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2009 Fall Seminar Schedule

   

 

Thursday, November 19, 2009

12:00 PM - 1:00 PM

“Angiotensin converting enzyme 2 and central blood pressure regulation ”

Yumei Feng, MD, PhD
Postdoctoral Fellow
Department of Pharmacology &
Experimental Therapeutics
LSUHSC

Physiology Conference Room (Rm 7267)
7th Floor Medical Education Building

   

Cosponsored by Department of Physiology and the Comprehensive Alcohol Research Center

Thursday, November 12, 2009

 

12:00 PM - 1:00 PM

“Effects of Binge Alcohol Exposure on Bone Fracture Repair-Associated Activation of Canonical Wnt Signaling ”

 

John J. Callaci, Ph.D.
Assistant Professor
Department of Orthopaedic Surgery
Loyola University Stritch School of Medicine

Seminar room 5
3rd Floor Medical Education Building

   

 

Wednesday, November 11, 2009

 

11:00 AM - 12:00 PM

“Effects of spinal cord injury on spinal circuits controlling autonomic function ”

 

Ida Jonassen Llewellyn-Smith, Ph.D
Principal Research Fellow National Health and Medical Research Council
and Associate Professor in Medicine
Department of Medicine
School of Medicine
Flinders University
Bedford Park
South Australia, Australia

Seminar room 10
3rd Floor Medical Education Building

   

 

Thursday, November 5, 2009

 

12:00 PM - 1:00 PM

“Toll-like receptor engagement on T lymphocytes: A novel mechanism of costimulation”

 

Eduardo Davila, PhD
Assistant Professor
Department of Pediatrics, Microbiology,
Immunology & Parasitology
LSUHSC
New Orleans, LA

Physiology Conference Room (Rm 7267)
7th Floor Medical Education Building

   

 

Thursday, October 29, 2009

12:00 PM - 1:00 PM

“Human Papillomavirus-16 E7 Protein and its Interacting Host Proteins ”

KyungWon Huh, PhD
Assistant Professor
Department of Biochemistry
and Molecular Biology
LSUHSC
New Orleans, LA

Physiology Conference Room (Rm 7267)
7th Floor Medical Education Building

   

 

Thursday, October 22, 2009

 

12:00 PM - 1:00 PM

“Biomedical Consequences of Alcohol Consumption on Progression of SIV Disease to AIDS”

 

Gregory J. Bagby, PhD
Kai and Earl Rozas Professor of Physiology,
Medicine, and Physical Therapy
LSUHSC
New Orleans, LA

Physiology Conference Room (Rm 7267)
7th Floor Medical Education Building

   

7Th Annual Spitzer Lecture

Thursday, October 15, 2009

 

12:30 PM - 1:30 PM

Sex Steroids and Receptor Agonists/Antagonists: The Good, the Bad, and the Ugly for Cardiovascular and Immunological Function Following Trauma-Hemorrhage"

 

Irshad Chaudry , PhD
Professor, Departments of Surgery,
Microbiology, Physiology and Biophysics
Vice Chairman, Department of Surgery
Director, Center for Surgical Research
University of Alabama - Birmingham



Seminar room 10
>Medical Education Building

   

 

Thursday, October 8, 2009

 

12:00 PM - 1:00 PM

A Novel Fusion Protein of Parathyroid Hormone and a Collagen Binding Domain for the Treatment of Osteoporosis and Chemotherapy-Induced Alopecia ”

Robert C. Gensure, MD, PhD
Chief of Pediatric Endocrinology
Ochsner Medical Center
New Orleans, LA



Physiology Conference Room (Rm 7267)
7th Floor Medical Education Building

   

 

Thursday, October 1, 2009

 

12:00 PM - 1:00 PM

Inflammation in Obesity: A Link Between Hypoxia and Angiogenesis ”

Jianping Ye, MD
Professor
Molecular Biology
Pennington Biomedical Research Center-LSU



Physiology Conference Room (Rm 7267)
7th Floor Medical Education Building

   

 

Tuesday, September 29, 2009

Special Time and Date!

