Recent Seminars
Tuesday November 10, 2009
MARYBETH HOWARD, PhD
Assistant Research Cell Biologist
Department of Anesthesia and Perioperative Care
UCSF
"The Role of Heat Shock Proteins in Inflammatory Signaling"
Tuesday October 6, 2009
JAE-WOO LEE, MD
Associate Professor in Residence
Department of Anesthesia and Perioperative Care
UCSF
"Allogeneic human mesenchymal stem cells for treatment of E. coli endotoxin-induced acute lung injury in the ex vivo perfused human lung "
Tuesday September 8, 2009
RICHARD DANEMAN, PhD
UCSF Sandler Fellow
Department of Anatomy
UCSF
"Cellular and Molecular Mechanisms Control CNS Blood Vessel Formation"
Tuesday September 1, 2009
EUN-JUNG CHOI, PhD
Graduate Research Assistant
Department of Physiology
University of Florida
"Role of Activin Receptor Like Kinase 1 (ALK1) in Regulation of Angiogenesis"
Tuesday August 25, 2009
WANQIU CHEN, PhD Cand.
Department of Physiology and Pharmacology
Loma Linda University
"Neonatal Brain Injury in a Rat Pup Hypoxic-Ischemic Model: The Role of HIF-1alpha and Matrix Metalloproteinases"
Tuesday August 11, 2009
NADAV AHITUV, PhD
Assistant Professor
Department of Bioengineering and Therapeutic Sciences
Institute for Human Genetics
UCSF
"Engineering a Better Vein Graft--a Translational Approach"
Tuesday July 14, 2009
MICHAEL S. CONTE, MD
Professor and Chief, Division of Vascular Surgery
Department of Surgery
UCSF
"Engineering a Better Vein Graft--a Translational Approach"
Tuesday June 9, 2009
MARCUS MUENCH, PhD
Associate Professor
Department of Laboratory Medicine
Senior Scientist, Blood Systems Research Institute
UCSF
"In Utero Stem Cell Therapy to Treat Birth Defects in Blood and Tissues"
Thursday June 5, 2009
C. J. M. KLIJN, MD
Department of Neurology
University Medical Center
Utrecht, Netherlands
"University of Utrecht Brain AVM Study Project"
Tuesday May 12, 2009
JEFFREY SALL, MD, PhD
Assistant Professor
Department of Anesthesia and Perioperative Care
UCSF
"Anesthesia and Neural Development: Isoflurane Acts Directly on Hippocampal Neural Stem Cells"
Tuesday April 28, 2009
CHERYL A. STODDART, PhD
Assistant Professor, Division of Experimental Medicine
Department of Medicine/SFGH
UCSF
"Humanized Mice for Study of Human Endothelial Cells and Blood Vessel Formation"
March 26, 2009
ILONA J. FRIEDEN, MD
Professor of Clinical Dermatology and Pediatrics
Head, Division of Pediatric Dermatology
UCSF
"PHACE Syndrome: A Unique Neurocutaneous Syndrome with Infantile Hemangiomas and Associated CNS Vascular Anomalies"
CHRISTOPHER P. HESS, MD, PhD
Assistant Professor, Neuroradiology
Department of Radiology and Biomedical Imaging,
UCSF
"Retrospective Review of Cerebrovascular Anomalies in PHACE Syndrome
Thursday February 5, 2009
HUI MENG, PhD
Professor of Mechanical & Aesrospace, Engineering and Neurosurgery
Co-Director, Toshiba Stroke Research Center
State University of New York at Buffalo
"Hemodynamics and Intracranial Aneurysm"
Tuesday January 20, 2009
ESPEN WALKER, PhD Cand.
