Chairman's Welcome Seminar Schedule Department News Graduate Programs Faculty and Their Research Research and Administrative Staff Courses Local Links UAMS Home Department Home Department of Physiology and Biophysics Seminar Series 2010-2011 Academic Year Thursday 3:00 pm Rayford Auditorium Biomedical Research Center II DATE SPEAKER TOPIC Sept. 1 Journal Club Orientation meeting   Sept 8 RICHARD C. KURTEN, Ph.D. Associate Professor Department of Physiology and Biophysics UAMS b-agonist tolerance and receptor trafficking in rat and human airways: What's wrong with this picture?   Sept 15 BRIAN STORRIE, Ph.D. Professor Department of Physiology & Biophysics UAMS Maintaining Cellular Organization:  Are Rab Proteins Master Regulators of Golgi Organization? Sept 22 Kuppan Gokulan, Ph.D. FDA Commissioner Fellow National Center for Toxicological Research (NCTR) Jefferson, AR Novel Approaches for Drug Discovery:  3-Dimensional Structure (LysA) and Fragment screening of Target Sept 29 Fusheng Tang, Ph.D. Associate Professor Department of Biology UALR Sterol transport to the vacuolar membrane extends the lifespan Oct 6 No Seminar   Oct 13 Barry Komm, Ph.D. Senior Director Medical Affairs Women’s Health Pfizer, Inc. Tissue Selective Estrogen Complexes Oct. 20 Richard Kennedy, Ph.D. Professor Dept. of Cell and Molecular Physiology & Molecular Pharmacology and Therapeutics Loyola University Med. Center Can Biomedical Sciences Graduate Education be Improved? Oct. 27 Vladimir Lupashin, Ph.D. Associate Professor Department of Physiology & Biophysics UAMS Conserved Oligomeric Golgi complex acts as a landmark for the intra-Golgi vesicular trafficking Nov 3 Parimal Chowdhury, Ph.D. Professor Department of Physiology and Biophysics UAMS Smoking and Role of Nicotine in Pancreatic Cancer: in-vivo and in-vitro studies Nov 10 Peter A. Crooks, Ph.D., D.Sc. Professor and Chairman Department of Pharmaceutical Sciences UAMS College of Pharmacy Discovery of Novel Agents for the Treatment of Psychostimulant Abuse Nov 17 Eugene Levin, Ph.D. Professor Torrey Pines Institute for Molecular Studies La Jolla, CA President of Motility, Inc. San Diego, CA Blocking Tumor Expansion  through Inhibition of Tumor/Endothelial Cell Migration   Dec 1 Grant J. Jensen, Ph.D. Professor of Biology California Institute of Technology Adjunct Associate Professor Microbiology, Immunology, and Molecular Genetics University of California, Los Angeles How Electron Cryotomography is Opening a New Window into Bacterial Ultrastructure   Feb 9 Haibo Zhao, M.D., Ph.D. Assistant Professor of Medicine Center for Osteoporosis and Bone Metabolic Diseases Division of Endocrinology and Metabolism Department of Internal Medicine, College of Medicine UAMS LIS1 Regulates Osteoclast Differentiation and Microtubule Organization   Questions about this page? Send us an email. All contents © 2000-2006. UAMS Online     Copyright Statement     Privacy Statement updated 09/25/09