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Master’s Degree in Medical Pharmacology

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Seminars & Events

The weekly colloquium is generally held on Thursdays at 2:00 p.m. in K-207 Auditorium (2-6408). Unless otherwise noted, our departmental colloquia program is supported by the Alejandro Zaffaroni Endowment Fund and the John R. Murlin Fund. For outside guests, contact Dr. Houhui Xia. For graduate student colloquia, contact Dr. Cesare Orlandi.

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Second-Year 25-minute Research Talk: "Stoichiometry of Acid-Sensing Ion Channel’s Desensitization and Recovery"

Alireza Mousaei - Graduate Student in the Laboratory of Dr. David MacLean

 Sep 28, 2023 @ 2:30 p.m.

 Medical Center | K-207, 2-6408

Second-Year 25-minute Research Talk: "Downstream Pathways by Which Extracellular GSH can be used as a Source of Cysteine for Cancer Cells"

Fatemeh Alimohammadi - Graduate Student in the Laboratory of Dr. Isaac Harris

 Sep 28, 2023 @ 2:00 p.m.

 Medical Center | K-207, 2-6408

Ph.D. Thesis Proposal: "Optogenetic Control of Mitochondria to Investigate the Role of Protonmotive Force in Neuronal Physiology"

Nada Ahmed Selim - Laboratory of Dr. Andrew P. Wojtovich

 Sep 21, 2023 @ 12:30 p.m.

 Medical Center | Case Method Room (1-9576)

CMPP Faculty Research Presentation: "Molecular Basis of Stress-related Disorders and Rapid Antidepressant Treatment"

Manoela Fogaça, Ph.D. - Assistant Professor of Pharmacology and Physiology

 Sep 14, 2023 @ 2:45 p.m.

 Medical Center | K-207 (2-6408)

CMPP Faculty Research Presentation: "Mechanisms of Vulvar Disease"

Megan Falsetta-Wood, Ph.D. - Assistant Professor of Obstetrics and Gynecology and Pharmacology and Physiology

 Sep 14, 2023 @ 2:30 p.m.

 Medical Center | K-207 (2-6408)

CMPP Faculty Research Presentation: "Bioenergetic and Cardiac Development"

George Porter Jr., M.D., Ph.D. - Professor and Chief of Pediatrics-Cardiology; of Medicine, and Pharmacology and Physiology; Rhea and Raymond White Professorship in Pediatric Cardiology

 Sep 14, 2023 @ 2:15 p.m.

 Medical Center | K-207 (2-6408)

CMPP Faculty Research Presentation: "Cellular and Molecular Mechanisms of Muscle Disease"

Robert Dirksen, Ph.D. - Lewis Pratt Ross Professor and Chair of Pharmacology and Physiology

 Sep 14, 2023 @ 2:00 p.m.

 Medical Center | K-207 (2-6408)

Guest Seminar: "Novel roles of the hypothalamic (pro)renin receptor signaling in blood pressure regulation and obesity-associated glucose metabolic impairment."

Yumei Feng Earley, M.D., Ph.D., F.A.H.A - Professor, Department of Pharmacology, Physiology & Cell Biology; University of Nevada-Reno, School of Medicine

 Sep 12, 2023 @ 2:00 p.m.

 Medical Center | Room K207, 2.6408

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Ph.D. Thesis Proposal: "Investigating Structural Determinants for and Consequences of G Protein Subtype Biased Signaling at the mu Opioid Receptor"

Grant Grieble - Laboratory of Dr. Jean M. Bidlack

 Sep 07, 2023 @ 2:00 p.m.

 Medical Center | K-207 (2-6408)

CMPP Faculty Research Presentation: "Epigenetic Erosion Induced by Inflammation Drives Aged Stem Cell Ferroptosis"

Romeo Blanc, Ph.D. - Research Assistant Professor of Pharmacology and Physiology

 Sep 05, 2023 @ 1:15 p.m.

 Medical Center | Anders Room 4-6912

CMPP Faculty Research Presentation: "Ferroptosis and Alzheimer’s Disease Pathogenesis"

John Onukwufor, Ph.D. - Research Associate Professor of Pharmacology and Physiology

 Sep 05, 2023 @ 1:00 p.m.

