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News and Events
2014-2015 Colloquium Series
Please click here to view the Department of Pharmacology and Physiology Colloquium Series.
Department News
Featured in this weeks URMC Research Connections
Denise C. Hocking, PhD
Crossing Elmwood: Using ultrasound for tissue engineering
Tissue engineering has resulted in some remarkable achievements: skin substitutes, cartilage replacements, artificial bladders, urethral segments, blood vessels, bronchial tubes and corneal tissue substitutes.
Click here to read full article: http://www.rochester.edu/research/researchconnections/mar-14-2014.html
Paper of the Week, The Journal of Biological Chemistry
Kamil J. Alzayady, Ph.D.
A journal article by Kamil J. Alzayady, Larry E. Wagner II, Rahul Chandrasekhar, Alina Monteagudo, Ronald Godiska, Gregory G. Tall, Suresh K. Joseph, and David I. Yule was selected as a Paper of the Week by The Journal of Biological Chemistry.
Alzayady KJ, Wagner LE 2nd, Chandrasekhar R, Monteagudo AM, Godiska R, Tall GG, Joseph SK, and Yule DI. (2013) Functional inositol 1,4,5-trisphosphate receptors assembled from concatenated homo- and heteromeric subunits. J Biol Chem. 288:29772-29784. (Paper of the Week)
2013 Convocation Award
|Dr. Robert T. Dirksen was selected as the 2013 recipient of the Excellence in Postdoctoral Mentoring Award. This award is presented to a postdoctoral mentor who shows dedication to postdoctoral trainees, as well as evidence of contributing significantly to their career development and professional advancement and was presented at the School of Medicine and Dentistry Convocation, September 12, 2013.
Faculty Focus Article
Dr. Alan V. Smrcka's recent article, "Phospholipase Cε hydrolyzes perinuclear phosphatidylinositol 4-phosphate to regulate cardiac hypertrophy," published in Cell was the subject of a faculty focus article published in Inside URMC
Cover Art for Tissue Engineering, Part B: Reviews
An image by Dr. Denise C. Hocking and Dr. Daniel C. Roy was selected as cover art for Tissue Engineering, Part B: Reviews, Volume 19, Number 1, February 2013. This is a human mesenchymal stem cells adherent to a recombinant fibronectin mimetic substrate polymerize an endogenous fibronectin matrix (green) using α5β1 integrins (red).
Upstate New York Pharmacology Society
Paul J. Kammermeier, Ph.D., was elected a Councilor of the Upstate New York Pharmacology Society at its Inaugural Annual Meeting, May 14, 2012, at the University at Buffalo.
56th Annual Biophysical Society Meeting
Trevor J. Shuttleworth, Ph.D., was the Chair and Organizer of a satellite symposium on "Orai Channels -- New Insights, New Ideas," at the 56th Annual Biophysical Society Meeting, San Diego, California, February 24, 2012.
1st International Meeting on Ion Channel Signaling Mechanisms
Trevor J. Shuttleworth, Ph.D., was a Plenary Speaker at The First International Meeting on Ion Channel Signaling Mechanisms: from Basic Science to Clinical Application held in Marrakesh, Morocco, October 31-November 4, 2011.
Faculty Recognized at Convocation
Three Department of Pharmacology and Physiology faculty members were recognized by Dean Mark B. Taubman, M.D., at the URMC Opening Convocation on October 5, 2011, for appointment to five-year named profesorships:
|Jean M. Bidlack, Ph.D., Paul Stark Professorship in Pharmacology
|Alan V. Smrcka, Ph.D., Louis C. Lasagna Professorship in Experimental Therapeutics
|A. William Tank, Ph.D., Lewis Pratt Ross Professorship in Pharmacology and Physiology
NARSAD Distinguished Investigator Award
Suzanne N. Haber, Ph.D., was a recipient of the NARSAD Distinguished Investigator Award, "Postnatal development of prefrontal white matter bundles." She also was invited to give a special lecture at the Society for Neuroscience Annual Meeting, entitled: "The Circuit of Reward and Value: Linking connectivity to Function and Disease CME."
University Dean's Award for Meritorious Service
Denise C. Hocking, Ph.D., was selected for The University Dean's Award for Meritorious Service in Ph.D. Defenses.
Department Press Releases
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Rochester, NY 14642
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As part of his Soul's Survivors series, NY1's Dean Meminger filed the following report on Bill Withers, who didn't start his career as a professional singer until he was in his 30s but ended up writing songs that captured everyday emotions.
Singing songs you can feel in your heart and soul, Bill Withers was able to capture everyday emotions and turn them into music that will last a lifetime, and perhaps beyond.
"The first thing you hear for a while is me playing an instrument. 'Lean On Me,' me playing the piano, and 'Ain't No Sunshine,' me playing the guitar. And I can't play either one of 'em," Withers says. "I can't tell you how many little children come to me and say, you know, 'Lean On Me was the first song I learned to play on the piano.'"
The simple yet beautiful tune of "Lean On Me," he says, is due to his keeping his fingers in the same position and moved them along the piano keyboard.
Surprisingly, Bill Withers didn't become a professional singer until he was already in his 30s, after he learned what deep-voiced superstar Lou Rawls was earning performing in night clubs.
"Somehow or another, it was mentioned that he was paying Lou $2,000 a week," Withers says. "And I thought, like, 'Really?'"
Withers says he already had a bunch of songs in his head, so he started writing them down, and the hits started coming in the '70s. But he had a big obstacle that he continued to work on.
"You can't just manufacture a gift. So somewhere in the back of my thing, I knew that I was musical from a little boy," he says. "But I stuttered really bad until I was maybe 28. So I wasn't very outgoing in that sense, because people who stutter, you speak only when you need to."
The songs now speak for so many, including a love song called "Grandma's Hands" about his grandmother.
Now in his mid-70s, he says he is not all that interested in trying to get up on stage and perform as a senior citizen.
"You know, you see an old guy, man, he's just trying to get from the 7-Eleven back to the bus stop if he's not driving, or back to the parking lot," he says. "You figure, I lived well into my 30s without doing this, so I learned how to live without people looking at me or applauding me. This was a late addition to my life."
Withers' first published song was inspired by a beloved city neighborhood — "Harlem."
"The most fascinating place, the place that I heard about all my life, in folklore, so I wanted to go," he says.
Bill Withers says music isn't something you do, but who you are.
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Tribune Co. Set to Receive Critical FCC Waivers
Interesting tidbit from LA Times DC reporter Jim Puzzanghera.
Barring an unforeseen and very unlikely objection from one or more of the Federal Communications Commission's five commissioners, some very critical regional media market waivers will be granted by the FCC on Friday. The waivers reaffirm the Tribune Company's right to own radio, TV and newspaper outlets in the same market:
The FCC has told commissioners it plans to grant Tribune's new owners a permanent waiver for the company's longtime ownership of the Chicago Tribune newspaper and WGN radio and television stations in the Chicago market.
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