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

Physiology Seminar Series, 2011- 2012

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

September 22, 2011
Eduardo Perozo, Ph.D.
Professor
Department of Biochemistry & Molecular Biology
Institute of Molecular Pediactrics Sciences
University of Chicago

"Structural dynamics of activation and inactivation gating in K+ channels"

October 6, 2011
Robert Edward Oswald, Ph.D.
Professor of Molecular Medicine
Department of Molecular Medicine
College of Veterinary Medicine
Cornell University

"Structure, function, and dynamics of glutamate receptor"

October 20, 2011
Leonard Konrad Kaczmarek, Ph.D.
Professor of Pharmacology
& Cellualar & Molecular Physiology
Department of Pharmacology
Yale School of Medicine

"Ion channel-mRNA interactions and the regulation of neuronal timing"

November 10, 2011
Youxing Jiang, Ph.D.
Associate Professor
Department of Physiology
UT Southwestern Medical Center at Dallas
Howard Hughes Medical Institute

"Tuning the ion selectivity of tetrameric cation channels"

December 1, 2011
Rikard Blunck, Ph.D.
Associate Professor
Department of Physics
University of Montreal

"Structure-function relations of K+ channels investigated by voltage-clamp fluoremetry"

December 15, 2011
Randall Peterson, Ph.D.
Associate Professor of Medicine
Harvard Medical School
Senior Assistant Member
Broad Institute

"Discovering new bioactive molecules through in vivo screening in zebrafish"

January 12, 2012
Emily R. Liman, Ph.D.
Associate Professor
Department of Biological Sciences
Sections of Neurobiology, Molecular Biology
University of Southern California

January 26, 2012
Diomedes E. Logothetis, Ph.D.
Professor, Department Head
Department of Physiology & Biophysicse
Virginia Commonwealth
University Medical Center

"Regulation of potassium channel
activity by phosphoinositides and
G proteins"

March 22, 2012
Richard Lewis, Ph.D.
Professor
Molecular & Cellular Physiology
School of Medicine
Stanford University

April 5, 2012
Ligia Toro, Ph.D.
Professor
Department of Anesthesiology
Division of Molecular Medicine
University of California Los Angeles

April 12, 2012
Qui-Xing Jiang, Ph.D.
Assistant Professor
Department of Cell Biology
UT Southwestern Medical Center at Dallas

April 19, 2012
Robert S. Eisenberg, Ph.D.
Bard Endowed Professor and Chairman
Department of Biophysics & Physiology
Rush University Medical Center

May 10, 2012
Justin DuBois, Ph.D.
Associate Professor
Department of Chemistry
Stanford University

 

May 24, 2012
Ekaterina L. Grishchuk, Ph.D.
Assistant Professor
Department of Physiology
Universityof Pennsylvania

Revised Jan. 24, 2012

For further information contact:

Department of Physiology
B400 Richards Building
(215) 898-8725
phys@mail.med.upenn.edu
Ion Channel Journal Club Schedule, 2011-2012 TBD
9:30 -11:00 a.m.- D502 Richards Building Conf. Room
 
September 22, 2011 Carol Deustch, Ph.D.
October 6, 2011 James Petersson, Ph.D.
October 20, 2011

Claire Mitchell, Ph.D.
November 3, 2011 Yajamana Ramu, Ph.D.
November 17, 2011 Steve Hollingworth, Ph.D.
December 1, 2011 Dejian Ren, Ph.D.
December 15, 2011 Clay Armstrong, M.D.
January 5, 2012 Jonathan Soboloff, Ph.D.
January 19, 2012 Toshinori Hoshi, Ph.D.
February 2, 2012 Stephen Baylor, M.D.
February 16, 2012 Brian Salzberg, Ph.D.
February 25-29, 2012 Biophysical Society
March 8, 2012 J. Kevin Foskett, Ph.D.
March 22, 2012 Brad Rothberg, Ph.D.
April 5, 2012 Mortimer Civan, M.D.
April 19, 2012 Michael White, Ph.D.
May 3, 2012 Robert Greenberg, Ph.D.
May 17, 2012 Don-on (Daniel) Mak, Ph.D.
May 31, 2012 Jon Lindstrom, Ph.D.

 

Papers will be distributed one week prior to the above dates.
  For furthur information contact:
Carol Deutsch
cjd@mail.med.upenn.edu