Research at UTGSM

Research at The University of Tennessee Graduate School of Medicine

Research Seminar Archives

Tuesday, February 19, 2008
Kabalka Leads Research Seminar
George W. Kabalka, PhD, Robert H. Cole Professor of Neuroscience and Director of Basic Science Research, Department of Radiology, UTGSM, will present a seminar entitled, "The Design and Synthesis of Agents Used in Nuclear Medicine Imaging." The seminar will be held from noon to 1:00 p.m. on Tuesday, Feb. 19, 2008, in the UT Medical Center's Morrison Conference Room. Everyone is invited. Light refreshments will be served

December 12, 2007
Erwin to discuss UT Center for Public Health
The next UTGSM Research Seminar will be held on Tuesday, December 18, 2007, at Noon in the Morrison's Conference Room at UT Medical Center. Paul C. Erwin, MD, MPH, Professor and Director of the UT Center for Public Health, will be the speaker. His lecture is entitled, "The University of Tennessee Center for Public Health: One Building Bock Towards a Stronger Public Health Presence." Everyone is invited to attend. Light refreshments will be served.

November 20, 2007
Phipps Speaks at Research Seminar
The UTGSM Research seminar will be presented by Jonathan E. Phipps, PhD Candidate, UT Comparative and Experimental Medicine Program. His lecture will be entitled, "In Vitro Silencing of Bence Jones Protein Synthesis by RNA Interference." The seminar will be held at noon on Tuesday, November 20, 2007, in the Morrison's Conference Room at noon. Interested parties are invited to attend.

November 13, 2007
Research Seminar Scheduled
Jung Han Kim, PhD, Associate Professor, Department of Nutrition, University of Tennessee, Knoxville, will present a seminar entitled: "TALLYHO, A Novel Polygenic Mouse Model of Obesity and Type 2 Diabetes." The seminar will be held on Tuesday, November 213, 2007 in the Morrison's Conference Room at Noon. Light refreshments will be provided. Everyone is invited to attend.

November 6, 2007
Matteson to Lead Research Seminar
Karla J. Matteson, PhD, FACMG, Professor of Medical Genetics at the UTGSM, will present a seminar entitled: "Genetics of Coumadin Efficacy." The seminar will be held on Tuesday, November 6, 2007 at noon in the Morrison's Conference Room of UT Medical Center. Everyone is invited and light refreshments will be served.

October 9, 2007
Research Seminar Notice for Tuesday, October 9
Robert N. Moore, PhD, Associate Dean, Research and Graduate Studies, UT College of Veterinary Medicine, will present a seminar entitled, "Update on Comparative and Experimental Medicine Graduate Program." The seminar will be held Tuesday, October 9, 2007 at Noon, in the Morrison's Conference Room of UT Medical Center. This seminar is required for GSMfaculty who teach, have taught, or have a current Comparative and Experimental Medicine graduate student. Light refreshments will be served.

September 24, 2007
Research Seminar Notice
Roger C. Carroll, PhD, Professor and Director of the Anesthesiology Research Program, UT Graduate School of Medicine, will present the seminar entitled, "Clinical Consequences of Aspirin Resistance." The seminar will be held Tuesday, September 25, 2007, at noon in the Morrison's Conference Room at UT Medical Center. Everyone is invited to attend.

May 1, 2007
Davern Presents Seminar, Tuesday, May 8
Sandra Davern, PhD, Research Associate in the Human Immunology and Cancer Program at UTGSM will present a seminar on Tuesday, May 8, 2007. The title of the lecture will be "Light Chain Modification and Organ Tropism in AL Amyloidosis." The conference will be held at noon in the Morrison's Conference Room at UT Medical Center. Everyone is invited to attend.

Tuesday, April 24, 2007
Osmand Discusses "Pentraxins" at Research Seminar
Alex Osmand, PhD, Department of Medicine, UTGSM, will present a research seminar entitled, "Pentraxins (CRP, SAP, FP, etc.): 1977-1007: An Intersetion Between Innate Immunity and the Nervous System." The seminar will be held on Tuesday, April 24, 2007 at noon in the Morrison's Conference Room. Light refreshments will be served. Everyone is invited.

