Seminars

Winter 2025 

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

01/10/25 Kari Sant, Ph.D. Associate Professor, Department of Pharmacology & Toxicology, Michigan State University "DDT's Lasting Legacy: Toxicological Impacts of DDT+ Uncovered in Southern California"
01/17/25

Maik Hüttemann, Ph.D.

Professor, Department of Biochemistry, Microbiology, and Immunology, Wayne State University

“Working Toward Clinical Implementation – Mitochondria-Targeted Noninvasive Infrared Light Treatment Profoundly Protects the Brain from Ischemia-Reperfusion Injury”

01/24/25

Hongmin Ni, Ph.D. Associate Professor, Department of Pharmacology Toxicology, University of Kansas "Novel Mechanisms Regulate Lipoprotein Secretion in MASLD and Tumorigenesis”
01/31/25 Angulique Outlaw, Ph.D. Associate Professor, Department of Family Medicine and Public Health Sciences, Wayne State University

“Designing, implementing and evaluating interventions for high-risk youth utilizing community-based participatory research (CBPR) practices”

02/07/25 Emily Spaulding, Ph.D. Assistant Professor, Mount Desert Island Biological Laboratory

“Using C. elegans to study biomolecular condensation in vivo.”

02/14/25 Lori Pile, Ph.D. Professor, Departmend of Biological Sciences, Wayne State University "Soft Repression: a new paradigm for transcriptional regulation"
02/21/25 Caren Weinhouse, Ph.D. Assistant Professor, Oregon Institute of Occupational Health Sciences "Epigenetic memory of environmental stress response"
02/28/25 NO SEMINAR    
03/07/25 Yongsoo Kim, Ph.D. Associate Professor, Department of Neural and Behavioral Sciences, Penn State University "Anatomical and functional organization of the oxytocin system in the mouse brain"
03/14/25 NO SEMINAR

SPRING BREAK

 
03/21/25 Darren Moore, Ph.D. Professor & Chair, Department of Neurodegenerative Science, Van Andel Institute  
03/28/25 Patrick Rochette, Ph.D. Professor, Department of Ophthalmology and Otolaryngology /Head and Neck Surgery, Faculty of Medicine, Université Laval  
04/04/25

Boyko Atannasov, Ph.D. 

Assistant Professor, Department of Pharmacology & Therapeutics, Roswell Park Comprehensive Cancer Center, Buffalo NY

"Unlocking New Potential in Cancer Treatment: Exploring USPs as Promising Drug Targets"

04/11/25

Justin Kenney, Ph.D. Assistant Professor, Department of Biological Sciences, Wayne State University "Neural and molecular basis for individual differences in exploratory behavior"
04/18/25 Daniel C. Lee, Ph.D. Associate Professor, Co-Director UK-ADRC REC, Department of Neuroscience, Sanders-Brown Center on Aging (SBCoA), College of Medicine, University of Kentucky  
04/25/25 Alfonso Martín-Peña, Ph.D. Assistant Professor, Dept. of Neuroscience, Co-director, McKnight Brain Institute Neuroscience Seminar Series, Member, Center for Translational Research in Neurodegenerative Disease, Member, 1Florida Alzheimer's Disease Research Center, Member, Center for Smell and Taste, McKnight Brain Institute, University of Florida  
05/02/25 Claudia Fallini    
05/09/25 Eleni Gourgou, Ph.D. Assistant Professor, Department of Biological Sciences, University of Michigan  
05/16/25 David Gerhold, Ph.D. Leader, Division of Preclinical Innovation - Genomic Toxicology, NCATS "Discovering drug mechanisms from neurotoxicology and vascular toxicology studies"