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Wednesday, September 05, 2001  
Kathrin Banach, Ph.D.
Department of Neurophysiology, University of Cologne, Germany
Host: Stephen L. Lipsius, Ph.D. 		  "Pacemaker Regions in the Heart: Relevance of Intercellular Coupling and Expression of Different Gap Junction Channels"
    10:30 AM, Building 102, Room 4607
Wednesday, October 03, 2001  
Daniel Galvan
Graduate Student, Physiology Department, Loyola University Chicago
Host: Gregory A. Mignery, Ph.D. 		  "Carboxyl Terminal Sequences Involved in InsP3R Subunit Assembly"
    10:30 AM, Building 102, Room 4607
Wednesday, November 07, 2001  
Irina I. Serysheva, Ph.D.
National Center for Macromolecular Imaging, Department of Molecular Physiology & Biophysics, Baylor College, Houston, TX
Host: Gregory A. Mignery, Ph.D. 		  "Structural Insights into Excitation-Contraction Coupling by Electron Cryomicroscopy: A Tale of Two Calcium Channels"
    10:30 AM, Building 102, Room 4607
Wednesday, November 28, 2001  
Thomas R. Shannon, D.V.M., Ph.D.
Research Assistant Professor, Physiology Department Loyola University Chicago
Host: Donald M. Bers, Ph.D. 		  "Modulation of SR Ca and Its Effects Upon Excitation-Contraction Coupling"
    10:30 AM, Building 102, Room 4607
Wednesday, December 05, 2001  
Charles Antzelevitch, Ph.D., F.A.C.C.
Executive Director/Dir of Research Gordon K. Moe Scholar Masonic Medical Research Lab, Utica, NY
Host: Stephen L. Lipsius, Ph.D. 		  "Cellular, Ionic and Molecular Basis for the Long QT and Brugada Syndromes and their Clinical Manifestations"
    10:30 AM, Building 102, Room 4607
Wednesday, December 19, 2001  
Julio Altamirano
Graduate Student, Physiology Department, Loyola University Chicago
Host: Gregory A. Mignery, Ph.D. 		  "L-Type Ca Channel and Ryanodine Receptor Behavior during Cardiac Excitation Contraction Coupling"
    12:30 PM, Bldg 102, Room 4607
Wednesday, January 09, 2002  
Anthony J. Persechini, Ph.D.
Associate Professor School of Biological Sciences University of Missouri-Kansas City
Host: Donald M. Bers, Ph.D. 		  "All Roads Lead to Calmodulin"
    10:30 AM, Building 102, Room 4607
Friday, January 25, 2002  
Donald Hilgemann, Ph.D.
Professor, Department of Physiology University of Texas Southwestern Medical Center, Dallas
Host: Donald M. Bers, Ph.D. 		  "Phospholipids and Ion Channels"
    10:30 AM, Building 102, Room 4607
Friday, January 25, 2002  
Chris Weber
Graduate Student, Physiology Department, Loyola University Chicago
Host: Donald M. Bers, Ph.D. 		  Dissertation Defense "Regulation of the Cardiac Sodium-Calcium Exchanger by Cytoplasmic Calcium"
    10:30 AM, Building 102, Room 4607
Wednesday, February 20, 2002  
Karin Sipido, M.D., Ph.D.
Experimental Cardiology Lab University of Leuven, Belgium
Host: Lothar A. Blatter, M.D., Dr. med. 		  "Heterogeneity of Excitation-Contraction Coupling in Pig Myocardium"
    10:30 AM, Building 102, Room 4607
Tuesday, February 26, 2002  
Stela Florea
Graduate Student, Department of Physiology
Host: Rafael Mejia-Alvarez, M.D., Ph.D. 		  "The Effect of Oxidative Stress on Capacitative Calcium Entry in Vascular Endothelial Cells"
    10:30 AM, Building 102, Room 4607
Wednesday, March 06, 2002  
Jens Kockskamper, Ph.D.
Research Associate, Physiology Department, Loyola University Chicago
Host: Rafael Mejia-Alvarez, M.D., Ph.D. 		 
    10:30 AM, Building 102, Room 4607
Wednesday, March 13, 2002  
Lu Chen
Graduate Student, Physiology Department, Loyola University Chicago
Host: Donald M. Bers, Ph.D. 		 
    10:30 AM, Building 102, Room 4607
Wednesday, March 20, 2002  
Stefan McDonough

Host: Erika Piedras-Renteria, Ph.D. 		  "Functional Diversity of Neuronal Calcium Channels Created by Alternative Splicing"
    10:30 AM, Building 102, Room 4607
Wednesday, March 27, 2002  
Mario Del Mar
SUNY, Syracuse, NY
Host: Rafael Mejia-Alvarez, M.D., Ph.D. 		  "pH-Dependent Intramolecular Binding and Structure involving Cx43 Cytoplasmic Domains"
    10:30 AM, Building 102, Room 4607
Wednesday, April 10, 2002  
Narine Sarvazyan
Texas Tech University
Host: Rafael Mejia-Alvarez, M.D., Ph.D. 		 
    10:30 AM, Building 102, Room 4607
Friday, April 12, 2002  
Ion A. Hobai, M.D., Ph.D.
Department of Medicine, Division of Cardiology Johns Hopkins University Baltimore, MD
Host: Dr. Donald M. Bers 		  "Heart Failure and the Na/Ca Exchange"
    10:30 AM, Building 102, Room 4607
Wednesday, April 17, 2002  
Maura Porta
Graduate Student, Physiology Department, Loyola University Chicago
 		 
    10:30 AM, Building 102, Room 4607
Friday, May 24, 2002  
Elena Dedkova, Ph.D.
Research Associate, Physiology Department, Loyola University Chicago
 		 
    10:30 AM, Building 102, Room 4607
Wednesday, May 29, 2002  
Geoffrey S. Pitt
Columbia University
Host: Erika Piedras-Renteria, Ph.D. 		  "Calcium-dependent Gating of Voltage-gated Calcium Channels"
    10:30 AM, Building 102, Room 4607
Wednesday, June 12, 2002  
David C. Randall, Ph.D.
Professor, Department of Physiology, University of Kentucky, Lexington
Host: Dr. Robert D. Wurster 		  "Relationship between HR and BP before versus after Spinal Cord Transection"
    10:30 AM, Building 102, Room 4607
Wednesday, July 10, 2002  
Ana M. Gomez, Ph.D.
Assistant Professor National Center of Scientific Research Montpellier, France
Host: Dr. Rafael Mejia-Alvarez 		  "Effects of Microtubule Disruption on Cardiomyocyte Function"
    10:30 AM, Building 102, Room 4607
Wednesday, August 14, 2002  
Dr. David J. Wilber
Professor of Medicine, Director, Division of Cardiology, and Director, Cardiovascular Institute, Loyola University Chicago
Host: CVI 		  "From Physiology to Anatomy: Changing Paradigms in the Approach to Ventricular Tachycardia"
CVI Seminar
    04:00 PM, Building 120, Room 360
Wednesday, September 11, 2002  
Daniel Galvan
Ph.D. Candidate
 		  "Structure-Function Analysis of Inositol 1,4,5- Trisphosphate Receptor Assembly to Tetramers"
Dissertation Defense
    10:30 AM, Building 102, Room 4607
Wednesday, September 18, 2002  
Jody Martin, Ph.D
Assistant Professor, Medicine Loyola University Chicago
Host: Dr. Donald M. Bers 		  "Post-translational Modifications of the Small Heart Shock Proteins: Are They Significant for Cardioprotection?"
    10:30 AM, Building 102, Room 4607
Thursday, September 19, 2002  
Dr. Marcia Heron
Research Associate, Cardiovascular Institute, Loyola University Chicago
Host: CVI 		 
CVI Seminar
    04:00 PM, Building 120, Room 360
Wednesday, September 25, 2002  
Paul G. Mermelstein
Assistant Professor Department of Neuroscience University of Minnesota
Host: Dr. Erika Piedras-Renteria 		  "CREB and NFATc4: Regulation of Two Transcription Factors Mediating Hippocampal Plasticity"
    10:30 AM, Building 102, Room 4607
Friday, September 27, 2002  
Stefan Herzig
Department of Pharmacology University of Cologne, Germany
Host: Dr. Lothar A. Blatter 		 
Note: Friday date
    10:30 AM, Building 102, Room 4607
Tuesday, October 01, 2002  
Eduardo Marban, M.D., Ph.D.
Professor, Institute of Molecular Cardiology, The Johns Hopkins University
Host: Abbott Laboratories and Department of Physiology, Loyola University Chicago 		  The Walter C. Randall Distinguished Speaker Series Lecture "Gene Therapy for Cardiac Arrhythmias"
    12:00 PM, Building 120, Tobin Hall
Wednesday, October 16, 2002  
Hector H. Valdivia, M.D., Ph.D.
Associate Professor, Department of Physiology, University of Wisconsin Medical School, Madison, WI
Host: Dr. Rafael Mejia-Alvarez 		  "Sorcin and Ryanodine Receptors in Heart Failure"
    10:30 AM, Building 102, Room 4607
Thursday, October 17, 2002  
Dr. Zijian Xie
Assistant Professor, Pharmacology and Medicine, Medical College of Ohio
Host: Dr. Leanne L. Cribbs 		  "Na/K-ATPase and Signal Transduction"
CVI Seminar
    04:00 PM, Building 110, Room 360
Friday, October 18, 2002  
Dr. Jawed Fareed
Professor, Pathology, Loyola University Chicago
Host: Dr. Allen M. Samarel 		  "An Update on the Use of Antithrombin and Anti-Xa Drugs in Interventional Cardiology - Can Heparin Be Replaced?"