Tuesday, April 17, 2007
Wall Presents Research Seminar
Jonathan Wall, PhD, Associate Professor, Human Immunology and Cancer Program, Department of Medicine, will present a seminar entitled: "Seeing Amyloid in Mice: Current Methods and Future Plans." The seminar will be held Tuesday, April 17, 2007 at noon in the Morrison's Conference Room. Dr. Wall also serves as Director of the Amyloid and Preclinical and Diagnostic Molecular Imaging Laboratory at the UTGSM.

Tuesday, March 27, 2007
CEM PhD Candidate Presents Dissertation
N. Fazil Erdem, PhD Candidate in the UT Comparative and Experimental Medicine Program, will present his dissertation seminar on Tuesday, March 27, 2007, at Noon in Morrison's Conference Room. Erdem's dissertation is entitled, "Characterization and comparative analysis of gene expression profiles of three different human oral squamous carcinoma cell lines with different invasion and metastatic capacities." Everyone is invited to attend.

Tuesday, March 20, 2007
Pollution and Health Risks Topic of Seminar
The University of Tennessee Graduate School of Medicine is pleased to announce the research seminar "Environmental Pollution and Associated Health Risks: The Chattanooga Creek Initiative." The lecture will be given by Patricia K. Tithof, DVM, PhD, Association Professor, Department of Pathobiology at the UT College of Veterinary Medicine. The lecture will be held Tuesday, March 20, 2007 at noon in the Morrison's Conference Room of UT Medical Center. Everyone interested is invited to attend.

Tuesday, February 20, 2007
O'Nuallain Lecture
Brian O'Nuallain, PhD, Assistant Professor, Human Immunology and Cancer Program at UTGSM will present a seminar entitled: "Novel Small Molecule Modulators of Light Chain Amyloid Fibril Growth." The seminar will be held Tuesday, February 20, 2007 at noon in the UT Medical Center's Morrison's Conference Room. Light refreshments will be served. Everyone is invited to attend.

January 22, 2007
Shelton Presents at Research Seminar
Brent J. Shelton, PhD, Associate Professor, Departments of Internal Medicine and Biostatistics, at the College of Medicine & Public Health, University of Kentucky, will present a seminar on Monday, January 22, 2007. The topic of Dr. Shelton's lecture will be "Drawing Inference from Incompletely Observed Clinical Data." The seminar will be held at noon in the Morrison's Conference Room at UT Medical Center. Light refreshments will be served.

January 8, 2007
Brewer to Discuss IRB Compliance at GSM Research Seminar
Sherry S. Brewer, JD, Director of the Office of Research Integrity, UT Graduate School of Medicine, will present the Research Seminar on Tuesday, January 16, 2007. Her topic of discussion will be "Protecting Your Research Through IRB Compliance: When? How? Why?." Everyone is invited to attend the seminar held at Noon in the Morrison's Conference Room at UT Medical Center. Light refreshments will be served.

November 28, 2006
Research Seminar, Tuesday, November 28
Cynthia J. Vaughn, MLIS, AHIP, Librarian at Preston Medical Library, UT Graduate School of Medicine will present a seminar entitled: “What’s New in PubMed.” The seminar will be held Tuesday, November 28, 2006, at noon in Morrison’s Conference Room. Light refreshments will be served.

Kennel Presents at Research Seminar, November 21
Stephen J. Kennel, PhD, Associate Professor, Department of Medicine and Radiology, UTGSM, will present a seminar entitled, "Tumor Targeting 101."

The seminar will be held Tuesday, November 21, 2066, in the UT Medical Center's Morrison's Conference Room at noon. Light refreshments will be served. Everyone is invited to attend.

Research Seminar, Tuesday, October 31, 2006
Daniel P. Kestler, PhD, Assistant Professor, Department of Medicine, and Director of Laboratory of Molecular Biology in the Human Immunology and Cancer Program, UTGSM, will present the research seminar on Tuesday, October 31, 2006. The title of his lecture will be: "ODAM: A Newly Discovered Protein Expressed during Development and Oncogenesis." Everyone is invited.

Lozzio to Lead Research Seminar, October 24, 2006
Carmen B. Lozzio, MD, FACMG, Professor, Department of Medical Genetics at UTGSM, will present the research seminar on Tuesday, October 24 at noon. The title of her lecture will be "The Tennessee Child Health Profile for Children with Genetic and Developmental Disorders." Everyone is invited to attend the lecture presented in Morrison's Conference Room.

