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Jan 1st, 2013 (Tue)
  Institutional Review Board Mtg
IRB meeting every Tuesday.
Biomedical Research Center, Building One, Room 205/207.

Note: The deadline for submitting protocol materials for IRB review is 4:30 p.m., two weeks prior to the meeting date.
Jan 8th, 2013 (Tue)
  Institutional Review Board Mtg
IRB meeting every Tuesday.
Biomedical Research Center, Building One, Room 205/207.

Note: The deadline for submitting protocol materials for IRB review is 4:30 p.m., two weeks prior to the meeting date.
Jan 9th, 2013 (Wed)
3:30 PM - 5:00 PM
  Pharmacology/Toxicology Seminar Series
Dr. Maria Schuller, Ph.D.
Associate Professor
UAMS-Department of Internal Medicine Endocrinology

Title: "Aging Mechanisms in Bone: Oxidative Stress and FoxOs"

Biomedical Research Building II, Rayford Auditorium, Room 106-2
Jan 10th, 2013 (Thu)
12:00 PM - 1:00 PM
  URC monthly meeting
UAMS Research Committee (2 designated representatives from each college) meets to discuss research support, policy, and other concerns.

Location: Jones Eye Institute, 2nd floor conference room, #J227

For more information, contact: Linda Williams, Research Liaison, 501-686-7418, ldwilliams@uams.edu
Jan 11th, 2013 (Fri)
1:00 PM - 3:00 PM
  Dissertation Defense - Lisa Brents, B.S.
Lisa Brents, B.S.
Doctor of Philosophy Candidate
Interdisciplinary Toxicology Graduate Program

“Active Metabolites and Drug -Drug Interactions of the
Synthetic Cannabinoids
JWH-018 and JWH-073 at the
Cannabinoid 1 Receptor "

Advisor:
Dr. Paul Prather

Friday, January 11, 2013
1:00 p.m.

Rayford Auditorium
Biomedical Research Center II, Room 106-2
Jan 14th, 2013 (Mon)
2:00 PM - 3:00 PM
  Nasim Khan's Master of Science Thesis Defense
Rayford Auditorium
Biomedical Research Center 2, Room 106-2

Contact: Jessica Macchi, 501-686-5510
Jan 15th, 2013 (Tue)
  Institutional Review Board Mtg
IRB meeting every Tuesday.
Biomedical Research Center, Building One, Room 205/207.

Note: The deadline for submitting protocol materials for IRB review is 4:30 p.m., two weeks prior to the meeting date.
Jan 16th, 2013 (Wed)
3:30 PM - 4:30 PM
  Pharmacology & Toxicology Seminar
Jon Dranoff, MD
Jerome S. Levy Professor of Medicine
Director, Division of Gastroenterology & Hepatology
UAMS

Presenting: "Calcium and CaMK II as Target for Liver Fibrosis"

Wednesday, January 16th at 3:30 p.m.
Rayford Auditorium
Biomedical Research Center 2, Room 106-2
Jan 17th, 2013 (Thu)
1:30 PM - 2:50 PM
  Department of Microbiology and Immunology
Matthew Welch Ph.D.
Professor
Molecular and Cell Biology
University of California, Berkeley

"Mobilization of the actin cytoskeleton by bacterial pathogens"

Biomedical Research Building II, Rayford Auditorium, Room 106-2
Jan 17th, 2013 (Thu)
3:00 PM - 4:00 PM
  Physiology and Biophysics Weekly Seminar Series
Richard C. Kurten, Ph.D., UAMS Associate Professor
Department of Physiology and Biophysics

Title: “Human Airway Bronchodilation Ex Vivo”

Biomedical Research Center II, Rayford Auditorium Room 106-2
Jan 22nd, 2013 (Tue)
  Institutional Review Board Mtg
IRB meeting every Tuesday.
Biomedical Research Center, Building One, Room 205/207.

