Seminars

Fall 2024 

Fridays at 1pm, 6364 Scott Hall and on Zoom. Meeting ID: 965 5192 1659. Passcode: 675176

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

Date

Speaker

 

Title

09/06/24 NO SEMINAR
Department Picnic
   
09/13/24
Lunch w/ Trainees
Ann Miller, Ph.D. Associate Professor, Department of Molecular, Cellular and Developmental Biology, University of Michigan

"Maintenance and remodeling of epithelial cell-cell junctions during cell shape changes"

09/20/24
Lunch w/ Trainees

Anne Dorrance, Ph.D. Professor and Chair, Department of Pharmacology and Toxicology, Michigan State University "Hypertensive cerebrovascular disease and cognitive decline: Does mineralocorticoid receptor activation impact ion channel function in the brain?"
09/27/24
Lunch w/ Trainees
 Heidi Lempradl, Ph.D. Assistant Professor, Department of Metabolism and Nutritional Programming, Van Andel Institute

"Metabolic programming of the early embryo"

10/04/24
Lunch w/ Trainees
John LaPres, Ph.D. Professor, Department of Biochemistry and Molecular Biology, Michigan State University "Cholesterol homeostasis and TCDD-induced, AHR-mediated liver injury"
10/11/24
Lunch w/ Trainees
Afroditi Petsakou, Ph.D. Postdoctoral Fellow, Department of Genetics, Harvard Medical School "The neuro-gut axis restores tissue homeostasis: a bioelectric signaling story."
10/18/24
Lunch w/ Trainees
Marcy Balunas, Ph.D. Associate Professor, Department of Microbiology and Immunology; Department of Medicinal Chemistry, University of Michigan "Natural Products as Signaling Molecules in Complex Microbiome Systems"
10/25/24 Adam Lauver, Ph.D. Assistant Professor, Department of Pharmacology and Toxicology, Michigan State University "Antiplatelet Drugs are a Pain In the Neck: A Vampires Guide to P2Y12 Antagonist Safety"
11/01/24
Lunch w/ Trainees
Boris Pasche, M.D., Ph.D. FACP President & CEO, Barbara Ann Karmanos Cancer Institute; Chair, Department of Oncology, Wayne State University "TGFBR1*6A: Tale of a Double-Edged Sword"
11/08/24
Lunch w/ Trainees
Hyeong-Reh Kim, Ph.D.

Professor, Department of Pathology, Wayne State University

“Advancing Precision Therapy: A Novel Platform for Targeted Degradation of Disease-Causing Proteins”
11/15/24
Lunch w/ Trainees
Jeffrey Stanley, Ph.D. Professor, Department of Psychiatry and Behavioral Neurosciences, Wayne State University "Assessing 'Dysfunction' in Psychiatry: A perspective from ¹H fMRS"
11/22/24 Nora Fritz, Ph.D., PT, DPT, NCS Associate Professor, Departments of Health Care Sciences & Neurology, Wayne State University "Neuroimaging to Better Understand and Treat Gait & Balance Deficits in People with Multiple Sclerosis"
11/29/24

NO SEMINAR
Thanksgiving Break

 

 
12/06/24 Jean-Philippe Lambert, Ph.D. Associate Professor, Department of Molecular Medicine, Faculty of Medicine, Université Laval, CHU de Québec-Université Laval Research Center TBD