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| Graduate School Calendar of Events |
| Date |
Day |
Event |
Speaker |
Affiliation |
Title |
Time |
Room |
| SEPTEMBER 2005 |
| 9/5 |
Mon |
Labor Day Holiday |
| 9/7 |
Wed |
Graduate School
Registration Begins |
|
BSB 3-114a |
| 9/9 |
Fri |
Graduate Student Employee
Orientation |
|
|
2pm |
HSEB 1B |
| 9/14 |
Wed |
Downstate
Lipid and Vascular Biology Club |
Lee A. Morehouse |
Senior
Principal Scientist, Pfizer Inc., Groton, CT |
HDL
Elevation via CETP Inhibition for Treatment of Atherosclerosis: Good Idea,
Bad Idea, or No Idea |
11:45am |
BSB
2-5 |
| 9/14 |
Wed |
Graduate School Registration Ends |
BSB 3-114a |
| 9/19 |
Mon |
New Graduate Student
Orientation |
|
|
12noon |
HSEB 1B |
| 9/20 |
Tue |
Graduate School Classes Begin |
| 9/21 |
Wed |
Downstate
Lipid and Vascular Biology Club |
Kara
Maxwell |
Rockefeller
University, Weill Medical College of Cornell University |
PCSK9
Regulates LDL Receptor Function and LDL Cholesterol Levels |
11:45am |
BSB
2-5 |
| 9/21 |
Wed |
Molecular
and Cellular Biology Seminar Series (Host: Ellen Hsu) |
Eugene
Oltz |
Associate
Professor, Director of Graduate Studies, Department of Microbiology and
Immunology, Vanderbilt University School of Medicine |
Genetic
and Epigenetic Regulation of Antigen Receptor Gene Assembly |
12noon |
HSEB
1A |
| 9/21 |
Wed |
Thesis Defense |
Min Wang |
Program
in Neural and Behavioral Science, Laboratory of Robert K.S. Wong |
Group
I mGluR activation-induced TRPC trafficking in hippocampal neurons |
1:00pm |
BSB
6-5 |
| 9/21 |
Wed |
First meeting, Biochemistry |
2:00pm |
TBA |
| 9/27 |
Tue |
First meeting, Molecular and Cellular Biology 1 |
9:30am |
HSEB 1A |
| 9/27 |
Tue |
English as a Second
Language Introduction |
|
|
3:30pm |
BSB 3-114b |
| OCTOBER 2005 |
| 10/4 |
Tue |
Rosh Hashanah |
| 10/5 |
Wed |
Rosh Hashanah |
| 10/5 |
Wed |
Molecular and
Cellular Biology Seminar Series (Host: Christopher Roman) |
Jonathan
Barasch |
Associate
Professor of Medicine and Cell Biology, Columbia University |
Induction
of Epithelia, Tubules and Nephrons from Mesenchyme—An Iron Connection |
12noon |
HSEB
1A |
| 10/10 |
Mon |
Columbus Day Holiday |
| 10/11 |
Tue |
Microbiology
& Immunology Seminar Series (Host: Tatyana Pestova) |
Dmitri
I. Svergun |
Group
Leader, European Molecular Biology Laboratory Hamburg Outstation |
Synchrotron
X-ray and Neutron Small-Angle Scattering for Structure Analysis of Biological
Macromolecules in Solution |
12noon |
BSB
3-5 |
| 10/11 |
Tue |
Molecular and Cellular Biology Welcome Party |
4:00pm |
BSB
2-5 |
| 10/12 |
Wed |
Downstate
Lipid and Vascular Biology Club |
Dawn
L. Brasaemle |
Department
of Nutritional Sciences, Rutgers, The State University of New Jersey, New
Brunswick |
Lipid
