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Oct 2nd, 2012 (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.
Oct 2nd, 2012 (Tue)
12:00 PM - 1:00 PM
  Neurobiology and Developmental Sciences
Pao-Fen Tsai, Ph.D., RN
Associate Professor, Department of Nursing
COM UAMS and
Jason Y. Chang, Ph.D.
Associate Professor, Department of Neurobiology and
Development Sciences, COM UAMS

Title: "A Pilot Cluster Randomized Trial of a 20-Week Tai Chi Program in elders with Cognitive Impairment and Osteoarthritic Knee: Effects on Pain and Health Outcomes"

Rayford Auditorium, Room 106-2
Biomedical Research Building 2
Oct 2nd, 2012 (Tue)
12:00 PM - 1:00 PM
  Biostatistics Journal Club
The Department of Biostatistics will host Journal Club on Tuesday, October 2, 2012, 12p-1p in COPH 2280.
The speaker will be Reid D. Landes, PhD: Associate Professor, UAMS - Department of Biostatistics.
The topic of discussion will be "Recommendations for Estimators of LD50 and Dose Reduction Factors in Animal Lethality Studies".

Please mark your calendar to attend!
Oct 2nd, 2012 (Tue)
12:00 PM - 1:00 PM
  RESIN (Research Support Information Network)
The Research Support Information Network (RESIN) agenda is posted at: http://www.uams.edu/research/RESIN_Agenda.asp

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

For more information, contact: Linda Williams, 686-7418, ldwilliams@uams.edu
Oct 2nd, 2012 (Tue)
12:00 PM - 1:00 PM
  Neurobiology and Developmental Sciences
Pao-Fen Tsai, Ph.D., RN
Associate Professor, Department of Nursing
COM UAMS and
Jason Y. Chang, Ph.D.
Associate Professor, Department of Neurobiology and
Development Sciences, COM UAMS

Title: "A Pilot Cluster Randomized Trial of a 20-Week Tai Chi Program in elders with Cognitive Impairment and Osteoarthritic Knee: Effects on Pain and Health Outcomes"

Rayford Auditorium, Room 106-2
Biomedical Research Building 2
Oct 2nd, 2012 (Tue)
4:00 PM - 5:00 PM
  UCVC Research Updates
UAMS CardioVascular Center
Research Interest Group

MicroRNAs and Post-MI-Fibrosis
Presented by: Dai Yao, Research Assistant, Division of Cardiology

Tuesday, October 2
4:00 p.m.
Biomedical Research I, Room B300
Oct 4th, 2012 (Thu)
11:00 AM - 12:00 PM
  MD/PhD Fourth Annual Students' Choice Seminar
Anthony G. Letai, M.D., Ph.D.
Assistant Professor of Medicine
Dana-Farber Cancer Institute
Harvard Medical School

presenting

“Mitochondria: Cancer’s Crystal Ball”

October 4th, 2012 @ 11:00 a.m.

Sam Walton Auditorium
Cancer Institute, Room 1026
Oct 4th, 2012 (Thu)
1:30 PM - 2:50 PM
  Department of Microbiology and Immunology
Luis Martinez, PhD
Assistant Professor
Dept. of Biomedical Sciences
Long Island University
Brookville, New york

"Impact of Methamphetamine on Infection and Immunity".

Biomedical Research Building II, Rayford Auditorium, Room 106-2
Oct 4th, 2012 (Thu)
3:00 PM - 4:00 PM
  Physiology and Biophysics Weekly Seminar Series
Roy Morello, Ph.D., Assistant Professor 
UAMS Department of Physiology and Biophysics

Title: “Leprecan Genes and Their Role in Bone Homeostasis and Disease”

Biomedical Research Center II, Rayford Auditorium Room 106-2
Oct 9th, 2012 (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.
Oct 11th, 2012 (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
Oct 11th, 2012 (Thu)
3:00 PM - 4:00 PM
  Physiology and Biophysics Rayford Memorial Seminar
Laurence J. Miller, M.D., Mayo Clinic
Professor of Medicine, Biochemistry and Molecular Biology
Primary Appointment: Gastroenterology and Hepatology
Joint Appointment: Biochemistry and Pharmacology

