Fall 2020
Thursdays, 1:00 pm
In class seating cannot exceed 40 persons in the seminar.
Seminars can also be attended via Zoom. A Zoom link will be included on each seminar flyer.
Adams Conference Center
Vet Med Bldg.
| SEPT 3 | Kevin Gillis, DSc., Professor, Interim Chair of the Department of Biomedical, Biological & Chemical Engineering, Department of Medical Pharmacology and Physiology, Director of the Interdisciplinary Neuroscience Program, and Dalton Cardiovascular Research Center Investigator “Engineering tools to stimulate and study hormone release from a single cell” |
| SEPT 10 | Shiyou Chen, D.V.M., Ph.D., Professor, Department of Surgery and Chief of Surgical Research “DOCK2 in vascular remodeling and abdominal aneurysm formation” |
| SEPT 17 | Scott Brown, Graduate Student, Department of Biomedical Sciences (Mentor: Dr. Shawn Bender) “Vascular mineralocorticoid receptors and hindlimb ischemia: sex-specific responses?” |
| SEPT 24 | Nishant Sinha, Graduate Student, Department of Biomedical Sciences (Mentor: Dr. Shyam Chaurasia) “Ocular complications in the chemically-injured eyes” |
| OCT 1 | Rowena Woode, Graduate Student, Department of Biomedical Sciences (Mentor: Dr. Lane Clarke) “Consequences of intra- and extracellular pH dysregulation in cystic fibrosis intestinal epithelium” |
| OCT 8 | Diana Gil Pagés, Ph.D., Associate Professor, Departments of Surgery, Molecular Microbiology and Immunology, and Bioengineering “Novel immunotherapeutics targeting the TCR/CD3 complex based on antibody fragments” |
| OCT 15 | Stephen Previs, Ph.D., Director, Department of Chemistry (Compound Screening & Mechanistic Profiling), Merck “Targeting fatty liver: Role of tracer-based biomarkers in advancing novel compounds to registered drugs” |
| OCT 22 | Nathan Kerr, Graduate Student, Department of Biomedical Sciences (Mentor: Dr. Frank Booth) “Selective breeding for a physical inactivity phenotype promotes anxiogenic behavior in Wistar rats” |
| OCT 29 | Shannon Kelly, Graduate Student, Department of Biomedical Sciences (Mentor: Dr. Craig Emter) “Role of female sex hormones and chronic cardiac pressure-overload on right ventricular remodeling” |
| NOV 5 | Kevin Cummings, Ph.D., Associate Professor, Department of Biomedical Sciences and Dalton Cardiovascular Research Center Investigator “New insights into a neural basis for Sudden Infant Death Syndrome” |
| NOV 12 | Anand Chandrasekhar, Ph.D., Professor, Division of Biological Sciences and Bond Life Sciences Center “Migration of motor neurons in the vertebrate hindbrain – how and why?” |
| NOV 19 | Xuansong Mao, Graduate Student, Department of Biomedical Sciences (Mentor: Dr. Frank Booth) “Treating mild cognitive impairment: is creatine more than an ergogenic aid?” |
| NOV 26 | NO SEMINAR – THANKSGIVING BREAK |
