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Distinguished Scientist Series  
   
On a rotating basis, basic science departments invite distinguished scientists from other academic institutions to present seminars describing their latest research findings. The seminars are presented on Thursday afternoons at 4:00 p.m. in the first floor auditorium in the Medical Sciences Building. Interested faculty, staff, and students are encouraged to attend. The series includes many outstanding scientists. Faculty, staff and students are strongly encouraged to attend as we welcome these outstanding scientists.  
   
   
   
DISTINGUISHED SCIENTIST SEMINAR (DSS) SERIES
October 2009- May 2010
DATE DEPARTMENT HOST SPEAKER AFFILIATION SEMINAR TITLE
10/1/2009 Physiology James Downey, Ph.D. David A. Kass, M.D.
Bio
Professor of Medicine; Abraham & Virginia Weiss Professor of Cardiology, Department of Medicine, Johns Hopkins School of Medicine, Baltimore, MD "Viagra Redux: Modulating Cardiac Stress Response by Phosphodiesterase Type 5"
10/8/2009 Center for Lung Biology Troy Stevens, Ph.D. & Thomas Rich, Ph.D. James R. Klinger, M.D.
Bio
Associate Professor of Medicine, Brown Medical School, Medical Director - Respiratory Care Unit, Rhode Island Hospital, Division of Pulmonary Sleep and Critical Care Medicine “The role of ANP in pulmonary permeability"
10/15/2009 Cell Biology & Neuroscience Glenn Wilson, Ph.D. John A. Corbett, Ph.D.
Bio
Director, Comprehensive Diabetes Center & Professor, Department of Medicine, Division of Endocrinology Diabetes & Metabolism, UAB Comprehensive Diabetes Center, Birmingham, AL “How Does Nitric Oxide Kill Beta Cells?"
10/22/2009 Pharmacology Karen Fagan, M.D. Richard M. Weinshilboum, M.D.
Bio
Mary Lou and John H. Dashburg Professor of Cancer Genomics, and Director, Division of Clinical Pharmacology, Department of Molecular Pharmacology and Experimental Therapeutics, Mayo Medical School-Mayo Clinic, Rochester, MN "Pharmacogenomics and Individualized Drug Therapy"
10/29/2009 Comparative Medicine Jonathan Scammell, Ph.D. Frank F. Bartol, Ph.D.
Bio
Associate Dean for Research and Graduate Studies, Auburn School of Veterinary Medicine, Auburn, AL "Maternal Lactocrine Programming of Neonatal Development: Implications for Fertility and Health"
11/5/2009 Cell Biology & Neuroscience Valentina Grishko, Ph.D. Richard F. Loeser, Jr., M.D.
Bio
The Dorothy Rhynee Kimbrell & Willard Duke Kimbrell Professor of Arthritis & Rheumatology & Professor, Internal Medicine, Molecular Medicine & Rheumatology, Section Chief, Molecular Medicine, Wake Forest University School of Medicine, Winston-Salem, NC "Redox Regulation of IGF-I and Integrin Signaling in Chondrocytes"
11/12/2009 Biochemistry & Molecular Biology Sailen Barik, Ph.D. Cheng-Ming Chiang, Ph.D.
Bio
Professor, Simmons Comprehensive Cancer Center, Departments of Pharmacology and Biochemistry, UT Southwestern Medical Center, Dallas, TX "Epigenetic Control of Chromatin-Dependent Transcription: Lessons from HPV E2 and E6 Proteins"
12/3/2009 Physiology Thomas Lincoln, Ph.D. Hanjoong Jo, Ph.D.
Bio
Ada Lee & Pete Correll Professor, Biomedical Engineering, Emory University School of Medicine, Atlanta, GA "Identification of novel flow-sensitive mRNAs and microRNAs Regulating Atherosclerosis"
12/10/2009 Pharmacology Karen Fagan, M.D. Edward Abraham, M.D.
Bio
Spencer Chair in Medical Science Leadership, Department of Medicine, University of Alabama at Birminghan School of Medicine, Birmingham, AL "Intersection Between Coagulation and Inflammation: The Secret Life of Coagulation Factors"
1/7/2010
CANCELLED
Pharmacology CANCELLED Mark Gillespie, Ph.D. Scott W. Ballinger, Ph.D.
Bio
Associate Professor, Department of Pathology, Division Molecular and Cellular Pathology, Center for Free Radical Biology, Director, Bio-Analytical Redox Biology Care, University of Alabama at Birmingham School of Medicine, Birmingham, AL “The Mitochondrial Paradigm for Disease Susceptibility: Prehistoric Events Influencing Contemporary Disease Risk”
