ResearchFrontiers in Pharmacology Lecture Series 2005-2006
Each year the Department of Pharmacology invites distinguished researchers to present their work on topics broadly related to pharmacology. Topics range from those closely aligned with the research interests of the department, to areas of interest to researchers across the UC Davis campus and the UC Davis School of Medicine. All seminars are held on Fridays at 10:00 a.m. in the Genome and Biomedical Sciences Facility Auditorium, room 1005.
| January 13 | Peter Walter, Ph.D. |
| University of California, San Francisco | |
| "Intracellular Signaling From the Endoplasmic Reticulum to the Nucleus: | |
| February 11 | Lawrence B. Salkoff, Ph.D. |
| Washington University School of Medicine | |
| "Novel Potassium Channels Revealed by the Comparative Genomic Approach" | |
| March 11 | Robert S. Kass, Ph.D. |
| Columbia University School of Medicine | |
| "Ion Channel Mutations in Human Disease: Insights into Novel Cellular Physiology and Pharmacology" | |
| April 8 | Ralph H. Joho, Ph.D. |
| The University of Texas Southwestern Medical Center at Dallas | |
| "Ion Channels and Behavior: Sleep Loss and Motor Dysfunction in Kv3-deficient Mice" | |
| April 22 | Doris A. Taylor, Ph.D. |
| University of Minnesota School of Medicine | |
| "Cell-Based Cardiac and Vascular Repair: What Does the Future Hold?" | |
| May 20 | Russell N. Van Gelder, M.D., Ph.D. |
| Washington University School of Medicine | |
| "Learning From the Pupils: Lessons in Non-visual Ocular Photoreception" | |
| June 3 | Dan Shoemaker, Ph.D. |
| GHC Technologies, Inc | |
| "Rapid and Ultrasensitive Detection of Pathogens Using Single Molecule Analysis with Quantum Dots: Applications in Biodefense and Clinical Diagnostics" | |
| September 23 | Joe DeRisi, Ph.D. |
| University of California, San Francisco | |
| "Bugs, Drugs and Microarrays: Genomic Approaches to Infectious Disease" | |
| October 21 | Stefan Pulst, M.D. |
| UCLA School of Medicine | |
| "Degenerative Ataxias: From Polyglutamine Proteins and Ion Channels" | |
| November 18 | Joel Gottesfeld, Ph.D. |
| Scripps Research Institute | |
| "Chemical Regulation of Gene Expression" | |
| December 9 | George Chandy, M.D., Ph.D. |
| University of California, Irvine | |
| "Targeting potassium channels for therapy of autoimmunity, ataxia and atherosclerosis" | |
| January 20 | George Miljanich, Ph.D. |
| Elan Pharmaceuticals | |
| "Killing Pain with Killer Snails: PRIALT, a Calcium Channel Blocking Analgesic from Marine Snail Venom" | |
| February 17 | Robert Guy, M.D., Ph.D. |
| NCI, National Institute of Health | |
| "Structure and Functional Mechanisms of Voltage-gated K+ Channels" | |
| March 17 | Pie Pie Ping, M.D. |
| University of California, Los Angeles | |
| "Proteomic Characterization of the Murine Cardiac 26S Proteasome Complexes" | |
| June 16 | Pilar Blancafort, Ph.D. |
| University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill | |
| "Reprogrammin tumor cells with artificial transcription factors" | |
| June 30 | Isaac Pessah, Ph.D. |
| University of California, Davis | |
| "Ryanodine receptors, chief integrators of cellular calcium signals at the cutting edge of health and disease" | |