Save the Date- MCIP Recruitment: March 4-5, 2016

MCIP Graduate Group Recruitment Event

Friday & Saturday, March 4 & 5, 2016

Faculty:  Please keep your calendar open to meet with prospective students on Friday, March 4

Students:  Please be available to host our visiting prospective students

Look for more information from Dawne. 

Save the Date- Annual Retreat: May 14-15, 2016

SAVE THE DATE

MCIP Spring Retreat

Jesuit Retreat Center

(http://uccr.org/camp/jesuit-retreat-center) 

Saturday, May 14 - Sunday, May 15, 2016

Additional information (agenda and registration forms) will be sent at a later date

Please e-mail Dawne (drshell@ucdavis.edu), Hannah (hmaizad@ucdavis.edu), or Grace (gor@ucdavis.edu) for suggestions on the Keynote Speaker.

CBS Fall Welcome- September 17th, 2015

Don't forget to RSVP (via your e-mail invitation) for this year's CBS Fall Welcome! This is a combined event between graduate groups. More information from the College of Biological Sciences is included below:


The College of Biological Sciences invites you to attend the 2nd Annual Combined Graduate Group Fall Welcome!!!

Participating Graduate Groups:

• Animal Behavior
• Biochemistry, Molecular, Cellular and Developmental Biology
• Biophysics
• Integrative Genetics and Genomics
• Molecular, Cellular and Integrative Physiology
• Neuroscience
• Plant Biology
• Population Biology

Who is invited: Current & Incoming graduate students and faculty members.

When: Thursday, September 17, from 4:00 p.m. – 6:00 p.m.

Where: Life Sciences Courtyard

Event includes:

• Welcome by Interim Dean Wainwright
• Food and drinks catered by Plutos

We request that you please RSVP ASAP, and no later than Friday, September 11, 2015.

Event sponsored by the College of Biological Sciences Dean’s Office.

Exit Seminar Announcement- Kristi Hamilton

Exit Seminar Announcement:

Gut Microbiota and Barrier Function: Using Prebiotics to Understand the Early Consequences of a High Fat Diet

Kristi Hamilton

PI: Helen Raybould

Molecular, Cellular, and Integrative Physiology Graduate Group

Thursday, September 3^rd

11:00 am

VetMed 3B Room 1105

Upcoming Seminars

We've got some great seminars coming up this week! 

Be sure to check out these research and clinical seminars from School of Veterinary Zoological Faculty Candidate, Sara Childs-Sanford, DVM, MS, DACZM.

“A Holistic Approach to Zoo Animal Nutrition Research:  Feeding for the Future”

12:10pm, 1010 Valley Hall

Tuesday, August 18, 2015, 1105 VM3B

“Zoo Animal Nutrition:  A Veterinary Perspective”

12:00pm, Kampala Center, Sacramento Zoo

Wednesday, August 19, 2015

Exit Seminar - Olga Balashova

MCIP Exit Seminar

Olga Balashova (Borodinsky Lab)

Title:    “Xenopus laevis as an animal model to study folate action in neural tube development”

Date:   Friday, May 15, 2015

Time:   4:00 p.m.

Place:   2135 Tupper Hall

Congratulations Olga! :)

2015 MCIP Spring Colloquium schedule update

Just a reminder that the spring colloquium in conjunction with the annual meeting is next week, May 14th at Putah Creek Lodge.
Please see the revised schedule below:

Max Kleiber Graduate Research Prize

Congratulations to Tingting Liu for being awarded the 2015 Max Kleiber Graduate Research Prize!

2015 MCIP Spring Colloquium

Hi All,

The 2015 Spring MCIP Spring Colloquium will be on Thursday, May 14th at Putah Creek Lodge from 9am-3pm. Below is the most recent up to date schedule.

9:00 – 9:10 a.m. Welcome – Keith Baar, Seminar Chair

9:10 – 9:40 a.m. Presentation by Faculty 

9:40 – 10:00 a.m. Presentation by Nick Aguirre recipient of the 14-15 Irving I. Hertzendorf Memorial Award in Physiology 

10:00 – 10:15 a.m. Presentation by Phung Thai

"The role of the mitochondrial translocator protein on the progression of heart failure" 

Major Professor: Dr. Saul Schaefer 

10:15 – 10:30 a.m. Presentation by Linda Lee

"Modulation of blood-brain barrier permeability associated with lipid-induced neurovascular injury" 

Major Professor: Dr. Jack Rutledge

10:30 – 10:45 a.m. Break 

10:45 – 11:00 a.m. Presentation by Tingting Liu

"Repetitive ROS Injuries Lead to Inactivation of NRF2-Induced Antioxidant Defense and Mitochondrial Dysfunction in HF" 

Major Professor: Dr. Anne Knowlton 

11:00 – 11:15 a.m. Presentation by Jacqueline Levin

"Signaling mechanisms of spinal cord and skeletal muscle regeneration in Xenopus laevis tadpole tail” 

Major Professor: Dr. Laura Borodinsky 

11:15 – 11:30 a.m. Presentation by Nick Aguirre

Major Professor: Dr. Keith Baar

11:30 – 12:00 noon Presentation by Faculty

12:00 noon – 2:00 p.m. Lunch & Poster Viewing/Judging

2:00 – 3:00 p.m. Dr. Anupama Narla, Stanford University, Keynote Speaker 

"Novel Therapeutic Strategies for the Ribosomopathies" 

3:00 – 3:10 p.m. Closing Remarks & Announcements of Awards by Keith Baar, Seminar Chair

Spring Quarter Dinner with the Faculty

Hi MCIPers!
This quarter's dinner with the faculty will be with Dr. Helen Raybould. Please check your email for the doodle poll to RSVP. Thai food will be served and the topic will be on presentations and teaching! See you all there. 

