2021

March 16, 2021

Speaker: Weijian Yang, Ph.D., Assistant Professor, Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering, University of California, Davis

Lecture: “All-optical Interrogation of Neural Circuits” (PDF)

Host: Johannes W. Hell, Ph.D.

April 20, 2021

Speaker: Jiang Chang, M.D., Ph.D., FAPS, Professor, Chancellor EDGES Fellow, Center for Genomic and Precision Medicine, Texas A&M University

Lecture: "Rho Signaling: From Cardiac Remodeling to Hydrocephalus" (PDF)

Host: Kevin Xiang, Ph.D.

May 18, 2021

Speaker: Devin Horton, Ph.D., Graduate Diversity Officer: Science, Technology, Engineering and Mathematics (STEM), University of California, Davis

Lecture: "Equity in Academia: A Group Project" (PDF)

Host: Elva Diaz, Ph.D.

June 15, 2021

Speaker: Sue Vang, Engagement and Zero Waste Program Manager, University of California, Davis | Sustainability Office

Lecture: "Greening Your Workplace with UC Davis Sustainability" (PDF)

Host: Andrew Edwards, Ph.D.

November 2, 2021

Speaker: Gabriela Popescu, Professor, Department of Biochemistry, Jacobs School of Medicine & Biomedical Sciences

Lecture: “NMDA Receptors as Calcium Channels” (PDF)

Host: Johannes W. Hell, Ph.D.

2020

January 21, 2020

Speaker: Thomas M. Vondriska, Ph.D., Professor of Anesthesiology, Medicine & Physiology David Geffen School of Medicine at UCLA

Lecture: “Cardiovascular Epigenomes: From Chromatin Fiber to Human Populations” (PDF)

Host: Julie Bossuyt, Ph.D.

April 21, 2020

Speaker: Jerod Denton, Ph.D., Professor, Department of Anesthesiology, Vanderbilt University

Host: Heike Wulff, Ph.D.

May 19, 2020

Speaker: Erika Boerman, Ph.D., Assistant Professor, Department Med Pharmacology and Physiology, University of Missouri

Host: Manuel Navedo, Ph.D.

June 23, 2020

Speaker: Federica Accornero, Ph.D., Associate Professor, The Ohio State University, Department of Physiology and Cell Biology

Host: Crystal Ripplinger, Ph.D.

September 15, 2020

Speaker: Dr. Osama Harraz, Research Assistant Professor, Department of Pharmacology, Larner College of Medicine, University of Vermont

Title: “PIP2: The maestro of the cerebral blood flow symphony” (PDF)

Host: Madeline Nieves-Cintron, Ph.D.

October 20, 2020

Speaker: Dr. Federica Accornero, Assistant Professor, Physiology and Cell Biology, The Ohio State University

Title: "Insights into post-transcriptional control of gene expression in the heart" (PDF)

Host: Crystal Ripplinger, Ph.D.

November 17, 2020

Speaker: Dr. Laurent Groc, Directeur Recherche CNRS, Group Leader, Directeur Adjoint, Institut Interdisciplinaire Neuroscience (IINS), Centre Broca Nouvelle-Aquitaine, CNRS – Université de Bordeaux

Title: “INMDA receptor signaling: old actor, new vista” (PDF)

Host: Johannes W. Hell, Ph.D.

2019

January 15, 2019

Speaker: Hong Chen, Ph.D., Associate Professor of Surgery, Boston Children’s Hospital, Harvard Medical School

Lecture: “Endocytic Regulation of Cardiovascular Disease”

Host: Kevin Xiang, Ph.D.

February 12, 2019

Speaker: James Letts, Ph.D., Associate Professor, Dept Of Molecular and Cellular Biology, UC Davis

Lecture: “Structures of Respiratory Supercomplex I+III2 Suggest CoQ Channeling is Inefficient and Reveal Conformational Crosstalk”

Host: Johannes Hell, Ph.D.

February 19, 2019

Speaker: Filip Van Petegem, Ph.D., Professor, Department of Biochemistry & Molecular Biology, The University of British Columbia

Lecture: “Disease mutations at high resolution: structural insights into Calcium-selective channels”

Host: Don Bers, Ph.D.

