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University of Connecticut Health Center - Know Better Care Department of Cell Biology

Research in the Department of Cell Biology is concerned with cells as well as how cells function in the context of the many various tissues of the body. Our goal is to discover molecular and physiological mechanisms that underlie the treatment and prevention of human disease.

The department faculty participate in the teaching of the Human Systems and the Correlated Medical Problem Solving (CMPS) courses for first year medical and dental students, and the Logic of Cell Biology course for graduate students. Several faculty are also contributors to medical / and dental student textbooks.

The core of the department consists of former members of the Department of Physiology, which was chaired by Richard D. Berlin for over 30 years. In recent years, he oversaw the change to Cell Biology, the addition of members from the former Departments of Pharmacology and Anatomy, and the formation of the Center for Vascular Biology (Linda Shapiro, Director) and the Center for Cell Analysis and Modeling (Leslie Loew, Director). The department organizes the annual Richard D. Berlin lecture.

Department Activities

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Upcoming Seminars

  • June 4, 2013
    Emre Seli, Yale University. "Translational regulation of gene expression during oogenesis: the role of embryonic poly(A) binding protein."
  • October 17, 2013
    Rick Cote, University of New Hampshire. Title to be announced.

 

Previous Seminars 2011–2013

  • May 9, 2013
    Carmen Dessauer, University of Texas-Houston. "Spatial constraints of cAMP signaling: the next dimension in adenylyl cyclase regulation."
  • March 26, 2013
    Yijun Ruan, Jackson Labs, Farmington, CT. "ChIA-PET for 3D chromatin interaction architecture, transcription regulation, and disease."
  • January 9, 2013
    Carmen Williams, National Institute of Health/National Institute of Environmental Health Sciences, Research Triangle Park, NC. "Outside-in calcium signaling is required for egg activation"
  • July 17, 2012
    Lincoln Potter, University of Minnesota-Twin Cities. "Activation and deactivation of guanylyl cyclase-B in bone growth and reproduction: The long and short of it"
  • February 2, 2012
    Thomas Reese, National Institute of Neurological Disorders and Stroke, Bethesda, MD. "Molecular organization of the postsynaptic density"
  • December 9, 2011
    Daisaku Hiraoka, Tokyo Institute of Technology. "Turn motif phosphorylation negatively regulates activation-loop phosphorylation in Akt in starfish oocytes"
  • October 24, 2011
    Jeremy Egbert, Washington State University. "Understanding avian yolk androgens at the level of the follicle: Searching for mechanisms of accumulation and variation"
  • August 4, 2011
    Anne Carlson, University of Washington, Seattle. "The signaling mechanisms of mouse sperm capacitation"
  • June 23, 2011
    Harvey Florman, University of Massachusetts Medical School. "As if voltage sensors weren't complicated already: the case of voltage-sensitive phosphoinositide phosphatases of sperm"
  • March 24, 2011
    Jeff Saucerman, University of Virginia. "The when and where of cardiac beta-adrenergic signaling"
  • January 27, 2011
    Keith Sutton, University of Massachusetts Worcester. "The long and winding road to fertility"