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CELL BIOLOGY & PHYSIOLOGY SEMINAR SCHEDULE, 2012-13
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Friday, September 21, 2012, - Deciphering caveolar dynamics by "deep-etch" electron microscopy
John Heuser, M.D., Professor, Biophysics & Cell Biology, Washington University School of Medicine, St. Louis, MO
CB Retreat @ Pittsburgh Zoo & PPG Aquarium
Tuesday, October 09, 2012, 11 am - Mind over matter? CNS signaling pathways in obesity and diabetes
Kendra K. Bence, Ph.D., Assistant Professor, Penn Veterinary Medicine, University of Pennsylvania
5th Floor Boardroom, Eye & Ear Institute
Friday, October 12, 2012, 12 noon - miRNA-mediated Antiviral Defense at the Maternal-Fetal Interface
Elizabeth Delorme-Axford, Teaching Fellow, Dept of Cell Biology, Univ. of Pittsburgh, School of Medicine
S362 BST Confererence Room
Note: Carolyn Coyne lab
Tuesday, October 16, 2012, 11 am - Imaging phagocytosis: receptors, phosphoinositides and the cytoskeleton
Sergio Grinstein, Ph.D., Senior Scientist, Program in Cell Biology, Hospital for Sick Children, Professor of Biochemistry, Univ of Toronto
5th Floor Boardroom, Eye & Ear Institute
Friday, October 26, 2012, 12 noon - Modulation of Apical Endocytic and Exocytic Traffic in Polarized Epithelial Cells
Christina Szalinski, Graduate Student Researcher, Dept of Cell Biology, Univ. of Pittsburgh, School of Medicine
S362 BST Confererence Room
Tuesday, October 30, 2012, 11 am - Rats classified as low or high cocaine locomotor responders: An animal model that involves striatal dopamine transporters and predicts addiction-like behaviors
Nancy R. Zahniser, Ph.D., Professor of Pharmacology University of Colorado, Anschutz, Medical Campus, School of Medicine
Note: hosted by Alexander Sorkin
Tuesday, November 13, 2012, 11 am - Viral-bacterial synergy in the airway
Jennifer Bomberger, Ph.D., Assistant Professor, Microbiology & Molecular Genetics – Univ of Pittsburgh
5th Floor Boardroom, Eye & Ear Institute
Friday, November 30, 2012, 12 noon - Evidence for ER Stress in the Pregnant Uterus and its Potential Role in Uterine Quiescence
Arvind Suresh, Teaching Fellow, Dept of Cell Biology, Univ. of Pittsburgh, School of Medicine
S362 BST Confererence Room
Tuesday, December 04, 2012, 11 am - Deubiquitinating Enzymes in Development, Normal Function and Disease
Sokol Todi, Ph.D., Assistant Professor, Dept of Pharmacology & Neurology, Wayne State University School of Medicine
5th Floor Boardroom, Eye & Ear Institute
Friday, December 14, 2012, 12 noon - The Role of Podocyte Injury and NF-kB Activation in a Mouse Model of Accelerated Aging
Katy Wack, Graduate Student Researcher, Dept of Cell Biology, Univ. of Pittsburgh, School of Medicine
S362 BST Confererence Room
Tuesday, January 29, 2013, 11 am - Targeting of dopamine transporter to filopodia
John M. Caltagarone, Ph.D., Postdoctoral Associate, Dept of Cell Biology, Univ. of Pittsburgh, School of Medicine
5th Floor Boardroom, Eye & Ear Institute
Tuesday, January 29, 2013, 11 am - The SUMO modification pathway is involved in the CFTR in CFBE cell
Yong Liao, Ph.D., Postdoctoral Associate, Dept of Cell Biology, Univ. of Pittsburgh, School of Medicine
5th Floor Boardroom, Eye & Ear Institute
Tuesday, February 05, 2013, 11 am - Endosomal Localization of EGFR Signaling Complexes
Arola Fortian-Bernabeu, Ph.D., Postdoctoral Associate, Dept of Cell Biology, Univ. of Pittsburgh, School of Medicine
5th Floor Boardroom, Eye & Ear Institute
Tuesday, February 05, 2013, 11 am - E-Cadherin Phosphorylation Regulates Adherens Junction Complex Formation and Dynamics During Apical-basal Polarization
Yi-Jiun Chen, Ph.D., Postdoctoral Associate, Dept of Cell Biology, Univ. of Pittsburgh, School of Medicine
5th Floor Boardroom, Eye & Ear Institute
Tuesday, February 12, 2013, 11 am - SLC26A9 interacts with CFTR and varies channel properties
Xiaohui Wang, Ph.D., Postdoctoral Associate, Dept of Cell Biology, Univ. of Pittsburgh, School of Medicine
5th Floor Boardroom, Eye & Ear Institute
Tuesday, February 12, 2013, 11 am - Regulation of Tumor Suppressor and Cell Polarity Protein by Cellular Hypoxia
Wei Dong, Postdoctoral Associate, Dept of Cell Biology, Univ. of Pittsburgh, School of Medicine
5th Floor Boardroom, Eye & Ear Institute
Tuesday, February 19, 2013, 11 am - Hsp27 targets CFTR NBD1 domain for degradation via SUMO modification
Xiaoyan Gong, Ph.D., Postdoctoral Associate, Dept of Cell Biology, Univ. of Pittsburgh, School of Medicine
5th Floor Boardroom, Eye & Ear Institute
Tuesday, February 26, 2013, 11 am - Characterization of the trafficking of the Ca++-activated K+ channel, SK3 in endothelial cells
