Seminar Schedule
Cell Biology and Anatomy

2010 - 2013
LIB-110 from Noon - 1:00 PM on Thursdays unless indicated differently below

Speaker: Dong-Feng Chen, Ph.D. (May 2, 2013) CBAN 5120

Seminar Title : Reversing Blindness Through Optic Nerve Regeneration

Dr. Chen is an Associate Professor in the Schepens Eye Research Institute, Harvard Medical School

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Speaker: Andrew MacLean, Ph.D. (April 11, 2013) CBAN 5140

Seminar Title : It's the Astrocyte, Stupid

Dr. MacLean is an Assistant Professor in the Department of Microbiology & Immunology, Tulane School of Medicine

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Speaker: Michael G. Anderson, Ph.D. (April 4, 2013) CBAN 5120

Seminar Title : Mouse Genetics and the Missing Heritability of Glaucoma

Dr. Anderson is an Associate Professor in the Department of Physiology & Biophysics, University of Iowa

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Speaker: Adriana di Polo, Ph.D. (March 21, 2013) CBAN 5120

Seminar Title : Boosting the Survival of Retinal Ganglion Cells After Axonal Injury: Novel Molecular Mechanisms and Therapeutic Targets

Dr. di Polo is an Associate Professor in the Department of Pathology & Cell Biology, Universite de Montreal, Montreal, Quebec, Canada

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Speaker: Huanyu Dou, M.D.   (March 7, 2013) CBAN 5140

Seminar Title : Neuroprotection and the Brain Deivery

Dr. Dou is an Assistant Professor in the Department of Biomedical Sciences and the Center of Excellence for Infectious Disease, Texas Tech Health Sciences Center, Paul L. Foster School of Medicine, El Paso, Texas.

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Speaker: R. Rand Allingham, Ph.D.   (January 31, 2013) CBAN 5120

Seminar Title : The Role of Exfoliation Syndrome and CSF Pressure in Glaucoma

Dr. Allingham is the Barkhouse Professor and Chief of Glaucoma Services, Duke Eye Center, Duke University School of Medicine, Durham, North Carolina.

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Speaker: Craig Crosson, Ph.D.   (December 13, 2012) CBAN 5120

Seminar Title : Protein Acetylation and Retinal Degeneration

Dr. Crosson is a Professor in Department of Ophthalmology, at The Medical University of North Carolina.

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Speaker: Norman Haughy, Ph.D.   (December 6, 2012) CBAN 5140

Seminar Title : The Clinical and Pathological Significance of Perturbed Sphingolipid  Metabolism in HIV-infected subjects. A Neurocognitive Perspective on Fat in the Brain

Dr. Haughy is an Associate Professor Departments of Neurology and Psychiatry, Division of Neuroimmunology and Neurological Infections, at The Johns Hopkins University School of Medicine

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Speaker: Iok-Hou Pang, Ph.D.   (November 8, 2012) CBAN 5120

Seminar Title : JNK Inhibitors for Glaucoma Neuroprotection

Dr. Pang is a Professor and Dean of the College of Pharmacy at the UNT Health Science Center.

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Speaker: Vinod Labhasewetar, Ph.D.   (October 18, 2012) CBAN 5140

Seminar Title : Nanomedicine: Basic to translational

Dr. Labhasetwar is staff member in the Department of Biomedical Engineering (ND20) at the Cleveland Clinic Lerner Research Institute.

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Speaker: Shao-Jun Tang, Ph.D.   (October 11, 2012) CBAN 5140

Seminar Title : Pathological Mechanisms of HIV-1-Associated Chronic Pain

Dr. Tang is an assistant professor in the Department of Neuroscience & Cell Biology at the University of Texas Medical Branch at Galveston.

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Speaker: Sidas Nair, Ph.D.   (October 4, 2012) CBAN 5120

Seminar Title : Unraveling the Genetic Complexity of Glaucoma

Dr. Nair is an associate research scientist at the Jackson Laboratory, Bar Harbor, ME.

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Speaker: Jian Fu, Ph.D.   (August 23, 2012) CBAN 5140

Seminar Title : Protective Role of Sirt1 against Lung Coagulation, Inflammation and Injury

Dr. Fu is an associate professor in the Biomedical Research Center at the University of Texas Health Science Center at Tyler.

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Speaker: Xiuhua Dong, Ph.D.  (Monday, August 13, 2012) 

Seminar Title : Structural basis for leucine-rich nuclear export signal recognition by CRM1

Dr. Xiuhua is a postdoctoral fellow at the University of Texas Southwest Medical Center.

Speaker: Bassel E. Sawaya, Ph.D.  (June 21, 2012) CBAN 5140

Seminar Title : HIV-1 and miRNAs: Role and Impact on Neuronal functions

Dr. Sawaya is an Associatet Professor in the Department of Neurology at Temple University School of Medicine. He is a prospective Faculty Member in our department.

