L to R: Ken E. Moore, Stephen Brody, Ethel Brody,
JoeyBarnett, J.R. Haywood.
2nd Annual
Theodore M. Brody Distinguished Lecture
Dr. Joey V. Barnett, Professor of Pharmacology, Medicine, Microbiology & Immunology; Director of Graduate Studies in Pharmacology for the Department of Pharmacology at Vanderbilt University in Nashville, Tennessee, was the recipient of the 2nd annual Theodore M. Brody Distinguished Lecture at MSU on October 28, 2009.
Dr. Barnett spoke on "UNRAVELING CARDIOVASCULAR DEVELOPMENT - TGFβ IN VALVES AND VESSELS."
The event was hosted by Dr. Susan M. Barman.
Sangsiri Receives American Heart Association Fellowship
Sutheera (Emmy) Sangsiri, a current graduate student with Dr. James J. Galligan, was recently awarded an American Heart Association (AHA) Midwest Affiliate Predoctoral Fellowship entitled, “Expression and Function of Adenosine Receptors in Mesenteric and Veins in Normal and Hypertensive Rats”. This award is a very prestigious and competitive. Emmy competed with ~150 applicants and < 10 % of the applications were funded. AHA provides funding for the development of beginning investigators to increase knowledge about cardiovascular sciences.
Emmy is from Thailand and she has been a Ph.D. student since 2007. Emmy joined the Galligan laboratory in 2008.
The two-year fellowship will help Emmy develop my research expertise related to neural control of the cardiovascular system. She will use electrophysiological, pharmacological and molecular biological approaches in her project. After completion of her Ph.D. training she will seek out further postdoctoral in the U.S. before returning to Thailand where she plans to follow an academic career path as a professor and research specialist in the cardiovascular system. She looks forward to being a professor and mentor for her own students.
(July 2009)
Hlavacova receives
Reintegration Grant
Alexandra Hlavacova, a former graduate
student with Dr. James J. Galligan, was awarded
a European Reintegration Grant from Marie Curie.
The grant is designed for researchers who pursued research in a non-EU country for at
least 3 years, and who wish to reintegrate into the
European research industry.
Further information on the grant can be found at: http://cordis.europa.eu/
A .pdf guide to the grant can be found here.
(July 2009)
Patti Banyas Joins Academic Office
The newest addition to the Academic Office (B405 Life Sciences) is Patti Banyas, who joins
the department as Educational Program Coordinator, stepping into the position previously held
by Candace Winslow. Banyas comes from the MSU Broad College of Business, where she
was an Academic Technology Specialist.
Banyas holds a Master of Arts in Digital Media, Art and Technology from Michigan State
University and a Bachelor of Fine Arts in Visual Communications from Kendall College of Art and Design and has
been working with MSU faculty in technology-supported instructional design since 2003. She is also a doctoral
student in the College of Education’s Educational Psychology and Educational Technology Program.
(Summer 2009)
Candace Winslow Joins vuDAT
Candace Winslow, formerly the Educational
Program Coordinator for the Department of Pharmacology
and Toxicology, accepted a new position as an Information
Technologist with Virtual University Design and Technology
(http://vudat.msu.edu) effective July 1st, 2009.
While with Pharm/Tox, she helped design the online PSM program, assisted with course content development, and recruitment of online
faculty. In addition, she provided support to both faculty and students in
the PSM program and the IOSP Short Course. We wish her the best in her
new position at vuDAT.
(Summer 2009)