Seminars
During the academic year, we sponsor a seminar on most Mondays at 4:00 PM, in the Lecture Hall (E501). We pride ourselves on presenting, at almost every seminar, an eminent scholar from around the country or around the globe.
Upcoming Seminars
6TH ANNUAL MATTHEW N. LEVY LECTURE
"Beta-Adrenergic Receptor Signaling: Evolving Concepts and Therapeutics"
DEPARTMENT SEMINAR
"Gating and ball-and-chain inactivation in a calcium-gated potassium channel"
DEPARTMENT SEMINAR
"Fast signaling via the NMDA receptor"
DEPARTMENT SEMINAR
"Quantitative Chemical Imaging of Organelles"
Recent Seminars
DEPARTMENT SEMINAR
"Mechanism of iron transport in human ferroportin"
DEPARTMENT SEMINAR
"Structural characterization of IP3 receptor calcium channels by cryo-EM"
DEPARTMENT SEMINAR
"Insights into kidney stones through radical nephrectomy in fruit flies"
DEPARTMENT SEMINAR
"Mechanisms of RGS protein regulation in health and disease
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DEPARTMENT SEMINAR
"CNS oxygen toxicity: where are we now?"
DEPARTMENT SEMINAR
"Allosteric modulation of monoamine transporters as a therapeutic target for drug addiction
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Archived Seminars
DEPARTMENT SEMINAR
"APOL1 & the Pandemic Year: Race, Ancestry & COVID-19
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DEPARTMENT SEMINAR
"Activation and regulation of a family of tyrosine kinases unique to bacteria
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DEPARTMENT SEMINAR
"Mechanisms of Central Oxidant Stress and the Regulation of Sympathetic Nerve Activity: Implications for Cardiovascular Disease
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DEPARTMENT SEMINAR
"Cellular mechanisms of persistent activity and mnemonic representations in cortical brain regions
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DEPARTMENT SEMINAR
"Disease-causing synaptic receptor variants
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DEPARTMENT SEMINAR
"From lipid/detergent - protein interactions to host - pathogen interactions, how do (some) membrane proteins work?
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DEPARTMENT SEMINAR
"Cryo-EM structure of amyloid fibrils formed by the entire low complexity domain of TDP-43
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DEPARTMENT SEMINAR
"Activation of the GABA-A receptor by combinations of orthosteric and allosteric agonists
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DEPARTMENT SEMINAR
"ALIX in Wonderland: Multivalency, Phosphorylation-mediated Amyloids, Autoinhibition, and Endosomal Membrane Interactions
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DEPARTMENT SEMINAR
"Dioxygenase Dysfunction Presents Therapeutically Targetable Vulnerabilities in Cancer
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DEPARTMENT SEMINAR
"Chemical Biology of Protein Aggregation in Membraneless Organelles and the Stressed Proteome
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DEPARTMENT SEMINAR
"Molecular mechanisms of fear learning in mice and beyond
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DEPARTMENT SEMINAR
"ATP Production in Heart by Mitochondria
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DEPARTMENT SEMINAR
"Outside In: Understanding Lupus Pathogenesis In the Skin
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DEPARTMENT SEMINAR POSTPONED
"Structural rearrangements underlying the function of BK channels
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DEPARTMENT SEMINAR
"Regulation of neonatal renal microcirculation
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DEPARTMENT SEMINAR
"Modeling human diseases: how pluripotency helps?
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DEPARTMENT SEMINAR
"Acidosis, cysts, glaucoma and diabetes - Who needs to transport baking soda (NaHCO3) anyway?
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DEPARTMENT SEMINAR
"Protein seeds of neurodegenerative diseases: Structure and diagnosis
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DEPARTMENT SEMINAR
"Human disease causing mutations in SLC12A2, the gene encoding the Na-K-2Cl cotransporter-1
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DEPARTMENT SEMINAR
"Intracellular Ion Channels: Identification and Physiological Roles
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DEPARTMENT SEMINAR POSTPONED
"Magnesium: Role in Cisplatin-Induced Acute Kidney Injury and Cancer Cell Biology
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April 15, 2020
4 p.m.
School of Medicine E501
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FRONTIERS IN BIOLOGICAL SCIENCES LECTURE POSTPONED FROM APRIL 15
"In search of the molecules of memory
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DEPARTMENT SEMINAR POSTPONED
"Partial inhibition of mitochondrial complex I as a therapeutic strategy for neurodegenerative diseases
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DEPARTMENT SEMINAR CANCELED
"TBA
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8TH ANNUAL
ULRICH HOPFER LECTURE
"Defective renal AT2 receptor signaling in hypertension
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DEPARTMENT SEMINAR
"Contribution of Sex to Endothelial Heterogeneity from Message to Function
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Feb. 13, 2020
4 p.m.
