Fall 2009 Advanced Physiology Seminar Series
Room 1059, Life Science III


8/28/09 orientation meeting

 

9/4/09
Michael May, Ph.D., Department of Educational Psychology and Special Education, SIUC 
"A Functional Polymorphism in the Monoamine Oxidase A Gene is Associated with Problem Behavior in Adults with Intellectual/Developmental Disabilities."
9/11/09
Mike Hoane Ph.D. Restorative Neuroscience Lab, Dept. of Psychology, SIUC
"The translational neuroscience of Nicotinamide for the treatment of traumatic brain injury"
9/18/09

Daniel Kanak, MS student

'Synaptic function under metabolic stress in hippocampal slices from young and aged rats'

9/25/09
Quint Winger Ph.D., Animal Reproductive Biology Lab. Colorado State University
"Maintaining Stemness in Primordial Germ Cells and Trophoblast Stem Cells"
10/2/09
Huyen Doan Van, PhD student
"The Basic Helix-Loop-Transcription Factor Hand2 Plays a Key Role in Female Reproduction."
10/9/09
Manjeet Rao Ph.D., University of Texas Health Science Center at San Antonio
"Chromatin Remodeling: Adding to the Increasing Role of MicroRNA's in Cellular Processes"  

10/16/09
Adam Ploegman, MS student
"FOXM1 and its Role in Pituitary Development."
10/23/09
Sreeparna Majumdar, MS student
"Role of FOXO1 in  Pituitary Gland Development"

10/30/09
Steve Swanson Ph.D., UIC-Medical Chemistry and Pharmacognosy
"Animal models to study the role of the growth hormone/IGF-I axis in cancer."
11/6/09
Ko Watabe Ph.D., Department of Medical Microbiology, Immunology and Cell Biology, SIU Springfield

"Fatty acid synthase: a drugable metabolic oncogene for cancer therapy"


11/13/09
Hilary Kenny, Ph.D.  Department of Obstetrics and Gynecology, The University of Chicago
"Mechanisms of Early Ovarian Cancer Metastasis" 
11/20/09
Andras Hajnal M.D. Ph.D., Neural & Behavioral Sciences and Surgery, Pennstate University College of Medicine
"Taste Reward in Obesity and Following Gastric
Bypass Surgery"
11/27/09
 
Thanksgiving weekend; No seminar
12/4/09
Greg Rose Ph.D., Center for Integrative Research in Cognitive and Neural Sciences, SIUC

 

"Of Mice and Men:  Studies of the Hippocampal Memory System"