
May 10, 2012
Peng Shi, Ph.D.
Research Assistant Professor
University of Florida
Gainesville, Florida
Microglial-neuronal interactions in the brain
**MEB S10
12:45 pm
May 14, 2012
Gerald F. DiBona, M.D.
University of Iowa Carver College of Medicine and
Veterans Administration Medical Center
Iowa City, Iowa
**MEB S4
Translational Medicine – The Antihypertensive Effect of Renal Denervation
May 7, 2012
Robin L. Davisson, Ph.D.
Professor
Biomedical Sciences, College of Veterinary Medicine
and Cell and Developmental Biology
Weill Cornell Medical College
ER Stress, Oxidant Stress and Hypertension: It’s all in your Head
**MEB S4
3:00 pm
May 1, 2012
David Bloom
Department of Molecular Genetics and Microbiology
University of Florida College of Medicine
Regulation of Herpes Simplex Virus Latency by non-coding RNAs and the potential for ribotherapies
**MEB S4
April 10, 2012
Sarah Mahne
Varner’s lab
Dissertation Defense
** 10:00 a.m.
Inhalation of Environmentally Persistent Free Radicals Adversely Affects Cardiac Function.
March 27, 2012
Mary W. Hulin
Winsauer’s lab
Dissertation Defense
A behavioral analysis of the international between dehydroepiandrosterone and ethanol
March 20, 2012
Kelly Jean Sherman
Nichols’ lab
* postponed *
March 13, 2012
Monica Ertel
Neumann’s lab
The role of CTCF binding domains in latency and reactivation of Herpes Simplex Virus-1
March 6, 2012
Ji Won Park
Backes’ lab
Interactions among human P450s and organization of P450 system in microdomains of the endoplasmic reticulum
February 28, 2012
Dr. Debasis Mondal
Department of Pharmacology
Tulane University, New Orleans
Tissue resident mesenchymal stem cells (MSCs): a novel HIV-1 reservoir and sanctuary site.
**MEB S4
February 14, 2012
Adam Perricone
Graduate Student, Research
Dr. Richard Vander Heide’s Laboratory
February 7, 2012
Allan Kalueff, Ph.D.
Department of Pharmacology
Tulane University TBA
**MEB S4
January 31, 2012
Greg Lee
Cormier’s lab
Effects of Alcohol on aspiration pneumonitis induced acute respiratory distress syndrome.
January 24, 2012
Peter Weed
Winsauer’s lab
The Behavioral Effects of Mephedrone on Rats
December 13, 2011
Dr. Srinivas Sriramula
Postdoctoral Scientist
Lazartigues’ Lab
ACE2 in the central regulation of blood pressure: Signaling mechanisms.
December 6, 2011
Ms. Sarah Mahne
Graduate student
Varner’s Lab
Environmentally Persistent Free Radicals Decrease Cardiac Function in the Healthy Rat.
November 29, 2011
Ms. Melissa Scroggin
Graduate student
Lazartigues’ Lab
ACE2 gene regulation in hypertension.
Ms. Ji Won Park
Graduate student
Backes' Lab
Interactions among human cytochrome P450s
November 21, 2011
Dr. Lilian Yuan
Assistant Professor, Department of Neuroscience
University of Minnesota
Minneapolis, MN
MEB S4 (3209)
**Special time: 3 pm
Memory, emotion, and the limbic system.
November 15, 2011
Mr. David Martin
Graduate student
Nichols’ Lab
Prolonged psychedelic pretreatement precipitates persistent psychotic phenomena
November 8, 2011
Mr. Jordy Saravia
Graduate student
Cormier’s Lab
Effects of early life exposure to radical-containing particulate matter.
November 7, 2011
Gregory T. Collins, Ph.D.
Harvard Medical School
McLean Hospital
Department of Psychiatry
Belmont, MA
Understanding Dopamine D3 and D2 Receptor-Mediated Behavioral Effects: Implications for Drug Development, Drug Abuse, and Behavioral Addictions
November 2, 2011
Manish Rana, M.S.
Ph.D. Candidate
Dr. Becky Worthylake’s Laboratory
A novel mechanism of attenuation of ROCK signaling by Coronin1B
** MEB 5252 1:00 p.m
November 1, 2011
Youssef Errami
Graduate student
Boulares’ Lab
Apoptotic DNA Fragmentation In Intestinal Tissue Homeostasis And Carcinogenesis
** MEB Room 5252 1:00 p.m.
October 25, 2011
Dr. Jaime Becnel
Postdoctoral Fellow
Nichols’ Lab
Fly Whispering:: Controlling Fly Behavior Through Designer Receptors
October 17, 2011
Sarah Lindsey, Ph.D.
Instructor, Surgical Sciences-Hypertension
Hypertension and Vascular Research Center
Wake Forest School of Medicine
Winston-Salem, N.C.
MEB S4 (3209)
Role of the Novel Estrogen Receptor GPR30 in a Model of Angiotensin II-Dependent Hypertension
October 3, 2011
Dr. Imran Mungrue
UCLA, Division of Cardiology
