Date

Host

2010

Aug 16

Robert Yu, Ph.D., Med.Sc.D.
Professor, Department of Neurology
Georgia Research Alliance Eminent Scholar
Georgia Health Sciences University
Augusta, GA

 "Autoimmune mechanisms of peripheral neuropathies: Role of anti-glycolipids"

Aug 23

Wen-Cheng Xiong, Ph.D.
Weiss Research Professor, Department of Neurology, Institute of Molecular Medicine & Genetics, Georgia Health Sciences University
Augusta, GA

Neogenin, a regulator of stem cell differentiation?

Aug 30

Paul T. Martin, Ph.D.
Professor of Pediatrics, Physiology and Cell Biology, Ohio State University College of Medicine, The Research Institute at Nationwide Children's Hospital
Columbus, OH

"Defining new roles for carbohydrates in muscular dystrophy: The sweet and the sour."

Sep 2

"Special Day-
Thursday "

Sep 6

Holiday - Labor Day
No seminar

Sep 13

Aric Agmon, Ph.D.
Dept. of Neurobiology and Anatomy
Sensory Neuroscience Research Center
West Virginia University
Morgantown, WV

"In and out of sync: inhibitory interneurons and the thalamocortical circuit "

Sep 17

*Special*

IMMAG Faculty Candidate

Sep 27

Anton Bennett, Ph.D.
Associate Professor, Department of Pharmacology, Yale University Medical College of Georgia

"MAP Kinase phosphatases in health and disease"

Oct 11

Haitao Wu, Ph.D.
Postdoctoral Fellow
Mentor: Dr. Lin Mei
Institute of Molecular Medicine & Genetics
Georgia Health Sciences University, Augusta, GA

"Bidirectional signaling mechanisms during neuromuscular synapse formation"

Nov 1

Darrell Brann, Ph.D.
Regent's Professor, Department of Neurology, IMMAG, Georgia Health Sciences University, Augusta, GA

"Estrogen Neuroprotection and the Critical Period Hypothesis"

Nov 15

Majd Zayzafoon, MD, Ph.D.
Department of Pathology, University of Alabama at Birmingham
Birmingham, Al

"CaMKII and Bone: The Good, the Bad and the Ugly."

Nov 22

Thanksgiving

Nov 29

"Canceled"
To be Rescheduled

Grace Y. Sun, Ph.D.
Professor of Biochemistry
Biochemistry Department
University of Missouri
Columbia, MO

Canceled

Dec 6

Steven L. Teitelbaum, M.D.
Messing Professor
Washington University in St. Louis

"Osteoclasts: What they do and how they do it?"

Dec 13

"Canceled"

Xi He, Ph.D.
Professor
Children's Hospital Boston
Harvard Medical School

Canceled

Dec 20

Holidays

Dec 27

Holidays

2011

Jan 3

Jan 10

Laurie K. McCauley, DDS, Ph.D.
William K. and Mary Anne Najjar Professor
Professor and Chair
Department of Periodontics and Oral Medicine
University of Michigan College of Dental Medicine

"Parathyroid hormone at the junction of bone and marrow"

Jan 17

 Holiday - Martin Luther King's Birthday
No Seminar

Jan 24

Huidong Shi, Ph.D.
Molecular Oncology Program, Genomics / Epigenomics, MCG Cancer Center
Georgia Health Sciences University
Augusta, GA

Jan 31

Tae-Wan Kim, Ph.D.
Associate Professor, Department of Pathology and Cell Biology, Taub Institute for Research on Alzheimer's Disease and the Aging Brain
Columbia University Medical Center
New York, NY

"Chemical and genetic modifiers of beta-amyloid pathophysiology in Alzheimer's disease"

Feb 7

Zhi-Gang He, Ph.D.
Childrens's Hospital
Harvard Medical School

"Mechanisms of axon regeneration"

Feb 14

Katherine W. Roche, Ph.D.
Senior Investigator Receptor Biology Section National Institute of Neurological Disorders and Stroke
Bethesda, MD

"Molecular Mechanisms Regulating NMDA Receptor"

Feb 21

"will be rescheduled"

Mien-Chie Hung, Ph.D.
Vice President for Basic Research, Professor and Chair, Department of Molecular and Cellular Oncology
Professor, Department of Surgical Oncology Distinguished Teaching Professor, Ruth Legett Jones Distinguished Chair
The University of Texas M. D. Anderson Cancer Center

