Dr. Ilya Goldberg
Staff Scientist
Laboratory of Genetics
National Institute on Aging
Baltimore, Maryland

Pattern recognition techniques for image analysis

Wednesday, January 11, 2012
12:00 PM

Temple: 142 Medical Research Building
College Station: 300 Reynolds Medical Building

SBTM Host: Dr. Vincent VanBuren)

Dr. Carl Tong
Assistant Professor
Department of Systems Biology & Translational Medicine
Texas A&M Health Science Center College of Medicine
Temple, Texas

Critical contributions of cross-bridge cycling regulation to normal heart function

Wednesday, January 18, 2012
12:00 PM

Temple: 142 Medical Research Building
College Station: 300 Reynolds Medical Building

Dr. Y. Eugene Chen
Professor
Cardiovascular Center
University of Michigan Medical Center
Ann Arbor, Michigan

Novel transgenic pigs/rabbits for translational medicine

Wednesday, January 25, 2012
12:00 PM

Temple: 142 Medical Research Building
College Station: 300 Reynolds Medical Building

(SBTM Host: Dr. Xu Peng)

Dr. Sakthivel Sadayappan
Assistant Professor
Department of Cell and Molecular Physiology
Stritch School of Medicine
Loyola University - Chicago
Maywood, Illinois

Cardiac myosin binding protein-C: its redefining structure and function

Wednesday, February 8, 2012
12:00 PM

Temple: 142 Medical Research Building
College Station: 300 Reynolds Medical Building

(SBTM Host: Dr. Carl Tong)

Dr. Irina Nizamutdinova
Postdoctoral Research Associate
Department of Systems Biology & Translational Medicine
Texas A&M Health Science Center College of Medicine
Temple, Texas

Endothelial VCAM-1 and ICAM-1 stimulated by TNF-α: differential signaling pathways

Wednesday, February 15, 2012
12:00 PM

Temple: 142 Medical Research Building
College Station: 300 Reynolds Medical Building

Dr. Michael Sturek
Professor and Chair
Department of Cellular & Integrative Physiology
Indiana University School of Medicine
Indianapolis, Indiana

From coronary smooth muscle Ca2+ dysfunction to calcification in metabolic syndrome

Wednesday, February 22, 2012
12:00 PM

College Station: 300 Reynolds Medical Building
Temple: 142 Medical Research Building

(SBTM Host: Dr. Emily Wilson)

Associate Professor
Department of Internal Medicine
Chief Scientist, Center for Biophotonics Science and Technology
University of California - Davis
Sacramento, California

Unraveling the spatiotemporal nature of HIV-1 transfer between living T cells by superresolution optical microscopy

Wednesday, March 7, 2012
12:00 PM

College Station: 300 Reynolds Medical Building
Temple: 142 Medical Research Building

(SBTM Host: Dr. Andreea Trache)

Dr. Jason X.-J. Yuan
Professor
Department of Medicine
Section of Pulmonary, Critical Care and Sleep Medicine
University of Illinois - Chicago
Chicago, Illinois

Pulmonary arterial hypertension: Role of CaSR and TRP channels

Wednesday, March 21, 2012
12:00 PM

Temple: 142 Medical Research Building
College Station: 300 Reynolds Medical Building

(SBTM Host: Dr. Shenyuan Zhang)

Dr. Richard Aldrich
Karl Folkers Chair in Interdisciplinary Biomedical Research II
Professor of Neurobiology
Center for Learning and Memory
The University of Texas at Austin
Austin, Texas

Molecular biophysics of potassium channels

Wednesday, March 28, 2012
12:00 PM

Temple: 142 Medical Research Building
College Station: 300 Reynolds Medical Building

(SBTM Host: Postdoctoral Research Associates)

Dr. Ruth B. Caldwell
Professor
Department of Cellular Biology & Anatomy
Molecular Biology Center
Georgia Health Sciences University
Augusta, Georgia

Vascular injury and repair in ischemic retinopathy, targeting the arginase pathway

Wednesday, April 4, 2012
12:00 PM

Temple: 142 Medical Research Building
College Station: 300 Reynolds Medical Building

(SBTM Host: Dr. Lih Kuo)

Paradoxical roles for transforming growth factor b (beta) in vascular remodeling

Wednesday, April 18, 2012
12:00 PM

College Station: 300 Reynolds Medical Building
Temple: 142 Medical Research Building

Dr. Arne Hansen
Department of Experimental Pharmacology and Toxicology
University Hospital Center Hamburg-Eppendorf
Hamburg, GERMANY

Engineered heart tissue - a versatile in vitro model

Wednesday, April 25, 2012
12:00 PM

Temple: 142 Medical Research Building
College Station: 300 Reynolds Medical Building

(SBTM Host: Dr. Carl Tong)

Dr. Lisa M. Hodge
Associate Professor & Osteopathic Heritage Basic Science Research Chair
University of North Texas Health Science Center
Fort Worth, Texas

The effect of lymphatic pumping on tumor growth and metastasis

Wednesday, May 2, 2012
12:00 PM

Temple: 142 Medical Research Building
College Station: 300 Reynolds Medical Building

(SBTM Host: Dr. David Zawieja)

Dr. Laura Santambrogio
Associate Professor of Pathology, Immunology and Microbiology
Member of the Aging Center
Albert Einstein College of Medicine
New York, New York

Self antigens carried by the human lymph

Wednesday, May 30, 2012
12:00 PM

Temple: 142 Medical Research Building
College Station: 300 Reynolds Medical Building

(SBTM Host: Dr. Anatoliy A. Gashev)