UAB Department of Physiology and Biophysics

2006-2007 Seminar Series - Journal Club

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A Journal Club will precede each seminar; however, there will be additional journal clubs on weeks when a seminar is not scheduled in order to accommodate the requirements of PHY 796.  If you have questions about the journal clubs, please contact Dr. Qin Wang.
5 Sep
Tuesday

12 noon
MCLM 901

Monday is a holiday (Labor Day)

 

Speaker:  Dr. Alan Randich

Student Presenter: David Kosek

Faculty Facilitator: Drs. Lori McMahon and Qin Wang

Paper: "Neonatal Urinary Bladder Inflammation Produces Adult Bladder Hypersensitivity"

 

11 Sep
Monday

12 noon
MCLM 901

 

Speaker - No speaker this week

Student Presenter: Yawar Qadri

Faculty Facilitator: Dr. Qin Wang

Paper: "Independent motile microplast formation correlates with glioma cell invasiveness"

 

 

18 Sep
Monday

12 noon
MCLM 901

 

Speaker:  Dr. Grace Pavlath

Student Presenter: David Mayhew

Faculty Facilitator: Dr. Marcas Bamman

Paper:  "Mannose receptor regulates myoblast motility"

 

25 Sep
Monday

12 noon
MCLM 901

 

Postdoc Presenter: Youwen Zhang, M.D., Ph.D., Dr. Qin Wang's Lab

Paper: Knockin mice expressing fluorescent d –opioid receptors uncover G protein-coupled receptor dynamics in vivo”

 

2 Oct
Monday

12 noon
MCLM 901

Speaker:  No speaker this week

Student Presenter:  Kristin Hennessy

Faculty Facilitator:  Jack Lancaster, Jr., Ph.D.

Paper: Phosphophoryn Regulates the Gene Expression and Differentiation of NIH3T3, MC3T3-E1, and Human Mesenchymal Stem Cells via the Integrin/MAPK Signaling Pathway

 

9 Oct
Monday

12 noon
MCLM 901

Speaker:  No speaker this week

Student Presenter:  Edlira Bashari

Faculty Facilitator:  Douglas Weigent, Ph.D.

Paper:  Inhibition of prostasin-induced ENaC activities by PN-1 and regulation of PN-1 expression by TGF-b1 and aldosterone

 

16 Oct
Monday

12 noon
MCLM 901

Speaker:  Dr. Peter Agre

Student Presenter:  Matt Larson

Faculty Facilitator:  Erik M. Schwiebert, Ph.D.

Papers:
Main paper:  The Mercury-sensitive Residue at Cysteine 189 in the CHIP28 Water Channel

Second paper:  Appearance of water channels in Xenopus oocytes expressing red cell CHIP28 protein - Page 1 - Page 2 - Page 3

Background paper:  Isolation of the cDNA for erythrocyte integral membrane protein of 28 kilodaltons: member of an ancient channel family

 

23 Oct
Monday

12 noon
MCLM 901

Speaker:  Dr. J. Edwin Blalock

Student Presenter:  Christopher Allen

Faculty Facilitator:  F. Shawn Galin, Ph.D.

Paper:  A novel peptide CXCR ligand derived from extracellular matrix degradation during airway inflammation

Extra Figures:  51 - 52 - 53

 

30 Oct
Monday

12 noon
MCLM 901

Postdoc Presenter: Tom Lowder, Ph.D., Dr. Lisa Schwiebert's Lab

Paper:  “Exercise increases survival in adult mice following influenza virus infection”

 

6 Nov
Monday

12 noon
MCLM 901

Speaker:  Dr. Dale J. Benos

Student Presenter:  Xiaojia Zheng

Faculty Facilitator:  Carmel McNicholas-Bevensee, Ph.D.

Paper: Ethics and the Internet

 

 

13 Nov
Monday

12 noon
MCLM 901

Speaker:  Dr. Guillermo Marques

Student Presenter:  Matt Hewitt

Faculty Facilitator: Lisa Schwiebert, Ph.D.

Paper:  Highwire restrains synaptic growth by attenuating a MAP Kinase signal

 

4 Dec
Monday

12 noon
MCLM 901

 

Speaker:  No speaker this week

Student Presenter:  Lynda Evans

Faculty Facilitator:  Robert Hardy, Ph.D.

Paper:  Targeted Disruption of Protein Kinase CX Reduces Cell Invasion and Motility through Inactivation of RhoA and RhoC GTPases in Head and Neck Squamous Cell Carcinoma

 

11 Dec
Monday

12 noon
MCLM 901

 

Speaker:  Dr. Peter Smith

Student Presenter:  Jessica Gutierrez

Faculty Facilitator:  Qin Wang, Ph.D.

Paper: TRP channels as cellular sensors

 

22 Jan
Monday

12 noon
MCLM 901

 

Speaker: Lynn Dobrunz, Ph.D.

Student Presenter:  Charlie Bosworth

Faculty Facilitator: Caroline Smith, Ph.D.