Department of Neurology
University of New Mexico
"Role of MMPs and TIMP-3 in Neuronal Death and White Matter Injury in Global Ischemia"
Tuesday December 16, 2008
PETER L. JONES, PhD
Associate Professor of Pathology & Laboratory Medicine
Member, Institute for Medicine & Engineering
University of Pennsylvania
"LabStudio: Understanding Biological Complexity in Development and Disease Through Design Computation"
Tuesday November 4, 2008
SHWETA CHOUDHRY, PhD
Assistant Adjunct Professor
Department of Medicine
Institute for Human Genetics
UCSF
"Genetic Association Studies in Admixed Populations: Pros and Cons"
Tuesday August 12, 2008
Jean François Pittet, MD
Professor in Residence
Department of Anesthesia and Perioperative Care
UCSF
"Role of Integrins and Coagulation Abnormalities in the Development of Acute Lung Injury"
Tuesday July 15, 2008
JIALING LIU, PhD
Associate Professor
Department of Neurological Surgery
UCSF
"A Comprehensive Analysis of Gait Impairment Following Experimental Stroke and the Therapeutic Effect of Environmental Enrichment in Rats"
Tuesday June 17, 2008
Tom Arnold, MD, MS
Pediatric Scientist Development Program
Postdoctoral Research Fellow – Louis Reichardt Laboratory
UCSF Pediatric Critical Care Fellow
"The Role of Beta-8 Integrin in Cerebrovascular Development"
Tuesday May 20, 2008
Valerie M. Weaver, PhD
Associate Professor of Surgery
Director, Center for Bioengineering and Tissue Regeneration
UCSF
"Forcing Form and Function"
Tuesday April 29, 2008
Rong Wang, PhD
Associate Professor of Surgery and Anatomy
Director, Pacific Vascular Research Lab
Director, Vascular Research Lab
UCSF
"Notch and Brain Arteriovenous Malformation"
Tuesday March 25, 2008
Saunak Sen, PhD
Assistant Professor in Residence
Department of Epidemiology and Biostatistics
Center for Bioinformatics and Molecular Biostatistics
UCSF
"Genetic Analysis Using Admixed Mouse Populations"
Tuesday February 12, 2008
Rosemary Akhurst, PhD
Professor
Cancer Research Institute
Helen Diller Family Comprehensive Cancer Center and Department of Anatomy
UCSF
"TGF-beta1 and Interacting Modifier Genes in Mouse and Human Disease"
Tuesday January 28, 2008
Kunlin Jin, MD, PhD
Associate Research Professor
Buck Institute for Age Research
"Neurogenesis and Stroke"
Tuesday January 8, 2008
Donald M. McDonald, MD, PhD
Professor
Cardiovascular Research Institute, Comprehensive Cancer Center and Department of Anatomy
UCSF
"Cellular Actions of Angiogenesis Inhibitors on Blood Vessels"
Tuesday December 18, 2007
Larry Litt, MD, PhD
Professor
Department of Anesthesia and Perioperative Care
UCSF
"Introducing 14 Tesla NMR Metabolomics to Brain Slice Studies of Injury Mechanisms"
Tuesday November 20, 2007
Shantel Weinsheimer, PhD
Postdoctoral Fellow
Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory
Genomics Division
"Identification of Candidate Genes in Intracranial Aneurysm"
Tuesday October 30, 2007
Mika Scheinin, MD
Professor of Pharmacology
Chair, Department of Pharmacology, Drug Development and Therapeutics
University of Turku, Finland
"a2-Adrenoceptors"
Tuesday October 9, 2007
Matthew L Springer, Ph.D.
Assistant Professor of Medicine
Department of Medicine, Division of Cardiology
UCSF
"Insights into Angiogenic Gene Therapy and Bone Marrow Cell Therapy for Cardiovascular Disease"
Tuesday September 11, 2007
Ronald Bainton, Ph.D.
Assistant Professor in Residence
Department of Anesthesia and Perioperative Care
UCSF
"A Model System for the Study of Xenobiotic Neuroprotection in Drosophila"
Tuesday August 28, 2007
Douglas Gould, Ph.D.
Associate Professor of Ophthalmology and Anatomy
Institute of Human Genetics
UCSF
"Genetic and Environmental Interactions Influence Predisposition to Cerebrovascular Disease"
Monday August 20, 2007
in conjunction with BASIC Brain & Spinal Cord Injury Center
Karl H Plate, MD
Professor and Chairperson
Institute of Neurology (Eidinger Institute)
Neuroscience center
Frankfurt-Germany
"Regulation of brain angiogenesis in development, ischemia and tumors"
Tuesday July 9, 2007
Calvin Kuo, MD, Ph.D.