 Medical Center | Anders Room 4-6912

CMPP Faculty Research Presentation: "Studying Metabotropic Glutamate Receptor Signaling"

Paul Kammermeier, Ph.D. - Associate Professor of Pharmacology and Physiology

 Sep 05, 2023 @ 12:45 p.m.

 Medical Center | Anders Room 4-6912

CMPP Faculty Research Presentation: "Ca2+ Signaling: Mechanisms in Physiology and Disease"

David Yule, Ph.D. - Professor of Pharmacology and Physiology; of Medicine-Gastroenterology and Hepatology, and the Center for Oral Biology; Louis C. Lasagna Professorship in Experimental Therapeutics

 Sep 05, 2023 @ 12:30 p.m.

 Medical Center | Anders Room 4-6912

CMPP Faculty Research Presentation: "Opioid Receptor Signaling and Medications Development for Treating Drug Abuse"

Jean Bidlack, Ph.D. - Professor of Pharmacology and Physiology

 Aug 31, 2023 @ 2:30 p.m.

 Medical Center | K-207 (2-6408)

CMPP Faculty Research Presentation: "Arthritis and Mechano-therapeutics"

Whasil Lee, Ph.D. - Assistant Professor of Biomedical Engineering and Pharmacology & Physiology

 Aug 31, 2023 @ 2:15 p.m.

 Medical Center | K-207 (2-6408)

CMPP Faculty Research Presentation: "Organelle Communication: In Cellular Homeostasis and Disease"

Febeha Fazal, Ph.D. - Associate Professor of Pediatrics and Pharmacology & Physiology

 Aug 31, 2023 @ 2:00 p.m.

 Medical Center | K-207 (2-6408)

CMPP Faculty Research Presentation: "Phosphorylation in Learning/Memory, Intellectual Disability, and Neuropsychiatric Disorders"

Houhui (Hugh) Xia, Ph.D. - Assistant Professor of Pharmacology & Physiology and Neuroscience

 Aug 29, 2023 @ 1:15 p.m.

 Medical Center | Anders Room (4-6912)

CMPP Faculty Research Presentation: "The Role of CaV1.2, a Voltage-gated Ca2+ Channel in the Pathogenesis of Tendinopathy and Osteoarthritis"

Chike Cao, Ph.D. - Assistant Professor of Orthopaedics and Pharmacology & Physiology

 Aug 29, 2023 @ 1:00 p.m.

 Medical Center | Anders Room (4-6912)

CMPP Faculty Research Presentation: "Mitochondrial Genetics and Function as Determinants of Stem Cell Fate"

Roman Eliseev, M.D., Ph.D. - Associate Professor of Orthopaedics, Pharmacology & Physiology, and Pathology & Laboratory Medicine

 Aug 29, 2023 @ 12:45 p.m.

 Medical Center | Anders Room (4-6912)

CMPP Faculty Research Presentation: "Cardiac Ischemic Metabolism"

Paul Brookes, Ph.D. - Professor of Anesthesiology & Perioperative Medicine and Pharmacology & Physiology

 Aug 29, 2023 @ 12:30 p.m.

 Medical Center | Anders Room (4-6912)

Ph.D. Thesis Proposal: "ATP binding sites in Inositol (1,4,5)-Trisphosphate Receptors (InsP3R)"

Xiaoxuan Lin - Laboratory of Dr. David Yule

 Aug 23, 2023 @ 12:30 p.m.

 Medical Center | Anders Room, 4-9612

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Ph.D. Thesis Defense: "Redefining the Function of Salivary Duct Cell Populations Utilizing a Structural, Functional, and Computational Approach"

Amanda M. Wahl - Advisor: David I. Yule, Ph.D.

 Jul 27, 2023 @ 12:30 p.m.

 Medical Center | Adolph Auditorium, 1-7619

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Public Ph.D. Thesis Defense Lecture: "Adaptive and Protective Responses of Skeletal Muscle to Endurance Exercise in the Context of Aging, Juvenile Radiotherapy, and Tubular Aggregate Myopathy"

Thomas Neal O'Connor - Advisor: Robert T. Dirksen, Ph.D.

 Jul 12, 2023 @ 2:00 p.m.

 Medical Center | Lower Adolph Auditorium, 1-7619

First-Year 20-minute Rotation Talk: Investigation into the Role of Piezo1 ER Signaling in OA Chondrocytes

Tiwa Oni - Graduate Student Rotation in the Laboratory of Dr. Whasil Lee

 Jun 08, 2023 @ 1:00 p.m.