Translating Systems Biology Insights into Clinical Therapy: Determining the roles of CHAC1 in Metabolic Disease, and Abcc6 in Cardiac Ischemia-Reperfusion.
Seminar Room 10.
October 11, 2011
Dr. Huijing Xia
Research Instructor
ACE2 activity in hypertension.
September 26, 2011
Dr. De-Pei Li
University of Texas, MD Anderson Cancer Center
Hypothalamic Neuronal Plasticity in Hypertension.
Seminar Room S5
September 20, 2011
Dr. David W. Busija
Chair of the Dept of Pharmacology
Tulane University
Mitochondrial influences on the cerebral vasculature.
August 29, 2011
Dr. Rory McQuiston
Virginia Commonwealth University, Richmond, VA.
Basal forebrain control of hippocampal interneuron function.
Seminar Room 10
September 6, 2011
Dr. Shenfeng Qiu
Keck School of Medicine
University of Southern California
Los Angeles, CA.
The autism risk gene Met controls neural development and circuit formation.
Seminar Room 10
June 7, 2011
Kyle Daigle
Graduate student
(Varner’s Lab)
30 min presentation. Title: TBA
May 31, 2011
Dr. Kim Pedersen
Postdoctoral Scientist
(Lazartigues’ Lab)
Title: ACE2 gene regulation.
May 26, 2011
Dr. Bryan Roth
University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill
8th Annual Graduate Student Colloquium
Remote Control of Neuronal Signaling
**MEB S5 (3210)
May 3, 2011
Mark Trudell
Chancellor’s Research Professor
Department of Chemistry
University of New Orleans
Title: “Research Opportunities and Capabilities within the UNO Chemistry Department”
**MEB S5 (3210)
May 10, 2011
Dr. Matthew Whim
Associate Professor
Department of Cell Biology and Anatomy
LSUHSC
Neuropeptide Y and the response to stress
April 19, 2011
Pingli Wang
Visiting Fellow
(Cormier’s Lab)
“Radical Containing Particles Activate DCs and Enhance Th17Inflammation in A Mouse Model of Asthma“
April 14, 2011
Russell Amato
Graduate student
(Winsauer's lab)
Dissertation Defense
“Characterization of neurosteroids that modulate the GABAA receptor on complex behavior in rats.”
** Time 10:00 a.m.
MEB 5252
April 5, 2011
Manish Rana
Graduate student
(Worthylake’s lab)
Coronin1B a novel binding partner of ROCK2
March 29, 2011
Kelly Sherman
Graduate student
(Nichols’s Lab)
Drosophila as a Translational Model to Study
Psychiatric Disorders.
March 22, 2011
Dr. Laura Bohn
Associate Professor
Department of Molecular Therapeutics
Department of Neuroscience
The Scripps Research Institute.
Divergence of Serotonin 2A Receptor Function in Response to Endogenous Tryptamines – and other examples of functional selectivity in vivo
MEB S10
March 15, 2011
Dr. Steve Mifflin
Chairman and Professor
Integrative Physiology at the
University of North Texas Health Sciences Center
Reflex and neuronal adaptations to hypoxia
MEB S10
March 1, 2011
Lauren Brignac
Graduate student
(Backes’ Lab)
Dissertation Defense
(Change of time: 10:00 AM)
ER Lipid Microdomains Affect P450 Monooxygenase Function.
February 22, 2011
Dr. Erin Schuetz
Faculty Member
St. Jude Children's Research Hospital
Digging Deeper into the Drug Disposition Genome
Change of time: 11:00 AM
MEB S10 February 15, 2011
Youssef Errami
Graduate student
(Boulares’ Lab).
Poly(ADP-Ribose) Polymerase
Intestinal Tissuee Homeostasis, and Carcinogenesis
February 8, 2011
Dr. Yumei Feng
Assistant Professor of Physiology at Tulane University
(Pro)renin receptor and blood pressure regulation
February 1, 2011
Swapnil Kher
Graduate student
(Worthylake’s lab).
Regulation of Apical junctional assembly by p115 RhoGEF
Preliminary Examination
Change of Time: 1:00 PM
January 25, 2011
Dr. Michael Levitzky
Professor and Director of Basic Science Curriculum
Louisiana State University School of Medicine
Change of Time: 11:00 AM
Writing USMLE-Style Test Items
January 18, 2011
Kavaljit Chhabra,
Graduate student
(Lazartigues’ Lab)
Change of time: 1:00 PM
The renin-angiotensin system and type 2 diabetes:
evidence for a role of ACE2 in glycemic control
Preliminary Examination
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December 7
Associate Professor Functional Dissection and Regulation of EBNA1 – An Essential EBV Transactivator
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November 30
Sarah Mahne
The Cardiovascular Effects of Environmentally
Persistent Free Radicals.

