Perelman School of Medicine at the University of Pennsylvania
    SEMINAR SERIES and JOURNAL CLUB SCHEDULES

Physiology Seminar Series, 2012- 2013

4:00 p.m. - B400 Richards Building Conference Room

September 20, 2012
Brian Y. Chow, Ph.D.
Assistant Professor
Department of Bioengineering
University of Pennsylvania

"xxx single molecules to physiology of mitotiomosome segration"


October 4, 2012
Marie E. Burns, Ph.D.
Professor
Department of Opthalmology & Vision Science
University of California, Davis

" Feedback required: Stability and reproducibility of single photon responses of retinal rods"

 

October 25, 2012
Clay Armstrong, M.D.
Emeritus Professor Physiology
Department of Physiology
University of Pennsylvania

"Gating and selectivity in K+ channels"


November 1, 2012
Joshua J. Rosenthal, Ph.D.
Assistant Professor
Instituto de Neurobiologia
Universidad de Puerto Rico

"Fine tuning excitability through RNA editing in cephalopods"



November 15, 2012

Theodore R. Cummins, Ph.D.
Associate Professor
Department of Pharmacology and Toxicology
Indiana University

"Voltage-gated sodium channels in disorders of excitability"

December 6, 2012
Justin W. Taraska, Ph.D.
Investigator
Laboratory of Molecular and Cellular Imaging
NHLBI
National Institutes of Health

"Imaging the nanometer-scale architecture of vesicle membrane protein release and recapture"

December 13, 2012
Jian Payandeh, Ph.D.
Department of Structural Biology
Genentech, Inc.

"Structural insights into sodium and magnesium channels"

January 10, 2013
Jie Zhang, Ph.D.
Associate Professor
Department of Physiology & Membrane Biology
University of California, Davis

"Temperature-dependent activation of TRPV channels"

February 21, 2013

12 noon 702 Clinical Research Building
John Pearson, PhD
Staff Scientist
Theoretical Biology and Biophysics Group Los Alamos National Laboratory

"Messages diffuse faster than Messgers: Pitfalls in the interpretation of Labeled Particl Motion"

4pm B404 Richards Building
Ian Parker, PhD, FRS
Professor
Department of Neurobiology and Behavior
University of California,Irvine

"Imaging the function, localization and motility of inositol trisphosphate receptor/channels at the single-molecule level in intact cells"


March 7, 2013
Richard Lewis, Ph.D.
Professor
Department of Molecular & Cellular Physiology
Stanford University

"Molecules in motion: the self-organization of store-operated calcium channels at cell membrane junctions"


March 21, 2013
Steve Lockless, Ph.D.
Assistant Professor
Department of Biology
Texas A&M University

"Ion selectivity in tetrameric cation channels"


April 4, 2013
David C. Gadsby, PhD, FRS
Patrick A. Gerschel Family Professor
Cardiac and Membrane Physiology
Ther RockefellerUniversity

April 18, 2013
David Yue, MD, PhD
Professor
Department of Biomedical Engineering
The John Hopkins University

May 2, 2013
H. Criss Hartzell, Ph.D.
Professor
Department of Cell Biology
Physiology & Pharmacology
Emory University

May 9, 2013
Kurt Beam, Ph.D.
Professor
Department of Physiology & Biophysics
University
of Washington


June 6, 2013
George G. Rodney, Ph.D.
Assistant Professor
Department of Molecular Physiology
& Biophysics
Baylor College of Medicine

Revised 05/08/2013

For further information contact:

Department of Physiology
B400 Richards Building
(215) 898-8725

phys@mail.med.upenn.edu

Ion Channel Journal Club Schedule, 2012-2013
9:30 -11:00 a.m.- D502 Richards Building Conf. Room
 
September 27, 2012 Carol Deutsch
October 11, 2012 Eric Lancaster
October 25, 2012 James Petersson
November 8, 2012 Clay Armstrong
November 29, 2012 Steve Hollingworthq
December 13, 2012 Johannes Reisert
January 10, 2013 Toshi Hoshi
January 24, 2013 David Lin
February 14, 2013 Kevin Foskett
February 28, 2013 Jonathan Soboloff
March 14, 2013 Claire Mitchell
March 28, 2013 Dejian Ren
April 11, 2013 Brad Rothberg
April 25, 2013 Daniel Mak
May 9, 2013 Robert Greenberg
May 23, 2013 Jon Lindstrom
June 6, 2013 Brian Salzberg
June 20, 2013 Mort Civan

 

Papers will be distributed one week prior to the above dates.

  For furthur information contact:
Carol Deutsch
cjd@mail.med.upenn.edu