 Medical Center | Anders Room, 4-6912

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First Year 20-Minute Rotation Talk: "Investigating the Regulation of the Nrf2-Mediated Oxidative Stress Response in Fibroblasts during Cardiac Remodeling

Kate Bernier - Graduate Student Rotation in the Laboratory of Dr. Eric Small

 Jun 08, 2023 @ 12:30 p.m.

 Medical Center | Anders Room, 4-6912

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First-Year 20-minute Rotation Talk: "Microbiome: The Invisible Regulator of Innate Trained Immunity and Memory"

Zahra Mahamed - Graduate Student in the Laboratory of Dr. Minsoo Kim

 Jun 01, 2023 @ 1:00 p.m.

 Medical Center | Anders Room, 4-6912

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First-Year 20-minute Rotation Talk: "G Protein-Coupled Receptor Kinase 5: PAR4 the Course of Platelet Activation"

Michael Malloy - Graduate Student Rotating in the Laboratory of Dr. Craig Morrell

 Jun 01, 2023 @ 12:30 p.m.

 Medical Center | Anders Room, 4-6912

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"Impact of Sex and Diet on plasticity in the Hypothalamus"

Kristen O'Connell, Ph.D. - Associate Professor, Center for Addiction Biology, The Jackson Laboratory, Bar Harbor, Maine

 May 25, 2023 @ 12:30 p.m.

 Medical Center | Case Method Room, 1-9576

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First-Year 20-minute Rotation Talk : “Discovery and characterization of novel regulators of voltage-gated potassium channels and their roles in cardiac development, function, and disease”

Martin Garcia - Graduate Student in the Laboratory of Dr. Doug Anderson

 May 18, 2023 @ 1:00 p.m.

 Medical Center | Anders Room, 4-6912

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First-Year 20-minute Rotation Talk: “Unraveling Pain Signaling Mechanisms in Localized Provoked Vulvodynia”

Emanuelle Chrysilla - Rotation in the Laboratory of Dr. Megan Falsetta-Wood

 May 18, 2023 @ 12:30 p.m.

 Medical Center | Anders Room, 4-6912

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Second-Year 25-minute Research Talk: "Suppression of Cerebral Cavernous Malformation (CCM) nonsense mutations using Anticodon-edited tRNAs (ACE-tRNAs)"

Rhodalyn Essien - Graduate Student in the Laboratory of Dr. Angela Glading/John Lueck

 May 11, 2023 @ 1:00 p.m.

 Medical Center | Anders Room, 4-6912

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Second-Year 25-minute Research Talk: "Quantitative characterization of allosteric probe dependence at the Mu Opioid Receptor"

Grant Grieble - Graduate Student in the Laboratory of Dr. Jean Bidlack

 May 11, 2023 @ 12:30 p.m.

 Medical Center | Anders Room, 4-6912

Or Join Zoom

Ph.D. Thesis Defense: "Insights into the Roles of Aging and Chemokine Signaling During Neuromuscular Regeneration"

Esraa K. Furati - Advisor: Joe Chakkalakal, Ph.D.

 May 11, 2023 @ 9:00 a.m.

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“The glutamatergic synapse as a hub for neurodevelopmental disorders”

Derek Bowie, Ph.D. - Professor, Department of Pharmacology and Therapeutics Bellini Life Sciences Complex McGill University Montreal, QC, Canada

 May 04, 2023 @ 12:30 p.m.

 Medical Center | K207, 2-6408

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"Regulation of Neuronal Excitation-Transcription Coupling by L-type Ca2+ Channel Signaling Complexes"

Mark L. Dell'Acqua, Ph.D. - Professor and Vice Chair, Department of Pharmacology; Director, Neuro Technology Center; School of Medicine, University of Colorado

 Apr 27, 2023 @ 12:30 p.m.

 Medical Center | K207, 2-6408

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"Detained introns buffer gene expression in developmental, stress-response, and disease programs"

Paul L. Boutz, Ph.D. - Assistant Professor, Department of Biochemistry and Biophysics; Center for RNA Biology; Center for Biomedical Informatics; Wilmot Cancer Institute; University of Rochester School of Medicine and Dentistry

 Apr 20, 2023 @ 12:30 p.m.