1/14/2010 Cell Biology & Neuroscience Glenn Wilson, Ph.D. Clayton Mathews, Ph.D.
Bio
Associate Professor, Department of Pathology, Immunology & Laboratory Medicine, University of Florida College of Medicine, Gainesville, FL "A Little Dissipation is a Good Thing: The Suppressor of Superoxide Production Locus"
1/21/2010 Biochemistry & Molecular Biology William Gerthoffer, Ph.D. Chunxiang (Kevin) Zhang, M.D., Ph.D.
Bio
Associate Professor & Vice Chairman of Research, Dept. of Anesthesiology, New Jersey Medical School, University of Medicine & Denistry of New Jersey "miRNAs in Vascular Function"
1/28/2010
CANCELLED
Biochemistry & Molecular Biology
CANCELLED
Sachin Gupte, Ph.D. Joseph Loscalzo, M.D., Ph.D.
Bio
Head, Department of Medicine, Brigham and Women's Hospital, Harvard Medical School, Boston, MA "The Pathobiology and Redox Dysregulation of the Vasculature"
2/4/2010 OPEN        
2/11/2010 Microbiology & Immunology Joseph Brewer, Ph.D. John F. Kearney, Ph.D. Professor, Department of Microbiology, University of Alabama at Birmingham, Birmingham, AL TBA
2/18/2010 Physiology Steve Ballard, Ph.D. Thomas Lincoln, Ph.D.
Bio
Professor & Chair, Department of Physiology, University of South Alabama College of Medicine, Mobile, AL "Control of Cyclic GMP Signaling: Why It Should Not Have Taken 30 Years to Figure It Out"
2/25/2010 Pharmacology Eugene Cioffi, Ph.D. James Prestegard, Ph.D.
Bio
Professor, Biochemistry and Molecular Biology, and Chemistry, and GRV/Varian Eminent Scholar of NMR Spectroscoy, University of Georgia's Complex Carbohydrate Research Center, Atlanta, GA “NMR Investigations of ADP Ribosylation Factor: Insights into Vesicle Trafficking.”
3/4/2010 Pharmacology Mark Gillespie, Ph.D. Christopher M. Waters, Ph.D. Professor & Vice Chair, Department of Physiology, Univ. of Tennessee Health Science Center, College of Medicine, Memphis, TN TBA
3/11/2010 OPEN        
3/18/2010 OPEN        
3/25/2010 Cell Biology & Neuroscience Glenn Wilson, Ph.D. Tak Yee Aw, Ph.D. Professor, Department of Molecular and Cellular physiology, LSU Health Sciences Centere, Shreveport, LA TBA
4/1/2010 Center for Lung Biology        
4/8/2010 COM Dean's Office Samuel J. Strada, Ph.D. Henry Sondheimer, M.D. Senior Director, Student Affairs and Student Programs, Association of American Medical Colleges, Washington, DC TBA
4/15/2010 Cell Biology & Neuroscience Lyudmila Racheck, Ph.D. Gerald I. Shulman, M.D., Ph.D., FACP
George R. Cowgil Professor of Physiological Chemistry, Medicine & Cellular & Molecular Physiology, Investigator, Howard Hughes Medical Institute, Yale University, New Haven, CT
TBA
4/22/2010 Pharmacology Mark Gillespie, Ph.D. Scott W. Ballinger, Ph.D. Associate Professor, Department of Pathology, Division Molecular and Cellular Pathology, Center for Free Radical Biology, Director, Bio-Analytical Redox Biology Care, University of Alabama at Birmingham School of Medicine, Birmingham, AL "The Mitochondrial Paradigm for Disease Susceptbility: Prehistoric Events Influencing Contemporary Disease Risk"
4/29/2010 Biochemistry & Molecular Biology Richard Honkanen, Ph.D. Philip Howe, Ph.D. Professor, Department of Physiology & Biophysics, Case Wester Reserve University & Staff member, Department of Cancer Biology, Cleveland Clinic Lerner Research Institute, Cleveland, OH TBA
5/6/2010 Microbiology & Immunology Paul Brett, Ph.D. David DeShazer, Ph.D. Microbiologist, Bacteriology Division, U.S. Army Medical Research Institute of Infectious Diseases (USAMRIID), Ft. Detrick, MD TBA
5/13/2010 OPEN        
5/20/2010 Comparative Medicine Jonathan Scammell, Ph.D. Guy A. Caldwell, Ph.D. Blackmon-Moody Outstanding Professor, Department of Biological Sciences, University of Alabama-Tuscaloosa, Tuscaloosa, AL TBA

 
 
 


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