All Seminar Titles Listed Here are Tentative; Final Titles will be Provided on the Individual Seminar Announcements.
8/29/03 OPEN
9/5/03 T. Philip Malan, M.D., Ph.D.
Associate Professor
Department of Anesthesiology
University of Arizona College of Medicine
Title: "Cannabinoids for the treatment of pain"
(host: Erik Henriksen)
9/12/03 William H. Dantzler, M.D., Ph.D.
Professor and Head
Department of Physiology
University of Arizona College of Medicine
Title: "New insights into function and structure of the thin limbs of Henle's loop in the renal inner medulla"
(host: Erik Henriksen)
9/19/03 W. Howard Evans, Ph.D.
Professor
Department of Medical Biochemistry and Immunology
Wales Heart Research Institute
University of Wales College of Medicine
Heath Park, Cardiff, Wales
United Kingdom
Title: "Connexin catalyzed cell-cell communication: multiple mechanisms"
(host: Scott Boitano)
9/26/03 Scott Boitano, Ph.D.
Assistant Professor
Department of Physiology
Arizona Respiratory Center
University of Arizona College of Medicine
Title: "Alveolar cell plasticity--roles for extracellular matrix and intercellular
junctions"
(host: Erik Henriksen)
10/3/03 Andy Fuglevand, Ph.D.
Associate Professor
Department of Physiology
University of Arizona College of Medicine
Title: "Restoration of movement using probabilistic-controlled functional electrical stimulation"
(host: Erik Henriksen)
10/10/03 PSP Data Blitz – Systems Physiology Training Grant
10/17/03 Randall K. Powers, Ph.D.
Research Professor
Department of Physiology and Biophysics
University of Washington School of Medicine
Seattle, WA
Title: "Synaptic integration in spinal alpha motoneurons"
(host: Doug Stuart)
10/24/03 Kim E. Barrett, Ph.D.
Professor and Vice-Chair for Research
Department of Medicine
Interim Chief for Academic Affairs
Division of Gastroenterology
University of California at San Diego School of Medicine
La Jolla, CA
Title: "Normal and abnormal regulation of intestinal chloride transport: modulation by friends and foes"
(host: Scott Boitano)
10/31/03 OPEN
11/7/02 Todd D. Camenish, Ph.D.
Assistant Professor
Department of Pharmacology and Toxicology
University of Arizona
Title: "ErbB ligands and receptors augmented by extracellular matrix coordinate
heart valve morphogenesis"
(host: Heddwen Brooks)
11/14/03 Robert J. Callister, Ph.D.
Senior Lecturer in Anatomy and Neuroscience
Discipline of Anatomy
University of Newcastle School of Medicine
Newcastle, NSW, Australia
Title: "Processing of pain information in the mouse spinal cord"
(host: Doug Stuart)
11/21/03 Rolf Joho, Ph.D.
Associate Professor
Center for Basic Neuroscience
The University of Texas Southwestern Medical Center
Dallas, TX
Title: "Altered GABA-mediated signaling and cerebellar consequences of targeted Kv3 channel knockout in transgenic mice"
(host: Andrea Yool)
12/5/03 Troy Stevens, Ph.D.
Department of Pharmacology
University of South Alabama College of Medicine
Birmingham, AL
Title; "The Regulation of Store Operated Ca2+ Entry in Endothelial Cells"
(host: Ron Lynch)