When:
Monday, September 14, 2015
2:00 PM - 3:00 PM CT
Where: Robert H Lurie Medical Research Center, Baldwin Auditorium, 303 E. Superior, Chicago, IL 60611 map it
Audience: Faculty/Staff - Student - Public - Post Docs/Docs - Graduate Students
Contact:
Alexa Ann Nash
(312) 503-4893
Group: Department of Pharmacology Seminars
Category: Lectures & Meetings
The Department of Pharmacology is proud to present David E. Clapham, M.D., Ph.D., as the speaker for the 2nd Annual Narahashi Lecture.
Please join us for a reception in the Ryan Family Atrium immediately following the lecture from 3:00 - 4:00 PM.
Dr. Clapham is the Aldo R. Castañeda Professor of Cardiovascular Research at Boston Children's Hospital, Professor of Neurobiology at Harvard Medical School and an Investigator of the Howard Hughes Medical Institute.
"Ion Channels in Primary and Motile Cilia"
Cilia are organelles in continuity with the cell cytoplasm. The most familiar are motile cilia, which move fluid along surfaces of epithelia. Less familiar, but more important, are primary cilia. Each cell has one primary cilia. These cilia house the Sonic hedgehog pathway, which controls early embryonic development. Work will be presented in which ion channels in primary and motile cilia are identified, and related to the overall function of cilia. For those interested in disease, the results are relevant to the large class of ciliopathies, polycystic kidney disease, congenital heart disease, obesity, and cancer.