Droplet-associated Proteins and the Control of Triacylglycerol Metabolism |
11:45am |
BSB
2-5 |
| 10/13 |
Thu |
Yom Kippur |
| 10/24 |
Mon |
Thesis
Proposal |
Gang
"Eric" Wang |
Program
in Molecular and Cellular Biology, Laboratory of Gregory Gick |
Na,K-ATPase
α1 and β1 subunit gene expression by low external K in neonatatal
rat cardiac myocytes. |
10:00am |
BSB
7-5 |
| 10/24 |
Mon |
Research
Topics in the Biomedical Sciences |
Rajendra
Wadgaonkar |
Research
Assistant Professor, Medicine |
WIP |
12noon |
BSB
3-114b |
| 10/26 |
Wed |
Downstate
Lipid and Vascular Biology Club |
Jeannine
D'Armiento |
Assistant
Professor, Department of Medicine, Columbia University, New York |
Metalloproteinases
in Atherosclerosis and Aneurysms |
11:45am |
BSB
2-5 |
| 10/27 |
Thu |
Microbiology
& Immunology Seminar Series (Host: Christopher Roman) |
Jin
K. Montclare |
Assistant
Professor, Polytechnic University, and Faculty, PhD Bioengineering Program,
SUNY Brooklyn/Polytechnic University |
Engineering
Unnatural Proteins by Expanding the Genetic Code |
12noon |
BSB
3-5 |
| 10/31 |
Tue |
Research
Topics in the Biomedical Sciences |
Edward
Quadros |
Assistant
Professor, Medicine |
WIP |
12noon |
BSB
3-114b |
| NOVEMBER 2005 |
| 11/8 |
Tue |
Election Day |
| 11/9 |
Wed |
Downstate
Lipid and Vascular Biology Club |
Yiannis
A. Ioannou |
Associate
Professor, Department of Human Genetics, Gene and Cell Medicine, Mount Sinai
School of Medicine |
NPC1
and NPC1L1 Permeases: Subcellular Lipid Gate Keepers |
11:45am |
BSB
2-5 |
| 11/9 |
Wed |
Neural
& Behavioral Science Seminar Series (Host: Katherine Perkins) |
Andy
Jenkins |
Assistant
Professor, Department of Anesthesiology, Emory University School of Medicine,
Atlanta, GA |
Activation
and modulation of GABA(A) receptor function |
12noon |
HSEB
1A |
| 11/10 |
Thu |
Microbiology
& Immunology Seminar Series (Host: Tatyana Pestova and Christopher
Hellen) |
Ian Mohr |
Associate
Professor, Department of Microbiology, New York University School of Medicine |
Construction
& Maintenance: How Herpes Viruses Cope in the Market for Cellular
Translation Initiation Factors
|
12noon |
BSB
3-5 |
| 11/11 |
Fri |
Veteran's Day |
| 11/16 |
Wed |
Molecular and
Cellular Biology Seminar Series (Host: Josef Michl) |
Harold A. Scheraga |
Baker
Laboratory of Chemistry, Cornell University, Ithaca |
Computation
of Protein Folding Structure and Protein Folding Pathways |
12noon |
HSEB
1A |
| 11/23 |
Wed |
Neural
& Behavioral Science Seminar Series (Host: Ivan Bodis-Wollner) |
Robert
Friedland |
Professor
of Neurology,Case Western Reserve University |
Evolutionary
Perspectives on Lipid Metabolism and Abeta Homeostasis in Alzheimer's Disease |
12noon |
HSEB
1A |
| 11/24 |
Thu |
Thanksgiving Day Holiday |
| 11/25 |
Fri |
Thanksgiving Day Holiday |
