News & Events
Events
Computational Systems Biology and Dose Response Modeling Workshop
September 22 - 26, 2008
Course brochure
Reading list
Seminars
Forthcoming Seminars
Scott Alper, Ph.D.
Staff Scientist, National Heart, Lung, and Blood Institute National Institutes of Health
c/o National Institute of Environmental Health Sciences
Research Triangle Park, NC
Identification of Novel Innate Immunity Genes and Pathways Using Comparative Genomics
10:00 am
June 24, 200
Allison Elizabeth Ashley-Koch, Ph.D.
Associate Professor,
Center for Human Genetics
Department of Medicine at Duke University Medical Center
Unraveling the complex genetics of psychiatric disease
10:00 am
June 27, 2008
Recently Held Seminars
Peter Yau, Ph.D.
Director,
Protein Sciences Facility
University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign
Applying Proteomics in Biomedical Research
10:00 am
April 25, 2008
Andrew A. Butler, Ph.D.
Associate Professor,
Pennington Biomedical Research Center
Louisiana State University System
Baton Rouge, Louisiana
A Novel Endocrine Mechanism Involved in Lipid Homeostasis
10:00 am
May 23, 2008
Reen Wu, Ph.D.
Professor,
Internal Medicine and VM Anatomy, Physiology and Cell Biology
Center for Comparative Respiratory Biology and Medicine
University of California at Davis
Davis, CA
Regulation of Airway Mucin Gene Expression: Signaling and Epigenetic Mechanisms
Friday, March 28, 2008
Dr. Peter Di
Assistant Professor, Center for Lung Regeneration
Director, Inhalation Exposure Facility
Department of Environmental and Occupational Health
University of Pittsburgh
Environmental tobacco smoke exposure and health effect: What do we learn
from mouse models?
Thursday, February 28th
Paul B. Watkins, M.D.
Verne S. Avidness Professor of Medicine
Director,
Translation al and Clinical Sciences Institute
University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill
Chapel Hill, NC
Why Good Drugs are Sometimes Bad for the Liver
Friday, February 22
Peter Koopman, Ph.D.
ARC Federation Fellow
Professor of Developmental Biology
Institute for Molecular Bioscience
The University of Queensland
Australia
Somatic and Germ Cell Sex Determination in Mice
Thursday, February 14, 2008
Timothy Galitski, Ph.D.
Associate Professor
Institute for Systems Biology
Seattle, WA
Prediction of Phenotype and Gene Expression for Combinations of Mutations
Friday, February 8, 2008
David J. Mangelsdorf, Ph.D.
Professor and Chair, Department of Pharmacology
Investigator, Howard Hughes Medical Institute
Doris and Bryan Wildenthal Distinguished Chair in Medical Science
University of Texas Southwestern Medical Center
Dallas, TX
Nuclear Receptor Regulation of Metabolism: From Feast to Famine
Tuesday, February 5, 2008
Benoit Nemery, M.D., Ph.D.
Professor of Toxicology & Occupational Medicine
Chair of Department of Public Health
The Catholic University of Leuven
Leuven, Belgium
A Mouse Model of Chemical-Induced Occupational Asthma
Wednesday, January 16th, 2008
Christopher B. Newgard, Ph.D.
Director, Sarah W. Stedman Nutrition and Metabolism Center
Duke University Medical Center
Durham, NC
Comprehensive Metabolic Analysis Tools for Understanding of Disease Mechanisms
Friday, December 7, 2007
Silvia Corvera, M.D.
Professor
University of Massachusetts Medical School
Worcester, MA
Control of Adipose Tissue Function Through Angiogenesis
Friday, October 19, 2007
Urmila P. Kodavanti, Ph.D.
Experimental Toxicology Division
National Health and Environmental Effects Research Laboratory
U.S. Environmental Protection Agency
Research Triangle Park, NC
Genetic Cardiovascular Dieases and Air Pollution Susceptibility
Friday, September 21, 2007
Harry Roels, Ph.D.
Professor Emeritus
Unit of Industrial Toxicology and Occupational Medicine
Catholic University of Louvain
Brussels, Belgium
Health Risk Assessment of Neurotoxic Exposure to Manganese in Workers Exposed to Inhalable Dust or Welding Fume
Monday, September 17, 2007
James Inglese, Ph.D.
Deputy Director
NIH Chemical Genomics Center
Rockville, Maryland
Evaluating Chemical Libraries Using Quantitative High Throughput Screening for Molecular Probe Discovery and Toxicological Profiling
Friday, September 7, 2007
Orian Shirihai, M.D., Ph.D.
