Archived Seminars | Pharmacology | UC Davis School of Medicine

2025

January 21, 2025

Speaker: Saverio Gentile, Ph.D., Associate Professor, Department of Pharmacology, School of Medicine, Anesthesiology, Medical University of South Carolina
Title: “Targeting ion channels unveils cancer vulnerability: From bench side to bed side.”
Host: Ye Chen-Izu, M.S., Ph.D., Professor, Department of Pharmacology

February 4, 2025

Speaker: Dan Minor, Ph.D., Professor, Cardiovascular Research Institute, Departments of Biochemistry and Biophysics and Cellular and Molecular Pharmacology, University of California San Francisco
Title: “Electrosome assembly: A first structural view of ion channel biogenesis.”
Host: Johannes Hell, Ph.D., Professor, Department of Pharmacology

March 18, 2025

Speaker: Matthew Caporizzo, Ph.D., Assistant Professor, Department of Molecular Physiology and Biophysics, University of Vermont
Title: “Assessing diastolic function in HFpEF with working myocardial slices”
Host: Donald Bers, Ph.D., Professor and Chair, Department of Pharmacology

April 15, 2025

Speaker: Hanjun Wang, M.D., Margaret Larson Endowed Professor, Professor, Department of Anesthesiology Research Faculty, College of Medicine, University of Nebraska
Title: “Neural Crosstalk between the Heart and Lungs in Cardiopulmonary Diseases”
Host: Crystal Ripplinger, Ph.D., Professor, Department of Pharmacology

May 20, 2025

Speaker: John Lueck, Ph.D., Associate Professor, Department of Pharmacology and Physiology, University of Rochester Medical Center
Title: “Development of Platform Anticodon Edited (ACE) tRNAs Technologies for Nonsense-Associated Diseases”
Host: Yale Goldman, M.D., Ph.D., Professor, Department of Pharmacology

September 16, 2025

Speaker: Maya Kaelberer, Ph.D., Assistant Professor, Department of Physiology, University of Arizona
Title: A Gut Sense."
Host: Elva Diaz, Ph.D., Professor, Department of Pharmacology

October 21, 2025

Speaker: Stacey L. Rentschler, M.D., Ph.D., Professor of Medicine, Cardiovascular Division, Center for Cardiovascular Research, Washington University in St. Louis
Title: “>From Cells to Rhythms: How Cardiac Reprogramming Advances Arrhythmia Therapies.”
Host: Crystal Ripplinger, Ph.D., Professor, Department of Pharmacology

November 7, 2025

Co-sponsored by Joint Seminars in Molecular and Cellular Biology
Speaker: Paul R. Selvin, Ph.D., Professor, Department Physics and Biophysics, The University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign
Title: “Single-Molecule Super-Resolution Fluorescence: Application to Proteins Walking, to Memory, and to Alzheimer’s Disease.”
Host: Yale Goldman, M.D., Ph.D., Professor, Department of Pharmacology

November 18, 2025

Speaker: Mike Previs, Ph.D., Associate Professor, Molecular Physiology and Biophysics, The University of Vermont
Title: “Intracellular maintenance: Investigating the replacement of proteins within macromolecular complexes.”
Host: Jody Martin, Ph.D., Associate Professor Adjunct, Department of Pharmacology and Core Director of CVRI

December 2, 2025

Speaker: Oliver Schluter, M.D., Ph.D., Associate Professor, Neuroscience, Center for Neuroscience, University of Pittsburgh
Title: “Silent Synapses Awaken.”
Host: Johannes W. Hell, Ph.D., Professor, Department of Pharmacology

2024

January 16, 2024

Speaker: Shanna Hamilton, Ph.D., Assistant Professor, Cellular and Molecular Medicine, The University of Arizona
Title: "Hyperactivity of the ryanodine receptor drives subcellular remodeling in cardiac disease."
Host: Donald Bers, Ph.D., Professor and Chair, Department of Pharmacology

February 20, 2024

Speaker: Jun Wang, Ph.D., Associate Professor, Department of Pediatrics. University of Texas Health, Houston
Title: “A Hippo in the Heart.”
Host: Kevin Xiang, Ph.D., Professor, Department of Pharmacology

March 19, 2024

Speaker: Mark Dell'Acqua, Ph.D., Professor and Vice Chairman, Director, NeuroTechnology Center, Department of Pharmacology, University of Colorado Denver
Title: “L-type Ca2+ channels couple synaptic excitation to transcription via dendrite-to-soma Ca2+ spike propagation and kinase/phosphatase signaling to the nucleus”
Host: Johannes Hell, Ph.D., Professor, Department of Pharmacology

April 16, 2024

Speaker: Ivy Dick, Ph.D., Associate Professor, Department of Physiology, University of Maryland School of Medicine
Title: “Diverse Pathogenic Mechanisms Underlying Cav1.2 Channelopathies”
Host: Ye Chen-Izu, M.S., Ph.D., Professor, Department of Pharmacology

May 21, 2024

Speaker: Grace Muller, Ph.D., Assistant Professor, Cell and Molecular Physiology, Loyola University Chicago
Title: “The search for PDE1C-mediated compartmentalized cAMP signaling.”
Host: Stefano Morotti, Ph.D., Assistant Professor, Department of Pharmacology

September 17, 2024

Speaker: Jerod Denton, Ph.D., Associate Professor, School of Medicine, Anesthesiology, Associate Professor, Department of Pharmacology
Title: “Drug block of LRRC8 volume-sensitive anion channels near lipid-binding fenestrae.”
Host: Heike Wulff, Ph.D., Professor, Department of Pharmacology

October 15, 2024

Speaker: Xun Ai, Ph.D., Fred A. Hitchcock, Endowed Professor of Physiology, Professor of Physiology, Department of Physiology and Cell Biology, The Ohio State University
Title: “The Stress Kinase JNK2 in SR Ca Handling and Cardiac Function: the Good and the Bad.”
Host: Kevin Xiang, Ph.D., Professor, Department of Pharmacology

November 19, 2024

Speaker: Adebowale Adebiyi, Ph.D., Russell D. and Mary B. Shelden Missouri Chair in Anesthesiology, NextGen Precision Health Investigator, Professor, Medical Pharmacology and Physiology, University of Missouri
Title: “Vasoregulation through the functional coupling of endothelin and TRPC3: Revisiting familiar pathways with new insights into kidney pathophysiology.”
Host: Madeline Nieves-Cintron, Ph.D., Associate Professor, Department of Pharmacology

2023

January 17, 2023

Speaker: Daniel Choquet, Ph.D., Director, Dynamic organization and function of Synapses, Bordeaux Neurocampus
Title: "Interplay between dynamic nanoscale glutamatergic synapse organization and function"
Host: Johannes Hell, Ph.D., Professor, Department of Pharmacology

April 4, 2023

Speaker: Zhao Wang, Ph.D., Associate Professor, Departments of Diabetes and Cancer Metabolism, City of Hope
Title: “Protein Folding and Glucose Metabolism: Two-way Traffic in Cardiac Disease”
Host: Yang Kevin Xiang, Ph.D., Professor, Department of Pharmacology

April 18, 2023

Speaker: Fabrice Dabertrand, Ph.D., Associate Professor, Departments of Anesthesiology and Pharmacology, University of Colorado, Anschutz Medical Campus
Title: "Impact of cerebral small vessel disease on neuronal plasticity"
Host: Manuel Navedo, Ph.D., Professor, Department of Pharmacology

