2011 Seminars | Pharmacology | University of Nebraska Medical Center

Date/Time/Location	Speaker	Title
18 November, Friday 9 a.m. Seminar Durham Research Center 1002	Umut Ozcan, MD Assistant Professor, Division of Endocrinology, Children's Hospital Boston, Harvard Medical School, Host: Keshore Bidasee, PhD	ER Stress in Health and Disease
4 November, Friday 9 a.m. Seminar Durham Research Center 1002	Eric Dodds, PhD Assistant Professor, UNL/Department of Chemistry Host: Pawel Ciborowski, PhD	Title TBA
18 October, Tuesday Noon Seminar Durham Research Center 1002	Anne Rutkowski, MD Chair of Cure Congenital Muscular Dystrophy Host: PEN Department	Congenital Muscular Dystrophy- In Pursuit of Clinical Trial Readiness, Bench to Bedside
14 October, Friday 9 a.m. Seminar Durham Research Center 1002	Janee Gelineau-van Waes, D.V.M., PhD Associate Professor, Creighton/Department Pharmacology Host: Myron Toews, PhD	Title TBA
7 October, Friday 9 a.m. Seminar Durham Research Center 1002	David Pearce, PhD Director of Sanford Children’s Health Research Center Host: Tammy Kielian, PhD	Juvenile Batten Disease: From Bench to Bedside
30 September, Friday 9 a.m. Seminar Durham Research Center 1002	Paul Davis, PhD Assistant Professor, UNO/Department Biology Host: Myron Toews, PhD	Understanding Cyst Formation in the Chemoresistant Brain Parasite Toxoplasma gondii
23 September, Friday 9 a.m. Seminar Durham Research Center 1002	JoEllyn McMillan, PhD Assistant Professor, UNMC/Department Pharmacology Host: PEN Department	Title TBA
16 September, Friday 9 a.m. Seminar Durham Research Center 1002	Courtney Fletcher, Pharm.D. Dean and Professor, UNMC/College of Pharmacy Host: Howard E. Gendelman, MD/Myron Toews, PhD	Compartment kinetics of antiretroviral drugs
5 July, Friday 9 a.m. Seminar Durham Research Center 1002	Puttappa Dodmane Graduate Student, Dept. of Pharmacology and Experimental Neuroscience/UNMC Mentor: Myron Toews, PhD Host: PEN Department	Epidermal Growth Factor Receptor Activation and Regulation by an Aqueous Extract of Hogbarn Dust in Airway Epithelial Cells
22 June, Friday 9 a.m. Seminar Durham Research Center 1002	Malubendu Jana, PhD Assistant Professor, Neurological Sciences, Rush University Medical Center Host: PEN Department	Regulation of LINGO-1 by PPAR – Beta: Implications for the Pathogenesis of Demyelination
10 June, Friday 9 a.m. Seminar Durham Research Center 1002	Richa Hanamsagar Graduate Student, Dept. of Pathology & Microbiology Mentor: Tammy Kielian, PhD Host: PEN Department	The NLRP3 Inflammasome is Critical for Microglial Responses to Staphylococcus
3 June, Friday 9 a.m. Seminar Durham Research Center 1002	Jianuo Liu, PhD Seminar Speaker, Dept. of Pharmacology and Experimental Neuroscience/UNMC Host: PEN Department	Involvement of voltage-gated K channels in microglia neurotoxic activity
27 May, Friday 9 a.m. Seminar Durham Research Center 1002	Jessica Winkler Graduate Student, Dept. of Pharmacology and Experimental Neuroscience/UNMC Mentor: Howard Fox, MD, PhD Amrita Chaudhuri Graduate Student, Dept. of Pharmacology and Experimental Neuroscience/UNMC Mentor: Howard Fox, MD, PhD Host: PEN Department	Elucidating Transcription factor/miRNA sub networks during monocyte differentiation Neuronal miR-142 is up-regulated in HIVE/ SIVE and inhibits Monoamine Oxidase A Expression in Neurons
20 May, Friday 9 a.m. Seminar Durham Research Center 1002	Lisa Kosloski Graduate Student, Dept. of Pharmacology and Experimental Neuroscience/UNMC Mentor: Howard E. Gendelman, MD Carly Ninemire Graduate Student, Dept. of Pharmacology and Experimental Neuroscience/UNMC Mentor: Howard Fox, MD, PhD Host: PEN Department	Functional and proteomic changes in regulatory T cells in the presence of methamphetamine Inflammatory Effects on Neuronal Autophagy
13 May, Friday 9 a.m. Seminar Durham Research Center 1002	Nawal Boukli, PhD Associate Professor, Biomedical Proteomic Facility Director, Department of Microbiology and Immunology Unversidad Central del Caribe, School of Medicine Seminar Speaker Host: Huangui Xiong, MD, PhD	Implications of ER Stress and Protection in Alcohol-Induced Dendritic Cell injury
12 May, Friday 9 a.m. Seminar Durham Research Center 1002	Namas Chandra, Ph.D., P.E. Associate Dean for Research Elmer E. Koch Professor of Engineering Mechanics, College of Engineering University of Nebraska-Lincoln Host: James Haorah, Ph.D.	Experimental and Computational Studies of Blast Induced mild TBI
29 April, Friday 9 a.m. Seminar Durham Research Center 1002	Sasanka Raanadham, PhD Associate Professor, Dept Physiology and Biophysics Senior Scientist, Comprehensive Diabetes Center University of Alabama at Birmingham Host: Keshore Bidasee, PhD	Lipid Mediators and Pancreatic Islet Beta-Cell Death