Paper: Presynaptic kainate receptors are a novel mechanism of target cell specific short-term facilitation at Schaffer collateral synapses

 

29 Jan
Monday

12 noon
MCLM 901

 

Speaker: Ming Li, Ph.D.

Student Presenter:  Joo Hyoung Lee

Faculty Facilitator:  Champion CS Deivanayagam, Ph.D.

Paper: Adult cardiac stem cells are multipotent and support myocardial regeneration

 

5 Feb
Monday

12 noon
MCLM 901

 

Speaker:  William T. Gerthoffer, Ph.D.

Student Presenter:  Jason Lucas

Faculty Facilitator:  Suzanne Oparil, M.D.

Paper:  Transduction of biologically active motifs of the small heat shock-related protein, HSP20, leads to relaxation of vascular smooth muscle

 

12 Feb
Monday

12 noon
MCLM 901

 

No Speaker this week

Student Presenter:  Faheem Shaikh

Faculty Facilitator:  Qin Wang, M.D., Ph.D.

Paper:  The multiple uses of fluorescent proteins to visualize cancer in vivo

 

19 Feb
Monday

12 noon
MCLM 901

 

Speaker: Heather A. Drummond, Ph.D.

Student Presenter: Dragos Olteanu

Faculty Facilitator:  Erik Schwiebert, Ph.D.

Papers:

 

26 Feb
Monday

12 noon
MCLM 901

 

Speaker:  Joseph L. Messina, Ph.D.

Student Presenter: Jun Li

Faculty Facilitator: Peter Smith, Ph.D.

Paper: Mechanisms of hemorrhage-induced hepatic insulin resistance: Role of tumor necrosis factor-a

 

12 Mar
Monday

12 noon
MCLM 901

 

Speaker: Ji-Bin Peng, Ph.D.

Student Presenter:  Alencia Woodard-Grice

Faculty Facilitator:  Susan Bellis, Ph.D.

Paper: WNK4 enhances TRPV5-mediated calcium transport: potential role in hypercalciuria of familial hyperkalemic hypertension caused by gene mutation of WNK4

 

19 Mar
Monday

12 noon
MCLM 901

 

Speaker: David Bedwell, Ph.D.

Student Presenter: Kai Wang

Faculty Facilitator:  Carmel McNicholas-Bevensee, Ph.D.

Paper:  Gentamicin-mediated suppression of Hurler syndrome stop mutations restores a low level of a-L-iduronidase activity and reduces lysosomal glycosaminoglycan accumulation

 

26 Mar
Monday

12 noon
MCLM 901

 

Speaker: No speaker this week

Student Presenter: Vaibhav Saini

Faculty Facilitator: Maaike Everts, Ph.D.

Paper: Physical and Functional Association of a Trimethyl H3K4 Demethylase and Ring6a/MBLR, a Polycomb-like Protein

 

9 Apr
Monday

12 noon
MCLM 901

 

Speaker: Peter Snyder, M.D.

Student Presenter: Amit Gaggar

Faculty Facilitator:  J. Edwin Blalock, Ph.D.

Paper: Liddle's syndrome mutations increase Na+ transport through dual effects on epithelial Na+ channel surface expression and proteolytic cleavage

 

16 Apr
Monday

12 noon
MCLM 901

 

Speaker: Mark E. Anderson, M.D., Ph.D.

Student Presenter: Debeshi Majumdar

Faculty Facilitator: Mark Bevensee, Ph.D.

Paper:  Calmodulin kinase II inhibition protects against structural heart disease

 

30 Apr
Monday

12 noon
MCLM 901

 

Speaker: No speaker this week

Student Presenter: Shane Kelly

Faculty Facilitator:  Dr. David Bedwell

Paper: Multiple Histone Deacetylases and the CREB-binding Protein Regulate Pre-mRNA 3'-End Processing

 

7 May
Monday

12 noon
MCLM 901

 

Speaker:   Lee-Yuan Liu-Chen, Ph.D.

Student Presenter: Clintoria Williams

Faculty Facilitator:  Erik Schwiebert, Ph.D.

Paper: GEC1 Interacts with the k Opioid Receptor and Enhances Expression of the Receptor

 

14 May
Monday

12 noon
MCLM 901

 

Speaker: Blandine Comte, Ph.D.

Student Presenter: Zhenghao Zhang

Faculty Facilitator:  C. Roger White, Ph.D.

Paper:  Antenatal antioxidant prevents adult hypertension, vascular dysfunction, and microvascular rarefaction associated with in utero exposure to a low-protein diet

 

21 May
Monday

12 noon
MCLM 901

 

Speaker:  Mark Bevensee, Ph.D.

Student Presenter:  Nai-Lin Cheng

Faculty Facilitator:  Erik Schwiebert, Ph.D.

Paper: Electrogenic Na/HCO3 Cotransporter (NBCe1) Variants Expressed in Xenopus Oocytes: Functional Comparison and Roles of the Amino and Carboxy Termini

 

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