Note: The deadline for submitting protocol materials for IRB review is 4:30 p.m., two weeks prior to the meeting date.
Jan 23rd, 2013 (Wed)
3:30 PM - 4:30 AM
  Pharmacology & Toxicology Seminar
Bill Hogan, MD, MS
Associate Professor and Chief
Division of Biomedical Informatics
UAMS

Presenting: TBA

Wednesday, January 23rd at 3:30 p.m.
Rayford Auditorium
Biomedical Research Center 2, Room 106-2
Jan 24th, 2013 (Thu)
3:00 PM - 4:00 AM
  Physiology and Biophysics Weekly Seminar Series
Marie-Helene Lafage-Proust, Ph.D., Professor
University of St. Etienne, Lyon, France

Title: "Bone Vascularization and Bone Remodeling"

Biomedical Research Center II, Rayford Auditorium Room 106-2
Jan 29th, 2013 (Tue)
  Institutional Review Board Mtg
IRB meeting every Tuesday.
Biomedical Research Center, Building One, Room 205/207.

Note: The deadline for submitting protocol materials for IRB review is 4:30 p.m., two weeks prior to the meeting date.
Jan 30th, 2013 (Wed)
12:00 PM - 1:00 PM
  UCVC Seminar Series
UCVC Seminar Series
Alan Daugherty, Ph.D., D.Sc.
Professor of Medicine and Physiology, Senior Associate Dean for Research, Gill Foundation Chair for Preventive Cardiology, and Director of Saha Cardiovascular Center, University of Kentucky

"Novel roles of the renin angiotensin system in vascular and metabolic disorders"
Thursday, January 30 @ Noon
Education II, G137
Jan 30th, 2013 (Wed)
3:30 PM - 5:00 PM
  Pharmacology/Toxicology Seminar Series
Dr. Joseph Stimers, Ph.D.
Professor
UAMS-Department of Pharmacology and Toxicology

“Long QT Syndrome. What is it and what can we do about it?”

Biomedical Research Building II, Rayford Auditorium, Room 106-2
Jan 31st, 2013 (Thu)
1:30 PM - 2:50 PM
  Department of Microbiology and Immunology
Robert Kaletja, Ph.D.
Associate Professor
Molecular Virology and Oncology
University of Wisconsin-Madison

"Intrinsic Cellular Defenses & Human Cytomegalovirus Replication."

Biomedical Research Building II, Rayford Auditorium, Room 106-2
Feb 4th, 2013 (Mon)
1:30 PM - 2:50 PM
  Department of Microbiology and Immunology seminar
Kristi Frank Ph.D. Faculty Candidate
Post Doctoral Associate
Department of Microbiology
University of Minnesota

"When a commensal becomes a pathogen: gene expression and virulence mechanisms in Enterococcus faecalis biofilm-associated infections"

Biomedical Science Building II, Rayford Auditorium, Room 106-2
Feb 5th, 2013 (Tue)
  Institutional Review Board Mtg
IRB meeting every Tuesday.
Biomedical Research Center, Building One, Room 205/207.

Note: The deadline for submitting protocol materials for IRB review is 4:30 p.m., two weeks prior to the meeting date.
Feb 5th, 2013 (Tue)
12:00 PM - 1:00 PM
  Neurobiology and Developmental Sciences
Larry Suva, Ph.D.
Professor of Orthopaedics and Physiology and Biophysics
Department of Orthopaedic Surgery, UAMS

Title: TBA

Rayford Auditorium, Room 106-2
Biomedical Research Building 2
Feb 5th, 2013 (Tue)
4:00 PM - 5:00 PM
  COPH Health Research, Policy and Health Promotion Conference
The Department of Biostatistics will host the COPH Health Research, Policy and Health Promotion Conference.
Tuesday, February 5, 2013, 4:00-5:00pm in COPH 2280.
The speaker will be Estelle Russek-Cohen, PhD.
Director of the Biostatistics Division of the Center for Biologics Evaluation and Research (CBER) - FDA.
The topic of discussion will be: "A Statistician's Perspective of Personalized Medicine".

