| Last update: | 3/11/2003 | |||||
| Graduate School Calendar of Events | ||||||
| Date | Event | Speaker | Affiliation | Title | Time | Room |
| SEPTEMBER 2001 | ||||||
| 9/12 | Thesis Defense | Abraham Shih-Chieh Chuang (Laboratory of Robert K.S. Wong) | Program in Pharmacology | A Novel Current Generated by the Activation of Group I Metabotropic Glutamate Receptors in the Hippocampus | 2:00pm | BSB 6-5 |
| 10/30 | Thesis Defense | Tomasz Sobocki (Laboratories of Elizabeth Kornecki and Julie Rushbrook) | Program in Anatomy & Cell Biology | Genomic Organization of Human F11R/JAM and Identification of Two Types of mRNAs Regulated by Alternative Promoters | 11:00am | BSB 7-5 |
| OCTOBER 2001 | ||||||
| 10/10 | N&BS Seminar Series | Myles Akabas, PhD | Associate Professor, Departments of Physiology & Biophysics, Neuroscience, Albert Einstein College of Medicine, Bronx, NY | GABA-A Receptors: Agonist Induced Conformational Changes and Protein Mobility in the Channel Lining Segments | 12:00pm | EB LH 1A |
| 10/24 | N&BS Seminar Series | Carsten Strubing, PhD | Department of Cardiovascular Research, Children's Hospital and Department of Neurobiology, Harvard Medical School | Identification of Heteromeric TRPC Channels in Mammalian Brain | 12:00pm | EB LH 1A |
| 10/29 | Research Topics in Biomedical Sciences ("Meet-the-Professors") | Camilo Parada, Ph.D. | Microbiology & Immunology, SUNY Brooklyn | WIP | 12:00pm | BSB 3-114B |
| 10/30 | Thesis Defense | Abeba Tesfaye (Laboratory of Gregory Gick) | Program in Biochemistry | Regulation of rat Na, K-ATPase a3 subunit expression by low K+ and ouabain | 11:00am | BSB 7-5 |
| 10/31 | Molecular & Cellular Biology Seminar Series | Pamela B. Meluh, Ph.D. | Assistant Member, Program in Molecular Biology Memorial Sloan-Kettering Cancer Center | The Smt3p/SUMO-1 Pathway Impacts Genomic Stability and Centromere Function in Budding Yeast | 4:00pm | EB LH 1A or 1B |
| NOVEMBER 2001 | ||||||
| 11/5 | Thesis Defense | Daya Gupta (Laboratory of Alan Gintzler) | Program in Biochemistry | Ovarian sex steroids activate spinal opioid antinociception via disinhibitory mechanisms: asymmetrical and independent regulation of spinal dynorphin and enkephalin systems | 11:00am | BSB 7-5 |
| 11/7 | N&BS Seminar Series | Anthony Auerbach, Ph.D. | Professor, Department of Physiology & Biophysics SUNY Buffalo- School of Medicine & Biomedical Sciences, Buffalo, NY | Nicotinic Acetycholine Receptors | 12:00pm | EB LH 1A |
| 11/8 | Microbiology & Immunology Open House | Various | 2:00pm -5:00pm | BSB 3-5 | ||
| 11/19 | Research Topics in Biomedical Sciences ("Meet-the-Professors") | Todd Sacktor, M.D. | Physiology & Pharmacology, SUNY Brooklyn | WIP | 12:00pm | BSB 3-114B |
| 11/21 | N&BS Seminar Series | Ehud Kaplan, PhD | Jules & Doris Stein Research-to-Prevent-Blindness Professor Departments of Ophthalmology, Physiology & Biophysics Mount Sinai School of Medicine, New York, NY | Color, Size and All the Rest: How Do They All Fit in the Visual Cortex? | 12:00pm | EB LH 1A |
| 11/27 | Thesis Defense | Volker Nimmrich (Laboratory of Henri Tiedge) | Program in Neural and Behavioral Science | Expression of Dendritic RNAs in Rat Hippocampus During Synaptic Activation | 2:00pm | BSB 6-5 |
| 11/28 | Molecular & Cellular Biology Seminar Series | Joseph Locker, Ph.D. | Professor, Department of Pathology Albert Einstein College of Medicine | Developmental Transcription Factors that Regulate Alpha-Fetoprotein | 4:00pm | EB LH 1A or 1B |
| 11/29 | Research Topics in Biomedical Sciences ("Meet-the-Professors") | Maja Nowakowski, Ph.D. | Pathology, SUNY Brooklyn | WIP | 12:00pm | BSB 3-114B |
| DECEMBER 2001 | ||||||
