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Wednesday,
Jun. 03rd
12:00 PM-1:00 PM |
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Chris Hackler, PhD
Director, Division of Medical Humanities
D. Micah Hester, PhD
Associate Director, Division of Medical HumanitiesAssociate Professor of Medical Humanities and Pediatrics
UAMS |
"Selected Issues in Clinical Research Ethics" |
Friday,
Jun. 05th
12:00 PM-1:00 PM |
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Shimul Chowdhury
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"A genome-wide association study identifies protein quantitative trait loci (pQTLs)." |
Friday,
Jun. 05th
12:00 PM-1:00 PM |
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William Hogan
MD, MS
Director, Medical Vocabulary Services
Associate Professor of Biomedical Informatics
University of Pittsburgh |
"Rembrandt or stick figures? The state of the art of representation in Biomedical Informatics" |
Wednesday,
Jun. 10th
10:00am |
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Dr. Volker Kruft
Manager of Business Development in Proteomics Mass Spectrometry Systems (EMEA)
Applied Biosystems
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"Use of mass spectrometry for the verification/validation of protein and peptide biomarkers" |
Wednesday,
Jun. 17th
12:00 PM |
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Laura F. Hutchins, MD
Professor of Medicine
Director, Division of Hematology/Oncology
Virginia Clinton Kelly Endowed Chair for Clinical Breast Cancer Research
UAMS |
"Glioblastoma" |
Wednesday,
Jul. 22nd
10:00-11:00am |
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Sangeeta Khare, Ph.D
Research Assistant Professor, Department of Veterinary Pathobiology
College of Veterinary Medicine & Biomedical Sciences
Texas A&M University |
"Emerging and Re-emerging Diseases of Mucosal Surface: A Systems Biology Analysis Approach to Discover Personalized Medicine" |
Monday,
Aug. 31st
4-5pm |
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Dr. Stephen Grace
Biology Department
UALR |
"Polyphenol antioxidant production in tomato. What can we learn from leaves?" |
Thursday,
Sep. 3nd
10:00am |
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Dr. Soumitra Ghoshroy
Director, Electron Microscopy Center,
University of South Carolina,
Columbia, SC |
"Application of Electron Microscopy in Research From Bio to Nano" |
Wednesday,
Sep. 9th
12:00noon |
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Deborah S. Davison, DNP, AOCNP
Senior Genomic Science Liaison
Genomic Health |
"Oncotype DX: Targeting Tumor Biology" |
Thursday,
Sep. 10nd
1:30 pm |
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Brian Storrie, Ph.DProfessor
Department of Physiology and Biophysics
UAMS |
"Putting the Golgi apparatus together:Do Rab proteins rule?" |
Thursday,
Sep. 10nd
12:00noon |
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Cody Cook |
"Tim17: maintaining the other 'human'genome" |
Monday,
Sep. 14th
4:00pm |
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Dr. Lirong Zeng,
Assistant professor,
UALR Biology Department |
"Employing Model Plants Tomato And Rice To Study The Molecular Basis Underlying Plant-Microbe Interactions" |
Monday,
Sep. 14th
12:00noon |
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William D. O'Brien, PhDDonald Biggar Willett Professor of Engineering
Director, Bioacoustics Research Laboratory
Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering
University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign |
"Acoustic microstreaming considerations for sonothrombolysis and sonoporation" |
Wednesday,
Sep. 16th
12:00noon |
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Charles Falany, Ph.D.Professor of Pharmacology and Toxicology
University of Alabama Birmingham |
"Human Cytosolic SULT2 isoforms: Distinct Properties in Hydroxysteroid Sulfation" |
Thursday,
Sep. 17th
1:30pm |
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Wayne Gray, Ph.D.Professor
Department of Microbiology and Immunology
UAMS |
"Simian Varicella: a model to study the pathogenesis of chickenpox and shingles and to evaluate improved varicella vaccines" |
Monday,
Sep. 21th
4-5pm |
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Jing Zhang, Applied Science MS student |
"Construction of cyanobacterial mutants expressing the coumarate 3-hydroxylase from Arabidopsis" |
Monday,
Sep. 21th
12:00noon |
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Saraswati Sukumar, PhD
Professor of Oncology and Pathology
The Johns Hopkins University School of Medicine
Co-director, Breast Cancer Program
Department of Oncology |
"New insights into HOX gene function in breast cancer and regulation by long non-coding RNAs" |
Wednesday,
Sep. 23th
12:00noon |
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Stephen Kron, M.D., Ph.D.Ludwig Center for Metastasis Research
The University of Chicago |
"Chromatin dynamics at DNA double strand breaks" |
Wednesday,
Sep. 23th
1:30pm |
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Steven M. Schrader, Ph.D.Reproductive Health Assessment
NIOSH/CDC
Cinncinnati, Ohio |
"Male Adolescent Exposure to ndocrine-Disrupting Pesticides" |
Thursday,
Sep. 24th
4:00pm |
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Tony M. Plant, Ph.D.Director, Center for Research in Reproductive Physiology
Magee-Women's Research Institute
University of Pittsburgh School of Medicine
Pittsburgh, PA |
"The neurobiology of the onset of puberty in the monkey" |
Monday,
Sep. 28th
4:00pm |
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Krishna Kannan, Ph.D.Research Asst Professor
Dept of Internal Medicine/ Rheumatolgy
UAMS |
"Where are we at finding a cure for Rheumatoid Arthritis?" |
Thursday,
Sep. 24th
1:30pm |
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Vladimir Lupashin, Ph.D.Department of Microbiology & Immunology
