Seminar Series

AN INTEGRATIVE APPROACH TO
TRAINING TOMORROW’S SCIENTISTS
Spring 2024

Thursdays, 1:00 pm
W-235 Vet Med Bldg.

JAN 18    Dan Bergstralh, Ph.D., Associate Professor in the Division of Biological Sciences, University of Missouri-Columbia, “Reintegration:  A Neural Adhesion Assembly at Work in Epithelia  
JAN 25Maria Cimini, Ph.D., Instructor in the Center for Translational Medicine, Temple University, “Podoplanin Positive Cell-Derived Extracellular Vesicles as Novel Mediators of Cardiac Amyloidosis”
FEB 1Ilker 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”
FEB 8Alejandro Chade, MD, FAHA, Professor, Department of Medical Pharmacology and Physiology and Department of Medicine, University of Missouri-Columbia, “Pathophysiology of Cardiac Failure in Chronic Kidney Disease:  One Model, 2 Organs, and Possible Targets for Interventions”
FEB 15Kun-Eek Kil, Ph.D., Assistant Research Professor, Department of Radiochemistry and Radiopharmaceutical Chemistry, “Development of Small-Molecule CXCR3 PET Radiotracers for Atherosclerosis Imaging in Live Animals”
FEB 22Kimber Schafer, Graduate Student, Department of Biomedical Sciences (Mentor: Dr. Christopher Baines), “Determining How EFhd2 Inhibits Necroptotic Signaling Through Ca-Regulated Interactions with MLKL”
FEB 29      
 
Ahmed Mahmoud, Ph.D., Assistant Professor, Department of Cell and Regenerative Biology, University of Wisconsin-Madison School of Medicine and Public Health, “Metabolic Reprogramming of the Adult Heart to a Regenerative State”
MAR 7NO SEMINAR – CV DAY
MAR 14Paul Carney, M.D., Professor and Chair, Division of Pediatric Neurology, Department of Child Health, Neurology and Biomedical Engineering, University of Missouri-Columbia, TBD
MAR 21Taixing Cui, M.D., Ph.D., FAHA, Professor, Department of Medical Pharmacology and Physiology, University of Missouri-Columbia, “Vascular Stem Cells in Vein Graft Failure”  
MAR 28NO SEMINAR – SPRING BREAK
APR 3Juleen Zierath, Ph.D., Professor, Department of Physiology and Pharmacology and the Department of Molecular Medicine and Surgery, Karolinska Institutet, “Interaction Between Circadian Rhythms and Exercise Training and the Control of Metabolism in Diabetes and Obesity” *Wednesday Seminar from 3-5 p.m. in the auditorium
APR 11Emily Chih-Hsuan Chou, Ph.D., Postdoctoral Fellow, Department of Biomedical Sciences (Mentor: Dr. Frank Booth), “Resistance Exercise and Cognitive Health”
APR 18            Jaapna Dhillon, Ph.D., Assistant Professor in the Department of Nutrition and Exercise Physiology,“How Diet and Exercise Influence Cardiometabolic Health and Microbiome Interactions”
APR 25 Adam Yokom, Ph.D., Assistant Professor in the Department of Biochemistry, University of Missouri-Columbia, “Dissecting Protein Tethers in Autophagy Initiation and Fusion”