| 12/5 | N&BS Seminar Series | Janet L Fisher, PhD | Assistant Professor, Department of Pharmacology & Physiology University of South Carolina School of Medicine, Columbia, SC | GABA-A Receptors - Relating Structure to Function | 12:00pm | EB LH 1A |
| 12/5 | MD/PhD Student Meeting | Brendan Smith | Molecular & Cell Biology Program, SUNY Brooklyn | WIP | 12:00pm | BSB 3-114B |
| 12/5 | School of Graduate Studies Annual Reception | 3:00pm -5:00pm | EB Special Functions Room and Atrium | |||
| 12/6 | Research Topics in Biomedical Sciences ("Meet-the-Professors") | Mohamed Boutjdir | Professor, Research & Development VA Medical Center |
WIP | 12:00pm | BSB 3-114B |
| 12/11 | Thesis Defense | Hasan Orhan Akman (Laboratory of Olcay Batuman) | Program in Anatomy & Cell Biology | Signalling by Smad proteins: A novel mechanism that regulates vascular endothelial function in response to hypoxia in humans | 3:00pm | BSB 2-5 |
| 12/12 | MD/PhD Student Meeting | Marjorie Rico | Neural & Behavioral Science Program, SUNY Brooklyn | WIP | 12:00pm | BSB 3-114B |
| 12/19 | N&BS Seminar Series | Samuel A Deadwyler, PhD | Professor & Vice Chairman, Department of Physiology & Pharmacology Wake Forest University School of Medicine, Winston-Salem, NC | Hippocampus: Drug Effects and Behavioral Coding | 12:00pm | LH 1A |
| JANUARY 2002 | ||||||
| 1/7 | Research Topics in Biomedical Sciences ("Meet-the-Professors") | Ellen Hsu, Ph.D. | Physiology & Pharmacology, SUNY Brooklyn | WIP | 12:00pm | BSB 3-114B |
| 1/9 | Graduate School Spring Registration Begins | |||||
| 1/14 | Research Topics in Biomedical Sciences ("Meet-the-Professors") | Katherine Perkins, Ph.D. | Physiology & Pharmacology, SUNY Brooklyn | WIP | 12:00pm | BSB 3-114B |
| 1/16 | Graduate School Spring Registration Ends | |||||
| 1/16 | N&BS Seminar Series | Neil L Harrison, PhD | Professor of Neuroscience, Laboratory of Molecular Pharmacology Weill Medical College of Cornell University, New York, NY | Regulation of Synaptic Inhibition via the Alpha Subunit of the GABA-A Receptor | 12:00pm | EB LH 1A or 1B |
| 1/22 | Graduate School Spring Classes Begin | |||||
| 1/22 | MD/PhD Student Meeting | Raquibil Hannan | Molecular & Cell Biology Program, SUNY Brooklyn | WIP | 12:00pm | BSB 3-114B |
| 1/23 | Molecular & Cellular Biology Seminar Series | Richard Novick, M.D. | New York University | TBA | 4:00pm | EB LH 1A or 1B |
| FEBRUARY 2002 | ||||||
| 2/6 | Molecular & Cellular Biology Seminar Series | Frederick W. Alt, Ph.D. | Charles A. Janeway Professor of Pediatrics and Professor of Genetics Howard Hughes Medical Institute, Boston, MA | Interplay Between Non-Homologous End Joining and Cell Cycle Checkpoint Pathways in Normal Development and Tumor Suppression | 4:00pm | EB LH 1A or 1B |
| 2/13 | N&BS Seminar Series | Donald S Faber, PhD | Professor & Chairman, Department of Neuroscience Albert Einstein College of Medicine, Bronx, NY | Regulation and Dynamics of Transmitter Release at a Central Synapse | 12:00pm | EB LH 1A or 1B |
| 2/27 | N&BS Seminar Series | Miguel A L Nicolelis, MD, PhD | Associate Professor, Department of Neurobiology Duke University Medical Center, Durham, NC | Brain Computer Interfaces | 12:00pm | EB LH 1A or 1B |
| 2/27 | Entrepreneurship in Academia: (Ethics and Responsibility in Research GI-500) | From Idea to Commercialization: The Life Cycle of an Invention | 4:00pm | Eb LH 1A | ||
| MARCH 2002 | ||||||
| 3/4 | Research Topics in Biomedical Sciences ("Meet-the-Professors") | Foroozan Mokhtarian, Ph.D. | Program in Anatomy & Cell Biology | WIP | 12:00pm | BSB 3-114B |
| 3/5 | Entrepreneurship in Academia: (Ethics and Responsibility in Research GI-500) | Life as an Entrepreneur - Hear True Life Successes - Part 1: Basic Scientist | 4:00pm | Alumni Aud A - HSEB | ||
| 3/6 | Annual Research Day - Platform sessions in the Alumni Auditorium 10-12:30 and 1-3:30, Poster Presentations in the Atrium 1:30-4:00pm. | 10:am - 4:00pm | Alumni Auditorium and Atrium EB | |||