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Speaker: Andrew Huberman, Ph.D.  (April 26, 2012) CBAN 5120

Seminar Title : Genetic Approaches to Understanding Visual Circuit Structure, Function, Development and Disease

Dr. Huberman is an Assistant Professor in the Department of Neurosciences and the Department of Opthamology at the University of California, San Diego.

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Speaker: Sandra Hewitt, Ph.D.  (April 12, 2012) CBAN 5140

Seminar Title : Astrocyte IL-I Signaling: Context-dependent Contributions to Tissue Injury and Protection

Dr. Hewitt is the Beverly Peterson Bishop Professor of Neuroscience in the Department of Biology at Syracuse University

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Speaker: Patricia D'Amore, Ph.D.  (April 5, 2012) CBAN 5120

Seminar Title : Role and Regulation of VEGF in the Adult

Dr. D'Amore is a Professor in the Department of Opthamology & Pathology at the Harvard Medical School

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Speaker: Alfred Lewin, Ph.D.  (March 29, 2012) CBAN 5120

Seminar Title : Testing Therapies in a MouseModel of Atrophic Macular Degeneration

Dr. Lewin is a Professor in the Department of Genetics and Microbiology at the University of Florida

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Speaker: Michael P. Fautsch, Ph.D.  (March 22, 2012) CBAN 5120

Seminar Title : A Molecular Perspective into IOP as SeenThrough ATP-Sensitive Potassium Channels

Dr. Fautsch is an Associate Professor in the Department of Opthamology at The Mayo Clinic in Rochester, MN.

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Speaker: Teresa Borras, Ph.D.  (March 15, 2012) CBAN 5120

Seminar Title : Genes that Govern the Physiology of the Human Trabecular Meshwork

Dr. Al-Harthi is a Professor in the Department of Opthamology at University of North Carolina

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Speaker: Lena Al-Harthi, Ph.D.  (March 8, 2012) CBAN 5140

Seminar Title : Interplay between HIV and Wnt/b-catenin Signaling: A Tug of War Between Protection and Pathogenesis In the CNS

Dr. Al-Harthi is a Professor in the Department of Immunology & Microbiology at Rush Medical College, Chicago, IL

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Speaker: Satya Dandekar, Ph.D.  (February 23, 2012)
CBAN 5140

Seminar Title : Guts, Germs and HIV Pathogenesis

Dr. Dandekar is a Professor & Chairman in the Department of Medical Microbiology & Immunology/Department of Internal Medicine, Division of Infectious Diseases at the School of Medicine, University of California, Davis

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Speaker:Laszlo Prokai, Ph.D.  (January 12, 2012)
CBAN 5140

Seminar Title : Omics-Driven Biomedical Research

Dr. Prokai is a Professor in the Department of Molecular Biology & Immunology and the Robert A. Welch Chair in Biochemistry at the UNT Health Science Center, Fort Worth, TX.

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Speaker: Weiming Mao (December 8, 2011)
CBAN 5120

Seminar Title : Cell Signaling Pathways in Glaucoma

Dr. Mao is a Research Assistant Professor in the Department of Cell Biology and Anatomy at the UNT Health Science Center, Fort Worth, TX.

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Speaker: Paul C. Dechow, Ph.D. (December 1, 2011)
CBAN 5140

Seminar Title : Material Properties and Microstructure of Craniofacial Bone in Hominins

Dr. Dechow is a Professor and the Vice Chairman of the Department of the Department of Biomedical Sciences at the Baylor College of Dentistry in Dallas, Texas.

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Speaker: Sabitha Roy, Ph.D. (November 17, 2011)
CBAN 5140

Seminar Title : Opioid Modulation of Innate Immune Function: Implication in Pathogen Clearance and Wound Healing

Dr. Roy is a Professor of Surgery and the Director of the Division of Infection, Inflammation and Vascular Biology. University of Minnesota

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Speaker: Carl Romano, Ph.D. (November 3, 2011)
CBAN 5120

Seminar Title : To Be Announced

Dr. Romano is the Senior Director at Alcon Laboratories, Inc. in Fort Worth, TX.

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Speaker: Marcus Kaul Ph.D. (October 27, 2011)
CBAN 5140

Seminar Title : Pathological Mechanisms of NeuroAIDS: From HIV-Co-Receptors to Brain Injury

Dr. Kaul is an Assistant Professor in the Department of Infectious Diseases. University of California, San Diego.  Sanford/Burnham Medical Research Institute, La Jolla, California.

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Speaker: Adron Harris, Ph.D.  (October 6, 2011)
CBAN 5140

Seminar Title : Neuroimmune Genes and Alcohol Consumption: Implications for Alcoholism Treatment

Dr. Harris is the M. June and J. Virgil Waggoner Chair in Molecular Biology and the Director of the Waggoner Center for Alcohol & Addiction Research.
University of Texas, Austin 

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Speaker: Jonathan Kipnis, Ph.D. (April 28, 2011)
CBAN 5140

Seminar Title: Unexpected Roles of Central and Peripheral Immunity in Brain Function

Dr. Kipnis is an Assistant Professor in the Department of Neurosciences at the University of Virginia School of Medicine in Charlottesville, VA.