| 11/30 |
Wed |
Molecular and
Cellular Biology Seminar Series (Host Stacy Blain) |
Alan
Diehl |
Associate
Professor, Department of Cancer Biology, Abramson Family Cancer Research
Institute, The University of Pennsylvania |
Nuclear
Accumulation of the D-type Cyclin Kinase in Cancer |
12noon |
HSEB
1A |
| DECEMBER 2005 |
| 12/7 |
Wed |
Neural
& Behavioral Science Seminar Series (Host: Susan Schwartz-Giblin) |
Robert Gibbs |
Professor
of Pharmaceutical Sciences, Director, Cell Imaging Core of the Center for
Reproductive Physiology, University of Pittsburgh School of Pharmacy |
Estrogen
and Cognition: Reconciling Clinical Trials with Preclinical Data |
12noon |
HSEB
1A |
| 12/8 |
Thu |
Microbiology
& Immunology Seminar Series (Host: Tatyana Pestova and Christopher
Hellen) |
Jon
Lorsch |
Assistant
Professor, Biophysics & Biophysical Chemistry, Johns Hopkins School of
Medicine |
Probing
the Molecular Mechanics of Start Site Selection During Eukaryotic Translation |
12noon |
BSB
3-5 |
| 12/12 |
Tue |
Research
Topics in the Biomedical Sciences |
Ivan
Bodis-Wollner |
|
WIP |
12noon |
BSB
3-114b |
| 12/14 |
Wed |
Thesis
Proposal |
Jeremy
Barry |
Laboratory
of Robert Muller, Program in Neural and Behavioral Science |
Does
“Blocking” occur for stimulus control over place cells? |
11:30am |
BSB
5-5 |
| 12/14 |
Wed |
Molecular and
Cellular Biology Seminar Series (Host Christopher Hellen) |
Katherine
Borden |
Associate
Professor, Institute for Research in Immunology and Cancer, Universite de
Montreal |
eIF4E’s
Role in mRNA Transport and Cancer |
12noon |
HSEB
1A |
| 12/22 |
Thu |
Thesis
Proposal |
Eduard
Kelemen |
Laboratory
of André Fenton, Program in Neural and Behavioral Science |
Place
cell representation of continuously dissociated spaces. |
3:00pm |
BSB
5-1 |
| 12/23 |
Fri |
Graduate School Semester Ends |
| JANUARY 2006 |
| 1/4 |
Wed |
Graduate School
Registration Begins |
|
BSB
3-114a |
| 1/5 |
Thu |
MCB
Student WIP |
Daisy
Lin (Tiedge), Marc Braunstein
(Batuman) |
Committee: Camilo Parada, Stanley Friedman,
Alan Gintzler, Christopher Hellen, Ellen Hsu |
4:00pm |
EB
LH1B |
| 1/11 |
Wed |
Graduate School Registration Ends |
BSB
3-114a |
| 1/12 |
Thu |
Thesis
Proposal |
Susanna
Popp |
Laboratory
of Ira Kass, Program in Neural and Behavioral Science |
Effects
of low-dose lidocaine administration on recovery after transient global
cerebral ischemia in rats |
2:00pm |
BSB
6-5 |
| 1/12 |
Thu |
MCB
Student WIP |
Chongmin
Huan (Roman) |
Committee: Maureen McLeod, Miriam Feuerman,
Stacy Blain, Helen Durkin |
4:00pm |
EB
LH1B |
| 1/16 |
Mon |
Martin Luther King, Jr. Day Holiday |
| 1/17 |
Tue |
Graduate School Classes Begin |
| 1/18 |
Wed |
Molecular and
Cellular Biology Seminar Series (Host: John Lewis) |
Dennis Shields |
Professor,
