2014-2015 Seminar Schedule

Location: Vet Med 3B – Room 1105

Time: 4:00PM-5:00PM

 

Date

Speaker

Affiliation

Title

Host

Oct 16, 2014

 

 

Dr. Mike Skinner

Director of Center for Reproductive Biology and Center for Integrated Biotechnology, Washington State University

“Environmentally Induced Epigenetic Transgenerational Inheritance of Disease and Phenotypic Variation: Ancestral Ghosts in your Genome "

Keith Dunaway (Predoctoral Trainee)

Nov 20, 2014

 

 

 Dr. Angela Haczku

Professor of Pulmonary and Critical Care, UC Davis

 "Innate immune regulation of ozone-induced airway inflammation in mice"

Professor Lisa Miller (Training Grant Faculty)

Dec 11, 2014

 

 

 Dr. Pam Lein

 UC Davis

 "Cellular and Molecular Mechanisms of PCB Developmental Neurotoxicity"

 Kyla Walter & Doug Banda (Predoctoral Trainees)

Jan 15, 2015

 

 

 Dr. Gary Perdew

Professor in Agricultural Sciences, Penn State

"Anti-inflammatory activity of the Ah receptor: A consequence of ligand-induced cytoplasmic activation."

Samantha Faber (Predoctoral Trainee)

Feb 19, 2015

 

 

Dr. Bradley Moore

Scripps Institution of Oceanography, UCSD

"Marine bacterial synthesis of brominated organic compounds relevant to environmental toxicology."

Ray Zhang (Predoctoral Trainee)

March 19, 2015

 

 

Dr. Michael Smerdon

Professor of Biochemistry and Biophysics, Washington State University

“A DNA Damage Response: Preparing the Chromatin Landscape for DNA Repair”

Doug Banda (Predoctoral Trainee)

April 16, 2015

 

 

Dr. Judith Campisi

Professor, Buck Institute for Age Research

Cancer and aging: Rival demons?

Mary Corrigan (Predoctoral Trainee)

May 21, 2015

 

 

 Dr. Thomas Zoeller

Professor of Biology, Amherst College

 “Thyroid ‘Disruption’:  Why Chemical Effects on Blood Levels of Thyroid Hormone are not Always Informative”

Kyla Walter (Predoctoral Trainee)