Title: "Rational drug development as new focus of GI endocrinology. Insights using the secretin receptor as prototypic class B GPCR"

Biomedical Research Center Two, Rayford Auditorium, Room 106-2
Oct 16th, 2012 (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.
Oct 23rd, 2012 (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.
Oct 30th, 2012 (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.
Oct 30th, 2012 (Tue)
12:00 PM - 1:00 PM
  Electron Consent for Research - webinar
Electronic Consent for Research (webinar)

Time: 12:00 -1:0

Date: October 30, 2012

Location: TBA
Oct 30th, 2012 (Tue)
12:00 PM - 1:00 PM
  Neurobiology and Developmental Sciences
Alvaro G. Estevez, Ph.D.
Associate Professor
Burnett School of Biomedical Sciences
University of Central Florida

Title:"Nitrative Stress-induced Apoptosis: One Residue is Enough"

Rayford Auditorium, 106-2
Biomedical Research Building 2
Nov 1st, 2012 (Thu)
1:30 PM - 2:30 PM
  Department of Microbiology & Immunology
Laura MacDonald
UAMS Grad Student

"The dual role of cAMP-Dependent Protein Kinase in Coxiella burnetti Infection of Macrophages"

Rayford Auditorium
Bio Med 2
Room 106-2
Nov 1st, 2012 (Thu)
3:00 PM - 4:00 PM
  Physiology and Biophysics Weekly Seminar Series
Robert J. Griffin, Ph.D., Associate Professor
Director of Radiation Biology Division
Department of Radiation Oncology
College of Medicine, UAMS

Title: “Tumor Biology and Determinants of Radiation Response”

Biomedical Research Center II, Rayford Auditorium Room 106-2
Nov 6th, 2012 (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.
Nov 6th, 2012 (Tue)
12:00 PM - 1:00 PM
  RESIN - Protecting Research & Intellectual Property
FBI & the Academic Community: Protecting Research & Intellectual Property
Presented by: Randall Coleman, Special Agent in Charge, Little Rock Div. of the FBI

Research Support Infor. Network (RESIN) agenda at: http://www.uams.edu/research/RESIN_Agenda.asp

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

For more information, contact: Linda Williams, 686-7418, ldwilliams@uams.edu
Nov 6th, 2012 (Tue)
12:00 PM - 1:00 PM
  Biostatistics Journal Club
The Department of Biostatistics will host Journal Club on Tuesday, November 6, 2012, 12p-1p in COPH 2280.
The speaker will be Jeannette Y. Lee, PhD: Professor, UAMS - Department of Biostatistics.
The topic of discussion will be "Use of the SEER-Medicare Database to Assess Prevalence and Treatment Outcomes of HIV-infected Lung Cancer Patients".

Please mark your calendar to attend!
Nov 8th, 2012 (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
Nov 8th, 2012 (Thu)
1:30 PM - 2:30 PM
  Department of Microbiology and Immunology
Ashley Groshong
UAMS Grad Student

"Identification and characterization of two possible virulence determinants of Borrelia burgdorferi"

Rayford Auditorium
Bio Med 2
Room 106-2
Nov 8th, 2012 (Thu)
3:00 PM - 4:00 PM
  Physiology and Biophysics Weekly Seminar Series
Giulia Baldini, M.D., Ph.D., Associate Professor
Department of Biochemistry and Molecular Biology
UAMS College of Medicine

Title: “Melanocortin-4 Receptor traffic and function and possible avenues to control food intake”

Biomedical Research Center II, Rayford Auditorium Room 106-2
Nov 9th, 2012 (Fri)
12:00 PM - 1:00 PM
  Department of Biochemistry & Molecular Biology - Student Seminar Series
Robert M. Brosh, PhD
Senior Investigator and Chief, Section on DNA Helicases
Laboratory of Molecular Gerontology
National Institute on Aging, NIH
Bethesda, MD

Presenting:

“Molecular-Genetic Mechanisms of DNA Helicases
Implicated in Premature Aging and Cancer Syndromes.”