May 2, 2023

Speaker: Girija Raman, Ph.D., M.B.A., Associate Director of Corporate Development, Gilead
Title: "Anatomy of a Pharmaceutical Deal -Discovery to Acquisition"
Host: Heike Wullf, Ph.D., Professor, Department of Pharmacology

June 20, 2023

Speaker: Luis G Carvajal-Carmona, Ph.D., Associate Vice Chancellor for Academic Diversity Office of Diversity, Equity and Inclusion, Professor and Auburn Community Cancer Endowed Chair in Basic Science, Genome Center and Department of Biochemistry and Molecular Medicine, School of Medicine, University of California, Davis
Title: "Precision Health Equity: the intersection between modern medicine and health disparities"
Host: Elva Diaz, Ph.D., Professor, Department of Pharmacology

November 7, 2023

Speaker: David Liem, M.D., Ph.D., Associate Professor, Division of Cardiovascular Medicine, UC Davis School of Medicine
Title: “A Natural Language Processing Approach to Unveil Novel Therapeutic Mechanisms and Targets in Heart Failure”
Host: Leighton T. Izu, Ph.D., Professor, Department of Pharmacology

2022

January 13, 2022

Speaker: Roy Ben-Shalom, Assistant Professor in Neurology and the MIND Institute, UC Davis
Title: “Simulating neurodevelopmental disorders: from the channel to the circuit”
Host: Julie Bossuyt, Ph.D., Associate Professor, Department of Pharmacology
Joint Seminar - Pharmacology - Physiology and Membrane Biology

February 15, 2022

Speaker: Michael Burton, Assistant Professor of Department of Neuroscience, University of Texas at Dallas
Title: "Cell and Sex-Specific effects of TLR4 in Neuroimmune interactions in acute pain states”
Host: Elva Diaz, Ph.D., Professor, Department of Pharmacology

March 15, 2022

Speaker: Jin Zhang, Professor, Department of Pharmacology, University of California, San Diego
Title: “Illuminating the Biochemical Activity Architecture of the Cell”
Hosts: Madeline Nieves-Cintron, Ph.D. and Lin Tian, Ph.D.
Joint Seminar - Pharmacology and Biochemistry

April 19, 2022

Speaker: Jennifer Davis, Associate Professor, Departments of Lab Medicine and Pathology and Bioengineering, Director of the Center for Cardiovascular Biology, Associate Director of The Institute for Stem Cell and Regenerative Medicine, School of Medicine, University of Washington
Title: "Regulators of Cardiac Fibroblast Fate and Fibrosis"
Host: Julie Bossuyt, Ph.D., Associate Professor, Department of Pharmacology

May 3, 2022

Speaker: Robert Edwards, Professor, M.D., Neurology, UCSF Weill Institute for Neurosciences, University of California, San Francisco
Title: "The Frequency Dependence of Neurotransmitter Release"
Host: Johannes W. Hell, Ph.D., Professor, Department of Pharmacology

May 17, 2022

Speaker: Nikki Posnack, Assistant Professor, Dept. of Pediatrics, Dept of Pharmacology and Physiology, The George Washington University
Title: "Plastic – not so fantastic. Evaluating medical device biocompatibility using cardiac models"
Host: Crystal Ripplinger, Ph.D., Professor, Department of Pharmacology

October 18, 2022

Speaker: Jan Christoph, Ph.D., Assistant Professor, Cardiovascular Research Institute, University of California, San Francisco
Title: "High-Resolution Imaging of the Electromechanics of the Heart"
Host: Ye Chen-Izu, Ph.D., Professor, Department of Pharmacology

November 9, 2022

Speaker: Michael A Colman, Ph.D., F.H.E.A., Associate Professor, Department of Biological Sciences, Systems Physiology, University of Leeds, U.K.
Title: "Heterogeneity, variability, and cardiac dysfunction: from dyad to ECG"
Hosts: Eleonora Grandi, Ph.D. and Haibo Ni, Ph.D.

November 15, 2022

Speaker: Ade Aromolaran, Ph.D., Associate Professor, Department of Surgery, Division of Cardiothoracic Surgery, Investigator, Nora Eccles Harrison Cardiovascular Research and Training Institute (CVRTI), U2M2 Program in Molecular Medicine
Title: "Illuminating the Role of the Delayed Rectifier K Channels in Heart"
Host: Ele Grandi, Ph.D., Professor, Department of Pharmacology

2021

March 16, 2021

Speaker: Weijian Yang, Ph.D., Assistant Professor, Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering, University of California, Davis
Title: “All-optical Interrogation of Neural Circuits”
Host: Johannes W. Hell, Ph.D.

April 20, 2021

Speaker: Jiang Chang, M.D., Ph.D., FAPS, Professor, Chancellor EDGES Fellow, Center for Genomic and Precision Medicine, Texas A&M University
Title: "Rho Signaling: From Cardiac Remodeling to Hydrocephalus"
Host: Kevin Xiang, Ph.D.

May 18, 2021

Speaker: Devin Horton, Ph.D., Graduate Diversity Officer: Science, Technology, Engineering and Mathematics (STEM), University of California, Davis
Title: "Equity in Academia: A Group Project"
Host: Elva Diaz, Ph.D.

June 15, 2021

Speaker: Sue Vang, Engagement and Zero Waste Program Manager, University of California, Davis | Sustainability Office
Title: "Greening Your Workplace with UC Davis Sustainability"
Host: Andrew Edwards, Ph.D.

November 2, 2021

Speaker: Gabriela Popescu, Professor, Department of Biochemistry, Jacobs School of Medicine and Biomedical Sciences
Title: “NMDA Receptors as Calcium Channels”
Host: Johannes W. Hell, Ph.D.

2020

January 21, 2020

Speaker: Thomas M. Vondriska, Ph.D., Professor of Anesthesiology, Medicine and Physiology David Geffen School of Medicine at UCLA
Title: “Cardiovascular Epigenomes: From Chromatin Fiber to Human Populations”
Host: Julie Bossuyt, Ph.D.

April 21, 2020

Speaker: Jerod Denton, Ph.D., Professor, Department of Anesthesiology, Vanderbilt University
Host: Heike Wulff, Ph.D.

May 19, 2020

Speaker: Erika Boerman, Ph.D., Assistant Professor, Department Med Pharmacology and Physiology, University of Missouri
Host: Manuel Navedo, Ph.D.

June 23, 2020

Speaker: Federica Accornero, Ph.D., Associate Professor, The Ohio State University, Department of Physiology and Cell Biology
Host: Crystal Ripplinger, Ph.D.

September 15, 2020

Speaker: Osama Harraz, Research Assistant Professor, Department of Pharmacology, Larner College of Medicine, University of Vermont
Title: “PIP2: The maestro of the cerebral blood flow symphony”
Host: Madeline Nieves-Cintron, Ph.D.

October 20, 2020

Speaker: Federica Accornero, Assistant Professor, Physiology and Cell Biology, The Ohio State University
Title: "Insights into post-transcriptional control of gene expression in the heart"
Host: Crystal Ripplinger, Ph.D.

November 17, 2020

Speaker: Laurent Groc, Directeur Recherche CNRS, Group Leader, Directeur Adjoint, Institut Interdisciplinaire Neuroscience (IINS), Centre Broca Nouvelle-Aquitaine, CNRS – Université de Bordeaux
Title: “INMDA receptor signaling: old actor, new vista”
Host: Johannes W. Hell, Ph.D.

2019

January 15, 2019

Speaker: Hong Chen, Ph.D., Associate Professor of Surgery, Boston Children’s Hospital, Harvard Medical School
Title: “Endocytic Regulation of Cardiovascular Disease”
Host: Kevin Xiang, Ph.D.

