2018 Seminars

Seminars are presented during the academic year on Thursday at 8:30 a.m. in Health Science Research Facility 400 unless otherwise noted.  For more information, contact Pharmacology at (802) 656-2500 or email Series Coordinator, jeanne.mulac@uvm.edu .

DateSpeakerTitle
March 22, 2018Anne Dorrance, Ph.D., Associate Professor, Associate Chair, Pharmacology and Toxicology, Michigan State University"Hypertension Associated Cognitive Decline: Is the Mineralocorticoid Receptor the Missing Link?"

March 29, 2018

Stefan Feske, M.D., Associate Professor, Pathology, NYC School of Medicine

"ORAI and STIM:  The role of store-operated Ca2+ entry in the immune system and beyond"

April 5, 2018Jonathan Boyson, Ph.D., Associate Professor, Associate Chairperson, Surgery, University of Vermont

"Regulation of gd T cell development and function by the Slam/SAP signaling pathway"

May 3, 2018Kevin Campbell, Ph.D., Chair and Dept. Executive Officer, Roy J. Carver Biomedical Research Chair, Investigator, Howard Hughes Medical Institute, Molecular Physiology & Biophysics, University of Iowa"Structural Basis of Dystroglycan Function and Pathogenesis of Muscular Dystrophy"

October 11, 2018

Christian Aalkjaer, M.D., D.Med.Sci., Professor of Physiology, Department of Biomedicine, Aarhus University & Copenhagen University, Denmark"The remarkable cardiovascular system of giraffes"
October 18, 2018David Kline, Ph.D., Associate Professor, Biomedical Sciences, University of Missouri"At the gateway of cardiorespiratory control:  nTS activity, astrocytes, hypoxia and physiological function"

Optional:

Monday, October 22, 2018 , 8:30am in HSRF 400

Joanna Wardlaw, M.D., (BSc, MB ChB(Hons), FRCR, FRCP, FMedSci, FRSE, CBE, Professor and Chair of Applied Neuroimaging, Head of Neuroimaging Sciences and Edinburgh Imaging, and Honorary Consultant Neuroradiologist, Unversity of Edinburgh and NHS Lothaian"Cerebral vascular dysfunctions detected in human small vessel disease and implications for preclinical studies"

 November 8, 2018

Amy Lee, Ph.D., Assistant Dean for Research, Professor of Molecular Physiology and Biophysics, Neurology, Otolaryngology, University of Iowa"Decalmodulation of voltage-gated Ca2+ channels"

December 6, 2018

Shelley Hooks, Ph.D., Associate

Professor, Pharmaceutical and Biomedical Sciences, University of Georgia

"Big surprises in a small package:  Unwrapping the anti-inflammatory mechanism of RGS10 in microglia"

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