Spring 2020
Thursdays, 1:00 pm
Adams Conference Center
Vet Med Bldg.
| JAN 16 | Kirsteen Browning, Ph.D. , Professor, Department of Neural and Behavioral Sciences, Penn State College of Medicine “Food for thought: how diet affects the development of brainstem neurocircuits” |
| JAN 23 | Jonathan Mitchem, M.D., Assistant Professor, Department of Surgery (Surgical Oncology) and Truman VAMC “Optimizing anti-tumor immunity in colorectal cancer” |
| JAN 30 | Christian Lorson, Ph.D. , Professor, Department of Veterinary Pathobiology “Precision medicine in spinal muscular atrophy: from RNA to therapeutics” |
| FEB 6 | Mahesh Thakkar, Ph.D. , Professor and Director of Research, Department of Neurology and Research Health Scientist, Truman VAMC “Alcohol disrupts sleep homeostasis” |
| FEB 13 | Rajiv Mohan, Ph.D. , Ruth M. Kraeuchi Missouri Endowed Professor in Veterinary Ophthamology, Department of Veterinary Medicine & Surgery and Truman VAMC “Gene-therapy approaches to treat pathological fibrosis/scarring and restore corneal transparency” |
| FEB 20 | Kerry McDonald, Ph.D. , Professor & Interim Chair, Department of Medical Pharmacology and Physiology “Cardiac myofilaments: from health to heart disease” |
| FEB 27 | NO SEMINAR – MU CARDIOVASCULAR DAY |
| MAR 5 | Lauren Borkowski, Graduate Student, Department of Biomedical Sciences (Mentor: Dr. Nicole Nichols) “Just breathe: potential strategies to maintain ventilatory function over the course of respiratory motor neuron loss” |
| MAR 12 | Elizabeth Bryda, Ph.D. , Professor, Department of Veterinary Pathobiology and Director, Rat Resource and Research Center and MU Animal Modeling Core “From fish to rodents: harnessing the power of animal models to study human disease” |
| MAR 19 | Brian Weil, Ph.D. , Research Assistant Professor, Department of Physiology and Biophysics, University at Buffalo “Novel causes and consequences of cardiomyocyte loss in heart disease” |
| MAR 26 | NO SEMINAR – SPRING BREAK |
| APR 2 | Xuansong Mao , Graduate Student, Department of Biomedical Sciences (Mentor: Dr. Frank Booth) “Treating mild cognitive impairment: are resistance training and creatinine supplementation additive or synergistic?” |
| APR 9 | NO SEMINAR – EXPERIMENTAL BIOLOGY MEETING |
| APR 16 | Scott Brown, Graduate Student, Department of Biomedical Sciences (Mentor: Dr. Shawn Bender) “Vascular mineralocorticoid receptors and hindlimb ischemia: sex-specific responses?” |
| APR 23 | Dongsheng Duan, Ph.D. , Margaret Proctor Mulligan Professor in Medical Research, Department of Molecular Microbiology and Immunology “TBD” |
| APR 30 | Kevin Cummings, Ph.D. , Associate Professor, Department of Biomedical Sciences and Dalton Cardiovascular Research Center “New insights into a neural basis for Sudden Infant Death Syndrome” |