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5 p.m.
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DCAPT SEMINAR
"The Impact of Hyperoxia: A Systems Physiology Approach
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DEPARTMENT SEMINAR
"Proteostasis, Evolution, and Pathogens
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DEPARTMENT SEMINAR
"A Little Goes a Long Way: Pharmacologically Targeting the Unfolded Protein Response for Etiologically Diverse Diseases
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DEPARTMENT SEMINAR
"High-resolution cryo-EM structure of a natively decorated doublet microtubule
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DEPARTMENT SEMINAR
"Imaging the transmembrane gradients for hydrogen and sodium ions
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DEPARTMENT SEMINAR
"How nicotine and synaptic activity change the Golgi apparatus
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DEPARTMENT SEMINAR
"The ‘Art of Possibility’: Weighted Ensemble of Trajectories
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DEPARTMENT SEMINAR
"Probing Dynamic Protein-Protein Interactions in a Membrane Environment by NMR
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DEPARTMENT SEMINAR
"Molecular machinery for synaptic transmission
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DEPARTMENT SEMINAR
"Cardiac arrhythmias and muscle disorders: crystallographic and cryo-EM insights into channelopathies
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DEPARTMENT SEMINAR
"From SWELL to PAC: Discovery of New Ion Channels
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5TH ANNUAL
MATTHEW N. LEVY LECTURE
"Myosin myopathies: mechanisms of pathogenesis and paths to therapeutics
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DEPARTMENT SEMINAR
"Cryo-EM analysis of full-length receptor tyrosine kinase
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DEPARTMENT SEMINAR
"The cut that makes the difference: mechanisms of gasdermin D-mediated pyroptosis
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DEPARTMENT SEMINAR
"Targeting Mitochondrial Miro1 for Detecting and Treating Parkinson’s Disease
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DEPARTMENT SEMINAR
"Stochastic Mechanisms in Membrane Traffic
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DEPARTMENT SEMINAR
"Dietary fatty acids fine-tune cells mechanical response
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DEPARTMENT SEMINAR
"Oxygen's influence on the maturation of the respiratory control system
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DEPARTMENT SEMINAR
"Pushing the resolution limit of cryoEM for small membrane proteins
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DEPARTMENT SEMINAR
"STING-Mediated Programmed Cell Death
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DEPARTMENT SPECIAL SEMINAR
"Making A Case For A Causal vs. Facilitative Role Of Elastin Deficiency In CKD Pathogenesis
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DCAPT SEMINAR
"Fatty Acid Transporter-2 (FATP2) in the Pathogenesis of Diabetic Kidney Disease
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DEPARTMENT SEMINAR
"Molecular Dynamics Simulations of Membrane Permeability
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CENTER FOR AEROSPACE PHYSIOLOGY INAUGURAL SYMPOSIUM SEMINAR
"Winning the physiological air war of 1939-1945: the history of aero medical research and practices in America during WW2
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INAUGURAL
SYMPOSIUM FOR THE CENTER FOR AEROSPACE PHYSIOLOGY
"Featured Lecture: CNS oxygen toxicity in undersea medicine: mechanisms and mitigation strategies
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DEPARTMENT SEMINAR
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Convergent pathways in neurodegeneration: From polyglutamine disease targets to broad-based therapeutic opportunities
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DEPARTMENT SEMINAR
"Pathophysiology of GABAA receptor mutations associated with variable epilepsy syndromes"
DEPARTMENT SEMINAR
"The Translation Machinery Determines Hypoxic Sensitivity"
DEPARTMENT SEMINAR
"Detecting ligand induced motions in pentameric ligand-gated ion channels"
DEPARTMENT SPECIAL SEMINAR
"Molecular simulations of membrane sensing, shaping, and remodeling
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DEPARTMENT SPECIAL SEMINAR
"Interaction of Membrane Cholesterol with G Protein-Coupled Receptors: Novel Insights in Health & Disease"
DEPARTMENT SEMINAR
"Developing Genetic Treatments for Mitochondrial DNA Diseases"
March 25, 2019
4 p.m.
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5 p.m.