March 19, 2019

Speaker: David J. Lefer, Ph.D. , Professor of Pharmacology, Director, Cardiovascular Center of Excellence, LSU Health New Orleans

Lecture: "Renal Sympathetic Denervation in Heart Failure"

Host: Kevin Xiang, Ph.D.

April 16, 2019

Speaker: Long-Sheng Song, M.D., M.S., Professor, Department of Internal Medicine, Division of Cardiovascular Medicine, University of Iowa Carver College of Medicine

Lecture: “Decoding Junctophilin-2-mediated Transcriptome in Stressed Heart”

Host: Ye Chen-Izu, M.S., Ph.D.

May 21, 2019

Speaker: Carlo Brugnara, M.D., Professor of Pathology, Pathology, Boston Children’s Hospital, Harvard Medical School

Lecture: "Red blood cell hydration Status: from sickle cell disease to hereditary xerocytosis"

Host: Heike Wulff, Ph.D.

June 18, 2019

Speaker: Na Li, Ph.D., Assistant Professor, Molecular Physiology & Biophysics, Baylor College of Medicine

Lecture: “The emerging role of Inflammasome in cardiac arrhythmias.”

Host: Ele Grandi, Ph.D.

September 12, 2019

Speaker: Matthew B. Dalva, Ph.D., Professor and Vice Chair, Department of Neuroscience, Director, Jefferson Synaptic Biology Center, Thomas Jefferson University

Lecture: “Synapse formation and plasticity: effects of biological-sex and synaptic nanostructure” (PDF)

Host: Elva Diaz, Ph.D.

September 17, 2019

Speaker: Maria Kurnikova, Ph.D., Associate Professor, Department of Chemistry at Carnegie Mellon University

Lecture: “Deciphering Molecular Mechanisms of the Glutamate Receptor Function”  (PDF)

Host: Elva Diaz, Ph.D.

October 15, 2019

Speaker: Zixi (Jack) Cheng, Ph.D., Associate Professor, University of Central Florida

Lecture: “Structural and Functional Mapping of Brain-Heart Connection and Remodeling” (PDF)

Host: Chao-Yin Chen, Ph.D.

November 5, 2019

Speaker: Manu Ben-Johny, Ph.D., Assistant Professor of Physiology and Cellular Biophysics, Columbia University

Lecture: "Tuning calmodulin feedback of calcium and sodium channels in health and disease" (PDF)

Host: Johannes W. Hell, Ph.D.

December 3, 2019

Speaker: Joshua I Goldhaber, M.D., Director, Division of Applied Cell Biology and Physiology at Cedars-Sinai Medical Center

Lecture: "Cardiac calcium regulation in mice with genetically modified calcium efflux proteins and in rats with Heart Failure with Preserved Ejection Fraction" (PDF)

Host: Leighton Izu, Ph.D.

2018

January 16, 2018

Lecture: "Exploring and Exploiting the Spatial Constraints of Local Signaling" (PDF)

Speaker: John Scott, Ph.D., University of Washington

Host: Manuel Navedo, Ph.D.

January 19, 2018

Friday, 2 p.m., GBSF Rm 6202

Lecture: "Therapeutic interventions for heart disease" (PDF)

Speaker: Mark Ziolo, Ph.D., Ohio State University Medical Center

Host: Don Bers, Ph.D.

February 20, 2018

Speaker: Roger Nicoll M.D., University of California, San Francisco

Host: Johannes Hell, Ph.D.

March 20, 2018

Lecture: “Calcium waves, nonlinear dynamics, and stochasticity in atrial myocytes” (PDF)

Speaker: Yohannes Shiferaw, Ph.D., California State University, Northridge

Host: Daisuke Sato, Ph.D.

April 17, 2018

Speaker: Miao Zhang, Ph.D., Chapman University, School of Pharmacy

Host: Heike Wulff, Ph.D.

May 15, 2018

Speaker: Nancy Kanagy, Ph.D., University of New Mexico

Host: Manuel Navedo, Ph.D.

June 19, 2018

Speaker: Alexey Glukhov, Ph.D., University of Wisconsin, School of Medicine

Host: Eleonora Grandi, Ph.D.

September 18, 2018

Speaker: Mark Mercola, Ph.D., Professor, Department of Medicine, Stanford University School of Medicine, Stanford Cardiovascular Institute

Host: Ele Grandi, Ph.D.