February 12, 2019

Speaker: James Letts, Ph.D., Associate Professor, Dept. of Molecular and Cellular Biology, UC Davis
Title: “Structures of Respiratory Supercomplex I+III2 Suggest CoQ Channeling is Inefficient and Reveal Conformational Crosstalk”
Host: Johannes Hell, Ph.D.

February 19, 2019

Speaker: Filip Van Petegem, Ph.D., Professor, Department of Biochemistry and Molecular Biology, The University of British Columbia
Title: “Disease mutations at high resolution: structural insights into Calcium-selective channels”
Host: Don Bers, Ph.D.

March 19, 2019

Speaker: David J. Lefer, Ph.D. , Professor of Pharmacology, Director, Cardiovascular Center of Excellence, LSU Health New Orleans
Title: "Renal Sympathetic Denervation in Heart Failure"
Host: Kevin Xiang, Ph.D.

April 16, 2019

Speaker: Long-Sheng Song, M.D., M.S., Professor, Department of Internal Medicine, Division of Cardiovascular Medicine, University of Iowa Carver College of Medicine
Title: “Decoding Junctophilin-2-mediated Transcriptome in Stressed Heart”
Host: Ye Chen-Izu, M.S., Ph.D.

May 21, 2019

Speaker: Carlo Brugnara, M.D., Professor of Pathology, Pathology, Boston Children’s Hospital, Harvard Medical School
Title: "Red blood cell hydration Status: from sickle cell disease to hereditary xerocytosis"
Host: Heike Wulff, Ph.D.

June 18, 2019

Speaker: Na Li, Ph.D., Assistant Professor, Molecular Physiology and Biophysics, Baylor College of Medicine
Title: “The emerging role of Inflammasome in cardiac arrhythmias.”
Host: Ele Grandi, Ph.D.

September 12, 2019

Speaker: Matthew B. Dalva, Ph.D., Professor and Vice Chair, Department of Neuroscience, Director, Jefferson Synaptic Biology Center, Thomas Jefferson University
Title: “Synapse formation and plasticity: effects of biological-sex and synaptic nanostructure”
Host: Elva Diaz, Ph.D.

September 17, 2019

Speaker: Maria Kurnikova, Ph.D., Associate Professor, Department of Chemistry at Carnegie Mellon University
Title: “Deciphering Molecular Mechanisms of the Glutamate Receptor Function” 
Host: Elva Diaz, Ph.D.

October 15, 2019

Speaker: Zixi (Jack) Cheng, Ph.D., Associate Professor, University of Central Florida
Title: “Structural and Functional Mapping of Brain-Heart Connection and Remodeling”
Host: Chao-Yin Chen, Ph.D.

November 5, 2019

Speaker: Manu Ben-Johny, Ph.D., Assistant Professor of Physiology and Cellular Biophysics, Columbia University
Title: "Tuning calmodulin feedback of calcium and sodium channels in health and disease"
Host: Johannes W. Hell, Ph.D.

December 3, 2019

Speaker: Joshua I Goldhaber, M.D., Director, Division of Applied Cell Biology and Physiology at Cedars-Sinai Medical Center
Title: "Cardiac calcium regulation in mice with genetically modified calcium efflux proteins and in rats with Heart Failure with Preserved Ejection Fraction"
Host: Leighton Izu, Ph.D.

2018

January 16, 2018

Speaker: John Scott, Ph.D., University of Washington
Title: "Exploring and Exploiting the Spatial Constraints of Local Signaling"
Host: Manuel Navedo, Ph.D.

January 19, 2018

Speaker: Mark Ziolo, Ph.D., Ohio State University Medical Center
Title: "Therapeutic interventions for heart disease"
Host: Don Bers, Ph.D.

February 20, 2018

Speaker: Roger Nicoll M.D., University of California, San Francisco
Host: Johannes Hell, Ph.D.

March 20, 2018

Speaker: Yohannes Shiferaw, Ph.D., California State University, Northridge
Title: “Calcium waves, nonlinear dynamics, and stochasticity in atrial myocytes”
Host: Daisuke Sato, Ph.D.

April 17, 2018

Speaker: Miao Zhang, Ph.D., Chapman University, School of Pharmacy
Host: Heike Wulff, Ph.D.

May 15, 2018

Speaker: Nancy Kanagy, Ph.D., University of New Mexico
Host: Manuel Navedo, Ph.D.

June 19, 2018

Speaker: Alexey Glukhov, Ph.D., University of Wisconsin, School of Medicine
Host: Eleonora Grandi, Ph.D.

September 18, 2018

Speaker: Mark Mercola, Ph.D., Professor, Department of Medicine, Stanford University School of Medicine, Stanford Cardiovascular Institute
Host: Ele Grandi, Ph.D.

October 16, 2018

Speaker: Anthony J. Baker, Ph.D., Professor of Medicine, University of California, San Francisco, VA Medical Center, Cardiology Division
Title: “A new approach to treat right ventricular failure: targeting α1 adrenergic receptors”
Host: Ye Chen-Izu, M.S., Ph.D.

November 8, 2018

Speaker: Ingo Greger, Ph.D., Medical Research Council, Laboratory of Molecular Biology, Cambridge Biomedical Campus
Title: “Structural and functional architecture of the AMPA receptor extracellular region”
Host: Johannes Hell, Ph.D.

December 4, 2018

Speaker: David Schneider, Ph.D., Assistant Professor, Center for Neural Science, New York University
Title: “Cortical circuits for predicting the future”
Host: Crystal Ripplinger, Ph.D.

2017

January 17, 2017

Speaker: Matthew Kay, Ph.D., Associate Professor, BME Associate Chair for Research and Graduate Affairs BME, George Washington University
Title: "Neuron-specific approaches for altering cardiac autonomic tone in health and disease"
Host: Crystal Ripplinger, Ph.D.

February 21, 2017

Speaker: Tim McKinsey, Ph.D., Associate Professor and Associate Division Head for Translational Research, Division of Cardiology, University of Colorado, Denver
Title: "Multiple Roles for Protein Acetylation in Heart Failure"
Host: Julie Bossuyt, Ph.D.

March 10, 2017

Speaker: Emilia Entcheva, Ph.D., Professor, BME, George Washington University
Title: "Massively Parallel All-Optical Cardiac Electrophysiology"
Host: Daisuke Sato, Ph.D.

March 21, 2017

Speaker: Joan Heller Brown, Ph.D., Distinguished Professor, and Depart Chair Pharmacology, UCSD
Title: "Cardiomyocyte CaMkinase II regulates inflammatory and fibrotic responses associated with development of heart failure"
Host: Don Bers, Ph.D.

April 18, 2017

Speaker: Monika Davare, Ph.D., Research Instructor, Oregon Health and Science University
Title: "Kinase Fusions in Cancer: From Model Systems to the Development of Novel Therapeutics"
Host: Johannes Hell, Ph.D. and Mary Horne, Ph.D.

May 16, 2017

Speaker: Andrew Braun, Ph.D., Associate Professor, Physiology and Pharmacology, Physiology, Cumming School of Medicine, University of Calgary
Title: "Endothelial KCachannels: Critical mediators of vascular tone in health and disease"
Host: Heike Wulff, Ph.D.

July 21, 2017

Speaker: Catherine Proenza, Ph.D., Associate Professor, University of Colorado, Denver
Title: "Physiology and Biophysics of Cardiac Pacemaking"
Host: Eleonora Grandi, Ph.D.

