Fall 2025

Fridays at 1pm, 6364 Scott Hall. In person.

Lunch with graduate students and postdocs 12-1pm for external speakers; seminars 1-2pm, unless otherwise noted.

Date	Speaker	Bio	Title
09/19/25	Heather Gibson, Ph.D.	Associate Professor, Oncology/Pharmacology, Wayne State University	"Host genetics as a regulator of tumor immunology and immunotherapy"
09/26/25	Joseph Mannozzi, Ph.D.	Assistant Scientist, Cardiovascular Medicine, Henry Ford Health; Assistant Professor (Research), Departments of Medicine and Physiology, Michigan State University	"Autonomic Cardiovascular Control During Exercise in Health and Disease"
10/03/25	Ryan Insolera, Ph.D.	Assistant Professor, OVAS, Wayne State University	"Mechanisms of in vivo mitophagy and the consequences of it's dysfunction"
10/10/25	Joseph Roche, Ph.D.	Associate Professor, Physical Therapy, Wayne State University	"Physical Rehabilitation Pharmacology: Oxymoron or Opportunity?"
10/17/25	Cristina Espinosa-Diez, Ph.D.	Assistant Professor, CMMG/Physiology, Wayne State University	"Of Stressed lncRNAs and Other Vascular Dramas"
10/24/25	Eleni Gourgou, Ph.D.	Assistant Professor, Department of Biological Sciences, Wayne State University	"The Neuronal basis of Behavioral plasticity in structured and dynamic environments"
10/31/25	Navnath Gavande, Ph.D.	Assistant Professor, Department of Pharmaceutical Sciences, Eugene Applebaum College of Pharmacy and Health Sciences, Wayne State University	“Development of Novel DNA-PK Inhibitors Targeting the Ku-DNA Interaction for Cancer Therapy”
11/07/25	Andy Lieberman, Ph.D.	Michigan Neuroscience Institute Affliate, Gerald D. Abrams Collegiate Professor of Pathology, Director of Neuropathology, University of Michigan	"Deconstructing polyglutamine-mediated neuromuscular degeneration"
11/14/25	Bin Gu, Ph.D.	Assistant Professor, Division of Developmental and Stem Cell Biology, Institute for Quantitative Health Science and Engineering, Michigan State University	“Two cell based genome editing—from developmental biology to cancer modeling.”
11/21/25	NO SEMINAR	Rescheduled for Winter 2026
11/28/25	NO SEMINAR	THANKSGIVING
12/05/25	Jonathan Diedrich, Ph.D.	Assistant Professor, Department of Pharmacology and Toxicology, Michigan State University	"Decoding the Interplay Between Genetics and the Tumor Microenvironment in Cancer Progression and Chemoresistance"
12/12/25	Alessandra Brambati, Ph.D. 12:00pm Jaffar Auditorium 3rd floor Scott Hall	Assistant Professor, University of Colorado Anschutz	"Transcript RNA serves as a template for Polζ-dependent DSB repair"