Research in Progress: 2004-2005
Diabetes Center Lectures in Red - organized by Eugene Barrett
Aurbach Research Lectures in Blue - organized by Raghu Mirmira
Wednesdays 8:30 AM, Aurbach Building room 1229,  Fontaine Research Park (map)

Archive of Research in Progress: 2003-2004

When the talk title apears in blue, you may open the speaker's PowerPoint presentation. Talks marked as secure may only be accessed by UVA faculty & staff (use your e-mail ID & password - HSC Outlook, ITC Central Mail or blue.unix ).  Expect 5-10 second delay per MB on University network, 10 minutes per MB over a modem.

October 20  Juan Pablo -
 Thorner Lab		  Modulator Effects of Growth Hormone on Insulin
 Actions
October 27  Eugene Barrett  Regulation of Insulin Uptake in Skeletal Muscle
November 3  Gregory Clines
 Guise lab		  Endothelin-1 as a Modulator of
 Pathogenic and Normal Bone Remodeling

November 10

 Mette Jenson
Duke University

 Metabolic Regulation of Insulin Secretion: 
 Importance of Anaplerosis
December 1  Chun Xue -
 Siragy Lab 		  Renal Aldosterone and Diabetic Nephropathy
December 8  Heidi Scrable  Why Can't Mice with Altered p53 Activity Get Fat?
  (Secure 12 MB)
December 15   Wei Yue -
 Santen Lab		  Farnesylthiosalicylic Acid Blocks Mammalian
 Target of Rapamycin Signaling in Breast Cancer
 Cells

January 12

 Raghu Mirmira

   Control of Insulin Gene Transcription (Secure 5
 MB)
January 19  Laura Burger -
 Marshall Lab		  Transcriptional Regulation of the Gonadotropin
 Genes (Secure 1 MB)

January 26

 Jerry Nadler

 12-Lipoxygenase and its Role in Diabetes
 Pathogenesis and Complications  (Secure 6 MB) 
February 2  Susanna Keller
 & Pushpa
 Thimmalapura 		 Regulation of Vasopressin by the Insulin-regulated
 Aminopeptidase IRAP
February 9  Zhenqi Liu  Insulin's Cardiovascular Action (Secure 13 MB)
February 10  Alan Attie
 Univ of
 Wisconsin
 - Madison

 ** Invited guest lecture.  Seminar in Jordan I-17
 Genetic and Genomic Dissection of Type 2
 Diabetes in Mice
February 16  Jeff Carter
 Yang Lab		  Combining Autoimmune Prevention and Beta-cell
 Regeneration to cure Type 1 Diabetes
March 2  David Taylor
  Mirmira Lab		  The Carboxyl Terminus of the Pancreatic
 Homeodomain Factor Nkx6.1 Functions as a
 Modular Domain Conferring DNA Binding Selectivity
March 9  Harini
 Bagavant		  Neonatal Thymectomy, Regulatory T Cells and
 Spontaneous Autoimmune Disease
March 16

 1) John
     Chirgwin
 2) Khalid 
     Mohammad
 3) Valerie
    Siclari

 1) Adrenomedullin Gain and Loss of Function in
     Bone Metastases
 2) Bone-specific Inhibitors of
     Adrenomedullin
 3) Molecular Actions of Adrenomedullin in
     Osteoblasts

March 23

 Meng Chen

  Functional Beta Cell Mass: The Junction of Life and Death (Secure 12.4 MB)

March 30

  Robert Carey   The Angiotensin AT2 Receptor Comes of Age

April 7
  4 PM
  Jordan 1-17

   Michael Quon
  Chief, NIH
  Diabetes Unit 		 Vascular Actions of Insulin and Adiponectin

April 13

  Bruce Gaylinn  Ghrelin: Our Current Work Toward Understanding
 its Role

April 20

  Kevin Lynch  Sphingosine 1-Phosphate Signaling Pathways as
 Drug Targets
April 28
  4 PM
  Jordan 1-17		  Michael Brownlee
 Prof of Medicine
 & Pathology
 Albert Einstein
 College of Med		  The Pathobiology of Diabetic Complications: A
 Unifying Mechanism

May 4

   Stephen Shalet
 Prof of Medicine
 Christie Hospital
 Manchester, UK 		 Adult GH Replacement Lessons Learnt and Future
 Prospects

May 6, 2005:  The Research in Progress seminar series for 2004-2005 has been completed for the spring.  The seminars will resume in September, 2005.  Announcements will be sent.  We thank all the speakers and attendants for participating this year and  welcome speaker and topic suggestions for next year's series.

Mary Ann B. McMahon
Diabetes Endocrinology Research Center
Box 801410 Health System
434 924-5247
mbm8x@virginia.edu