Day of Science
Includes Poster Session during lunch; held at UA’s ILC, 9 am to 4:20 pm on Saturday
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Introductory Remarks
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9:00 am |
John H. Law, Emeritus Regents Professor, UA |
Wells Lab 2006 |
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9:20 am
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Roger Miesfeld, Professor, UA
“Ecdysone regulation of late trypsin gene expression in the mosquito midgut”
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9:40 am |
James Pennington, Asst. Research Scientist, UA
“Translational regulation in the midgut of Aedes aegypti mosquitoes”
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10:00 am |
Patricia Scaraffia, Asst. Research Professor, UA
“Novel metabolic pathways for ammonia detoxification in Aedes aegypti mosquitoes”
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10:20 am |
Rolf Ziegler, Asst. Research Professor, UA
“How do lipids get into insect eggs?”
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10:40 am |
BREAK
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Education Outreach
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11:00 am |
Carol Bender, UBRP Director, UA
“UBRP: Not your typical undergraduate research program”
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11:20 am |
Margaret Wilch,
Biology and Research Methods Teacher, Tucson High Magnet School
"Bringing science to life: Research opportunities in high school"
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11:40 am |
Al Smith, Associate Professor, Mercer University
“The Manduca Project”
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12:00 pm |
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UA Colleagues |
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1:10 pm |
Vicki Wysocki, Professor, UA
“Crashing protein complexes into surfaces: MS/MS of non-covalent complexes” |
1:30 pm |
Ann Walker, Regents Professor, UA
"The Importance of a single hydrogen bond to the mechanism of action of
an electron-transferring, membrane-bound cytochrome: Little things
matter!"
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1:50 pm |
Gordon Tollin, Emeritus Regents Professor, UA
“Biomembranes: a lipid bilayer is more than just a dab of grease”
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2:10 pm |
Victor Hruby, Regents Professor, UA
“GPCRs & drugs - What's going on? Stimulation, modulation, PTM, internalization..…”
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2:20 pm |
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Former Trainees |
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2:40 pm |
Jose Soulages, Associate Professor, Oklahoma Sate University
“Understanding the antidiabetic effects of Avandia (Roziglitazone) from studies in adipocytes”
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3:00 pm |
Mike Kanost, University Professor, Kansas State University
“Serine proteases and serpins in Manduca sexta”
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3:20 pm |
Matt Flowers, University of Wisconsin, Madison
“Stearoyl-CoA desaturase 1, obesity, and insulin resistance”
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3:40 pm |
Carolina Barrillas-Mury, Investigator, NIH
“Mosquito midgut epithelial responses to plasmodium infection”
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Concluding Remarks |
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4:00 pm |
Tom Baldwin, Professor, UA
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Four Points by Sheraton Hotel, 5 to 7 pm on Saturday |
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Sunday Brunch
Tucson Botanical Gardens, 8:30-10 am
Butterfly Magic Exhibit opens at 10 am |
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You may register for any or all of the above events. For more information, visit http://www.biochem.arizona.edu/wellsfest/ or call Ellie Warder at (520) 621-5903. |
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