Next Week's DSS - Dr. Indu Ambudkar

The next Distinguished Scientist Seminar at the University of South Alabama College of Medicine will be presented by Dr. Indu S. Ambudkar, chief of the Secretory Physiology Section of Molecular Physiology and Therapeutics Branch of the National Institute of Dental and Craniofacial Research at the National Institutes of Health in Bethesda, Md.

Dr. Ambudkar's talk, titled “TRPC Channels: Modulators of Cytosolic Signaling and More,” will take place on Sept. 8, 2011, at 4 p.m. in the Medical Sciences Building auditorium on USA's main campus.

Dr. Ambudkar’s research interests include Ca2+ signaling mechanisms, TRP channels, Ca2+ channels and calcium transport proteins, and the role of Ca2+ in salivary gland growth and disease. She is the recipient of an NIH Merit Award.

Dr. Ambudkar received her bachelor’s degree in biology from Isabella Thoburn College, her master’s degree in biochemistry from Lucknow University, and her Ph.D. in biochemistry from Maduraj Kamaraj University in India.

For more information on Dr. Ambudkar’s research, click here.

To learn more about the lecture series visit http://www.usahealthsystem.com/DSS.