Assistant Professor
Department of Pharmacology
Tufts University School of Medicine
Boston, Massachusetts
Social Life of Mitochondria within the Cell: Dynamic Clubs, Connected Networks and Depolarized Singles
Friday, August 31, 2007
Michael P. Waalkes, Ph.D.
Laboratory of Comparative Carcinogenesis
Head, Inorganic Carcinogenesis Section
NCI at NIEHS
Research Triangle Park, North Carolina
Mechanisms in Arsenic Carcinogenesis: From Humans to Mice to Molecules and Back Again Friday, August 3, 2007
Keith M. Erikson, Ph.D.
Assistant Professor
Department of Nutrition
The University of North Carolina Greensboro
Greensboro, North Carolina
Manganese Neurotoxicity: Nutritional and Neurochemical Aspects
Friday, July 27, 2007
Julianne M. Hall, Ph.D.
Research Scientist
Department of Pharmacology and Cancer Biology
Duke University Medical Center
Durham, North Carolina
Evaluating PPARgamma as a Therapeutic Target in Human Breast Cancer
Thursday, July 12, 2007
Wolfgang Liedtke, M.D., Ph.D.
Assistant Professor and Head of Laboratory
Klingenstein Fellow
Attending Physician, Duke Pain Clinics
Duke University Medical Center
Center for Translational Neuroscience
Durham, North Carolina
Physiological and Pathophysiological Role of trpv4
Friday, June 22, 2007
Mark R. Wiesner, Ph.D.
James L. Meriam Professor of Civil & Environmental Engineering
Pratt School of Engineering
Nicholas School of the Environment and Earth Sciences
Duke University
Durham, North Carolina
Elements of Risk Assessment for Manufactured Nanomaterials: The Fullerene Example
Wednesday, June 13, 2007
Steven R. Kleeberger, Ph.D.
Chief, Laboratory of Respiratory Biology
National Institute of Environmental Health Sciences
National Institutes of Health
Research Triangle Park, North Carolina
Positional Cloning of Lung Injury Susceptibility Genes - from Mouse to Man
Friday, May 4, 2007
Vernon E. Steele, Ph.D., M.P.H.
Program Director
Chemoprevention Agent Development Research Group
Division of Cancer Prevention
National Cancer Institute
Bethesda, Maryland
Cancer Chemoprevention: An Applied Science Translatable to Clinical Practice
Wednesday, May 2, 2007
Atul J. Butte, M.D., Ph.D.
Assistant Professor
Stanford University School of Medicine
Director, Center for Pediatric Bioinformatics
Lucile Packard Children's Hospital
Stanford, California
Exploring Genomic Medicine Using Integrative Biology
Friday, April 13, 2007
Scott P. Kennedy, Ph.D.
Vice President
Development, Regulatory Strategy, and Centers of Emphasis Line
Pfizer Global Research and Development
Pfizer Inc.
Groton, CT
Foundation for Innovation: Pharma-Academic Partnerships
Friday, March 23, 2007
Tony K.T. Lam, Ph.D.
John Kitson McIvor Endowed Chair in Diabetes Research
Assistant Professor of Physiology and Medicine
Toronto General Hospital Research Institute
University Health Network and University of Toronto
Toronto, Ontario, Canada
CNS Nutrient Sensing Controls Liver Nutrient Production
Friday, March 23, 2007
Kevin J. Luebke, Ph.D.
Assistant Professor
Department of Internal Medicine
Division of Translational Research
University of Texas Southwestern Medical Center
Dallas, Texas
Remote Control of Cells with Light-Activated Epidermal Growth Factor
Friday, February 16, 2007
Arthur A. Levin, Ph.D., DABT
Vice President, Drug Development
Toxicology and Pharmacokinetics
ISIS Pharmacueticals
Carlsbad, California
Understanding the Pharmacokinetics and Pharmacodynamics of an Antisense Therapeutic:
From Bench to Bedside
Monday, January 29, 2007
Liangyou Rui, Ph.D.
Assistant Professor
Department of Molecular and Integrative Physiology
University of Michigan Medical School
Ann Arbor, Michigan
SH2B Regulation of Energy and Glucose Metabolism by Enhancing Leptin and Insulin Sensitivity
Friday, January 26, 2007
Micaela B. Reddy, Ph.D.
Research Scientist
Roche Palo Alto LLC
Palo Alto, California
Prospects for the Application of PBPK Modeling in Drug Development
Thursday, January 11, 2007