| 3/6 | ANNUAL GRADUATE DAY LECTURE | Brian Chait, Ph.D. | Camille and Henry Dreyfus Professor at The Rockefeller University and Director of the National Resource for the Mass Spectrometer Analysis of Biological Macromolecules | Proteomic Tools for Dissecting Cellular Function | 4:00pm | Alumni Auditorium |
| 3/7 | Research Topics in Biomedical Sciences ("Meet-the-Professors") | Sherry Smith, PhD. | Physiology & Pharmacology, SUNY Brooklyn | WIP | 12:00pm | BSB 3-114B |
| 3/11 | Research Topics in Biomedical Sciences ("Meet-the-Professors") | Xian-Cheng Jiang | Anatomy & Cell Biology | WIP | 12:00pm | BSB 3-114B |
| 3/13 | Alternative Careers Seminar | Philip Band, Ph.D. | New York University | The Development of Hyaluronan for Medicine | 4:30pm | |
| 3/18 | Research Topics in Biomedical Sciences ("Meet-the-Professors") | John G. Kral | Department of Surgery | WIP | 12:00pm | BSB 3-114B |
| Mahmood Hussain | Department of Anatomy & Cell Biology | |||||
| 3/20 | President's Forum for Funded Faculty | Meeting by invitation only. | 12:00pm-2:00pm | EB LH 1A | ||
| 3/20 | Molecular & Cellular Biology Seminar Series | Alex Kiselyov | ImClone Systems | Property-Based Design: Optimization of Absorbtion and Pharmacokinetics for Drug Candidates | 4:00pm | EB LH 1A or 1B |
| 3/21 | Research Topics in Biomedical Sciences ("Meet-the-Professors") | Mohammed Boutjdir | Anatomy & Cell Biology | WIP | 12:00pm | BSB 3-114B |
| 3/27 | Thesis Defense | Lalitha Jayant | Program in Microbiology & Immunology | Different Ribosome Accessing Sites on a Single mRNA Molecule Influence the Translation of Each Other IN CIS | 11:00am | BSB 3-5 |
| 3/27 | N&BS Seminar Series | John Rinzel, PhD | Professor of Neural Science and Mathematics Center for Neural Science, New York University, New York, NY | Modeling Rhythms in the Brain | 12:00pm | EB LH 1A or 1B |
| APRIL 2002 | ||||||
| 4/3 | N&BS Seminar Series | Donald S Faber, PhD | Professor & Chairman, Department of Neuroscience Albert Einstein College of Medicine, Bronx, NY | Regulation and Dynamics of Transmitter Release at a Central Synapse | 12:00pm | EB LH 1A or 1B |
| 4/3 | Molecular & Cellular Biology Seminar Series | David Geshon | Professor and Skillman Chair,Technion-Israel Institute of Technology/Senior Vice President and Chief Scientific Officer, Redox Phamaceutical Corporation | A Novel Mechanism for Activation of Heat Shock Factor-1 in Response to Stress. | 4:00pm | EB LH 1A or 1B |
| 4/8 | Research Topics in Biomedical Sciences ("Meet-the-Professors") | Andre Fenton, Ph.D. | Department of Physiology and Pharmacology | WIP | 12:00pm | BSB 3-114B |
| 4/10 | N&BS Seminar Series | Emery N Brown, MD, PhD | Director, Neuroscience Statistics Research Laboratory, Department of Anesthesia and Critical Care, Massachusetts General Hospital, Boston, MA | Algorithms for Neural Population Coding | 12:00pm | EB LH 1A or 1B |
| 4/10 | Entrepreneurship in Academia: (Ethics and Responsibility in Research GI-500) | Dr. Stan Asnis | Chaiman of Orthapaedic Surgery, North Shore University Hospital at Manhasset | Life as an Entrepreneur - How to go from Concept to Device | 4:00pm | Lecture Hall 1 BSB |
| 4/11 | Thesis Defense | Facan Huang | Laboratory of MAQ Siddiqui, Department of Anatomy & Cell Biology | Structure, expression and functional characterization of the mouse CLP-1 gene | 3:00pm | BSB 2-5 |
| 4/17 | Thesis Defense | Helene Bach-Mizrachi | Laboratory of Frank Scalia, Department of Anatomy & Cell Biology | Expression of the ephrin-A family members in the visual system of ranid frogs | 10:00am | BSB 2-5 |