Cardiology Division and CVI Research Division Joint Seminar
    12:30 PM, Building 102, Room 6291
Wednesday, October 30, 2002   **** Cancelled ****
Dr. Robert Fettiplace
Steenbock Professor of Neural Sciences, Department of Physiology, University of Wisconsin
Host: Dr. Donald M. Bers 		 
    10:30 AM, Building 102, Room 4607
Wednesday, November 06, 2002  
Dr. Jose Jalife
Professor and Chairman of Pharmacology Professor of Medicine and Pediatrics SUNY Upstate Medical University
 		  "Toward an Understanding of the Molecular Mechanisms of Ventricular Fibrillation"
    10:30 AM, Building 102, Room 4607
Wednesday, November 20, 2002  
Dr. Michael Sanguinetti
University of Utah, Division of Cardiology, Department of Medicine, Salt Lake City, UT
Host: Dr. Rafael Mejia-Alvarez 		  "Molecular Mechanisms of Inherited and Acquired Long QT Syndrome"
Please note seminar is scheduled at 4:00 P.M.
    04:00 PM, Building 102, Room 4607
Thursday, November 21, 2002  
Dr. Michael Marber
The Rayne Institute, London
Host: CVI 		 
CVI Seminar
    04:00 PM, Building 120, Room 360
Thursday, December 19, 2002  
Dr. John Moran
Loyola University Chicago, Department of Cardiology
Host: CVI 		 
CVI Seminar
    04:00 PM, Building 120, Room 360
Thursday, January 16, 2003  
Dr. Elissavet Kardami
University of Manitoba, Winnipeg, Canada
Host: CVI 		 
CVI Seminar
    4:00 PM, Building 120, Room 360
Wednesday, January 29, 2003  
Fabien Brette, Ph.D.
University of Leeds, Leeds, United Kingdom
Host: Dr. Donald Bers 		  "Excitation-Contraction Coupling in Cardiac Cells: Importance of the T-Tubules"
    10:30 AM, Building 102, Room 4607
Wednesday, February 19, 2003  
Robert Fettiplace, Ph.D.
Department of Physiology, University of Wisconsin, Madison, WI
Host: Dr. Donald Bers 		  "Calcium Modulation of Mechanotransducer Channels in Auditory Hair Cells"
    10:30 AM, Building 102, Room 4607
Thursday, February 20, 2003  
Dr. Craig January
University of Wisconsin, Madison
Host: CVI 		 
CVI Seminar
    4:00 PM, Building 120, Room 360
Wednesday, February 26, 2003  
Stela Florea
Graduate Student, Department of Physiology
Host: Dr. Lothar Blatter 		  "The Effect of Oxidative Stress on Capacitative Calcium Entry in Vascular Endothelial Cells"
    10:30 AM, Building 102, Room 4607
Wednesday, March 05, 2003  
Tao Guo
Graduate Student, Department of Physiology
Host: Dr. Donald Bers 		 
    10:30 AM, Building 102, Room 4607
Wednesday, March 12, 2003  
Jesus Garcia, Ph.D.
Department of Physiology, University of Illinois at Chicago
Host: Dr. Rafael Mejia-Alvarez 		  "Signaling Molecules in Striated Muscle"
    10:30 AM, Building 102, Room 4607
Wednesday, March 19, 2003  
Tao Guo
Graduate Student, Department of Physiology
Host: Dr. Donald M. Bers 		  "The Use of the Indicator Fluo-5N to Measure SR Free Ca in Ventricular Myocytes of Rabbit"
    10:30 AM, Building 102, Room 4607
Thursday, March 20, 2003  
Dr. Lioubov Brueggemann
Research Associate, Loyola University Chicago
Host: CVI 		  "Potassium Channel Regulation as a Mechanism for Vasoconstrictor Action"
CVI Seminar
    04:00 PM, Building 120, Room 360
Thursday, March 20, 2003  
Dr. Maria Heidkamp
Research Associate, Loyola University Chicago
Host: CVI 		  "Cardiomyocyte Signaling through Focal Adhesions"
CVI Seminar
    4:00 PM, Building 120, Room 360
Wednesday, March 26, 2003  
Robert Kass, Ph.D.
Professor and Chair, Department of Pharmacology, Columbia University, New York
Host: Dr. Donald Bers 		  "Molecular Pharmacology of Heart Na+ and K+ Channels: Lessons from Studies of Inherited Mutations"
    10:30 AM, Building 102, Room 4607
Tuesday, April 01, 2003  
Dr. Kleber Franchini
Department of Internal Medicine, Cidade Universitaria "Serrerino Vaz", Campinas, Brazil
Host: CVI 		  "The Role of Fak in the Regulation of Multiple Signaling Steps Toward Cardiac Myocyte Hypertrophy"
CVI Seminar
    12:00 PM, Building 110,, Room 5215
Wednesday, April 02, 2003  
Nicole Hoefling
Graduate Student, Department of Physiology
Host: Dr. Ruben Mestril 		  "The Signal Transduction of Cardioprotection by Heart Shock Proteins"
    10:30 AM, Building 102, Room 4607
Wednesday, April 09, 2003  
Loren J. Field, Ph.D.
Professor of Medicine, Indiana University School of Medicine
Host: Dr. Kathrin Banach 		  "Strategies for Regenerative Heart Growth"
    10:30 AM, Building 102, Room 4607
Wednesday, April 16, 2003  
Dr. Alonso Moreno
Associate Professor, Medicine, Cellular and Integrative Physiology, Krannert Institute of Cardiology, Indiana University, Indianapolis, IN
Host: Dr. Rafael Mejia-Alvarez 		  "New Properties of Hetero-oligomeric Channels. Why You Should Not Overlook Gap Junction Properties if You Need to Repair Cardiac Tissue"
    10:30 AM, Building 102, Room 4607
Thursday, April 17, 2003  
Dr. Ramon Latorre
CECS Department of Biophysics and Molecular Physiology, Valdivia, Chile
Host: Dr. Rafael Mejia-Alvarez 		  "Keeping the Tone: Calcium-Activated Potassium Channels in Smooth Muscle"
Please note special Thursday date and 12:00 noon time of this Physiology seminar.
    12:00 PM, Building 102, Room 4607
Thursday, April 17, 2003  
Dr. Kirk Knowlton
University of California, San Diego
Host: CVI 		 
CVI Seminar
    4:00 PM, Building 120, Room 360
Wednesday, April 23, 2003  
Dr. Lisa Ebihara
Finch Chicago Medical School
Host: Dr. Donald M. Bers 		  "Physiology and Biophysics of Gap-Junctional Hemichannels"
    10:30 AM, Building 102, Room 4607
Friday, April 25, 2003  
Dr. Margaret Prechel
Assistant Professor, Pathology
Host: CVI 		  "Early Results from the NITME Trial"
CVI Seminar
    12:30 PM, Building 110,, Room 6291
Wednesday, April 30, 2003  
Timothy J. Kamp, Ph.D.
Assistant Professor, Department of Medicine, University of Wisconsin, Madison
Host: Dr. Rafael Mejia-Alvarez 		  "Remodeling Myocytes and Dysregulation of L-Type Calcium Channels in Heart Failure"
    10:30 AM, Building 102, Room 4607
Thursday, May 08, 2003  
Dr. Julio Vergara
Department of Physiology, UCLA
Host: Dr. Rafael Mejia-Alvarez 		  "Localized Calcium Release Domains in Amphibian and Mammalian Muscle Fibers"
Please note special Thursday date of this Physiology seminar.
    10:30 AM, Building 102, Room 4607
Wednesday, May 14, 2003  
David Warshaw, Ph.D.
Department of Molecular Physiology and Biophysics, University of Vermont
Host: Dr. Donald Bers 		  "Structure and Function of Cardiac Myosin Both Normal and in Genetic Cardiomyopathies"
    10:30 AM, Building 102, Room 4607
Thursday, May 15, 2003  


Host: CVI 		 
CVI Seminar
    4:00 PM, Building 120, Room 360
Wednesday, May 21, 2003  
Vignesh Krishnamurthy
Graduate Student, Department of Physiology
Host: Dr. Jody Martin 		 
    10:30 AM, Building 102, Room 4607
Wednesday, May 28, 2003  
Xu Wu
Graduate Student, Department of Physiology
Host: Dr. Allen M. Samarel 		  "PYK2's Involvement in Cardiomyocytes Apoptosis and Heart Failure"
    10:30 AM, Building 102, Room 4607
Wednesday, June 04, 2003  
Zhihong Hu
Graduate Student, Department of Physiology
Host: Dr. Mohammed M. Sayeed 		  "Signaling Mechanism of Neutrophil Apoptosis Modulation after Thermal Injury"
    10:30 AM, Building 102, Room 4607
Wednesday, June 11, 2003  
Dr. Indu Amdukar
National Institutes of Health
Host: Dr. Kenneth L. Byron 		  "Function and Regulation of TRPCI"
    10:30 AM, Building 102, Room 4607
Wednesday, June 18, 2003  
Dr. Alessandro Giuliani
Instituto Superiore di Sanita (NIH), Rome, Italy
Host: Dr. Rafael Mejia-Alvarez 		  "Why Do We Not Need Sophisticated Mathematical Methods to Cope with Complex Systems?"