November 16
Bruce A. Bunnell, PhD
Director, Center for Gene Therapy
Tulane University
http://www.som.tulane.edu/gene_therapy/pdf/bunnell.pdf
Mesenchymal stem cells from bone marrow and adipose tissue and therapeutic potential
November 9
James Woods, PhD
Professor of Pharmacology
Medical School, University of Michigan
Cocaine esterase for treatment of
cocaine toxicity and abuse
October 26
Joey Granger, Ph.D.
Billy S. Guyton Distinguished Professor
Professor of Physiology & Medicine Dean
School of Graduate Studies in the Health Sciences Director
Center for Excellence in Cardiovascular-Renal Research
University of Mississippi Medical Center
Pathophysiology of Hypertension in Response to Placental Ischemia: Implication for the Prevention and Treatment of Preeclampsia

November 2
Juan Saavedra, M.D.
Senior Investigator
NIH- National Institute of Mental Health
Angiotensin II AT1 receptor blockers ameliorate brain inflammation
** Location MEB Seminar Room 10 (3209)


October 19
Thomas W Gettys, Ph.D.
Professor of Nutrient Sensing & Adipocyte Signaling
Pennington Center of Biomedical Research Excellence
"The Role of Alternative Splicing in the Spatial and Temporal Integration of PGC-1α Function"
** Location: MEB Seminar Room 4 (3209)
October 12
Mary Worrel
Winsauer Lab
Preclinical Evaluation of DHEA as a Treatment for Alcoholism

October 5
Stuart Leonard
LSUHSC
Department of Pharmacology
The interactive effects of the cholinergic system and the gonadal hormones on learning and memory

September 21
David Martin
Nichols Lab
Ratsaphrenia, what a trip!
Modeling psychosis in rats using chronic LSD

September 28
Srinivasa Honnegowda
Cormier Lab
Can IL-4 Receptor Alpha Downregulation be used as a Therapy to Prevent RSV Induced Airway Dysfunction?
September 14
Oliver Wessely, Ph.D.
Associate Professor
LSUHSC
Depts. of Cell Biology & Anatomy and Genetics
MicroRNAs in Kidney Development and Disease