Physiology Seminars

Location: On-Campus
Seminar 3:30 – 5:00 pm

'24/'25

Date	Room	Speaker	Title	Host
August 19	CRB Auditorium	Dr. Sathish Venkatachalem, Associate Professor, North Dakota State University, Department of Pharmaceutical Sciences	"Cellular Underpinnings of Sex Differences in Asthma."
August 22	CRB Auditorium	Christopher Pitzer, Graduate Student, UTHSC, Department of Physiology	“Plasma Derived Exosomes as Novel Regulators of Skeletal Muscle Metabolism”
August 29	CRB Auditorium	Hector Paez, Graduate Student, UTHSC. Department of Physiology	"Exploring the influence of obesity and the therapeutic potential of NOR-1 in aging skeletal muscle"
September 5	CRB Auditorium	Dr. David Stepp, Professor, Medical College of Georgia Augusta University, Vascular Biology Center and Department of Physiology	"Vascular Disease in Obesity: An Oral History."
September 12	CRB Auditorium	Dr. Helena Parfenova, Professor, UTHSC, Department of Physiology	"Hydrogen sulfide: from a poisonous gas to neuroprotection"
September 19	CRB Auditorium	Dr. Santosh Kumar, Professor, UTHSC, Department of Pharmaceutical Sciences	"Novel drug delivery modality to suppress HIV neuropathogenesis"
September 26	CRB Auditorium	Dr. Aman Bajwa, Associate Professor, UTHSC, Department of Surgery.	"Mitoprotective Therapies and RenalFluo: Navigating Kidney Health with Rapid and Sensitive Fluorescence Urine Test"
October 3	CRB Auditorium	Dr. Wei Li, Distinguished Professor and Director of UTCoP DDC, Department of Pharmaceutical Sciences.	"Discovery of Selective TRPC3 inhibitors as potential therapy for CNS disease indications."
October 15, 2 PM	Freeman Auditorium , 930 Madison	Dr. S M Raquibul Hasan, Associate Professor, Department of Pharmaceutical Sciences, Mercer University.	"Novel Mechanism of Blood Pressure Regulation by Statins."
October 17	CRB Auditorium	Dr. Suresh Govatati, Research Instructor, UTHSC, Department of Physiology.	"A Novel Role for 12/15-lipoxigenase in the Myristoylation of Protease-activated Receptors in Platelets."
October 24	CRB Auditorium	Dr. Deqiang Li, Associate Professor, Department of Pediatrics, Ohio State University	"Implications of Nonmyocyte Epigenetics on Myocardial Development."
October 31	CRB Auditorium	Dr. Jiang Chang, Professor, Deputy Director and Chancellor EDGE Fellow Center for Genomic and Precision Medicine, Texas A&M Health Science Center	"Integrative Insights in Heart Failure: From Classic Rho Signaling to Epigenomics."
November 7	CRB Auditorium	Dr. Jolieke Oosterwijk, Chief Scientific Officer, US Biologic, Assistant Professor, Department of Comparative Medicine, UTHSC.	"Oral Vaccine Design & Delivery."
November 14	CRB Auditorium	Dr. Lijun Xia, Professor and Program Chair, The Cardiovascular Biology Research Program, The University of Oklahoma Health Sciences Center.	"Sialylated O0glycoproteins and their lectin receptors in vascular integrity, thrombosis and beyond."
November 20, 2 PM	CRB Auditorium	Dr. Alexis "Stocko" Stamatikos, Assistant Professor, Department of Food, Nutrition, and Packaging, Clemson University.	“Developing Atheroprotective Approaches that Target Endothelial Cells.”
December 19	CRB Auditorium	Zhen Xie, Graduate Student, UTHSC, Department of Physiology	"Uncovering Novel Von Hippel Lindaus Synthetic Lethal Genes in ccRCC."
January 9	CRB Auditorium	Dr. Francesca-Fang Liao, Distinguished Professor, UTHSC, Department of Pharmacology	"Distinct Roles of TRPC3 in Alzheimer’s Disease"
January  16	CRB Auditorium	Dr. Neil Hayes, Director, UTHSC Center for Cancer Research, Van Vleet Professor and Chief of the Division of Hematology/ Oncology.	"Genomic Classification of Cancer."
January 22, 2 PM	CRB Auditorium	Dr. Jerome J Lacroix, Associate Professor, College of Osteopathic Medicine, Western University of Health Sciences.	"How Do You Feel? Sensing Mechanical Forces with PIEZO channels."
January 30	CRB Auditorium	Dr. James Smyth, Associate Professor, Fralin Biomedical Research Institute at Virginia Tech.	"Molecular mechanisms of cardiac gap junction regulation and arrhythmia: from alternative translation initiation to viral pathogenesis."
February 6	CRB Auditorium	Dr. Erin Stephenson, Assistant Professor, Department of Anatomy, Midwestern University.	"Defining Molecular Adaptations Mediating the Metabolic Effects of Physical Inactivity."
