12:00 p.m. January 8, 2009
90 Snell Library
"Light-activated Tissue Repair"
Dr. Irene E. Kochevar, Wellman Center for Photomedicine Massachusetts General Hospital

12:00 p.m. January 15, 2009
90 Snell Library
"Imaging the Neural Circuitry and Neurochemical Control of Aggressive and Sexual Motivation"
Dr. Ferris, Professor, Director Center for Translational Imaging

12:00 p.m. January 22, 2009
90 Snell Library
"Fruits and Vegetables can Improve Neuronal and Behavioral Function in Old Rats"
Barbara Shukkit-Hale, US Department of Agriculture

12:00 p.m. January 29, 2009
90 Snell Library
"Antisense-Drugs and the Brain: Delivery and MR Imaging"
Dr. Philip Liu, MGH/Martinos Center

12:00 p.m. February 5, 2009
90 Snell Library
"Improvement of Adoptive Tumor Immunotherapy by the Induction of Adenosine-Resistant Anti-Tumor T cells"
Dr. Akio Ohta, Northeastern University

11:00 a.m. February 11, 2009
413 Mugar Hall
"Why DNA Base Excision Repair is like a Bad Auto Mechanic"
Richard Bennett, Ph.D.

11:00 a.m. February 13, 2009
114 Mugar Hall
"Validation and application of high-performance liquid chromatography- and mass spectrometry-based two-dimensional methods for proteome analysis"
Katja Melchior, Ph.D.

1:00 p.m. February 13, 2009
114 Mugar Hall
"Discovery of SCD 1 Inhibitors"
Vishnu Kodumuru, Ph.D.

11:00 a.m. February 18, 2009
413 Mugar Hall
"Liquid Phase Separation Platforms for Depletion of High Abundance Proteins and Fractionation/Concentration of Low Abundance Proteins Prior to Proteomics Profiling Of Human Serum by 2-D Gel Electrophoresis”.
Yazen Jmeian, Ph.D.

12:00 p.m. February 19, 2009
90 Snell Library
"From Uppsala, Sweden to Northeastern, Boston and how it got that way"
Toby (Torbjorn) Jarbe, Northeastern University Center for Drug Discovery, Pharm Sci

12:00 p.m. February 26, 2009
90 Snell Library
"Gene Regulation of a4b2 Nicotinic Receptor Expression: Microarray Analysis of Nicotine-Induced Receptor Upregulation and Anti-Inflammatory Effects"
Vishnu Hosur, Northeastern University

12:00 p.m. March 19, 2009
90 Snell Library
"Animal Models of Osteoarthritis: Mechanisms and Drug Testing"
Paul Fanning, Ph.D., Assistant Professor of Orthopedics and Cell Biology, University of Massachusetts, Medical School, University Campus

1:30 p.m. March 26, 2009
Cabot Center
NU Research and Scholarship Expo

12:00 p.m. April 16, 2009
90 Snell Library
TBA
Padmaja Magadala, Graduate Student, Northeastern University

12:00 p.m. April 30, 2009
90 Snell Library
"Recombinant Approaches to Activating GPCRs: Relevance to Drug Discovery"
Alan S. Kopin, M.D., Professor of Medicine, Director Molecular Pharmacology Research Institute, Tufts Medical Center, Tufts University School of Medicine