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 12pm Scott Hall 1358	Jean-Philippe Lambert, Ph.D.	Associate Professor, Department of Molecular Medicine, Faculty of Medicine, Université Laval, CHU de Québec-Université Laval Research Center	"Mapping the dynamics of chromatin structure and function with interaction proteomics to uncover novel therapeutic opportunities."