11:30 AM

Glucose sensing in Autonomic Neural Circuits ”

Kirsteen Browning , PhD
Assistant Professor
Neuroscience Dept.
Pennington Biomedical Research Center-LSU



Physiology Conference Room (Rm 7267)
7th Floor Medical Education Building

   

 

Monday, September 28, 2009

Special Time and Date!

2:00 PM

Brainstem circuits controlling gastrointestinal motility”

Renato Alberto Travagli, Ph.D.
Professor
Neuroscience Dept.
Pennington Biomedical Research Center-LSU


Physiology Conference Room (Rm 7267)
7th Floor Medical Education Building

   

 

Thursday, September 17, 2009

 

12:00 PM

Animal models of stress and affective disorders”

Allan V Kalueff, PhD
Assistant Professor
Department of Pharmacology
Tulane University Health Sciences Center


Physiology Conference Room (Rm 7267)
7th Floor Medical Education Building

 

Thursday, September 10, 2009

 

12:00 PM

Endocrine Tumor Disorders:  Multiple Endocrine Neoplasia, Type I and Uterine Leiomyoma”

Judy S. Crabtree, PhD
Assistant Professor
Department of Genetics
LSUHSC


Physiology Conference Room (Rm 7267)
7th Floor Medical Education Building

   
   
2009 Spring Seminar Schedule
   

 

Thursday, May 14, 2009

 

12:15 PM

Estrogenic Cardioprotection in a Rat Model of Chronic Volume Overload ”

Jason D. Gardner, Ph.D.
Assistant Professor
Department of Physiology
LSUHSC


Physiology Conference Room (Rm 7267)
7th Floor Medical Education Building

   

 

Thursday, April 16, 2009

 

12:15 PM

Role of Oxidative/ Nitrosative Stress and Poly(ADP)-Ribose Polymerase in Cardiomyopathy and Heart Failure ”

Pal Pacher, MD, PhD, FAPS, FAHA
Section Chief, Oxidative Stress and Tissue Injury
Laboratory of Physiological Studies
NIAAA/ NIH


Physiology Conference Room (Rm 7267)
7th Floor Medical Education Building

   

 

Dissertation Defense

 

Thursday, April 9, 2009

12:15 PM

Acute Alcohol Intoxication Inhibits the Lineage- c-Kit+ Sca-1+ Cell Response to Pneumococcal Pneumonia ”

Caroline E. Raasch
Doctoral Candidate
Department of Physiology
LSUHSC

Seminar Room 8 (Rm 3220)
3rd Floor Medical Education Building

   

Faculty Recurit

Tuesday, April 7, 2009

11:00 AM

Molecular mechanisms for monocyte recruitment to atherosclerotic arteries in mice”

Yuging Huo,MD, PhD
Assistant Professor
Vascular Biology Center & Cardiovascular Division
University of Minnesota, Minneapolis, MN

Physiology Conference Room (Rm 7267)
7th Floor Medical Education Building

   

 

Thursday, April 2, 2009

 

12:15 PM

Induction of nitric oxide synthase (iNOS) by IFN-gamma decreases arginase activity and tumor cell growth in murine renal cell carcinoma ”

Arnold H. Zea, PhD
Assistant Professor
Department of Microbiology Stanley S. Scott Cancer Center
LSUHSC

Physiology Conference Room (Rm 7267)
7th Floor Medical Education Building

   

Faculty Recurit

Wednesday, April1, 2009

1:00 PM

Effects of increased content of fibrinogen on microcirculation”

David Lominadze, PhD
Assistant Professor
Department of Physiology and Biophysics
School of Medicine
University of Louisville

Physiology Conference Room (Rm 7267)
7th Floor Medical Education Building

   

 

Thursday, March 26, 2009

 