October 16, 2018

Speaker: Anthony J. Baker, Ph.D., Professor of Medicine, University of California, San Francisco, VA Medical Center, Cardiology Division

Lecture: “A new approach to treat right ventricular failure: targeting α1 adrenergic receptors” (PDF)

Host: Ye Chen-Izu, M.S., Ph.D.

November 8, 2018

Thursday, 2 p.m.

Speaker: Ingo Greger, Ph.D., Medical Research Council, Laboratory of Molecular Biology, Cambridge Biomedical Campus

Lecture: “Structural and functional architecture of the AMPA receptor extracellular region” (PDF)

Host: Johannes Hell, Ph.D.

December 4, 2018

Speaker: David Schneider, Ph.D., Assistant Professor, Center for Neural Science, New York University

Lecture: “Cortical circuits for predicting the future” (PDF)

Host: Crystal Ripplinger, Ph.D.

2017

January 17, 2017

Lecture: "Neuron-specific approaches for altering cardiac autonomic tone in health and disease" (PDF)

Speaker: Matthew Kay, Ph.D., Associate Professor, BME Associate Chair for Research and Graduate Affairs BME, George Washington University

Host: Crystal Ripplinger, Ph.D.

February 21, 2017

Lecture: "Multiple Roles for Protein Acetylation in Heart Failure" (PDF)

Speaker: Tim McKinsey, Ph.D., Associate Professor and Associate Division Head for Translational Research, Division of Cardiology, University of Colorado, Denver

Host: Julie Bossuyt, Ph.D.

March 10, 2017

Friday, 4 p.m.

Lecture: "Massively Parallel All-Optical Cardiac Electrophysiology" (PDF)

Speaker: Emilia Entcheva, Ph.D., Professor, BME, George Washington University

Host: Daisuke Sato, Ph.D.

March 21, 2017

Lecture: "Cardiomyocyte CaMkinase II regulates inflammatory and fibrotic responses associated with development of heart failure" (PDF)

Speaker: Joan Heller Brown, Ph.D., Distinguished Professor, and Depart Chair Pharmacology, UCSD

Host: Don Bers, Ph.D.

April 18, 2017

Lecture: "Kinase Fusions in Cancer: From Model Systems to the Development of Novel Therapeutics" (PDF)

Speaker: Monika Davare, Ph.D., Research Instructor, Oregon Health and Science University

Host: Johannes Hell, Ph.D. and Mary Horne, Ph.D.

May 16, 2017

Lecture: "Endothelial KCachannels: Critical mediators of vascular tone in health and disease" (PDF)

Speaker: Andrew Braun, Ph.D., Associate Professor, Physiology and Pharmacology, Physiology, Cumming School of Medicine, University of Calgary

Host: Heike Wulff, Ph.D.

July 21, 2017

Lecture: "Physiology and Biophysics of Cardiac Pacemaking" (PDF)

Speaker: Catherine Proenza, Ph.D., Associate Professor, University of Colorado, Denver

Host: Eleonora Grandi, Ph.D.

September 14, 2017

Speaker: Kimberly Dodge-Kafka, Ph.D., University of Connecticut Health

Host: Don Bers, Ph.D.

September 19, 2017

Speaker: Martin Young, D.Phil, University of Alabama at Birmingham

Host: Kevin Xiang, Ph.D.

October 17, 2017

Lecture: "Molecular mechanisms of AMPA receptor delivery and stabilization during LTP" (PDF)

Speaker: Robert Malenka, Ph.D., Stanford University

Host: Johannes Hell, Ph.D.

November 7, 2017

Lecture: "The Transcription Factor, ATF6, Links ER Stress and Oxidative Stress Signaling in the Heart and is as Master Regulator of Cardiokine Secretion" (PDF)

Speaker: Chris Glembotski, Ph.D., San Diego State University

Host: Kevin Xiang, Ph.D.

November 9, 2017

Thursday, 12 p.m., Valley Hall 1010

Speaker: Johannes Backs, Ph.D., University of Heidelberg

Host: Don Bers, Ph.D. and Julie Bossuyt, Ph.D.

December 5, 2017

Lecture: "Role of NADPH Oxidase in Duchenne Muscular Dystrophy" (PDF)

Speaker: George Rodney, Ph.D., Baylor College of Medicine

Host: Ye Chen-Izu, Ph.D.