September 14, 2017

Speaker: Kimberly Dodge-Kafka, Ph.D., University of Connecticut Health
Host: Don Bers, Ph.D.

September 19, 2017

Speaker: Martin Young, D.Phil, University of Alabama at Birmingham
Host: Kevin Xiang, Ph.D.

October 17, 2017

Speaker: Robert Malenka, Ph.D., Stanford University
Title: "Molecular mechanisms of AMPA receptor delivery and stabilization during LTP"
Host: Johannes Hell, Ph.D.

November 7, 2017

Speaker: Chris Glembotski, Ph.D., San Diego State University
Title: "The Transcription Factor, ATF6, Links ER Stress and Oxidative Stress Signaling in the Heart and is as Master Regulator of Cardiokine Secretion"
Host: Kevin Xiang, Ph.D.

November 9, 2017

Speaker: Johannes Backs, Ph.D., University of Heidelberg
Host: Don Bers, Ph.D. and Julie Bossuyt, Ph.D.

December 5, 2017

Speaker: George Rodney, Ph.D., Baylor College of Medicine
Title: "Role of NADPH Oxidase in Duchenne Muscular Dystrophy"
Host: Ye Chen-Izu, Ph.D.

2016

February 16, 2016

Speaker: Flavio Fenton, Ph.D., Associate Professor, Georgia Tech, Atlanta, GA
Title: "From Chaos to Cures; controlling the complex spatiotemporal dynamics of cardiac arrhythmias using a theoretical, numerical and experimental integrative approach"
Host: Daisuke Sato, Ph.D.

March 15, 2016

Speaker: Jennifer Whistler, Ph.D., Professor, Neurology, University of California, San Francisco
Title: "Translational opportunities in substance abuse and its co-morbidities through biased agonism at GPCRs"
Host: Elva Diaz, Ph.D.

March 31, 2016

Speaker: William E. Louch, Ph.D., Professor, Oslo University Hospital, Ullevål
Title: "Dyadic Structure and Function in Cardiomyocytes: Implications for Heart Failure"
Host: Eleonora Grandi, Ph.D.

April 19, 2016

Speaker: Alexander Dunn, Ph.D., Assistant Professor of Clinical Engineering, Stanford University, CA
Title: "Biophysical basis for cellular force transduction"
Host: Ye Chen-Izu, Ph.D.

May 17, 2016

Speaker: Eric Sobie, Ph.D., Associate Professor, Mount Sinai Hospital, New York, NY
Title: "Quantitative Cardiovascular Systems Pharmacology: combining simulations and experiments to understand toxicity and efficacy of drugs"
Host: Eleonora Grandi, Ph.D.

June 2, 2016

Speaker: Shelly Tzlil, Ph.D., Assistant Professor, Technion-Israel Inst of Tech, Haifa, Israel
Title: "Mechanical communication in cardiac cell synchronized beating"
Host: Kevin Xiang, Ph.D.

August 16, 2016

Speaker: Prasad Sathyamangla, Ph.D., Molecular Biology Researcher, Cleveland Clinic, Cleveland, Ohio
Host: Kevin Xiang, Ph.D.

September 27, 2016

Speaker: Mark von Zastrow, M.D., Ph.D., Professor, Psychiatry and Cellularand Molecular Pharmacology, University of California, San Francisco
Title: "An inner life of GPCRs"
Host: Johannes Hell, Ph.D.

October 18, 2016

Speaker: Scott Earley, Ph.D., Professor, Pharmacology, University of Nevada, Reno
Title: "Sensory Functions of TRPA1 Channels in the Cerebral Endothelium"
Host: Manuel Navedo, Ph.D.

October 19, 2016

Speaker: Yumei Feng, M.D., Ph.D., Associate Professor, Pharmacology, University of Nevada, Reno
Title: "A How the Brain Controls Blood Pressure: Role of (Pro)renin Receptor"
Host: Chao-Yin Chen, Ph.D.

November 15, 2016

American Heart Association and Society for Neuroscience Meetings

2015

January 20, 2015

Speaker: Ehud Isacoff, Ph.D., Professor of Neurobiology, University of California, Berkeley
Host: Manuel Navedo, Ph.D.

February 17, 2015

Speaker: Hemal Patel, Ph.D., Associate Professor and Director, UC San Diego Cardiac/Neuro Protection Laboratories
Title: "Caveolae as capacitors for energy and metabolism: Implications for cardiac injury, aging and diabetes"
Host: Kevin Xiang, Ph.D.

March 9, 2015

Speaker: Zhuan Zhou, Ph.D., Professor and Senior Investigator, Institute of Molecular Medicine, Peking University
Title: "Norepinephrine release from sympathetic nerves in cardiac slices and in vivo: real time recording using electrochemical micro carbon fiber electrodes"
Host: Don Bers, Ph.D.

April 6, 2015

Speaker: Ariel Escobar, Ph.D., Professor, School of Engineering, University of California, Merced
Title: "Relationship between intracellular Ca2+ release and electrical excitability at intact heart level"
Host: Don Bers, Ph.D.

April 21, 2015

Speaker: Luis Cuello, Ph.D., Assistant Professor, Cell Physiology and Molecular Biophysics, Texas Tech University Health Sciences Center, Lubbock, Texas
Title: "A structural driven kinetic cycle for the pore domain of a K+ channel"
Host: Heike Wulff, Ph.D.

May 12, 2015

Speaker: Alan Verkman, M.D., Ph.D., Professor of Medicine and Physiology, Department of Medicine, University of California, San Francisco
Title: "Targeting cell membrane transporters to develop new drugs"
Host: Heike Wulff, Ph.D.

September 15, 2015

Speaker: Peter Kohl, Ph.D., Professor, Imperial College, London, UK
Title: "Marrying Fibroblast Myocyte Electrophysiology in Native Myocardium: something old, something new, something borrowed, something blue"
Host: Crystal Ripplinger, Ph.D.

October 20, 2015

Speaker: Benjamin Prosser, Ph.D., Assistant Professor of Physiology, University of Pennsylvania
Title: "Microtubule mechanics and mechanosignaling in the heart"
Host: Ye Chen-Izu, Ph.D.

November 17, 2015

Speaker: Vaidehi Nagarajan, Ph.D., Principal Investigator, City of Hope, Beckman Research Institute, Duarte, CA
Title: "Insights into dynamics and allosteric communication in G-protein-coupled receptors"
Host: Kevin Xiang, Ph.D.

December 8, 2015

Speaker: Amy Lee, Ph.D., Assistant Dean for Scientific Affairs, Carver College of Medicine, University of Iowa
Title: "Decalmodulation of voltage-gated Ca_vCa²⁺ channels"
Host: Johannes Hell, Ph.D.

December 15, 2015

Speaker: Michael Higley, M.D., Ph.D., Assistant Professor of Neurobiology, Cellular Neuroscience, Neurodegeneration and Repair, New Haven, CT
Title: "Dendritic compartmentalization of electrical and biochemical signaling"
Host: Johannes Hell, Ph.D.

2014

January 21, 2014

Speaker: Mark Shapiro, University of Texas
Host: Manuel Navedo, Ph.D.

February 13, 2014

Speaker: Junko Kurokawa, Tokyo Medical and Dental
Host: Colleen Clancy, Ph.D.

February 14, 2014

Speaker: Annette Dolphin, London College
Host: Johannes Hell, Ph.D.

March 18, 2014

Speaker: Robert Ross, University of California, San Diego
Title: "Integrins and Cytoskeletal Proteins in the Cardiac Myocyte: More than Glue and Struts"
Host: Ye Chen-Izu, Ph.D.