12:15 PM

Post-training dephosphorylation of eEF-2 promotes protein synthesis for memory consolidation ”

Ya-Ping Tang, MD, PhD
Associate Professor
Department of Cell Biology & Anatomy
LSUHSC

Physiology Conference Room (Rm 7267)
7th Floor Medical Education Building

   

Faculty Recurit

Wednesday, March 4, 2009

11:30 AM

Neutrophil Accumulation in Bacterial Pneumonia”

Samithamby Jeyaseelan (JEY), DVM, PhD
Assistant Professor
Department of Pathobiolgical Sciences
School of Veterinary Medicine
Louisiana State University

Physiology Conference Room (Rm 7267)
7th Floor Medical Education Building

   

 

Thursday, February 26, 2009

 

12:15 PM

Hijacking of the Ubiquitin-Proteasome Pathway in Cancer and Ataxia Telangiectasia: Role of ISG15 ”

Shyamal D. Desai, PhD
Assistant Professor
Department of Biochemistry & Molecular Biology
LSUHSC

Physiology Conference Room (Rm 7267)
7th Floor Medical Education Building

   

 

Thursday, February 12, 2009

12:15 PM

Human Adipose-derived Stem Cells in the 4th Dimension ”

Jeffrey Gimble, M.D., Ph.D
Professor
Pennington Biomedical Research Center

Physiology Conference Room (Rm 7267)
7th Floor Medical Education Building

   

 

Thursday, February 5, 2009

12:15 PM

Biological Subtypes in Developmental Stuttering”

Anne Leigh Foundas, MD
Professor and Vice-Chair of Clinical Research
Department of Neurology
LSUHSC

Physiology Conference Room (Rm 7267)
7th Floor Medical Education Building

   

 

Thursday, January 29, 2009

12:15 PM

Restoring Bladder Function Through Tissue Engineering”

Christopher Chermansky, PhD
Assistant Professor
Department of Urology
LSUHSC

Physiology Conference Room (Rm 7267)
7th Floor Medical Education Building

   

 

Thursday, January 15, 2009

12:15 PM

Alcohol Alters the Gene Expression Profile of Human Airway Epithelia ”

Guoshun Wang, D.V.M., Ph.D.
Associate Professor
Department of Medicine & Department of Genetics
LSUHSC

Physiology Conference Room (Rm 7267)
7th Floor Medical Education Building

   

New Date! Now on Thursday

Thursday, January 8, 2009

12:15 PM

The Role of Bicaudal-C in Polycystic Kidney Disease ”

Oliver Wessely , PhD
Assistant Professor
Department of Cell Biology and Anatomy & Department of Genetics
LSUHSC

Physiology Conference Room (Rm 7267)
7th Floor Medical Education Building

   
2008 Seminar Schedule
   
Faculty Candidate

Special Time! Special Location!

Tuesday, December 16, 2008

4:00 PM

Novel mechanisms of chronic diabetic complications. ”

Irina Obrosova , PhD
Associate Professor
Pennington Biomedical Research Center
Louisiana State University
Baton Rouge, Louisiana



Pharmacology Conference room (5252)
5th Floor Medical Education Building

   
Special Date!

Thursday, December 11, 2008

12:00 PM

Vascular Remodeling of Mesenteric Resistance Arteries in diabetic (db/db) mice ”

Flavia Souza
Post Doctoral Fellow Candidate
LSUHSC

Physiology Conference Room (Rm 7267)
7th Floor Medical Education Building

   
Tuesday, December 9, 2008

12:00 PM

Remodeling of endothelial cells and their barrier function in response to sheer stress ”

Jerome W. Breslin, PhD
Assistant Professor
Department of Physiology
LSUHSC

Physiology Conference Room (Rm 7267)
7th Floor Medical Education Building

   
Tuesday, November 18, 2008

12:00 PM

Transmission of Fluid – Forces to the Actin – Cytoskeleton of Endothelial Cells”

Yuefeng Han, PhD
Assistant Professor
Biomedical Engineering Department
Tulane University

