Applications of Site-Directed Spin Labeling"

 

November 19

Min Han, Ph.D.

Investigator and Professor, HHMI and  Dept of Molecular, Cellular and Developmental Biology
University of Colorado at Boulder

TBA

 

November 26

Andrea Califano, Ph.D.

Professor of Biomedical Informatics
Columbia University

“A Systems Biology Approach to the Prediction of Causal Oncogenic Mechanisms and Drug Mechanism-of-Action Profiles in Cancer Phenotypes”

 



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December

December 3

David Fitch
Dept of Biology
New York University


TBA

 

December 10

1st Inaugural Wu Distinguished Visiting Professor Lectureship

Robert J. Lefkowitz, M.D.
James B. Duke Professor of Medicine, Investigator, HHMI
Duke University Medical Center, Durham, NC

"A Brief History of Transmembrane Receptors: New Approaches to Drug Therapy"

 

December 17

Sabine Ehrt
Dept of Microbiology and Immunology
Weill Cornell Medical College

TBA

 



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