AN INTEGRATIVE APPROACH TO
TRAINING TOMORROW’S SCIENTISTS
Fall 2023
Thursdays, 1:00 pm
W-233 Vet Med Bldg.
| SEPT 7 | Zhen Yan, Ph.D., Professor and Director, Center for Exercise Medicine Research, Fralin Biomedical Research Institute at VTC, “New Insights of AMPK Function in Skeletal Muscle by Integrative Omics” |
| SEPT 14 | Ruwaida Ben Musa, Graduate Student, Department of Biomedical Sciences (Mentor: Dr. Kevin Cummings), “Orexin Facilitates the Hypoxic Ventilatory Response Via the Activation of Corticotropin-Releasing Hormone Neurons that Project to the Nucleus of the Solitary Tract” |
| SEPT 21 | Charles Norton , Ph.D. , Assistant ResearchProfessor, Department of Medical Pharmacology and Physiology, University of Missouri-Columbia, “Effects of Age, Diet and Sex on Resilience to Oxidative Stress in Cerebral Arteries” |
| SEPT 28 | Aaron Ericsson, DVM, Ph.D., Assistant Professor, Department of Veterinary Pathobiology, University of Missouri-Columbia, “Fetal Programming of Neurodevelopment and Behavior in Response to the Maternal Microbiome” |
| OCT 5 | Teresa Pitts, Ph.D., Associate Professor and Chair of Speech Language & Hearing Sciences, University of Missouri-Columbia, “The Ever-Expanding Swallow Pattern Generator” |
| OCT 12 | Jaapna Dhillon, Ph.D., Assistant Professor in the Department of Nutrition and Exercise Physiology , “How Diet and Exercise Influence Cardiometabolic Health and Microbiome Interactions” |
| OCT 19 | Jasenka Zubcevic, Ph.D., Associate Professor, Department of Physiology and Pharmacology, University of Toledo , “New Interoceptive Mechanisms of Blood Pressure Control” |
| OCT 26 | E. Fiona Bailey, Ph.D., Professor, Department of Physiology, College of Medicine, University of Arizona , To Be Determined |
| NOV 2 | Ilker Ozden, Ph.D., Assistant Professor, Department of Biological and Biomedical Engineering, University of Missouri-Columbia , “Neural Correlates of Reward-Driven Behavioral Switching in the Striatum” |
| NOV 9 | Brant Isakson, Ph.D., Professor, Department of Molecular Physiology and Biological Physics, University of Virginia, “Alpha-Hemoglobin in the Cardiovascular System” |
| NOV 16 | Michael Petris, Ph.D. , Professor, Department of Biochemistry, Molecular Microbiology and Immunology and Ophthalmology, University of Missouri-Columbia , “Therapeutic Targeting of Copper Metabolism Using New and Repurposed Drugs” |
| NOV 23 | NO SEMINAR – THANKSGIVING BREAK |