February 10 - 3:00 pm

Barry Rosen, Department of Biochemistry and Molecular Biology, Wayne State University School of Medicine
Arsenic Binding Motifs in Transcriptional and Allosteric Regulation
(Ilan Friedberg, host)

February 17

Tony Auerbach, Department of Physiology , SUNY Buffalo
Single-channel Studies of NMDA Receptors: Substates, Subunits, and Ca++ Flux
(graduate student-sponsored speaker; Bruce Kornreich, host)

February 24

Volker Dötsch, Department of Biological Chemistry and Molecular Pharmacology, Harvard Medical School
Structural Basis for Transcriptional Regulation by ada and NFAT
(Robert Oswald, host)

March 3 - NO SEMINAR (Biophysical Society Meeting)

March 10

Sally Zigmond, Department of Biology, University of Pennsylvania
Regulation of Actin Polymerization by Chemoattractants
(Rick Cerione, host)

March 17 - NO SEMINAR ("Spring Break" and Brain Awareness Week)

March 24

David Deitcher, Neurobiology and Behavior, Cornell University
Examining the Function of Synaptic Proteins with Drosophila Mutants
(Greg Weiland, host)

March 31

Chris McBain, Laboratory of Cellular and Molecular Physiology, NIH
Pre- and Postsynaptic Forms of LTP are Absent in Hippocampal Interneurons
(Alex Brown, host)

April 7 - 4:00 pm

Steven Siegelbaum, Department of Pharmacology, Columbian-Presbyterian Medical Center, Columbia University
Molecular Mechanism of Cyclic Nucleotide-Gated Channel Activation
(Linda Nowak, host)

April 14

Michael McCloskey, Department of Zoology & Genetics, Signal Transduction Training Group, Iowa State University
Calcium Influx in Mast Cells: New Twists on an Old Theme
(Clare Fewtrell, host)

April 21

Elizabeth Repasky, Roswell Park Cancer Institute, Buffalo, NY
Progress and Problems in the Development of Specific Immunotherapy for Cancer: Potential new uses for human tumor xenografts grown in SCID mice
(Jim Flanders, host)

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