2016

February 16, 2016

Lecture: "From Chaos to Cures; controlling the complex spatiotemporal dynamics of cardiac arrhythmias using a theoretical, numerical and experimental integrative approach" (PDF)

Speaker: Flavio Fenton, Ph.D., Associate Professor, Georgia Tech, Atlanta, GA

Host: Daisuke Sato, Ph.D.

March 15, 2016

Lecture: "Translational opportunities in substance abuse and its co-morbidities through biased agonism at GPCRs" (PDF)

Speaker: Jennifer Whistler, Ph.D., Professor, Neurology, University of California, San Francisco

Host: Elva Diaz, Ph.D.

March 31, 2016

Lecture: "Dyadic Structure and Function in Cardiomyocytes: Implications for Heart Failure" (PDF)

Speaker: William E. Louch, Ph.D., Professor, Oslo University Hospital, Ullevål

Host: Eleonora Grandi, Ph.D.

April 19, 2016

Lecture: "Biophysical basis for cellular force transduction" (PDF)

Speaker: Alexander Dunn, Ph.D., Assistant Professor of Clinical Engineering, Stanford University, CA

Host: Ye Chen-Izu, Ph.D.

May 17, 2016

Lecture: "Quantitative Cardiovascular Systems Pharmacology: combining simulations and experiments to understand toxicity and efficacy of drugs" (PDF)

Speaker: Eric Sobie, Ph.D., Associate Professor, Mount Sinai Hospital, New York, NY

Host: Eleonora Grandi, Ph.D.

June 2, 2016

Thursday, 10 a.m.

Lecture: "Mechanical communication in cardiac cell synchronized beating" (PDF)

Speaker: Shelly Tzlil, Ph.D., Assistant Professor, Technion-Israel Inst of Tech, Haifa, Israel

Host: Kevin Xiang, Ph.D.

August 16, 2016

Speaker: Prasad Sathyamangla, Ph.D., Molecular Biology Researcher, Cleveland Clinic, Cleveland, Ohio

Host: Kevin Xiang, Ph.D.

September 27, 2016

Lecture: "An inner life of GPCRs" (PDF)

Speaker: Mark von Zastrow, M.D., Ph.D., Professor, Psychiatry and Cellularand Molecular Pharmacology, University of California, San Francisco

Host: Johannes Hell, Ph.D.

October 18, 2016

Lecture: "Sensory Functions of TRPA1 Channels in the Cerebral Endothelium" (PDF)

Speaker: Scott Earley, Ph.D., Professor, Pharmacology, University of Nevada, Reno

Host: Manuel Navedo, Ph.D.

October 19, 2016

Wednesday, 10 a.m.

Lecture: "A How the Brain Controls Blood Pressure: Role of (Pro)renin Receptor"

Speaker: Yumei Feng, M.D., Ph.D., Associate Professor, Pharmacology, University of Nevada, Reno

Host: Chao-Yin Chen, Ph.D.

November 15, 2016

American Heart Association and Society for Neuroscience Meetings

2015

January 20, 2015

Speaker: Ehud Isacoff, Ph.D., Professor of Neurobiology, University of California, Berkeley

Host: Manuel Navedo, Ph.D.

February 17, 2015

Lecture: "Caveolae as capacitors for energy and metabolism: Implications for cardiac injury, aging and diabetes" (PDF)

Speaker: Hemal Patel, Ph.D., Associate Professor and Director, UC San Diego Cardiac/Neuro Protection Laboratories

Host: Kevin Xiang, Ph.D.

March 09, 2015

(Monday, 4 p.m.)

Lecture: "Norepinephrine release from sympathetic nerves in cardiac slices and in vivo: real time recording using electrochemical micro carbon fiber electrodes" (PDF)

Speaker: Zhuan Zhou, Ph.D., Professor and Senior Investigator, Institute of Molecular Medicine, Peking University

Host: Don Bers, Ph.D.

April 06, 2015

(Monday, 1 p.m.)

Lecture: "Relationship between intracellular Ca2+ release and electrical excitability at intact heart level" (PDF)

Speaker: Ariel Escobar, Ph.D., Professor, School of Engineering, University of California, Merced

Host: Don Bers, Ph.D.

April 21, 2015

Lecture: "A structural driven kinetic cycle for the pore domain of a K+ channel" (PDF)

Speaker: Luis Cuello, Ph.D., Assistant Professor, Cell Physiology and Molecular Biophysics, Texas Tech University Health Sciences Center, Lubbock, Texas

Host: Heike Wulff, Ph.D.