Associate Professor
Division of Hematology
Stanford University
"Developmental Regulation of CNS Angiogenesis."
Tuesday June 12, 2007
Mark Schumacher, MD, Ph.D.
Associate Professor
Department of Anesthesia and Perioperative Care
UCSF
"The Capsaicin Receptor (TRPV1): Clinical Insights and Opportunities."
Tuesday April 24, 2007
William L. Young, MD
James P. Livingston Professor
Vice-Chair, Dept. of Anesthesia and Perioperative Care
Professor, Neurological Surgery and Neurology
UCSF
"A Randomized Trial of Unruptured Brain Arteriovenous Malformations (ARUBA; NCT00389181): An Overview."
Tuesday March 20, 2007
Max Wintermark, MD
Assistant Professor (Neuroradiology)
Department of Radiology, UCSF
"Advances in Stroke Imaging"
Tuesday February 13, 2007
Geoffrey T. Manley, MD, PhD
Associate Professor in Residence
Department of Neurological Surgery
"Aquaporins"
Tuesday January 9, 2007
Michael S. Beattie, PhD
Professor in Residence
Department of Neurological Surgery
"Cell Death and Repair in Experimental Spinal Cord Surgery"
Tuesday November 21, 2006
Ludmila Pawlikowska, PhD
Assistant Research Geneticist
Department of Anesthesia and Perioperative Care
"Strategies for Complex Disease Genetics: Lessons from Vascular Disorders and Longevity."
Tuesday October 31, 2006
Nerissa U. Ko, MD
Assistant Professor of Neurology
Assistant Director, UCSF Neurovascular Service
"Predictors of Outcome After Subarachnoid Hemorrhage."
Tuesday August 29th, 2006
Susanna Rosi, PhD
Assistant Professor
Departments of Physical Therapy, Rehabilitation Science & Neurological Surgery
UCSF
"Neuroinflammation: experimental model of the early events leading to neurodegeneration and therapeutic strategies."
Tuesday May 9th, 2006
William L. Young, MD
James P. Livingston Professor
Vice-Chair, Dept. of Anesthesia and Perioperative Care
Professor, Neurological Surgery and Neurology
UCSF
"Vascular malformations of the brain: predicting and preventing hemorrhage."
Tuesday April 18, 2006
Burt G. Feuerstein, MD, PhD
Professor in Residence
Department of Laboratory Medicine and Neurosurgery
Principle Investigator
Brain Tumor Research Center and Cancer Genetics Program
UCSF
"Genetic and Expression Profiles Identify
Clinically Significant Molecular Subtypes of Astrocytic Tumors”
Thursday April 6, 2006
Stephen C. Jone, PhD
Professor of Anesthesiology
Drexel University College of Medicine
Director of Anesthesiology Research, Department of Anesthesiology
Allegheny General Hospital
Allegheny Singer Research Institute
"Variations in CBF and [eNOS] During Hypotension and Focal Ischemia"
Tuesday March 28, 2006
Ralph Marcucio, PhD
Assistant Professor in Residence
Department of Orthopaedic Surgery
U.C.S.F.
"Mechanisms Underlying Impaired Fracture Healing"
Monday Dec. 12, 2005
Margaret Rene Wrensch, MPH, PhD
Professor In Residence
Stanley D. Lewis and Virginia S. Lewis
Endowed Chair in Brain Tumor Research
Co-director, Neuroepidemiology Division
Department of Neurological Surgery
Department of Epidemiology and Biostatistics
U.C.S.F.
