Date	Speaker	Title
August 26	Stephanie Robinson Ph.D. Student Pharmacology	The insulin-like growth factor system in cancer therapeutics.
September 2	Holiday
September 9	Donald Menick, Ph.D. Professor of Medicine Division of Cardiology Director, MCBP Program	New insights into the regulation of Na-Ca exchanger expression in heart disease.
September 16	Mark Slomiany Ph.D. Student Pharmacology	Regulation of VEGF secretion in human retinal pigment epithelial cells.
September 23	Jonas Almeida, Ph.D. Associate Professor Biometry and Epidemiology	Machine learning tools for web-based analysis of complex data.
The following seminar will be held in the Basic Science Auditorium, room 100:
September 30	Aravinda Chakravarti, Ph.D. Henry J. Knott Professor and Director McKusick-Nathans Institute of Genetic Medicine, Johns Hopkins University	Genomic variation in complex human diseases.
October 7	Jaya Vaidyanathan Ph.D. Student Pharmacology	Accumulation of the anticancer tea flavonoid epicatechin gallate (ECG) in intestinal epithelial cells: Role of multiple transporters.
October 14	Jeremy Seamans, Ph.D. Associate Professor Physiology and Neuroscience	Cellular mechanisms of cognitive functions mediated by prefrontal cortex.
October 21	Wanling Yang, Ph.D. Postdoctoral Fellow Pharmacology	In vivo characterization of an S196A mutation in the mu-opioid receptor using a knock-in animal model.
October 28	James Cook, Ph.D. Professor Physiology and Neuroscience	Molecular mechanisms of endotoxin tolerance.
November 4	Rennolds S. Ostrom, Ph.D. Assistant Project Pharmacologist Department of Pharmacology University of California, San Diego	Compartmentation of G protein-coupled receptor signaling: adenylyl cyclases as a paradigm.
The following seminar will be held at 12 noon in the Basic Science Auditorium, room 502:
Tuesday November 12	Bjoern C. Knollman, M.D., Ph.D. Assistant Professor Department of Medicine and Pharmacology Georgetown University Medical Center	Troponin T mutations and sudden cardiac death: new insights from transgenic mice.
November 18	Ina Urbatsch, Ph.D. Assistant Professor Biochemistry and Biophysics University of Rochester	Mechanism of multidrug resistance conferred by P-glycoprotein.
November 25	Kevin Schey, Ph.D. Associate Professor Pharmacology	Vertebrate and invertebrate proteomics: new approaches to study ocular biochemistry and innate immunity.
Tuesday December 3 at Noon	Prahlad T. Ram, Ph.D. Instructor Pharmacology and Biological Chemistry Mount Sinai School of Medicine	Biological consequences of signaling networks.
December 9	Lutz Birnbaumer, Ph.D. Scientific Director National Institute of Environmental Health Sciences	Emerging phenotypes of G protein knockout mice.

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