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DCAPT SEMINAR
"Spatial regulation of receptor tyrosine kinases
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7TH ANNUAL
ULRICH HOPFER LECTURE
"Maintaining Balance under Pressure: renal adaptations to angiotensin II hypertension in females and males
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DEPARTMENT SEMINAR
"No gain, no pain: phosphoinositide regulation of TRPV1 ion channels"
Feb. 26, 2019
4 p.m.
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5 p.m.
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DCAPT SEMINAR POSTPONED TBD
"You can never be too rich, too thin, or have too much oxygen...Or can you??
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Feb. 25, 2019
4 p.m.
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5 p.m.
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DEPARTMENT SEMINAR
"Exploiting the molecular biology of progesterone to prevent preterm birth"
DEPARTMENT SEMINAR
"The retrotrapezoid nucleus: A site for chemoreceptors or just a relay for other pH sensors?"
DEPARTMENT SEMINAR
"Targeting Mitochondria as a Potential Therapeutic Strategy for Alzheimer’s Disease"
DEPARTMENT SEMINAR
"Brain region specific single molecule imaging of nicotinic receptors"
DEPARTMENT SEMINAR
"Discover New Genes and Therapies for Cardiomyopathy via Zebrafish Genetics"
Dec. 17, 2018
4 p.m.
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5 p.m.
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DEPARTMENT SEMINAR
"Physical Mechanisms of Cell Organization on Micron Length Scales"
DEPARTMENT SEMINAR
"Architecture and mechanism of pentameric neurotransmitter receptors"
DEPARTMENT SEMINAR
"Myofilament interactions of cardiac myosin-binding protein C N-terminal domains"
DEPARTMENT SEMINAR
"Developing a Fully Integrative Approach to Define the Molecular Pathogenesis of Hypertrophic Cardiomyopath"
DEPARTMENT SEMINAR
"Organelle targeting of tail-anchored proteins"
DEPARTMENT SEMINAR
"Structural characterization of a nucleotide-powered endonuclease complex involved in bacterial defense"
Nov. 5, 2018
4 p.m.
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5 p.m.
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DEPARTMENT SEMINAR
"Autonomic Modulation of Venous Capacitance in the Pathophysiology of Acute HF"
DEPARTMENT SEMINAR
"The Role of Bioactive Lipids in Transient Receptor Potential Channels Function"
FRONTIERS IN BIOLOGICAL SCIENCES LECTURE
"Human GABAA Receptor Structures and Signaling Mechanisms
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Oct. 22, 2018
4 p.m.
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5 p.m.
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DEPARTMENT SEMINAR
"Towards a structural understanding of aquaporin function and activation: a hybrid Electron microscopic and X-ray crystallographic approach"
DEPARTMENT SPECIAL SEMINAR
"Cryo-EM, an imaging tool beyond crystallography"
Oct. 15, 2018
4 p.m.
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5 p.m.
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DEPARTMENT SEMINAR
"Critical windows of respiratory system development - adverse consequences to early life insults"
DEPARTMENT SEMINAR
"Magnetic Resonance Studies of Membrane Proteins"
Oct. 1, 2018
4 p.m.
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5 p.m.
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DEPARTMENT SEMINAR
"New ideas in glaucoma therapeutics"
Sept. 24, 2018
4 p.m.
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5 p.m.
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DEPARTMENT SEMINAR
"The Challenge of Immature Respiratory Control Superimposed Upon an Immature Preterm Lung"
DEPARTMENT SEMINAR
"Functional dynamics via high-power relaxation dispersion: Molecular recognition, hierarchy of motions, and allostery"
4TH ANNUAL
MATTHEW N. LEVY LECTURE
"Heart Failure: Two Inflammatory Tales
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DEPARTMENT SPECIAL SEMINAR
"Purinergic Regulation of Renal Na+ Excretion and Blood Pressure"
May 1, 2018
4 p.m.
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5 p.m.
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DEPARTMENT SPECIAL SEMINAR
"Mechanisms of viral capsid assembly and genome packaging
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DEPARTMENT SEMINAR
"POSTPONED UNTIL 12/17/2018: Physical Mechanisms of Cell Organization on Micron Length Scales"
TECHNICAL TALK
"A mathematical physics and computer science framework for reproducible multiscale modelling in physiology"
FRONTIERS IN BIOLOGICAL SCIENCES LECTURE POSTPONED
"Cardiac research at the Auckland Bioengineering Institute
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April 17, 2018
4 p.m.
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5 p.m.
