Friday, March 11, 2011

Next Week's DSS - Dr. Giovanni Manfredi

The next Distinguished Scientist Seminar at the University of South Alabama College of Medicine will be presented by Dr. Giovanni Manfredi, professor of neurology and neuroscience at Weill Medical College of Cornell University.

His lecture, titled “Regulation of Mitochondrial Energy Metabolism by Protein Phosphorylation,” will take place March 17, 2011, at 4 p.m. in the Medical Sciences Building auditorium on USA’s main campus.

Dr. Manfredi’s main focus of research is on the regulation of mitochondrial metabolism in diseases associated with mitochondrial dysfunction.

Dr. Manfredi received his M.D. and a Ph.D. in anatomy and cell biology from Catholic University of the Sacred Heart in Rome, where he also completed a postdoctoral fellowship in neurology. He is a member of the Society for Neuroscience and the recipient of the Telethon Italia Research Fellowship Award.

For more information on Dr. Manfredi’s research, visit http://med.cornell.edu/research/gmanfredi/biography.html.

For additional information on the seminar, contact Natalie Kent at (251) 461-1548.