Please mark your calendar to attend!
Feb 5th, 2013 (Tue)
4:00 PM - 5:00 PM
  UCVC Research Updates
UAMS CardioVascular Center Research Updates

"Identification and Preclinical Evaluation of New Therapeutic Targets to Treat Sepsis-Induced Kidney Injury"
Dr. Philip Mayeux

Biomedical Research I, B300
4:00 - 5:00 p.m.
Feb 6th, 2013 (Wed)
3:30 AM - 5:00 PM
  Pharmacology/Toxicology Seminar Series
Krishna Kannan PhD
Dept of Internal Medicine / Division of Rheumatology
UAMS, Little Rock.

"Role of ‘Inflammasome’ in Sterile Inflammation: Special emphasis on Arthritis and Heart Diseases"

Biomed II Rayford Auditorium, Room 106
Feb 7th, 2013 (Thu)
1:30 PM - 2:50 PM
  Department of Microbiology and Immunology
Joseph Graham
Graduate Student
Department of Microbiology and Immunology
UAMS

“Parasitism of Primary Human Alveolar Macrophages by Virulent Coxiella burnetii"

Biomedical Research Building II, Rayford Auditorium. Room 106-2
Feb 12th, 2013 (Tue)
  Institutional Review Board Mtg
IRB meeting every Tuesday.
Biomedical Research Center, Building One, Room 205/207.

Note: The deadline for submitting protocol materials for IRB review is 4:30 p.m., two weeks prior to the meeting date.
Feb 14th, 2013 (Thu)
12:00 PM - 1:00 PM
  URC monthly meeting
UAMS Research Committee (2 designated representatives from each college) meets to discuss research support, policy, and other concerns.

Location: Jones Eye Institute, 2nd floor conference room, #J227

For more information, contact: Linda Williams, Research Liaison, 501-686-7418, ldwilliams@uams.edu
Feb 19th, 2013 (Tue)
  Institutional Review Board Mtg
IRB meeting every Tuesday.
Biomedical Research Center, Building One, Room 205/207.

Note: The deadline for submitting protocol materials for IRB review is 4:30 p.m., two weeks prior to the meeting date.
Feb 19th, 2013 (Tue)
4:00 PM - 5:00 PM
  UCVC Research Updates
UAMS CardioVascular Center Research Updates

Zufeng Ding, Ph.D., Postdoctoral Fellow, Division of Cardiology
"LOX-1, mitochondrial DNA, Autophagy and Inflammation"

Biomedical Research I, Room B300
Feb 20th, 2013 (Wed)
12:00 PM - 1:00 PM
  UCVC Seminar Series
UAMS Cardiovascular Center Seminar Series
in conjunction with Cardiology Grand Rounds

Michael Borrelli, Ph.D.
"The Physics, Physiology and Clinical Applications of Sonothrombolysis”

Education II, Room G137

Lunch provided to first 50 attendees
Feb 20th, 2013 (Wed)
1:00 PM - 2:00 PM
  Physiology and Biophysics - John Whitney Memorial Lecture
JOHN S. ADAMS, M.D., David Geffen School of Medicine at UCLA
Founding Director, Orthopaedic Hospital Research Center
Associate Director, Clinical Translational Science Institute
Professor, UCLA Orthopaedic Surgery, Medicine and Molecular, Cell and Developmental Biology

TITLE: “Vitamin D: Escape from the World of Endocrinology”

Education Two Building, Room G131 A/B
Feb 21st, 2013 (Thu)
3:00 PM - 4:00 PM
  Physiology and Biophysics Weekly Seminar Series
JOHN S. ADAMS, M.D., David Geffen School of Medicine at UCLA
Founding Director, Orthopaedic Hospital Research Center
Associate Director, Clinical Translational Science Institute
Professor, UCLA Orthopaedic Surgery, Medicine and Molecular, Cell and Developmental Biology

TITLE: “Immunobiology of Vitamin D”

Rayford Auditorium, Room 106-2, Biomedical Research Center II
Feb 26th, 2013 (Tue)
  Institutional Review Board Mtg
IRB meeting every Tuesday.
Biomedical Research Center, Building One, Room 205/207.