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DEPARTMENT SPECIAL SEMINAR
"Structure and Biology of NMDA receptors
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DEPARTMENT SEMINAR
"Huntingtin Misfolding and Membrane Interaction – Implications for Huntington’s Disease"
DEPARTMENT SEMINAR
"Ribosome-Peptide Pas de Deux: Tunnel Vision"
DEPARTMENT SEMINAR
"Bacterial Outer Membranes and Interactions with Membrane Proteins"
6TH ANNUAL
ULRICH HOPFER LECTURE
"Regulation of Aqp2 gene expression by vasopressin
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DEPARTMENT SEMINAR
"Biophysical Contributions to Glomerular Disease Initiation and Progression"
March 8, 2018
4 p.m.
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5 p.m.
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DEPARTMENT SPECIAL SEMINAR
"Structural studies of macromolecules using electron cryo-microscopy (cryo-EM)"
March 5, 2018
4 p.m.
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5 p.m.
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DEPARTMENT SEMINAR
"To Be or Not To Be: The Triggering of Cell Death Signaling by Protein Oligomerization"
Feb. 26, 2018
4 p.m.
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5 p.m.
School of Medicine E504
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DEPARTMENT SEMINAR
"Molecular mechanisms of NMDA receptor function and regulation"
DEPARTMENT & CCMSB JOINT SPECIAL SEMINAR
"Lipid-Protein Interactions Through a 'Computational Microscope': Molecular Simulation Studies of Complex Biological Membranes"
Feb. 15, 2018
4 p.m.
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5 p.m.
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DEPARTMENT SPECIAL SEMINAR
"Trap and Flip": Conformational Snapshots and Mechanism of a Lipid Flippase"
DEPARTMENT SEMINAR
"Structural basis for selective antagonism of Nav channels and ABC transporters"
DEPARTMENT SEMINAR
"Properties and regulation of renal ammonia transport by Rh glycoproteins"
DEPARTMENT SEMINAR
"The Molecular Physiology of store-operated CRAC channels"
DEPARTMENT SEMINAR
"Slc4a11: a H+ channel in HCO3- transporter’s clothing"
DEPARTMENT SEMINAR
"Bulk vs Selective: The Mechanisms of Cellular Self-Eating"
DEPARTMENT SEMINAR
"Life at the interface is occasionally unstable"
DEPARTMENT SEMINAR
"Microtubules as Disease Modifiers and Therapeutic Targets in Striated Muscle"
DEPARTMENT SEMINAR
"Mechanisms that regulate the efficacy of GABAergic inhibition and the pathophysiology of epilepsy"
DEPARTMENT SEMINAR
"Towards a high-resolution structure of the proton-coupled folate transporter"
DEPARTMENT SEMINAR
"Microscopic View of Mechanisms and Pathways for Material Transport Across the Cellular Membrane"
Sept. 28, 2017
3 p.m.
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4 p.m.
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3RD ANNUAL
MATTHEW N. LEVY LECTURE
"Diversity of Cardiac Ion Channel Regulatory Mechanisms
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DEPARTMENT SEMINAR
"Muscle-Specific Regulation of Autophagy and Its Potential Role in Protecting Against Sepsis-Induced Cardiomyopathy"
DCAPT SEMINAR
"Blood-brain barrier and neurological diseases
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DEPARTMENT SEMINAR
"M-type (KCNQ) potassium ion channels: Novel insights into structure, signaling and functional role in brain dysfunction"
DEPARTMENT SPECIAL SEMINAR
"Calcium in the heart: in and out of control
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DEPARTMENT SPECIAL SEMINAR
"Hypoxia and uterine function – something old and something new
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DEPARTMENT SEMINAR
"Resolving molecular interfaces in biological membranes"
DEPARTMENT SEMINAR
"A tale of two substrates: a novel mechanism for neurotransmitter: sodium symport"
DEPARTMENT SEMINAR
"Auxiliary subunits of BK channels: not so auxiliary"
March 22, 2017
4 p.m.
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5 p.m.
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5TH ANNUAL
ULRICH HOPFER LECTURE
"Insulin and exercise signals mobilizing glucose transporters in muscle cells
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DEPARTMENT SEMINAR
"Brain Dynamics and Consciousness: Insights from anesthetic modulation of neuronal circuits"
March 16, 2017
4 p.m.
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5 p.m.
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DEPARTMENT SEMINAR
"Beta-arrestin-mediated adrenergic receptor signaling and non-coding RNAs in heart failure"
DEPARTMENT SEMINAR
"Dynamin-mediated endocytosis in pancreatic beta cells: Mechanism, function and implication in diabetes"
DEPARTMENT SEMINAR
"Myocardial mechanical-energetic coupling in heart disease"
DEPARTMENT SEMINAR
"Cell-specific pallidal intervention induces long-lasting motor recovery in dopamine depleted mice"
Feb. 21, 2017
4 p.m.