April 15, 2014

Speaker: Merry Lindsey, The University of Mississippi
Title: "Proteomic strategies to identify novel extracellular matrix biomarkers of cardiac injury"
Host: Crystal Ripplinger, Ph.D.

May 12, 2014

Speaker: Yoram Rudy, Washington University
Title: "Noninvasive mapping of cardiac electrophysiology and arrhythmias in the intact human heart"
Host: Colleen Clancy, Ph.D.

June 17, 2014

Speaker: Katherine Roche, NIH/NINDS
Title: "Molecular Mechanisms Regulating Trafficking of Synaptic Proteins"
Host: Johannes Hell, Ph.D.

September 16, 2014

Speaker: Andres Maricq, M.D., Ph.D., Professor of Biology and Adjunct Professor of Neurology, University of Utah, Salt Lake City
Title: "Regulated Delivery and Removal of Synaptic Machinery"
Host: Elva Diaz, Ph.D.

October 21, 2014

Speaker: Kang Shen, Ph.D., Professor, Department of Biology, Stanford, Palo Alto, CA
Host: Johannes Hell, Ph.D.

November 18, 2014

Speaker: Marta Filizola, Ph.D., Associate Professor of Structural and Chemical Biology, Icahn School of Medicine at Mount Sinai, New York
Title: "Modern Computer-Aided Drug Discovery Approaches for G Protein-Coupled Receptors"
Host: Colleen Clancy, Ph.D.

December 16, 2014

Speaker: Rong Tian, M.D., Ph.D., Professor, Anesthesiology and Pain Medicine, Bioengineering, and Adjunct Professor, Biochemistry, Pathology, University of Washington Medicine
Title: "Targeting Mitochondria for Heart Failure Therapy"
Host: Kevin Xiang, Ph.D.

December 18, 2014

Speaker: Robert Harvey, Ph.D., Professor, Molecular Biosciences, University of Nevada, Reno
Title: "Spatial and Temporal Aspects of cAMP Signaling in Cardiac Myocyte"
Host: Colleen Clancy, Ph.D.

2013

January 15, 2013

Speaker: Robert Eisenberg, Rush Medical College, Illinois
Host: Donald Bers, Ph.D.

February 11, 2013

Speaker: Paul Simpson, University of California, San Francisco
Host: Donald Bers, Ph.D.

March 19, 2013

Speaker: Marco Conti, University of California, San Francisco
Title: "Specificity of the Beta adrenergic signaling in cardiac myocytes: role of phosphodiesterases"
Host: Kevin Xiang, Ph.D.

March 26, 2013

Speaker: Pierre De Meyts, Novo-Nordisk
Title: "Molecular basis of metabolic and mitogenic effects of insulin, insulin analogues and insulin-like growth factors"
Host: Mary Horne, Ph.D.

April 16, 2013

Speaker: Jeremy Marks, University of Chicago
Title: "Membrane-targeted approaches to rescuing neurons from death following hypoxia-ischemia"
Host: Florin Despa, Ph.D.

September 17, 2013

Speaker: Vikram Shakkottai, University of Michigan
Host: Heike Wulff, Ph.D.

October 15, 2013

Speaker: Fara Sheikh, UC San Diego
Title: "Deciphering the Electrical ‘Cross-Talk’ Underlying A Role for Desmosomal Cell-Cell Junctions in Cardiac Muscle Biology and Disease"
Host: Y Chen-Izu, Ph.D.

December 10, 2013

Speaker: Joseph Wu, Stanford University
Host: Kevin Xiang, Ph.D.

2012

September 7, 2012

Speaker: Kent E Pinkerton, University of California, Davis

September 21, 2012

Speaker: David Yue, John Hopkins University
Title: "Calcium channel modulation involves calmodulin on the move"

October 19, 2012

Speaker: Paul D. Allen, University of California at Davis
Title: "Control of intracellular Ca2+ in skeletal muscle--inside and outside"

November 9, 2012

Speaker: Alessandra Renieri, University of Siena, Italy

November 29, 2012

Speaker: John E. Casida (Emeriti Professor of Department of Environmental Science, Policy, and Management, University of California, Berkeley)
Title: "G ABA Receptor Games and Pesticide Puzzles"
Sponsored by: The UC Davis CounterAct Center for Excellence, Pharmacology Training Grant and Department of Pharmacology

December 7, 2012

Speaker: Virginia Brooks, Oregon Health Sciences University

2011

January 14, 2011

Speaker: Dan Minor, UC San Francisco
Title: "Ion channel modulation: structure, function, and unconventional approaches"

February 4, 2011

Speaker: Scott I. Simon, UC Davis, BME
Title: "Leukocyte guidance is signaled via B2-integrin and Orai1 during inflammatory recruitment"

February 18, 2011

Speaker: Susan Taylor, UC San Diego
Title: "Dynamics of Signaling by PKA"

March 29, 2011

Speaker: E. Dale Abel, University of Iowa
Title: "Novel Molecular Mechanisms Linking the Metabolic Syndrome with Cardiovascular Dysfunction"

April 8, 2011

Speaker: Coleen Murphy, Princeton University
Title: "Slowing the Ticking Clock: Using C. elegans to Discover Mechanisms Regulating Cognitive Aging Decline and Reproductive Cessation"

April 15, 2011

Speaker: A. Bora Inceoglu, UC Davis
Title: "Natural epoxy-fatty acids and soluble epoxide hydrolase: Emerging therapeutic targets for neurological disorders"

2010

January 22, 2010

Speaker: John Morser, Ph.D., Stanford School of Medicine
Title: "Role of Thrombin Activatable Fibrinolysis Inhibitor (TAFI)"

February 26, 2010

Speaker: Leonard Kaczmarek, Ph.D., Yale University
Title: "Regulation of sodium-activated potassium channels and the Fragile X Mental Retardation Protein signaling pathway"

April 23, 2010

Speaker: Laura Conforti, Ph.D., University of Cincinnati
Title: "Calcium signaling defects in autoimmunity: the ion channel viewpoint"

May 28, 2010

Speaker: Fernando Santana, Ph.D., University of Washington
Title: "Natural Inequalities: Why Some L-type Calcium Channels Work Harder than Others"

June 1, 2010

Speaker: Peter Sugden, Ph.D., Angela Clerk, Ph.D. Imperial College, London
Title: "Signaling Through Protein Kinases To Gene Expression In The Cardio Myocyte"

June 2, 2010

Speaker: J. Julius Zhu, Ph.D., University of Virginia
Title: "Central neural circuits and synapse"

September 10, 2010

Speaker: John Kuriyan, UC Berkeley
Title: "Structural Mechanisms of Protein Kinase Regulation"

November 12, 2010

Speaker: Laurent Groc, Universite Bordeaux, France
Title: "High resolution of imaging of NMDA receptors? Learning from a single molecule!"

November 18, 2010

Speaker: Yasunori Hayashi, Brain Science Institute, Japan
Title: "Molecular mechanisms of hippocampal synaptic plasticity"

December 3, 2010

Speaker: David Stellwagen, McGill University, Canada
Title: "The role of TNFalpha in synaptic plasticity and nervous system function"

2009

October 23, 2009

Speaker: Ariel Fernandez, Ph.D., Rice University
Title: "Translational concepts in drug discovery: Redesigning IMATINIB into a safer drug and taking it back to the clinic"

November 13, 2009

Speaker: Mariann Rots, Ph.D., University of Groningen
Title: "Awake the sleeping, mute the sleeping: towards targeted overwriting of epigenetic marks to moculate gene expression profiles"

December 4, 2009

Speaker: Bruce Hammock, Ph.D., UC Davis
Title: "Translating Soluble Epoxide Hydrolase Inhibitors into the Clinic, Picking the Right Target"

2008

February 29, 2008

Speaker: Edward Skolnik, Ph.D., New York University Medical Center
Title: "Regulation and function of the K channel KCa3.1: Role in T cell activation and polycystic kidney disease."

