2013 Spring Seminar Series

Seminars are held on Fridays, from 2-3 p.m., in 165 Brehm Lab, except as noted. The department hosts a full schedule of seminars every academic year. The events feature prominent researchers in the fields of neuroscience, cell biology and physiology from around the world. Thomas L. Brown, Ph.D., is the seminar director.

Date and Host

Speaker

Topic

Feb. 15
Host: David Ladle, Ph.D.

Douglas E. Wright, Ph.D., Professor, Department of Anatomy and Cell Biology, University of Kansas Medical Center, Kansas City, Kan.

“Peripheral nerve damage in diabetes”

March 8
Host: Dan Miska, M.S.

Ernest F. Talarico Jr., Ph.D., Associate Faculty, Department of Radiologic Sciences, Indiana University School of Medicine Northwest, Gary, Ind.

“Medical imaging of human cadavers: Stories of human cadavers at IUSM”

March 15
Host: J. Ashot Kozak, Ph.D.

Peter Hajdu, Ph.D., Postdoctoral Fellow, Department of Internal Medicine, University of Cincinnati; Department of Biophysics and Cell Biology, University of Debrecen, Hungary

“Role and expression of ion channels in immune cells”

March 22

Cancelled

 

April 5
Hosts: Kathrin Engisch, Ph.D., and Dean's Office, College of Science and Mathematics

N. Charles Harata, M.D., PhD., Assistant Professor, Department of Molecular Physiology and Biophysics, University of Iowa Carver College of Medicine, Iowa City, Iowa

“Neuronal functions are influenced by torsinA, a protein associated with a movement disorder dystonia”

April 12
Hosts: Robert Putnam, Ph.D., and Christopher Wyatt, Ph.D.

Ryan Bavis, Ph.D., Associate Professor, Department of Biology, Bates College, Lewiston, Maine

“Hyperoxia and the developing respiratory control system”