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5 p.m.
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DEPARTMENT SEMINAR
"Epigenetic Regulation and Inflammasome: Novel Molecular Mechanisms in Atrial Fibrillation"
DEPARTMENT SEMINAR
"Allosteric functioning of a bacterial pentameric channel-receptor"
DEPARTMENT SEMINAR
"Dissecting the Sequence-Based Quality Control Code of the Resident ER Hsp70 System"
DEPARTMENT SEMINAR
"Fetal Programming in the Vasculature: Glucocorticoids, miRNA and Smooth Muscle Phenotype"
DEPARTMENT SEMINAR
"Clinical and experimental insights into myosin binding protein C mutations for hypertrophic cardiomyopathy"
DEPARTMENT SEMINAR
"Dopaminergic neurons of the substantia nigra – integration and subpopulations"
Dec. 15, 2016
4 p.m.
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DEPARTMENT SPECIAL SEMINAR
"Lafora disease - defining the molecular basis for a metabolic epilepsy"
Dec. 5, 2016
4 p.m.
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5 p.m.
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DEPARTMENT SEMINAR
"How do proteins scan DNA?"
Nov. 29, 2016
4 p.m.
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DEPARTMENT SEMINAR
"Coronavirus Spike Proteins: Structure, Function, and Vaccine Design
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DEPARTMENT SEMINAR
"Studying the role of alpha-synuclein in Parkinson’s Disease using synthetic proteins"
Nov. 21, 2016
4 p.m.
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DEPARTMENT SEMINAR
"Structural Mechanisms of Cell Cycle Regulation by the Anaphase-Promoting Complex/Cyclosome"
DEPARTMENT SEMINAR
"Design principles for selective ion transport across membranes"
DEPARTMENT SEMINAR
"Through a Glass, Darkly - Looking at Protein Interactions in and out of Cells"
DEPARTMENT SEMINAR
"Engineering tools to study and repair the broken heart"
Oct. 19, 2016
4 p.m.
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FRONTIERS IN BIOLOGICAL SCIENCES LECTURE POSTPONED
"Music of the brain illuminated by molecular studies of the instruments: X-rays and electrons reveal architecture and mechanism of neurotransmitter receptors and transporters"
DEPARTMENT SEMINAR
"Peptide-stabilized membrane pores: insights from simulations"
2ND ANNUAL
MATTHEW N. LEVY LECTURE
"Regulation of nuclear architecture drives cell fate
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DEPARTMENT SEMINAR
"Revealing the Structure and Function of Membrane Proteins Through Nanotechnology"
DEPARTMENT SEMINAR
"Oligosaccharyltransferase assembly lines to achieve efficient asparagine-linked glycosylation"
DEPARTMENT SEMINAR
"Overturning Overton: channel-mediated gas transport across cell membranes"
May 9, 2016
4 p.m.
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5 p.m.
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DCAPT SEMINAR
"An emerging role for matricellular protein CCN3 in vascular biology"
DEPARTMENT SEMINAR
"Biochemical and cellular studies of mammalian mitochondrial fission"
DEPARTMENT SEMINAR
"Structural Studies of Axon Guidance Molecules"
DEPARTMENT SEMINAR
"Nicotinic and Dopaminergic Mechanisms of Plasticity and Addiction"
DEPARTMENT SEMINAR
"Role of Neuropilin in Endothelial Cell Function"
DEPARTMENT SPECIAL SEMINAR
"Vascular connexins, all-rounders which mind more than just a gap (junction)
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April 4, 2016
4 p.m.
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5 p.m.
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DEPARTMENT SEMINAR
"Activation of nociceptive TRPV1 channel by vanilloids"
DEPARTMENT SEMINAR
"Principles of energy transduction and alternating access by secondary transporters"
DEPARTMENT SEMINAR
"Imaging the nanometer-scale structure of exocytosis and endocytosis"
4TH ANNUAL
ULRICH HOPFER LECTURE
"Basic Physiology to Translational Medicine: Lessons from SGLTS
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DEPARTMENT SEMINAR
"D3 dopamine receptor function defines a unique prefrontal pyramidal cell class"
March 9, 2016
2 p.m.
