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Adele and Sherman Kupfer Research in Progress Sessions
Held every other Monday, 4pm - 6:30pm in Room LC-504 (5th Floor Conference Room)

Spring 2012

January 30, 2012 - TBA

February 13, 2012 - Scott Blanchard "Aminoglycoside activities beyond the decoding site"

March 12, 2012 - TBA

April 9, 2012 - Alessio Accardi

May 7, 2012 - David Christini

May 21, 2012 - Lei Shi

June 4, 2012 - Glen Prusky

June 18, 2012 - Carl Blobel

Spring 2011

January 31, 2011 - Harel Weinstein "Our new focus on the membrane in signaling by membrane proteins"

February 14, 2011 - Christopher Mason "The Secret Life of the 'Epitranscriptome' and Advances in Single Molecule Technology"

March 21, 2011 - Cathy Hatcher "Transcriptional Regulation of Cardiovascular Development"

April 4, 2011 - Olga Boudker "Conformational ensemble and the alternating access mechanism of glutamate transporters"

May 2, 2011 - Emre Aksay "How neurons integrate signals over time: insights from the larval zebrafish"

May 9, 2011 - Sheila Nirenberg "A new retinal prosthetic approach."

May 23, 2011 - Alessio Accardi, Ph.D. "Molecular basis of coupling and stoichiometry in CLC transporters"

October 10, 2011 - Alan Weinstein, M.D. "Potassium Excretion During Antinatriuresis: What Aldosterone Paradox?"

Novemner 7, 2011 - Olivier Elemento, Ph.D. "The 3 dimensional architecture of the human genome"

December 5, 2011 - TBA

Fall 2010

September 27, 2010 - Brian Lamon (Research and Outreach Programs) and Olaf Andersen "Constructing hydrophobicity scales"

October 11, 2010 - Francesa Demichelis "Functional inherited variants and cancer risk"

October 25, 2010 - Larry Palmer and Gustavo Frindt "Conflict resolution in the mid-nephron: how the kidney regulates Na and K balances simultaneously"

November 8, 2010 - Olivier Elemento "Identifying drug targets and solving genetic diseases using deep sequencing"

Spring 2010

January 4, 2010 - Olivier Elemento "Revealing cancer mutations using deep sequencing"

February 1, 2010 - Emre Aksay "Seeing how the brain sees"

March 8, 2010 - Scott Blanchard "Emerging insights into the mechanism of protein synthesis on the bacterial ribosome"

March 29, 2010 - Crina Nimigean "Insights into the mechanism of ionic selectivity in potassium channels"

April 19, 2010 - CANCELLED

May 10, 2010 - CANCELLED

May 24, 2010 - Doris Herzlinger "Urinary tract morphogenesis: Which way is out?"

June 14, 2010 - Carl Blobel "ADAMs, key molecules in EGF-receptor signaling"

Fall 2009

October 12, 2009 - Glen Prusky "Visuomotor experience unmasks novel forms of neural plasticity"

November 2, 2009 - David Christini "Probing the mechanism of subcellular calcium alternans in cardiac myocytes"

November 16, 2009 - Alan Weinstein "Mathematical modeling of distal nephron K+ transport: consideration of Stokes' hypothesis"

December 7, 2009 - Olaf Andersen "Lipid bilayer perturbation by small molecules: a possible mechanism for off-target drug effects"

Spring 2009

January 5, 2009 - Olaf Andersen "Putting molecular dynamics to the test: ion permeation"

February 2, 2009 - Susan Rempe (Guest Speaker, Sandia National Laboratories) "Mechanisms of Ion Recognition by Biological Molecules"

February 23, 2009 - CANCELLED

March 16, 2009 - Cathy Hatcher "Transcriptional regulation of cardiac development"

April 6, 2009 - Colleen Clancy "Excitation in the heart and brain"

May 4, 2009 - Larry Palmer "K channels in the kidney"

May 18, 2009 - Xin-Yun Huang "Role of G Protein G-alpha-13 in Angiogenesis"

June 8, 2009 - Lei Shi "The structural basis of the allosteric transition in neurotransmitter:sodium symporter transport - a tale of two binding sites"

June 22, 2009 - Sheila Nirenberg "How neural systems adjust to different environments: an intriguing role for gap junction coupling"

physiology@med.cornell.edu | last updated: Monday, April 28, 2008