March 14, 2008

Speaker: Ricardo Dolmetsch, Ph.D., Stanford University
Title: The Secret Lives of Calcium Channels

2007

January 26, 2007

Speaker: Reinhold Penner, M.D., Ph.D., University of Hawaii at Manoa
Title: "CRACking the Molecular Components of Store-Operated Calcium Entry"

March 2, 2007

Speaker: John Rutledge, M.D., University of California, Davis
Title: "Triglyceride-Rich Lipoproteins: Friend or Foe?"

March 23, 2007

Speaker: Dirk Trauner, Ph.D., LMU Munich
Title: "Development of Light-Gated Ion Channels"

April 20, 2007

Speaker: Joel Mackay, Ph.D., School of Molecular and Microbial Biosciences, University of Sydney
Title: "The Wonderful World of Zinc Finger Domains"

May 11, 2007

Speaker: Matt Rasband, Ph.D., Baylor College of Medicine
Title: "Intrinsic and Extrinsic Determinants of Ion Channel Clustering in Neurons"

June 22, 2007

Speaker: Stephen D. Miller, Ph.D., Department of Microbiology-Immunology, Feinberg School of Medicine, Northwestern University
Title: "The Inflamed CNS as a Neo-Lymphoid Organ - Implications for Specific Immunotherapy of MS"

September 28, 2007

Speaker: Mark Noble, Ph.D., University of Rochester
Title: ""Stem Cell Medicine: Building the Comprehensive Plan""

October 26, 2007

Speaker: Seth L. Robia, Ph.D., Loyola University Chicago
Title: "Using FRET to measure the binding affinity, binding kinetics, and structure of membrane protein complexes: Application to phospholamban and the cardiac calcium pump"

November 30, 2007

Speaker: Thomas DeCoursey, Ph.D., Rush University Medical Center
Title: "The intimate but controversial relationship between proton channels and the phagocyte NADPH oxidase"

December 14, 2007

Speaker: Ehud Isacoff, Ph.D., UC Berkeley
Title: "Can a Voltage Sensor also be a Gate?"

2006

January 20, 2006

Speaker: George Miljanich, Ph.D., Elan Pharmaceuticals
Title: "Killing Pain with Killer Snails: PRIALT, a Calcium Channel Blocking Analgesic from Marine Snail Venom"

February 17, 2006

Speaker: Robert Guy, M.D., Ph.D., NCI, National Institute of Health
Title: "Structure and Functional Mechanisms of Voltage-gated K+ Channels"

March 17, 2006

Speaker: Piepei Ping, Ph.D., University of California, Los Angeles
Title: "Proteomic Characterization of the Murine Cardiac 26S Proteasome Complexes"

June 16, 2006

Speaker: Pilar Blancafort, Ph.D., University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill
Title: "Reprogrammin tumor cells with artificial transcription factors"

June 30, 2006

Speaker: Isaac Pessah, Ph.D., University of California, Davis
Title: "Ryanodine receptors, chief integrators of cellular calcium signals at the cutting edge of health and disease"

October 13, 2006

Speaker: Richard Lewis, Ph.D., Stanford Medical School
Title: "The Dynamic Dyad: A Mechanism for Store-Operated Calcium Signaling"

November 2, 2006

Speaker: Bernd Fakler, M.D., University of Freiburg
Title: "Coupling of Cav and BKCa Channels Analyzed by Functional Proteomics"

2005

January 13, 2005

Speaker: Peter Walter, Ph.D., University of California, San Francisco
Title: "Intracellular Signaling From the Endoplasmic Reticulum to the Nucleus"

February 11, 2005

Speaker: Lawrence B. Salkoff, Ph.D., Washington University, School of Medicine
Title: "Novel Potassium Channels Revealed by the Comparative Genomic Approach"

March 11, 2005

Speaker: Robert S. Kass, Ph.D., Columbia University, School of Medicine
Title: "Ion Channel Mutations in Human Disease: Insights into Novel Cellular Physiology and Pharmacology"

April 8, 2005

Speaker: Ralph H. Joho, Ph.D., The University of Texas Southwestern Medical Center at Dallas
Title: "Ion Channels and Behavior: Sleep Loss and Motor Dysfunction in Kv3-deficient Mice"

April 22, 2005

Speaker: Doris A. Taylor, Ph.D., University of Minnesota School of Medicine
Title: "Cell-Based Cardiac and Vascular Repair: What Does the Future Hold?"

May 20, 2005

Speaker: Russell N. Van Gelder, M.D., Ph.D., Washington University School of Medicine
Title: "Learning From the Pupils: Lessons in Non-visual Ocular Photoreception"

June 3, 2005

Speaker: Dan Shoemaker, Ph.D., GHC Technologies, Inc
Title: "Rapid and Ultrasensitive Detection of Pathogens Using Single Molecule Analysis with Quantum Dots: Applications in Biodefense and Clinical Diagnostics"

September 23, 2005

Speaker: Joe DeRisi, Ph.D., University of California, San Francisco
Title: "Bugs, Drugs and Microarrays: Genomic Approaches to Infectious Disease"

October 21, 2005

Speaker: Stefan Pulst, M.D., UCLA School of Medicine
Title: "Degenerative Ataxias: From Polyglutamine Proteins and Ion Channels"

November 18, 2005

Speaker: Joel Gottesfeld, Ph.D., Scripps Research Institute
Title: "Chemical Regulation of Gene Expression"

December 9, 2005

Speaker: George Chandy, M.D., Ph.D., University of California, Irvine
Title: "Targeting potassium channels for therapy of autoimmunity, ataxia and atherosclerosis"

2023 Seminars

April 7, 2023

Donald Bers, Ph.D.

April 14, 2023

Madeline Nieves-Cintron, Ph.D.

April 28, 2023

Igor Vorobyov, Ph.D.

May 5, 2023

Yang K. Xiang, Ph.D.

May 12, 2023

Daisuke Sato, Ph.D.

May 19, 2023

Angela Gelli, Ph.D.

May 26, 2023

Mary Horne, Ph.D.

June 2, 2023

Yi-Je (Jay) Chen, D.V.M., Ph.D.

June 9, 2023

Chao-Yin Chen, Ph.D.

June 16, 2023

Stefano Morotti, Ph.D.

June 23, 2023

Ye Chen-Izu, M.S., Ph.D.

2022

January 14, 2022

Leighton Izu, Ph.D.

January 28, 2022

Eleonora Grandi, Ph.D.

February 4, 2022

Crystal Ripplinger, Ph.D.

February 11, 2022

Donald Bers, Ph.D.

March 11, 2022

Angela Gelli, Ph.D.

March 18, 2022

Julie Bossuyt, D.V.M., Ph.D.

April 1, 2022

Yang K. Xiang, Ph.D.

April 8, 2022

Madeline Nieves-Cintron, Ph.D.

April 22, 2022

Yi-Je (Jay) Chen, D.V.M., Ph.D.

May 6, 2022

Heike Wulff, Ph.D.

May 13, 2022

Mary Horne, Ph.D.