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INSTRUCTOR CANDIDATE SEMINAR
"Mathematical modeling of acid-base physiology
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DEPARTMENT SEMINAR
"Multifaceted ORAI Channels: Novel Regulators of Vascular Function"
DEPARTMENT SEMINAR
"Adaptive responses to mitochondrial dysfunction via a mito-UPR"
DEPARTMENT SEMINAR
"Investigating mitochondrial bioenergetics in the intact cell"
DEPARTMENT SEMINAR
"Translational Neurobiology: From Target Validation to Drug Development"
DEPARTMENT SEMINAR
"Protein quality control and cancer therapy"
DEPARTMENT SEMINAR
"Assembly, dynamics, and function of membrane domains"
DEPARTMENT SEMINAR
"Targeting Protein-Protein Interactions in the Molecular Chaperone Networks to Treat Protein Misfolding Diseases"
DEPARTMENT SEMINAR
"Membrane-mediated activation of the proaptotic peroxidase function of mitochondrial cytochrome c"
DEPARTMENT SEMINAR
"ATPase and GTPase tangos during intracellular protein targeting"
Nov. 16, 2015
4 p.m.
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5 p.m.
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DEPARTMENT SEMINAR
"Structure and gating mechanism of temperature-sensing TRPV1 channels"
DEPARTMENT SEMINAR
"Conformational plasticity and druggability of membrane-bound oncogenic K-Ras"
DEPARTMENT SEMINAR
"Axonal arborization and energetic metabolism of nigral dopamine neurons : a window into selective vulnerability in Parkinson's disease"
DEPARTMENT SEMINAR
"Modulation of nicotinic receptor activity in both normal and diseased states"
DEPARTMENT SEMINAR
"N-glycan directed folding and quality control in the ER"
1ST ANNUAL
MATTHEW N. LEVY LECTURE
"Inflammation in Atherosclerosis –a Translational Journey
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Sept. 28, 2015
4 p.m.
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5 p.m.
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DCAPT SEMINAR
"Neuroprotective Properties of Ketosis"
DEPARTMENT SEMINAR
"Structural Insights Into Channel Gating and Drug Modulation"
DEPARTMENT SPECIAL SEMINAR
"Identification of Na,K-ATPase as a signal transducer that regulates mitochondrial function
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DCAPT SEMINAR
"Ocular Aqueous Humor Dynamics in Health and Disease"
DEPARTMENT SEMINAR
"Cilia, in vivo functions and connections to disease"
DEPARTMENT SEMINAR
"Unraveling disease mechanisms in cardiomyopathy with MYBPC3 gene mutations"
3RD ANNUAL
ULRICH HOPFER LECTURE
"Fructose and its Role in Obesity and Metabolic Syndrome
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DEPARTMENT SEMINAR
"Catching Mistakes Early: Quality Assurance before Quality Control"
DEPARTMENT SEMINAR
"Dissection of GPCR Signaling and Neural Circuits in Stress"
DEPARTMENT SEMINAR
"Inside-out Neuropharmacology, from Nicotinic Receptors to Psychiatric Medication"
DEPARTMENT SEMINAR
"Regulation of Life and Death Decisions by Novel Cell Signaling Molecules"
DEPARTMENT SEMINAR
"Multi-Scale Modeling of the Failing Heart: From Mouse to Human"
DEPARTMENT SEMINAR
"Targeting Membrane Lipids with Synthetic Molecules"
DEPARTMENT SEMINAR
"CANCELED: Epigenetic regulation of microglial activities by intermittent hypoxia"
DEPARTMENT SEMINAR
"Prion Protein Neurotoxic Pathways"
DEPARTMENT SEMINAR
"Keeping the enemy at bay: Preventing neurotoxicity in polyglutamine-depedent spinocerebellar ataxias"
DEPARTMENT SEMINAR
"Understanding the specificity of phosphatases"
DEPARTMENT SEMINAR
"Thermodynamic insights into voltage-dependent gating of ion channels"
DEPARTMENT SEMINAR
"CALHM ion channels: How taste cells lacking synapses mediate neurotransmission"
DEPARTMENT SEMINAR
"Molecular Basis of EGFR/HER2 Signaling and ErbB-targeted Cancer Therapies"
DEPARTMENT SPECIAL SEMINAR
"Structural studies of TGF-beta superfamily signaling proteins: New insights into diversification of function and new strategies for treating diseases caused by aberrant superfamily signaling
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DEPARTMENT SEMINAR
"The role of Muscle Ring Finger (MuRF) proteins in the regulation of diabetic cardiomyopathy and metabolism in vivo"
DEPARTMENT SEMINAR
"Temporal window for metaplasticity following stress"
DEPARTMENT SEMINAR
"Measuring edge importance: a quantitative analysis of the stochastic shielding approximation for random processes on graphs"