Grandas to Present Seminar Tuesday, October 10
Oscar Grandas, MD, Assistant Professor, Department of Surgery, UTGSM, will present the Research Seminar on Tuesday, October 10. The seminar will be held in the Morrison's Conference Room at noon. The title of Dr. Grandas' lecture will be "Influrence of Estrogen Exposure on Smooth Muscle Cell Metalloproteinase Activity." Everyone is invited to attend.

Tuesday, September 26, 2006
Cui Presents Seminar
Mei-Zhen Cui, Ph.D., Associate Professor, Department of Pathobiology, at the University of Tennessee College of Veterinary Medicine, will present a seminar on Tuesday, September 26, at noon. The lecture entitled, "Lysophospholipids, Egr-1 and Tissue Factor in Atherosclerosis" is open to everyone in the Morrison's Conference Room at the UT Medical Center.

Tuesday, September 19
Bidulescu Leads Research Seminar
Aurelian Bidulescu, PhD, MPH, Postdoctoral NRSA (NIH) Fellow, will lead the UTGSM Research Center seminar on Tuesday, September 19, 2006. The seminar is entitled, "Dietary choline and incidence of coronary heart disease (CHD): An epidemiology research study in the Athrosclerosis Risk in Communities (ARIC) population. Dr. Bidulescu is with the department of Epidemiology and Nutrition at the University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill, NC. The seminar will be held in the Morrison's Conference Room at noon. Everyone is invited to attend.

Tuesday, September 12
Carroll to Present at Research Seminar
Dr. Roger C. Carroll, Professor of Anesthesiology and Director of Anesthesiology Research, GSM will present a seminar entitled: "Thromboelastography Monitoring of Resistance to Enoxaparin Anticoagulation in Thrombophilic Pregnancy Patients" on Tuesday, September 12 at noon in the Morrison's Conference Room. Light refreshments will be servced.

Wednesday, July 19
Thesis Seminar
Dement Ataman, Master's Candidate, in the Comparative & Experimental Medicine Program of the UTGSM will present a seminar entitled: "Structure and Fibrillogenicity of 11-1F4 Epitope Peptide." The seminar will be heald Wednesday, July 19, 2006 at 9:00 a.m. in the Morrison's Conference Room of the UT Medical Center. Everyone is invited to attend.

Tuesday, May 23, 2006
"Who Wants to be a Millionaire?"
Van R. Irion, Attorney, UT Research Foundation will hold a research seminar entitled, "Who Wants to be a Millionaire?" for GSM Faculty and Staff only on Tuesday,May 23, at noon in the Morrison's Conference Room. This seminar is for GSM faculty or staff who might develop patentable inventions in the course of their work for the University.

Tuesday, May 16, 2006
Special Seminar: Robin Trundy, Biological Safety Office, UTK, will present, "Biosafety Principles and Blood-Borne Pathogen Refresher 1." The seminar will be held Tuesday, May 16, from noon - 1:30 p.m. in the Morrison's Conference Room. This seminar is mandatory for all investigators and technicians who handle human-derived materials (including cell lines - GSM only).

Research Seminar Tuesday, April 25
Chamindrani Mendis-Handagama, D.V.M., Ph.D. Professor, Department of Comparative Medicine, UT College of Veterinary Medicine, will present the seminar, “Thyroid, Testis and Pineal on prepubertal Leydig Stem Cell Differentiation,” Tuesday, April 25 in the Morrison's Conference Room at noon Tuesday, April 25. Everyone is invited to attend.

Research Seminar, Tuesday, April18
Michael D. Best, PhD, Assistant Professor, Department of Chemistry, University of Tennessee, Knoxville, will present a seminar entitled: "Synthetic Carbohydrate and Lipid Analogs for Characterizing Cell Surface Interactions." The seminar will be held Tuesday, April 18, 2006 in the Morrison's Conference Room of UT Medical Center at noon. Everyone is invited.

