Seminars

Winter 2026 

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

 

Title

01/16/26 Sangbum Park, Ph.D.

Assistant Professor, Department of Medicine, Pharmacology & Toxicology, Michigan State University

"Capturing cellular dynamics during wound repair in live mice"

01/23/26  

 

 

01/30/26

Aitor Aguirre, Ph.D. Associate Professor, Michigan State University TBD
02/06/26 Joy Alcedo, Ph.D. Associate Professor, Department of Biological Sciences, Wayne State University

"Neural insulin signaling: the role of diet and stress"

02/13/26    

 

02/20/26 Amelie Fradette-Turcotte, Ph.D. Associate Professor, University Laval

"The role of chromatin in safeguarding the genome under stress conditions"

02/27/26 Brendon Baker, Ph.D.

Associate Professor, Biomedical Engineering, University of Michigan

TBD

03/06/26 Paul Burridge, Ph.D.

Associate Professor, Department of Pharmacology, Center for Pharmacogenomics, Northwestern University, Feinberg School of Medicine

"Understanding the Pharmacogenomics of Chemotherapy-Induced Cardiovascular Toxicity using hiPSC"
03/13/26 James Jackson, M.F.A., M.A.

Academic Services Officer, Assessment Coordinator, Department of Pharmacology, Wayne State University 

“Assessment and student learning: Sharing teaching success stories!”

03/20/26 Sarah Webster, Ph.D.

Senior Postdoc, Western Michigan University

"B Cells Reside in the Healthy Murine Retina and are Altered by Lack of IgM and Age"
03/27/26 David Rand, Ph.D. Chair, Department of Ecology and Evolutionary Biology, Professor of Biology, Brown University, Providence, RI

TBD

04/03/26 Tim Mosca, Ph.D. Associate Professor, Department of Neuroscience, Thomas Jefferson University

"On the Surface: Transmembrane Protein Codes that Direct Synapse Formation and Function in the Brain"

04/10/26

Jun Hee Lee, Ph.D.

Professor of Molecular and Integrative Physiology, Research Professor of Gerontology

"See Everything Quickly: Microscopic Exploration of Spatial Transcriptome"
04/17/26 Christi Gendron Associate Research Scientist, Molecular and Integrative Physiology, Medical School, U of M "Neuronal Mechanisms by Which Sensory Perception Impacts Lifespan"
04/24/26 W. Dan Tracey Professor, Biology, Linda and Jack Gill Chair of Neuroscience "Molecular, Cellular, and Circuit Mechanisms of Nociception in Drosophila"