DEPARTMENT SEMINAR
"Transgenic animal models of neurodegenerative diseases"
DEPARTMENT SEMINAR
"The role of the early secretory pathway in health and diseases"
DEPARTMENT SEMINAR
"Fusion pore structure, and factors that control the kinetics of synaptic transmission"
DEPARTMENT SEMINAR
"Moving and grooving of glutamate receptors"
DEPARTMENT SEMINAR
"Ligand Binding, Channel Gating and Energy Change in a Synaptic Receptor"
DEPARTMENT SEMINAR
"The regulation of secretory granule fusion and fusion modes in the adrenal chromaffin cell"
LEVY SYMPOSIUM
"Autonomic neural regulation of immune system: Implications for hypertension"
LEVY SYMPOSIUM
"Calcium regulation and signaling in cardiac myocytes in health and disease"
LEVY SYMPOSIUM
"Fundamentals of autonomic modulation applied as a new therapy for heart failure in medical devices"
LEVY SYMPOSIUM
"Matthew Levy: The Gentleman Researcher"
LEVY SYMPOSIUM
"Integrative control of cardiac muscle contraction"
LEVY SYMPOSIUM
"The genetic landscape of cardiomyopathy"
LEVY SYMPOSIUM
"Arrhythmogenic substrates and arrhythmia mechanism in the human heart –insights from noninvasive mapping in patients"
DEPARTMENT SEMINAR
"Surface assemblies in cell guidance signalling systems"
DEPARTMENT SEMINAR
"Mitochondrial dynamics in the brain and heart"
DEPARTMENT SEMINAR
"Protein association in lipid membranes"
DEPARTMENT SEMINAR
"Transcriptional Regulation of Cardiac Remodeling"
May 5, 2014
4 p.m.
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5 p.m.
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DCAPT SEMINAR
"Respiratory physiology of S-nitrosothiol-based signaling molecules"
2ND ANNUAL
ULRICH HOPFER LECTURE
"Ca2+ activated Cl- channels in smooth muscle
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FRONTIERS IN BIOLOGICAL SCIENCES LECTURE POSTPONED
"The Amyloid Phenomenon and its Significance
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DEPARTMENT SPECIAL SEMINAR
"A novel renal mechanism for salt-sensitive hypertension
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DEPARTMENT SEMINAR
"How can youths develop lean and healthy bodies? A new perspective"
DEPARTMENT SEMINAR
"Regulation of cellular excitability by modulation of background channels: mechanisms and physiological roles"
DEPARTMENT SEMINAR
"How Gram negative bacteria eat: permeation through the outer membrane"
DEPARTMENT SEMINAR
"Structural Dynamics of CLC Transporters"
DEPARTMENT SEMINAR
"How Do You Mend a Broken Heart: Mechanistic and Translational Studies of Cardiac Muscle Contraction"
DEPARTMENT SEMINAR
"Mechanisms of Endoplasmic Reticulum Stress-Induced Cell Death and Pathology"
DEPARTMENT SEMINAR
"Structural studies of Drp1 self-assembly provide insights into the mechanism of mitochondrial fission"
March 3, 2014
4 p.m.
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5 p.m.
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DEPARTMENT SEMINAR
"Targeting Chromatin Dependent Signaling in Heart Failure"
DEPARTMENT SEMINAR
"Diversity of Signaling Mechanisms in the Receptor Tyrosine Kinase Family"
DEPARTMENT SEMINAR
"Structural and chemical biology studies of ion channels"
DEPARTMENT SEMINAR
"Mitochondrial Damage and Neurodegenerative Diseases"
DEPARTMENT SEMINAR
"Role of O2- and H2O2 production in the regulation of medullary blood flow, NaCl excretion and blood pressure"
DEPARTMENT SEMINAR
"Membrane interaction mechanisms and curvature sorting of BAR domain proteins"
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"Can a kinetic approach be used to understand acute opioid receptor desensitization?"
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"Stimulus-secretion coupling in neuroendocrine cells"
Sept. 9, 2013
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"Ventilatory pattern variability following acute lung injury: Insights into central mechanisms and clinical implications"
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"Iron Translocation from Lysosomes to Mitochondria in Oxidative Stress-Induced Injury"
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"Your precious bodily fluids: Channels and transporters counteracting fluoride toxicity"
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"Molecular basis of UCP2 driven proton transport"
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"How do membrane proteins fold?"