    10:30 AM, Building 102, Room 4607
Wednesday, June 25, 2003  
Dr. Aleksey Zima
Research Associate, Physiology, LUMC
Host: Dr. Lothar Blatter 		  "Cytoplasmic NADH Redox Potential Modulates SR Ca2+ Release in the Heart"
    10:30 AM, Building 102, Room 4607
Wednesday, July 16, 2003  
Dr. Zhuan Zhou
Institute of Chinese Sciences, Shanghai, China
Host: Dr. Donald M. Bers 		  "Ca2+ Store-induced Quantal Release from Cell-attached Terminals in Sympathetic Neurons"
    10:30 AM, Building 102, Room 4607
Wednesday, July 23, 2003  
Dr. Mark Ziolo
Research Associate, Physiology, LUMC
Host: Dr. Donald M. Bers 		  "Nitroc Oxide of Modulation of Cardiac Contractility"
    10:30 AM, Building 102, Room 4607
Wednesday, July 23, 2003   **** Cancelled ****
Dr. H. Bradley Nuss
Department of Medicine, University of Maryland
Host: Dr. Rafael Mejia-Alvarez 		 
    10:30 AM, Building 102, Room 4607
Wednesday, July 30, 2003  
Vignesh Krishnamurthy
Graduate Student, Physiology, LUMC
Host: Dr. Jody Martin 		  "Post-translational Modification(s) of Alpha B-crystallin"
    10:30 AM, Building 102, Room 4607
Wednesday, August 06, 2003  
Dr. Nipavan Chiamvimonvat
Division of Cardiovascular Medicine/Department of Medicine, University of California, Davis
Host: Dr. Rafael Mejia-Alvarez 		  "Molecular Identification and Functional Roles of a Ca2+ Activated K+ Channel in Human and Mouse Hearts"
    10:30 AM, Building 102, Room 4607
Wednesday, August 13, 2003  
Julio Altamirano
Graduate Student, Department of Physiology
Host: Dr. Donald M. Bers 		  "Action Potential Duration Determines Sarcoplasmic Reticulum Ca2+ Reloading in Mammalian Ventricular Myocytes"
    10:30 AM, Building 102, Room 4607
Wednesday, September 03, 2003  
Maura Porta
Graduate Student, Department of Physiology
Host: Dr. Julio Copello 		  "Modulation of Ryanodine Receptors Calcium Release Channels: I. Coordinated Gating, II. Dihydropiridine Receptors Peptide A"
    10:30 AM, Building 102, Room 4607
Wednesday, September 10, 2003  
Dr. Luis Fernando Santana
Department of Physiology and Biophysics, University of Washington, Seattle
Host: Dr. Rafael Mejia-Alvarez 		  "Ca2+ Activated K+ Channels in Vascular Smooth Muscle during Hypertension"
    10:30 AM, Building 102, Room 4607
Wednesday, October 08, 2003  
John Fahrenbach
Graduate Student, Department of Physiology
Host: Dr. Kathrin Banach 		  "Connexin Isoforms in the Heart"
    10:30 AM, Building 102, Room 4607
Wednesday, October 29, 2003  
Dr. Jahanshah Amin
Associate Professor, Department of Pharmacology and Therapeutics, University of South Florida
Host: Dr. Ruben Mestril 		  "Unique Properties of a GABA Receptor Subtype Expressed in the Cerebellum"
    10:30 AM, Building 102, Room 4607
Wednesday, November 05, 2003  
Dr. Eduardo Rios
Rush University, Department of Molecular Biophysics and Physiology
Host: Dr. Rafael Mejia-Alvarez 		  "After 10 Years of Sparks, an Update on Ca2+ Release in Muscle"
    10:30 AM, Building 102, Room 4607
Wednesday, November 19, 2003  
Fei Han
Graduate Student, Department of Physiology
Host: Dr. Erika Piedras-Renteria 		  "Beta Adrenergic Effect on Na, K-ATPase"
    10:30 AM, Building 102, Room 4607
Wednesday, December 03, 2003  
Wenting Sun
Graduate Student, Department of Physiology
Host: Dr. Erika Piedras-Renteria 		  "Mechanisms of CD$+ T Cell Suppression after Thermal Injury (Burn)"
    10:30 AM, Building 102, Room 4607
Thursday, December 04, 2003  
Dr. Alfredo Colosimo
Professor of Biochemistry, Department of Biochemical Sciences, University of Rome "La Sapienza"
Host: Dr. Charles L. Webber, Jr. 		  "Quantitative Approaches to Proteomics"
Please note Thursday's date for this seminar presentation.
    10:30 AM, Building 102, Room 4607
Wednesday, December 17, 2003  
Thomas J. Meade, Ph.D.
Professor, Department of Biochemistry, Molecular Biology and Cell Biology, Northwestern University
Host: Dr. Charles L. Webber, Jr. 		  "Seeing is Believing"
    10:30 AM, Building 102, Room 4607
Wednesday, January 07, 2004  
Dr. Jack Kaplan
Benjamin Goldberg Professor & Head, Biochemistry & Molecular Genetics, University of Illinois at Chicago
Host: Dr. Donald Bers 		  Pumping Ions: Molecular Characterization of the Na, K-ATPase
    10:30 AM, Building 102, Room 4607
Wednesday, January 14, 2004  
Joan Heller Brown, Ph.D.
Department of Pharmacology, University of California, San Diego
Host: Dr. Donald M. Bers 		  Cardiomyocyte Ca2+ Dysregulation by Gq and CaMKII: Implications for Development of Apoptosis and Heart Failure
    10:30 AM, Building 102, Room 4607
Wednesday, February 11, 2004  
Guy Salama, Ph.D.
Department of Cell Biology and Physiology, University of Pittsburgh
Host: Rafael Mejia-Alvarez, M.D., Ph.D. 		  "Simultaneous maps of voltage and intracellular Ca2+ (Cai) in heart: role of Cai as a trigger of arrhythmias in rabbit models of long QT syndrome"
    10:30 AM, Building 102, Room 4607
Wednesday, March 03, 2004  
Stanley Nattel, M.D.
Montreal Heart Institute
Host: Dr. Donald M. Bers 		  "Ionic Determinants of Atrial Fibrillation and New Therapeutic Approaches"
    10:30 AM, Building 102, Room 4607
Wednesday, March 24, 2004  
Martin Morad, Ph.D.
Professor, Department of Pharmacology, Georgetown University
Host: Dr. Rafael Mejia-Alvarez 		  "Plasticity of Atrial Ca Signaling"
    10:30 AM, Building 102, Room 4607
Wednesday, March 31, 2004  
SR Wayne Chen, Ph.D.
Associate Professor, Department of Physiology & Biophysics and Department of Biochemistry and Molecular Biology, University of Calgary
Host: Dr. Michael Fill 		  "Ryanodine Receptor, Ventricular Arrhythmia and Heart Failure"
    10:30 AM, Building 102, Room 4607
Wednesday, April 21, 2004  
Stela Florea
Graduate Student, Physiology Department, Loyola University Chicago
 		  "Excitation-Contraction Coupling and Alternans in Atrial Myocytes"
    10:30 AM, Building 102, Room 4607
Wednesday, May 12, 2004  
David D. Thomas, Ph.D.
Professor of Biochemistry, Molecular Biology and Biophysics, University of Minnesota
Host: Dr. Donald M. Bers 		  "Molecular Dynamics of Muscles"
    10:30 AM, Building 102, Room 4607
Wednesday, June 02, 2004  
Tao Guo
Graduate Student, Physiology Department, Loyola University Chicago
 		  "Effect of Ca/Calmodulin dependent Protein Kinase II on Ryanodine Receptor II"
    10:30 AM, Building 102, Room 4607
Wednesday, July 07, 2004  
Nicole Hoefling
Graduate Student, Physiology Department, Loyola University Chicago
 		  "Cardioprotection Through Hsp90 Inhibitors and Inducers of the Heat Shock Response"
    10:30 AM, Building 102, Room 4607
Wednesday, July 14, 2004  
Wolfgang H. Dillmann, M.D.
Professor of Medicine, University of California-San Diego
Host: Dr. Jody Martin 		  "Abnormalities of Calcium Flux in Diabetic and Pressure Overloaded Mouse Hearts"
    10:30 AM, Building 110, Room 5229
Wednesday, August 04, 2004  
Vignesh Krishnamurthy
Graduate Student, Physiology Department, Loyola University Chicago
 		  "A Comparitive Study of Functional Significance of N-Terminal and C-Terminal Ends of Alpha B Crystallin"
    10:30 AM, Building 102, Room 4607
Wednesday, September 08, 2004  
Xu Wu
Graduate Student, Physiology Department, Loyola University Chicago
 		  "Excitation-Transcription Coupling in Adult Myocytes: Local InsP3-dependent Perinuclear Signaling Activates HDAC5 Nuclear Export"
    10:30 AM, Building 102, Room 4607
Wednesday, September 15, 2004  
Stela Florea
Graduate Student, Physiology Department, Loyola University Chicago
 		  "Ca2+ Alternans Modulation in Atrial Cells: The Role of B-Adrenergic System and Mitochondria"
    10:30 AM, Building 102, Room 4607
Wednesday, September 22, 2004  
Jose Puglisi, Ph.D.