Department of Developmental and Molecular Biology, Albert Einstein College of
Medicine of Yeshiva University |
The
Golgi Apparatus: a Novel Player in the Cell Death Response |
12noon |
HSEB
1A |
| 1/18 |
Wed |
Neural
& Behavioral Science Seminar (Host: Sheryl Smith) |
Daniel
Johnston |
Director,
Center for Learning and Memory, University of Texas at Austin |
Activity
Dependent Plasticity of Intrinsic Excitability |
4:00pm |
HSEB
1A |
| 1/19 |
Thu |
MCB
Student WIP |
Josephine
Galatioto (Siddiqui) |
Committee:
Burton Altura, Paulette Brend, Frank Scalia, Olcay Batuman, Todd Sacktor |
4:00pm |
EB
LH1B |
| 1/24 |
Tue |
The School of Graduate
Studies Winter Reception Honoring the First Year Class |
3:00pm |
Special
Functions Room and Atrium HSEB |
| 1/25 |
Wed |
Downstate
Lipid and Vascular Biology Club |
Allison
Reiss |
Assistant
Professor, Department of Medicine, SUNY Stony Brook School of Medicine,
Winthrop-University Hospital, Mineola, NY |
The
Immune System in Atherosclerosis: Influence on Cholesterol Metabolism |
11:45am |
BSB
2-5 |
| 1/26 |
Thu |
Microbiology
& Immunology Seminar Series (Host: Camilo Parada) |
Sohail
Malik |
Professor,
Laboratory of Biochemistry and Molecular Biology, Rockefeller University |
To
be announced. |
12noon |
BSB
3-5 |
| 1/26 |
Thu |
MCB
Student WIP |
Kamran
Anwar (Hussain) |
Committee: Steve Carlton, Ira Kass, Ellen Hsu,
Mary Makowske, Donald Mills |
4:00pm |
EB
LH1B |
| FEBRUARY 2006 |
| 2/1 |
Wed |
Molecular and
Cellular Biology Seminar Series (Host: John Lewis) |
William T. McAllister |
Professor and
Chair, Department of Cell Biology, University of Medicine and Dentistry of
New Jersey, School of Osteopathic Medicine |
RNA
Polymerase as a Molecular Machine |
12noon |
HSEB
1A |
| 2/2 |
Thu |
MCB
Student WIP |
Mark Bluth
(Norin) |
Committee: George Ojakian, Helen Durkin, Maja
Nowakowski, William Chirico |
4:00pm |
EB
LH1B |
| 2/8 |
Wed |
Downstate
Lipid and Vascular Biology Club |
John
C. LaRosa |
President,
SUNY Downstate Medical Center |
The
Effects of Lowering LDL Below Current Guidelines |
11:45am |
BSB
2-5 |
| 2/8 |
Wed |
Neural
and Behavioral Science Seminar Series (Host: William Lytton) |
Paul Rutecki |
Professor
of Neurology and Neurological Surgery, University of Wisconsin, Neurology
Chief at the William S. Middleton Veteran's Hospital, Director of the Francis
M. Forster Epilepsy Center at the Wm. Middleton VA Hospital |
Group
I Metabotropic Glutamate Epileptogenesis: A Midwest Perspective |
12noon |
EB
LH1A |
| 2/9 |
Thu |
Ethics
and Responsibility in Research |
Presenter:
Susan Schwartz-Giblin |
Sharing and Ownership. Mentor/Trainee
Responcibilities and Collaborative Science |
2:00pm |
BSB 7-85 |
| 2/9 |
Thu |
MCB
Student WIP |
Mohammad
Hojjati (Jiang) |
Committee: Miriam Feuerman, MAQ Siddiqui, M.
