Fall 2014 Weekly Seminar Schedule

Posted on September 1, 2014

All seminars will be held on Mondays from 12:00 – 1:15 PM in room 1345 HSLC, unless otherwise noted.

	Date	Year	Name	Mentor/Department
1	9/8/14		Jon Audhya, PhD, Associate Professor of Biomolecular Chemistry, Director of CTPDD “The MCP Program: A vision for the future”
2	9/15/14	7th	Joseph Esquibel “CAPS, a key priming factor for regulated exocytosis, organizes t-SNAREs prior to SNARE complex assembly”	Martin – Biochemistry
3	9/22/14	2nd	Ryan Behrens “Exploring the Potential of the CRM1 Nuclear Export Receptor as a Target for Anti-HIV Therapeutics” Joseph Szulczewski “Intravital imaging of the tumor microenvironment in breast cancer”	Sherer – Oncology/Virology Keely – Cell & Regenerative Biology
4	9/29/14	4th	Kristin Andersen “Developing new tools for chemical biology”	Raines – Biochemistry
5	10/06/14		Invited speaker from WARF, TBD “Protecting your science and intellectual property”
6	10/13/14	5th	Eric Britigan “The ARF tumor suppressor prevents chromosomal instability and ensures mitotic checkpoint fidelity through regulation of Aurora B”	Weaver – Cell & Regenerative Biology
7	10/20/14	6th	Lihong Zhan “Opposing roles of SAPKs p38 and JNK in a Drosophila model of TDP-43 proteinopathy reveal oxidative stress and neuroinflammation as pathogenic components of ALS”	Tibbetts – Human Oncology
8	10/27/14	5th	Chantell Evans “Understanding the Ca2+ binding requirements for synaptotagmin-I activation.”	Chapman – Neuroscience
9	11/03/14		Michelle Kimple, PhD, Assistant Professor of Medicine-Endocrinology
10	11/10/14	5th	Stacey Kigar “Early-life stress and its impact on the adolescent amygdala”	Auger – Psychology
11	11/17/14	5th	Lindsey Roper “The role of the synaptotagmin family members in controlling hormones release from the anterior pituitary gland”	Chapman – Neuroscience
12	11/24/14	5th	Xiaojun Tan “A kinase-independent role for EGF Receptor in autophagy initiation”	Anderson – Administration
13	12/01/14	5th	Pratik Lalit “Lineage Reprogramming of Fibroblasts To Proliferative And Multipotent Induced Cardiac Progenitor Cells by Defined Factors”	Kamp – Medicine/Cardiology
14	12/08/14		Dudley Lamming, PhD, Assistant Professor of Medicine-Endocrinology “Unleashing the therapeutic potential of mTORC1 inhibition for age-related diseases”