Cell Biology Seminar Series 2002-2003

Date Speaker Affiliation

Title
Sept. 13, 2002 Jun Qin CCF Molecular Investigation of Integrin signaling in Cell Adhesion and Migration
Sept. 20, 2002 Meredith Bond CCF Targeting of Protein Kinase A by A- kinase Anchoring Proteins in the Heart
Sept. 27, 2002      
Oct. 4, 2002 John White Univ. of Wisconsin The role of the spindle midzone in C. elegans cytokinesis.
Oct. 11, 2002      
Oct. 18, 2002 Neal Rote MetroHealth Human Placental Trophoblast Differentiation Pregnancy Really is Caused by a Virus!
Oct. 25, 2002 Gerard Evan UCSF Building and Demolishing a cancer in vivo.
Nov. 1, 2002 Dianqing Wu Univ. of Connecticut Molecular basis and function of Wnt and chemoattractant-activated signaling.
Nov. 8, 2002 Gary Hoffman CCF Aortitis:segmental differences and effects on disease profiles.
Nov. 15, 2002 Jack Lawler
Beth Isreal Deaconess Medical Center
 Thrombospondin-1 as an inhibitor of angiogenesis and tumor progression and as an activator of transforming growth factor B.
Dec. 6, 2002 Thomas Weimbs CCF "The role of SNAREs and membrane fusion during the terminal step of cytokinesis"
Dec. 13, 2002 Mike Zagorski CWRU Dept of Chemistry A possible new role for the amyloid B-peptide in Alzheimer's Disease
Dec. 20, 2002      
Jan. 10, 2003 Peter Arvan
Albert Einstein College of Medicine
 Plow
Jan. 17, 2003 William Muller Weill Medical College of Cornell University Plow
Jan. 24, 2003 * Daniel Rader University of Pennsylvania Plow
Jan. 31, 2003 Jack Rogers Massachusetts General Hospital "Iron and Translational Control of the Amyloid Precursor Protein gene, a place for RNA based therapeutics for
Alzheimer's Disease."
Feb. 7, 2003 Klaus Ley University of Virginia Health System Plow
Feb. 14, 2003 Virgil Muresan CWRU "Molecular Motors in Amyloid Precursor Protein Trafficking and Signaling."
Feb. 21, 2003 David Muddiman
Mayo
"Accurate, Sensitive, and Quantitative Nucleic Acid Analyses by ESI-FT-ICR Mass Spectrometry."
Feb. 28, 2003 Roy Silverstein
Weill Medical College of Cornell University
 Plow
March 7, 2003  
 
March 14, 2003 Arthur Johnson
Texas A&M University
 How does a bacterial toxin form huge holes in a mammalian cell membrane?
March 21, 2003      
March 28, 2003 Hong Wang
Baylor College of Medicine
 "Homocysteine and Atherosclerosis - from cell to mouse"
April 4, 2003 Matt Hentze EMBL (Heidelberg) Molecular mechanisms to control protein synthesis
April 11, 2003 Susann Brady-Kalnay CWRU Dept of Molecular Biology and Microbiology "PTPmu regulates cell adhesion and signaling."
April 25, 2003      
May 2, 2003 Christopher E. Turner
SUNY Upstate Medical University
 Paxillin Signaling to the Cytoskeleton
May 9, 2003      
May 16, 2003 David Harrison
Emory
 "Redox Regulation of Vasomotor Tone"
May 30, 2003 Geri Kreitzer Weill Medical College of Cornell University "Targeted Exocytosis During Epithelial Polarization: A Study in Three Dimensions"
June 6, 2003      
June 13, 2003      
August 2, 2002 Stuart Moat Wales heart Research Institute, UK Homocysteine, Folate and Endothlial Function.