Seminar Series Spring 2013

Speaker: Nastaran Hashemi, PhD
Assistant Professor, ISU, Department of Mechanical Engineering
Date: Wednesday, January 16, 2013
Time: 12:00-1:00 PM
Location: 2010 College of Veterinary Medicine
Host: Michael Cho

“Multidrug efflux pumps in Campylobacter: Key players for antibiotic resistance and potential targets for combating infection”
Speaker: Qijing Zhang, BVSc, PhD
Professor and Associate Dean for Research and Graduate Studies, Iowa State University,
Date: Thursday, January 24, 2013
Time: 12:00-1:00 PM
Location: 2025 College Veterinary Medicine
Host: Walter Hsu

“Prefrontal dopamine and cognitive symptoms of Parkinson's disease”
Speaker: Nandakumar Narayanan, MD, PhD
University of Iowa, Department of Neurology
Date: Thursday January 31, 2013
Time: 12:00-1:00 PM
Location: 2025 College Veterinary Medicine
Host: Anumantha Kanthasamy

"Representational plasticity in early sensory cortex: an unexpected approach to the neurobiology of learning and memory"
Speaker: Kasia Bieszczad, PhD
University of California, Irvine, Center for Hearing Research
Date: Thursday February 14, 2013
Time: 12:00-1:00 PM
Location: 2010 College Veterinary Medicine
Host: Diana Peterson

“Neurosteroid interaction with extrasynaptic GABA-A receptors: therapeutic implications for drug discovery"
Speaker: D. Samba Reddy, PhD, RPh
Texas A&M University, Department of Neuroscience and Experimental Therapeutics
Date: Thursday, February 21, 2013
Time: 12:00-1:00 PM
Location: 2010 College Veterinary Medicine
Host: Thimmasettapp Thippeswamy

“Expandable high throughput screening and its applications”
Speaker: Meng Wu, PhD
University of Iowa, Department of Biochemistry
Date: Thursday, February 28, 2013
Time: 12:00-1:00 PM
Location: 2025 College Veterinary Medicine
Host: Vellareddy Anantharam

Speaker: Jo Anne Powell-Coffman, PhD
ISU Department of Genetics, Development, and Cell Biology
Date: Thursday, March 7, 2013
Time: 12:00-1:00 PM
Location: 2025 College Veterinary Medicine
Host: Richard Martin

Speaker: Adrian Wolstenholme, PhD
University of Georgia, Department of Infectious Diseases
Date: Thursday, March 14, 2013
Time: 2:00-1:00 PM
Location: 2010 College Veterinary Medicine
Host: Alan Robertson

Speaker: Kalipada Pahan, PhD
Rush University Medical Center
Date: Thursday, March 28, 2013
Time: 12:00-1:00 PM
Location: 2025 College Veterinary Medicine
Host: Arthi Kanthasamy

"Molecular and atomic mechanisms of endocytic transport."
Speaker: Steven Caplan, PhD
University of Nebraska Medical Center, Department of Biochemistry and Molecular Biology
Date: Thursday, April 4, 2013
Time: 12:00-1:00 PM
Location: 2025 College Veterinary Medicine
Host: Walter Hsu

"Medicinal chemistry as a tool to solve biological and pharmaceutical problems: from novel anti-infective agents to new modulators of glycosaminoglycan-binding proteins"
Speaker: Robert J Kerns, PhD
University of Iowa, Department of Pharmaceutical Sciences and Experimental Therapeutics
Date: Thursday, April 11, 2012
Time: 12:00-1:00 PM
Location: 2025 College Veterinary Medicine
Host: Anumantha Kanthasamy

"The mitochondrial unfolded protein response: A pathway that detects and responds to mitochondrial dysfunction"
Speaker: Cole Haynes, PhD
Memorial Sloan-Kettering Cancer Center, Cell Biology
Date: Thursday, April 18, 2013
Time: 12:00-1:00 PM
Location: 2025 College Veterinary Medicine
Host: Walter Hsu

“Physiology and pharmacology of prokineticins: A pair of versatile regulatory peptides”
Speaker: Qun-Yong Zhou, PhD
University of California, Irvine, Department of Pharmacology
Date: Thursday, April 25, 2013
Time: 12:00-1:00 PM
Location: 2025 College Veterinary Medicine
Host: Anumantha Kanthasamy