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       HSRF 400Anne Dorrance, Ph.D., Associate Professor & Associate Chair, Department of Pharmacology & Toxicology, Michigan State University"Hypertension Associated with Cognitive Decline:  Is the Minerlocorticoid Receptor the Missing Link?" 
March 29       HSRF 400Stefan Feske,  Ph.D., Associate Professor, Department of Pathology, NYU Langone Health

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

April 5           HSRF 300Jonathan Boyson, Ph.D., Associate Professor, Division Chief, Surgical Research, University of Vermont Center for Immunogiology and Infections Disease

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

May 3            HSRF 300Kevin Campbell, Ph.D., Investigator, Howard Medical Institute, Chair and Department Executive Office, Department of  Molecular Physiology and Biophysics, Roy J. Carver Biomedical Research Chair, University of Iowa"Structural Basis of Dystroglycan Function and Pathogenesis of Muscular Dystrophy"
October 11     HSRF 400

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     HSRF 400David Kline, Ph.D., Associate Professor, Biomedical Sciences, University of Missouri"At the gateway of cardiorespiratory control:  nTS activity, astrocytes, hypoxia and physiological function"

 Optional:

Mon., Oct 22

8:30am         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, University of Edinburgh and NHS Lothaian"Cerebral vascular dysfunctions detected in human small vessel disease and implications for preclinical studies"
November 8  HSRF 400Amy Lee, Ph.D., Assistant Dean for Research, Professor of Molecular Physiology and Biophysics, Neurology, Otolaryngology, University of Iowa"Declamation of voltage-gated Ca2+ channels"
December 6  HSRF 400Shelley 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"