Physiology Conference Room (Rm 7267)
7th Floor Medical Education Building

   
Thursday, November 13, 2008

12:00 PM

Cannabinoid-cholinergic interactions: effects on cholinergic toxicity. ”

Anuradha Nallapaneni, DVM, PhD
Post-Doctoral Candidate


Physiology Conference Room (Rm 7267)
7th Floor Medical Education Building

   
Tuesday, November 11, 2008

12:00 PM

Breast Cancer Therapy: The Culprit as a Target ”

Allal Ouhtit, PhD, MPh
Assistant Professor
Department of Pathology
Stanley S. Scott Cancer Center
LSUHSC


Physiology Conference Room (Rm 7267)
7th Floor Medical Education Building

   
Tuesday, October 28, 2008

12:00 PM

Can we watch a nanomotor run? Biochemical and biophysical tales of the human mitotic kinesin Eg5 ”

Sunyoung Kim, PhD.
Assistant Professor
Department of Biochemistry and Molecular Biology
LSUHSC


Physiology Conference Room (Rm 7267)
7th Floor Medical Education Building

   
Tuesday, October 21, 2008

12:00 PM

Pulmonary Atelectrauma Mechanisms of Damage and Protection ”

Donald P. Gaver, Ph.D.
Professor and Department Chair
Biomedical Engineering
Tulane University


Physiology Conference Room (Rm 7267)
7th Floor Medical Education Building

   
Tuesday, October 6, 2008

12:00 PM

Metabolic Syndrome, Obesity and the Kidney ”

Efrain Reisin, MD, FACP, FASN
Professor of Medicine
Chief, Section of Nephrology & Hypertension
LSUHSC


Physiology Conference Room (Rm 7267)
7th Floor Medical Education Building

   

Dissertation Defense!

Tuesday, September 30, 2008

12:00 PM

Renin-Angiotensin System in Type II Diabetic Renal Disease ”

Sungmi Park, MS
Graduate Student
Department of Physiology
LSUHSC


Physiology Conference Room (Rm 7267)
7th Floor Medical Education Building

   
New Date and Time!

Tuesday, September 23, 2008

12:00 PM

Toll-Like Receptor Signaling: An Important Regulator of Lung Inflammation and Host Defense”

Samithamby Jeyaseelan, DVM, PhD
Assistant Professor
LSU School of Veterinary Medicine

Physiology Conference Room (Rm 7267)
7th Floor Medical Education Building

   
New Date and Time!

Tuesday, September 16, 2008

12:00 PM

Current Health Care Practices in Pediatric Obesity: Exercise and Sedentary Behaviors”

Melinda S. Sothern, PhD, CEP
Professor and Director
Section of Health Promotion Behavioral and Community Health Sciences Dept.
School of Public Health
LSUHSC

Physiology Conference Room (Rm 7267)
7th Floor Medical Education Building

   

Monday, May 19, 2008

11:30 AM

Collecting Duct Renin: A major player in Angiotensin II-dependent Hypertension. ”

Minolfa Prieto-Carrasquero, MD, PhD
Assistant Professor
Department of Physiology
Tulane University Health Sciences Center


Physiology Conference Room (Rm 7267)
7th Floor Medical Education Building

   

Monday, May 12, 2008

11:30 AM

Identification of Novel Cellular Dynamics During Angiogenesis and Lymphangiogenesis ”

Walter L. Murfee III, PhD
Assistant Professor
Department of Biomedical Engineering
Tulane University


Physiology Conference Room (Rm 7267)
7th Floor Medical Education Building

   

Thursday, May 8, 2008

2:00 PM

Physiology Chair Candidate

Homocysteine to Hydrogen Sulfide (H2S) and Translational Multidisciplinary Approach ”

Suresh Tyagi, Ph.D.
Professor and Vice Chair for Research
Professorand Vice Chair for Research
Department of Physiology & Biophysics
University of Louisville