Claudia Bertuccio, Ph.D., Postdoctoral Associate, Dept of Cell Biology, Univ. of Pittsburgh, School of Medicine
5th Floor Boardroom, Eye & Ear Institute
Friday, March 01, 2013, 12 noon - The ABC\\\'s of Protein Folding: Exploring Hierarchical Folding Pathways of Multi-Domain Proteins
Chelsea Crum, Graduate Student Researcher, Dept of Cell Biology, Univ. of Pittsburgh, School of Medicine
Cell Biology Conference Room, S362 BST
Tuesday, March 05, 2013, 11 am - If you only have time to attend one talk on autophagy today, this is the one
Daniel Klionsky, Ph.D., Professor, Dept of Molecular, Cellular and Developmental Biology, University of Michigan
5th Floor Boardroom, Eye & Ear Institute
Friday, March 08, 2013, 12 noon - Aldosterone Regulation of ENaC in the Collecting Duct: The Role of Ankyrin G
Christine Klemens, Graduate Student Researcher, Dept of Cell Biology, Univ. of Pittsburgh, School of Medicine
Cell Biology Conference Room, S362 BST
Thursday, March 14, 2013, 1:00 pm - PhD Dissertation Defense and Final Examination: \\\"Virus-Host Interactions at the Maternal-Fetal Interface\\\"
Elizabeth Delorme-Axford, Teaching Fellow, Dept of Cell Biology, Univ. of Pittsburgh, School of Medicine
Bridgeside Point II, Room 503
Tuesday, March 19, 2013, 11 am - Functional amyloid formation and melanosome biogenesis
Michael S. Marks, Ph.D., Professor of Pathology and Laboratory Medicine, Perelman School of Medicine, Univ of Pennsylvania
5th Floor Boardroom, Eye & Ear Institute
Tuesday, March 26, 2013, 11 am - Actin cytoskeleton in cell migration and neuronal polarity
Tatyana Svitkina, Associate Professor of Biology, University of Pennsylvania
5th Floor Boardroom, Eye & Ear Institute
Tuesday, March 26, 2013, 3 pm - Utilizing C. Elegans as a Neurological Model to Characterize KCNL-2, an SK Channel Homologue
Cavita K. Chotoo, Teaching Fellow, Dept of Cell Biology, Univ. of Pittsburgh, School of Medicine
S100A BST
Tuesday, April 02, 2013, 11 am - Regulation of ubiquitination by EGFR and endocytosis
Itziar Pinilla-Macau, Postdoctoral Associate, Dept of Cell Biology, Univ. of Pittsburgh, School of Medicine
5th Floor Boardroom, Eye & Ear Institute
Tuesday, April 02, 2013, 11 am - TALEN- mediated gene knockout: Is it that easy?...
Umasankar K. Perunthottathu, Ph.D., Postdoctoral Associate, Dept of Cell Biology, Univ. of Pittsburgh, School of Medicine
5th Floor Boardroom, Eye & Ear Institute
Friday, April 05, 2013, 12 noon - Identifying Factors Responsible for Maintaining the Solubility of Retrotranslocated Integral Membrane Proteins
Michael Preston, Graduate Student Researcher, Dept of Cell Biology, Univ. of Pittsburgh, School of Medicine
Cell Biology Conference Room, S362 BST
Saturday, April 13, 2013, 11 am - The folding pathway of ABCC6
Yanchao Ran, Ph.D., Postdoctoral Associate, Dept of Cell Biology, Univ. of Pittsburgh, School of Medicine
5th Floor Boardroom, Eye & Ear Institute
Tuesday, April 16, 2013, 11 am - Spatial control of microtubule organization and dynamics by septin GTPases in polarizing epithelia
Elias Spiliotis, Ph.D., Assistant Professor, Director of Cell Imaging Imaging, Department of Biology, Drexel University
5th Floor Boardroom, Eye & Ear Institute
Tuesday, April 30, 2013, 11 am - Building the Body Plan: The Miracle of Morphogenesis
Mark Peifer, Ph.D., Professor, Biology Department, University of North Carolina
5th Floor Boardroom, Eye & Ear Institute
Wednesday, May 01, 2013, 2:00 pm - The squeaky transporter gets the grease: the role of PIP2 on serotonin transporter function
Harald Sitte, MD, Medical University of Vienna, Center for Physiology and Pharmacology, Institute of Pharmacology, Vienna, Austria
Cell Biology Conference Room, S362 BST
Note: Special Seminar
Monday, May 20, 2013, 2:00 pm - Modulation of endocytic and exocytic traffic in polarized epithelial cells
Christina Szalinski, Graduate Student Researcher, Dept of Cell Biology, Univ. of Pittsburgh, School of Medicine
S123 BST
Tuesday, May 21, 2013, 11 am - Formin' new ways to look at endocytosis
Beverly Wendland, Ph.D., Professor, Biology Department, HOD, Johns Hopkins
5th Floor Boardroom, Eye & Ear Institute
Tuesday, July 16, 2013, 11 am - GPCR and cytokine receptor signaling in lung inflammatory diseases
Yutong Zhao, M.D., Ph.D., Associate Professor Division of Pulmonary, Allergy and Critical Care Medicine, University of Pittsburgh School of Medicine
5th Floor Boardroom, Eye & Ear Institute
Tuesday, September 17, 2013, 11 am - Estrogen and Epithelial Ion Transport: Rapid responses and physiological implications
Brian Harvey, Ph.D., Professor of Molecular Medicine, Royal College of Surgeons in Ireland, Beaumont Hospital, Dublin, Ireland
5th Floor Boardroom, Eye & Ear Institute