Barshop Institute for Longevity and Aging Studies
2007 Seminars
Except where otherwise noted, the Barshop Institute seminars take place at 3:30 PM in Lecture Hall 444B, Medical School building, central campus. For more information, please call 210-562-5086.
01/10/2007
Genetic Mapping Studies of Schizophrenia and Bipolar Disorder
Michael Escamilla, MD, Professor, Dept. of Psychiatry, UTHSCSA
01/17/2007
Starting Earlier to Prevent Heart Disease
Henry C. McGill, PhD, Senior Scientist Emeritus, Dept. of Physiology and Medicine Southwest Foundation for Biomedical Research, UTHSCSA.
01/31/2007
Mechanism of Aging-Related Mitochondrial Degeneration
Xin Jie Chen, PhD, Assistant Professor, Molecular Biology, UT Southwestern Medical Center
02/07/2007
Mechanism of Aging-Related Mitochondrial Degeneration
James Lechleiter, PhD, Professor, Department of Cellular and Structural Biology, UTHSCSA.
02/14/2007
Oxidative Damage, DNA Repair, and Aging
Vilhelm Bohr, MD, PhD, Senior Investigator, Chief, Laboratory of Molecular Gerontology and Section on DNA Repair at NIA-NIH.
02/21/2007
Making Connections between Post-Transcriptional Regulation and Cancer
Senlin Li, MD, Associate Professor, Department of Medicine, UTHSCSA.
02/26/2007
Special Seminar: Central Regulators of Stress Resistance and Aging in Yeast and Mammals
Valter D. Longo, PhD, Associate Professor, Hanson Chair in Biogerontology, Andrus Gerontology Center, University of Southern California.
02/28/2007
Making Connections between Post-Transcriptional Regulation and Cancer
Luiz O. Penalva, PhD, Assistant Professor, Children’s Cancer Institute, UTHSCSA.
03/07/2007
Co-activator switching as a means to regulate stem cell fate
Thomas E. Johnson, PhD, Professor, Institute for Behavioral Genetics, The University of Colorado at Boulder.
03/14/2007
Lipid Peroxidation, Hypoxia, and Aging: The Mitochondria Connections
Qitao Ran, PhD, Assistant Professor, Department of Cellular and Structural Biology, UTHSCSA.
03/21/2007
Impaired Re-growth of Old Skeletal Muscle
Frank W. Booth, PhD, Professor, Department of Physiology, School of Medicine, University of Missouri, Columbia.
03/28/2007
Proteomics reveals a role for mitochondrial dysfunction in age-related macular degeneration
Deborah A. Ferrington, PhD, Associate Professor, Department of Ophthalmology, University of Minnesota.
04/11/2007
B Cell Defects in Aged Mice and Humans
Bonnie Blomberg, PhD, Professor of Microbiology and Immunology, University of Miami Leonard M. Miller School of Medicine.
04/18/2007
Monocyte Chemotactic Protein-1 in Inflammation, Muscle Regeneration and Aging
Paula K. Shireman, MD, Associate Professor, Department of Surgery, UTHSCSA.
05/05/2007
Innate immune anti-viral response against human respiratory syncytial virus
Santanu Bose, PhD, Assistant Professor, Department of Microbiology, UTHSCSA.
07/19/2007
Identifying Pathways Required for Viability Following Damage: An Interwoven Network
Alex Bishop, PhD
09/12/2007
Is the Oxidative Stress Theory of Aging Dead?
Arlan Richardson, PhD
09/19/2007
Aging and Hypertension: A critical factor called Menopause
Lourdes Fortepiani, MD, PhD
09/26/2007
Novel Molecular Target for Parkinson’s disease Therapy
Syed Imam, PhD
10/03/2007
Extracellular Matrix Controls Mesenchymal Stem Cell Fate
Xiao-Dong Chen, PhD
10/10/2007
Activity-dependent bigenomic transcriptional regulation of cytochrome c oxidase in neurons
Margaret Wong-Riley, PhD
10/24/2007
Genetic Pathways linking Diet, Longevity, and Disease
Matt Kaeberlein, PhD
10/31/2007
The Effects of Aging on the Diseased Synapse
Benjamin Eaton
11/07/2007
Leukocyte Telomere Dynamics and the Biology of Human Aging
Abraham Aviv, MD, PhD
11/28/2007
Redox Compartmentation and Signaling in Aging
Dean Jones, PhD
12/12/2007
Mechanisms of Renal Carcinogenesis
Karen Block, PhD
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