May 12, 2015

Lecture: "Targeting cell membrane transporters to develop new drugs" (PDF)

Speaker: Alan Verkman, M.D., Ph.D., Professor of Medicine and Physiology, Department of Medicine, University of California, San Francisco

Host: Heike Wulff, Ph.D.

September 15, 2015

Lecture: "Marrying Fibroblast Myocyte Electrophysiology in Native Myocardium: something old, something new, something borrowed, something blue" (PDF)

Speaker: Peter Kohl, Ph.D., Professor, Imperial College, London, UK

Host: Crystal Ripplinger, Ph.D.

October 20, 2015

Lecture: "Microtubule mechanics and mechanosignaling in the heart" (PDF)

Speaker: Benjamin Prosser, Ph.D., Assistant Professor of Physiology, University of Pennsylvania

Host: Ye Chen-Izu, Ph.D.

November 17, 2015

Lecture: "Insights into dynamics and allosteric communication in G-protein-coupled receptors" (PDF)

Speaker: Vaidehi Nagarajan, Ph.D., Principal Investigator, City of Hope, Beckman Research Institute, Duarte, CA

Host: Kevin Xiang, Ph.D.

December 08, 2015

Lecture: "Decalmodulation of voltage-gated Ca_vCa²⁺ channels" (PDF)

Speaker: Amy Lee, Ph.D., Assistant Dean for Scientific Affairs, Carver College of Medicine, University of Iowa

Host: Johannes Hell, Ph.D.

December 15, 2015

(11 a.m.)

Lecture: "Dendritic compartmentalization of electrical and biochemical signaling" (PDF)

Speaker: Michael Higley, M.D., Ph.D., Assistant Professor of Neurobiology, Cellular Neuroscience, Neurodegeneration and Repair, New Haven, CT

Host: Johannes Hell, Ph.D.

2014

January 21, 2014

Speaker: Mark Shapiro, University of Texas

Host: Manuel Navedo, Ph.D.

February 13, 2014

(Thursday, 12 p.m.)

Speaker: Junko Kurokawa, Tokyo Medical and Dental

Host: Colleen Clancy, Ph.D.

February 14, 2014

(Friday, 4 p.m.)

Speaker: Annette Dolphin, London College

Host: Johannes Hell, Ph.D.

March 18, 2014

Lecture: "Integrins and Cytoskeletal Proteins in the Cardiac Myocyte: More than Glue and Struts" (PDF)

Speaker: Robert Ross, University of California, San Diego

Host: Ye Chen-Izu, Ph.D.

April 15, 2014

Lecture: "Proteomic strategies to identify novel extracellular matrix biomarkers of cardiac injury" (PDF)

Speaker: Merry Lindsey, The University of Mississippi

Host: Crystal Ripplinger, Ph.D.

May 12, 2014

(Monday, 3 p.m.)

Lecture: "Noninvasive mapping of cardiac electrophysiology and arrhythmias in the intact human heart" (PDF)

Speaker: Yoram Rudy, Washington University

Host: Colleen Clancy, Ph.D.

June 17, 2014

Lecture: "Molecular Mechanisms Regulating Trafficking of Synaptic Proteins" (PDF)

Speaker: Katherine Roche, NIH/NINDS

Host: Johannes Hell, Ph.D.

September 16, 2014

Lecture: "Regulated Delivery and Removal of Synaptic Machinery" (PDF)

Speaker: Andres Maricq, M.D., Ph.D., Professor of Biology and Adjunct Professor of Neurology, University of Utah, Salt Lake City

Host: Elva Diaz, Ph.D.

October 21, 2014

Speaker: Kang Shen, Ph.D., Professor, Department of Biology, Stanford, Palo Alto, CA

Host: Johannes Hell, Ph.D.

November 18, 2014

Speaker: Marta Filizola, Ph.D., Associate Professor of Structural and Chemical Biology, Icahn School of Medicine at Mount Sinai, New York

Lecture: "Modern Computer-Aided Drug Discovery Approaches for G Protein-Coupled Receptors" (PDF)

Host: Colleen Clancy, Ph.D.