| 4/17 | Molecular & Cellular Biology Seminar Series | Angela N. Tyner, Ph.D. | Associate Professor, Department of Molecular Genetics University of Illinois College of Medicine | Functions of the Cip/Kip Cyclin Kinase Inhibitors in the Normal and Injured Liver | 4:00pm | EB LH 1A or 1B |
| 4/24 | N&BS Seminar Series | David S Weiss, PhD | Professor, Department of Neurobiology, University of Alabama at Birmingham | Desensitization Mechanism of the GABA-A Receptor | 12:00pm | EB LH 1A or 1B |
| 4/24 | Entrepreneurship in Academia: (Ethics and Responsibility in Research GI-500) | What is Intellectual Property and How is it Protected? | 4:00pm | EB LH 1A | ||
| MAY 2002 | ||||||
| 5/1 | N&BS Seminar Series | Beverley A Orser, MD, PhD | Department of Physiology University of Toronto, Ontario, Canada | Extrasynaptic GABA-A Receptors: Thinking Outside the Box | 12:00pm | EB LH 1A or 1B |
| 5/1 | Molecular & Cellular Biology Seminar Series | Karen Arndt, Ph.D. | Associate Professor of Biological Sciences University of Pittsburgh | Regulation of Transcription by RNA Polymerase II: Exploiting the Genetic and Biochemical Toolbox of Yeast | 4:00pm | EB LH 1A or 1B |
| 5/2 | Thesis Defense | Boris Shor | Microbiology & Immunology, SUNY Brooklyn | Functional Analysis Of Rack1 Homologue From Fission Yeast | 10:00am | BSB 3-5 |
| 5/15 | President's Forum for Funded Faculty | Meeting by invitation only. | 12:00pm-2:00pm | EB LH 1A | ||
| 5/15 | Molecular & Cellular Biology Seminar Series | Michelle Barton, Ph.D. | Associate Professor, Department of Biochemistry and Molecular Biology, MD Anderson Cancer Center | Regulated Gene Expression in Chromatin and Synthetic Nuclei | 4:00pm | EB LH 1A or 1B |
| 5/16 | Graduate Student Meeting | Susanna Popp | President, Graduate Student Council | Election of New Graduate Student Council | 12:30pm | BSB 3-112 |
| 5/22 | N&BS Seminar Series | Richard W Olsen, PhD | Department of Molecular and Medical Pharmacology UCLA School of Medicine, Los Angeles | GABARAP Promotes Clustering of GABA-A Receptors with Altered Channel Properties and Pharmacology | 12:00pm | EB LH 1A or 1B |
| 5/22 | Entrepreneurship in Academia: (Ethics and Responsibility in Research GI-500) | Considerations in Academia - Biotech Interactions | 4:00pm | EB LH 1A | ||
| 5/23 | School of Graduate Studies and College of Medicine Commencement Exercises | 5:00pm | Carnegie Hall | |||
| JUNE 2002 | ||||||
| 6/5 | N&BS Seminar Series | Thomas H. Brown, Ph.D. | Professor of Psychology & Physiology, Department of Psychology, Yale University | Mechanisms of Learning in Limbic System Neurons | 4:00pm | EB LH 1A or 1B |
| 6/5 | Entrepreneurship in Academia: (Ethics and Responsibility in Research GI-500) | So You Have an Invention: Now What? SUNY Technology Transfer Procedures | 4:00pm | EB LH 1A | ||
| 6/11 | Entrepreneurship in Academia: (Ethics and Responsibility in Research GI-500) | Lively Panel Discussion with: a Lawyer, and Ethicist, a Scientist, a Student and an Administrator | Whose Intellectual Property Is It? Considerations in Academic/Biotech Interactions | 4:00pm | TBA | |
| 6/12 | President's Forum for Funded Faculty | Meeting by invitation only. | 12:00pm-2:00pm | EB LH 1A | ||
| 6/19 | Entrepreneurship in Academia: (Ethics and Responsibility in Research GI-500) | Ellen Corenswet | Brobeck, Phleger and Harrison | Now That I've Decided to Start My Own Company, How Do I Do It? | 4:00pm | Classroom 1A |
| BSB - Basic Sciences Building (450 Clarkson Avenue) | ||||||
| EB - Health Science Education Building (395 Lenox Road) | ||||||
| For further information or comments: | ||||||
| Contact Ed Throckmorton, Registrar, School of Graduate Studies (718) 270-2739 | ethrockmorton@downstate.edu | |||||
| Potential students interested in attending seminars: | ||||||
| please contact Ms. Denise Sheares at (718) 270-2738 | dsheares@downstate.edu | |||||