Fall 2008 Biomedical Sciences/Neuroscience Seminars
All BMS Seminars are held in 2010 Vet Med from 12:10-1:00pm unless otherwise indicated.
September 4 - Jesse Goff, PhD, DVM, Iowa State University (Ames, IA)
"Interactions Between Metabolic Disease and the Immune System of the Dairy Cow."
September 11 - Alison Barnhill, PhD, DVM, Iowa State University (Ames, IA)
"Two New Resistance Models for Salmonella."
September 18 - Tom Murray, PhD, Creighton Univeristy (Omaha, NE)
"Neuronal Responses to Sodium Channel Gating Modifiers: From Neurotoxicity to Dendritogenesis."
September 25 - Heather Greenlee, PhD, Iowa State University (Ames, IA)
"The Retina as a Model System for Biomedical Research."
October 16 at 4:10pm - Gary Pickard, PhD, University of Nebraska (Lincoln, NE)
"Intrinsically Photosensitive Retinal Ganglion Cells: the Third Photoreceptor to the Mammalian Eye."
October 23 - Ashutosh Tiwari, PhD, University of Massachusetts (Worcester, MA)
"Is Hydrophobic Exposure of Misfolded Proteins a Key to Neurodegenerative Disease?"
October 30 - Paula Ribeiro, PhD, McGill University (Montreal, Quebec, Canada)
November 6 - Ajay Rana, PhD, Loyola School of Medicine (Chicago, IL)
November 13 - Joel Elmquist, PhD, DVM, University of Texas Southwestern Medical Center (Dallas, TX)
November 20 - Aaron Clapp, PhD, Iowa State University (Ames, IA)
"Quantum Dots in Biology."
December 4 - Jo Anne Powell-Coffman, PhD,
Iowa State University (Ames, IA)
"Hypoxia-Inducible Factors in Stress and Development: Deciphering the Regulatory Networks in C. Elegans."
Neuroscience students and faculty are also encouraged to attend other seminars within our participating departments. Below are schedules for three of our participating departments.
Genetics Development and Cell Biology (GDCB) Seminar scheduleBiochemistry, Biophysics and Molecular Biology (BBMB) Seminar Schedule
Animal Science Seminar Schedule