December 16, 2014

Lecture: "Targeting Mitochondria for Heart Failure Therapy" (PDF)

Speaker: Rong Tian, M.D., Ph.D., Professor, Anesthesiology and Pain Medicine, Bioengineering, and Adjunct Professor, Biochemistry, Pathology, University of Washington Medicine

Host: Kevin Xiang, Ph.D.

December 18, 2014

(Thursday, 12-1 p.m.)

Lecture: "Spatial and Temporal Aspects of cAMP Signaling in Cardiac Myocyte" (PDF)

Speaker: Robert Harvey, Ph.D., Professor, Molecular Biosciences, University of Nevada, Reno

Host: Colleen Clancy, Ph.D.

2013

January 15, 2013

Speaker: Robert Eisenberg (Rush Medical College, Illinois)

Host: Donald Bers, Ph.D.

February 11, 2013

Speaker: Paul Simpson, (University of California, San Francisco)

Host: Donald Bers, Ph.D.

March 19, 2013

Lecture: "Specificity of the Beta adrenergic signaling in cardiac myocytes: role of phosphodiesterases" (PDF)

Speaker: Marco Conti, (University of California, San Francisco)

Host: Kevin Xiang, Ph.D.

March 26, 2013

Lecture: "Molecular basis of metabolic and mitogenic effects of insulin, insulin analogues and insulin-like growth factors" (PDF)

Speaker: Pierre De Meyts (Novo-Nordisk)

Host: Mary Horne, Ph.D.

April 16, 2013

Lecture: "Membrane-targeted approaches to rescuing neurons from death following hypoxia-ischemia" (PDF)

Speaker: Jeremy Marks, (University of Chicago)

Host: Florin Despa, Ph.D.

September 17, 2013

Speaker: Vikram Shakkottai, (University of Michigan)

Host: Heike Wulff, Ph.D.

October 15, 2013

Lecture: "Deciphering the Electrical ‘Cross-Talk’ Underlying A Role for Desmosomal Cell-Cell Junctions in Cardiac Muscle Biology and Disease" (PDF)

Speaker: Fara Sheikh, (UCSD)

Host: Y Chen-Izu, Ph.D.

December 10, 2013

Speaker: Joseph Wu, (Stanford University)

Host: Kevin Xiang, Ph.D.

2012

September 07, 2012

Speaker: Kent E Pinkerton (University of California, Davis)

September 21, 2012

Lecture: "Calcium channel modulation involves calmodulin on the move"

Speaker: David Yue (John Hopkins University)

October 19, 2012

Lecture: "Control of intracellular Ca2+ in skeletal muscle--inside and outside"

Speaker: Paul D. Allen (University of California at Davis)

November 09, 2012

Speaker: Alessandra Renieri (University of Siena, Italy)

November 29, 2012

Lecture: "G ABA Receptor Games and Pesticide Puzzles"

Speaker: John E. Casida (Emeriti Professor of Department of Environmental Science, Policy, and Management, University of California, Berkeley)

Sponsored by: The UC Davis CounterAct Center for Excellence, Pharmacology Training Grant and Department of Pharmacology

December 07, 2012

Speaker: Virginia Brooks (Oregon Health Sciences University)

2011

January 14, 2011

Lecture: "Ion channel modulation: structure, function, and unconventional approaches"

Speaker: Dan Minor, UC San Francisco

February 4, 2011

Lecture: "Leukocyte guidance is signaled via B2-integrin and Orai1 durin inflammatory recruitment"

Speaker: Scott I. Simon, UC Davis, BME

February 18, 2011

Lecture: "Dynamics of Signaling by PKA"

Speaker: Susan Taylor, UC San Diego

March 29, 2011

Lecture: "Novel Molecular Mechanisms Linking the Metabolic Syndrome with Cardiovascular Dysfunction"

Speaker: E. Dale Abel, University of Iowa

April 8, 2011

Lecture: "Slowing the Ticking Clock: Using C. elegans to Discover Mechanisms Regulating Cognitive Aging Decline and Reproductive Cessation"

Speaker: Coleen Murphy, Princeton University

April 15, 2011

Lecture: "Natural epoxy-fatty acids and soluble epoxide hydrolase: Emerging therapeutic targets for neurological disorders"

Speaker: A. Bora Inceoglu, UC Davis

May 20, 2011

Lecture: TBD

Speaker: Stefan Strack, University of Iowa

2010

January 22, 2010

Lecture: "Role of Thrombin Activatable Fibrinolysis Inhibitor (TAFI)" (PDF)