"Non-synonymous Coding SNPs in Relation to Glioblastoma Survival and Age of Diagnosis"
Friday, August 12, 2005
Andrew M. Roberts, PhD
Associate Professor of Physiology and Biophysics
University of Louisville School of Medicine
"Roles of Nitric Oxide and Ischemic Preconditioning in Platelet Adhesion and Pulmonary Arteriolar Constriction Caused by Lung Ischemia-Reperfusion"
Tuesday, August 2, 2005
Mark Ryder, DMD
Professor, Dept. of Orofacial Sciences
and Chair, Division of Periodontology, UCSF
"Tobacco and the Neutrophils in the Host Response:
From the Clinic to the Lab and Back Again"
Thursday, July 28, 2005
Zhi-Gang Xiong, MD, PhD
Assoc. Scientist / Director of Neurophysiology Program
Robert S. Dow Neurobiology Laboratories
Legacy Clinical Research Center, Portland, OR
"Acid-sensing Ion Channel as a Novel Target for Ischemic Brain Injury"
Monday, July 11, 2005
Yerem Yeghiazarians, MD
Assistant Clinical Professor, Dept. of Medicine, Division of Cardiology
and Director, UCSF Cardiac Stem Cell Translational Development Program
"Stem Cells and the Heart"
Tuesday, June 28, 2005
Philip Bickler, MD, PhD
Professor
Dept. of Anesthesia and Perioperative Care, UCSF
"Role of calcium in neuroprotective signaling and preconditioning"
Tuesday, April 5, 2005
Midori A. Yenari, PhD
Associate Professor
Department of Neurology, UCSF
"Anti-inflammatory properties of HSP70"
Friday, April 8, 2005
Kenneth Taylor, MD, FRCS, FRCSE, FESC, FETCS, FSA
Professor of Cardiac Surgery, University of London
British Heart Foundation
"Mechanism of Brain Injury in Cardiac Surgery Patients"
Tuesday, March 22, 2005
Wen-Hai Chou, PhD
Assistant Research Scientist
Ernest Gallo Clinic & Research Center, UCSF
"Protein Kinase C delta in Stroke-Reperfusion Injury"
Tuesday, March 8, 2005
Carolina Maier, PhD
Senior Research Scientist
Department of Neurosurgery
Stanford University Medical School
"Oxidative stress & blood-brain barrier damage following stroke"
Tuesday, February 15, 2005
Gustaf Mårtensson, M.Sc. Tekn. Lic.
Researcher, Department of Mechanics, Royal Institute of Technology (KTH)
& Department of Neuroradiology, Karolinska Hospital
Stockholm, Sweden
"What can flow tell us about AVMs?"
Tuesday, February 8, 2005
Frank R Sharp, MD
M.I.N.D. Institute and Department of Neurology
University of California at Davis
"Hypoxia Induced Preconditioning in Brain"
Tuesday, October 12, 2004
Jean-François Pittet, MD
Professor In Residence
Department of Anesthesia
"Alphav-beta5 integrin, a master switch for the control of endothelial permeability?"
Tuesday, September 7, 2004
Marlene Rabinovitch, MD
Dwight and Vera Dunlevie Professor of Pediatrics
Professor (by courtesy) Developmental Biology
Research Director of the Wall Center for Pulmonary Vascular Diseases
Stanford University School of Medicine
"Mts1: A Gene Linking Cancer and Vascular Pathobiology"
Tuesday, August 24, 2004
Hui Meng, PhD
Professor of Mechanical & Aerospace Engineering
Research Associate Professor of Neurosurgery
Director, Laser Flow Diagnostics Lab and Hemodynamics Lab
Co-Director, Toshiba Stroke Research Center (TSRC)
State University of New York at Buffalo
"Cerebral Aneurysm: Hemodynamics and Vascular Biology"
Tuesday, August 17, 2004
Christopher Quick, PhD
Assistant Professor of Biomedical Engineering
Physiology & Pharmacology, Texas A&M University
"A Model for Matching Supply to Demand in Complex Networks:
the eBat Project"
Tuesday, July 20, 2004
Jun Chen, MD
Assistant Professor of of Neurology
Department of Neurology, University of Pittsburgh School of Medicine
"Programed cell death in ischemic neuronal injury: regulation through the mitochodril signaling pathway"
Tuesday, July 13, 2004
Jonathan Zaroff, MD
Assistant Professor of Medicine, UCSF
Medical Director, Intensive Cardiac Care Unit, UCSF Medical Center
"Neurocardiology and SAH"
Tuesday, May 4, 2004
Jialing Liu, PhD
Assistant Professor of Neurological Surgery
"Brain Plasticity after Stroke"
Tuesday, April 27, 2004
Rong Wang, PhD
Assistant Professor
Department of Surgery and Pacific Vascular Research Laboratory
"Notch in mammalian arteriogenesis"
Tuesday, April 20, 2004
Andrew T.