"Understanding and manipulating the DNA double-strand break repair machinery to cure human disease"

Feb 28

Michael Granato, Ph.D.
Professor
Department of Cell and Developmental Biology
University of Pennsylvania, Medical College of Georgia
Philadelphia, Pennsylvania

"Neural Circuit Formation and Plasticity in Zebrafish"

Mar 8
*Special Day*

Richard Loeser, M.D.
Head, Section on Molecular Medicine
The Wake Forest University School of Medicine
Winston-Salem, NC

"Aging and Osteoarthritis: What is the Mechanistic Link"

Mar 14

Nahid Mivechi, Ph.D.
Director of Center for Molecular Chaperone/ Radiobiology & Cancer Virology Group
Georgia Health Sciences University, Augusta, GA

"Opposing roles for molecular chaperones in neurodegeneration and cancer"

Mar 21

Victoria L. Bautch, Ph.D.
Professor of Biology, University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, Chapel Hill, NC

"Blood Vessel Network Formation - Polarity and Beyond"

Mar 28

 Dr. Guo-Min Li
Markey Cancer Center, Graduate Center for Toxicology, University of Kentucky College of Medicine, Lexington, KY

"Mechanism of DNA mismatch repair"

Apr 4

Masters Week – Spring Break
No Seminar

Apr 11

Jac Nickoloff, Ph.D.
Dept. Head and Professor
Department of Environmental & Radiological Health Sciences, Colorado State University
Ft. Collins, CO

"Human metnase regulates non-homologous end-joining, chromosome decatenation, and replication fork restart"

Apr 18

*Special Time*
11:00 am

Xuetong Shen, Ph.D.
Associate Professor
Department of Carcinogenesis
The University of Texas M.D. Anderson Cancer Center

"Chromatin responses to DNA damage"

Apr 25

Richard I Morimoto, Ph.D.
Professor, Bill and Gayle Cook Professor
WCAS Biochem/Molec Bio/CellBio
Northwestern University
Evanston, IL

"The Stress of Misfolded Proteins in Aging and Disease."

May 2

Rita Balice-Gordon, Ph.D.
Professor, Dept. of Neuroscience
Medical College of Georgia
University of Pennsylvania

"Mechanisms of autoimmune synaptopathies"

May 9

Ting Xie, Ph.D.
Investigator, Stowers Institute for Medical Research, Kansas City, MO

"Stem Cell Development in Drosophila and Mice"

May 16

Carmen Sato-Bigbee, Ph.D.
Associate Profressor of Biochemistry
Viginia Commonwealth University
Richmond, VA

 "Not just for pain: novel roles of the opioid and nociceptin systems in oligodendrocyte development and neuron-glial interactions"

May 23

Dr. Phillip Newmark
HHMI INVESTIGATOR
Professor of Department of Cell & Developmental Biology
University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign

 "Germ cell development and differentiation
in planarians."

May 30

Jun 27

11:00 am

*Special day/time*

Shenfeng Qiu, PhD
Postdoctoral Fellow
Zikha Neurogenetic Institute
Keck School of Medicine, USC
Los Angeles, CA

IMMAG Faculty Candidate

"The autism risk gene Met controls neural development and circuit formation"

Jun 29

11:00 am

*Special day/time*

Seth M. Tomchik, PhD
Senior Research Associate
The Scripps Research Institute
Jupiter, Florida

IMMAG Faculty Candidate

"Imaging and Genetic Analysis of Learning and Memory in Drosophila"

 Jul 07

11:00 am

*Special day/time*

Li-Ru Zhao, PhD
Assistant Professor
Dept of Neurology / Cellular Biology & Anatomy
LSU Health Sciences Center
Shreveport, LA

IMMAG Faculty Candiate

"The role of hematopoietic growth factors in brain repair"

Jul 08

10:00 am

*Special day/time*

Qi Wu, PhD
Department of Biochemistry
University of Washington
School of Medicine
Seattle,WA

IMMAG Faculty Candidate

"GABA signaling from AgRP neurons controls feeding behavior via a hypothalamic-brainstem circuitry"

Jul 11

Jul 18

Jul 25