Toxicology Track

Weekly Newsletter of the MSU Center for Integrative Toxicology
Director: Norbert Kaminski/Editor: Lois Furry

November 26, 2007, Vol. 30, Number 43

Seminars this week / Research Eve / Seminars Upcoming / Course Announcement

Seminars this week

The Department of Civil and Environmental Engineering presents Andre Marziali, University of British Columbia, to speak on "2-D Non-Linear Electrophoresis for Bio-Molecule Concentration: Applications to Forensics and Metagenomics" on Thursday, November 29, 2007 at 9 a.m. in 3540 Engineering.

The Department of Biochemistry and Molecular Biology presents Patricia Babbitt, University of California-San Francisco, to speak on "Structural Determinants of Specificity in Enzyme Superfamilies" on Thursday, November 29, 2007 at 11:30 a.m. in 101 Biochemistry.

The Neuroscience Program presents Philip Barker, McGill University, to speak on "New Twists in TNF Receptor Superfamily Signaling" on Thursday, November 29, 2007 at 12:30 p.m. in 1425 Biomedical Physical Sciences.

*The Respiratory Research Initiative presents John LaPres, MSU, to speak on "Proteomic and Metabolomic Analysis of BALF from LPS and Metal Stresses Mice" on Friday, November 30, 2007 at 11:30 a.m. in 162 Food Safety and Toxicology.

The Chemical Engineering and Materials Science Department presents Matthew Delisa, Cornell University, to speak on "Engineering the Protein Folding Landscape in Simple Bacteria for Solving Complex Problems in Biology and Medicine" on Friday, November 30, 2007 at 11:30 a.m. in 1400 Biomedical Physical Sciences.

The Department of Chemistry presents Jia Yao, MSU, to speak on "Enzyme-Based Electrochemical Biosensors for Hydrogen Peroxide Detection" on Friday, November 30, 2007 at 12:40 p.m. in 136 Chemistry.

*Fulfills seminar requirements for the Environmental and Integrative Toxicological Sciences Graduate Programs. Seminars that fulfill this requirement are archived at seminars.

Research Eve

The MSU Center for Integrative Toxicology (CIT) will host its Annual Research Evening on Thursday, November 29, 2007 at 5:15 p.m. at the MSU Kellogg Center. This will be an opportunity to meet with CIT faculty and trainees in the Environmental and Integrative Toxicological Sciences (EITS) training program and to become acquainted with the toxicology-related research that students and postdoctoral fellows are doing campus wide. First-year students enrolled in cooperating, disciplinary PhD programs are especially encouraged to attend. Dinner is included. RSVP to Amy Swagart at swagart@msu.edu, 353-6469 by November 26, 2007.

Seminars Upcoming

*The CIT and the Department of Biochemistry present Dr. Tim Ryan, Lilly Research Laboratories, to speak on "Leveraging Gene Expression Data in Pharmacology and Toxicology: Functional Genomics in Drug Discovery" on Thursday, December 13, 2007 11 a.m. in 1415 Biomedical Physical Sciences.

*Fulfills seminar requirements for the Environmental and Integrative Toxicological Sciences Graduate Programs. Seminars that fulfill this requirement are archived at seminars.

Course Announcement

PSL 950: Topics in Physiology, Winter/Spring 2008
Inflammation-Tissue Injury & Translational Medicine
In this 1-credit seminar course, faculty will guide graduate students in presenting/discussing recent research literature related to inflammation. This course will fulfill the EITS Toxicology Track requirement for a course in "Topics in Toxicology." Inflammatory Mediators: Elahé Crockett, Ph.D., Molecular Mechanisms and Signaling; Nara Parameswaran, Ph.D., Inflammatory Stress and Drug Hepatotoxicity; Robert A. Roth, PhD, DABT, Inflammation and Cancer; Alison Bauer, Ph.D. & Hua Xiao, MD-PHD, Gene Therapy and Healing; Andy Amalfitano, DO-PHD & Alex Chen, MD-PHD.
Time: Tuesdays, 12-1 pm. Place: 3280 Biomedical & Physical Sciences Building (BPS). For further information or permission to enroll, please contact Dr. Elahé Crockett (ecrocket@msu.edu).