Research Associate, Department of Physiology, Loyola University-Chicago
Host: Rafael Mejia-Alvarez, Ph.D. 		  "Modeling of Excitation-Contraction Coupling"
    10:30 AM, Building 102, Room 4607
Wednesday, October 06, 2004  
Maura Porta
Graduate Student, Physiology Department, Loyola University Chicago
 		  "Action of Caffeine on Ryanodine Receptors Calcium Release Channels from Sarcoplasmic Reticulum of Cardiac Muscle"
    10:30 AM, Building 102, Room 4607
Wednesday, October 20, 2004  
Sanda Despa, Ph.D.
Research Associate, Department of Physiology, Loyola University-Chicago
Host: Rafael Mejia-Alvarez, Ph.D. 		  "[Na] and Na/K Pump Function in Cardiac Myocytes; Altered Regulation in Heart Failure"
    10:30 AM, Building 102, Room 4607
Wednesday, November 03, 2004  
John Fahrenbach
Graduate Student, Physiology Department, Loyola University Chicago
 		  "Influence of Fibroblasts on Spontaneous Activity in Multi-Cellular Cardiomyocyte Preparations"
    10:30 AM, Building 102, Room 4607
Wednesday, November 10, 2004  
Harold T. Hammel, Ph.D.
Indiana University
Host: Charles Webber, Ph.D. 		  "Wasting a Century Explaining Osmosis, Osmotic Pressure and Counter Osmosis"
    10:30 AM, Building 102, Room 4607
Wednesday, December 01, 2004  
Fei Han
Graduate Student, Physiology Department, Loyola University Chicago
 		  "Regulation of Cardia Na+ - K+ Pumps by Protein Kinase A and Protein Kinase C"
    10:30 AM, Building 102, Room 4607
Wednesday, December 15, 2004  
Clara Franzini-Armstrong, Ph.D.
University of Pennsylvania
Host: Rafael Mejia-Alvarez, Ph.D 		  "Calcium Release Units in Skeletal and Cardiac Muscle: Lessons from Morphology"
    10:30 AM, Building 102, Room 4607
Wednesday, January 26, 2005  
Kenneth Byron, Ph.D.
Associate Professor, Department of Pharmacoloby, Loyola University Chicago
Host: Rafael Mejia-Alvarez 		  "Vasoconstrictor Mechanisms: Signal Transduction in Vascular Smooth Muscle Cells"
    10:30 AM, Building 102, Room 4607
Wednesday, February 02, 2005  
Nidhi Kapur
Graduate Student, Department of Physiology Loyola University Chicago
 		  "Mechanisms of Spontaneous Activity in Embryonic Stem Cell Derived Cardiomyocytes"
    10:30 AM, Building 102, Room 4607
Wednesday, March 02, 2005  
Haiyan Chen
Graduate Student, Department of Physiology, Loyola University Chicago
 		  Electrophysiological Properties of P/Q Type Calcium Currents Expressed in HEK293 Cells"
    10:30 AM, Building 102, Room 4607
Wednesday, March 16, 2005  
Rui-Ping Xiao, M.D., Ph.D.
National Institute on Aging, NIH
Host: Rafael Mejia-Alvarez, Ph.D. 		  "Multiple Facets of CaMKII Signaling"
    10:30 AM, Building 102, Room 4607
Wednesday, March 23, 2005  
Robert Brenner, Ph.D.
University of Texas Health Science Center
Host: Erika Piedras-Renteria, Ph.D. 		  "Regulation of Large Conductance, Calcium Activated Potassium Channels in Neurons by the Accessory Beta4 Subunit"
    10:30 AM, Building 102, Room 4607
Wednesday, April 06, 2005  
Jia Qin
Graduate Student, Department of Physiology, Loyola University Chicago
 		  "Lumenal Ca2+ Regulation of Single Ryanodine Receptor"
    10:30 AM, Building 102, Room 4607
Wednesday, April 13, 2005  
Guillermo Perez, Ph.D.
Masonic Medical Research Laboratory
Host: Erika Piedras-Renteria, Ph.D. 		  "The Role of KCa Channel Subunits in the Cardiovascular System"
    10:30 AM, Building 102, Room 4607
Wednesday, April 20, 2005  
Fabiana Scornik, Ph.D.
Masonic Medical Research Laboratory
Host: Erika Piedras-Renteria, Ph.D. 		  "New Insights on the Cardiac Autonomic Nervous System. Electrophysiological Properties of Isolated Canine Intracardiac Neurons"
    10:30 AM, Building 102, Room 4607
Wednesday, May 04, 2005  
Tao Guo
Graduate Student, Department of Physiology, Loyola University Chicago
 		  "Endogenous CaMKII Increases RyR Independent of SR Ca2+ Load"
    10:30 AM, Building 102, Room 4607
Wednesday, May 11, 2005  
Debbie Nelson, Ph.D.
University of Chicago
Host: Donald M. Bers, Ph.D. 		  "The Role of Intracellular CFTR in Phagocytes: How Chloride Channels kill Bacteria"
    10:30 AM, Building 102, Room 4607
Wednesday, May 18, 2005  
Yoram Rudy, Ph.D.
Washington University
Host: Donald Bers, Ph.D. 		  "Linking Genetic Mutations to Cardiac Arrhythmogenic Phenotypes Using Computational Biology"
    10:30 AM, Building 102, Room 4607
Wednesday, May 25, 2005  
Adriano Marchese, Ph.D.
Research Assitant Professor, Department of Pharmacology, Loyola University Chicago.
Host: Rafael Mejia-Alvarez, Ph.D. 		  "Ubiquitin-dependent Regulation of the Chemokine Receptor CXCR4"
    10:30 AM, Building 102, Room 4607
Wednesday, June 01, 2005  
Vignesh Krishnamurthy
Graduate Student, Department of Physiology, Loyola University Chicago
 		  TBA
    10:30 AM, Building 102, Room 4607
Wednesday, June 08, 2005  
Aaron Fox, Ph.D.
University of Chicago
Host: Rafael Mejia-Alvarez, Ph.D. 		  "Calcium Channels: Greasing the Skids"
    10:30 AM, Building 102, Room 4607
Wednesday, June 15, 2005  
Joseph Akar, Ph.D.
Assistant Professor of Medicine, Cardiac Electrophysiology, Division of Cardiovascular Medicine, Loyola University Medical Center
Host: Rafael Mejia-Alvarez, Ph.D. 		  "Electrical and Structural Remodeling in Atrial Fibrillation"
    10:30 AM, Building 102, Room 4607
Wednesday, July 06, 2005  
Nicole Hoefling
Graduate Student, Department of Physiology, Loyola University Chicago
Host: Ruben Mestril, Ph.D. 		  "Heat Shock Protein 90 Inhibitors and Cardioprotection"
    10:30 AM, Building 102, Room 4607
Tuesday, August 30, 2005  
Ariel Escobar, PhD
Assistant Professor, Department of Physiology, Texas Tech University
Host: Rafael Mejia-Alvarez, PhD 		  "Relationship Between Subcellular Ca Dynamics and Electrical Activity in Intact Beating Hearts"
    10:30 AM, Building 102, Room 4607
Wednesday, August 31, 2005  
Elena Dedkova, PhD
Research Assistant, Department of Physiology, Loyola University Chicago
Host: Donald M. Bers, PhD 		  Mitochondrial Nitric Oxide Signaling in Vascular Endothelial Cells
    10:30 AM, Building 102, Room 4607
Wednesday, September 14, 2005  
Michael Koob, PhD
University of Minnesota
Host: Dr. Erika Piedras-Rentieria 		  "Untangling the Complexities of the SCA8 Ataxia Locus: An Unstable Trinucleotide Repeat, a Non-coding Antisense RNA, and a Neuronal Protein Essential for Normal Motor Coordination"
    10:30 AM, Building 102, Room 4607
Wednesday, September 21, 2005  
Stela Florea
Graduate Student, Department of Physiology, Loyola University Chicago
 		  TBA
    10:30 AM, Building 102, Room 4607
Wednesday, September 28, 2005  
Kenneth Philipson, Ph.D.
UCLA School of Medicine
Host: Donald M. Bers, Ph.D. 		  "Na-Ca Exchange in the Heart"
    10:30 AM, Building 102, Room 4607
Wednesday, October 05, 2005  
Maura Porta
Loyola University Medical Center
Host: TBA 		  TBA
    10:30 AM, Building 102, Room 4607
Wednesday, October 12, 2005  
Andrew K. Tryba, Ph.D.
Assistant Professor in the Department of Physiology, Texas Tech University Health Science Center, Lubbock, TX.
Host: Josefina Ramos-Franco 		  Mechanisms of Rhythm Generation: Inspiration from the respiratory neural network
    10:30 AM, Building 102, Room 4607
Wednesday, November 02, 2005  
John Fahrenbach
Loyola University Medical Center
Host: TBA 		  The Relevance of Non-Myocytes and Connexin Isoform Expression for Cardiac Pacemaker Function
    10:30 AM, Building 102, Room 4607
Wednesday, November 09, 2005  
Gregory E. Morley, PhD
Assistant Professor of Medicine, New York University School of Medicine
Host: Kathrin Banach, PhD 		  Molecular and Functional Characterization of Cardiac Conduction: Principles in Development and Disease
    10:30 AM, Building 102, Room 4607
Wednesday, November 30, 2005  
Isaac N. Pessah, Ph.D.
