Graduate Seminars

Please join us for the NST Seminar Series

Every Wednesday at 4:10 PM in 114 Morgan Hall unless otherwise noted
Refreshments are served at 3:45 p.m. before regular seminars in 120 Morgan Hall.

Date

Presenter

Topic
September 9 Janet C. King, Ph.D.
Scientist at Children’s Hospital Oakland Research Institute Emeriti Professor, University of California at Berkeley		 Zinc: An Essential but Elusive Element
September 16 CANCELLED: John A. Milner, Ph.D.
Chief of Nutritional Science Research Group
National Cancer Institute		 Frontiers in Nutrigenomics
and Cancer Prevention
September 23 David Eide, Ph.D.
Department of Nutritional Science
University of Wisconsin-Madison
The Galvanized Cell:
Zinc Deficiency and Oxidative Stress
September 30 No Seminar  
October 7 Robert O. Ryan, Ph.D.
Senior Scientist, CHORI
Children’s Hospital Oakland Research Institute
Adjunct Professor, Department of Nutritional Science and
Toxicology, University of California at Berkeley 		The low density
lipoprotein receptor family:
insights from structural analysis
October 14 Noa Noy, Ph.D.
Professor of Pharmacology
Case Western Reserve University		 Vitamin A and Adipocyte Biology
October 21 No Seminar
 
October 28 Isaac N.Pessah, Ph.D.
Professor and Chair, Department of Molecular Biosciences
University of California at Davis 		Living in a Noncoplanar World:
Molecular and Cellular Toxicity of
Non-Dioxin-Like Compounds
November 4 Oliver Hankinson, Ph.D.
Professor of Pathology and Laboratory Medicine
University of California, Los Angeles		 CYP2S1, a Novel Human Cytochrome
P450 Involved in the Metabolism of Carcinogens Prostaglandins and
Other Eicosanoids
November 11 No seminar – Veteran's Day Holiday
November 18 Susan S. Taylor, Ph.D.
Professor, Departments of
Chemistry/Biochemistry & Pharmacology
University of California, San Diego		 Dynamic Regulation and Localization
of cAMP Dependent Protein Kinase
November 25 No Seminar – Happy Thanksgiving!  
December 2 Didier Stainier, Ph.D.
Professor of Biochemistry and Biophysics
Associate Director, Liver Center
University of California, San Francisco 		Liver and Pancreas Development
and Regeneration in Zebrafish
December 9
 Deepak Srivastava, M.D.
Director, Gladstone Institute of Cardiovascular Disease
Professor, Depatments of Pediatrics and
Biochemistry & Biophysics
University of California, San Francisco 		MicroRNA Regulation of
Stem Cell Fate Decisions