Location:
Rayford Auditorium, Room 106-2
Biomedical Research Center II

For more information, please contact:
Kahla Robinson
KNRobinson@uams.edu
686-5196
Nov 13th, 2012 (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.
Nov 13th, 2012 (Tue)
12:00 PM - 1:00 PM
  Department of Neurobiology and Developmental Sciences
Patricia Wight, PhD
Professor, Department of Physiology and Biophysics
College of Medicine

Title: "An intronic enhancer is essential for myelin proteolipid protein gene expression in the CNS and PNS. Is Sox10 the
key Modulator?"

Rayford Auditorium, Room 106-2
Biomedical Research Building
Nov 14th, 2012 (Wed)
3:30 PM - 5:00 PM
  Pharmacology/Toxicology Seminar Series
Dr. Fang Zheng, Ph.D.
Associate Professor
UAMS-Dept. of Pharmacology and Toxicology

“New Insights into Seizures and Excitotoxic Neuronal Cell Death.”

Biomedical Research Building II
Rayford Auditorium, Room 106-2
Nov 15th, 2012 (Thu)
3:00 PM - 4:00 PM
  Physiology and Biophysics Weekly Seminar Series
Sue,Griffin, PhD, Professor
Director, Center on Aging, UAMS

Title: "Alzheimer Pathogenesis and Neuroinflammation"

Biomedical Research Center II , Rayford Auditorium Room 106-2
Nov 16th, 2012 (Fri)
12:00 AM - 1:00 PM
  Malaria Studies in Bangladesh
Full Title: Malaria Studies in Bangladesh: a Perspective from the ICDDR,B

Speaker: Mohammad Shafiul Alam

Title: Assistant Scientist, Parasitology Research Group, Dhaka, Bangladesh

Departments Hosted by: Dept of Neurobiology & Developmental Sciences & Office of Global Health

Location: Rayford Auditorium, Room 106-2 Biomed Research Bldg. 2

For more information contact: Dr. Helen Beneš (686-5782 or 786-4568)
Nov 20th, 2012 (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.
Nov 20th, 2012 (Tue)
4:00 PM - 5:00 PM
  UCVC Research Updates
UCVC Research Updates
"Regulation of Class A Scavenger receptor function: Does the location matter?"
Presenter: Shanthi Vadali (Ph.D. Candidate, Dept of Pharmacology & Toxicology)

Tuesday, November 20, 2012
4:00 p.m.
Biomedical Reesarch I, Room B300
Nov 27th, 2012 (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.
Nov 28th, 2012 (Wed)
4:00 PM - 5:30 PM
  UAMS College of Medicine Series: Showcase of Medical Discoveries
UAMS College of Medicine Series
Showcase of Medical Discoveries: A focus on Cardiovascular Research

Wednesday, November 28, 2012
4:00 - 5:30 p.m.
Winthrop P. Rockefeller Cancer Institute Rotunda (10th floor)

For more information: Pam Kahler (526.7358)
Nov 28th, 2012 (Wed)
4:00 PM - 5:30 PM
  Showcase of Medical Discoveries - Cardiovascular
Reception featuring UAMS investigators discussing their research and discoveries. Intended to foster communication and collaboration between investigators and increase awareness of the exciting cardiovascular 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
Nov 29th, 2012 (Thu)
1:30 PM - 2:30 PM
  Department of Microbiology and Immunology
Eduardo Salinas
UAMS Grad Student

Title: "Elucidating the molecular mechanisms that regulate LANA function during murine gammaherpesvirus-68 infection"

Rayford Auditorium
Bio Med 2
Room 106-2
Nov 29th, 2012 (Thu)
3:00 PM - 4:00 PM
  Physiology and Biophysics Weekly Seminar Series
Mark Smeltzer, Ph.D., Professor
Department of Microbiology & Immunology and Department of Orthopaedics, UAMS College of Medicine

Title: "Nanotechnology: a tiny solution to the big problem of staphylococcal biofilm associated infection?"

