MUSC Pharmacology Seminar Schedule

The Department of Pharmaceutical and Biomedial Sciences joins the Department of Pharmacology to present the following seminars, held Tuesdays at 4:00 PM in QF-302B unless otherwise noted.

DATE	SPEAKER	TITLE
August 26	Alvin Terry, Jr., Ph.D. Professor Pharmacology and Toxicology Medical College of Georgia	Cognitive dysfunction in neuropsychiatric disorders: cholinergic-based therapeutic strategies.
September 2	Caryn Outten, Ph.D. Assistant Professor Chemistry and Biochemistry University of South Carolina	Measuring redox status in the mitochondrial matrix and intermembrane space.
September 9	Melissa Moss, Ph.D. Assistant Professor Chemical Engineering University of South Carolina	Soluble Amyloid-3 aggregation intermediates in Alzheimer’s disease.
September 30	Baerbel Rohrer, Ph.D. Associate Professor Neurosciences MUSC	Complement activation in models of retinal degeneration.
October 7	David Speicher, Ph.D. Professor and Program Co-Leader Molecular and Cellular Oncogenesis Program The Wistar Institute	Discovery of novel cancer biomarkers requires deep mining of the plasma proteome using higher dimensional strategies.
October 14 Canceled	Johnan Kaleeba, Ph.D. Assistant Professor Microbiology and Immunology Uniformed Services University of the Health Sciences	Virus interactions with the host anti-oxidant machine: new pathogenetic themes and opportunities for vaccine design.
October 21	Rick Schnellmann, Ph.D. Professor and Chair Pharmaceutical and Biomedical Sciences MUSC	Mitochondrial biogenesis as a drug target: implications in acute organ failure.
November 4	Waldemar Debinski, M.D., Ph.D. Professor of Neurosurgery Director, Brain Tumor Center of Excellence Wake Forest University	Combinatorial targeting of brain tumors.
November 11	Jill Pelling, Ph.D. Calandra Professor of Pathology and Toxicology Feinberg School of Medicine Northwestern University	Cyclooxygenase-2 (COX-2): molecular target for chemoprevention of UV-induced skin cancer.
November 18	Rick Neubig, M.D., Ph.D. Professor of Pharmacology Associate Professor of Internal Medicine Biophysics Research Division - Associated Faculty Medicinal Chemistry IDP Center for Chemical Genomics - Associate Director	Physiological functions of RGS proteins and their potential as drug targets.
November 25	Sondra Berger, Ph.D. Associate Professor Pharmaceutical and Biomedical Sciences South Carolina College of Pharmacy	The nucleotide stress response pathway: a tool for new drug discovery.
December 9	Valerian Kagan, Ph.D. Professor and Vice Chair Environmental and Occupational Health University of Pittsburgh	Diversity, asymmetry, redox activation and signaling by cardiolipins in apoptosis.

Seminars of Old: spring 2008 | fall 2007 | spring 2007 | fall 2006 | spring 2006 | fall 2005 | spring 2005 | fall 2004 | spring 2004 | fall 2003 | spring 2003 | fall 2002 | spring 2002 | fall 2001 | spring 2001 | fall 2000 | spring 2000 | fall 1999 | spring 1999 | fall 1998 | spring 1998 | fall 1997 | spring 1997

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