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Columbia University College of Physicians & Surgeons | Department of Physiology & Cellular Biophysics

All seminars will be held at noon in the Physiology Library (P&S 11-505) unless otherwise indicated

October 2002
01 Derek Toomre, Yale University School of Medicine: "News view of constitutive & MHC Class 11 exocytosis with ultre-thin live cell imaging"
29 Rosella Tupler, University of Massachusetts Medical School: "Molecular basis of facioscapulohumeral muscular dystrophy"


November 2002
12 Thomas Sollner, Memorial Sloan-Kettering Cancer Center: "Regulation of the membrane fusion machinery"
19 George Huntley, Mount Sinai School of Medicine: "Cadherin adhesion proteins in the construction & plasticity of cortical circuitry"


December 2002
10 Axel Nohturfft, Harvard University: "Homeostats of cellular cholestorol control"


February 2003
04 Guiseppa Pennetta

11 Fern Finger

25 Tory Hermann


March 2003
04 Dan Tracey

11 Todd Sacktor & Eric Drier, SUNY Downstate Medical Center: "PKMzeta: a new, brain-specific atypical PKC isoform maintaining LTP & memory in Drosophila"

18 Jorge Fischbarg, Columbia University: "How epithelia transport water: the last major unconquered frontier in membrane physiology"


April 2003
01 Alan S. Verkman, University of California at San Francisco: "Aquaporin water channels in mammalian physiology -- unexpected lessons from knockout mice"

01 Josh Kaplan, Massachusetts General Hospital: "Mechanisms regulating synaptic strength in C. Elegans"

08 Samantha Butler, Columbia University: "A role for BMP heterodimers in roof plate-mediated repulsion of commissural axons"

15 Irwin Arias, Tufts University School of Medicine: "Trafficking and activation of the bile canalicular Bile Salt Excretory Pump (BSEP, SpGP, ABCB11) in rat liver & transfected cell lines"


May 2003
06 Michael Dustin, New York University: "T cell migration and interaction in vivo"

13 Mei Zhen, Mount Sinai Hospital: "Molecular mechanisms that regulate the development & differentiation of chemical synapses"

20 John K. Rose, Yale University School of Medicine: "New approaches to an AIDS vaccine using recombinant VSVs"

27 Li-Huei Tsai, Harvard Medical School: "How neurons find their way: Lessons from mice deficient in cdk5 and reelin pathway"


June 2003
10 Martin Blank, Columbia University: "Electromagnetic interactions: Biological transduction mechanisms"

24 Linda Van Aelst, Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory: "Role of Ras and Rho GTPases in neuronal development"

24 Jose Vilar, Rockefeller University: "Modeling the networks of the cell: molecular, cellular & population levels"