Mitochondrial Research Interest Group, URMC

Seminars and Monthly Meetings

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Seminars

Thursday, April 10, 2008

9:00-10:00 a.m.
Fenn Room (Room 4-6325)

Gary Bennett, Ph.D.
Professor and Canada Senior Research Chair
Faculty of Dentistry and Dept. of Anesthesia, Director of Pain Research, MUHC Pain Centre, and Associate Member, Dept. of Neurology and Neurosurgery, McGill University, Montreal, Quebec, Canada

"The role of mitochondria in chemotherapy-evoked neuropathy "

MRIG Journal Club Meetings

The Journal Club Meetings of the MRIG are scheduled for the first and third Wednesdays of the month at 4:00 p.m. in the Fenn Room.

Please contact Paul_Brookes@urmc.rochester.edu for full details.

*MRIG seminars are the same time and place and will take precedence over journal club meetings.

This meeting is open to faculty, trainees, and research staff.

Past Seminars for 2005

To view seminars for 2002, click here.
To view seminars for 2003, click here.
To view seminars for 2004, click here.

January 19, 2005	Salvatore Alesci, M.D., Ph.D. Staff Scientist (VP), Clinical Neuroendocrinology Branch, National Institutes of Health "hMiDas and hMitChip: New Perspectives in Mitochondrial Medicine, Bioinformatics and Pharmacogenomics"
February 9, 2005	Dr. Uwe Schlattner Institute of Cell Biology, Swiss Federal Institute of Technology "A Story of Buffers, Gauges and Switches: Kinases in Cellular Energy Homeostasis"
May 19, 2005	Masao Takata, M.D., Ph.D. Senior Lecturer, Department of Anaesthetics and Intensitve Care Imperial College London Chelsea and Westminster Hospital "Molecular Signaling of TNF in Lung Injury"
September 7, 2005	Jiang Zheng, Ph.D. Assistant Professor of Medicinal Chemistry and Toxicology Department of Pharmaceutical Services Northeastern University "Targeting Glutathione S-transferase: A Strategy to Combat Chemotherapy Resistance "
October 20, 2005	Varda Shoshan-Barmatz, Ph.D. Professor and Chair, Department of Life Sciences and Zlotowski Center for Neuroscience Ben-Gurion University of the Negev, Beer Sheva, Israel "The Voltage-dependent Anion Channel Down- and Over-Expression Controls Life and Death of the Cell"
April 20, 2006	Leif Olson, Ph.D. Eastman Kodak Research Laboratories "OH, NO, ONOONO"
April 24, 2006	Baogen Wu, Ph.D. Principal Investigator, Genomics Institute of Novartis Research Foundation "Discovery of novel non-nucleoside reverse transcriptase inhibitors to treat HIV infection"
November 2, 2006	Gail V.W. Johnson, Ph.D. Professor, Departments of Psychiatry & Neurobiology, Cell Biology, Pharmacology & Physiology; Scientist, Center for Aging, University of Alabama at Birmingham "Delineating the Effects of Mutant Huntingtin on Mitochondria"
November 9, 2006	Gary Bennett, Ph.D. Professor and Canada Senior Research Chair, Faculty of Dentistry and Dept. of Anesthesia, Director of Pain Research, MUHC Pain Centre, and Associate Member, Dept. of Neurology and Neurosurgery, McGill University, Montreal, Quebec, Canada "Mechanisms of Chemotherapy-evoked Painful Peripheral Neuropathy"
October 1, 2007	Paolo Bernardi, Ph.D. Professor and Director, Department of Biomedical Sciences, University of Padova, Padova, Italy "Towards a Mitochondrial Therapy of Collagen VI Muscular Dystrophies"
October 4, 2007	Karl A. Kasischke, M.D. Research Assistant Professor, Department of Neurological Surgery, Center for Neural Development and Disease "Molecular Imaging of Mitochondrial Function and Oxygen Diffusion in the Intact Rodent CNS Using Emerging Technologies in Multiphoton Microscopy"
April 10, 2008	Gary Bennett, Ph.D. Professor and Canada Senior Research Chair, Faculty of Dentistry and Dept. of Anesthesia, Director of Pain Research, MUHC Pain Centre, and Associate Member, Dept. of Neurology and Neurosurgery, McGill University, Montreal, Quebec "The role of mitochondria in chemotherapy-evoked neuropathy"