Weill Cornell Department of Pharmacology

Seminars and Events
Fall/Winter Pharmacology Seminar Series

When and Where	Presenter and Seminar Title
Tuesday, September 27, 2011 Room A-250, 4:00 pm	Eduardo Farias, PhD Assistant Professor,Department of Medicine, Hematology and Medical Oncology, Mount Sinai School of Medicine "Opposing Effects of RARs Isotypes in Breast Cancer: A New Perspective"
Tuesday, October 25, 2011 Room A-250, 4:00 pm	John Zebala, MD, PhD President and Chief Executive Officer is the founder of Syntrix. "My Experience with the Science and Business of Early-Stage Drug Development"
Tuesday, November 8, 2011 Room A-250, 4:00 pm	Crina Nimigean, PhD Assistant Professor of Physiology and Biophysics in Anesthesiology, Weill Cornell Medical College "Selectivity-Inactivation Coupling in Potassium Channels"
Tuesday, November 22, 2011 Room A-250, 4:00 pm	Hazel Szeto, MD, PhD Professor of Pharmacology, Department of Pharmacology, WeilL Cornell Medical College "Fix the Furnace! Common Solution for Energy-Deficient Diseases"
Tuesday, December 6, 2011 Room A-250, 4:00 pm	Kent Vrana, PhD Elliot S. Vesell Professor and Chair of Pharmacology, Pennsylvania State University College of MEdicine "A Multianalyte Plasma Protein Panel for Monitoring Alcohol Drinking Behavior "
Tuesday, December 20, 2011 Room A-250, 4:00 pm	Gary Brewer, PhD Professor, Department of Molecular Genetics & Microbiology, UMDNJ-JMS "AUF1 and Chaperone Hsp27 Control AU-Rich Element-Mediated mRNA Degradation"
Tuesday, January 17, 2012 Room A-250, 4:00 pm	John Schimenti, PhD Professor of Genetics; Director, Center for Vertebrate Genomics, Cornell University College of Veterinary Medicine "DNA Replication and Cancer Genetics in Mice"
Tuesday, January 31, 2012 Room A-250, 4:00 pm	David Christini, PhD Professor of Medicine, Weill Cornell Medical College "Synergistic interplay between computational cardiac cell models and electrophysiology experiments"
Tuesday, February 14, 2012 Room A-250, 4:00 pm	Timothy Hla PhD Professor of Pathology and Laboratory Medicine Director, Center for Vascular Biology Weill Cornell Medical College "Recent studies on Sphingosine 1-phosphate signaling"
Tuesday, February 28, 2012 Room A-250, 4:00 pm	Jon Clardy, PhD Professor, Department of Biological Chemistry and Molecular Pharmacology, Harvard Medical School "TBA"
Dr. John Schimenti, Professor of Genetics at the College of Veterinary Medicine of Cornell University, gave a research talk titled "DNA Replication and Cancer Genetics in Mice" on January 17, 2012. Here Drs. Sauve, Schimenti, and Szeto relax over dinner after the seminar.
Drs. Ron Crystal, Steve Gross, and our Pharmacology Dept. seminar speaker, Dr. Kent Vrana, Chairman of the Pharmacology Dept. at Penn State, Hershey, PA. The three attended a reception after the seminar on December 6, 2011.	Dr. Gary Brewer presented his research in the Pharmacology Dept. seminar series on December 20, 2011. Pictured at dinner after the seminar are Drs. Miklos Toth, Frances Gratacos, Dussica Curanovic and Dr. Brewer.
Drs. Tim Hla, John Wagner, Mike Frohman (seminar speaker, Chair of Pharmacology Department at Stonybrook) and Lorraine Gudas at dinner after Dr. Frohman's seminar. January 19, 2010	Drs. Lorraine Gudas, Bonnie Sloane (seminar speaker, Chair of Pharmacology Department at Wayne State University) and Arleen Rifkind have dinner after Dr. Sloane's seminar. February 2, 2010
Dr. Al Baldwin, UNC Chapel Hill, April 13, 2010	Drs. Al Baldwin (UNC Chapel Hill), Ari Melnick, and Selina Chen-Kiang enjoy dinner after Dr. Baldwin's Pharmacology Dept. seminar on April 13, 2010.
Dr. John Boylan, the Pharmacology Dept. seminar speaker on October 5, 2010, with his postdoctoral mentor, Dr. Lorraine Gudas.	Drs. Gross, Rifkind, Sauve, and the Pharmacology Invited Seminar Speaker, Dr. Guengerich, at dinner after the seminar on November 30, 2010.
Dr. Matt Gamble giving his research seminar on December 14, 2010. Dr. Gamble received his PhD from Weill Cornell and is now an Asst. Professor in the Dept. of Molecular Pharmacology at Albert Einstein Med. College.	Graduate student Alessia Deglincerti speaks with Dr. Susan Gerbi after Dr. Gerbi's seminar titled "Evolution of Ribosoma RNA: Ribosome biogenesis and coordination with cell division " on March 15, 2011.
Dr. Loren Runnels, Pharmacology Dept. seminar speaker on April 12, 2011, with postdoctoral fellow Dr. Ron Perez after the seminar.	Dr. Lorraine Gudas visits with her former chairman, Dr. Chrisopher Walsh, Professor of Biological Chemistry and Molecular Pharmacology at Harvard Medical School. Dr. Walsh presented the President's Seminar at MSKCC on April 13, 2011. Dr. Derek Tan was his host.
Dr. Eduardo Farias, Assistant Professor, Department of Medicine, Hematology and Medical Oncology, Mount Sinai School of Medicine, presented an excellent seminar titled: "Opposing Effects of RARs Isotypes in Breast Cancer: A New Perspective" on September 27, 2011.