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"NMDA receptors: learning from singles"
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"The role of E3 ligase Parkin and the kinase PINK1 in mitophagy and Parkinson's disease"
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"Molecular Regulation of Renin Release: Role of SNAREs"
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"Spinal motor plasticity following intermittent hypoxia: implications for spinal injury" (PLEASE NOTE SPECIAL TIME)"
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"The carotid body; an oxygen-sensitive neurogenic niche"
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"Troponin Regulation and Cardiac Function"
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"From Molecules to Systems Biology for Cardiac Development and Diseases"
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"Skeletal Muscle as a Target for Drug Discovery: New Indications for Aging and Cachexia"
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"Structural Basis of Voltage-Dependent Gating"
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"The Origin of Synaptic Vesicle Pools"
Oct. 29, 2012
4 p.m.
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"Fish oil and calcium-dependent potassium channels"
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"The role for AMP-activated protein kinase in the acute hypoxic ventilatory response"
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"Some Lessons about Transport from Sulfur Assimilation in Yeast"
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"Modeling Cardiac Function and Dysfunctionlation Targets"
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"Ste20 and WNK kinases in the regulation of Na+-(K+)-Cl- transport"
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"Cryo-EM study of a membrane protein in a membrane: the BK potassium channel"
Sept. 10, 2012
4 p.m.
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"Ubiquitin and Redox-mediated Posttranslational Modification of Ras Regulates Ras Activity"
Sept. 7, 2012
8:40 a.m.
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GAS CHANNELS WORKSHOP
"Role of membrane proteins in oxygen transport in red blood cells"
Sept. 7, 2012
9:05 a.m.
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"Structure determinants for CO2 transport of human aquaporin 5"
Sept. 7, 2012
9:30 a.m.
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Sept. 6, 2012
4 p.m.
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"Gas Channels Workshop"
Sept. 6, 2012
8:20 a.m.
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"Gas Channels"
Sept. 6, 2012
9:10 a.m.
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Sept. 6, 2012
3:10 p.m.
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"Role of Rh glycoproteins in gas transport–lessons from in vitro model systems"
Sept. 6, 2012
1:05 p.m.
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"Involvement of elevated membrane cholesterol on G-protein regulated water and gas transport in biological membranes"
Sept. 6, 2012
11:15 a.m.
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"Intrinsic CO2 permeability of cell membranes and effect of cholesterol and aquaporin"
Sept. 6, 2012
10:25 a.m.
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"Measuring cellular CO2 permeability by 18O exchange-methodology and results on red blood cells"
Sept. 6, 2012
1:55 p.m.
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"NO transport by aquaporin 1"
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"The role of insulin in regulating hepatic glucose storage in type 1 diabetes mellitus"
April 30, 2012
4 p.m.
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"Architecture of the Pore and Gating Motions in P2X Receptor Channels"
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"Molecular Mechanisms of Membrane Deformation"
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"Assembly of the synaptic exocytotic fusion machine"
March 5, 2012
4 p.m.
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"Mechanics and Dynamics of Cell Motility"
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"Ribonucleotide redactase inhibitors in oncology"
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"Cellular Mechanisms of Kidney Repair and Fibrosis: Implications for Regenerative Medicine"
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"KLF4 and Angiogenesis"
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"Physiological functions of mitochondrial dynamics"
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"Timing Is Everything – Emerging Roles for the Cardiomyocyte Circadian Clock"
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"How the Big GULP Cures the Fat Brain: Striatal Insulin Resistance and GLP-1 Signaling"
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"Role of titin in muscle function and disease"
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"Signaling to and from Cardiac Sarcomeres"
Oct. 10, 2011
4 p.m.
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"Regulation and Modulation of Extracellular pH & Its Impact on Excitatory Synaptic Transmission"
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"Stoned flies, cystic fibrosis and glaucoma: Roles of bicarbonate transporting membrane proteins"
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"How SNAREs open the fusion pore"
Sept. 19, 2011
4 p.m.
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"Epithelial-Immune Cell Interactions in the Pathogenesis of Experimental Crohn’s Disease"
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"Physiological responses to intermittent hypoxia"
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"Integrative Approaches into Multidomain Protein Assemblies"
May 9, 2011
4 p.m.
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"Integrative Approaches to Genome-Scale Biological Networks"
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"Innate Immunity and Alcoholic Liver Disease"
Dec. 20, 2010
4 p.m.
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"Obesity, Incretins, and the GI Tract: You Are What You Eat"