Where: Dr. Raybould's backyard (address will be sent to those who RSVP)
When: Monday, April 13th at 6:30pm

2014-2015 Loren D. Carlson Prize in Physiology

Congratulations to Tingting Liu for receiving the 2014-2015 Loren D. Carlson Prize in Physiology!!!

2014-2015 Irving J. Hertzendorf Memorial Award

If you guys happen to have missed the announcement...

Nick Aguirre (Baar Lab) is the recipient of the 2014-2015 Irving J. Hertzendorf Memorial Award in Physiology for his outstanding qualities as a scholar and as a humanitarian. He will be asked to lead a discussion at the 2015 MCIP Spring Colloquium on Thursday, May 14, at the Putah Creek Lodge.

Congratulations Nick!!! :)

MCIP Faculty in the news

Drs. Pam Lein and Leigh Griffiths have been in the news. Check out the articles below:

Dr. Pam Lein - http://medicalxpress.com/news/2015-02-compound-aim-neuropathic-pain.html

Dr. Leigh Griffiths - http://www.sacramentotoday.net/news/templates/community.asp?articleid=4693&zoneid=1

MCIP Exit Seminar - Tony Herren

Tony Herren

Bers Lab and MCIP Grad Group

Title: "Contribution of CaMKII phosphorylation of the cardiac sodium channel

to heart failure and arrhythmia"

Time: Fri, Feb 20 @ 4pm

Place: GBSF Rm 1005

Join us at the Davis Graduate afterwards (~6pm).

Note: This is during the regularly scheduled Department of Pharmacology RIP talk time slot.

CONGRATULATIONS TONY :)

MCIP faculty in the news

Take a look at this article about Dr. Pessah's research in neurosteroids and their link to autism:

http://ucdavis.edu/ucdavis-today/2015/february/03-foals.html?dn=020315

where will a PhD in biology take you?

January MCIP events

What: Happy Hour/Student Steering Committee Meeting
When: Thursday, January 15th, 5:30pm
Where: 1943 Manet Pl (aka Kristi's house)

What: Winter Quarter Dinner with the Faculty
Who: Dr. Mark Huising
When: Tuesday, January 27th, 6:30pm
Where: TBA

Winter Quarter Dinner with the Faculty

Hello MCIPers,
Winter Quarter's Dinner with the Faculty will be with Dr. Mark Huising scheduled on Tuesday, January 27th at 6:30pm. Place: TBA
RSVP to the doodle poll link that was sent to your email a couple of days ago. 

Review of MCIP in 2014

Happy 2015 MCIPers!

Say farewell to those who have graduated in 2014!

PhD in MCIP!
Alissa Blum

Heather Clifton

Daniel Daugherty

Shannamar Dewey

Jesse Krause

Adam Ross

Tyler Stradleigh

Michael Steinman

Kate Watson

MS in MCIP!
Dione Fernandez

Jaclyn Gosliga

Congratulations to those who have published! 

The late Ken Eum: Chemoselective tarantula toxins report voltage activation of wild-type ion channels in live cells.

http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/25331865

Olga A. Balashova AND Jacqueline B. Levin: Spatiotemporal Integration of Developmental Cues in Neural Development

http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/25484201

Marissa McMackin: Effects of kappa opioid receptors on conditioned place aversion and social interaction in males and females

http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/24445073

AND…

 The effects of exogenous melatonin and melatonin receptor blockade on aggression and estrogen-dependent gene expression in male California mice (Peromyscus californicus)

http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/24518867

AND….

Dyclonine rescues frataxin deficiency in animal models and buccal cells of patients with Friedreich’s Ataxia

http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/25113747

Jesse Krouse: Decreases in Mineralocorticoid but not Glucocorticoid Receptor mRNA Expression During the Short Arctic Breeding Season in Free Living Gambel's White-crowned Sparrow (Zonotrichia leucophrys gambelii).

http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/25411901

AND…

Greater shrub dominance alters breeding habitat and food resources for migratory songbirds in Alaskan arctic tundra.

http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/25294359

Heather Clifton: TRPV1 Channels are Involved in Niacin-induced Cutaneous Vasodilation in Mice.

http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/25387247

Colin McCoin: Acylcarnitines: potential implications for skeletal muscle insulin resistance.

http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/25342132

Angela Papalamprou: The adult heart responds to increased workload with physiologic hypertrophy, cardiac stem cell activation, and new myocyte formation.

http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/23100284

Adam Ross: Loss of Wdfy3 in mice alters cerebral cortical neurogenesis reflecting aspects of the autism pathology.

http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/25198012

Karine Schaal: Whole-Body Cryostimulation Limits Overreaching in Elite Synchronized Swimmers.

http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/25314578