Note: The deadline for submitting protocol materials for IRB review is 4:30 p.m., two weeks prior to the meeting date.
Feb 27th, 2013 (Wed)
4:00 PM - 5:30 PM
  Showcase of Medical Discoveries - Nanomedicine
Reception featuring UAMS investigators discussing their research and discoveries. Intended to foster communication and collaboration between investigators and increase awareness of the exciting nanomedicine research at UAMS.

Location: Winthrop P. Rockefeller Cancer Institute, 10th floor rotunda.

For more information, contact Linda Williams, Research Liaison, 501-686-7418, ldwilliams@uams.edu
Feb 28th, 2013 (Thu)
1:30 PM - 2:50 PM
  Department of Microbiology and Immunology
Courteney Sulentic, Ph.D.
Associate Professor
Department of Pharmacology and Toxicology
Wright State University
Ohio

"Transcriptional Regulation of the Immunoglobulin Heavy Chain Gene: A Novel Target of Exogenous Chemicals?"

Biomedical Research Building II, Rayford Auditorium, Room 106-2
Feb 28th, 2013 (Thu)
3:00 PM - 4:00 PM
  Physiology and Biophysics Weekly Seminar Series
Susan Kadlubar, Ph.D.
UAMS Winthrop P. Rockefeller Cancer Institute
Associate Professor, Division of Medical Genetics
Co-Director, Genomics Core
Co-Program Leader, Cancer Control & Population Sciences

Title: "Pharmacogenomics of SULT1A1"

Biomedical Research Center Two, Rayford Auditorium, Room 106-2
Mar 5th, 2013 (Tue)
  Institutional Review Board Mtg
IRB meeting every Tuesday.
Biomedical Research Center, Building One, Room 205/207.

Note: The deadline for submitting protocol materials for IRB review is 4:30 p.m., two weeks prior to the meeting date.
Mar 5th, 2013 (Tue)
12:00 PM - 1:00 PM
  RESIN
Monthly Research Support Information Network (RESIN) hosts 5-7 minute updates from research support personnel (e.g., IRB, grants accounting, ORSP, Library, COI, Bioventures, etc.) followed by Q&A.

Location: Walton Auditorium, 10th floor, Winthrop P. Rockefeller Cancer Institute.

For more information or to present, contact: Linda Williams, Research Liaison, 501-686-7418, ldwilliams@uams.edu
Mar 5th, 2013 (Tue)
12:00 PM - 1:00 PM
  Neurobiology and Developmental Sciences
LaShundra N. Watson, M.D.
Instructor, Department of Neurobiology and
Developmental Sciences

Title: "Reflections, case-studies, and clinical experiences
gained from a two-month sponsored externship in Ghana"

Rayford Auditorium, Rom 106-2
Biomedical Research Building 2
Mar 5th, 2013 (Tue)
12:00 PM - 1:00 PM
  Biostatistics Journal Club
The Department of Biostatistics will host Journal Club on Tuesday, March 5, 2013, 12p-1p in COPH 2280.
The speaker will be Ralph L. Kodell, PhD: Professor, UAMS - Department of Biostatistics.
The topic of discussion will be "Subpopulation-specific Confidence Designation for More Informative Biomedical Classification".

Please mark your calendar to attend!
Mar 5th, 2013 (Tue)
4:00 PM - 5:00 PM
  UCVC Research Updates
UAMS CardioVascular Center Research Updates

"New Studies on Lymph Vessles in the Rusch Lab: Can We Identify Mechanisms of Drug-Induced Lymphedema?"

Nancy Rusch, Ph.D., Professor and Chair
Dept of Pharmacology and Toxicology

Biomedical Research I, Room B300
Mar 6th, 2013 (Wed)
12:00 PM - 1:00 PM
  UCVC Seminar Series
UAMS CardioVascular Center Seminar Series

Michael S. Sturek, Ph.D.
Professor and Chair, Dept of Cellular and Integrative Physiology
Indiana State University
"Coronary Smooth Muscle CA2+ Dysregulation in Metabolic Syndrome and Diabetes"

Education II, Room G137
Lunch provided to first 50 attendees
Mar 7th, 2013 (Thu)
12:00 PM - 1:00 PM
  Committee on Clinical Research
Vice Chancellor for Research's monthly meeting of clinical scientists and research support personnel. Chaired by Brooks Gentry, M.D.