Speaker: John Morser, Ph.D., Stanford School of Medicine

February 26, 2010

Lecture: "Regulation of sodium-activated potassium channels and the Fragile X Mental Retardation Protein signaling pathway" (PDF)

Speaker: Leonard Kaczmarek, Ph.D., Yale University

April 23, 2010

Lecture: "Calcium signaling defects in autoimmunity: the ion channel viewpoint" (PDF)

Speaker: Laura Conforti, Ph.D., University of Cincinnati

May 28, 2010

Lecture: "Natural Inequalities: Why Some L-type Calcium Channels Work Harder than Others" (PDF)

Speaker: Fernando Santana, Ph.D., University of Washington

June 1, 2010

Lecture: "Signaling Through Protein Kinases To Gene Expression In The Cardio Myocyte" (PDF)

Speaker: Peter Sugden, Ph.D., Angela Clerk, Ph.D. Imperial College, London

June 2, 2010

Lecture: "Central neural circuits and synapse"

Speaker: J. Julius Zhu, Ph.D., University of Virginia

September 10, 2010

Lecture: "Structural Mechanisms of Protein Kinase Regulation"

Speaker: John Kuriyan, UC Berkeley

November 12, 2010

Lecture: "High resolution of imaging of NMDA receptors? Learning from a single molecule!"

Speaker: Laurent Groc, Universite Bordeaux, France

November 18, 2010

Lecture: "Molecular mechanisms of hippocampal synaptic plasticity"

Speaker: Yasunori Hayashi, Brain Science Institute, Japan

December 3, 2010

Lecture: "The role of TNFalpha in synaptic plasticity and nervous system function"

Speaker: David Stellwagen, McGill University, Canada

2009

October 23, 2009

Lecture: "Translational concepts in drug discovery: Redesigning IMATINIB into a safer drug and taking it back to the clinic" (PDF)

Speaker: Ariel Fernandez, Ph.D., Rice University

November 13, 2009

Lecture: "Awake the sleeping, mute the sleeping: towards targeted overwriting of epigenetic marks to moculate gene expression profiles" (PDF)

Speaker: Mariann Rots, Ph.D., University of Groningen

December 4, 2009

Lecture: "Translating Soluble Epoxide Hydrolase Inhibitors into the Clinic, Picking the Right Target" (PDF)

Speaker: Bruce Hammock, Ph.D., UC Davis

2008

February 29, 2008

Lecture: Regulation and function of the K channel KCa3.1: Role in T cell activation and polycystic kidney disease. (PDF)

Speaker: Edward Skolnik, Ph.D., New York University Medical Center

March 14, 2008

Lecture: The Secret Lives of Calcium Channels (PDF)

Speaker: Ricardo Dolmetsch, Ph.D., Stanford University

2007

January 26, 2007

Lecture: CRACking the Molecular Components of Store-Operated Calcium Entry (PDF)

Speaker: Reinhold Penner, M.D., Ph.D., University of Hawaii at Manoa

March 2, 2007

Lecture: Triglyceride-Rich Lipoproteins: Friend or Foe? (PDF)

Speaker: John Rutledge, M.D., University of California, Davis

March 23, 2007

Lecture: Development of Light-Gated Ion Channels (PDF)

Speaker: Dirk Trauner, Ph.D., LMU Munich

April 20, 2007

Lecture: The Wonderful World of Zinc Finger Domains (PDF)

Speaker: Joel Mackay, Ph.D., School of Molecular and Microbial Biosciences, University of Sydney

May 11, 2007

Lecture: Intrinsic and Extrinsic Determinants of Ion Channel Clustering in Neurons (PDF)

Speaker: Matt Rasband, Ph.D., Baylor College of Medicine

June 22, 2007

Lecture: The Inflamed CNS as a Neo-Lymphoid Organ - Implications for Specific Immunotherapy of MS (PDF)

Speaker: Stephen D. Miller, Ph.D., Department of Microbiology-Immunology, Feinberg School of Medicine, Northwestern University

September 28, 2007

Lecture: "Stem Cell Medicine: Building the Comprehensive Plan" (PDF)

