2008
Spring Toxicology
SEMINAR SCHEDULE
MN 463 Medical Science Building
Monday, 4:00-4:50 p.m.
Coordinator:
Dr. Xianglin Shi
1/14
Dr. David Gius
Daret St. Clair
The Mitochondrial Sirtuin, SIRT3, at the Junction of
Superoxide
Metabolism, Adaptation, and Cell Survival
NIH
1/21
NO CLASS - ACADEMIC HOLIDAY
(Martin Luther King Jr. Birthday)
1/28
Fei Chen
Xianglin Shi
Mdig
Gene and Histone Demethylation in Human Lung Cancer
National
Institute for Occupational; Safety and Health (NIOSH),
Morgantown,
WV
2/4
Caixia Hou
Guo-Min Li
In vitro Repair of Triplet Repeat DNA Loops in Human Cells
Scientist I
2/11
Hsin-Sheng Yang
Pdcd4
and Colon Tumor Cell Invasion/Metastasis
GCT Professor
2/18
Beth Oesterling
B[a]P Induced Endothelial Cell Dysfunction is Attenuated by
Flavonoids: An Apple a Day Keeps Hydrocarbons at Bay
GCT Student
2/25
Kejian (Jim) Liu
Xianglin Shi
Inhibition of DNA Damage Repair as a Mechanism
Of Arsenic Carcinogenesis
University
of New Mexico
3/3
DNA Damage Signaling, CHK2 Kinase and Cancer Drug
Resistance
Saint Francis Hospital, Department of Pathology,
West Virginia University
3/10
NO CLASS – ACADEMIC HOLIDAY -
SPRING BREAK
3/17
Dr. David Orren
Role
of the Werner syndrome protein (WRN) in responding
to
DNA replication blockage
GCT Professor
3/24
Mark Kelly
Daret St. Clair
The Multifaceted Role of Ape1/Ref-1 as a DNA Repair
And Redox Signaling Protein: Implications
for Cancer
Therapeutics and Neurobiology
Indiana University
3/31
Christine M. Eischen
Vivek Rangnekar
Insights
into the Role of Mdm2 in Lymphomagenesis
Vanderbilt University
4/7
Jin Tae Hong
Howard Glauert
Implications
and Mechanisms of Presenilin 2 Mutation-induced
Neuronal
Cell Death in the Development of Alzheimers Disease
Chungbuk
National University, Korea
GCT
Alumnus
4/14
Madhav Devalaraja
GCT Student Forum
Trends in Biotherapeutics – Why is Big Pharma flocking
Human Genome Sciences, Inc.
4/21
Kent Sudgen
Xianglin Shi
The
Role of DNA Lesion Formation and Repair in
Chromate
Carcinogenicity
Department
of Chemistry, University of Montana
4/28
Bob Rhoads
Mary Vore
Family
members of eIF4E (the mRNA cap-binding protein):
Elucidating
their functions in Caenorhabditis elegans
Louisiana
State University Health Sciences Center