June 3, 2022

Daisuke Sato, Ph.D.

June 17, 2022

Stefano Morotti, Ph.D.

June 24, 2022

Chao-Yin Chen, Ph.D.

2021

October 1, 2021

Andrew Edwards, Ph.D.

October 22, 2021

Ye Chen-Izu, M.S., Ph.D.

November 5, 2021

Elva Diaz, Ph.D.

November 12, 2021

Manuel Navedo, Ph.D.

December 3, 2021

Johannes W. Hell, Ph.D.

2020

January 17, 2020

Eleonora Grandi, Ph.D.

January 31, 2020

Leighton Izu, Ph.D.

February 14, 2020

Crystal Ripplinger, Ph.D.

March 13, 2020

Johannes W. Hell, Ph.D.

March 20, 2020

Elva Diaz, Ph.D.

April 3, 2020

Heike Wulff, Ph.D.

April 10, 2020

Donald Bers, Ph.D.

April 24, 2020

Julie Bossuyt, D.V.M., Ph.D.

May 8, 2020

Madeline Nieves-Cintron, Ph.D.

May 15, 2020

Mary Horne, Ph.D.

May 29, 2020

Yi-Je (Jay) Chen, D.V.M., Ph.D.

June 12, 2020

Ye Chen-Izu, M.S., Ph.D.

June 26, 2020

Chao-Yin Chen, Ph.D.

2019

January 4, 2019

Angela Gelli, Ph.D.

January 18, 2019

Eleonora Grandi, Ph.D.

February 1, 2019

Crystal Ripplinger, Ph.D.

February 15, 2019

Johannes W. Hell, Ph.D.

March 1, 2019

Igor Vorobyov, Ph.D.

March 15, 2019

Nirmala Hariharan, Ph.D.

April 12, 2019

Elva Diaz, Ph.D.

April 26, 2019

Daisuke Sato, Ph.D.

May 10, 2019

Julie Bossuyt, D.V.M., Ph.D.

May 24, 2019

Yi-Je (Jay) Chen, D.V.M., Ph.D.

June 7, 2019

Yang K. Xiang, Ph.D.

June 21, 2019

Chao-Yin Chen, Ph.D.

October 11, 2019

Yang K. Xiang, Ph.D.

October 25, 2019

Angela Gelli, Ph.D.

November 8, 2019

Daisuke Sato, Ph.D.

November 22, 2019

Igor Vorobyov, Ph.D.

December 13, 2019

Manuel Navedo, Ph.D.

2018

January 5, 2018

Daisuke Sato, Ph.D.

January 12, 2018

Donald Bers, Ph.D.

January 26, 2018

Eleonora Grandi, Ph.D.

February 9, 2018

Julie Bossuyt, D.V.M., Ph.D.

March 9, 2018

Yang K. Xiang, Ph.D.

March 23, 2018

Elva Diaz, Ph.D.

April 13, 2018

Manuel Navedo, Ph.D.

April 27, 2018

Johannes W. Hell, Ph.D.

May 11, 2018

Ye Chen-Izu, M.S., Ph.D.

May 25, 2018

Mary Horne, Ph.D.

June 8, 2018

Chao-Yin Chen, Ph.D.

June 22, 2018

Nirmala Hariharan, Ph.D.

September 28, 2018

Leighton Izu, Ph.D.

October 12, 2018

Mary Horne, Ph.D.

October 26, 2018

Manuel Navedo, Ph.D.

November 9, 2018

Ye Chen-Izu, M.S., Ph.D.

November 30, 2018

Donald M. Bers, Ph.D.

December 7, 2018

Heike Wulff, Ph.D.

2017

April 14, 2017

Donald Bers, Ph.D.

April 28, 2017

Yang K. Xiang, Ph.D

May 5, 2017

Manuel Navedo, Ph.D.

May 12, 2017

Colleen E. Clancy, Ph.D.

May 26, 2017

Daisuke Sato, Ph.D.

June 2, 2017

Yi-Je (Jay) Chen, D.V.M., Ph.D.

June 23, 2017

Angela Gelli, Ph.D.

June 30, 2017

Mary Horne, Ph.D.

September 8, 2017

Angela Gelli, Ph.D.

September 29, 2017

Crystal Ripplinger, Ph.D.

October 13, 2017

Yi-Je (Jay) Chen, D.V.M., Ph.D.

December 8, 2017

Heike Wulff, Ph.D.

December 15, 2017

Leighton Izu, Ph.D.

2016

January 15, 2016

Elva Diaz, Ph.D.

January 29, 2016

Manuel Navedo, Ph.D.

February 05, 2016

Crystal Ripplinger, Ph.D.

February 12, 2016

Donald Bers, Ph.D.

March 11, 2016

Ye Chen-Izu, Ph.D.

March 18, 2016

Johannes Hell, Ph.D

April 01, 2016

Daisuke Sato, Ph.D.

April 22, 2016

Mary Horne, Ph.D.

May 13, 2016

Yang K. Xiang, Ph.D

May 27, 2016

Yi-Je (Jay) Chen, D.V.M., Ph.D.

June 10, 2016

Julie Bossuyt, D.V.M., Ph.D.

June 24, 2016

Chao-Yin Chen, Ph.D.

July 08, 2016

Angela Gelli, Ph.D.

2015

February 13, 2015

Crystal Ripplinger, Ph.D.

February 27, 2015

Mary Horne, Ph.D.

March 13, 2015

Johannes Hell, Ph.D

April 03, 2015

Ye Chen-Izu, Ph.D.

April 24, 2015

Julie Bossuyt, D.V.M., Ph.D.

May 08, 2015

Donald Bers, Ph.D.

May 22, 2015

Yang K. Xiang, Ph.D

June 26, 2015

Chao-Yin Chen, Ph.D.

November 06, 2015

Leighton Izu, Ph.D.

November 13, 2015

Heike Wulff, Ph.D.

December 11, 2015

Eleonora Grandi, Ph.D.

December 18, 2015

Colleen E. Clancy, Ph.D.

2014

January 10, 2014

Chen/Izu

January 24, 2014

Angela Gelli, Ph.D.

February 28, 2014

Donald Bers, Ph.D.

April 11, 2014

Crystal Ripplinger, Ph.D.

May 09, 2014

Bossuyt, Julie, D.V.M., Ph.D.

May 23, 2014

Colleen Clancy, Ph. D.

June 13, 2014

Mary Horne, Ph.D.

June 27, 2014

Chao-Yin Chen, Ph.D.

September 26, 2014

Manuel Navedo, Ph.D.

October 10, 2014

Colleen Clancy, Ph. D.

October 24, 2014

Leighton Izu, Ph.D.

November 14, 2014

Angela Gelli, Ph.D.

December 12, 2014

Heike Wulff, Ph.D.

2013

September 27, 2013

Manuel Navedo, Ph.D.

October 11, 2013

Elva Diaz, Ph.D.

October 25, 2013

Johannes Hell, Ph.D.

November 22, 2013

Heike Wulff, Ph.D.

December 13, 2013

Yang K. Xiang, Ph.D.

2011

January 28, 2011

Colleen Clancy, Ph. D.

February 25, 2011

Ye Chen-Izu, Ph.D. / Leighton Izu, Ph.D.

March 18, 2011

Heike Wulff, Ph.D.

April 22, 2011

Angela Gelli, Ph.D.

May 27, 2011

Julie Bossuyt, D.V.M., Ph.D.

June 17, 2011

Elva Diaz, Ph.D.