22 April, Friday 9 a.m. Seminar Durham Research Center 1002	Guru Pendyala, PhD Instructor, Department of Pharmacology and Experimental Neuroscience/UNMC Seminar Speaker Host: PEN Department	HIV and Methamphetamine in the Brain: "HAND" le with care
22 April, Friday 9 a.m. Seminar Durham Research Center 1002	Aaron Mercer Graduate Student Mentor: Wallace Thoreson, PhD Host: PEN Department	Architecture of the Photoreceptor Ribbon Synapse: L-type Voltage-Gated Calcium Channel Mobility and the Role of Cholesterol in Neurotransmission
15 April, Friday 9 a.m. Seminar Durham Research Center 1002	Larisa Poluektova, MD, PhD Associate Professor, Dept. of Pharmacology and Experimental Neuroscience/UNMC Seminar Speaker Host: PEN Department	Antiviral peptide nanocomplexes (APN) for treatment HIV/HCV co-infection
1 April, Friday 9 a.m. Seminar Durham Research Center 1002	Matt Kelso, PhD Assistant Professor, Department of Pharmacy Practice/UNMC Seminar Speaker Host: Myron Toews	Novel Polymer-Based Antioxidant Formulations for the Treatment of Traumatic Brain Injury
31 March, Friday 3 p.m. Final Oral examination Durham Research Center 1002	Ari Nowacek Graduate Student, Dept. of Pharmacology and Experimental Neuroscience/UNMC Mentor: Howard E. Gendelman, MD Host: PEN Department	Development of a Macrophage-Mediated Delivery System for Crystalline Antiretroviral Nanoparticles
28 March, Monday 1 p.m. Final Oral examination Durham Research Center 1004	Stephanie Kraft-Terry Graduate Student Mentor: Howard E. Gendelman, MD Host: PEN Department	Dynamics of the monocyte-macrophage proteome during differentiation and HIV-1 infection
25 March, Friday 9 a.m. Seminar Durham Research Center 1002	Santhi Gorantla,PhD Assistant Professor, Dept. of Pharmacology and Experimental Neuroscience/UNMC Seminar Speaker Host: PEN Department	Cannabinoid receptor-2 activation: Implications for neuroinflammation
11 March, Friday 9 a.m. Seminar Durham Research Center 1002	Subhojit Roy, MD, PhD Assistant Professor, Department of Neurosciences School of Medicine,University of California, San Diego Seminar Speaker Host: PEN Graduate Students	Going, Going, Gone: Evolution of synaptic pathology in Neurodegeneration
4 March, Friday 9 a.m. Seminar Durham Research Center 1002	Jun Wang Graduate Student, Dept. of Pharmacology and Experimental Neuroscience/UNMC Huangui Xiong's lab Host: PEN Department	Involvement of 4-AP Sensitive Potassium Current in Methamphetamine-induced Hippocampal Neuronal Apoptosis
18 February, Friday 9 a.m. Seminar Durham Research Center 1002	Jessica A. L. Hutter-Saunders Graduate Student, Dept. of Pharmacology and Experimental Neuroscience/UNMC Mentor: Howard E. Gendelman, MD Host: PEN Department	The Road to an Effective Immunization Strategy for Parkinson's Disease
7 February, Friday 9 a.m. Seminar Durham Research Center 1002	Lena Al-Harthi, PhD Professor, Dept. Immunology/Microbiology and Center for AIDS Research Rush University Medical Center, Chicago, IL Seminar Speaker Host: Pawel Ciborowski, PhD	Revisiting the Role of Astrocytes in HIV Replication: the Wnt/b-catenin Connection
4 February, Friday 9 a.m. Seminar Durham Research Center 1002	Blaise Mathias Costa, PhD Post Doc, Dept. of Pharmacology and Experimental Neuroscience/UNMC Hosted: PEN Department	Pharmacology of Novel Allosteric Modulators of NMDA Ionotropic Glutamate Receptors
28 January, Friday 9 a.m. Seminar Durham Research Center 1002	Pawel Ciborowski, PhD Associate Professor of Pharmacology and Experimental Neuroscience Director, Mass Spectrometry and Proteomics Core Facility Department of Pharmacology and Experimental Neuroscience/UNMC Seminar Speaker Host: PEN Department	HIV Associated Neurocognitive Disorders (HAND): Do we know all the players
21 January, Friday 9 a.m. Seminar Durham Research Center 1002	Ari Nowacek Graduate Student, Dept. of Pharmacology and Experimental Neuroscience/UNMC Mentor: Howard E. Gendelman, MD Host: PEN Department	Macrophage Endocytic Trafficking of NanoART: Implications for HIV Therapeutics
14 January, Friday 9 a.m. Seminar Durham Research Center 1002	Ravindra Singh, PhD Associate Professor, College of Veterinary Medicine Biomedical Sciences, Iowa State University, IA Seminar Speaker Host: Dan Monaghan, PhD	Alternative Splicing in Neurodegeneration and Prospects for Therapy
7 January, Friday 9 a.m. Seminar Durham Research Center 1002	Sungwong Kim, PhD Post-doctoral Research Associate, School of Pharmacy, Purdue University Faculty Candidate Host: Howard E. Gendelman, MD	The Interface between Biology and Material Science: Challenge or Potential of Drug Delivery