Graduate Program in Molecular Basis of Human Disease
“Phosphoinositide and G protein control of K channels utilized to study GPCR signaling”
Diomedes E. Logothetis, PhD
Professor and John D. Bower Chair
DEPARTMENT OF PHYSIOLOGY AND BIOPHYSICS
MEDICAL COLLEGE OF VIRGINIA CAMPUS
VIRGINIA COMMONWEALTH UNIVERSITY
Thursday, October 30, 2014
10.30-11.30a.m.
Room 7A-0.1, Post-Graduate Building, Medical School
Host: Dimitris Kardassis
Tel. 4549
Supported by the European Commission - funded program ʽTranslational Potentialʼ (TransPOT).
Time:
11:00
Description:
IMBB - IESL Mini Workshop on Modern trends in Microscopy
Introduction: Giannis Zacharakis, FORTH - IESL
1. "Polarization second harmonic imaging of biological samples".
Speaker: Sotiris Psilodimitrakopoulos
Research Associate, FORTH-IESL
2. "Theory and applications of super-resolution optical microscopy:
unravelling the ultra-structure and dynamics of molecular assemblies
in cells".
Speaker: Orestis Faklaris
Deputy Director of ImagoSeine Imaging facility
Institut Jacques Monod - CNRS - Universite Paris Diderot
3. "Autofluorescence Single Photon and Multiphoton endo-microscopy and
applications in the diagnosis of respiratory pathologies".
Speaker: Anikitos Garofalakis
Research Scientist, PARCC - Inserm U970, Paris, France
Friday, October 31st 2014 @ 11:00
Seminar Room 1 [FORTH's bldg]
Host: G. Zacharakis, In Vivo Imaging Lab
Time:
13:00 - 14:00
Description:
ΠΡΟΓΡΑΜΜΑ ΜΕΤΑΠΤΥΧΙΑΚΩΝ ΣΠΟΥΔΩΝ ΣΤΙΣ
Ν Ε Υ Ρ Ο Ε Π Ι Σ Τ Η Μ Ε Σ
“A role for non-coding variation in schizophrenia ”
Panagiotis (Panos) Roussos, MD, PhD
Assistant Professor
Department of Genetics and Genomic Sciences and Department of Psychiatry
Icahn Institute for Genomics and Multiscale Biology
Friedman Brain Institute
Icahn School of Medicine at Mount Sinai
The Leon and Norma Hess Center for Science and Medicine
New York
13.00-14.00
Αίθουσα 7A04
Time:
16:00
Description:
Speaker
Eleftherios Economou
Affiliation
Department of Physics, University of Crete and IESL-FORTH
Title
Atoms, Molecules, Solids: Their basic features made simple
Location
Department of Physics Bldg., Voutes, 3rd floor Seminar Room
Time
16:00
Language
English
Time:
13:00
Description:
Christos ECONOMOU
Archaeological Research Laboratory
Stockholm University
Title: "Applications of ancient-DNA on Scandinavian archaeological material. Disease and migration in the past".
Thursday, November 13th 2014 @ 13:00
Seminar Room 1 [FORTH's bldg]
Host: D. Kafetzopoulos
Time:
12:00
Description:
SPEAKER: Prof. Dieter Schinzer
Chemisches Institut der Otto-von-Guericke-Universität Magdeburg,
Universitätsplatz 2, D-39106 Magdeburg, Germany
TITLE: "Synthetic Studies Towards the Total Synthesis of (+)-Sorangicin A"
DATE: Thursday 13th November 2014
TIME: 12:00
ROOM: Chemistry Seminar Room
Time:
16:00
Description:
Speaker
Andreas Lyberatos
Affiliation
Department of Materials Science and Technology, University of Crete
Title
Progress in multiscale modeling: A new cluster Monte Carlo method
Location
Department of Physics Bldg., Voutes, 3rd floor Seminar Room
Time
16:00
Language
English
Abstract
Multiscale modeling [1] aims at efficient and accurate simulation of thermomagnetic writing using micromagnetic models based on Landau-Lifshitz-Bloch equation with input parameters (for instance M(T), chi(T), Tc) determined separately from atomistic models.
In the first part of this presentation I discuss some limitations in previous attempts at multiscale modeling and present a different
methodology. A basic new requirement is the accurate knowledge of the size dependence of the equilibrium magnetic properties of the magnetic
nanoparticles. For this reason, a new Monte Carlo cluster model for continuous spin models with long range exchange interactions is being developed to be applied on chemically ordered L1o-FePt.
[1] Kazantseva et al., PRB 77 (2008) 184428
Time:
12:00
Description:
Maria FARSARI
Institute of Electronic Structure & Laser (IESL)
Foundation for Research and Technology - HELLAS (FORTH)
Title: "3D laser writing for biomedical applications".
Friday, November 21st 2014 @ 12:00
Seminar Room #1 [FORTH's bldg]
Host: I. Siden-Kiamos
Time:
12:00
Description:
John S. PEZARIS, Ph.D.
Massachusetts General Hospital
Harvard Medical School
The field of visual prosthetics has concentrated primarily on two targets for stimulation, the retina and the primary visual cortex. The lateral geniculate nucleus of the thalamus, the relay station between these two areas, has been largely ignored because of the difficulty of surgical approach. The development of deep brain stimulation techniques for addressing pathologies of the midbrain has opened surgical access to the thalamus, and motivates a reconsideration of targets for visual prosthetics.
With this background, we have performed experiments in an animal model to demonstrate a proof of concept for a visual prosthesis based on thalamic microstimulation, followed by an experiment in a computer model to set basic engineering parameters for a thalamic visual prosthesis, in turn followed by a series of experiments with sighted humans to assess design performance. In this presentation we will review the compelling motivation for the thalamic approach, review the experimental results thus far, and provide a preview of future work.
Time:
12:00
Description:
John IOANNIDIS
Professor, Stanford University School of Medicine
Honorary Member of the Foundation for Research and Technology-Hellas
Title: "Improving reproducible research".
Friday, December 5th 2014 @ 12:00
Main Amphitheater [FORTH's bldg]
Host: T. Fotsis
Time:
16:00
Description:
Speaker
Ioannis Konidakis
Affiliation
IESL-FORTH
Title
Growth of functional materials inside Photonic Crystal Fibers:
towards the lab-in-a-fiber protocol
Location
Department of Physics Bldg., Voutes, 3rd floor Seminar Room
Time
16:00
Language
English
Abstract
In this talk results on the growth of glassy and crystalline materials inside photonic crystal fibers (PCFs) are reviewed, seeking specific
actuating and light confining properties. Initially, results refer to the infiltration of silver metaphosphate glasses inside silica PCFs,
and the subsequent thermal poling of those for inducing plasmon resonance transmission characteristics. On a different manner, the wet
chemistry growth and characterization of crystalline zinc oxide (ZnO) layers inside PCFs is shown, while latest work on to the exploitation of those PCFs for developing sensing and actuating optofluidic devices
is presented.