Speaker: Mark Noble, Ph.D., University of Rochester

October 26, 2007

Lecture: "Using FRET to measure the binding affinity, binding kinetics, and structure of membrane protein complexes: Application to phospholamban and the cardiac calcium pump" (PDF)

Speaker: Seth L. Robia, Ph.D., Loyola University Chicago

November 30, 2007

Lecture: The intimate but controversial relationship between proton channels and the phagocyte NADPH oxidase (PDF)

Speaker: Thomas DeCoursey, Ph.D., Rush University Medical Center

December 14, 2007

Lecture: Can a Voltage Sensor also be a Gate? (PDF)

Speaker: Ehud Isacoff, Ph.D., UC Berkeley

2006

January 20, 2006

Lecture: "Killing Pain with Killer Snails: PRIALT, a Calcium Channel Blocking Analgesic from Marine Snail Venom"

Speaker: George Miljanich, Ph.D., Elan Pharmaceuticals

February 17, 2006

Lecture: "Structure and Functional Mechanisms of Voltage-gated K+ Channels"

Speaker: Robert Guy, M.D., Ph.D., NCI, National Institute of Health

March 17, 2006

Lecture: "Proteomic Characterization of the Murine Cardiac 26S Proteasome Complexes"

Speaker: Piepei Ping, Ph.D., University of California, Los Angeles

June 16, 2006

Lecture: "Reprogrammin tumor cells with artificial transcription factors"

Speaker: Pilar Blancafort, Ph.D., University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill

June 30, 2006

Lecture: "Ryanodine receptors, chief integrators of cellular calcium signals at the cutting edge of health and disease"

Speaker: Isaac Pessah, Ph.D., University of California, Davis

October 13, 2006

Lecture: "The Dynamic Dyad: A Mechanism for Store-Operated Calcium Signaling" (PDF)

Speaker: Richard Lewis, Ph.D., Stanford Medical School

November 2, 2006

Lecture: "Coupling of Cav and BKCa Channels Analyzed by Functional Proteomics" (PDF)

Speaker: Bernd Fakler, M.D., University of Freiburg

2005

January 13, 2005

Lecture: "Intracellular Signaling From the Endoplasmic Reticulum to the Nucleus"

Speaker: Peter Walter, Ph.D., University of California, San Francisco

February 11, 2005

Lecture: "Novel Potassium Channels Revealed by the Comparative Genomic Approach"

Speaker: Lawrence B. Salkoff, Ph.D., Washington University, School of Medicine

March 11, 2005

Lecture: "Ion Channel Mutations in Human Disease: Insights into Novel Cellular Physiology and Pharmacology"

Speaker: Robert S. Kass, Ph.D., Columbia University, School of Medicine

April 8, 2005

Lecture: "Ion Channels and Behavior: Sleep Loss and Motor Dysfunction in Kv3-deficient Mice"

Speaker: Ralph H. Joho, Ph.D., The University of Texas Southwestern Medical Center at Dallas

April 22, 2005

Lecture: "Cell-Based Cardiac and Vascular Repair: What Does the Future Hold?"

Speaker: Doris A. Taylor, Ph.D., University of Minnesota School of Medicine

May 20, 2005

Lecture: "Learning From the Pupils: Lessons in Non-visual Ocular Photoreception"

Speaker: Russell N. Van Gelder, M.D., Ph.D., Washington University School of Medicine

June 3, 2005

Lecture: "Rapid and Ultrasensitive Detection of Pathogens Using Single Molecule Analysis with Quantum Dots: Applications in Biodefense and Clinical Diagnostics"

Speaker: Dan Shoemaker, Ph.D., GHC Technologies, Inc

September 23, 2005

Lecture: "Bugs, Drugs and Microarrays: Genomic Approaches to Infectious Disease"

Speaker: Joe DeRisi, Ph.D., University of California, San Francisco

October 21, 2005

Lecture: "Degenerative Ataxias: From Polyglutamine Proteins and Ion Channels"

Speaker: Stefan Pulst, M.D., UCLA School of Medicine

November 18, 2005

Lecture: "Chemical Regulation of Gene Expression"

Speaker: Joel Gottesfeld, Ph.D., Scripps Research Institute

December 9, 2005

Lecture: "Targeting potassium channels for therapy of autoimmunity, ataxia and atherosclerosis"

Speaker: George Chandy, M.D., Ph.D., University of California, Irvine