Location: Hamlen Boardroom, Stephens Spine Institute, 12th floor.

For more information, contact Linda Williams, Research Liaison, 501-686-7418 or ldwilliams@uams.edu
Mar 7th, 2013 (Thu)
3:00 PM - 4:00 PM
  Physiology and Biophysics Weekly Seminar Series
Y. Lucy Liu, M.D., Ph.D., Assistant Professor
Winthrop P. Rockefeller Cancer Institute
Department of Internal Medicine
Division of Hematology and Oncology
UAMS, College of Medicine

Title: “Translational Research on Juvenile Myelomonocytic Leukemia (JMML)”

Biomedical Research Center Two, Rayford Auditorium, Room 106-2
Mar 12th, 2013 (Tue)
  Institutional Review Board Mtg
IRB meeting every Tuesday.
Biomedical Research Center, Building One, Room 205/207.

Note: The deadline for submitting protocol materials for IRB review is 4:30 p.m., two weeks prior to the meeting date.
Mar 12th, 2013 (Tue)
12:00 PM - 1:00 PM
  Neurobiology and Developmental Sciences
Nalina S. Bora, PhD
Bernice Y. Jones Professor of Ophthalmology
Vice Chair for Research, Department of Ophthalmology
Professor of Microbiology and Immunology, UAMS

Title: "Manipulation of the Complement System for the
Treatment of Ocular Diseases"

Rayford Auditorium, Room 106-2
Biomedical Research Building 2
Mar 13th, 2013 (Wed)
3:30 PM - 5:00 PM
  2012-2013 Pharmacology and Toxicology Seminar Series
Annette Fleckenstein, Ph.D.
Professor
University of Utah
Department of Pharmacology and Toxicology

Title: “Psychostimulant-induced Alterations in Monoamine
Transporters: Implications for Neurotoxicity
and Neuroprotection”
Mar 14th, 2013 (Thu)
12:00 PM - 1:00 PM
  URC monthly meeting
UAMS Research Committee (2 designated representatives from each college) meets to discuss research support, policy, and other concerns.

Location: Jones Eye Institute, 2nd floor conference room, #J227

For more information, contact: Linda Williams, Research Liaison, 501-686-7418, ldwilliams@uams.edu
Mar 14th, 2013 (Thu)
1:30 PM - 2:50 PM
  Department of Microbiology and Immunology Seminar
Dr. John Leong
Chair and Professor
Department of Molecular Biology and Microbiology
Tufts University School of Medicine

"Pathogen-Host Interactions at Mucosal Surfaces that Promote Systemic Disease ”

Rayford Auditorium, Biomedical Research Building 2, Room 106-2
Mar 19th, 2013 (Tue)
  Institutional Review Board Mtg
IRB meeting every Tuesday.
Biomedical Research Center, Building One, Room 205/207.

Note: The deadline for submitting protocol materials for IRB review is 4:30 p.m., two weeks prior to the meeting date.
Mar 19th, 2013 (Tue)
12:00 PM - 1:00 PM
  ALS in a Dish - Distinguished Lecture Series
"ALS in a Dish: From Stem Cell Programming to Disease Modeling"

Speaker: Hynek Wichterle, PhD, Assoc. Prof. Pathology & Cell Biology, Neuroscience, Neurology, Columbia Univ., NY

Location: Rayford Auditorium, BioMed II, 1st floor.

