SEMESTER
University of Illinois College of Medicine
Department of Pharmacology
Visiting Professor Seminar Series
Spring 2013
Wednesdays at 12:00 PM, 1020 COMRB
SPEAKER
TITLE
January 9
"New Mouse Models and Function of cGMP Signaling"
January 16
CCTS Distinguished Lecture
"Using Stem Cell Biology and Reprogramming Technology to Untangle the Genetic Complexity of Motor Neuron Disease"
January 23
Division Chief
Director of Vascular Medicine Institute
Professor of Medicine
University of Pittsburgh
Pittsburgh, PA
"Haldane, Hot Dogs, and Halitosis: The Anion Nitrate as an Intrinsic Hypoxic Signaling Molecule and New Therapy for Pulmonary Arterial Hypertension"
January 30
Postdoctoral Fellow
Gene Expression Laboratory
Salk Institute for Biological Studies
La Jolla, CA
"'Reprogramming' our Understanding of Development and Disease"
February 5
**4175 COMRB**
"The VHL Tumor Suppressor: Insights Into Oxygen Sensing and Cancer Metabolism"
February 6
Professor of Medicine and Pathology
Division Director of Pulmonary, Allergy and Critical Care
Medicine
University of Alabama
Birmingham, AL
"Building Functional Human Heart Tissue from Pluripotent Stem Cells"
February 25
**4174 COMRB**
Professor of Medicine
Dana-Farber Cancer Institute and Brighman and Women's Hospital
Investigator, Howard Hughes Medical Institute
Boston, MA
"Mechanistic Links Between Aging and Pulmonary Fibrosis"
February 26
**4175 COMRB**
Professor
Laboratory of Molecular Biology
Graduate School of Engineering
Kyoto University
Japan
"Redox Physiology of TRP Channels"
February 27
Professor of Medicine
Allergy, Immunology and Rheumatology
Department of Pediatrics
University of Wisconsin
Madison, WI
"Imaging Leukocyte Migration: Implications to Human Disease"
March 6
Klaus Unna
Lecture
Professor of Genetic and Regenerative Medicine
Department of Medicine
Weill Cornell Medical College
New York, NY
"Instructive Contribution of the Vascular Niche to organ Regeneration and Tumor Growth"
March 13
"Regenerative Pathways in the Lung After Injury"
March 20
John C Parker Distinguished
Professor of medicine
Director, UNC McAllister Heart Institute
Chapel Hill, NC
"Role of Tissue Factor, Coagulation Factors and PARs in Health and Disease"
March 27
"It's a Matter of Perspective: Receptor-Coupled G Protein and G Protein-Coupled Receptors"
April 3
Associate Professor
Department of Pharmacology
School of Medicine
Yale University
New Haven, CT
"New Insights Into Cell Migration Regulation"
April 10
**CMW 221**
Professor of Medicine
Chair, Department of Biochemsitry
Temple University
Philadelphia, PA
"Calcium Signal Transduction Through STIM Proteins and Orai Channels"
April 17
Professor
Dept of Integrative Biology and Pharmacology
University of Texas
Health Science Center at Houston
Houston, TX
To Be Announced
May 1
Associate Professor
Depts of Medicine and Laboratory Medicine
University of California, San Francisco
San Francisco, CA
"Visualizing Immune Responses in the Intact Lung"
All seminars will be held in College of Medicine Research Building, located at 909 S Wolcott Ave
in Room 1020 Moss Auditorium unless designated above.
Coordinator: (312) 355-3281
Revised: 3/3/17