Date	Speaker	Title
January 28	Lauren Ball, Ph.D. Student Pharmacology	The effects of posttranslational modifications on the water channel activity of human Aquaporin 0.
February 4	Ryan Carnegie, Ph.D. Postdoctoral Fellow Pharmacology	Eukaryotic antimicrobial peptides: Who's got them, how do they work, where do they come from, and why do we care?
February 11	Susan Cole, P.C. (Ph.D.) Professor of Pathology, Pharmacology & Toxicology, and Oncology Queen's University Kingston, Ontario	Role of MRP-related ABC proteins in xenobiotic transport and resistance.
February 25	Thomas Walle, Ph.D., Professor Pharmacology	Cooked-food mutagens and color carcinogenesis: preventive strategies with dietary flavonoids.
March 4	Caroline Harbeson, Ph.D. Student Pharmacology	The role of the insulin-like growth factor (IGF) binding proteins in IGF-mediated tumorgenicity.
March 11	Christopher Davies, Ph.D. Assistant Professor Biochemistry and Molecular Biology	Contradictions and surprises in the crystal structure of penicillin-binding protein 5 from E. coli.
March 18	Lotta Granholm, Ph.D. Professor Physiology and Neuroscience	Neuroprotective therapies for age-related neurodegeneration.
March 25	Mark Kaldas, Ph.D. Student Pharmacology	Structure-function studies of the thromboxane receptor (TP-alpha).
April 1	Rick Schnellman, Ph.D. Professor and Chair Pharmaceutical Sciences	Identification, characterization and activity of GABA and glycine receptors in renal proximal tubular cells.
April 8	Kristen French, Ph.D. Student Pharmacology	Characterization of glutamate release in the rat hippocampus in young vs. aged rats.
April 15	Jean Sebastien Saulnier-Blache, Ph.D. Scientific Investigator French National Institut of Health and Medical Research (INSERM)	Biological activities and metabolism of extracellular lysophosphatidic acid (LPA) in adipose tissue.
Student Colloquium This seminar will be held at 4:00 p.m. in the Institute of Psychiatry Auditorium.
Tuesday April 16	Lee E. Limbird, Ph.D. Professor of Pharmacology Associate Vice Chancellor for Research Vanderbilt University Medical Center	G protein couple receptors. Multiple mechanisms for achieving signaling specificity.
April 29	Alexander Whitley, Ph.D. Student Pharmacology	Transport and irreversible binding of the dietary anticancer polyphenol, Ellagic acid, in Caco-2 cells.
May 6	No Seminar
May 13	Kristie Lindsey, Ph.D. Student Pharmacology	Protein-protein interactions of lens Major Intrinsic Protein (Aquaporin O).
May 20	Severine Patat, Ph.D. Student Pharmacology	Shrimp proteome after viral infection.
June 3	David McMillan, Ph.D. Associate Professor Pharmacology	Drug-induced hemolytic anemia.

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