Mahmood Hussain, Dalton Wang, Jonathan Marmur |
4:00pm |
EB
LH1B |
| 2/16 |
Thu |
Ethics
and Responsibility in Research |
Presenter:
Xian-Cheng Jiang |
Publication Practices, Responcible Authorship
and Peer Review |
2:00pm |
BSB 7-85 |
| 2/16 |
Thu |
MCB
Student WIP |
Bani
Azari (Marmur), Omar Ramadan (Boutjdir) |
Committee:
Christopher Lange, Matthew Pincus, Mario Vassalle, Henri Tiedge, Gladys
Teitelman |
4:00pm |
EB
LH1B |
| 2/20 |
Mon |
Presidents' Day Holiday |
| 2/22 |
Wed |
Thesis
Defense |
Wenfei
Kang |
Laboratory
of Maureen McLeod, Program in Molecular and Cellular Biology |
Regulation
of Ste11, a Pivotal HMG Box Transcription Factor for Differentiation in Schizosaccharomyces pombe |
11:00am |
BSB 3-5 |
| 2/22 |
Wed |
Neural
and Behavioral Science Seminar Series (Host: Mark Stewart) |
Patric
K. Stanton |
Professor
of Neurology, Cell Biology and Anatomy, New York Medical College. |
Two-photon
visualization of bidirectional long-term plasticity of transmitter release
using FM styryl dyes in brain slices. |
12noon |
EB
LH1A |
| 2/23 |
Thu |
Microbiology
& Immunology Seminar Series (Host: Maureen McLeod) |
John Lewis |
Department
Anatomy and Cell Biology, SUNY Downstate Medical Center |
To
be announced |
12noon |
BSB
3-5 |
| 2/23 |
Thu |
Ethics
and Responsibility in Research |
Presenter:
Mark Stewart |
Research Misconduct, Conflict of Interest and
Commitment |
2:00pm |
BSB
7-85 |
| 2/23 |
Thu |
MCB
Student WIP |
Dezhi
Tian (Bergold) |
Committee:
Christopher Roman, Peter Bergold, Alan Gintzler, George Ojakian |
4:00pm |
EB
LH1B |
| MARCH 2006 |
| 3/1 |
Wed |
Molecular and
Cellular Biology Seminar Series (Host: Tatyana Pestova) |
Eugene
V. Koonin |
Senior
Investigator, National Center for Biotechnology Information, National Library
of Medicine, NIH |
Evolution
of Eukaryotic Gene Repertoire and Gene Structure |
12noon |
HSEB
1A |
| 3/2 |
Thu |
Ethics
and Responsibility in Research |
Presenters:
Todd Sacktor and Subrata Saha |
Patents, Trademarks, Intellectual Property |
2:00pm |
BSB 7-85 |
| 3/2 |
Thu |
MCB
Student WIP |
Richard
Pomerantz (McAllister) |
Committee: Lewis, Tiedge, Feuerman, Chirico |
4:00pm |
EB
LH1B |
| 3/8 |
Wed |
Downstate
Lipid and Vascular Biology Club |
Lisa
M. Salati |
Professor,
Department of Biochemistry and Molecular Pharmacology, West Virginia
University Health Sciences Center, Morgantown, WV |
Inhibition
of Insulin Signaling by Fatty Acids – Role in Regulation of Gene Expression |
11:45am |
BSB
2-5 |
| 3/8 |
Wed |
Neural
and Behavioral Science Seminar Series (Host: Susan Schwartz-Giblin) |
Margaret
McCarthy |
Professor,
Department of Physiology and Assistant Dean for Graduate Studies, University
of Maryland Baltimore School of Medicine |
Prostaglandins
and Glutamate Establish Sex Differences in the Brain |
12noon |
EB
LH1A |
| 3/9 |
Thu |
Microbiology
& Immunology Seminar Series (Host: Stacy Blain) |
Martha
J. Grossel |
George &
Carol Milne Associate Professor of Biology, Connecticut College |
A
Novel Role for cdk6 in Differentiation |
12noon |
BSB
3-5 |
| 3/9 |
Thu |
Ethics
and Responsibility in Research |
Presenter:
André Fenton |
Research Invoving Animals |