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Speaker: Gayle Baldwin, Ph.D. (April 22, 2011)
CBAN 5140

Seminar Title: A Mightier Mouse: Adapting Mouse/Human Chimera Models for the In Vivo Study of Interactions Between HIV and Drugs of Abuse

Dr. Baldwin is an Associate Professor in the Department of Medicine and a member of the Jonsson Comprehensive Cancer Center at the University of California  in Los Angeles, California (UCLA).

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Speaker: Karl G. Csaky, M.D., Ph.D. (April 21, 2011) 11:00 AM CBAN 5120

Seminar Title: Understanding Episcleral Drug Delivery

Dr. Csaky is the T. Boone Pickens Senior Scientist and Director of the Harrington Molecular Laboratory at the Retina Foundation of the Southwest and is also a member of the Texas Retina Associates in Dallas, Texas.

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  Speaker: Gulab Zode, Ph.D. (April 7, 2011) CBAN 5120

Seminar Title: Molecular Mechanism of Myocilin-Associated Glaucoma

Dr. Zode graduated from our department at UNTHSC with his Ph.D. and now is a Research Associate in the Department of Opthalmology and Visual Sciences at the University of Iowa in Iowa City, Iowa.

Speaker: John Fingert, Ph.D. (March 31, 2011) CBAN 5120

Seminar Title: Molecular Genetic Approaches to Study Glaucoma

Dr. Fingert is Associate Professor in the Department of Opthalmology and Genetics at the University of Iowa in Iowa City, Iowa.

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Speaker: Paul Russell, Ph.D. (March 10, 2011) CBAN 5120

Seminar Title: It's a Nano World After All

Dr. Russell is a Research Vision Scientist in the Department of Surgical and Radiologial Sciences at the University of California in Davis, California.

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Speaker: Anthony Weinhaus, Ph.D. (March 3, 2011) CBAN 5140

Seminar Title: An Elective Rotation for 3rd and 4th Year Med Students as Teaching Assistants in the 1st Year Gross Anatomy Course

Dr. Weinhaus is Assistant Professor in the Department of Integrative Biology and Physiology and Director of the Program in Human Anatomy Education at the University of Minnesota in Minneapolis, Minnesota.

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 Speaker: Michal Toborek, M.D., Ph.D. (February 24, 2011) CBAN 5140

Seminar Title: Breaking it Down: The Involvement of the Blood-Brain Barrier in Cerebrovascular Pathology of HIV-1

Dr. Toborek is Professor in the Department of Neurosurgery, Molecular Biochemistry & Nutrition and Associate Chair of Research at the University of Kentucky Medical Center in  Lexington, Kentucky.

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Speaker: Patricia Molina, M.D., Ph.D. (January 27, 2011) CBAN 5140

Seminar Title: Systems Approach to Understanding Alcohol & Drugs of Abuse Interaction with HIV/AID

Dr. Molina is the Richard Ashman, Ph.D. Professor in the Department of Physiology and the Director of the Alcohol & Drug Abuse Center of Excellence at the Louisiana State University Health Sciences Center in New Orleans, Louisiana.

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Speaker: Johnny J. He, Ph.D. (January 13, 2011) CBAN 5140

Seminar Title: HIV Interaction With the Brain: What Else Have We Learned?

Dr. He is Professor in the Department of Microbiology and Immunology and Director of the Center for AIDs Research at Indiana University School of Medicine in Bloomington, Indiana.

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Speaker: Donald, Zach, M.D., Ph.D. (December 16, 2010) CBAN 5120 (RES 114)

Seminar Title: Neuroprotection Approach for the Treatment of Glaucoma and Retinal Degeneration

Dr. Zach is Professor in the Solomon H. Snyder Department of Neurosciences at the Johns Hopkins University in Baltimore, Maryland. He is also a member of the Department of Opthalmology at the Johns Hopkins Hospital.

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Speaker: Michael Brenner, Ph.D (December 2, 2010) CBAN 5140

Seminar Title: Alexander Disease, A Genetic Disorder of Astrocytes

Dr. Brenner is Professor in the Department of Neurobiology at the University of Alabama in Birmingham, Alabama.

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Speaker: Arthur Weber, Ph.D. (November 18, 2010) CBAN 5120

Seminar Title: Effects of Downstream Neuroprotection on Retinal Ganglion Cell Survival and Function Following Optic Nerve Injury

Dr. Weber is Professor in the Department of Physiology in the College of Medicine at Michigan State University in East Lansing, Michigan.

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Speaker: Oleg Gorbatyuk, Ph.D. (November 17, 2010) CBAN 5140 (CBH-240)

Seminar Title: AAV Mediated Gene Transfer to Create and Cure Animal Models of Parkinson Disease

Dr. Gorbatyuk is Research Associate Professor in the Department of Molecular Genetics & Microbiology at the University of Florida in Gainesville, Florida.

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