 Medical Center | K207, 2-6408

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Guest Seminar: "Structural Basis of Electro-chemical Linkage in a Novel Membrane Transporter"

Sandipan Chowdhury, Ph.D. - Assistant Professor Department of Molecular Physiology and Biophysics Carver College of Medicine University of Iowa Health Care

 Apr 18, 2023 @ 12:30 p.m.

 Medical Center | Case Method Room, 1-9576

Zoom password: "Seminar"

Guest Seminar: "Gene-based Therapies for GRIN Neurodevelopmental Disorders"

Amy Ramsey, Ph.D. - Associate Professor, Department of Pharmacology and Toxicology, University of Toronto

 Apr 13, 2023 @ 12:30 p.m.

 Medical Center | K207, 2-6408

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"Mitochondrial Precursor Overaccumulation Stress (mPOS) Affects Muscle Mass Homeostasis and Heart Function"

Xin Jie Chen, Ph.D. - SUNY Distinguished Professor, Department of Biochemistry and Molecular Biology; Professor, Department of Neuroscience and Physiology; Director, Biochemistry and Molecular Biology Graduate Program; State University of New York Upstate Medical University

 Apr 06, 2023 @ 12:30 p.m.

 Medical Center | Anders Room, 4-6912

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Research Talk: "Alteration in stimulus-secretion coupling in a model of the early stages of Sjogren’s syndrome"

Kai-Ting Huang - Laboratory of Dr. David Yule

 Mar 30, 2023 @ 12:30 p.m.

 Medical Center | Anders Room, 4-6912

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Second Year Research Talk: "ATP binding sites in inositol (1,4,5)-Trisphosphate Receptors (IP3R)"

Xiaoxuan Lin - Graduate Student in the Laboratory of Dr. David Yule

 Mar 09, 2023 @ 1:00 p.m.

 Medical Center | Anders Room 4-6912

Or Join Zoom

Second Year Research Talk: "Controlling mitochondrial Bioenergetics with Light"

Nada Ahmed Selim - Graduate Student in the Laboratory of Dr. Andrew Wojtovich

 Mar 09, 2023 @ 12:30 p.m.

 Medical Center | Anders Room 4-6912

Or Join Zoom

Second Year Literature Review: "A single historical substitution drives an increase in acetylcholine receptor complexity"

Alireza Mousaei - Graduate Student in the Laboratory of Dr. David MacLean

 Mar 02, 2023 @ 1:00 p.m.

 Medical Center | Anders Room 4-6912

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Second Year Literature Review: "Mitochondrial function is preserved under cysteine starvation via glutathione catabolism in NSCLC"

Fatemeh Alimohammadi - Graduate student in the Laboratory of Dr. Isaac Harris

 Mar 02, 2023 @ 12:30 p.m.

 Medical Center | Anders Room 4-6912

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Thesis Proposal: "Molecular Mechanisms Regulating G Protein Signal Bias"

Rana Alabdali - Graduate Student, Laboratory of Dr. Cesare Orlandi

 Feb 16, 2023 @ 12:30 p.m.

 Medical Center | Anders Room, 4-9612

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Research Talk: "Electroporation-mediated gene delivery of CFTR plasmids as a novel approach to treat Cystic Fibrosis in vivo."

David Delemos - Laboratory of Dr. David Dean

 Feb 02, 2023 @ 12:30 p.m.

 Medical Center | Anders Room, 4-6912

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Research Talk: “Combinatorial Treatment of CF Nonsense Mutations with ACE-tRNAs and Small Molecules”

Wooree Ko - Laboratory of Dr. John Lueck

 Jan 26, 2023 @ 12:30 p.m.

 Medical Center | Anders Room, 4-6912

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Research Talk: “Thrombocytopenia Independently Leads to Monocyte Immune Dysfunction in Sepsis”

Chen Li - Laboratory of Dr. Craig Morrell

 Jan 12, 2023 @ 12:30 p.m.

 Medical Center | Anders Room, 4-6912

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Internal Guest Speaker: "Understanding the Roles of Antioxidants in Disease"

Isaac S. Harris, Ph.D. - Assistant Professor, Department of Biomedical Genetics; Associate Member, Wilmot Cancer Institute, University of Rochester Medical Center

 Jan 05, 2023 @ 12:30 p.m.

 Medical Center | Anders Room, 4-6912

Or Join Zoom (password: Seminar)