Professor of Molecular Biosciences (Vet. Med), Univeresity of California, Davis
Host: Rafael Mejia-Alvarez, PhD 		  Excitation-Coupled Calcium Entry (ECCE): A New Form of Conformational Coupling?
    10:30 AM, Building 102, Room 4607
Wednesday, December 07, 2005  
Fei Han
Loyola University Medical Center
Host: TBA 		  TBA
    10:30 AM, Building 102, Room 4607
Wednesday, December 07, 2005  
Michael Kapiloff, M.D., Ph.D.
Oregon Health and Science University
Host: Dr. Donald M. Bers 		  "The mAKAP Signal Transduction Complex: A Master Integrator of Pro-Hypertrophic Cardiac Signaling"
Faculty Candidate
    3:00 PM, Building 102, Room 4607
Tuesday, December 13, 2005  
Seth Robia
University of Minnesota
Host: Donald M. Bers, PhD 		  Probing Membrane Protein Structure and Dynamics with FRET
Faculty Candidate
    10:30 AM, Building 102, Room 4607
Friday, January 13, 2006  
Robert Lasley, PhD
Faculty Candidate University of Kentucky
Host: Donald M. Bers, PhD 		  Subcellular Signalling in Normal and Stressed Myocardium
Faculty Candidate
    10:30 AM, Building 102, Room 4607
Tuesday, January 17, 2006  
Robert Mallet, PhD
Associate Professor, University of North Texas
Host: Rafael Mejia-Alvarez, PhD 		  Pyruvate: Metabolic Therapy for Stunned Myocardium
    04:00 PM, Building 102, Room 4607
Wednesday, January 18, 2006  
Laura Bianchi, PhD
Faculty Candidate Rutgers University
Host: Donald M. Bers, PhD 		  Normal and aberrant activities of C. elegans ion channels involved in sensory perception
Faculty Candidate
    10:30 AM, Building 102, Room 4607
Wednesday, February 08, 2006  
Joshua Maxwell
Loyola University Medical Center
Host: Dr. Gregory A. Mignery 		  "Reagents to Measure and Perturb IP3 Signaling in Living Cells"
    10:30 AM, Building 102, Room 4607
Monday, February 13, 2006  
Yong-Xiao Wang, M.D., Ph.D.
Associate Professor Center for Cardiovascular Research Albany Medical College
Host: Donald M. Bers, Ph.D. 		  "Signaling Pathway for Hypoxic Increase in [Ca2+] in Pulmonary Artery Smooth Muscle Cells"
Faculty Candidate
    11:00 AM, Building 102, Room 4607
Thursday, February 16, 2006  
Fadi Akar, Ph.D.
Faculty of Medicine Division of Cardiology Johns Hopkins University
Host: Donald M. Bers, Ph.D. 		  "An Integrative Approach to the Investigation of Arrhythmia Mechanisms in the Diseased Heart"
Faculty Candidate
    01:00 PM, Building 102, Room 4607
Wednesday, March 01, 2006  
Julie Bossuyt, DVM, Ph.D.
Loyola University Chicago
Host: Donald M. Bers, Ph.D. 		  Phospholemman and Na, K-ATPase in the Heart
    10:30 AM, Building 102, Room 4607
Wednesday, March 15, 2006  
David C. Randall, PhD
Department of Physiology, University of Kentucky
Host: Charles Webber, PhD 		  New Perspectives on the Autonomic Control of Arterial Blood Pressure
    10:30 AM, Building 102, Room 4607
Wednesday, April 05, 2006  
Nidhi Kapur
Loyola University Medical Center
Host: Kathrin Banach, Ph.D. 		  Mechanisms of Automaticity in Embryonic Stem Cell Derived Cardiomyocytes : Relevance of intracellular calcium release
    10:30 AM, Building 102, Room 4607
Wednesday, April 19, 2006  
Carlos A. Villalba-Galea, Ph.D.
University of Chicago
Host: Rafael Mejia-Alvarez, Ph.D. 		  The Timing of Protein-Protein Interactions Involved in Synaptic Vesicle Recycling
    10:30 AM, Building 102, Room 4607
Wednesday, May 03, 2006  
Jia Qin
Loyola University Medical Center
Host: Rafael Mejia-Alvarez, Ph.D. 		  TFP alteration of Ryandine Receptor channel function
    10:30 AM, Building 102, Room 4607
Wednesday, May 24, 2006  
Eric Accili, PhD
Associate Professor, University of British Columbia
Host: Erika Piedras-Renteria, PhD 		  The Structure and Function of HCN Channels
    10:30 AM, Building 102, Room 4607
Wednesday, June 07, 2006  
Haiyan Chen
Loyola University Medical Center
Host: Erika Piedras-Renteria, Ph.D. 		  Biophysical and Cell Biological Properties of Wild Type and SCA6 alpha A Calcium Channels
    10:30 AM, Building 102, Room 4607
Wednesday, June 28, 2006  
Vignesh Krishnamurthy
Loyola University
Host: Jody Martin, PhD 		  A Comparative Study of the Functional Significance of N-Terminal and C-Terminal Modifications of α B-Crystallin
    10:30 AM, Building 102, Room 4607
Wednesday, July 05, 2006  
Tao Guo
Loyola University Medical Center
Host: Donald M. Bers, PhD 		  Measurement of Intra-SR Free [Ca]SR and SR Buffering in an Arrhythmogenic Rabbit Model of Heart Failure
    10:30 AM, Building 102, Room 4607
Tuesday, July 11, 2006  
Joshua Berlin, PhD
Department of Pharmacology and Physiology UMDNJ-New Jersey Medical School
Host: Donald M. Bers, Ph.D. 		  Intracellular Mg Regulation of L-Type Ca Channels
    01:30 PM, Building 102, Room 4607
Wednesday, September 06, 2006  
Nicole Hoefling
Loyola University Medical Center
Host: Erika Piedras-Renteria, PhD 		  "Potential Mechanisms of Cardioprotection by Hsp90 Inhibitors."
    10:30 AM, Building 102, Room 4607
Wednesday, October 04, 2006  
Stela Florea
Loyola University Medical Center
Host: Erika Piedras-Renteria, PhD 		  THE ROLE OF MITOCHONDRIA IN Ca2+ ALTERNANS REGULATION IN CAT ATRIAL CELLS
    10:30 AM, Building 102, Room 4607
Wednesday, October 25, 2006  
Larry V. Hryshko, Ph.D.
Institute of Cardiovascular Sciences St. Boniface General Hospital Winnipeg, Manitoba, Canada
Host: Donald M. Bers, PhD 		  Sodium-calcium exchange inhibitors: What do we need?
    10:30 AM, Building 102, Room 4607
Wednesday, November 01, 2006  
Fei Han
Loyola University Chicago
Host: Erika Piedras-Renteria, PhD 		  Phospholemman Mediated Regulation of Na, K-ATPase in Cardiac Myocytes
    10:30 AM, Building 102, Room 4607
Thursday, November 16, 2006  
Jack Kaplan, PhD
Benjamin Goldberg Professor and Head Biochemistry and Genetic Chemistry University of Illinois at Chicago
Host: Donald M. Bers, PhD 		  Na,K-ATPase Subunit Interactions and Pump Delivery to the Plasma Membrane
    11:30 AM, SSOM Room 160
Wednesday, November 29, 2006  
Andreas Rinne, Ph.D.
Loyola University Medical Center
Host: Lothar Blatter, MD, Dr med 		  Study of Kir-channels in adult cardiac myocytes using gene-silencing and FRET
    10:30 AM, Building 102, Room 4607
Wednesday, December 06, 2006   **** Cancelled ****
John Fahrenbach
Loyola University Medical Center
Host: Erika Piedras-Renteria, PhD 		  TBA
POSTPONED UNTIL JANUARY
    10:30 AM, Building 102, Room 4607
Wednesday, December 13, 2006  
Björn C. Knollman, MD, PhD
Oates Institute for Experimental Therapeutics, Vanderbilt University School of Medicine, Division of Clinical Pharmacology
Host: Donald M. Bers, PhD 		  Cardiac Calsequestrin Knock-out Mice and Cardiac Arrhythmias
    10:30 AM, Building 102, Room 4607
Wednesday, December 20, 2006  
Joshua Maxwell
Loyola University Medical Center
Host: Erika Piedras-Renteria, PhD 		  Two Protein FRET: A Tool To Study CaMKII/InsP3R2 Interaction
    10:30 AM, Building 102, Room 4607
Thursday, January 11, 2007  
Brian Delisle, PhD
Assistant Scientist Medicine and Physiology University of Wisconsin
Host: Donald M. Bers, PhD 		  Protein Trafficking Models of WT and Mutant K+ Channels Associated with Long QT Syndrome
    10:30 AM, Building 102, Room 4607
Wednesday, January 17, 2007  
Aikaterini K. Konstantopoulos, PhD
Associate Professor School of Medicine University of Maryland
Host: Donald M. Bers, PhD 		  "Unraveling the Obscure Obscurin: a Novel Muscle Giant that Plays a Pivotal Role in the Organization of the Sarcomere and the Sarcoplasmic Reticulum in Striated Muscle"
    10:30 AM, Building 102, Room 4607
Thursday, January 18, 2007  
John Fahrenbach

Host: Erika Piedras-Renteria, PhD 		  The Role of Intercellular Coupling and Fibroblasts in Cardiac Pacemaker Function
    10:30 AM, Building 102, Room 4607
Wednesday, January 24, 2007  
Steven M. Pogwizd, M.D.
