Physiology and Biophysics Events

Departmental Seminar Series

Time: Mondays at Noon

Location: Rosenstiel Medical Sciences Building, Room 5122 (Physiology/Biophysics Conference Room)

Description: Department of Physiology and Biophysics faculty, students and postdocs and invited guest speakers present their latest research findings in this weekly seminar series.

Contact: Dr. Nirupa Chaudhari, 305-243-3187

Fall 2006 - Spring 2007

Month Date Presenter Topic
September 18 Jeff Lipitz
Graduate Student, Physiology and Biophysics
The roles of endocannabinoid signaling in the response to neve cord damage.
  25 Emmanuel Ngu, Ph.D.
Postdoctoral Associate, Physiology and Biophysics
Microglia accumulation enhances axon sprouting at lesions in leech CNS.
October 2 ----- -----
  9 Stephen Roper, Ph.D.
Professor, Physiology and Biophysics
Sour taste mechanisms: a critical analysis.
  16 Society for Neuroscience Annual Meeting
Atlanta, October 14-18
  23

Karl Magleby, Ph.D.
Professor, Physiology and Biophysics

Why is patch clamp recording possible?
  30

Zhou Zhang, Ph.D.
Postdoctoral Associate, Physiology and Biophysics

The Sodium-coupled Neutral Amino Acid Transporter, SNAT2, mediates an anion leak conductance.
November 6

Gregory Bigford
Graduate Student, Neuroscience Program

Alterations in Lipid Raft Protein Complexes following Traumatic Brain Injury.

  13 ----- -----
  20

Christopher Shelley, Ph.D. Postdoctoral Associate, Physiology and Biophysics

Feelings of euphoria and calcium activated potassium channels.
  27 Alex Peyser
Graduate Student, Neuroscience Program
CANCELLED
December 4

Zhen Tao, Ph.D.
Postdoctoral Associate, Physiology and Biophysics

Two Na+ ions bind to the glutamate-free form of Glutamate Transporter, EAAC1.
  11

Xiaohui Niu, Ph.D.
Research Assistant
Professor, Physiology and Biophysics

Inter- and intra-subunit cooperative activation of BK channels by calcium and voltage
  18

Christof Grewer, Ph.D.
Assistant Professor, Physiology and Biophysics

Mechanism of Glutamate Release from Cells by Reverse Transport

January 15 Martin Luther King Day  
  22 Alex Peyser
Graduate Student, Neuroscience Program

The Kv Voltage Sensor: Models of Structure and Function.

  29 ---- ----
February 5

John Barrett, Ph.D.
Professor, Physiology and Biophysics

Stress induced mitochondrial damage on paths to perdition.
  12 ---- ----
  19

William Silverman, Ph.D.
Postdoctoral Fellow, Physiology and Biophysics

A Dirty Job: Analysis of a bacterial cyclic-nucleotide modulated ion channel from Mesorhizobium loti .
  26

Seth M. Tomchik, Ph.D.
Postdoctoral Fellow, Physiology and Biophysics

Peripheral gustatory processing: functional differences between taste cell types.
March 5

Biophysical Society Meeting
Baltimore, MD

  12

Sanjiv Bhatia, M.D.
Asst Prof, Neurological Surgery, UMMSM

Wei-Chiang Lin, Ph.D.
Asst Prof, Biomed Engineering, FIU

In vivo characterization of epileptogenic lesions using optical spectroscopy.

  19

Junjie Wang
Graduate Student, Physiology and Biophysics

Modulation of Pannexin Currents by Mimetic Peptides.

  26

Alice Holohean
Graduate Student, Physiology and Biophysics

Serotonergic Modulation of Motoneuron Excitability.
April 2

Midhat Abdulreda
Graduate Student, Physiology and Biophysics

Atomic Force microsope studies on Membrane Fusion.
  9

Felix Rico
Visiting Graduate Student, Physiology and Biophysics & University of Barcelona

Energy landscape roughness of molecular interactions.
  16

Luminita Luca
Graduate Student, Neuroscience Program

An in vitro model for combined ischemia and hyperthermia induces apoptotic changes in neural progenitor cells

  23

Yuhui Wen
Graduate Student, Physiology and Biophysics

CANCELLED
  30

Xianchong Zhou
Graduate Student, Physiology and Biophysics

CANCELLED
May 7

Calvin Chu
Graduate Student, Physiology and Biophysics

How do monocytes find their way to the final site of extravasation?

 

 

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