Parsa MD, PhD
Assistant Professor of Neurological Surgery, UCSF
"Immunotherapy for Malignant Glioma: Challenges and Progress"
Tuesday, April 13, 2004
Valerie M Weaver, PhD
Assistant Professor, Pathology and Laboratory Medicine Member
Institute for Medicine and Engineering
University of Pennsylvania
"The Tension Rises: Mechanics Meets Mammary Morphogenesis and Malignancy"
Tuesday, April 6, 2004
Arturo
Alvarez-Buylla, PhD
Heather and Melanie Muss Professor
Department of Neurological Surgery and
Program in Developmental and Stem Cell Biology
"Identification of Neural Stem Cells in Adult Human Brain"
Tuesday, March 16, 2004
Dr. Gary A. Rosenberg, MD
Professor of Neurology, Neurosciences, Cell Biology and Physiology,
and Mathematics and Statistics, and Chairman of Neurology
University of New Mexico Health Sciences Center, Albuquerque, NM
"Matrix metalloproteinases in neuroinflammation: The convoluted path from bench to bedside"
Tuesday, February 17, 2004
Dr. Thiennu Vu, MD, PhD
Assistant Professor, Department of Medicine, UCSF/SFGH
"Epithelial-Vascular Interactions in Lung Morphogenesis"
Tuesday, January 27, 2004
Scott R. VandenBerg, MD, PhD
Professor, Departments of Pathology and Neurosurgery
Director, Brain Tumor Research Center Tissue and Markers Core
"Astrocytic Tumor Types & Phenotype(s) of Aggressive Invasive Growth"
Tuesday, January 6, 2004
Weihai Ying, PhD
Assistant Professor, Dept. of Neurology, UCSF and San Francisco VA Medical Center
and Research Scientist, Northern California Institute for Research and Education
"Oxidative Stress, PARP-1 and PARG in Neuronal and Astrocyte Death"
Tuesday, December 2, 2003
Ralph Marcucio, MD
Assistant Professor In Residence, Department of Orthopaedic Surgery, UCSF/SFGH
"Tissue Interactions Governing Facial Development"
Tuesday, September 2, 2003
Jean Francois Pittet, MD
Department of Anesthesia, UCSF/SFGH
"Role of Alphav-beta5 Integrin in VEGF-Dependent Vascular Permeability"
Tuesday, July 8, 2003
Yongmei Chen, MD, PhD
Associate Research Scientist, Department of Neurology, UCSF
"Oxidative Stress and Poly(ADP-ribose)polymerase1 in Ischemic Brain Cell Death"
Tuesday, June 3, 2003
Zena Vexler, MD
Associate Adjunct Professor, Department of Neurology, UCSF
"Pro-Inflammatory Signaling and Ischemia-Induced Neuronal Death"
Tuesday, May 20, 2003
Theodore Miclau, MD
Associate Professor, Acting Chief, Department of Orthopaedic Surgery, UCSF
"The Molecular Regulation of Fracture Repair"
Monday, April 7, 2003
Song Li, PhD
Assistant Professor of Bioengineering, University of California, Berkeley
"Flow-Mediated Migration of Vascular Endothelial Cells"
Tuesday, March 18, 2003
Linda Noble, PhD
Professor and Vice Chair, Department of Neurological Surgery, UCSF
"Vascular Mechanisms Underlying Restoration of Function after Spinal Cord Injury"
Seminars in Other Areas
Links to seminars and events in clinical neuroscience,
anesthesia, and other areas at UCSF:
