Each year the Department of Pharmacology invites distinguished researchers to present their work on topics broadly related to pharmacology. Topics range from those closely aligned with the research interests of the department to areas of interest to researchers across the UC Davis campus and the UC Davis School of Medicine.
Past Seminars
2023
January 17, 2023
Speaker: Daniel Choquet, Ph.D., Director, Dynamic organization and function of Synapses, Bordeaux Neurocampus
Title: "Interplay between dynamic nanoscale glutamatergic synapse organization and function" (PDF)
Host: Johannes Hell, Ph.D., Professor, Department of Pharmacology
February 21, 2023
The seminar has been cancelled!
Speaker: Daniela Kaufer, Ph.D., Department of Integrative Biology and Helen Wills Neuroscience Institute, Associate Dean of Biological Sciences, University of California, Berkley
Host: Angela Gelli, Ph.D., Professor, Department of Pharmacology
April 4, 2023
2 p.m. in Tupper Hall 2133/2135 and via Zoom
Speaker: Zhao Wang, Ph.D., Associate Professor, Departments of Diabetes and Cancer Metabolism, City of Hope
Title: “Protein Folding and Glucose Metabolism: Two-way Traffic in Cardiac Disease” (PDF)
Host: Yang Kevin Xiang, Ph.D., Professor, Department of Pharmacology
April 18, 2023
Speaker: Fabrice Dabertrand, Ph.D., Associate Professor, Departments of Anesthesiology and Pharmacology, University of Colorado, Anschutz Medical Campus
Title: "Impact of cerebral small vessel disease on neuronal plasticity" (PDF)
Host: Manuel Navedo, Ph.D., Professor, Department of Pharmacology
May 2, 2023
Speaker: Girija Raman, Ph.D., M.B.A., Associate Director of Corporate Development, Gilead
Title: "Anatomy of a Pharmaceutical Deal -Discovery to Acquisition" (PDF)
Host: Heike Wullf, Ph.D., Professor, Department of Pharmacology
June 20, 2023
Speaker: Luis G Carvajal-Carmona, Ph.D., Associate Vice Chancellor for Academic Diversity Office of Diversity, Equity and Inclusion, Professor and Auburn Community Cancer Endowed Chair in Basic Science, Genome Center and Department of Biochemistry and Molecular Medicine, School of Medicine, University of California, Davis
Title: "Precision Health Equity: the intersection between modern medicine and health disparities" (PDF)
Host: Elva Diaz, Ph.D., Professor, Department of Pharmacology
November 7, 2023
Speaker: David Liem, M.D., Ph.D., Project Scientist, Med: Internal Medicine Cardiology, UC Davis School of Medicine
Title: “A Natural Language Processing Approach to Unveil Novel Therapeutic Mechanisms and Targets in Heart Failure” (PDF)
Host: Leighton T. Izu, Ph.D., Professor, Department of Pharmacology
2022
January 13, 2022
11 a.m. (PST) Via Zoom
Speaker: Roy Ben-Shalom, Assistant Professor in Neurology and the MIND Institute, UC Davis
Title: “Simulating neurodevelopmental disorders: from the channel to the circuit” (PDF)
Host: Julie Bossuyt, Ph.D., Associate Professor, Department of Pharmacology
Joint Seminar - Pharmacology - Physiology and Membrane Biology
February 15, 2022
11 a.m. (PST) Via Zoom
Speaker: Michael Burton, Assistant Professor of Department of Neuroscience, University of Texas at Dallas
Title: "Cell and Sex-Specific effects of TLR4 in Neuroimmune interactions in acute pain states” (PDF)
Host: Elva Diaz, Ph.D., Professor, Department of Pharmacology
March 15, 2022
Speaker: Jin Zhang, Professor, Department of Pharmacology, University of California, San Diego
Title: “Illuminating the Biochemical Activity Architecture of the Cell” (PDF)
Hosts: Madeline Nieves-Cintron, Ph.D. and Lin Tian, Ph.D.
Joint Seminar - Pharmacology and Biochemistry
April 19, 2022
Speaker: Jennifer Davis, Associate Professor, Departments of Lab Medicine and Pathology & Bioengineering, Director of the Center for Cardiovascular Biology, Associate Director of The Institute for Stem Cell & Regenerative Medicine, School of Medicine, University of Washington
Title: "Regulators of Cardiac Fibroblast Fate & Fibrosis" (PDF)
Host: Julie Bossuyt, Ph.D., Associate Professor, Department of Pharmacology
May 3, 2022
Speaker: Robert Edwards, Professor, M.D., Neurology, UCSF Weill Institute for Neurosciences, University of California, San Francisco
Title: "The Frequency Dependence of Neurotransmitter Release" (PDF)
Host: Johannes W. Hell, Ph.D., Professor, Department of Pharmacology
May 17, 2022
Speaker: Nikki Posnack, Assistant Professor, Dept. of Pediatrics, Dept of Pharmacology and Physiology, The George Washington University
Title: "Plastic – not so fantastic. Evaluating medical device biocompatibility using cardiac models" (PDF)
Host: Crystal Ripplinger, Ph.D., Professor, Department of Pharmacology
October 18, 2022
Speaker: Jan Christoph, Ph.D., Assistant Professor, Cardiovascular Research Institute, University of California, San Francisco
Title: "High-Resolution Imaging of the Electromechanics of the Heart" (PDF)
Host: Ye Chen-Izu, Ph.D., Professor, Department of Pharmacology
November 9, 2022
10:30 a.m. in Tupper Hall Rm 2133/2135 and via Zoom
Speaker: Michael A Colman, Ph.D., F.H.E.A., Associate Professor, Department of Biological Sciences, Systems Physiology, University of Leeds, U.K.
Title: "Heterogeneity, variability, and cardiac dysfunction: from dyad to ECG" (PDF)
Hosts: Eleonora Grandi, Ph.D. and Haibo Ni, Ph.D.
November 15, 2022
Speaker: Ade Aromolaran, Ph.D., Associate Professor, Department of Surgery, Division of Cardiothoracic Surgery, Investigator, Nora Eccles Harrison Cardiovascular Research and Training Institute (CVRTI), U2M2 Program in Molecular Medicine
Title: "Illuminating the Role of the Delayed Rectifier K Channels in Heart" (PDF)
Host: Ele Grandi, Ph.D., Professor, Department of Pharmacology
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
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 CavCa2+ 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
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
See: Current Seminars