Department of Medicine University of Illinois at Chicago
Host: Donald M. Bers, PhD 		  Mechanisms of ventricular arrhythmias in the failing heart
    10:30 AM, Building 102, Room 4607
Wednesday, January 31, 2007  
Kenneth R. Laurita, PhD
Assistant Professor of Medicine and Biomedical Engineering Co-Director Noninvasive Arrhythmia Laboratory, Metrohealth Campus Case Western Reserve University
Host: Donald M. Bers, PhD 		  Calcium Mediated Arrhythmogenesis
    10:30 AM, Building 102, Room 4607
Thursday, February 08, 2007  
Frank S. J. Lee, PhD
Research Scientist Center for Addiction and Mental Health University of Toronto
Host: Donald M. Bers 		  Identification of Protein Interactions that Regulate Dopaminergic Neurotransmission
    11:00 AM, Maguire Room 2812
Wednesday, February 14, 2007  
Joshua Maxwell
Loyola University Medical Center
Host: Erika Piedras-Renteria, PhD 		  IP 3 R: Structure and Function
    10:30 AM, Building 102, Room 4607
Wednesday, February 21, 2007  
Mark E. Anderson, M.D., Ph.D.
Director, Division of Cardiology Roy J. and Lucille A. Carver College of Medicine Department of Internal Medicine University of Iowa
Host: Donald M. Bers, PhD 		  CaMKII Effects on Sinoatrial Nodal Cells
    10:30 AM, Building 102, Room 4607
Wednesday, February 28, 2007  
Kathrin Banach, PhD
Loyola University, Department of Physiology Research Assistant Professor
Host: Donald M. Bers, PhD 		  Gap junctions in cardiac physiology, pacemaker function, and stem cell replacement therapy
    10:30 AM, Building 102, Room 4607
Thursday, March 08, 2007  
Anton Maximov, PhD
Southwestern Medical Center at Dallas University of Texas
Host: Donald M. Bers, PhD 		  Controlling Neurotransmitter Release: The Role of Synaptotagmins
NOTE: Stritch School of Medicine
    10:30 AM, SSOM, Room 170
Tuesday, March 13, 2007  
Bradley Launikonis, PhD
Lecturer, School of Biomedical Sciences University of Queensland
Host: Donald M. Bers, PhD 		  Store-operated and action potential-induced Ca2+ entry in mammalian skeletal muscle
    10:30 AM, Building 102, Room 4607
Thursday, March 15, 2007  
Christopher Ahern, PhD
Research Assistant Professor, Department of Molecular Physiology and Biophysics Thomas Jefferson Medical College
Host: Donald M. Bers, PhD 		  Blockade of voltage-gated sodium channels by TTX and lidocaine: exploring energetics with unnatural amino acids
    10:30 AM, Building 102, Room 4607
Tuesday, March 20, 2007  
Shasta Sabo, PhD
Research Associate, Department of Biological Sciences, Stanford University
Host: Donald M Bers, PhD 		  Cellular and Molecular Mechanisms of Synapse Formation in the Cerebral Cortex
    10:30 AM, Building 102, Room 4607
Wednesday, March 21, 2007  
Tao Guo
Graduate Student Dept of Physiology Loyola University
Host: Donald M. Bers, PhD 		  Effects of Calcium/Calmodulin-Dependent Protein Kinase II on RyR-Mediated Calcium Release in Cardiac Myocytes
Final Public Examination Dissertation Defense
    10:30 AM, Building 102, Room 4607
Friday, March 23, 2007  
Zhuan Zhou, PhD
Institute of Molecular Medicine Peking University
Host: Donald M. Bers, PhD 		  Ca signaling and functions in neurons and cardiac myocytes
    12:00 pm, Building 102, Room 4607
Monday, March 26, 2007  
Stela M. Florea
Graduate Student Dept of Physiology Loyola University
Host: Lothar A. Blatter, MD, Dr med 		  The Role of Mitochondria for Ca2+ Alternans Modulation in CAT Atrial Cells
Final Public Examination Dissertation Defense
    10:30 AM, Building 102, Room 4607
Tuesday, March 27, 2007  
Aldrin Gomes, PhD
Assistant Research Physiologist Department of Physiology and Medicine/Cardiology, UCLA
Host: Donald M. Bers, PhD 		  The Emerging Role of Proteasomes in Cardiac Diseases
    10:30 AM, Building 102, Room 4607
Wednesday, April 04, 2007  
Nidhi Kapur
Loyola University Chicago
Host: Erika Piedras-Renteria, PhD 		  The role of IP3 in Embryonic Stem Cell Derived Cardiomyocyte’s Spontaneous Activity and During Heterocellular Coupling with Adult Cardiomyocytes
    10:30 AM, Building 102, Room 4607
Wednesday, April 11, 2007  
Kenneth S. Campbell, PhD
Assistant Professor Department of Physiology University of Kentucky
Host: Seth L. Robia, PhD 		  Acto-myosin kinetics: tension overshoots and residual forces
    10:30 AM, Building 102, Room 4607
Wednesday, April 18, 2007  
Nazareno Paolocci, MD, PhD
Cardiology Division John Hopkins Medical Institutions, MD
Host: Donald M. Bers, PhD 		  Nitroxyl (HNO), Ca2+ Cycling and Heart Failure: not just the Janus Face of NO
    10:30 AM, Building 102, Room 4607
Wednesday, April 25, 2007  
Abigail Goodman
Loyola University Medical Center
Host: Erika Piedras-Renteria, PhD 		  Altered Mechanotransduction Signaling in Type 2 Diabetes and Diabetic Cardiomyopathy
    10:30 AM, Building 102, Room 4607
Wednesday, May 02, 2007  
Jia Qin
Loyola University Medical Center
Host: Erika Piedras-Renteria, PhD 		  Lumenal Ca2+ Regulation of Ryandine Receptors
    10:30 AM, Building 102, Room 4607
Tuesday, May 08, 2007  
Nicole Hoefling
Graduate Student
Host: Ruben Mestril, PhD 		  Mechanisms of Cardioprotection by Heat Shock Protein 90 Inhibitors
Final Public Examination Dissertation Defense
    10:30 AM, Building 102, Room 4607
Wednesday, May 09, 2007  
Richard Voellmy, PhD, JD
Managing Director, HSF Pharmaceuticals SA
Host: Ruben Mestril 		  Towards heat-controlled & enhanced genetic therapies of solid tumors
    10:30 AM, Building 102, Room 4607
Wednesday, May 16, 2007  
Tom Irving
Illinois Institute of Technology
Host: Seth Robia, PhD 		  What Can Fiber Diffraction Tell Us About Regulation in Muscle?
NOTE: Stritch School of Medicine - Room 150
    10:30 AM, SSOM Room 150
Wednesday, May 23, 2007  
Larry R. Jones, MD, PhD
Krannert Institute of Cardiology Indiana University School of Medicine
Host: Donald M. Bers, PhD 		  Chemical Cross-linking Tells All about How Phospholamban Regulates SERCA2a
    10:30 AM, Building 102, Room 4607
Tuesday, June 12, 2007  
Michael Sturek, PhD
Dept of Cellular and Integrative Physiology Indiana University School of Medicine
Host: Donald M. Bers, PhD 		  "Coronary artery disease, restenosis, and Ca2+ regulation in the spectrum of diabetes"
    10:30 AM, Building 102, Room 4607
Wednesday, July 11, 2007  
Kathryn Helmstadter
Loyola University Medical Center
Host: Erika Piedras-Renteria, PhD 		  Class II HDACs in Excitiation-Transcription Coupling
    10:30 AM, Building 102, Room 4607
Monday, August 06, 2007  
Robert M. Tombes, Ph.D.
Virginia Commonwealth University Director, Integrative Life Sciences Ph.D. Program Associate Professor, Depts. of Biology & Biochemistry
Host: Jody Martin, PhD 		  TBA
    10:30 AM, Building 102, Room 4607
Wednesday, August 22, 2007  
Katie Helmstadter & Abigail Goodman
Comprehensive Examination Seminar
Host: Erika Piedras-Renteria, PhD 		  Katie Helmstadter: “Ca signals involved in the activation of Portein Kinase D (PKD) and its downstream effects during hypertrophy.” Abigail Goodman: “Upregulation of osteopontin plays a protective role in the diabetic heart through its integrin binding site.”
    10:30 AM, Building 102, Room 4607
Wednesday, September 12, 2007  
Miensheng Chu
Loyola University Medical Center
Host: Erika Piedras-Renteria, PhD 		  TBA
    10:30 AM, Building 102, Room 4607
Wednesday, September 26, 2007  
Robert M. Tombes, Ph.D.
Director, Integrative Life Sciences Ph.D. Program Associate Professor, Depts. of Biology & Biochemistry Virginia Commonwealth University
Host: Jody Martin, PhD 		  "CaMK-II: A Structural and Functional Protein Kinase Hub"
    10:30 AM, Building 102, Room 4607
Wednesday, October 03, 2007  
Jenny Chang
Loyola University Medical Center
Host: Erika Piedras-Renteria, PhD 		  "The role of Protein Kinase D(PKD) in the heart"
    10:30 AM, Building 102, Room 4607
Thursday, October 25, 2007  
Shenna Sarah Tin
Thesis Defense
Host: Ruben Mestril, PhD 		  "CARDIOPROTECTION FROM OXIDATIVE STRESS BY HSP27 AND A CYSTEINE DEFICIENT FORM (C137A) IN NEONATAL RAT VENTRICULAR MYOCYTES"
    10:30 AM, Building 102, Room 4607
Tuesday, November 13, 2007  
Fei Han
Dissertation Defense
 		  Phospholemman Mediated Regulation of Na, K-ATPASE in Cardiac Myocytes
    10:30 AM, Building 102, Room 4607
Wednesday, November 14, 2007  
Yi Yang
Loyola University Medical Center
Host: Erika Piedras-Renteria, PhD 		  "Rundown of L-type Ca2+ Channels in Whole Cell Patch, Is calmodulin a causative factor?"
