Host: Dr. Xiang-Qun Xie, Core A
Place: Salk Hall, Room 457
Time: Friday, September 11, 2015, 3:00 – 5:00 pm
3:00 – 3:10 pm General Business for CDAR (Dr. Xie, Dr. Bahar, and Dr. Xing)
3:10 – 3:30 pm Core A Monthly Report Update
*Dr. Zhiwei Feng will present a talk entitled,
“Diarylurea Small Molecule Inhibitors of TRPV1 as Potential Therapeutics for Neuroinflammation.” (Collaboration with P Blumberg, NIH) (10 min)
*Ziheng Hu will present a talk entitled,
“Unraveling the intricate role of anti-hypertensive and anti-diabetic medications in Alzheimer’s disease.” (Collaboration with Dr Oscar Lopez, ADCR cener) (10 min)
3:30 – 4:45 pm Focus Presentations on CaMKII
*Dr. LiRong Wang – Introduction to Mary Torregrossa’s Pilot Project (5 – 10 min)
*Dr. Mary Torregrossa, Assistant Professor, Department of Psychiatry, Translational
Neuroscience Program, University of Pittsburgh
“Identification of a Novel Regulatory Site on CaMKIIa Involved in
Maintaining Cocaine Associated Memories. (45 min)
* Dr. Mustafa Tekpinar, Visiting Scholar (Research Fellow in Dr. Bahar’s Group)
“Investigating dynamics of CamKII by elastic network models” (10 min)
* Dr. Filippo Pullara, Research Associate (Fellow in Dr. Bahar’s Group)
“CaMKII/Calmodulin binding under oxidative stress conditions: Synergy of Experiments and Computer Simulations approaches” (10 min)
4:45 – 5:00 pm CDAR Scientific Committee Meeting (Xie, Bahar, Xing, Wu, Wang, McGuire)
- EAB report
- Funded Research Projects (FRP)
- Feasibility Projects
- Next monthly meeting (Invite Dr Michael Vanyukov)
- Other issues