Associate Professor
Department of Physiology and Biophysics
University of Arkansas For Medical Sciences |
"Role of the Conserved Oligomeric Golgi complex in intracellular trafficking of glycosylation enzymes and bacterial toxins." |
Thursday,
Sep. 24th
12:00noon |
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Endrit Ziu |
"Lrp5 Controls Bone Formation by Inhibing Serotonin Synthesis in the Duodenum" |
Wednesday,
Sep. 30th
12:00noon |
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Satya Kunapuli, Ph.D. Temple University School of Medicine
Department of Physiology |
"Mechanisms of differential regulation of platelet functions by protein kinase C delta" |
Thursday,
Oct. 1st
12:00noon |
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Steven Eugene Smith |
"Switch-like Control of SREBP-2 Transport Triggered by Small Changes in ER Cholesterol: A Delicate Balance" |
Friday,
Oct. 2nd
4:00pm |
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Dr. Lirong ZengAssistant Professor in Biology Department,
UALR |
"Employing Model Plants Tomato and Rice to Study the Molecular Mechanisms of Plant-Microbe Interactions " |
Monday,
Oct. 5th
4:00pm |
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Shimul Chowdhury, UAMS |
"Genetic and epigenetic alterations associated with congenital heart defects." |
Wednesday,
Oct. 7th
12:00noon |
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Sherri Smart |
"Regulation of transcriptional elongation through histone crosstalk" |
Thursday,
Oct. 8th
12:00noon |
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Ramanagouda R-Bhojappa |
"What happens when a DNA helicase (XPD) encounters stationary roadblock (SSBs)" |
Thursday,
Oct. 8th
1:30pm |
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Patricia Wight, Ph.D.Professor
Department of Physiology and Biophysics
University of Arkansas For Medical Sciences |
"Understanding myelin gene regulation as a means to promote remyelination in MS patients" |
Monday,
Oct. 12th
4:00pm |
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Dr. Rakhee Agarwal, UAMS |
"Role of Inositol Polyphosphates in Programmed Cell Death" |
Wednesday,
Oct. 14th
12:00 |
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Moshe Finel, Ph.D.University of Helsinki |
"UDP-Glucuronosyltransferases in Testosterone Abuse" |
Thursday,
Oct. 15th
12:00 |
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Rebecca Gilbride |
"Synthetic Galectin-3 Inhibitor Increases Metastatic Cancer Cell Sensitivity to Taxol-Induced Apoptosis In Vitro and In Vivo" |
Thursday,
Oct. 15th
1:30pm |
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Joe Lutkenhaus, Ph.D. Molecular Genetics and Immunology
University of Kansas Medical Center
Kansas City, KS |
"Regulation of Cell Division in E:coli by inhibitors of FtsZ" |
Monday,
Oct. 19th
12:00noon |
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Ralph D. Sanderson, PhDProfessor of Pathology
University of Alabama at Birmingham |
"Targeting the heparan sulfate/heparanase axis for cancer therapy" |
Friday,
Oct. 16th
3:00-4:00pm |
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Dr. Henry DaniellPegasus Professor and University Board of Trustee Chair, College of Medicine,
University of Central Florida |
"Production Biofuel Enzymes, Biopharmaceuticals and Vaccines in Plants" |
Monday,
Oct. 19th
4:00pm |
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Shelley Baird, UALR biology graduate student |
"Morphophysiological Indicators of Energetic Load According to Reproductive State in the Digestive Tracts of Mice and Rats" |
Wednesday,
Oct. 21th
12:00noon |
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John M. Abrams, Ph.D.
The University of Texas Southwestern Medical Center
Department of Cell Biology |
"Programmed and Un-programmed Apoptosis in a Genetic Model" |
Thursday,
Oct. 22th
12:00noon |
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Kimberly A. Reynolds |
"Mechanochemical Removal of Ribosome Biogenesis Factors from Nascent 60A Ribosomal Subunits." |
Monday,
Oct. 26th
4:00pm |
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Ithay Biton, UALR biology graduate student |
"Functional Analysis of Two Novel Dictyostelium discoideum RABs" |
Tuesday,
Oct. 27th
4:00pm |
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Stephen Erickson, PHDAssistant Professor of Pediatrics and Biostatistics, UAMS
Statistical Geneticist,
Arkansas Center for Birth Defects Research and Prevention |
"Microarray-based genotyping of DNA extracted from Subject-collected mail-in cheek swabs" |
Wednesday,
Oct. 28th
12:00noon |
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Stephen White, Ph.D.St. Jude Children's Research Hospital |
"Structural and functional studies on DNA repair:the phage T4 UvsXYW recombination system and tyrosyl-DNA phosphodiesterase" |
Thursday,
Oct. 29th
3:00pm |
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ROBERT P. SKOFF, Ph.D., ProfessorDepartment of Anatomy and Cell Biology
Wayne State University
School of Medicine Detroit, MI |
"Myelin proteolipid protein mutations lead to global brain mitochondrial dysfunction and inflammation" |
Wednesday,
Nov. 4th
10am |
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Upasana T. Saini Doctoral Student-Division of Neurotoxicology
UALR/UAMS Joint Bioinformatics Program |
"Gender-Specific Gene Expression Analysis and Cross-Mapping Differentially Expressed Genes to Specific Chromosomal Locations in the Male and Female Rat" |
Wednesday,
Nov. 18th
12:00noon |
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Yuzhi Chen, Ph. D.Assistant Professor,
Department of Geriatrics And Neurobiology and Developmental Sci.,
UAMS |
"Gender-Specific Gene Expression Analysis and Cross-Mapping Differentially Expressed Genes to Specific Chromosomal Locations in the Male and Female Rat" |
