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SUNY Upstate Visiting Lecture Series

Contact: Sandi Tillotson, Graduate Recruitment Coordinator
Address: College of Graduate Studies
SUNY Upstate Medical University, Syracuse, NY 13210
Phone: 315 464-7655
E-mail: tillotss@upstate.edu

Upstate Medical University is pleased to announce a visiting lecture series to bring undergraduates a lively and informative lecture with one of our faculty members. The professors in our series are published, funded investigators who are acknowledged by their peers to be doing excellent research in their fields.

They will conclude each lecture with a brief presentation on the biomedical graduate degree programs and student research offerings at SUNY Upstate.

This free, innovative program is designed to spark interest in the biomedical sciences and to further awareness of opportunities at SUNY Upstate. To schedule one of our lecturers to come to your campus, please complete the visiting scholar request form PDF document text.

Visiting Lecture Series

SUNY Upstate Visiting Lecturers 2009-2010

David C. Amberg David C. Amberg, PhD
Professor of Biochemistry &
Molecular Biology
"The Actin Cytoskeleton Plays a Central Role in the Regulation of Cellular Aging During Oxidative Stress"
Barry Knox, PhD Barry Knox, PhD
Professor of Biochemistry &
Molecular Biology
"Molecular Basis of Genetic Blinding Diseases: Rhodopsin Mutants and Retinal Degeneration"
Jeffrey Amack, PhD Jeffrey Amack, PhD
Assistant Professor of Cell &
Developmental Biology
"Heart Development in the Zebrafish Embryo"
Stewart Loh, PhD Stewart Loh, PhD
Professor of Biochemistry &
Molecular Biology
"Protein Folding: From Mechanisms to Design"
Robert Barlow, PhD Robert Barlow, PhD
Professor of Ophthalmology
"How Do We See?"
Jennifer Moffat, PhD Jennifer Moffat, PhD
Associate Professor of
Microbiology & Immunology
"Of Mice and Men: A Tale of Two Viruses"
Steven Goodman, PhD Steven Goodman, PhD
Dean, College of Graduate Studies,
Vice President for Research,
Professor of Biochemistry &
Molecular Biology, and Pediatrics
"Understanding Sickle Cell Severity"
Steven Youngentob, PhD Steven Youngentob, PhD
Professor of Neuroscience &
Physiology
"Does Mother Nature Always Know Best? Fetal Ethanol Experience and Chemosensory Plasticity: Its Contribution to Adolescent Alcohol Abuse"
Dan Tso, PhD Dan Tso, PhD
Associate Professor of Neurosurgery
"Seeing Is Believing: Visualizing Visual Processing"