Pharmacology 701: Fall Seminar Series


Fall 2008 Schedule

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September 11, 2008
Thursday

Qingchun Tong
Instructor in Medicine
Department of Medicine, Harvard Medical School
Dissecting Hypothalamic Neurocircuitry in the Regulation of Energy Balance
9:00 am*, Room 2ABC Jordan*
Host: Kevin Lynch
*Please note different time and location.
 

October 9, 2008
Thursday

Joseph R. Bishop
Postdoctoral Fellow
Department of Cell and Molecular Medicine, University of California, San Diego
How Sugars Control Fat
9:00 am*, Room 5023 Jordan*
Host: Kevin Lynch
*Please note different time and location.

October 14, 2008
Tuesday*

Thurl Harris
Research Assistant Professor
Department of Pharmacology, University of Virginia
Lipin1 Promotes TAG Synthesis and Suppresses Inflammation Through Distinct Mechanisms
9:00 am*, Room 5023 Jordan
Host: Kevin Lynch
*Please note different day, time, and location.

November 6, 2008
Thursday

Kyle Hoehn
Research Officer
Garvan Institute, Sydney Australia
Insulin Resistance - An Adaptive Response to Mitochondrial Stress
9:00 am*, Room 5023 Jordan*
Host: Kevin Lynch
*Please note different time and location.

November 13, 2008
Thursday

Hee-Sup Shin
Director, Center for Neural Science
Korea Institute for Science and Technology
T-type Calcium Channels in Thalamic Sensory Gating and Control of Cognition
4:00 pm, Room 117 Jordan
Host: Slobodan Todorovic
Learn more about Dr. Shin

November 20, 2008
Thursday

Xianjun "Frank" Fang
Assistant Professor
Department of Biochemistry, Virginia Commonwealth University
Novel Subgroup of Lysophosphatidic Acid Receptors
12:00 pm*, Room 5023 Jordan*
Host: Kevin Lynch
Learn more about Dr. Fang
*Please note different time and location.

November 27, 2008
Thursday

No Seminar (Thanksgiving Holiday)

December 11, 2008
Thursday

Alan Cheng
Postdoctoral Fellow
Life Sciences Institute, University of Michigan
Disorders of Carbohydrate Metabolism: Unraveling the Branches of Lafora and Cori's Disease
9:00 am*, Room 5023 Jordan*
Host: Kevin Lynch
Learn more about Dr. Cheng
*Please note different time and location.

December 18, 2008
Thursday

Patrick Seale
Postdoctoral Fellow
Dana-Farber Cancer Institute, Harvard University
The Transcriptional Regulator, PRDM16, Controls a Brown Fat/Skeletal Muscle Developmental Switch
9:00 am*, Room 5023 Jordan*
Host: Kevin Lynch
Learn more about Dr. Cheng
*Please note different time and location.

 

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This page was last updated on December 3, 2008.