Winter 2022 Seminars
Winter 2022 Seminar Series
All seminars are on Fridays at 1:00 pm unless noted.
| Date | Speaker | Title | Location | |
| 1/07/22 | No seminar | |||
| 1/14/22 | Rita Strakovsky, PhD | Assistant Professor, Food Science and Human Nutrition, Michigan State University | Pregnancy as a sensitive period for women's long-term health: considering environmental exposures | |
| 1/21/22 | Andrew Lipchik, PhD | Assistant Professor, Department of Pharmaceutical Sciences, Wayne State University | Pathogenesis to Therapeutic: Paradoxical Actions of IgG on Insulin Sensitivity | |
| 1/28/22 | Justin Conley, PhD | Reproductive Systems Biologist (PI), US Environmental Protection Agency | PFAS developmental toxicity: evaluation of emerging compounds and mixtures in the Sprague-Dawley rat | |
| 02/04/22 | Pamela Wernett, PhD | Senior Health Science Policy Analyst, Office of Science Policy and Communications (OSPC), NIAAA and NIH | Career Seminar: Science Policy at the National Institutes of Health | |
| 02/11/22 | Genoa Warner, PhD | Assistant Professor, Department of Chemistry and Environmental Science, New Jersey Institute of Technology | Ovarian Toxicity of Phthalates and Phthalate Replacements | |
| 02/18/22 | Niels Behrendt, PhD | Professor, D.Sc., Section head, the Finsen Cancer Research Laboratory, Rigshospitalet, University of Copenhagen | The collagen receptor uPARAP/Endo180 From basic understanding to cancer drug development | |
| 02/25/22 | Emilio Mottillo, PhD | Assistant Scientist, Hypertension and Vascular Research Division, Henry Ford Hospital | Balancing the fat: Dynamic protein interactions of ABHD5 with PNPLAs in the regulation of NAFLD | |
| 03/04/22 | Andrew Garrett, PhD | Assistant Professor, Department of Pharmacology, Wayne State University | Diverse roles for cell adhesion molecules in retinal neural circuit formation | |
| 03/11/22 | Pierre Coulombe, PhD | G. Carl Huber Professor and Chair, Department of Cell and Developmental Biology, University of Michigan Medical School | Keratin proteins as regulators of tissue homeostasis and immune responses in skin epithelia | |
| 03/18/22 |
| Spring break- no classes | ||
| 03/25/22 | Ana deCarvalho, PhD | Staff Scientist - Department of Neurosurgery Henry Ford Hospital | Target validation towards better therapeutic strategies for high grade glioma | |
| 04/01/22 | Rich Di Giulio, PhD | Professor of Environmental Toxicology; Director, Duke Superfund Research Center, Nicholas School of the Environment, Duke University | Effects of PAHs on Development in Fish and Evolutionary Consequences | |
| 04/08/22 | Hayley McLoughlin, PhD | Assistant Professor of Neurology and Human Genetics, University of Michigan | New insights to understanding the polyglutamine disease SCA3 | |
| 04/15/22 | Puneet Opal, MD, PhD | Professor of Neurology (Movement Disorders) and Cell and Developmental Biology, Northwestern University | The developmental origins of neurodegeneration in the context of spinocerebellar ataxias | |
| 04/22/22 | Gail Prins, PhD | Michael Reese Endowed Professor in the Departments of Urology, Physiology and Biophysics, and Pathology, University of Illinois, Chicago | Arsenic Exposures Perturb and Transform Human Prostate Stem and Progenitor Cells | |
| 4/29/22 | Tara Catron, PhD | Senior Ecotoxicologist, BASF United States | Career Seminar: What are environmental risk assessments... and how I ended up in this career |