Pharmacology Weekly Seminars, 2009-10
Wednesday, September 30, 2009:
“Function of Persistent Na Current in a Branching Axon”
Jen-Wei Lin, Ph.D., Associate Professor, Department of Biology, Boston University
Wednesday, October 7, 2009:
“Developing Novel Cell Type-specific Optical Neural Control Prosthetics”
Xue Han, Ph.D., Helen Hay Whitney Fellow, MIT Department of Biological Engineering and McGovern Institute, Massachusetts Institute of Technology
Wednesday, October 14, 2009:
“The Interleukin 21 Pathway in Autoimmune Disease”
Deborah A. Young, Ph.D., Principal Scientist IV, Inflammation, Wyeth Research, Cambridge, MA
CANCELLED
Wednesday, October 28, 2009:
“Glia: Listening and Talking at the Synapse”
Philip Haydon, Ph.D., Annetta and Gustav Grisard Professor, Chair of Neuroscience, Department of Neuroscience, Tufts University
Wednesday, November 4, 2009:
“A Mighty A2b Adenosine Receptor: roles in thrombosis and atherosclerosis”
Katya Ravid, D.Sc., Ph.D., Professor of Medicine and Biochemistry, Director, Evans Center for Interdisciplinary Biomedical Research, Scientific Director, BUSM Transgenic and Animal Research Resource Center
Wednesday, November 18, 2009:
“Protective Effects of Cannabinoids on Substance P and HIV-1 Gp120 Mediated Insult to the Blood Brain Barrier”
Hava Avraham, Ph.D., Associate Professor, Department of Medicine, Beth Israel Deaconess Medical Center, Harvard Medical School
Wednesday, December 2, 2009:
“Pathways to Parkinsonism”
Mark R. Cookson, Ph.D., Investigator, Cell Biology and Gene Expression Unit, Laboratory of Neurogenetics, National Institutes of Health, Bethesda, MD
Wednesday, December 9, 2009:
“A High Throughput Screen for the Fountain of Youth”
Carmela Abraham, Ph.D., Professor of Biochemistry and Medicine, Department of Biochemistry, Boston University Alzheimer’s Disease Center
Spring 2010 Seminars to be posted by December 2009