February 13	CRB Auditorium	Dr. Abdul Majid, Postdoctoral Fellow, UTHSC, Department of Physiology.	"Calcium Modulation Attenuates Neuroinflammation in LPS-Simulated Microglia."
February 20	CRB Auditorium	Dr. Gadiparthi Rao, Professor, UTHSC, Department of Physiology.	"Dissociation of COP9 signalosome complex f ram ABCA 1 facilitates its ubiquitination and degradation by Cullin3 and promotes atherogenesis."
February 27	CRB Auditorium	Dr. Sam Dagogo-Jack, Professor, UTHSC, Department of Medicine.	"Pathobiology of Prediabetes."
March 6	CRB Auditorium	Dr. Jianyang Du, Associate Professor, UTHSC, Neurobiology	"Regulatory Mechanisms of Social Behaviors: Exploring Ion Channels."
March 13	CRB Auditorium	Dr. Joseph B. Moore IV, Associate Professor of Medicine, University of Louisville School of Medicine, Center for Cardiometabolic Science	"The Architecture of Recovery: CCN1's role in Collagen Structure and Matrix Integrity After Myocardial Infarction."
March 20	-	No seminar, spring break	-
March 27	CRB Auditorium	Dr. Xiaobin Han, Assistant Professor, UTHSC, Physiology	"Kidney Stem Cells and their Implication for Treating Spontaneous Hypertension."
April 3	CRB Auditorium	Dr. Gadiparthi Rao, George and Elizabeth Mallory Professor, UTHSC, Physiology	"Dissociation of COP9 Signalosome Complex F Ram ABCA 1 Facilitates its Ubiquitination and Degradation by Cullin3 and Promotes Atherogenesis."
April 10	CRB Auditorium	Dr. Feng Liu-Smith, Associate Professor, UTHSC, Preventive Medicine	"Developing New Methods for Overcoming Melanoma Drug Resistance."
April 14, 2pm	CRB Auditorium	Dr. Danielle Bruns, Associate Professor, University of Wyoming, Kinesiology & Health	"Function and Dysfunction of the Right Ventricle: Novel Mechanisms of Right Heart Failure."
April 17	CRB Auditorium	Dr. Udai P Singh, Professor, UTHSC, Pharmaceutical Sciences	"MicroRNAs: As Therapeutics for Adipose Tissue Inflammation and Obesity."
May 1	CRB Auditorium	Dr. Ching-Ling (Ellen) Lien, Professor, Keck School of Medicine, Children's Hospital Los Angeles, University of Southern California	"Unravelling the critical roles of cardiac vasculature in heart development, disease, and regeneration."
May 8	CRB Auditorium	Dr. Yun Guan, Professor, Johns Hopkins University School of Medicine, Anesthesiology and Critical Care Medicine	"Translational Research of Targeting Human MrgX1 Receptor for Chronic Pain Treatment"
May 15	CRB Auditorium	Dr. Nitesh Shashikanth, Instructor, UTHSC, Physiology	"Novel therapeutic Approaches for Mitigating Gastrointestinal Acute Radiation Syndrome (GI-ARS)"
May 22	CRB Auditorium	Dr. Bhupesh Singla, Assistant Professor, UTHSC, Pharmaceutical Sciences	"R-spondin 2 is a key suppressor of hepatic steatosis"
May 29	CRB Auditorium	Dr. Chi-Lun Chang, Assistant Member, St. Jude, Cell and Molecular Biology	"The Logistics of Fat: interrogating lipid droplet-organelle communication"
June 3, 2 PM	Freeman Auditorium, 930 Madison	Dr. Libin Ye, Associate Professor, University of South Florida, Molecular Biosciences	“Conformational Dynamics and Function of an Intermediate GPCR-G Protein Complex"
June 5	CRB Auditorium	Dr. Aditi Bhargava, Professor Emerita, University of California San Francisco, Ob-Gyn	"Metabolomics of Post-traumatic Stress Disorder: Role of Sleep Quality and Biological Sex"
June 12	CRB Auditorium	Dr. Anna Bukiya, Professor, UTHSC, Pharmacology	"Fetal Cerebral Circulation as a Target of Alcohol Exposure During Early Development."
June 13	CRB Auditorium	Dr. Peter Horvath, Director, Institute of Biochemistry, Biological Research Centre, Szeged	"Life beyond the pixels: single-cell analysis using deep learning and image analysis methods"
June 18	CRB Auditorium	Dr. Lawrence Pfeffer, Distinguished Professor, UTHSC, Pathology	"The critical role of the BRG1 subunit of the SWI/SNF chromatin remodeling complex in glioblastoma tumorigenesis"
June 26	CRB Auditorium	Dr. Aaron Trask, Associate Professor, Nationwide Children's Hospital Center for Cardiovascular Research	"'Omics' and Machine Learning to Decipher Novel Mechanisms of Coronary Microvascular Disease in Early Type 2 Diabetes and Metabolic Syndrome"