    10:30 AM, Building 102, Room 4607
Wednesday, December 12, 2007  
Yu-Qing Cao, PhD

Host: Erika Piedras-Renteria, PhD 		  A tale of two channels: N- and P/Q-type calcium channels in hippocampal synaptic transmission
    10:30 AM, Building 102, Room 4607
Thursday, December 13, 2007  
Haiyan Chen
Dissertation Defense
 		  BIOPHYSICAL AND CELL BIOLOGICAL PROPERTIES OF WILD TYPE AND SCA6 ALPHA 1A CALCIUM CHANNELS
    10:30 AM, Building 102, Room 4607
Tuesday, January 29, 2008  
Rakesh C. Kukreja, Ph.D.
Professor, Department of Internal Medicine, Physiology, Biochemistry and Emergency Medicine, Virginia Commonwealth University Medical Center, Richmond, VA
 		  "Cardioprotective Effects of Phosphodiesterase-5 Inhibitors"
Robert R. McCormick Tribune Lecture Series
    01:30 PM, SSOM, Room 160
Wednesday, January 30, 2008  
Jonathan Satin, PhD

Host: Donald Bers, PhD 		  Cardiac L-type Calcium Tales: v1.2
    10:30 AM, Building 102, Room 4607
Thursday, February 07, 2008  
Pieter P. deTombe, Ph.D.
Professor of Physiology and Biophysics, Professor of Medicine, Cardiology, Professor of Bioengineering, University of Illinois at Chicago, Chicago, IL
 		  "Sarcomere Dynamics in Health and Disease
Robert R. McCormick Tribune Lecture Series Candidate for James R. DePauw Professor and Chair of Physiology
    02:00 PM, SSOM, Leischner Hall
Wednesday, February 20, 2008  
William Schilling, PhD

Host: Donald Bers, PhD 		  TRPC channel signalplex in the kidney and heart
    10:30 AM, Building 102, Room 4607
Tuesday, February 26, 2008  
Jeffrey W. Walker, Ph.D.
Professor and Director of Human Proteomics Program, University of Wisconsin, School of Medicine and Public Health, Madison, WI
 		  "Endothelin Signaling Networks in the Heart, Lessons in Complexity"
Robert R. McCormick Tribune Lecture Series Candidate for James R. DePauw Professor and Chair of Physiology
    02:00 PM, Building 102, Room 4607
Tuesday, March 11, 2008  
David W. Busija, Ph.D.
Professor of Physiology and Pharmacology, Wake Forest University Health Sciences, Winston-Salem, NC
 		  "Mitochondrial Influences on the Cerebral Circulation and Brain: Vasodilation and Neuroprotection"
Robert R. McCormick Tribune Lecture Series Candidate for James R. DePauw Professor and Chair of Physiology
    2:00 PM, SSOM, Room 160
Wednesday, March 12, 2008  
Nidhi Kapur
Dissertaion Defense
 		  THE ROLE OF INOSITOL 1,4,5-TRISPHOSPHASTE IN EMBRYONIC STEM CELL DERIVED CARDIOMYOCYTE’S SPONTANEOUS ACTIVITY AND DURING HETEROCELLULAR COUPLING WITH ADULT CARDIOMYOCYTES
    10:30 AM, Building 102, Room 4607
Thursday, March 20, 2008  
John Fahrenbach

 		  THE ROLE OF INTERCELLULAR COUPLING AND NON-EXCITABLE CELLS IN CARDIAC PACEMAKER FUNCTION
    10:30 AM, Building 102, Room 4607
Tuesday, May 20, 2008  
Jia Qin
Dissertation Defense
 		  "Luminal Calcium Regulation of Ryandine Receptors"
    10:30 AM, Building 102, Room 4607
Wednesday, July 16, 2008  
Yi Yang , Miensheng Chu , Chia Wei Chang
Comprehensive Examination Seminars
Host: Erika S. Piedras-Renteria, Ph.D. 		  -Yi Yang "The Efficacy and Mechanisms of K201 to Reduce the Sarcoplasmic Reticulum (SR) Ca2+ leak in Failing Hearts" -Miensheng Chu "The role of integrin-linked kinase in pressure overload induced cardiac remodeling" -Chia Wei Chang "Role of peptidylprolyl cis/trans isomerase activity of cyclophilin D in regulation mitochondrial transition pore opening under Ca2+ overload-induced cell death in cardiac myocytes"
    10:30 AM, Building 102, Room 4607
Wednesday, October 01, 2008  
Joshua Maxwell
Graduate Student, Physiology, Loyola University Chicago
Host: Dr. Erika Piedras-Renteria 		  "Phosphorylation of the type 2 inositol 1,4,5-trisphosphate receptor by Ca2+/Cam-dependent protein kinase II"
    10:30 AM, Building 102, Room 4607
Wednesday, October 29, 2008  
Brandon Biesiadecki, Ph.D.
Visiting Research Assistant Professor Department of Physiology and Biophysics University of Illinois at Chicago
Host: Dr. Gregory Mignery 		  "Thin Filament Modification and Cardiac Function"
PHYSIOLOGY FACULTY CANDIDATE
    10:30 AM, Building 102, Room 4607
Wednesday, November 05, 2008  
Abigail Goodman
Physiology Graduate Student
Host: Dr. Erika Piedras-Renteria 		  "Regulation of Osteopontin in Conditions of Diabetes and Cardiovascular Disease"
Please note this seminar presentation will be in Anatomy's conference room 102/5638.
    10:30 AM, Building 102, Room 5638 (Anatomy Conference Room)
Wednesday, December 03, 2008  
Miensheng Chu

Host: Erika Piedras-Renteria 		 
    10:30 AM, Building 102, Room 4607
Wednesday, January 07, 2009  
John Robinson, MD, PhD
University of Alabama at Birmingham
Host: Pieter de Tombe, PhD 		  Multi-Scale Modeling of the Cardiac Myofilament
    10:30 AM, Building 102, Room 4607
Wednesday, January 14, 2009  
Kevin Eliceiri, PhD
Director, Laboratory for Optical and Computational Instrumentation University of Wisconsin-Madison
Host: Seth Robia, PhD 		  Optical and Computational Approaches to Multidimensional Live Cell Imaging
    10:30 AM, Building 102, Room 5638
Thursday, January 15, 2009  
Roger Bannister, PhD
Research Instructor Department of Physiology and Biophysics University of Colorado-Denver
Host: Greg Mignery, PhD 		  A Role for the L-Type Ca2+ Current in Skeletal Muscle Function and Disease
Faculty Candidate
    10:30 AM, Building 102, Room 5638
Wednesday, January 21, 2009  
Philip Bidwell
Graduate Student
Host: Erika Piedras-Renteria, PhD 		  Regulation of the phospholamban interaction with SERCA quantified by FRET in live cells
    10:30 AM, Building 102, Room 4607
Thursday, January 22, 2009  
Valeriy Lukyanenko, PhD, Faculty Candidate
Assistant Professor Medical Biotechnology Center University of Maryland Biotechnology Institute
Host: Gregory Mignery, PhD 		  Surprising Regulation of Cardiac Calcium Signaling
Faculty Candidate
    10:30 AM, Building 102, Room 4607
Wednesday, February 04, 2009  
Wen-Ji Dong, PhD
Assistant Professor Voiland School of Chemical Engineering and Bioengineering & Department of Veterinary Comparative Anatomy, Pharmacology & Physiology Washington State University
Host: Pieter de Tombe, PhD 		  FRET structural kinetic study of Ca2+-activated cardiac thin filament regulation
    11:00 AM, Building 102, Room 4607
Thursday, February 05, 2009  
Annette Gilchrist, PhD
Serpentine Consulting Adjunct Faculty Northwestern University
Host: Gregory Mignery, PhD 		  Searching for answers...Novel approaches for cardiovascular GPCR targets
Faculty Candidate
    10:30 AM, Building 102, Room 4607
Wednesday, February 18, 2009  
Bradley Andresen, PhD
University of Missouri-Columbia
Host: Gregory Mignery, PhD 		  Angiotensin II-Mediated Signaling to ERK in Renal Microvascular Smooth Muscle Cells: Implications for Blood Pressure Control Can antineoplastic agents be used to reduce blood pressure?