Biomedical Research Center II, Rayford Auditorium Room 106-2
Dec 4th, 2012 (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.
Dec 4th, 2012 (Tue)
12:00 PM - 1:00 PM
  RESIN (Research Support Information Network)
The Research Support Information Network (RESIN) agenda is posted at: http://www.uams.edu/research/RESIN_Agenda.asp

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

For more information, contact: Linda Williams, 686-7418, ldwilliams@uams.edu
Dec 5th, 2012 (Wed)
12:00 PM - 1:00 PM
  UCVC Seminar Series
UAMS CardioVascular Center Seminar Series

"Developing a Prediction Model of CHD in Women: Where are We?"
Presenters: Jean McSweeney, Ph.D. R.N. (Professor and Associate Dean, College of Nursing)and Mario Cleves, Ph.D. (Professor of Pediatrics, College of Medicine)

Wednesday, December 5, 2012
12:00 noon
Education II, Room G137
Dec 5th, 2012 (Wed)
3:30 PM - 5:00 PM
  Pharmacology/Toxicology Seminar Series
*****************SEMINAR IS CANCELLED***************

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
Dec 6th, 2012 (Thu)
1:30 PM - 2:30 PM
  Department of Microbiology & Immunology
Jennifer Junecko
UAMS Grad Student

Title: "Characterization of a biofilm inhibitory protein produced by Staphylococcus aureus strain Newman"

Rayford Auditorium
Bio Med 2
Room 106-2
Dec 10th, 2012 (Mon)
9:00 AM - 10:00 AM
  Dissertation Defense:Krishna C. Chimalakonda; M.S
Krishna C. Chimalakonda; M.S
Advisor: Jeffery H. Moran; Ph.D.
Sectional Director, Arkansas Department of Health, Public Health Laboratory

Title: "Toxicological Significance of JWH-018 and AM2201 Metabolism"

Biomedical research building II Rayford Auditrioum Room 106
Dec 11th, 2012 (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.
Dec 12th, 2012 (Wed)
3:30 PM - 5:00 PM
  Pharmacology/Toxicology Seminar Series
Dr.Jason Yuan, M.D, Ph.D.
Professor
UI-Chicago
Department of Medicine and Pharmacology

Title: “Role of Ca2+, an extracellular ligand and an intracellular messenger, in pulmonary hypertension”
Biomedical Research Building II, Rayford Auditroium, Room 106-2
Dec 13th, 2012 (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
Dec 13th, 2012 (Thu)
1:30 PM - 2:30 PM
  Department of Microbiology & Immunology
Justin Graham
UAMS Grad Student

Rayford Auditorium
Bio Med 2
Room 106-2
Dec 13th, 2012 (Thu)
3:00 PM - 4:00 PM
  Physiology and Biophysics Weekly Seminar Series
Michael Owens, Ph.D., Professor and Director
Center for Alcohol and Drug Abuse Studies
and a Wilbur Mills Endowed Chair
UAMS Department of Pharmacology and Toxicology

Title: “Enlisting the immune system to fight drug abuse”

Biomedical Research Center II, Rayford Auditorium Room 106-2
Dec 18th, 2012 (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.
Dec 19th, 2012 (Wed)
3:30 PM - 5:00 PM
  Pharmacology/Toxicology Seminar Series
Dr.Jessica Bohonowych, Ph.D.
Assistant Professor
Medical University of South Carolina
Title of seminar: "Extracellular Heat Shock Protein 90 (eHsp90): A Potential Modulator of the Stromal Microenvironment in Prostate Cancer"

Biomedical Research Building II, Rayford Auditorium, Room 106-2
Dec 25th, 2012 (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.