Seminar, Tuesday, April 11
Jonathan Wall, PhD, Associate Professor, Human Immunology & Cancer Program, and Director of the Amyloid & Preclinical Imaging Laboratory, of UTGSM will present the research seminar on Tuesday, April 11. The topic of Dr. Wall's talk is: "The Hows and Whys of Imaging Peripheral Amyloid in Mice." Everyone is invited to attend the noon seminar in the Morrison's Conference Room.

Seminar Monday, April 10, Noon
Dr. Michael D. Waters, Director for Database Development, National Center for Toxicogenomics, National Institute of Environmental Health Sciences, in Research Triangle Park, NC, will present the research seminar on Monday, April 10, 2006 at noon in Wood Auditorium. Dr. Waters will present the talk, "Building a Toxicogenomics Data Base." Everyone is invited to attend.

March 28, 2006
Osmand To Present Research Seminar
Alexander P. Osmand, PhD, Department of Medicine, UTGSM, will present a seminar entitled, "Polyglutamine Aggregation and the Molecular Pathology of Huntington's Disease," on Tuesday, March 28, 2006 at noon in the Morrison's Conference Room at UT Medical Center. Everyone is invited to attend.

February 23, 2006
Zhou to Present Research Seminar
Yongzia Zhou, PhD, Assistant Professor, Department of Radiology, UTGSM, will present the Research Seminar on Tuesday, February 28, 2006. Dr. Zhou will speak on "Neuroimaging Techniques and Applications." The lecture will be held in the Morrison's Conference Room, UT Medical Center, at Noon. Light refreshments will be served. Everyone is invited to attend.

February 23, 2006
Zhou to Present Research Seminar
Yongzia Zhou, PhD, Assistant Professor, Department of Radiology, UTGSM, will present the Research Seminar on Tuesday, February 28, 2006. Dr. Zhou will speak on "Neuroimaging Techniques and Applications." The lecture will be held in the Morrison's Conference Room, UT Medical Center, at Noon. Light refreshments will be served. Everyone is invited to attend.

February 20, 2006
Wetzel Presents Seminar
The UT Graduate School of Medicine Research Seminar for Tuesday, February 21, 2006, will be presented by Ron B. Wetzel, PhD. Dr. Wetzel, Professor in the Department of Medicine, will speak on "The Structural Plasticity of Amyloid Fibrils." The seminar will be at Noon, in the UT Medical Center's Morrison's Conference Room. Everyone is invited to attend.

February 1, 2006
Research Seminar Notice Tuesday, February 7
Sandra Davern, PhD, Research Associate, Human Immunology and Cancer Program, Department of Medicine, UTGSM, will present a seminar entitled,"Modification of Pathogenic λ Light Chains Alters Their Ability to Interact with Cells In Vitro: Implications for Amyloid Deposition." The seminar will be held Tuesday, February 7, 2006 at noon in the Morrison's Conference Room. Light refreshments will be served and everyone is invited to attend.

January 26, 2006
Lecture Series Begins Thursday, February 2, 2006
The University of Tennessee Comparative and Experimental Medicine Program, College of Veterinary Medicine and the UT Graduate School of Medicine are sponsoring the lecture series, "Molecular, Clinical and Public Health Epidemiology." This session will be held Thursday, February 2, 2006, at noon in the Wood Auditorium at UT Medical Center. Alan R. Hinman, MD, MPH, Public Health Informatics Institute in Decatur, GA will present the lecture, "Global Polio Eradication and Measles Control."

Dr. Hinman is a Senior Public Health Scientist at the Task Force of Child Survival and Development, which is affiliated with Emory University. He works with the Public Health Informatics Institute, a Robert Wood Johnson Foundation-funded program, to foster development of integrated preventive health information systems. He also works with the PARTNERS TB Control Program, funded by the Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation, which addresses multidrug-resistant TB in Peru and globally.

January 18, 2006
Licata Presents at Research Seminar

The University of TN Graduate School of Medicine Research Seminar will be held Tuesday, January 24, 2006 at noon, in the Morrison's Conference Room at UT Medical Center. Charles Licata, PhD Student in the Comparative and Experimental Medicine Program, will present the seminar entitled: "The Cole Anosognosia Scale for Alzheimer's Disease (CAS-AD): The Development of an Instrument for Measuring Anosognosia in Alzheimer's Disease." Everyone is invited to attend.

