Date  

Tentative title 

Speakers 

Host

Jan 13

Tissue engineering: the secret is in the desert sand 

Dr. Ahmed El-Ghannam , PhD, Associate Professor,

Department of Mechanical Engineering and Engineering Science,
UNC Charlotte

Chauhan

Jan 20

Endogenous gasses regulate liver blood flow and metabolism; or Why air pollution is good for you

Dr. Mark Clemens, PhD Professor,

Department of Biology,
University of North Carolina at Charlotte

Klotz

Jan 27

Annual IACUC seminar

IACUC speakers

Feb 3

Hot methane oxidizers and cold sulfur oxidizers - news from the Guaymas Basin hydrothermal vents 

Dr. Andreas Teske, PhD Professor,

Department of Marine Science,
UNC Chapel Hill

Klotz

Mar 2

Climate change effects on coastal freshwater wetlands 

Dr. Scott Neubauer, PhD, Assistant Director and Research Assistant Professor

Baruch Marine Field Laboratory University of South Carolina

Clinton

Mar 9

Spring Recess - No Seminar

Mar 16

Host sphgingolipids against Cryptococcus neoformans 

Dr. Maurizio del Poeta, MD, Associate Professor,

Department of Biochemistry & Molecular Biology,
Medical University of South Carolina

Klotz

Mar 23

The balance of nature: species interactions run the world 

Dr. Miles R. Silman, PhD, Professor of Biology and Director, CEES, Ranlet and Frank Bell Jr. Fellow

Department of Biology,
Wake Forest University

Yan

Mar 30

Five steps for ecological landscape design

Dr. Sara Gagné, PhD, Assistant Professor,

Department of Geography and Earth Sciences,
University of North Carolina at Charlotte

Clinton

Apr 6

Spring Weekend - No Seminar

Apr 13

The information superhighway in cells: protein targeting

Dr. Gloria Muday, PhD Professor of Biology,

Department of Biology,
Wake Forest University

Yan

Apr 20

Biology of bladder cancer - translation from preclinical models to patients

Dr. Derek Raghavan, MD,

President, Levine Cancer Institute,
Carolinas HealthCare System

Yan

Apr 27

Soluble tumor necrosis factor receptors and breast cancer progression

Stephen Rego, PhD student in Dr. Dréau’s lab,

Department of Biology,
University of North Carolina at Charlotte

Dréau

Targeting the glycosylated epitopes of α-dystroglycan  

Jason Tucker, PhD student in Dr. Qi Lu’s lab, McColl-Lockwood Laboratory for Muscular Dystrophy Research, Carolinas Medical Center;

Department of Biology,
University of North Carolina at Charlotte

Lu 

May 4

The winds of change in pharmaceutical drug discovery

Dr. Michael Luther, PhD, MBA

President of the David H. Murdock Research Institute

Klotz