11/8/02

Charles Martin, 334/844-3698

JOSEPH HUME

BIOMEDICAL RESEARCHER TO SPEAK AT AU VETERINARY COLLEGE

AUBURN -- Joseph Hume, director of the University of Nevada Center of Biomedical Research Excellence, will present two lectures on Nov. 18 at Auburn University's College of Veterinary Medicine

Both will be at Greene Hall, Room 120.

At noon, Hume will present "Establishment of a New Center of Biomedical Research Excellence at the University of Nevada," a presentation designed for a general audience.

At 4 p.m., he will present "Re-evaluation of the Role of C1C-3 as a Value-Sensitive Outwardly Rectifying Chloride Channel." This seminar is a technical presentation of his work.

Hume helped establish the Nevada center to facilitate the investigation of chloride transport proteins and their role in cardiac dysfunction. Chloride channel proteins are thought to have an important role in cardiac arrhythmias, or irregular heartbeats, and other forms of heart disease. Other areas of study include single proteins and cells, gene transcription, animal models of cardiac disease, and human genetics and cardiovascular disease.

Hume also is chair of the Department of Pharmacology in the University of Nevada School of Medicine. He joined the university in 1987 and rose to the rank of professor in the Department Physiology and Cell Biology in 1992.

He earned his Ph.D. in pharmacology in 1979 from the University of California, San Francisco. Hume is a fellow in the American Heart Association, has received the National Institutes of Health Merit Award, and has been named the University of Nevada Foundation Professor.

The presentations at AU are sponsored by the College of Veterinary Medicine's Joy Goodwin Lecture Series.

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CONTACT: Dr. Juming Zhong, 334/844-6739.