For more information, contact: Kristin Staggers, kgstaggers@uams.edu
Mar 19th, 2013 (Tue)
4:00 PM - 5:00 PM
  COPH Health Research, Policy and Health Promotion Conference
The Department of Biostatistics will host the COPH Health Research, Policy and Health Promotion Conference.
Tuesday, March 19, 2013, 4:00-5:00pm in COPH 2280.
The speaker will be Page Moore, PhD.
Assistant Professor, Department of Biostatistics, University of Arkansas for Medical Sciences.
The topic of discussion will be: "The Delta Garden Study - Addressing Childhood Obesity Through School Gardens and Core Curriculum".

Please mark your calendar to attend!
Mar 20th, 2013 (Wed)
8:00 AM - 5:30 PM
  Deadline for SRD abstract submisson
Student Research Day is April 10, 2013. The deadline for the abstract submission is Wednesday, March 20, 2013.

Contact Linda Williams for questions or further details. 501-686-7418, ldwilliams@uams.edu
Mar 25th, 2013 (Mon)
10:30 AM - 11:30 AM
  IBS Student Choice Speaker
Guest Speaker Gabriele Bergers, Ph.D.
University of California, San Francisco
Seminar: “Dialogue Between the Tumor Cell and Host Component in Tumor Progression and Resistance.”
College of Public Health Room 8/240 Auditorium.
Mar 25th, 2013 (Mon)
1:30 PM - 2:50 PM
  Department of Microbiology and Immunology
John Cho, Ph.D. - Faculty Candidate
Postdoctoral Fellow
Department of Medicine, Division of Dermatology
University of California, Los Angeles
Los Angeles, CA

"Host defense mechanisms against Staphylococcus aureus skin infection"

Biomedical Research Building II, Rayford Auditorium, Room 106-2
Mar 26th, 2013 (Tue)
  Institutional Review Board Mtg
IRB meeting every Tuesday.
Biomedical Research Center, Building One, Room 205/207.

Note: The deadline for submitting protocol materials for IRB review is 4:30 p.m., two weeks prior to the meeting date.
Mar 26th, 2013 (Tue)
12:00 PM - 2:00 PM
  CLARA Training
Training for CLARA, the new research administration system, is underway. Initial sessions will provide an overview of the new system and an introduction to study submission.

Tuesday, March 26th; Noon – 2 PM; COPH G219 Pauly Auditorium

We will offer more open classes, and an online version of the training, in April. We will also provide small group training for departments/divisions. To schedule small group training, or for other questions related to CLARA, contact:

Kate Henning, PhD
CLARA Coordinator
khenning2@uams.edu
501-526-6243
Mar 27th, 2013 (Wed)
10:00 AM - 12:00 AM
  CLARA Training
Training for CLARA, the new research administration system, is underway. Initial sessions will provide an overview of the new system and an introduction to study submission.

Wednesday, March 27th; 10 AM – Noon; Biomed II Rayford Auditorium

We will offer more open classes, and an online version of the training, in April. We will also provide small group training for departments/divisions. To schedule small group training, or for other questions related to CLARA, contact:

Kate Henning, PhD
CLARA Coordinator
khenning2@uams.edu
501-526-6243
Mar 28th, 2013 (Thu)
1:00 PM - 3:00 PM
  CLARA Training
Training for CLARA, the new research administration system, is underway. Initial sessions will provide an overview of the new system and an introduction to study submission.

Thursday, March 28th; 1 PM – 3 PM; COPH 8240 Auditorium

We will offer more open classes, and an online version of the training, in April. We will also provide small group training for departments/divisions. To schedule small group training, or for other questions related to CLARA, contact:

Kate Henning, PhD
CLARA Coordinator
khenning2@uams.edu
501-526-6243
Mar 28th, 2013 (Thu)
3:00 PM - 4:00 PM
  Physiology and Biophysics Weekly Seminar Series
Anna Spagnoli, M.D., Professor of Pediatrics
Chief of Pediatric Endocrinology Division
Director of Pediatric Bone Clinic
Associate Professor of Biomedical Engineering
Associate Professor of Cell and Developmental Biology
University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill

Title: "Mesenchymal Stromal Cells in Fracture Repair: Lessons from Knock-out Mice"

Biomedical Research Center Two, Rayford Auditorium Room 106-2