Robert R. McCormick Tribune Lecture Series Faculty Candidate
    10:30 AM, Building 102, Room 4607
Wednesday, March 11, 2009  
Gregory Morley, PhD
New York School of Medicine
Host: Gregory Mignery, PhD 		  Intercellular Conduction and Cardiac Arrhythmias
Faculty Candidate
    11:00 AM, Building 102, Room 4607
Wednesday, March 18, 2009  
Osman Mirza
Graduate Student
Host: Dr. Erika Piedras-Renteria 		  PKC-alpha Regulates Expression of the Inducible HSP70 Promoter via AP-1 Activation
    11:00 AM, Building 102, Room 4607
Monday, March 23, 2009  
Zoltan Ungvari, PhD, Faculty Candidate
New York Medical College
Host: Gregory Mignery, PhD 		  Oxidative stress and Inflammation: at the Crossroad of Aging, Diabetes and Cardiovascular Disease
Faculty Candidate
    11:00 AM, Building 102, Room 4607
Wednesday, March 25, 2009  
Tim Kamp, MD, PhD
University of Wisconsin-Madison
Host: Seth Robia, PhD 		  Human Pluripotent Stem Cells: Tools for Cardiovascular Research and Therapy
    11:00 AM, Building 102, Room 4607
Wednesday, April 01, 2009  
Zhanjia Hou
Research Associate
Host: Erika Piedras-Renteria, PhD 		  Phospholamban mutations reveal the mechanism of interactions between phospholamban and SERCA
    11:00 AM, Building 102, Room 4607
Monday, April 06, 2009  
Marius Sumandea, PhD
Assistant Professor, University of Kentucky
Host: Gregory Mignery, PhD 		  Modulation of Cardiac Function through Post- translational Modifications of Sarcomeric Proteins
Robert R. McCormick Tribune Lecture Series and Faculty Candidate
    11:00 AM, Building 102, Room 4607
Wednesday, April 08, 2009  
Amy Davidoff, PhD
Professor, Pharmacology
Host: Erika Piedras-Renteria, PhD 		  Glucotoxicity, lipotoxicity, abnormal myocardial E-C coupling and insulin signaling. Is there a connection?
    11:00 AM, Building 102, Room 4607
Monday, April 13, 2009  
Murali Chandra, PhD
Associate Professor, Department of Veterinary & Comparative Anatomy, Pharmacology & Physiology
Host: Gregory Mignery, PhD 		  Mechanistic understanding of troponin T role in cardiac thin filament activation
Robert R. McCormick Tribune Lecture Series Physiology Faculty Candidate
    11:00 AM, Building 102, Room 4607
Wednesday, April 15, 2009  
Ilya Bezprozvanny, PhD
UT Southwestern Medical Center at Dallas
Host: Josh Maxwell, Graduate Student 		  Presenilins function as ER calcium leak channels: implications for AD
    11:00 AM, Building 102, Room 4607
Wednesday, April 22, 2009  
Renzhi Han, PhD
Research Scientist Department of Molecular Physiology and Biophysics The University of Iowa Carver College of Medicine
Host: Gregory Mignery, PhD 		  Mechanistic insights into dystroglycn- and dysferlin-deficient muscular dystrophies
Faculty Candidate
    11:00 AM, Building 102, Room 4607
Wednesday, April 29, 2009  
Sakthivel Sadayappan, PhD
Research Instructor, Cincinnati Children's Hospital Medical Center The Heart Institute
Host: Gregory Mignery, PhD 		  Emerging Evidences of Cardiac Myosin Binding Protein-C Phosphorylation in Health and Disease
Faculty Candidate
    11:00 AM, Building 102, Room 4607
Wednesday, May 06, 2009  
Dmitry Terentyev, PhD
Research Scientist, Department of Physiology and Cell Biology The Ohio State University
Host: Gregory Mignery, PhD 		  Abnormal Calcium-Induced Calcium Release in Cardiac Disease: Role of Muscle-Specific MicroRNAs
Faculty Candidate
    11:00 AM, Building 102, Room 4607
Monday, May 11, 2009  
Aleksey Zima, PhD
Assistant Professor, Department of Molecular Biophysics and Physiology Rush University Medical Center
Host: Gregory Mignery, PhD 		  Regulation of Sarcoplasmic Reticulum Calcium Release in Heart
Faculty Candidate
    11:00 AM, Building 102, Room 4607
Wednesday, May 13, 2009  
Darl Swartz, PhD
Department Animal Science Purdue University
Host: Seth Robia, PhD 		  Fast Kinetics in the Slow Lane: Probing Thin
    11:00 AM, Building 102, Room 4607
Wednesday, May 20, 2009  
Quijing Song, MD
Research Associate, Department of Physiology, Loyola University Medical Center
Host: Erika Piedras-Renteria, PhD 		  Na,K-ATPase Regulatory Protein FXYD1: Its Role in Cardiac Function
    11:00 AM, Building 102, Room 4607
Wednesday, May 27, 2009  
Paul Goldspink, PhD
Assistant Professor, University of Illinois Chicago
Host: Greg Mignery, PhD 		  Molecular and Cellular Aspects of Cardiac Adaptation and Repair by Manipulating Local IGF-1
Faculty Candidate
    11:00 AM, Building 102, Room 4607
Wednesday, June 03, 2009  
Jonggonnee Wattanapermpool, PhD
Associate Professor, Department of Physiology Mahidol University
Host: Pieter de Tombe, PhD 		  The Gender Matter with Cardiac Contractile Activation
    11:00 AM, Building 102, Room 4607
Wednesday, June 10, 2009  
M. Reddy Pabbidi, DVM, PhD
Research Associate, Department of Physiology, Loyola University Medical Center
Host: Erika Piedras-Renteria, PhD 		  Laminin Enhances ?2-Adrenergic Receptor Stimulation of ICa, L via cPLA2 Signalling in Cat Atrial Myocytes
    11:00 AM, Building 102, Room 4607
Wednesday, July 08, 2009  
Ademuyiwa Aromolaran, PhD
Research Associate
Host: Erika Piedras-Renteria, PhD 		  InsP3 receptor channels: Studies in structure function, apoptosis and regulation
    11:00 AM, Building 102, Room 4607
Wednesday, July 15, 2009  
Philip Bidwell, Graduate Student
Loyola University Medical Center
Host: Erika Piedras-Renteria, PhD 		  Role of Domain Binding and a Physiological Model of SERCA-PLB Binding
    10:00 AM, Building 102, Room 4607
Wednesday, September 02, 2009  
Miensheng Chu, Graduate Student
Loyola University Medical Center
Host: Erika Piedras-Renteria, PhD 		  Stretch or Neurohumoral Factors Induce FAK Serine Phosphorylation, Which is Important in Regulating Focal Adhesion Structure and Sarcomerogenesis
    3:00 PM, Building 102, Room 4607
Wednesday, September 30, 2009  
Louis Lucas, PhD
Assistant Professor, Loyola University Chicago
Host: Erika Piedras-Renteria, PhD 		  Adapting to Stress: Physiological and Neurobiological Insights
    11:00 AM, Building 102, Room 4607
Wednesday, October 07, 2009  
Abigail Goodman, Graduate Student
Loyola University Medical Center
Host: Erika Piedras-Renteria, PhD 		  Expression and regulation of Osteopontin in the Diabetic Heart
    11:00 AM, Building 102, Room 4607
Wednesday, October 21, 2009  
Masataka Kawai, PhD
University of Iowa
Host: Erika Piedras-Renteria, PhD 		  Use of Thin-Filament Reconstituted Muscle Fibers to Probe the Mechanism of Contraction
    11:00 AM, Building 102, Room 4607
Tuesday, October 27, 2009  
M. William Rochlin, PhD
Associate Professor, Loyola University Chicago
Host: Toni Pak, PhD 		  B's, D's 'n' F's in Attraction; B's and Ephs in Repulsion: Making the Grade in Sensory Axon Targeting
Co-Sponsored with the Neuroscience Institute
    3:30 PM, SSOM 170
Wednesday, October 28, 2009  
R. John Solaro, PhD, Distinguished University Professor
University of Illinois, Chicago
Host: Erika Piedras-Renteria, PhD 		  Integration of Signaling in Cardiac Sarcomeres with EC Coupling and Metabolism
    11:00 AM, Building 102, Room 4607
Wednesday, November 04, 2009  
Josh Maxwell
Graduate Student Loyola University Medical Center
Host: Erika Piedras-Renteria, PhD 		  CaMKII-mediated phosphorylation of InsP3R2 at Serine-150 results in decreased channel activity
    11:00 AM, Building 102, Room 4607
Wednesday, November 11, 2009  
F. Bryan Pickett, PhD
Associate Professor, Department of Biology, Loyola University Chicago
Host: Erika Piedras-Renteria, PhD 		  Aldh1a2/RaldH2 Expression and Retinoic Acid Patterning In a Novel Zebrafish YFP Reporter Line
    11:00 AM, Building 102, Room 4607
Wednesday, December 02, 2009  
Kimberly Fischer
Graduate Student, Loyola University Medical Center
Host: Erika Piedras-Renteria, PhD 		 
    11:00 AM, Building 102, Room 4607
Friday, December 11, 2009  
Kenneth Campbell, PhD
University of Kentucky
Host: Seth Robia, PhD 		 
    11:00 AM, Building 102, Room 4607
Wednesday, December 16, 2009  
Kyle Henderson, PhD
Research Associate Faculty, Loyola University Medical Center
Host: Erika Piedras-Renteria, PhD 		 
    11:00 AM, Building 102, Room 4607
Wednesday, January 06, 2010  
Philip Bidwell
Graduate Student, Loyola University Medical Center
Host: Erika Piedras-Renteria, PhD 		 
    11:00 AM, Building 102, Room 4607
Wednesday, January 13, 2010  
John Callaci, PhD
Assistant Professor, Orthopaedic Surgery
Host: Pieter de Tombe, PhD 		 
    11:00 AM, Building 102, Room 4607
 
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