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: Dr. 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: Dr. 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: Dr. 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"