Fall 2004
10/04/04 Ayman M. Noreddin,
Associate Professor of Pharmacy Practice and Pharmaceutical Sciences, University of Minnesota College of Pharmacy, “Target attainment studies: a valuable tool to predict clinical outcome focus on the respiratory fluoroquinolones”
10/5/04 Mustafa al'Absi,
Associate Professor of Behavioral Sciences, University of Minnesota Medical School, Duluth "Biobehavioralmarkers of hypertension"
10/11/04 David J. Eide,
Professor, Department of Nutritional Science, University of Wisconsin-Madison, “Taking the pulse of zinc homeostasis with zinc fingers and other Zn(II)-binding domains”
10/18/04 Natalie Ceballos,
Alcohol Research Center, Department of Psychiatry, University of Connecticut School of Medicine “Cognitive efficiency in substance abusers: a neurophysiological approach
10/19/04 Lucia Barker,
Assistant Professor of Pathology, Anatomy and Microbiology, University of Minnesota Medical School, Duluth “Modeling Mycobacteria from the source to the host”
10/25/04 Whiteside Institute for Clinical Research Symposium including Doris Taylor,
Professor of Phyisology, University of Minnesota Medical School Minneapolis “Stem cells: a new future for treating heart disease”; Angela Panoskaltsis-Mortari, Assistant Professor of Pediatrics, University of Minnesota Medical School Minneapolis, “The potential of adult stem cells for repairing the injured lung”; and Edward Perkins, Assistant Professor of Biochemistry and Molecular Biology, University of Minnesota Medical School Duluth, Transcriptional profiling of primitive bone-marrow derived stem cells”
11/2/04 Joseph Prohaska,
Professor of Biochemistry and Molecular Biology, University of Minnesota Medical School, Duluth "Genomic and Proteomic Indices of Mammalian Copper Status: Why we might need them and what are they?"
11/8/04 Richard F. Maclin,
Associate Professor of Computer Science, University of Minnesota-Duluth “Machine learning, data mininig and bioinformatice: some definintions and examples”
11/16/04 Carol A. Pratt,
Preston Gates and Ellis LLP, Portland, Oregon, “Phase IV clinical trials: a regulatory minefield for research institutions” (sponsored by Whiteside Institute for Clinical Research)
11/16/04 Goran Hellekant,
Professor of Physiology and Pharmacology, University of Minnesota Medical School, Duluth, “De gustibus; or taste in my life”
11/22/04 Gene A. Homandberg,
Professor and Chair of Biochemistry and Molecular Biology, University of North Dakota School of Medicine, “The voice of the insuted extracellular matrix in the balance between tissue damage vs. repair in cartilage: a model of osteoarthritis”
11/30/04 Mark Monson,
Department of Internal Medicine, St. Mary’s Duluth Clinic Medical Center, Duluth, MN “Learning from traditional healers: practices in Africa
11/30/04 Terri Rose-Hellekant,
Assistant Professor of Physiology and Pharmacology, University of Minnesota Medical School, Duluth, “The NRL-TGFa transgenic mouse model of breast canceer: model development, characterizations and utility”
12/6/04 Clifford J. Steer,
Professor of Medicine and Genetics, Cell Biology and Development, University of Minnesota Medical School Minneapolis, “Non-viral gene therapy to the liver: gene repair and the awakening of sleeping beauty”
12/6/04 Clifford J. Steer,
Professor of Medicine and Genetics, Cell Biology and Development, University of Minnesota Medical School Minneapolis, “Tauroursodeoxycholic acid: a bile acid that is antiapoptotic and neuroprotective”
12/7/04 Heim Einat,
Assistant Professor, University of Minnesota College of Pharmacy, “Animal models for bipolar disorder- new understanding and new possibilities”
12/13/04 Igor R. Efimov,
Associate Professor of Biomedical Engineering, Washington University, “The role of molecular heterogeneity in the pacemaking and conduction system of the heart”
12/14/04 Robert Cormier,
Assistant Professor of Biochemistry and Molecular Biolgoy, University of Minnesota Medical School, Duluth, “Genetic analysis of Mom1 and other modifiers of intestinal cancer”
Spring 2005
1/4/05 Jocelyn Dorscher,
Assistant Professor of Family Medicine University of Minnesota Medical School, Duluth, “Indian Health Pathway of the University of Minnesota”
1/18/05 Amy Greene,
Research Associate, Department of Biochemistry and Molecular Biology, University of Minnesota Medical School Duluth, “Mechanisms of Occupational Asthma: Allergen-Dependent Differences”
2/1/05 Lester Drewes,
Professor and Head, Department of Biochemistry and Molecular Biology, University of Minnesota Medical School Duluth Title to be announced
2/15/05 Kent Froberg,
Associate Professor of Pathology and Laboratory Medicine, University of Minnesota Medical School Duluth "Monocyte Chemoattractive Protein-1 and murine cytomegalovirus infection"
3/1/05 Patrick C.J. Ward,
Professor and Head of Pathology and Laboratory Medicine, University of Minnesota Medical School Duluth Title to be announced
3/15/05 Jon Holy,
Associate Professor of Anatomy and Cell Biology, University of Minnesota Medical School Duluth Title to be announced
3/29/05 Jean F. Regal,
Professor of Biochemistry and Molecular Biology, University of Minnesota Medical School, Duluth "Allergen Sensitivity in Induction of Asthma Differs with Age and Gender”
4/5/05 Corydon Siffring,
Assistant Professor of Family Medicine, University of Minnesota Medical School Duluth, "Afganasthan"
4/19/05 Patricia Scott,
Research Assistant Professor of Biochemistry and Molecular Biology, University of Minnesota Medical School Duluth Title to be announced
5/3/05 Janet Fitzakerley,
Associate Professor of Pharmacology, University of Minnesota Medical School Duluth Title to be announced
5/17/05 Barbara Elliott,
Professor of Family Medicine, University of Minnesota Medical School Duluth Title to be announced