2010

January 15, 2010

"Cellular and molecular factors involved in the control of cardiac muscle contraction"
Donald Bers, Ph.D.

February 19, 2010

"Potassium channel modulators for the treatment of autoimmune and cardiovascular disease"
Heike Wulff, Ph.D.

March 19, 2010

"Cellular and molecular mechanisms of heart disease and biophysics of the cardiac muscle excitation contraction coupling"
Ye-Chen Izu, Ph.D.
Leighton Izu, Ph.D.

April 16, 2010

"Function and regulation of heat shock protein"
Anne Knowlton, M.D., Ph.D.

May 21, 2010

"Computational approaches to reveal mechanisms of excitability in the heart and brain"
Colleen Clancy, Ph. D.

June 18, 2010

"Central neuroplasticity in cardiovascular regulation"
Chao-Yin Chen, Ph.D.

September 17, 2010

Chao-Yin Chen, Ph.D.

October 22, 2010

Crystal Ripplinger, Ph.D.

November 05, 2010

Johannes Hell, Ph.D.

December 10, 2010

Mary Horne, Ph.D.

2009

September 25, 2009

"Potassium channel modulators for the treatment of autoimmune and cardiovascular disease"
Angela Gelli, Ph.D.

October 16, 2009

"Engineering zinc finger DNA-binding proteins for diagnostics and gene therapy"
David Segal, Ph.D.

November 20, 2009

"Functional genomics of nervous system development"
Elva Diaz, Ph.D.

December 18, 2009

"Hydrophobic interactions and molecular crowding effects; molecular links between type 2 diabetes mellitus and heart failure"
Florin Despa, Ph.D.

2007

January 4, 2007

Ed Seikel (James Trimmer's Lab)

January 11, 2007

Anan Sankaranarayanan (Heike Wulff's Lab)

January 18, 2007

Matthew Hoffman (Ann Bonham's Lab)

January 25, 2007

Harryl Martinez (Michael Wright's Lab)

February 1, 2007

Kiem Vu (Angela Gelli's Lab)

February 8, 2007

Luis Acevedo (Peggy Farnham's Lab)

February 15, 2007

Kimberley Blahnik (Peggy Farnham's Lab)

February 22, 2007

DP Mohapatra (James Trimmer's Lab)

March 1, 2007

Jun-Soo Yun (Elva Diaz's Lab)

March 8, 2007

Kathryn "Charlie" Brayer (David Segal's Lab)

March 15, 2007

Vitalina Komasko (Peggy Farnham's Lab)

March 22, 2007

Denise Cook (James Trimmer's Lab)

March 29, 2007

Pavel Zimin (Heike Wulff's Lab)

April 5, 2007

Shin-ichi Sekizawa (Ann Bonham's Lab)

April 12, 2007

Min Liu (Angela Gelli's Lab)

April 19, 2007

Mark Bieda (Peggy Farnham's Lab)

April 26, 2007

Jae-Won Yang (James Trimmer's Lab)

May 3, 2007

Tatz Ishimaru (Elva Diaz's Lab)

May 10, 2007

Vincent Brondani (David Segal's Lab)

May 17, 2007

Henry O'Green (Peggy Farnham's Lab)

May 24, 2007

Helene Vacher (James Trimmer's Lab)

May 31, 2007

Gustavo Barisone (Elva Diaz's Lab)

June 7, 2007

Cedrick Mahieux (Heike Wulff's Lab)

June 14, 2007

Rohini Jasaval (Michael Wright's Lab)

June 21, 2007

Sharon Squazzo (Peggy Farnham's Lab)

June 28, 2007

Jennifer Rust (Elva Diaz's Lab)

July 5, 2007

Kang-Sik Park (James Trimmer's Lab)

July 12, 2007

Sushma Iyengar (Peggy Farnham's Lab)

July 19, 2007

Mital Bhakta (David Segal's Lab)

July 26, 2007

Jiusheng Yan (James Trimmer's Lab)

August 2, 2007

Victor Jin (Peggy Farnham's Lab)

August 9, 2007

Mike Hong (Angela Gelli's Lab)

August 16, 2007

Girija Raman (Heike Wulff's Lab)

August 23, 2007

Alina Rabinovich (Peggy Farnham's Lab)

August 30, 2007

Evgenia Kalashnikova (Elva Diaz's Lab)

September 6, 2007

Eliana Clark (James Trimmer's Lab)

2006

September 21, 2006

Elva Diaz, Ph.D.

September 28, 2006

Mike Wright, Ph.D.

October 5, 2006

David Segal, Ph.D.

October 19, 2006

Chao-Yin Chen, Ph.D.

October 26, 2006

Isaac Pessah, Ph.D.

November 2, 2006

Heike Wulff, Ph.D.

November 9, 2006

Angie Gelli, Ph.D.

November 16, 2006

Jim Trimmer, Ph.D.

November 30, 2006

Aik Ooi (David Segal's Lab)

December 7, 2006

Brooks Hayes (Elva Diaz's Lab)

December 14, 2006

Peggy Farnham, Ph.D.

2005

January 6, 2005

Michael Wright, Ph.D.

January 13, 2005

Anne Knowlton, M.D.

January 20, 2005

Peggy Farnham, Ph.D.

January 27, 2005

Elva Diaz, Ph.D.

February 3, 2005

Jim Trimmer, Ph.D.

February 10, 2005

Heike Wulff, Ph.D.

February 17, 2005

Angela Gelli, Ph.D.

February 24, 2005

Ann Bonham

March 3, 2005

Michael Wright, Ph.D.

March 10, 2005

Hiroaki Misonou (James Trimmer's Lab)

March 17, 2005

Luis Acevedo (Peggy Farnham's)

March 24, 2005

Bonnie Li (Elva Diaz's Lab)

March 31, 2005

Rich Eigenheer (Angela Gelli's Lab)

April 7, 2005

Ananthakrishnan Sankaranarayanan (Heike Wulff's Lab)

April 14, 2005

Chao-Yin Chen, Ph.D.

April 21, 2005

Sanjiv Gupta (Anne Knowlton's Lab)

April 28, 2005

James Stice (Anne Knowlton's Lab)

May 5, 2005

Jun-Soo Yun (Elva Diaz's Lab)

May 12, 2005

Shannon Ceballos (Angela Gelli's Lab)

May 19, 2005

Durga Mohapatra (James Trimmer's Lab)

May 26, 2005

Henny O'Geen (Peggy Farnham's Lab)

June 2, 2005

Phillipe Azam (Heike Wulff's Lab)

June 9, 2005

Luic Acevedo (Peggy Farnham's Lab)

June 16, 2005

Shin-Ichi Sekizawa (Ann Bonham's Lab)

June 23, 2005

Helene Vacher (James Trimmer's Lab)

June 30, 2005

Fiona Mbai (Anne Knowlton's Lab)

July 7, 2005

Sheryl Krig (Peggy Farnham's Lab)

July 14, 2005

Evgenia Kalashnikova (Elva Diaz's Lab)

July 21, 2005

Min Pyo (Michael Wright's Lab) and Hong (Angela Gelli's Lab)

July 28, 2005

Daniel Homerick (Heike Wulff's Lab)

August 4, 2005

Kang-Sik Park (James Trimmer's Lab)

August 11, 2005

Drin Chow (Ann Bonham's Lab)

August 18, 2005

Mark Bieda (Anne Farnham's Lab)

August 25, 2005

Min Liu (Angela Gelli's Lab)

September 1, 2005

Milena Menegola (James Trimmer's Lab)

September 8, 2005

Tatz Ishmaru (Elva Diaz's Lab)