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Seminars

Nutritional Sciences Seminar Series
Spring 2008
NS 771 Graduate Seminar in Nutritional Sciences

Date Speaker (Seminar Host) Seminar Title
January 9
Dr. Catherine Mao
Assistant Professor
GCNS

Introduction
January 16

Dr. James Lund
Assistant Professor Department of Biology
(Dr. Catherine Mao)

Conserved Responses to Caloric Restriction in C. Elegans and Mammals
January 23

Dr. Xiangan Li
Assistant Professor
Department of Pediatrics
(Dr. Shuxia Wang)


SR-B1 Induces a Novel Ligand Independent Apoptotic Pathway: Good or Bad
?
January 30

Dr. Stephen Byers, Professor Department of Oncology
Georgetown University
(Dr. Catherine Mao))

Beta Catenin Specific Regulation of the Vitamin D Pathway in Colon Cancer
February 6

Dr. Olga Stenina, Assistant Staff, Department of Molecular Cardiology, Cleveland Clinic
(Dr. Catherine Mao)

Cell-type-specific Regulation of Vascular Gene Expression by Glucose

February 13

Dr. William Harris, Director
Nutrition and Metabolic Research Institute
Sanford University
(Dr. Bernhard Hennig)

Cardioprotective Effects of Omega-3 and Omega-6 Fatty Acids
February 20

Dr. Shalamar Sibley
Associate Professor
Department of Medicine, Endocrinology
University of Minnesota
(Dr. Lisa Tannock)

Obesity and Diabetes as Contributors to Renin-angiotensin System Dysregulation: How and Why?
February 27

Dr. Jay Whelan
Professor and Chair Department of Nutrition
University of Tennessee
(Dr. Geza Bruckner)

Dietary PUFA: The Things They Don't Tell You About
March 5 Dr. Guoyao Wu, Professor
Intercollegiate Faculty of Nutrition, Texas A & M
(Dr. Michal Toborek)
A Path to the Vascular NO Pathway in Diabetes
March 12

Spring Break

March 19 Dr. Anisa Jahangiri
Assistant Professor
Department of Medicine
(Dr. Catherine Mao)
HDL Remodeling During the Acute Phase Response
March 26

Dr. Andrew Yen, Professor
Biomedical Sciences
Cornell University
(Dr. Michal Toborek)

Retinoic Acid/Vitamin A Control of the Cell Cycle and Cell Differention

April 2 & 9

No Seminar

April 16

Dr. Olivier Thibault
Assistant Professor Department of Pharmacology
(Dr. Catherine Mao)

Calcium Dysregulation in Aging and Alzheimer's Disease: Possible Interventions in Rodent Models
April 23

Melissa Zack
GCNS Doctoral Student
(Dr. Nancy Webb)

Group V Secretory Phospholipase A2 and Atherosclerosis

April 30

Nicholas Hatch
GCNS Doctoral Student
(Dr. Victoria King)

Models of Obesity in Mice: Metabolic Syndrome As A Complicating Factor

Wednesdays, 4:00-5:00 PM, 411 Charles T. Wethington Bldg.
Seminar Coordinator: Dr.Catherine Mao(cdmao2@uky.edu)