Seminar Room 8
3rd Floor Medical Education Building

   

Tuesday, May 6, 2008

11:00 AM

Mechanisms of acute and chronic alcoholic pancreatitis”

Virginia H. Huxley, PhD
JO Davis Professor of Cardiovascular Research
Director Dept. Of Medical Pharmacology & Physiology
The National Center for Gender Physiology Senior Investigator
Dalton Cardiovascular Research Center

Pharmacology Conference Room (Rm 5252)
5th Floor Medical Education Building

   

Monday, May 5, 2008

11:30 AM

Mechanisms of acute and chronic alcoholic pancreatitis”

Thomas R. Jerrells, PhD
Professor
Department of Pathology and Microbiology
University of Nebraska Medical Center


Physiology Conference Room (Rm 7267)
7th Floor Medical Education Building

   

Monday, April 28, 2008

11:30 AM

Central G-alpha subunit protein mediated control of cardiovascular function, urine output and vasopressin (AVP) secretion ”

Richard Wainford, PhD
Fellow Department of Pharmacology
LSUHSC

Physiology Conference Room (Rm 7267)
7th Floor Medical Education Building

   

Monday, March 24, 2008

11:30 AM

Metabolic Syndrome, Obesity and the Kidney ”

Efrain Reisin, MD, FACP, FASN
Victor Chaltiel Professor of Medicine
Chief, Section of Nephrology and Hypertension
LSUHSC

Physiology Conference Room (Rm 7267)
7th Floor Medical Education Building

   

Monday, March 24, 2008

11:30 AM

Renal Microvascular Responses Induced By ACE-Independent Generation Of Angiotensin II In Type II Diabetes ”

Lisa M. Harrison-Bernard, PhD
Associate Professor
Department of Physiology
LSUHSC

Physiology Conference Room (Rm 7267)
7th Floor Medical Education Building

   

Monday, March 10, 2008

11:30 AM

Roles of Bin1 in growth arrest and apoptosis in response to oncogenic and genotoxic stresses”

Daitoku Sakamuro, PhD
Assistant Professor of Cancer Biology
Department of Pathology
Stanley S. Scott Cancer Center
LSUHSC

Physiology Conference Room (Rm 7267)
7th Floor Medical Education Building

   

Monday, March 3, 2008

11:30 AM

Animal Models Of Cerebral Ischemia and Stroke Therapy Research”

Ludmila S Belayev, MD
Research Associate Professor
Neurosurgery and Neuroscience
LSUHSC

Physiology Conference Room (Rm 7267)
7th Floor Medical Education Building

   

Monday, February 25, 2008

11:30 AM

Glucose-regulated gene expression”

Kim Pedersen, PhD.
Assistant Professor
Department of Biochemistry
LSUHSC

Physiology Conference Room (Rm 7267)
7th Floor Medical Education Building

   

Monday, February 11, 2008

11:30 AM

Crystal structure of the IQGAP1 GAP-related domain”

David Worthylake, PhD.
Assistant Professor
Department of Biochemistry
LSUHSC

Physiology Conference Room (Rm 7267)
7th Floor Medical Education Building

   

Monday, February 04, 2008

Mardi Gras Holiday        No Seminar

   

The Sixth Annual
Dr. John Spitzer
Distinguished Lecture

Cosponsored by
Tulane Physiology Department

Monday, January 28, 2008

12:00 NOON

Your Science and Your Society! ”

Martin Frank, Ph.D.
Executive Director
American Physiological Society


Lecture Room A
2nd Floor
Medical Education Building
LSUHSC

   

Monday, January 14, 2008

11:30 AM

Connexins and intercellular communication in renal preglomerular vessels ”

Charlotte Mehlin Sorenson, PhD.
Assistant Professor
Institute of Biomedical Sciences
University of Copenhagen, DENMARK

Physiology Conference Room (Rm 7267)
7th Floor Medical Education Building

   
 

 


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