January 17, 2006
Health & Safety Topic of Research Seminar

The University of TN Graduate School of Medicine Research Seminar will be held Tuesday, January 17, 2006 at noon, in the Morrison's Conference Room. The speaker will be Mark D. Smith, Director of Environment, Health and Safety at the UT Medical Center. The title of the seminar will be "GSM Safety Update." This seminar is required for research investigators and technicians. Light refreshments will be served.

January 9, 2005
Research Seminar Notice

The University of Tennessee Graduate School of Medicine Research Seminar will be held Tuesday, January 10, 2006 at noon in the Morrison's Conference Room at UT Medical Center. Gary T. Smith, MD, Professor, Department of Radiology, will present a seminar entitled: "Radiation Accidents - A Summary of Injury Incidents Since 1945." Light Refreshments will be served. Everyone is invited to attend.

December 6, 2005
Research Seminar Notice

Valerie Berthelier, PhD, Assistant Professor, Department of Medicine , UTGSM, will present a seminar entitled, "Tackling Protein Aggregation in Anti-Trypsin Deficiency." The seminar will be held Tuesday, December 6 in the Morrison's Conference Room at noon. Everyone is invited to attend. Light refreshments will be served.

November 15, 2005
Research Seminar Notice

The research seminar for Tuesday, November 15, will be presented by Michael M. Fry, DVM, MS, Dipl. of the ACVP, Assistant Professor, Department of Pathobiology, College of Veterinary Medicine. The topic of his seminar will be, "Reticulocyte Indices in a Canine Model of Nutritional Iron Deficiency." The seminar will be held at Noon on Morrison's Conference Room and everyone is invited.

November 7, 2005
Research Seminar Notice

The UT Graduate School of Medicine will present a research seminar entitled, "The Role of the Newly Identified Zeta-Cleavage Site in Abeta Formation." The seminar is presented by Xuemin Xu, Ph.D., Associate Professr, Department of Pathobiology, UT College of Veterinary medicine. It will be held Tuesday, November 8, 2005 at noon in the Morrison's Conference Room.

October 25, 2005
Vaughn Presents Lecture

Cynthia J. Vaughn, MLIS, Clinical Information Librarian, Preston Medical Library, UT GSM, will present a seminar entitled: "Introduction to RefWorks: Software to Manage your Reference and Produce Bibliographies. The seminar will be held Tuesday, October 25, 2005 at noon in the Morrison's Conference Room. Everyone is invited to attend.

October 10, 2005
Carroll Presents Research Lecture

Roger C. Carroll, PhD, Professor and Director of Research, Department of Anesthesiology, GSM, will present a seminar entitled " Postoperative Platelet Dysfunction and Coagulopathy in Bypass Surgery Patients." The Research Seminar Lecture will be held Tuesday, October 11, 2005 in the Morrison's Conferent Room at noon. Everyone is invited to attend.

September 27, 2005
Chen Presents Seminar

Tuesday, September 27, at noon in the Morrison's Conference Room at UT Medical Center, James P. Chen, PhD, Professor Emeritus, Department of Medical Genetics, Graduate School of Medicine, will present a seminar. The title of his presentation will be "The Mechanism of Transient Antibody-mediated Hypercoagulability in the Anti-T-Cell Therapy of Renal Transplantation: Role of Complement Fragments and Cytokines." Everyone is invited to attend. Light refreshments will be served.

September 15, 2005
Bartges, UTCVM, Holds Seminar

Joe Bartges, DVM, PhD, Professor of Medicine and Nutrition, College of Veterinary Medicine at the Unveristy of Tennessee, will present a seminar entitled: "Emerging from the Stone Age--Urolithiasis in Animals and People." The seminar will be held Tuesday, September 20, 2005, at noon in the Morrison's Conference Room. Dr. Bartges is also the Acree Endowed Chair of Small Animal Research at the UT College of Veterinary Medicine.

September 7, 2005
Poston Presents Seminar

Tuesday, September 13, 2005,at noon the UTGSM Research Seminar will host Robert S. Poston, MD, Assistant Professor of Cardiac Surgery, University of Maryland Medical Center. His seminar topic is "Aspirin Resistance after Bypass Surgery." Everyone is invited to attend and lunch will be provided.

August 30, 2005
Research Seminar