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"

"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