2:00pm |
BSB 7-85 |
| 3/9 |
Thu |
MCB
Student WIP |
Irena
Manukyan (Siddiqui) |
Committee: Greg Gick, Maja Nowakowski, Richard
Feinman, Rajendra Wadgaonkar, Stanley Fisher |
4:00pm |
EB
LH1B |
| 3/10 |
Fri |
Downstate
Lipid and Vascular Biology Club |
James
Tobin |
Senior
Director, Cardiovascular and Metabolic Diseases, Wyeth Research, Cambridge,
MA |
Beyond
Thiazolidinediones: Strategies for Improved Insulin Sensitizers |
11:45am |
BSB 3-5 |
| 3/10 |
Fri |
Thesis
Proposal |
Michael
Dattilo |
Program
in Neural and Behavioral Science, Laboratory of Keith Williams |
Regulation
of TRPC5 Channels by Intracellular ATP and Polyamines |
1:00pm |
BSB 5-5 |
| 3/10 |
Fri |
Thesis
Defense |
Mohammad
Reza Hojjati |
Program
in Molecular and Cellular Biology, Laboratory of Xian-Cheng Jiang |
The
effect of serine palmitoyltransferase on sphingolipid metabolism and
atherosclerosis |
3:00pm |
EB
LH1B |
| 3/14 |
Tue |
Thesis
Proposal |
Daisy Lin |
Program
in Neural and Behavioral Science, Laboratory of Henri Tiedge |
Towards
a Molecular Mechanism of Dendritic BC1 RNA in Translational Control |
2:00pm |
BSB 6-5 |
| 3/15 |
Wed |
Neural
and Behavioral Science Seminar Series (Host: Andrea Bibbig) |
Sue
Savage-Rumbaugh |
Professor,
Department of Biology, Georgia State University |
Rethinking
the Learned/Innate Dichotomy: What
Bonobo Pan/Homo Culture has to
Offer |
4:00pm |
EB
LH1A |
| 3/16 |
Thu |
MCB
Student WIP |
Domenico
Viterbo (Zenilman) |
Committee: Allen Norin, Christopher Lange,
Michael Wagner, Julie Rushbrook, M.A.Q. Siddiqui |
4:00pm |
EB
LH1B |
| 3/17 |
Fri |
Downstate
Lipid and Vascular Biology Club |
Virinder
Parmar |
Professor,
Department of Chemistry, University of Delhi, Delhi |
Biocatalytic
Routes for the Generation of Novel Materials for Pharmaceutical Interest |
11:45am |
BSB 2-5 |
| 3/21 |
Tue |
Thesis
Proposal |
Lei
Li |
Program
in Neural and Behavioral Science, Laboratory of John K. Chapin |
Motor
Cortical Ensemble Adaptation Shaped by Operant Conditioning |
4:00pm |
BSB 5-5 |
| 3/22 |
Wed |
Downstate
Lipid and Vascular Biology Club |
Aleem
Siddiqui |
Professor,
Department of Medicine, Moores UCSD Cancer Center, University of California,
San Diego |
Hepatitis
C Virus Induces an Endoplasmic Reticulum Stress Response and Oxidative Stres |
11:45am |
BSB 2-5 |
| 3/22 |
Wed |
Neural
and Behavioral Science Seminar Series (Host: Sheryl Smith) |
Scott
Thompson |
University
of Maryland |
Changing
your mind: pre and post synaptic plasticity after injury. |
12noon |
EB
LH1A |
| 3/23 |
Thu |
Microbiology
& Immunology Seminar Series (Host: Tatyana Pestova, Christopher Hellen) |
Karin
M. Reinisch |
Assistant
Professor, Department of Cell Biology, Yale University School of Medicine |
To
be announced |
12noon |
BSB
3-5 |
| 3/23 |
Thu |
Ethics
and Responsibility in Research |
Presenter:
Stacy Blain |
Human Research Participants |
2:00pm |
BSB 7-85 |
| 3/23 |
Thu |
MCB
Student WIP |
Gang
"Eric" Wang (Gick) |
Committee: Ed Quadros, John Lewis, Xian-Cheng
Jiang, Miriam Feuerman |
4:00pm |
EB
LH1B |
| 3/29 |
Wed |
Molecular and
Cellular Biology Seminar Series (Hosts: Christopher Hellen & Mahmood
Hussain) |
David
Ron |